how have the tribes preserved their culture and traditions
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The intangible heritage that the tribal population possesses including the traditional knowledge system contains many positive and productive elements that are really invaluable for the entire humanity. Despite its significant role to integrate the society and enhance the sense of ownership to the concerned people and culture, intangible heritage faces serious threats for its existence. In many parts of India fast pace of modernization has been taking toll on it. The danger also comes from the rapid process of globalization, homogenization, and pervading influence of western culture. There is even more critical situation facing tribal culture: the intense pressure of adopting the cultural framework of ruling class elite within. Each human community has developed its own ways of life to satisfy human needs through the process of interacting with specific environment and the universe throughout the centuries. These processes provide living communities with a sense of continuity with its previous generations and are important to cultural identity, as well as to the safeguarding of cultural diversity and creativity of humanity. There are many challenging factors that are quickly bringing permanent changes in the present day and every one of us should be primarily concerned with the preservation of human cultural inheritance in its multiplicity of forms and manifestations. There is thus an urgent need to preserve intangible heritage in order to contribute to the development of mankind.