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).