ANTHROPOLOGY SINPPETS

Hundreds of tribal villagers from India’s Hasdeo Forest begin a rally and march tomorrow in protest at the government’s plans for a massive expansion of coal mining on their lands. Click here to download

The demand has grown louder to carve out a separate state of ‘Greater Tipraland’ for the indigenous communities in Tripura under Articles 2 and 3 of the Constitution.   Click here to download

Christianity and Politics in Tribal India; Baptist Missionaries and Naga Nationalism by G Kanato Chophy G Kanato Chophy disputes the conventional understanding that missionaries who came to India’s northeast highlands worked in tandem with the colonial powers to convert gullible tribal people with an exotic belief-system and the white man’s halo. The truth was far

Food systems aggregate the food value chain, nutrition, livelihoods and climate systems, range of actors that provide a right to life and a life to live with dignity. The tribal food system is dependent on dryland agriculture, forests, common property, water resources, and biodiversity. The tribals have been fighting for Jal (water), Jangal (forest) and

The Anthropological Survey of India held a series of meetings in August 2019 to prepare policy documents on the Great Andamanese and Sentinelese communities. The documents thus prepared were submitted to the Andaman and Nicobar administration for its kind consideration. Click here to download

Holding spears in their hands, wearing traditional attires, the performers made their moves in unison leaving the audience spellbound. Through a video on Twitter, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu Wednesday shared a performance by the Nyishi tribe during an event in Chayang Tajo to showcase what he termed as an “ancestral ritual”. For more

In a new study making use of historical data, researchers from Germany (Leipzig, Jena, Gera) and Australia aimed to answer the question of whether the games that different cultures play correspond to how cooperative they are. The findings of the study were published in the journal ‘PLoS ONE’. Click here to download

PESA empowers gram sabhas to play a key role in approving development plans and controlling all social sectors. Panchayat Minister Singh Deo is facing opposition over the much-awaited implementation of PESA, a byproduct of the tussle with Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel.   Click here to download

Ahead of assembly elections in nine tribal-dominated states over the next two years, the Centre is set to start a phased transformation programme across 1.45 lakh tribal villages to convert them into model villages. Click here to download

It was cleared without environment impact study and threaten rights of indigenous communities, say NGOs A dozen rights, social and community-based organisations wrote on Saturday to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting him to annul the proposed diversion of a green patch near the “Amazon of Assam” for a coal mining project. The Standing Committee of