Video | Interview with anthropologist Cristoph von Fürer-Haimendorf on the rapid transition into modernity by a previously untouched tribe: “Apatanis developed fast, not overrun by outsiders” – Assam

Interview of Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf by Alan Macfarlane. Filmed by Tristram Riley-Smith in 17th June 1983 All revenues are donated to the World Oral Literature Project: http://www.oralliterature.org/
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Source: “Interview of Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf by Alan Macfarlane, Part 1 of 3”
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV2aJLFU6_Y
Date Visited: 11 January 2023

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