The World of the Oraon – Their Symbols in Time and Space
Their Symbols in Time and Space
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Product details:
- Publisher John Wiley & Sons
- Date of Publication 20 November 2024
- ISBN 9788173046926
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages364 pages
- Size 230x150x15 mm
- Weight 700 g
- Language English 614
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Long description:
In the early 1900s renowned anthropologist Sarat Chandra Roy published his ethnographies on Oraons, one of the numerous tribes in Chotanagpur region. Since then there has been no major work on this tribe,?one?of?the?largest?in?the?area.
The present work begins by using the symbol as a key ingredient in classifying and analysing criteria used in the cognition of the Oraons. It goes into the detail of symbol formation to show how they are used in everyday contexts. Symbols include aspects of rituals, festivals and knowledge about other spheres of Oraon life. Since the raw material of anthropological studies comes ultimately from the individual, it is the latter?who?is?the?focus?of?this?study.
The idea of time, space and boundaries help the Oraons to practice a large variety of medical practices for their curative and other health requirements. Further, the identity of the Oraons as one having a religion is also ambivalent, caused by inclusion-exclusion realities of various kinds operating on them. This makes them include converts to Christianity for certain reasons and also to resent and reject them for others. These ideas further enable them to politically create a pan-community identity as Jharkhandis, created called Jharkhand, having its own individual culture separate from other states around them. This imagined homeland became a reality recently with the creation of Jharkhand.
This work attempts a major stocktaking of the Oraons nearly a hundred?year?after?Roy’s?classic?works?appeared.
