Traditions were really unimportant to the Inuit people of Igloolik before they encountered outsiders, according to Nancy Wachowich. One elder explained to the author, “we didn’t talk about traditions in the past. There were no other cultures here with us and we didn’t think about preserving anything because we were… Continue reading…
The Kadars of South India have significant economic problems due to their remote forest locations, according to two different articles published last year in the journal Studies of Tribes and Tribals. In an article published in July 2005, Seetha Kakkoth indicates that 320,967 people in the State of Kerala were… Continue reading…
Deepak Roy, producer of a well-received film earlier this year about the Lepchas, “Children of Kanchenjunga,” has written a feature article on the society last week (July 22) in the online publication HardNews Magazine, India. He opens the article by explaining that the word “Lepcha” is a misnomer, the mispronunciation… Continue reading…
Deepak Roy, producer of a well-received film earlier this year about the Lepchas, “Children of Kanchenjunga,” has written a feature article on the society last week (July 22) in the online publication HardNews Magazine, India. He opens the article by explaining that the word “Lepcha” is a misnomer, the mispronunciation… Continue reading…
The New Straits Times recently reported that the Orang Asli (original peoples) of Malaysia are increasingly being converted to Islam, Christianity, and Bahai, a trend which threatens to destroy their culture. This story supplements a recent scholarly article on the same subject by Kirk Endicott and Robert Knox Dentan which… Continue reading…
Three canoe-builders from Ifaluk Island, in the State of Yap, Federated States of Micronesia, are teaching canoe-building skills and helping forge an international community in the process. The Honolulu Advertiser reported on August 21 that three people from Ifaluk (or Ifalik as it is called in the story) have joined… Continue reading…
Among the Batek, “man and woman are equals … there is no men’s or women’s work,” declared Kirk Endicott, an anthropologist who sees many advantages for that Malaysian Orang Asli society in retaining its traditional culture. Endicott and Robert Welsch, both professors from the anthropology department at Dartmouth, discussed the… Continue reading…
