Theoretical Perspectives on the Dynamics of North-East Indian Tribal's Socio-Economic and Cultural Aspects of Indigenous Resource Base Management

Abstract

There is intricate relationship among nature of resource base, landscape pattern, cultural framework and the mode of resource management. Sustainable harnessing of indigenous resources, particularly renewable forest resources of hilly areas is generally labour intensive in all forms including input, intermediate and finished products. This is concomitant with nature of the resource base and terrain of North-Eastern part of India where mostly tribal population resides, especially when their collective cultural framework revolves around natural endowment. Keeping this in view, this paper attempts to study the dynamics of change in tribal cultural values in correlation with other changes of the North-East India and its impact on changing their pattern of resource management and occupational structure as well as makes an effort to analyze the necessity of their culture compatible resource management way-outs.