...A Study of the Garasia Tribe and Strategies to Evangelize Them 1.) Overview of the Tribal Groups in Rajasthan Rajasthan is a state steeped in culture and history. Rajasthan, or the realm of the Kings, as it is known, is perhaps one of the princely states of all in India. Its history is abundant with stories and legends about its kings and rulers. In its golden age, the region was ruled by the Rajputs, and in their honor the state was known as Rajputana in its erstwhile years. These were the royal people, the Kshatriyas, the warriors and they were known to be fierce fighters, extremely proud of their heritage and position. But the state itself comprised of many other people groups, most of them tribal in nature. The state even now comprises of five major tribal people groups with many other either being the branches of these major groups or minor ones. These five tribal groups are Mina, Bhil, Garasia, Saharia and Damor. Of these tribal groups, the Minas are the largest of the lot with almost a share of close to 50 percent of the total population; Bhils come close with a population of 45 percent and then come the Garasias with a population comprising 3-4 percent of the total population of tribal people. The population of the Garasias in Rajasthan has been dwindling in the recent past because of their migration to North Gujarat. 2.) The Garasias Numerically speaking, the Garasias constitute the third largest group of the state of Rajsthan. Though they are also...
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...HISTORICAL INJUSTICE TOWARD TRIBALS: A REFLECTION ON FOREST POLICES OF INDIA Introduction The Forest policy plays a vital role in the life and economy of rural poor. It is also played a crucial role in sustaining the life supporting systems of country’s environment. The livelihood activities of tribal’s center on the forest in which they live. They have maintained a time immemorial relation with forest and always interact for their sustenance and try to recreate the forest with their traditional conservation systems. But as soon as the tribals relation with forest got transformed due to progressive assertion of state monopoly rights over large areas of forest. It has resulted in large scale eviction and uprooting of traditional tribal villages. The relationship that existed between tribal social organization and the forest was completely upset as a result of these policies. In the ongoing process of liberalization, privatization and globalization, new markets challenges has been forced the state to divert the forest land for large corporations. This marked the beginning of a new forest governance system that was alien, induced and most particularly that excluded forest –dependent communities in the name of scientific forestry, public interest, national development, conservation and industrial growth. Due to this in humane policies have eroded their life styles and simultaneously the assertion of state primacy over natural resources deprived them of an...
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...proud to be a Dinka, Bari, Nuer, Shilluk, Latuho, or Acholi, you call me a tribalist. When I ask which tribe you come from, you get offended and call me a tribalist. Does being proud of my cultural heritage makes me a tribalist? Does being proud of my tribe makes me less patriotic as a South Sudanese? I’m seeing signs with “South Sudan is my tribe” slogan. What a nicer way to shove it down my throat? My culture and cultural heritage are huge part of my identity. I was raised and taught to have a consistent respect for human life and nature. I’m not going to change who I am. The current conflict should not be blamed on tribes nor should we use it to taint our tribal identities. If we are proud of Sudd Sudan’s diverse ecosystem then why are we ashamed of our human and cultural diversity? Isn’t diversity a beautiful thing that we should all celebrate? South Sudan has abundant natural resources, but our human and cultural diversity are what make our country unique. Diversity is a beautiful thing and we should not be ashamed of it. In the United States, Native Americans celebrate Powwow each year. Natives dress in traditional regalia to sing, dance, and socialize. Powwow brings together many people from diverse indigenous nations to honor their cultural heritage. The event helps strengthen and promote solidarity toward a peaceful co-existence, not only between Native American tribes, but also in the whole world. My cultural identity defines who I am and how I am viewed by others. I...
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...Proceedings of the National Seminar on River Valley Civilization of Chhatisgarh & New Research in Indian Archaeology.Raipur,C.G. p.227 to 244 CULTURAL ASPECTS OF THE TRIBAL ART IN CENTRAL INDIA: A CASE OF THE BODY DECORATION OF THE BAIGA TRIBE Dr. Basanta Kumar Mohanta1 Dr. Mohan Lal Chadhar2 Abstract The tribal arts, crafts and architectures are one of the most fascinating parts of their culture. The knowledge of this art is a hereditary one which transmits from generation to generation through oral tradition. The art of tattooing or body decoration is widely found among the tribal of India in general and the tribals of Central India in particular, which is treated as an integral part of their life and culture. Baiga is one of the Particularly Venerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) of Central India, known for their traditional method of treatment and shifting cultivation. They live in a particular forested area of Dindori district of Madhya Pradesh, identified as “Baigachawk” and its neighbouring area. Both the male and female Baigas are very fond of body decoration. Besides, the female members like to decorate their body with different kinds of tattoos, known as Godna. Each of these tattoos has a specific cultural significance and tattooed at a particular age and a specific location of the body. It is related to their religion, belief system, health care practice, body decoration, social status, wealth etc. In this present paper an emphasis has been given on the importance...
