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Indigenous Archaeology in India: Prospects for an Archaeology of the Subaltern
Ajay Pratap
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In this book the author presents his findings connected with the archaeology of the Rajmahal Hills (Jharkhand State, north-eastern India), and discusses the wider relevance of his surface archaeology approach to the archaeology of the rest of the tribal areas of India. He also approaches the issue of a gendered study of rock-art and landscape archaeology both of which again fall within the domain of tribal archaeology proper. The author also has a keen interest in the theory of history and archaeology and writes about this subject in several of the chapters. Further sections engage in theoretical debates regarding the relationship between history and archaeology. The study concludes that it may be possible to delineate a separate domain for the archaeology of the tribal areas – called 'subaltern archaeology'. The present work breaks further new ground in historical and archaeological research in terms of the fieldwork undertaken in the Rajmahal Hills and elsewhere in India: the novel idea being that the tribal population of India does have a long-term past – an issue thus far relatively rarely investigated.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Foreword
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Brief note about the author
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Table of Contents
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List of Plates, tables, and figures
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Acknowledgements
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PART I: Archaeology in India
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Chapter 2: Indian Archaeology in 2008: A Personal View and Survey
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Part II: History and Theory
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Chapter 3: History and Postmodernist Thought in India
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Chapter 4: Ethnoarchaeology as History: A Must for India?
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Chapter 5: Ethnocentrism and Tribal Ethnohistory in India
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PART III: Indian Ethnoarchaeology
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Chapter 6: Ethnography of Archaeology in the Santhal Parganas: A view from the Rajmahal Hills, Santhal Parganas, Jharkhand
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Chapter 7: Tribal Heritage: The Prospect of its Preservation
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Chapter 8: The Archaeology of Shifting Cultivation: A Surface Archaeology Approach
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PART IV: Cultural contexts of Indigenous archaeology
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Chapter 9: Indian Rock-Art: Towards an Interpretative Approach
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PART V: Tribes and indigenous peoples
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Chapter 10: The Tribal Indigenous Condition in Modern India: a Perspective
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Chapter 11: General Conclusions
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Published: 2009
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407334400 (ebook)
- 9781407304090 (paperback)
BAR Number: S1927