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South Asia’s largest biennial gathering of Tribals: Conferring sacredness upon their ancestors during the Sammakka Saralamma Jatara – Telangana
ARRIVING IN DUSTY, sun-scorched Medaram in Telangana at the end of a six- hour ride on a special state bus service from Hyderabad, you are acutely aware of entering a vast …
Tribal education in the a heavily forested areas of Bastar: “The traditional ‘school’ was in the ghotul” – Chhattisgarh
Mrs Uma Ram, Professor & Head Department of English Government Kakatiya PG College, Jagdalpur, Bastar, Chhattisgarh Bastar, a part of Dandakaranya inancient time, is both a district as also a division in …
“Objects of astounding beauty, grace, colour and cultural and religious significance”: Contemporary Adivasi art exposition
Source: “Magical idiom” by Vaiju Naravane, The Hindu : Arts / Magazine, 10 April 2010 Address : http://www.thehindu.com/arts/magazine/article391448.eceDate Visited: Sat Nov 26 2011 18:44:30 GMT+0100 (CET) More about the communities …
“Indigenous women have an integral collective and community role as carers of natural resources and keepers of scientific knowledge”: International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples & Virtual commemoration (9 August) – Unesco
Source: “The role of indigenous women in the preservation and transmission of traditional knowledge”, United Nations 2022URL: https://www.un.org/en/observances/indigenous-dayDate Visited: 8 August 2022 Indigenous peoples and UNESCO Indigenous peoples live in …
Heralding social and economic actions: Hunting and food gathering in Durwa culture – Bastar
Within the world of food collection […] Hunts such as these, all of them taking place in the months preceding the monsoon and involving only men, made me first realize that …
Resources for the classroom: Learning from and about India’s tribal communities, their culture and knowledge systems
“[I]t is some of the basic values and ideology imbibed in the traditional tribal socio-cultural milieus that should have been emulated and promoted amongst the non-tribal mainstream, not, as has …
Helping children learn in their own language: StoryWeaver
With over 10,000 stories in 124 languages, StoryWeaver is a vibrant reading site that helps children learn while giving a boost to obscure languages CGnet Swara, the online voice portal …