Fashion & design
“[I]n Arunachal Pradesh change as much through creative innovation as through passive adaptation. […] Cultural change is everywhere apparent: textile designs of one tribe are borrowed by others; local festivals are centralised and refashioned as community events; oral traditions are printed and discussed as ‘cultural heritage’. One tribe regularly holds a ‘Fashion Show’ in which young men and women display the latest innovations in traditional dress. Some traditional practices (such as tattooing) have been banned by tribal organisations, while others (woodcarving, for example) are expanding.” – Research Description “Tribal Transitions at SOAS”
https://www.soas.ac.uk/tribaltransitions/description/
https://indiantribalheritage.org/?p=9346
Romanticising ‘indigenous peoples’ in the West just as in urban India
The impulse to romanticise ‘indigenous peoples’ is still a powerful force in scholarship and public debate, and not only in the West but also in urban India, where ‘tribal’ (adivasi or ‘first-inhabitant’) textiles are fashionable, tribal dances grace government parades, and publishing on tribal cultures is big business. Most large-format photographic books of tribal life in India (Baldizonne 1999), for example, only perpetuate images of tribal people as guardians of static culture by conflating historical and contemporary contexts. Read more >>
Source: Tribal Transitions at SOAS – Research Description
Address : http://www.soas.ac.uk/tribaltransitions/description/
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Inspired by tribal ways – Tribal Beats inter-collegiate fest at Bangalore
Deccan Herald (Bangalore), Wednesday 16 November 2011 Many colleges from the City took part in the annual inter-collegiate fest of Bishop Cotton Women’s Christian College Disha — Tribal Beats, the annual inter-collegiate festival […] With the theme being tribal, six colleges took part in the fashion show including the host college, BCWCC itself. The event … Read more
Madhubani tribal artist – taking ancient folk art and adapting it for today
Always deeply creative in its arts, the new designs fast forward the tribal traditions to the present. Here a courtyard is painted by a Madhubani tribal artist, taking ancient folk art and adapting it for today… …the same tradition is made glamorous in a gold-leafed mural in this entrance. [..] Source: » Madhubani Tribal Art … Read more
Centre develops Saura tribal paintings of Raygada – Odisha (Orissa)
The Sauras are one of the oldest tribes of India. The Sauras are specially famous for rich variety of their paintings based on religious and ceremonial themes. Each Idital contains various symbols and signs and convey special meaning for which it is meant. The pictograms are categorized into different sections as per their meaning and … Read more