Tribal Situation in India : Contemporary Societies: Tribal Studies, Volume 6

Tribal situation in India: an introduction/Georg Pfeffer and Deepak Kumar Behera. I. Definitional problem: 1. Tribe: Chimeric or polymorphic?/Peter T. Suzuki. II. Development issues: 2. An ethnographic overview of policies of 'planned change'/Sita Venkateswar. 3. Island cultures and approaches to tribal development in India/Kamal K. Mishra. 4. The impact of displacement of tribal women/Walter Fernandes. 5. Tribal welfare administration and development in Orissa/S.N. Ratha. 6. Breaking the bounds of limited dependence/Kumkum Bhattacharya. III. Changing cultural patterns and social networks: 7. Forest smells and spider webs: ritualized dream interpretation and power of memory among Andaman Islanders/Vishvajit Pandya. 8. Kado Bikri: informal process of land transfer among the Kutia Kandhas/Arima Mishra. 9. Gharwa art in the tribal life of bastar/Vijoy S. Sahay. 10. Impact of changing economy on the life of Munda women of a Fringe village of Sambalpur City/Snigdha Hota, Nibedita Nath, Nandini Biswal and Deepak Kumar Behera. 11. Tribe, caste and kinship in Orissa/N.K. Behura. 12. A background of Naga movement/R. Vashum. IV. Health issues: 13. Beliefs and practices related to parturition among Konda Reddi tribes of Andhra Pradesh/Sunita Bharati Reddy. 14. Way of life among the Sahariya of Rajasthan/Veena Bhasin. 15. Kamara women of Central India: an analysis of factors affecting fertility/S.S. Guru, Bharati Panda, Manto Pradhan and Kanchan Padhi. 16. Socio-cultural and environmental factors of health among Sahariya: a primitive tribe of Rajasthan/Pramod Mishra and A.K. Kapoor. 17. Biomedical anthropology in contemporary tribal society of India/R.S. Balgir. Index.