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100			_a Venkateswar, Sita _950456
245			_aDevelopment and ethnocide : colonial practices in the Andaman Islands
260			_bInternational Work Group for Indigenous Affairs _c2004 _aCopenhagen
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505			_aCONTENTS 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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