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attitudes toward outsiders

Yanadi Gain Land Titles

Posted on August 16, 2018 by Bruce Bonta

For the Yanadi, gaining full titles to lands they have cultivated in Andhra Pradesh for many years can be a breakthrough event. But while they have suffered injustices from higher caste Indians for generations, they have also been attaining their rights, such as their land titles, ever so slowly, according to a perceptive analysis published […]

Posted in Yanadi Tagged attitudes toward outsiders, class differences, land rights

A Visitor on Ifaluk

Posted on May 15, 2014 by Bruce Bonta

The best news about the really isolated peaceful societies is that they are still remote, still quiet, and still able to persist in their ways, despite intrusions of the modern world. So a blog report by a visitor to Ifaluk Island is welcome due to the way it confirms that the people there thrive, their […]

Posted in Ifaluk Tagged attitudes toward outsiders, dancing, tourists

Cutting Off the Heads of Semai Kids

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Bruce Bonta

How does the Semai community react to visitors, an interviewer asks the headman. His response, given in a new, 14 minute video, is that they are quite used to them. Pointing to a boy nearby, he adds that village children play around them and easily accept them. This was not always the case. The headman, […]

Posted in Semai Tagged attitudes toward outsiders, relations with outsiders
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