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Abstract

Social inequality lies in certain features of all human societies. Predominantly in most of the countries, men enjoy authority, power and rights over resources. On the other hand, by empowerment we mean, to a large extent, the increase of women’s relative access to economic opportunities and resources. The anthropological study of economic organization is a focal point for discovering the relationship between material and non-material aspects of the environmental resources and human behaviour as well as the social system within which it is exchanged and distributed as cultural goods and services. In India, tribal people are found to be dwelling in the hills and forest-covered regions. Their livelihood and traditional economic organization is intimately associated with multifarious natural and environmental resources. In tribal societies, womenfolk play a very crucial role. In this context, environmental resources related to traditional economic organization have generated a scope of income for them, and it can generate a wider potential for their economic self-dependence. The present study has been done on the Karbi tribal group, of Karbi Anglong, Assam, to analyse the significance of environmental resources in the empowerment of women.

Keywords

Environment resource economic organization women empowerment

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