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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/123456789/4775| Title: | Rajbansi festivals decoding indigenous knowledge system |
| Issue Date: | 30-May-2013 |
| Publisher: | Antrocom Onlus |
| Description: | Indigenous Knowledge System/ IKS and the set of local-levelmaterial apparatus are dependent upon non-adaptive domainsof the folk life (>folk culture>material apparatus). Altogethernon-reflective intangible part of culture (cultural values,social norms, folkways, taboo and traditional belief);reflective and tangible part (set of material apparatus) andreflective but non-tangible part (information, knowledge andtraditional technologies constituting TKS) constitute the FolkLife. Here, various aspects play major influence on the issueof Folk Life, such as, mode of communication (formal andinformal): firstly, with people via exchange ofgoods/message/women/power of word; secondly, with naturevia TKS; and thirdly, with Super Nature via performances(cultural/ social/ magical/ religious/ agricultural-seasonal)during religious festivals and other ceremonies. The networkso formed maintains connectivity among agrofacts, artifacts,sociofacts and mentifacts/psychofacts; and in this way, thetraditional social system (again highly non-adaptive) is builtup on composition of various institutions. Of variousinstitutions in traditional social system (non-adaptive); IKS(adaptive) is generally tested in the religious laboratory ofsurvival (religious institution).Within the traditional folk life of Rajbansi agrarian ruralstructure of northern West Bengal, a study has beenconducted to quarry the role of their festivals in propermanagement of IKS as they could communicate with socialsystem, nature and super-nature as well. |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/4775 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://www.antrocom.net/upload/sub/antrocom/060210/11-Antrocom.pdf http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=openurl&genre=article&issn=19732880&date=2010&volume=6&issue=2&spage=249 |
| Appears in Collections: | Social Sciences |
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