Changing cultural identity of Indigenous people:A Comparative Analysis of Brazil and India amidst Globalization

Sipra, Fakir Mohan University - India

Indigenous people in India and Brazil across the continents such as Asia and America undergo multiple changes in the cultural areas of religion, family, stratification, kinship and marriage. This is an attempt to understand those changes in a systematic manner so as to evaluate the cultural identity changes initiated by macro process such as globalization on micro communities. The livelihood strategies and the survival patterns also undergo wavy changes in the entire process. The interaction and alterations between the macro and micro structures of the society are one of the major interesting characteristics of globalization.

Further identity as an operational concept plays an important role in shaping the changes of such communities. For example, how the traditional occupational patterns of sal leaf products and nut cracking of indigenous communities of India and Brazil are undertaken as area of interest over here. Further the socio linguistics and socio- cultural dynamics also keep on changing. India and Brazil come upto the context of comparision because of the nature of South South cooperation among the continents in order to increase trade and commerce.

Thus, the indigenous communities of both continents undergo several changes in identity because of impact of globalization.