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...Tribal culture Tribal culture there are many tribes in bangladesh and each tribe has its own unique culture. Some tribes may even have cultural distinctions within their different clans. But some traits are generally common among most tribes. For instance, originally most tribes are animists. Religious beliefs and taboos except for the sangsarek of the garos and buddhism of some tribes of chittagong and the chittagong hill tracts, all other tribes have no specific religion. They regard their ancient rites, beliefs and customs as their religion. The samsarek of the garos is also close to extinction. Most of them have by now become christians. However, they still follow certain rites of samsarek. Most santals are christians now but they observe their own tribal rites. The periods of the full moon and the dark of the moon are of special significance to the oraons, manipuris and buddhist tribes. Many religious and cultural rites take place during the full moon. The oraons believe in the sayings of dak and khana. They have many superstitions regarding journeys. For example, oraons will not undertake a journey if they stumble at the start, someone beckons from behind, a house-lizard calls out, a message is delivered about someone's death, a corpse appears on the way, a crow caws on a dry twig, or an empty pitcher comes in view. When oraons start tilling the field, they will do so from the east. They will wait for an auspicious day to begin building a house. They believe...
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...SCRIPT By Isabelle McCall, Ben Szabo, Kylie Auerbach, Tyler Wright and Anton Akhmetov Introduction: (Make sure you introduce all members of your team!) Kylie: The last time Mt. Etna erupted was May 16, 2015, who knows when it will erupt again. Hello I am Kylie, Isabelle: I’m Isabelle, Anton: I’m Anton, Ben: I am Ben, Tyler:and I am Tyler Ben: From Mrs. Silver’s class we have news about Mt. Etna. Main Body: This is where you will present all of your information to the public. Isabelle: It is located on the east coast Sicily, Italy. Ben: Mount Etna is an active stratovolcano, meaning it has been built up layers and layers of molten lava rock. It has 4 distinct craters on the summit. Kylie: Just between the African and Eurasian covertient plate boundaries, it stretches square miles over 460 square miles. Anton: Mount Etna is the largest active volcano in Europe. It has had a series of eruptions since 2001. Even though it is thousands of years old, it is still very active. It has been going hot for over 2,000 years. Tyler: Mt. Etna is 10,900 feet tall with a base circumference of 93 miles. Isabelle: More than 25% of Sicily’s population lives on Etna’s slopes. Etna is just above the city Catania. Ben: It has been know to have violent eruptions and voluminous lava flow! Anton: Mt. Etna has the longest written record of eruptions than any other volcano. It is a subduction volcano, so this type of volcano is very gassy, that is 1 reason of why Mt. Etna is...
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...1915, Athabascan tribal Chiefs from throughout the Alaskan interior banded together to protect their Alaska Native land rights, an issue that propelled Alaska into statehood in 1959, and continues today. Tanana Chiefs Conference is organized as Dena’ Nena’ Henash or “Our Land Speaks”; an Alaska Native nonprofit corporation, charged with advancing Tribal self-determination and enhancing regional Native unity. TCC provides health and social services balancing traditional Athabascan and Alaska Native values with modern demands. Vision: Healthy, Strong, Unified Tribes Mission:...
