Anthropology

“[I]ndigenous people in India also feel the claustrophobic confines of their identity which has been imposed on them by others, be it the colonial administrator, the colonial anthropologist.” – Santali poet, scholar and translator Ivy Imogene Hansdak in “Is tribal identity relevant in today’s world?”, Inaugural Speech, National Conference “Tribes In Transition-II: Reaffirming Indigenous Identity Through Narrative” (2017)
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Andaman and Nicobar Islands – Britannica Online Encyclopedia

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Andaman and Nicobar Islands (union territory, India), union territory, India, consisting of two groups of islands at the southeastern edge of the Bay of Bengal. […] Port Blair (on South Andaman Island) is the territorial capital. […] The Andamans comprise more than 300 islands. […] The Nicobars consist of 19 islands. […] The great majority of … Read more

Collaborative lifestyle, women’s inheritance have contributed to our uniqueness as humans – Tamil Nadu

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 Should I stay or should I go? JANAKI LENIN, The Hindu, October 26, 2012 […] Traditionally, women of these communities — the Nair and Mappila of Kerala, the Khasi and Garo of Meghalaya, and the Nicobarese of the Nicobar Islands — stay at their parents’ home and inherit property. S. Anvar, a chronicler of South Indian … Read more

Romanticising ‘indigenous peoples’ in the West just as in urban India

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The impulse to romanticise ‘indigenous peoples’ is still a powerful force in scholarship and public debate, and not only in the West but also in urban India, where ‘tribal’ (adivasi or ‘first-inhabitant’) textiles are fashionable, tribal dances grace government parades, and publishing on tribal cultures is big business. Most large-format photographic books of tribal life in India (Baldizonne 1999), for example, only perpetuate images of tribal people as guardians of static culture by conflating historical and contemporary contexts. Read more >>

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Every culture is unique: Highlighting the need to preserve tribal culture at the Kannada Culture department

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‘There is a need make an indepth study on tribal culture. According to an Anthropological study, there are 67 tribal community,’ said Mysore University Kannada Study Centre Director Dr Ambalike Hiriyanna. Speaking at the Girijana Samskrithika Samavesh organised jointly by Kannada Culture department, Karnataka Janapada Academy at Thithimathi Government Junior College, he said “every culture … Read more