In the Forest: Visual and Material Worlds of Andamanese History (1858-2006) - Softcover

Pandya, Vishvajit

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761841539 ISBN 13: 9780761841531

Publisher: University Press of America, 2009

Synopsis

This extraordinary book brings long years of ethnographic engagement with the Ongee and the Jarawa, otherwise known as the Andaman Islanders, to render an intimate history of their contact with traders, colonialists, global tourists and the developmental state. -Veena Das

About this title

About the Author:

Vishvajit Pandya earned his Doctorate in Anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1987. Since 1983 he has been involved with ethnographic research on the Andaman Islands. He has held teaching positions in the United States, New Zealand and India.

Review:

This extraordinary book brings long years of ethnographic engagement with the Ongee and the Jarawa, otherwise known as the Andaman Islanders, to render an intimate history of their contact with traders, colonialists, global tourists and the developmental state. Vishvajit Pandya displays a superb command over theory, history and ethnography that makes this one of the most important books to engage with the question of how ideas of wildness and civilization have been shaped through sensory experiences of vision, touch, smell and sound. The history of intimacy is rendered with consummate skill, making this a book that will be treasured by specialist and non-specialist alike. (Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University)

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of America
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0761841539
• ISBN 13: 9780761841531
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 540