Development and ethnocide : colonial practices in the Andaman Islands (Record no. 43703)
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| fixed length control field | 03839 a2200169 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 8791563046 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 305.8 |
| Item number | VEN |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Venkateswar, Sita |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Development and ethnocide : colonial practices in the Andaman Islands |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2004 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Copenhagen |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 264p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | CONTENTS<br/>Map 9<br/>Preface 10<br/>Prologue: a Sense of Place 12<br/>The island ecology 14<br/>The passage to the field site 18<br/>Setting up residence 23<br/>Linguistic initiations at Dugong Creek 24<br/>A Framework for Analysis 30<br/>A Record of Fieldwork<br/>Introduction 36<br/>Fieldwork among the Onge 40<br/>An extended conversation 40<br/>The power of secrecy, the right to withhold 69<br/>Gossip and anthropological practice 74<br/>The Andamanese at Strait Island and Port Blair 75<br/>Some notes on a distressing field trip 77<br/>Conclusion 81<br/>The Islanders in History<br/>Introduction 86<br/>The Andamanese and the first British<br/>settlement: 1789-1796 89<br/>The penal colony 1858-1899 92<br/>British policies: the ideal and the reality 93<br/>Questions of ownership: looting 94<br/>Questions of justice: rape/murder 95<br/>Colonial ethnology 96<br/>The local and the metropole 98<br/>Civilizing the savage: the "Andaman Homes" 101<br/>The convicts and the savages 103<br/>Disease and the islanders 106<br/>The subjection of the Andamanese 108<br/>A summary of events 109<br/>Turn-of-the-century anthropology 110<br/>The Jarawa 112<br/>Who are the jarawa? 112<br/>Aggression and hostility 115<br/>The Orige 118<br/>The Jarawa at North Sentinel Island 120<br/>Population counts: a table of estimates 120<br/>Conclusion 121<br/>The Islanders in "India": Policies of "Planned" Change<br/>The "independent" Andaman Islands 126<br/>Post-independence anthropology 127<br/>Two decades of policy 128<br/>The situation of the Jarawa 132<br/>The "breakthrough" 133<br/>"Retrieval from Precipice" 136<br/>Food for the islanders 138<br/>The power of representations 140<br/>An assessment of the welfare system 141<br/>The content of policies: ethnocide/benevolent ethnocide 144<br/>A matrix for subjection: individual autonomy 146<br/>Subjection and power 148<br/>Some observations on anthropology at Dugong Creek 150<br/>Some alternatives? 151<br/>Conclusion 152<br/>Gender/Power<br/>Introduction 156<br/>Gender relations among the Onge<br/>The gendered anthropologist 156<br/>A view of Onge gender relations 158<br/>Language and vomer 159<br/>Clothes make/(un)make the Onge woman 161<br/>The power of women 162<br/>Pleasure as subversion 166<br/>The path to collusion 166<br/>A note on generalizations 167<br/>Towards some explanations 168<br/>A brief note on the Andamanese 169<br/>Alcohol and the Andamanese 170<br/>Conclusion 172<br/>Strategies of Power: an Analysis of "Jarawa Contact"<br/>Introduction 174<br/>The politics of "contact" 174<br/>The Onge 177<br/>The anatomy of "contact" 178<br/>"Friendly contact" 179<br/>Markers for difference: race and culture 182<br/>Markers of difference: gender and clothing 182<br/>Constructions of difference: gender,<br/>class and the anthropologist 184<br/>Fields of power 185<br/>Assembling the elements 189<br/>A postscript on the Onge 192<br/>Conclusion 192<br/>The End of Fieldwork 196<br/>Postscript 200<br/>The Fate of the Jarawa: the End of the Road? An Epilogue 202<br/>Court cases and committees 206<br/>Of origins and genetics 209<br/>Collaborative anthropology:<br/>policy initiatives and new coalitions 210<br/>Return to Port Blair 215<br/>The battle ahead 217<br/>A Final Word by Samir Acharya 220<br/>Bibliography 224<br/>Appendices<br/>Draft policy on Jarawas<br/>framed by Shri K.B. Saxena one of the members<br/>of the expert committee on Jarawas 236<br/>An alternative framework for Jarawa policy<br/>Submitted by an independent group of experts and observers<br/>at the jarawa Seminar, May 27, 2004, Port Blair 259<br/><br/><br/> |
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| Country | Denmark |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | CEPT Library | CEPT Library | 22/10/2016 | Gratis | 0.00 | 5 | 4 | 305.8 VEN | 015674 | 25/09/2019 | 13/08/2019 | 0.00 | 21/04/2016 | Book |