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Receding Dependence on Forests: A Study of the Paliyar Tribes in India

Receding Dependence on Forests: A Study of the Paliyar Tribes in India
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Author(s): T. Anantha Vijayah (Gandhigram Rural Institute (Deemed), India)
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 15
Source title: Indigenous Research of Land, Self, and Spirit
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Robin Throne (University of the Cumberlands, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3729-9.ch005

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Abstract

This chapter considers how modernity has affected the livelihood of Paliyar community and how they have been affected by forest dispossession. Whether the weaning away from the forests has been manufactured or part of the systemic exploitation is discernible. The chapter traces the history of the Paliyars, their belief structures, and indigenous knowledge within sacred spaces. The chapter also presents a discussion of the relation between land and spiritual tradition as well as the importance of land to identity, transfer of oral tradition, and indigenous traditional knowledge. Removing the Paliyar from the land continues to erode their tradition, knowledge, and identity.

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