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Educational Anthropology, Tribal Education and Responsible Citizenship in India / Dar, Wahid Ahmad

Dar, Wahid Ahmad	Journal Article
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Despite much anthropological research on education in India, the importance of educational anthropology is not properly acknowledged. This article argues for fuller recognition of educational anthropology as a helpful tool to generate well-informed grassroots research throughout India. It connects this argument to concerns that education among tribal and other marginal communities reflects problems over acceptance of diversity. Educational anthropology could help to support sustainable, people-centric educational policies, curriculum construction, and above all better-focused teacher training. Its interventions can provide cohesive glue for nurturing responsible citizenship for all Indians and would facilitate better integration of peripheral tribal communities and other minorities as responsible citizens of a huge nation that claims to be based on respect for composite culture and unity in diversity.

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Culture ; State ; Education ; India ; Nation ; Sustainability ;
Scheduled Tribes ; Tribal Cultures ; Affirmative Action, Anthropology

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Indigenous beliefs and practices among the galos of Arunachal Pradesh / Doye, Eli

Doye, Eli	Article
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This fieldwork-based article provides an ethnographic overview of surviving traditional ritual practices and underlying belief systems among the Galos of Arunachal Pradesh. Since most of this community recently converted to Christianity, many of the details outlined here may soon be forgotten and no longer practised, or will be only used when other patterns of recourse to remedies for distress have shown no results. The evidence presented indicates the continued presence of ancient holistic worldviews that may be dismissed by others as ‘primitive’ but whose followers seek to fall in line and clearly connect themselves with locally grounded forces beyond immediate human control.

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Religion ; India ; Arunachal Pradesh ; Nature ; Rituals ; Galos ;
Local Culture ; Tribal Cultures

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