Museums are the popular means to carry on the rich cultural heritage of India. The Ethnographic Museum displays ethnographic specimens dealing with specific cultures. The Government Museum, Chennai, celebrated as a cradle of anthropology has very rich ethnographic collections reflecting the life style and culture of different tribes of India. Ethnographic have acquired great importance in the study of the life and culture of select communities and help ethnographic research.
The present monograph entitled, "An ethnographic Study of the Urikara Naicken Community of Tamilnadu resulting from the field studies of Tmt.M.N.Pushpa, Curator for Botany, Government Museum, Chennai is one such rare attempt, unraveling the ethnographic account of Urikar Naicken Community who inhabit the different districts of Tamilnadu. I congratulate her for the sincere efforts taken in preparing this monograph.
Indeed, the Department of Museums, Government of Tamilnadu is happy to bring out the ethnography of Urikar Naicken Community, a lesser known ethnic group identified within the Anthropological Map of South India, in general and that of Tamilnadu, in particular.
I fondly hope that this book will add to the respectable repertoire of knowledge especially of tribal communities among the scholars and students.
Exploring of ethnography is carried out by means of identifying ethnic components of an ethnos with varying aspects. At present, the ethnographers have turned their attention from tribal world, in studying the contemporary, urbanized and industrialized ethnos as well.
The Urikara Naickens Community, a lesser known ethnic group identified in and around Tamilnadu is studied and brought out as a monograph entitled, "An ethnographic Study of the Urikara Naicken Community of Tamilnadu" which encompasses social structure, economy, religion, polity, literacy level, rites of passage and other allied facets of Urikar Naickens cultural matrix.
Despite the fact that the Socio cultural and the Socio-economic pressures exerted by the main stream society over the varied cultural domains of Urikara Naicken Community caused the Cultural change of switching over their traditional occupations from fabricating of "Uri ("pot stand of coir") to 'Sowrimudi" ("plaited hair"), their ethnonymn, Viz., 'Urikara Naickens' remains intact till date. In short, the present monograph delves deep in to the study and documentation of the Urikara Naickens a linguistic minority who lead a semi-nomadic life, struggling for firm footing in the cultural substratum of Tamilnadu despite the various challenges encountered by them generation after generation.
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