The land of naked people
Subtitle: encounters with Stone Age islanders
By: Madhusree Mukerjee.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Andamanese (Indic people); Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-250) and index.
Table of contents: title: First brush -- Great Andamanese. Savage -- Uprooted -- Pacification -- Native morals -- Civilized vices -- Death -- Life after death – Onge. A fiery arrival -- Sugar and starch -- Gifts, traps -- Cultural exchange -- Outsiders and other ghosts -- Falling apart -- Assimilation – Jarawa. Hunted -- Visions of control -- With the enemy -- State of war -- Where worlds touch -- The taming of tigers -- On full modernization -- End of the road – Sentinelese. Small earth -- Afterword : origins.