Author: Anvita Abbi
Publisher:
Published: 2021-12-29
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9789391125066
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →* It has QR codes which can be scanned to gain access to rare documentations: audio-visuals of Great Andamanese songs and tales"It is fortunate that a scholar with Professor Abbi's tenacity, as well as her scientific credentials, was available and willing to conduct this work... The volume is a superb introduction for the layperson to the wonderful world that Professor Abbi has opened up for us." - Bernard Comrie, Santa Barbara, California. "For two decades now, Abbi has marshalled the full intellectual and strategic weight of her training, disciplinary expertise and socio-cultural capital to document, preserve and share with the world the voices, songs, stories and laughter of the Great Andamanese." - Mark Turin, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. The Andaman Islands -- Great Andaman, Little Andaman, and North Sentinel Islands have been home for milleniums to four tribes: the Great Andamanese, Onge, Jarawa, and Sentinelese. Their languages are known by the same name as that of the tribes. 'Great Andamanese' is a generic term representing ten languages among a family of languages that were once spoken by ten different tribes living in the north, south, and middle of the Great Andaman Islands. These languages were mutually intelligible like a link in a chain. However, today, Great Andamanese is a moribund language of the only-surviving pre-Neolithic tribe, breathing its last breath. When a language is on the verge of extinction, its history, culture, ecological base, knowledge of the biodiversity, ethno-linguistic practices, and the identity of its community -- everything is endangered. This is what prompted Prof. Anvita Abbi to conduct a research study to give life to the lost oral heritage of the vanishing world of the Great Andamanese. Voices from the Lost Horizon is a collection of a number of folk tales and songs of the Great Andamanese. These stories and songs represent the first-ever collection rendered to the Prof. Abbi and her team by the Great Andamanese people in local settings. The compilation comes with audio and video recordings of the stories and songs to retain the originality and orality of the narratives.
Author: Anvita Abbi
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013-07-18
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9004246126
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Grammar of the Great Andamanese Language is a pioneering piece of work by Anvita Abbi which introduces readers to a unique world of cognition of the people who are remnants of the first migration from Africa 70,000 years before present.
Author: Dilip Kumar Chakraborty
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Negrito Tribe Of The Great Andamanese Is On The Verge Of Extinction, Today Numbering Only About 29. This Study Was Researched By Dr. D.K. Chakraborty At Strait Island Where The Tribe Has Been Resettled. While Critically Examining The Nature Of The Group`S Struggle For Survival, It Seeks To Document Changes In The Tribes Life Ansd Culture, Including Family And Kinship Systems Life Cycle Rituals Myths And Legends, Subsistence Economy And Political Organization. It Should Prove Useful To Scholars, Researchers Administrators And Planners Interested In The Study And Development Of Tribal Communities.
Author: Anvita Abbi
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Accompanying CD-ROM contains songs rendered by the tribes plus sound and video files.
Author: Pratap C. Dutta
Publisher: Calcutta : Anthropological Survey of India
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Madhusree Mukerjee
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780618197361
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Author: Comrie ZAMPONI
Publisher:
Published: 2021-11-11
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781800080959
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A definitive guide to an almost extinct North Andamanese language. Originally spoken across the northern Andamanese Islands in the Bay of Bengal, the Akajeru language is spoken today by only three people. A Grammar of Akajeru describes this unique grammatical system as it was reported at the turn of the twentieth century. Based primarily on research conducted by Victorian anthropologists Alfred R. Radcliffe-Brown and Edward Horace Man, this book offers a linguistic analysis of all extant Akajeru material as well as the scant documentation of adjacent dialects Akabo and Akakhora. This volume includes a grammatical sketch of Akajeru, an English-Akajeru lexicon, and a comparison between Akajeru and present-day Andamanese.
Author: Rann Singh Mann
Publisher: Mittal Publications
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9788183240109
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Techno-economic primitivism of the highest order, social and physical isolation of an extreme nature, a minimal world-view, hostile encounters and dwindling population are some of the markers of the aborigines under study in this book. It highlights a tribal scenario which hardly finds a parallel anywhere on the globe.
Author: Uditi Sen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-08-30
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1108425615
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