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...Dorothea Pierce World Culture Examining Alternatives to Globalization Those that oppose globalization criticize the methods that are being used in consumerism, immigration, and nutrition. They are concerned with how the present methods are affecting global warming, hunger worldwide and the immigration issues being faced across the world. One of the main reasons for this is the worldwide hunger issue we are now facing. Hunger is not just in third world countries anymore, it is now faced in every nation including ours. Crops cannot be grown or produced in a large enough quantity to feed everyone, not to mention those that are actually have to labor at the farms to grow our food and tend the livestock. If each country were able to maintain their own economy there would be no reason to rely on other countries for their goods. If this were the case, the only reason to travel to other countries would be to take a vacation, study their culture or maybe to trek around the world. Whatever your reason, it would not be out of need but because you wanted to. All of the top stores employ 'buyers' that travel around the globe in order to bring us the best the world has to offer. But do we really need this? The answer to this question is no, but that does not stop the average consumer. There are those that want the best that there money can buy and if that means that it is an apothecary from China, well they are gonna find it even it they have to order it online and have...
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...Phase 1 Individual Project – The Kwakiutl Indian Tribe Potlatch Ritual Michael Chargualaf HUMN250-1302B-03 Colorado Technical University Online The Kwakiutl Indian Tribe Potlatch Ritual In trying to understand the topic of a Kwakiutl chief burning his family’s possessions during a potlatch, one must research the background, history, and makeup of these people to determine the reason for this ritual. From a distant view of the topic, one would interpret this as an act of lunacy and pointless in every aspect. But with all irrational acts or behaviors, one must look deeper before making judgment. And even then, what may seem illogical to you based on your cultural beliefs may be typical for other cultural groups. The Kwakiutl Indians, located in the Vancouver Islands, live along the coast line. They comprise of a number of tribes and are subdivided into family lines called “numaym”. Numayn is believed by the tribe members as being descendants from a mystical ancestor. It is in this belief that seems to determine a tribe member’s social ranking within the tribe. Economically, the Kwakiutl, are considered to have an abundance of wealth in terms of food and other natural resources. With their close proximity to the ocean, it is naturally assumed that their main source of food comes from the sea and that they are a tribe of fishermen. While mostly true, they also specialize in woodworking and handcrafts such as making baskets, mats, and blankets. The Kwakiutls, however, spend...
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...The movie Apocalypto depicts the journey of a Mesoamerican tribesman who must escape human sacrifice and rescue his family after the capture and destruction of his village. It happened during the declining period of the Mayan tribe. In this movie, the Mayan society is in its breaking period, thus needing resources in order to support their social, political and spiritual needs. So, in order for them to survive, they need to scour hectares of forests to locate any valuable resources either from trees, caves, destroyed societies or plundering any weak societies around them. To know what kind of social theory it actually depicts, we need to look first in the different aspects of their society. In their social aspects, men are born to fight and rule while women are born to be slaves; therefore, males are important in this society. Men are used to hunt for the resources that were said earlier and they are dominant in this society. Without them, the society is nothing. In their political aspect, governing the tribe has a relation to their beliefs. Politics and Religion are fused together here because of the high priest and the emperor being partners in ruling the entire kingdom. They are responsible for the whole kingdom’s survival of the people and their beliefs. In their declining period, they emphasizes conflict theory because of their need to search resources by salvaging any other societies in order to support their needs. Dominant societies plunder smaller ones to survive so...
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...Assignment 2 Water Conflict In colonial America the Inxica and Daho clans were two Indian tribes sharing pastures and water in the Texan hinterland. During droughts or hard times the two clans were always in conflict over water and pasture. It was during this time that the Daho chieftain decided that it was time to settle these conflicts once and for all. They decided to poison the common well without informing the Inxica to kill the clan and their animals. ‘This will teach the Inxica a lesson.’ The Daho chieftain declared. ‘We were the first settlers in this land and it is about time the Inxica knew of this fact.’ added the chief’s advisors. ‘Long live Daho! Long Live Daho!’ chanted the Daho citizens in agreement with their chief’s decision. On the first day countless cattle and three children of the Inxica died from the poison forcing the clan to seek for alternative water source deeper in the jungle. The Daho were pleased and celebrated victory over their perennial enemies with song and dance. The Daho had a spring in their land and thus could face up with the situation of water. They flourished and were glad at their win. During this time it was common for Indian tribes to send their young to Christian missionaries under the Spanish to learn how to read and write. The Daho had selected the top minds from their youth and since it was December it marked the time for their homecoming. The five Daho students were glad to at last go home and try to improve the lives of...
