• Dr.M.Padmavathi

Cultural change is ‘change in knowledge, attitudes, ideas, behaviour, relig¬ious beliefs, and moral doctrines of individuals who compose the community or the society.’ Thus, cultural change is a multi-factorial process. Tribal communities in India and Andhra Pradesh have been intimately associated with forests. A large number of tribal communities inhabit the agency areas surrounded by mountainous forests. A variety of occupations are professed by them which include food gathering, shifting cultivation, rain fed and terrace cultivation of cereals and pulses, vegetables, fruit and aromatic crops. Some also utilize the water bodies for irrigation. Apart from these, they collect non-timber forest produce (NTFP), work for the Forest Department in afforestation, plantation and deforestation activities. They also depend on forest for various domestic needs such as food, fuel, fodder, fiber, timber for shelter to humans and live-stock, medicinal plants, for manufacturing implements and household equipment etc. Further their world-view and religious life is intertwined with forest, its trees, animals, water bodies, mountains, soils etc. Number of their customs, practices and beliefs are said to help protecting the forests and its biodiversity. Several factors as identified by Raha and Dubash Roy which have brought about changes in the tribal culture are: measures un¬dertaken by the government, communication facilities, spread of education, process of urbanisation, occupational mobility, community development projects, frequent contacts with the neighbouring Hindus in the urban areas, construction of dams in the tribal areas, impact of Chris¬tianity, facilities of bank credit, modern medicare, cooperative societies, modern legislation, cash and market economy, and reformist movements.

Culture, Economic Empowerment, Mobility, Community development

"ACCULTURIZATION AND CHANGING ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE TRIBAL COMMUNITY IN ANDHRA PRADESH", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.277-283, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908982.pdf

"ACCULTURIZATION AND CHANGING ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE TRIBAL COMMUNITY IN ANDHRA PRADESH", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp277-283, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908982.pdf