Anthony R Walker
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The Toda people of the Nilgiris District in south India are one of the oldest indigenous groups in South Asia; they are also reportedly among the most studied and written-about in the region. While the field was dominated by Western scholars in the beginning, Indian researchers and writers began contributing to Toda studies from the early twentieth century.
The Toda Landscape: Explorations in Cultural Ecology represents a major breakthrough in Toda studies. From ...
Pika-Pika (a Japanese onomatopoeic expression conjuring up the flashing of fireflies) is a multi-disciplinary, multi-regional collection of academic papers written by twenty-two scholars (with seventeen Ph.D.s among them), of ten different nationalities and an even greater number of ethnicities. The authors, who are scattered across the globe from North America through the South Pacific to East, Southeast and South Asia, have contributed to this book because they ...
This book (a reissue with the title slightly changed of the 1998 volume) comprises essays written by Anthony Walker on the Toda people of South India and published over the period 1985 to1993. The first essay "Toda Society: Between Tradition and Modernity", provides the backdrop to all that is to follow. The second, "A Thousand Out of Eight Hundred Million: Who Cares?" explains why the Toda, one of India's smallest communities, are among its ...
The Lahu mountain people, numbering some 700,000, are traditionally Swidden farmers, sharing with other peoples the rugged highlands that form the borderlands between China’s Yunnan Province and the Southeast Asian nations of Burma, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand. Lahu ideas and practices related to the supernatural world include a traditional animism that affirms innumerable spirit entities with varying capacities to protect and to harm mortal ...
The book contains essays on the Toda of South India. It begins with an essay "Toda Society: Between Tradition and Modernity" to provide the background for all that will follow. The second essay: A Thousand Out of Eight Hundred Million: Who Cares?" is an attempt to explain just why the Toda, despite being one of India's smallest communities, are yet among the best known in the ethnographic record, not only of India, but of the whole world. The next ...
