The book is set in the anthropologically much-neglected multi-ethnic interior of Highland Middle India. It is the result of fieldwork done over a period of 15 years among the Ho, an indigenous community of approximately one million people, who have shared cultural norms and the space of the hilly region of the Chota Nagpur Plateau with other aboriginal (adivasi) and artisan communities for ages. The work explores the structured tapestry of the Ho people s social relations and interrelatedness within their culture-specific socio-cosmic universe, ensuring their social reproduction in the present and affording them the means for and awareness of living in a world of plenty. This world of abundance with the Ho as its conceptual centre includes the Ho s dead, their ancestors, their complex spirit world and supreme deity, and their tribal and nontribal fellow humans. It manifests itself in manifold facets of Ho people s lives: socially, ritually, economic­ally, and linguistically.About the Author Eva Reichel was a senior lecturer in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin. She is associate researcher at the Fro-benius Institute Frankfurt, Germany and associate fellow at the University of Groningen/The Netherlands.