Empowerment of Women and Skill Development though Indigenous Knowledge:A Study on the Karbis of Karbi Anglong, Assam

The social inequality lies rather in certain features of all human societies. Predominantly in most of the countries the men enjoy the authority, power and rights over the resources. In contrary, by empowerment we mean to a large extent about the increase of womens' 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 our country the tribal people are dwelling in the high hills and forest covered regions. Their livelihood and traditional economic organization is intimately associated with multifarious natural and environmental resources. In the tribal societies women folk play a very crucial role. In this context, the environmental resources related to traditional economic organization has 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 analyze the significance of the environmental resources in the empowerment of women.