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Publication Metadata only The necessity of harilal(India International Centre, 01-09-2007) Visvanathan, Shiv; DA-IICT, GandhinagarPublication Metadata only In memoriam: goodbye to ramu(Seminar, 01-07-2007) Visvanathan, Shiv; DA-IICT, GandhinagarPublication Metadata only The wages of dissent(Seminar, 01-01-2007) Visvanathan, Shiv; DA-IICT, GandhinagarPublication Metadata only When land became water: Tsunami and the ongees of little Andaman islands(01-05-2005) Pandya, Vishvajit; DA-IICT, GandhinagarPublication Metadata only Rathwa Pithoro: Writing about writing and reading painted ethnography(Taylor and Francis, 01-04-2004) Pandya, Vishvajit; Pandya, Vishvajit; Pandya, Vishvajit; Pandya, Vishvajit; Pandya, Vishvajit; Pandya, Vishvajit; DA-IICT, GandhinagarBased on fieldwork among the Rathwa tribal community of Gujarat, this article is an analysis of the ritual and installation of wall painting known as Pithoro. The analysis of the culture's own construct of what constitutes writing and reading is considered to bring out the magical power in interpreting that which is written and/or drawn. As the reading capacity is more significant, especially the one undertaken by the ritual specialist, the ethnographic account treats the paintings installed not only for the sake of ritual but to alter politicoeconomic situations of the Rathwa tribals in the course of history. This article presents the paintings as a total communication system, which is not just the work of art drawn but also written within the culture, as their own ethnography for the culture itself.Publication Metadata only Do not resist, show me your body!': Encounters between the Jarwas of the Andamans and Medicine (1858-2004)(Taylor and Francis, 01-12-2005) Pandya, Vishvajit; Pandya, Vishvajit; Pandya, Vishvajit; Pandya, Vishvajit; Pandya, Vishvajit; DA-IICT, GandhinagarBased on fieldwork and archival studies carried out since 1995, this paper is an analysis of the dialogue between the Jarwas and the outside world. The Jarwa tribal community on the Andaman Islands has a long history of voluntary isolation and pronounced hostility towards outsiders. This situation only started to change in the mid-1990s, when a young Jarwa was successfully treated at a local hospital. The Jarwas� sudden fascination with modern medicine was less to do with its therapeutic powers than the fact that, on each visit, hospital staff gave them food, clothes, and various consumer items. This paper describes events in the Jarwas� �junket to modernity�. Before discussing recent events, the paper first retraces the history of relations between the Jarwas and the outside world during the second half of the 19th century, when life on the Andaman Islands was dominated by a British Penal Settlement. In the face of epidemic outbreaks of pneumonia, malaria, and measles, tribal health has become a major concern for the Indian authorities. The paper discusses continuities and discontinuities in medical concerns with the tribal body, and argues that �marginalization� must be understood as a practice of mutual constitution.Publication Metadata only Time to move: winds and the political economy of space in Andamanese culture(Wiley, 01-04-2007) Pandya, Vishvajit; Pandya, Vishvajit; Pandya, Vishvajit; Pandya, Vishvajit; Pandya, Vishvajit; Pandya, Vishvajit; DA-IICT, GandhinagarSeasons, or temporal duration, for Andamanese are created by the flow of winds through the Andamanese cultural construct of space, which is neither fixed nor constant. In order to organize the space for society, Andaman islanders have to move constantly out from the place where the winds are. Winds associated with temperamental spirits are powerful aspects of nature that culture has to negotiate. Within this worldview where winds affect individual body condition and the capacity to continue hunting and gathering, Andaman islanders negotiate space by creating conditions that invite winds to structure and sustain life. For this purpose, smells are ritualized and wind movements are manipulated. As a result, seasons are distinguished either by winds that are spirit-given, or by a lack of winds caused by islanders' actions. Based on ethnographic data from the Ongees and Jarwas, this analysis will focus on how various forms of movement in Andamanese culture are negotiated according to a political economy of winds and smells. The worldview of the Andaman islanders, within which winds are so central, has major implications for government authorities, who are keen to confine the translocating Jarwas to a specific and permanent location. But is this possible for the Andamanese, for whom space, like time, changes by the presence and absence of winds?Publication Metadata only Through lens and text: constructions of a 'Stone Age' tribe in the Andaman islands(01-03-2009) Pandya, Vishvajit; Pandya, Vishvajit; Pandya, Vishvajit; Pandya, Vishvajit; Pandya, Vishvajit; Pandya, Vishvajit; DA-IICT, GandhinagarThe inhabitants of the North Sentinel Islands in the Bay of Bengal have for long been described as one of the last surviving Stone Age tribes of the world. The �truth value� of this assertion has been reinforced over time through a complex and often collusive representational order sustained by for instance the institutions of the Indian state, the global media, travel writers, anthropologists and the non-tribal communities of the Andaman Islands. This paper examines the visual and textual practices that constitute this representational order and pits against it the historical and ethnographic realities that render it vulnerable to radical inquiry. With its critical focus on the truth-bearing propensities of photographic images and their accompanying texts, this paper seeks to interrogate received ethnographic certitudes about an imputed Stone Age people and ponders the possibilities of acknowledging them as historical actors.Publication Metadata only Forest smells and spider webs: ritualized dream interpretation among Andaman islanders(APA PsycNet, 01-06-2004) DA-IICT, GandhinagarThis article examines the significant role of dreams among the Andamanese and the changes in sleep and dreaming that have taken place as modern settlements replace traditional campsites. As Andamanese hunters and gatherers go to sleep at a campsite, they discuss what they did throughout the day and especially what they have seen in dreams. In the morning, it is proscribed to wake a person up so that dreaming is not disturbed. A shared consensus on the group's dreams guides the members' waking actions. The sleeping arrangements in modern Andamanese settlements have changed: Andamanese believe that these afford less dream recall or understanding and attribute their declining hunting success to this diminished dreaming. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)Publication Metadata only Satyagrahi as sthitpragnya: Gandhiji's reading of the Gita(01-01-2009) Suhrud, Tridip; Suhrud, Tridip; DA-IICT, Gandhinagar