In Indian society the tribal culture has its own significance. Their livelihood practices are intimately associated with nature environmental resources and supernatural agencies. The traditional health care system of the tribal people are associated with their indigenous knowledge, ethno-ecology and oral tradition. The concerned people have a strong faith on the benevolent and malevolent deities, supernatural agencies and co-related health issues and misfortunes. In their society traditional healers plays a very crucial role and the people are very much psychologically depended upon them....

The Karbi tribal group of Assam in Northeast India are dwelling their livelihood in the lap of nature. Their traditional economic organization is very much depended on different natural resources. It is sustaining their livelihood since time immemorial. On the other hand, rituals, folk culture and certain social customs are also an integral part of their traditional economic organization. Thus among the Karbis traditional economic organization is a reflection of the ethno-ecology and cultural cognition in a broader spectrum.

In simple societies ethno-ecology is intimately related with the cultural and religious belief. A number of natural resources plays a vital role in different rituals from their cradle to grave. It is intimately related with their cultural cognition and to the process of enculturation. Again it is deeply rooted with their social structure and organization through the concept of clan and totemic object. Thus among the simple societies religion, culture and ecology is a comprehensive approach and it has its own symbolic cultural interpretation. In this study such issues are analyzed in detail on...