Jayanta Sarkar
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The present book “Among the Endangered Hunter Gatherers : An Anthropological Exploration in Andaman Islands” discusses the entire situation that the four hunter-gatherer small tribes viz. the Great Andamanese, the Onges, the Jarawas and the Sentinelese experienced in past and have still been experiencing, in a simple narrative style, without any technical jargons, keeping the common readers in mind. The book, based on prolong anthropological ...
The tribe known as the Jarawa (‘the other people’) is one of the negrito tribes of the Andamans. As a people they have remained hostile to outsiders, only recently allowing a degree of friendly interaction with the visiting contact party. Anthropologist Jayanta Sarkar has based this study on first-hand observation, covering aspects of the Jarawa habitat, economy food habits, and social life. It should prove useful to scholars, researchers, administrators and ...
Anthropology for North-East India : A Reader is a compendium comprising twenty-one pre-published papers on different aspects of the society and culture of North-East India. The papers have been carefully chosen and they cover ethnicity, regionalism, tribal movement, economy and economic organisation and some interesting social systems in this part of the country. The book is intended for wide range of readers including students and research scholars.
After independence of India the democratic political system has been extended from the Parliament to village panchayat. The system provides scope to the eligible citizen of India to elect representatives of one's own choice in order to annex political power. The nature and extent of association of ethnic sentiment in acquiring political power and usefulness in understanding the political behaviour of the tribes have been discussed threadbare in the seven essays; ...
