Dipali Danda, Sumit Mukherjee

Dilemma of Development Among the Onge of Andaman

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Produktbeschreibung

The Onge of Little Andaman is one of the surviving Negrito communities in the world. The book presents a detailed documentation of the situation and concerns related to their survival in the form of analytical and development ethnography with ecological, socio-cultural, economic and political perspectives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9781032151274
• ISBN-10: 1032151277
• Artikelnr.: 62715726

Autorenporträt

Dipali Danda is former Superintending Anthropologist of the Anthropological Survey of India. She carried out intensive field investigations on several tribal communities in India and has contributed to many scholarly publications. Sumit Mukherjee is field-based researcher in the field of Human Ecology worked for three decades in the Anthropological Survey of India. He has jointly authored two important Atlases on Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes of India apart from several books and articles. He is at present a guest faculty at the University of Calcutta.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Little Andaman: First Visit and First Impression 2.
Geo-historical Perspective of Little Andaman 3. Ecology of Little Andaman:
The Onge Perception 4. The Onge Population 5. Children of the Onge 6.
Subsistence Activities 7. Evolution of Hunting Technology 8. Canoe-making:
An Industrial Art 9. Food Culture of the Onge 10. Load of Material
Possessions 11. Development and Transformation 12. Excerpts from Field
Diaries 13. Postscript