June 2012 Blog Posts (22)

The jarwa region as buffer zone



JARWA TRIBE REGION AS BUFFER ZONE

Five months after two British newspapers released a controversial video film showing scantily clad Jarawa tribal women dancing for tourists in return for food and money, the government finally acted on Thursday: the Union Cabinet approved the



promulgation of a law that brings into effect a buffer zone in the 5 km radius around the Jarawa tribal settlements in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and provides for imprisonment up to seven years…

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Added by Dr. Alok Chantia on June 2, 2012 at 9:25am — No Comments

Theory and method in anthropology: an historical speculation

The following remarks are an edited version of something I just wrote on Savage Minds. The topic is method or, from my perspective, the lack thereof in interpretive anthropology.

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@Rex

I’ve never thought this was a problem related to cultural data or to anthropology’s method of interpreting it.

In this respect you are, I suspect, typical. You are quite correct to point to a

whole cottage industry in anthropology that worries…

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Added by John McCreery on June 1, 2012 at 2:30am — 49 Comments

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