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日時：2010年10月29日（金）16:00～19:00
場所：守山フィールドステーション（滋賀県守山市梅田町12-32、JR守山駅から徒歩5分）
発表者：Dr. Tomo RIBA（ラジブ・ガンディー大学地理学科・准教授）
発表タイトル：Shifting cultivation and tribal culture -A case study of Tribal of Arunachal Pradesh, India-
発表要旨：
“There is only one culture in India, that is agriculture”, rightly remarked Nishamani Kar. Same is the case of the tribal of Arunachal Pradesh; where the culture of the people is completely pivoted round the shifting cultivation. Their whole knowledge system regarding forest, animals, festivals and rituals, marriage, arts and crafts, songs and dances, emotions and sentiments are either directly or indirectly related to their agriculture. These all activities are carried out with correspondence to different stages of agriculture. The rituals they perform along with the every stage of cultivation lead to transmission of tribal unwritten knowledge system regarding the evolution of mankind and agriculture, the route of migration of their forefather, techniques of hunting and fishing, other art and culture etc. are transmitted. Thus, shifting cultivation is the central force that keeps tribal culture intact.
But changes have started taking place due to sum total of external forces or natural processes of human evolution. The conversion to other religion, decline in number of people to replace the old parents, development other form of occupation; altogether have led to gradual decline of age old tribal culture of the people. For example, today in many families the preparation of local beer has been stopped, feasts are not organized and the traditional discourse around the fire after the long hard works have been replaced by televisions, many of the cane and bamboo items are replaced by the steel and plastic items.
This presentation is an attempt to focus the importance of shifting cultivation as custodian of tribal culture of tribal of Arunachal Pradesh.