TY  - GEN
AU  -  Venkateswar, Sita
TI  - Development and ethnocide : colonial practices in the Andaman Islands
SN  - 8791563046
U1  - 305.8 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Copenhagen
PB  - International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
KW  -  
N1  - CONTENTS
Map  9
Preface  10
Prologue: a Sense of Place  12
The island ecology  14
The passage to the field site  18
Setting up residence  23
Linguistic initiations at Dugong Creek  24
A Framework for Analysis  30
A Record of Fieldwork
Introduction  36
Fieldwork among the Onge  40
An extended conversation  40
The power of secrecy, the right to withhold  69
Gossip and anthropological practice  74
The Andamanese at Strait Island and Port Blair  75
Some notes on a distressing field trip   77
Conclusion  81
The Islanders in History
Introduction  86
The Andamanese and the first British
settlement: 1789-1796   89
The penal colony 1858-1899  92
British policies: the ideal and the reality  93
Questions of ownership: looting  94
Questions of justice: rape/murder  95
Colonial ethnology  96
The local and the metropole  98
Civilizing the savage: the "Andaman Homes"  101
The convicts and the savages  103
Disease and the islanders  106
The subjection of the Andamanese  108
A summary of events  109
Turn-of-the-century anthropology  110
The Jarawa  112
Who are the jarawa?  112
Aggression and hostility  115
The Orige  118
The Jarawa at North Sentinel Island  120
Population counts: a table of estimates  120
Conclusion  121
The Islanders in "India": Policies of "Planned" Change
The "independent" Andaman Islands  126
Post-independence anthropology  127
Two decades of policy  128
The situation of the Jarawa  132
The "breakthrough"  133
"Retrieval from Precipice"  136
Food for the islanders  138
The power of representations  140
An assessment of the welfare system  141
The content of policies: ethnocide/benevolent ethnocide  144
A matrix for subjection: individual autonomy  146
Subjection and power  148
Some observations on anthropology at Dugong Creek  150
Some alternatives?  151
Conclusion  152
Gender/Power
Introduction  156
Gender relations among the Onge
The gendered anthropologist  156
A view of Onge gender relations  158
Language and vomer  159
Clothes make/(un)make the Onge woman  161
The power of women  162
Pleasure as subversion  166
The path to collusion  166
A note on generalizations  167
Towards some explanations  168
A brief note on the Andamanese  169
Alcohol and the Andamanese  170
Conclusion  172
Strategies of Power: an Analysis of "Jarawa Contact"
Introduction  174
The politics of "contact"  174
The Onge  177
The anatomy of "contact"  178
"Friendly contact"  179
Markers for difference: race and culture  182
Markers of difference: gender and clothing  182
Constructions of difference: gender,
class and the anthropologist  184
Fields of power  185
Assembling the elements  189
A postscript on the Onge  192
Conclusion  192
The End of Fieldwork  196
Postscript  200
The Fate of the Jarawa: the End of the Road? An Epilogue  202
Court cases and committees  206
Of origins and genetics  209
Collaborative anthropology:
policy initiatives and new coalitions  210
Return to Port Blair  215
The battle ahead  217
A Final Word by Samir Acharya  220
Bibliography  224
Appendices
Draft policy on Jarawas
framed by Shri K.B. Saxena one of the members
of the expert committee on Jarawas  236
An alternative framework for Jarawa policy
Submitted by an independent group of experts and observers
at the jarawa Seminar, May 27, 2004, Port Blair  259



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