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...Contents ABSTRACT 2 INTRODUCTION 3 The Major Tribes in Kenya 4 Situational Analysis 4 EFFECTS OF TRIBALISM ON SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT 5 Inability to fight corruption 5 Distrust 5 Underdevelopment 6 Suppression of justice 6 Disintegration of interrelation ties 6 EFFECTS OF TRIBALISM ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 8 EFFECTS OF TRIBALISM IN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN KENYA 11 CONCLUSION 13 RECOMMENDATIONS 13 BIBLIOGRAPHY 14 ABSTRACT This report discusses extensively the impact of tribalism on social, economic and political development in Kenya. This has been done by objectively looking at the challenges that these important sectors are facing as a result of the negative ethnicity or tribalism that Kenya is notorious for. In order to put into perspective and to qualify the ideas expressed in this report many historical and contemporary examples have been presented. The report also contains recommendations made by the group with regards to what needs to be done to overcome this problem. INTRODUCTION A tribe is a group of individuals who possess a common ancestry, language, culture and sometimes-geographical area. Kenya boasts of 42 indigenous tribes spread across the country. Tribalism is the selfish use of this commonness to deny or dispossess others who are not of the same tribe of their rights and access to opportunities and resources in society. It is the act of favouring those from one’s tribe be it in social, public or economic decisions and discriminating...
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...The Gods Must be Crazy; Overview and Criticize In “The Gods Must be Crazy” they take the perspective of a simple Coke (glass) bottle form a tribe that has never seen such a thing. It shows a coke bottle thrown from a passing plane landing in a tribe. This coke bottle instantly seems to turn into a gift from the gods. Everyone in the tribe starts to fight over it and even use it as a weapon at one point. A tribe member is sent to throw it back to the gods. On his journey back he kills a goat, not knowing the meaning of “property”. He is put in jail where a man that used to be in his tribe saves him. He and his buddy then save Kate (the school teacher) from some guerillas and continue his journey to ”the end of the world”. He later gets to a cliff that may seem to him like the end of the world where he chucks the bottle and returns to his tribe. This movie not only makes the tribal people seem ridiculous unintelligent it makes them seem clueless in a sense. They find a bottle and al of a sudden start to go mad. I did enjoy how dim some scenes are in this but this as about all I enjoyed. The lack of realism that the movie shows is a part that makes it seem as if it could never happen. Overall Jamie Uys (director, producer and writer) do not do a good job making the plot and story realistic enough for any of this to be...
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...form many and different unions. The most general and basic is the “ethnos”. … The ethnos is the first and the original characteristic of every man. There is no man without an ethnos.” Another definition of ethnos is made by J.V.Bromlay and V.I.Kozlov: “The ethnos is strange historically formed kind of social group of people, united form of their existence. It is set up and develops in natural-historical way; it does not depend on the resolution of the individuals in it and is capable of existence in many centuries thanks to its reproduction.” The first kind of ethnical union is the tribe. Tribes are formed on the base of blood relationship which is the most general unifying factor. Antiquity is the period in human history when ethnos and tribe appear. They characterize all antique states. Even Ancient Egypt and Rome are unions of different tribes. With the end of the Antiquity is set the end of tribes. The Middle Age is historical period which follows the Antiquity and this is the time when the second kind of ethnical community-the...
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...Powerful tool of promotion: 1. Most economic way for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) can reach large mass of potential customers in the capital and promote products unique to their states culture and heritage. 2. This gives a direct selling opportunity to small enterprises who otherwise would have found it impossible to afford setting up shops in Delhi. 3. Even for little bigger establishments who may have some presence directly or indirectly in Delhi and other metro cities this gives a rare opportunity where very lagr number of customers and business contacts are met in a small period (2 weeks) times 4. The primary objective of course is to maximise sales and the secondary objective is also to promote awareness and future business opportunities outside their own state and sometimes even outside the country. For instance, potential dealers, agents or large buyer from abroad and other parts of the country visit their stalls and connections build up from there. 5. Mass awareness of these products 6. Single major platform for tribal communities from states who otherwise don’t find many avenues to promote their handicrafts and other products. 7. It is often found that in one such trade fair the tribal group manages to sell products which they might have made over last 3-4 months. But more importantly it creates a major awareness of these tribal products in more urban areas. Special features: 1. The pavilion of the state where the main theme of the state’s heritage...
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