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10.6 Conclusion
Social ecology simply is the interrelationship between different strata of human
society governed by ecosophic and geosophic principles. This theoretical concept
peeps into and scans correlation existed between ecology and human society.
Human society has been classified into four social models like social structure, culture, economy and polity. Each and every segment of the model is influenced by
ecology like nature influences man. Segregation of society under the purview of
ecological infrastructures like soil, climate, rivers, forests, etc. has manifested the
human society much simpler way. In this juncture authors have taken two tribal
communities of Purulia district, Santals and Kharia Sabars, and tried to understand
their life and living by social ecology. It is obvious that tribal communities and their
variations in life style could not be explained properly without the enlightenment
and application of different elements of social ecology. Accompanied with this concept of social ecology differences in ecological settings, societies, norms, rites and
rituals particularly in the birth, marriage and death ceremonies, economies and
political organizations of Santal and Kharia Sabar tribal communities of Purulia
district have been revealed. Living style, attitude, habits, social customs, traditions,
rites and rituals, ethos, norms and values of both Santal and Kharia Sabar tribal
communities of Dhaska and Akarbad villages demand distinctiveness and nature
based, i.e. there is a close and keen relationship between habits and habitats. It is
advisable that there must be limitations in case of immigration of non-tribal population within their habitat to keep their traditional socio-ecological profiles intact.
Though as per present situation, the processes of assimilation and materialistic
development have side by side dislocated the tribes and brought them into a unique
land of ultimate mixed culture. This process of detribalism may be detrimental to
traditional tribalism and can cause disintegration of tribal culture. But it is also
noticeable that tribal people are fighting to survive themselves from these critical
situations and trying to restore their age-old identity, their habitats, their place in
nature as well as their position in situ, keeping aside, the complex matrix of society
and economy of the contemporary world. It is quite astonishing to note that, irrespective of present assimilative pressure, between the two selected tribal communities of Purulia Santals are maintaining much of their traditions and customary laws,
which truly explain their respect to their own indigenous way of life and their urge
for sustenance. In fine, the study of socio-ecological niche of Santals and Kharia
Sabars of Purulia district has pertinently discussed about every facets of tribal life
with the help of five broad elements of social ecology, i.e. ecology, social structure,
culture, economy and polity.
References
Baral KC (2006) Globalization and tribes of Northeast India, (ed) Indian Folklife. Quart Newslett.
National folklore support Centre (NFSC), Chennai, Sl. No. 22
10 Socio-ecological Niche of Tribes of Purulia District, West Bengal, India
10.6 Conclusion
Social ecology simply is the interrelationship between different strata of human
society governed by ecosophic and geosophic principles. This theoretical concept
peeps into and scans correlation existed between ecology and human society.
Human society has been classified into four social models like social structure, culture, economy and polity. Each and every segment of the model is influenced by
ecology like nature influences man. Segregation of society under the purview of
ecological infrastructures like soil, climate, rivers, forests, etc. has manifested the
human society much simpler way. In this juncture authors have taken two tribal
communities of Purulia district, Santals and Kharia Sabars, and tried to understand
their life and living by social ecology. It is obvious that tribal communities and their
variations in life style could not be explained properly without the enlightenment
and application of different elements of social ecology. Accompanied with this concept of social ecology differences in ecological settings, societies, norms, rites and
rituals particularly in the birth, marriage and death ceremonies, economies and
political organizations of Santal and Kharia Sabar tribal communities of Purulia
district have been revealed. Living style, attitude, habits, social customs, traditions,
rites and rituals, ethos, norms and values of both Santal and Kharia Sabar tribal
communities of Dhaska and Akarbad villages demand distinctiveness and nature
based, i.e. there is a close and keen relationship between habits and habitats. It is
advisable that there must be limitations in case of immigration of non-tribal population within their habitat to keep their traditional socio-ecological profiles intact.
Though as per present situation, the processes of assimilation and materialistic
development have side by side dislocated the tribes and brought them into a unique
land of ultimate mixed culture. This process of detribalism may be detrimental to
traditional tribalism and can cause disintegration of tribal culture. But it is also
noticeable that tribal people are fighting to survive themselves from these critical
situations and trying to restore their age-old identity, their habitats, their place in
nature as well as their position in situ, keeping aside, the complex matrix of society
and economy of the contemporary world. It is quite astonishing to note that, irrespective of present assimilative pressure, between the two selected tribal communities of Purulia Santals are maintaining much of their traditions and customary laws,
which truly explain their respect to their own indigenous way of life and their urge
for sustenance. In fine, the study of socio-ecological niche of Santals and Kharia
Sabars of Purulia district has pertinently discussed about every facets of tribal life
with the help of five broad elements of social ecology, i.e. ecology, social structure,
culture, economy and polity.
References
Baral KC (2006) Globalization and tribes of Northeast India, (ed) Indian Folklife. Quart Newslett.
National folklore support Centre (NFSC), Chennai, Sl. No. 22
10 Socio-ecological Niche of Tribes of Purulia District, West Bengal, India