Synopsis Conventional studies viewed the tribal and the folkculture on the basis of dichotomous constructions of human society such as rural or urban, peasant or elite, tribal or non-tribal, literate or illiterate, sophisticated or unsophisticated and the like. Such approach continues to influence the whole genre of writings on tribal and folklore studies also. In such a perspective the two worlds have been viewed as systems with distinctive and often contradistinctive elements. These elements taken singly do not yield a pattern which would help us to understand tribal and folkculture in an empirical situation. Uncritical support to or dependence on the perspective of dichotomous construction to study tribal and folkculture is an erroneous approach. There are sound reasons to believe and identify different elements such as tribal, rural, urban etc. while studying a folkculture. Such an integrated approach helps in understanding the continuities and / or discontinuities of a tribal or folk