The Santal have no written literature of their own, but they do have some sort of folk-literarure and culture which reveals different aspects of their reliogion and culture (Sattar, 1983 AU51: The in-text citation "Sattar, 1983" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. , p.110). This small ethnic community speaks the 'Austro-Asiatic' family language locally known as Santali-language ( Cavallaro & Rahman, 2009 ; Dalton, 1872 AU52: The in-text citation "Dalton, 1872" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ). They belive in animism as religious faith.
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Internet as a Field: An Analysis of the Santal Online Communities
Parimal Roy (University of Malaya, Malaysia), Mashitah Hamidi (University of Malaya, Malaysia), and Shamoli Roy (National University, Bangladesh)
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 14
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-4190-9.ch009
Abstract
The chapter demonstrates how the Facebook platform has become an important field complement to the classical ethnographic genres in the Santal community of Bangladesh. The authors focus on this social network as the most popular one globally regarding the number of registered users and as the leading platform for Santal groups. As of April 2022, about 15 Santal online groups and pages of both open and closed types and differences in numbers of users and activity degrees are registered on Facebook. Despite the internal peculiarities of these Santal groups, the main goal of the communities under consideration is to consolidate the participants. Such a platform creates practical tools for maintaining social ties and space of constant communication beyond being connected to a physical location.