White as milk and rice : stories of India's isolated tribes /
Kundalia, Nidhi Dugar
White as milk and rice : stories of India's isolated tribes / Nidhi Dugar Kundalia - India Penguin Random House 2020 - 241p.
The Maria girls from Bastar practise sex as an institution before marriage, but with rules-one may not sleep with a partner more than three times; the Hallaki women from the Konkan coast sing throughout the day-in forests, fields, the market and at protests; the Kanjars have plundered, looted and killed generation after generation, and will show you how to roast a lizard when hungry. The original inhabitants of India, these Adivasis still live in forests and hills, with religious beliefs, traditions and rituals so far removed from the rest of the country that they represent an anthropological wealth of our heritage.
This book weaves together prose, oral narratives and Adivasi history to tell the stories of six remarkable tribes of India-reckoning with radical changes over the last century-as they were pulled apart and thrown together in ways none of them fathomed.
9780143429470
India
Folklore
Tribes
Indigenous peoples
Indigenous peoples--Social life and customs
Indigenous peoples -- India -- History.
305.800954 KUN-N
White as milk and rice : stories of India's isolated tribes / Nidhi Dugar Kundalia - India Penguin Random House 2020 - 241p.
The Maria girls from Bastar practise sex as an institution before marriage, but with rules-one may not sleep with a partner more than three times; the Hallaki women from the Konkan coast sing throughout the day-in forests, fields, the market and at protests; the Kanjars have plundered, looted and killed generation after generation, and will show you how to roast a lizard when hungry. The original inhabitants of India, these Adivasis still live in forests and hills, with religious beliefs, traditions and rituals so far removed from the rest of the country that they represent an anthropological wealth of our heritage.
This book weaves together prose, oral narratives and Adivasi history to tell the stories of six remarkable tribes of India-reckoning with radical changes over the last century-as they were pulled apart and thrown together in ways none of them fathomed.
9780143429470
India
Folklore
Tribes
Indigenous peoples
Indigenous peoples--Social life and customs
Indigenous peoples -- India -- History.
305.800954 KUN-N