Nicobarese / Sudhendu Chanda [and five others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chanda, Sudhendu, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nicobarese (Indic people).

Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Conn. : Human Relations Area Files, 2016.

Summary:

Nicobarese is a general term used by outsiders to refer to an indigenous community that inhabits much of the Nicobar Islands, an eastern Bay of Bengal archipelago that is part of the Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. The Nicobarese belong to the Southeast Asian cultural complex and speak an Austro-Asiatic language but are not a homogenous group. The internal diversity among them takes the form of four distinct cultural groups. These are the islands of: 1 Car Nicobar; 2 Chowra (Chaura), Bompoka (Bompooka) and Teressa; 3 Katchal (Katchall), Nancowry, Kamorta (Camorta) and Trinket; 4 Little Nicobar, Kondul, Pulo Milo (Pilomillow), and Great Nicobar. This collection of eight documents covers the late nineteenth to the outset of the twenty-first century, with a pronounced mid-twentieth century gap. The early works cover a wide range of traits throughout the archipelago, while the late studies focus on particular islands and topics. The major ethnographies are by Man (1889, 1932) and Whitehead (1924). Man served as an administrator in the region for thirty years. His earlier volume focuses almost entirely on biological anthropology. Whitehead was a traveler and linguist, who had published a Car Nicobarese dictionary and article on folk tales. Chanda (1971) is a comparative study of three communities on the island of Car Nicobar. Reddy (1999) examines the people and community on Chaura (Chowra). Reddy and Sudarsen (1986) make a comparative study of the social structure and political organization of Car Nicobar, Chowra and Teressa. Chauhan et al. (2004) is a study of Car Nicobarese ethnobotany.

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