Comments on: Adivasi

By: Keywords » What’s happening in Kashipur? [Invited Post]

Keywords » What’s happening in Kashipur? [Invited Post] — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 15:51:47 +0000

[...] Raja. On the 25th May I was attacked while filming a peaceful rally by the Kue Kondhs, an Adivasi (tribal) community in the Indian state of Orrisa. They were marching against police [...]

By: Amardeep Singh

Amardeep Singh — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

lucky. Kerim and Shashwati, for example, have been doing interesting stuff in India. Read Kerim's posts on Dehradun, Denotified tribes (especially that one), and Adivasis . Elck (Vernacular Body) also has been in India, and has great posts on it. I especially liked the post on Bombay. And

By: The B-Log

The B-Log — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

able to find relatively little about or by Professor Roy Burman. He’s written or co-written a great number of ethnographic studies of scheduled castes and tribes (Kerim Friedman of the anthropology blog Keywords has written about scheduled tribes here ), including a piece on the Dimasa in 1971 and the Karbi (referred to in his paper as the Mikir) in 1972. Google is such a tease: From his involvement in the Quit India Movement in the 1930s to a protest against the World Bank