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The Ho: Living in a World of Plenty

Of Social Cohesion and Ritual Friendship on the Chota Nagpur Plateau, India
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2020
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Religion and Society
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Volume 84 | Religion and Society

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The book is set in the anthropologically much-neglected multi-ethnic interior of Highland Middle India. It is the result of fieldwork done over a period of more than a decade among the Ho, an indigenous community of approximately one million people, who have shared cultural norms and the space of the hilly region of the Chota Nagpur Plateau with other aboriginal (adivasi) and artisan communities for ages. The book explores the structured tapestry of Ho people’s relations and interrelatedness within their culture-specific sociocosmic universe ensuring their social reproduction in the present and affording them the means for and the awareness of living in a world of plenty. This world of abundance – with the Ho as its conceptual centre – includes the Ho’s dead, their complex spirit world and supreme deity, and their tribal and nontribal fellow humans, and it manifests itself in manifold facets of their lives: socially, ritually, economically, and linguistically.

"This is an important piece of work. The ethnographic details in it are invaluable. The fieldwork is superb. What comes across so magnificently is that unique quality of the author's human and emotional contact and shared understanding with the people." MICHAEL YORKE: University College, London; Upside Films

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Eva Reichel, Frobenius Institute, Frankfurt/ Main, Germany.

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    Abstract

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    Contents

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    Acknowledgments

    XI
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    Prologue

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    1 Introduction: Living in a world of plenty

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    2 The Chota Nagpur Plateau: terrain and people

    26
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    3 Living in a world of relations: of Ho social categories

    52
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    4 Ho accounts of social cohesion in history, myth, and the present

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    5 Relatedness across tribal boundaries: the Ho and their clients

    136
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    6 The saki relation as ritual friendship

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    7 Two portraits as conclusion

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    Appendices

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    Glossary I: Notes on Ho history

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    Glossary II: Ho terms

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    Lists of Plates, Figures, and Maps

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    References

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    Index

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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
August 10, 2020
eBook ISBN:
9783110666199
Hardcover published on:
August 10, 2020
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110666007
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
18
Main content:
394
Illustrations:
3
Coloured Illustrations:
53
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110666199
eBook ISBN: 9783110666199
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110666007
Keywords for this book
Adivasi (first settlers); spirit world; saki (ritual friend)
Audience(s) for this book
Anthropologists, sociologists, academics interested in adivasi wordview and generally in indigenous societies
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