TY - JOUR
T1 - An ethnographic investigation on land and life of Santal community in Barind Tract, Bangladesh
AU - Akan, Mashiur Rahman
AU - Al Mamun, Md Abdullah
AU - Naznin, Tahmina
AU - Al Pavel, Muha Abdullah
AU - Yasmin, Lubna
AU - Rahman, Syed Ajijur
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This paper is an investigation of life style of Santal community, one of the largest tribal communities in Bangladesh. Participatory rural appraisal (PRA), participant observation, focus group discussions (FGD), and informal and semi-structured interviews were used to collect information. Santals are the descendants of Austric-speaking Proto-Australoid race, and worship the supernatural powers. Village as a territorial unit, a collection of some homesteads form an administrative unit where they also tightly bond to a kinship. Even they are very sincere in abiding the rules and regulations of their own society, social problems i.e., poverty, inequality, resource scarcity, illiteracy, maladjustment are more severe. Respecting the national constitution, Bangladesh should generate a multi-ethnic leadership to bring glory and protect Santal from all sorts of hazards and discriminations.
AB - This paper is an investigation of life style of Santal community, one of the largest tribal communities in Bangladesh. Participatory rural appraisal (PRA), participant observation, focus group discussions (FGD), and informal and semi-structured interviews were used to collect information. Santals are the descendants of Austric-speaking Proto-Australoid race, and worship the supernatural powers. Village as a territorial unit, a collection of some homesteads form an administrative unit where they also tightly bond to a kinship. Even they are very sincere in abiding the rules and regulations of their own society, social problems i.e., poverty, inequality, resource scarcity, illiteracy, maladjustment are more severe. Respecting the national constitution, Bangladesh should generate a multi-ethnic leadership to bring glory and protect Santal from all sorts of hazards and discriminations.
M3 - Journal article
VL - 1
SP - 90
EP - 95
JO - American Journal of Social Science Research
JF - American Journal of Social Science Research
SN - 2381-7712
IS - 2
ER -