TRIBAL STUDIES - BIANNUAL PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL

 Vijayanagara, KarnatakaThe journal ‘Tribal Studies’ is the mouthpiece of the Department of Tribal Studies of Kannada University, Hampi. There are several periodicals devoted to literary and cultural studies in Kannada and one can say they have an overwhelming presence in Kannada. Moreover, literary journals have been publishing the research work done even in the areas of social sciences till now. However, the dialogue between the humanities have not received the serious attention they deserve. The proposed ‘Tribal Studies’ intends to be a platform for such a debate. So far, those who are constantly engaged in writing about social, political and economic issues are scholars from Kannada and English departments, with some exceptions. Of late, these social scientists have brought new dimensions to the social science studies  as they have started writing in Kannada. Nevertheless, the language employed in literary and social sciences has remained conventional. The space for disseminating experiential knowledge in research writings in Kannada happens to be very limited and there are several reasons for this.  The researchers of Social Sciences are more prone to reducing the experiential knowledge to mere figures and statistics making writing extremely mechanical. Creating an interface between reading and experiential knowledge in Kannada and its dissemination should be made possible. Such a writing would naturally demand the creation of a new vocabulary and idiom to Kannada sociological discourse. The Western theories which have little or inadequate inwardness with our life-world have been regulating us all this while. True emancipation from Western theories can happen only if research in Kannada language engages itself with various levels of our life-world and can negotiate through the experiences that emanate from different locations of such a life-world. Writing that can be called truly ‘ours’ can emerge only through an organic relationship with the community life.  In sum, the health of human life and the surrounding environment are vital for the production of knowledge and activities related to every intellectual field. The Journal of Tribal Studies intends to take this intellectual responsibility in all seriousness.

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Editor:

Dr. A.S. Prabhakar

Professor and Editor, Tribal Studies
Department of Tribal Studies
Kannda University, Hampi
Vidyaranya-583 27

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