Paper short abstract:

Tribal museums can be source of indigenous knowledge for the survival of the ecologically linked social structure, education, religious symbols and the relations with other inhabiting communities. It can show the changes due to the politicization of economic resources and the ecological uprooting.

Paper long abstract:

The industrialization, deforestation, mining of resources and politicization has changed the indigenous communities enormously. The tribal communities have come to a verge of waning and creating considerable displacement.How can we protect them and restore their ecological relations for the survival of their knowledge which is in form of the social structure, education, religious symbols and an ongoing relationship of interdependence with other inhabiting non-indigenous groups. Tribal museums with their artifacts of material culture can be the remedy where the indigenous people can see their cultural mirror, preserved by their fore-fathers for centuries. The paper will focus on the indigenous communities of South and South East Asia and elaborate the need to have their museums.