Anthropology short notes · Paper 2

Pseudo-tribalism. Social change among the tribes during colonial and post-Independent India

Pseudo-tribalism. Social change among the tribes during colonial and post-Independent India

Part of The concept of ethnicity

Short notes

Pseudo-tribalism. Social change among the tribes during colonial and post-Independent India

Definition

A key feature distinguishing tribes from bands is the presence of pan-tribal sodality (associational organisation).

Thinkers

  • Identified by K.S. Singh – “tribalism without tribes”.
  • Scholar: Clifford Geertz (Old Societies and New States, 1963).