Receding Dependence on Forests

A Study of the Paliyar Tribes in India

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ID20037968
AuthorsT Anantha Vijayah (Gandhigram Rural Institute, corresponding author)
Year2020
Pages67-81
Publication date2020-12-04
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueIndigenous Research of Land, Self, and Spirit (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherIGI Global (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.4018/978-1-7998-3729-9.ch005
OpenAlexW3126756739
ISBN9781799837299
LanguageEN
References cited9

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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