Abbreviations -- Preface -- 1. Tribe: who, what and why? -- 2. Social life of tribes: marriage, family, kinship and gender -- 3. Livelihoods and environment -- 4. Religion and world view -- 5. Concepts of justice and legal mechanisms of tribal societies -- 6. Tribes and the state -- 7. The present and the future: globalisation, identity and the road ahead -- Index.
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