• ISBN13: 9780198077312
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Sociology and Anthropology
• Publisher: Oxford UP
• Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
• Publication Date: January 1, 2012
• Pages: 272
• Original Price: INR 445.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 295 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Anthropology / Cultural & Social

S.C. Dube's classic work The Kamar was written at a crucial juncture in Indian history - the end of colonial rule and the arrival of Indian independence. It is an important ethnography o an exploited and marginalized tribe in transition and a formative text in the history of Indian anthropology. Based on careful fieldwork and enlivened by ethnographic sensitivity related to the author's long familiarity with region and subject, the study presents a pioneering portrait of the Kamar, an adivasi community of hunter-gatherers and shifting-cultivators of Chhattisgarh and Orissa. Combining brevity of style, economy of expression, and simplicity of structure, in the book, Dube discusses key themes in anthropology and sociology: economic life, social organization, and customary law, myth, legend and ritual; rrligion, magic, and witchcraft; and questions of 'cultural contact' and 'tribal adjustment'.

This third edition comes with a new Prologue by Saurabh Dube.

S.C. Dube (1922-1996), was Director of Research and Principal of the National Institute of Community Development, Director of Indian Institute of Advanced Study, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jammu.