TRIBAL LANGUAGE,LITERATURE AND FOLKLORE: Emerging Approaches in Tribal Studies

Contributions included in this volume are topically diverse and methodologically innovative; a general perspective pervading throughout is a reflection of an increasingly cross-disciplinary contemporary academic engagement in tribal epistemology with language, literature and folklore as critical areas of enquiry. The whole intellectual enterprise, however, is particularly crucial in that it draws the attention of readers to corresponding branches of knowledge emerging in the field of tribal studies by displaying distinct perspective approaches.

Precisely, with distinct cross-disciplinary analytical frames, the contributors of papers have employed suitable concepts, empirical data and theoretical perspectives to study tribal language, fictions and folk narratives.

Undoubtedly, the volume is of interest to scholars and students across various disciplines and particularly to all who are committed to tribal studies.

M.C. Behera has been pursuing researches on Tribal Studies and Rural Economics since eighties. He has authored, edited and co-edited thirty volumes on socio-economic and cultural life of tribal and rural people from diverse theoretical and empirical perspectives primarily in the context of globalization. To his credit, he has about sixty research papers published in various national and international journals and periodicals. He has presented about sixty papers in national and international seminars and conferences in the country and abroad. He is a member of many professional bodies. Dr Behera was a Professor of Indigenous Culture Studies and Dean School of Cultural Studies, Central University of Jharkhand before he joined as Director, Arunachal Institute of Tribal Studies, Rajiv Gandhi University, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh.