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The title of the present volume, namely Shifting Perspectives in Tribal Studies—From an Anthropological Approach to Interdisciplinarity and Consilience, suggests shifting approaches in scientific study of tribes which practically began in the discipline of anthropology. Admittedly, anthropology approached the tribal studies in scientific spirit right from the beginning of the discipline.
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Expansion of knowledge is not one-directional; it is a complex issue and has both external and internal dynamics. Even internal dynamics are often influenced by external forces. Expanded frontiers of disciplines and subsequent engagement with the study of tribes have added to the knowledge system in terms of new perspectives like interdisciplinary approach, gender perspective, etc.; interpretations of old phenomena using new concepts like participatory democracy or governance in the study of traditional political institutions and their functioning; and exploration of new subject areas like tribal literature, tribal law, etc. Besides, due to exposure to external forces, internal dynamics present new challenges and possibilities like the issues of poverty, deprivation, identity assertion, political participation, and so on.
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Linguistic anthropology, for instance, has an intimate connection with linguistics, in the same way as is the proximity of ethnomusicology to the science of music’ (Srivastava 1999: 546).
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The confusion also is evident in the twin status of anthropology in universities (Srivastava 2012: 16).
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For example, these communities are known as ‘Aborigines’ in Australia, as ‘Maori’ in New Zealand, as ‘First Nations’ in Canada, as ‘Indigenous’ in the USA.
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See the works of Prabhash and Ibrahim (2017), where they have examined shifting voting preferences from Left Democratic Front to National Democratic Alliance in Kerala due to unfolding social reality based on Hindutva ideology. Chaturvedi’s (2003) essay informs how the word Hindutva was coined by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in his book Who is a Hindu?, published in 1923, and on its basis Hindutva politics, i.e. Hindu nationalism in India evolved (also see Jain 1994). Nanda (2006) makes a contrast between the notions of political nationalism and cultural nationalism and argues that the former symbolises the establishment of a sovereign nation state at the macro level, and the latter, by and large, underlines the protection of distinct cultural nation/nationality in a given provincial political space within the common sovereign state.
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The static relations refer to a balanced alliance with ritualistic significance. However, the element of mutual care in the alliance makes it dynamic which is reflected in seeking Raja’s support when mining activities in the area threatened to the Paudi Bhuyan’s life ways.
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Behera, M.C. (2019). Rethinking Perspectives in Tribal Studies: Anthropology and Beyond. In: Behera, M. (eds) Shifting Perspectives in Tribal Studies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8090-7_1
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