74 SOCIAL SCIENTIST their own interests, both material and ideational. This process of organised resistance is yet to take shape. The mood of resignation, mixed with slender hope, tends to permeate the present tribal situation. This ambivalence has been captured in the following song of an unknown girl residing in a remote village of Arunachal. The song also indicates how deeply the traditional weaving is intermingled with the music of the daily life of the tribals, their moments of occasional joy and lingering sadness. The solitary song (translated partly from the original oral composition) suggests more than the personal anguish of a village girl: Let the lifting of aa aa (two numbers of long cylindrical bamboo tubes in loin loom) be spread far and wide; Let the lifting of abi (used in weaving) be spread far and wide; Let the news be spread far and wide, otherwise life would be fixed on nawuto (a shrub which grows on river bed) plant, for ever.