FORAGING MODE OF THOUGHT AND FORAGER SULUNG'S SOCIAL SELF

The present monograph presents a critical insight into the concept of foraging mode of thought, a binary explanatory tool, which conceptualises the social reality into foraging and accumulation categories. Within this conceptual frame an empirical study of the Sulungs, a forager community of Arunachal Pradesh in Northeast India, whose social reality is a manifestation of its own cultural image and an extended relationship with neighbouring Nyishi tribe, subordinate by any standard, is attempted. Precisely, the context explored in the volume is a theoretical presentation of empirical reality drawing on both ethnography and secondary sources of data. Undoubtedly, the book will provide a analytical framework for any one who is interested in studying critically the social image of pre-literate and subordinate foraging communities in transition.

Auteur

M. C. Behera, Ph.D in Economics is an Associate Professor in Arunachal Institute of Tribal Studies, Rajiv Gandhi University, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh. He has about fifty research papers in national and international journals besides 18 volumes on socio-cultural and economic life of tribal and rural people of India.