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100			_aReichel, Eva _eauthor
245			_aThe Ho: Living in a World of Plenty: _bof Social Cohesion and Ritual Friendship on the Chota Nagpur Plateau/ _c Eva Reichel
260			_aNew Delhi : _bManohar, _c2020.
300			_axvii, 393p.
520			_aThe book is set in the anthropologically much-neglected multi-ethnic interior of Highland Middle India. It is the result of fieldwork done over a period of more than a decade among the Ho, an indigenous community of approximately one million people, who have shared cultural norms and the space of the hilly region of the Chota Nagpur Plateau with other aboriginal (adivasi) and artisan communities for ages. The book explores the structured tapestry of Ho people’s relations and interrelatedness within their culture-specific sociocosmic universe ensuring their social reproduction in the present and affording them the means for and the awareness of living in a world of plenty. This world of abundance – with the Ho as its conceptual centre – includes the Ho’s dead, their complex spirit world and supreme deity, and their tribal and nontribal fellow humans, and it manifests itself in manifold facets of their lives: socially, ritually, economically, and linguistically.
546			_aEnglish
650			_aHo _vEthnic group _xIndic people
650			_aEthnic group _vSocial life _xAnthropology _zJharkhand
650			_aSocial Cohesion _vSocial Harmony _xEthnic community _zChota Nagpur plateau
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