Voice of Intellectual Man- An International Journal
  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue: 2

The Ethnographic account of Indigenous community of Little Andaman Island

  • Author:
  • Ajeet Jaiswal
  • Total Page Count: 14
  • Page Number: 109 to 122

Assistant Profossor, Department of Anthropology, Pondicherry University, Puducherry

Online published on 15 January, 2013.

Abstract

"The oldest ethnic community survived all the natural Tsunamis for the epochs, but they are now struggling to survive on Man Made (activities) Tsunamis." The Dooms day debate may be happening with these Onges population also. They are numbered more than seven hundred during the dawn of the 20th century. But they are numbered now less than a hundred only. They were said to be one of the crudest ethnic stock and flesh of the flesh of this humanity. But they are gradually becoming extinct species threatened by all the maladies of current contexts of globalized world. One of the oldest Negrito racial stock and huntergatherers lives on the southern most edges of Indian sub continent at Dugong Greek Island, a part of Little Andaman. Researcher have done twenty day first hand ethnographic field work study among them along with late Prof. V. Sudersen and other students during 2001.It had given deep insights into the lives of these kinds of hunter-gatherers.

Keywords

Globalization, Tsunami, Onge, Ethnographic, Negrito