Ethnography of a Nomadic Tribe- a Study of Yanadi First Edition(English, Hardcover, Rao N. Sudhakar)

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Ethnography of a Nomadic Tribe- a Study of Yanadi First Edition(English, Hardcover, Rao N. Sudhakar) is written by Rao N. Sudhakar and published by Concept Publishing Co. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 8170229316 (ISBN 10) and 9788170229315 (ISBN 13).

Ethnography, the backbone of social anthropology, enjoys privileged position in social science research. But often it suffers from inadequate theoretical framework, and the current shift to post modern writing on culture demands f treatment hitherto different from that of the classical kind. This book carefully considers the two requirements; it provides the ongoing theoretical debates on south Indian kinship and social organistion as also on ethnography which allows the reader to examine the facts against various theoretical perspectives. The ethnography here concerns with the life of Yanadi, a scheduled tribe inhabiting Sriharikota island. It must e pointed out that there is no dearth of ethnographic literature on South Indian tribes and castes but certainly there is scarcity of material no nomadic tribes. The medieval history reveals a number of roving tribes which eventually settled down and assumed act status. But their social structural features and their transformations largely remain unknown. The attempts made here fill this gap to some extent. Further, as it deals with the kinship and social organization of a Dravidian tribe it is an addition to the existing classical anthropological literature on south Indian social organisations About the Author N. Sudhakar Rao (Ph. D. Rochester, USA) is Professor, Department of Sociology, Assam (Central) University, Silchar. Earlier he worked as Associate Professor at TALEEM Research Foundation, Ahmedabad and was Visiting Research Fellow at Centre for Development Studies, University of Bergen, Norway. Professor Rao has an extensive field work experience and carried out several sociological and anthropological researches. He co authored Yanadi Response to Change: An Attempt in Action Anthropology (1985) and published ?Organised Power and unorganized Resistance? (1998), besides several papers in sociological and anthropological journals