...Aram A. Yengoyan Ethnic Groups of Insular Southeast Asia. Volume 1: Indonesia, Andaman Islands and Madagascar . Edited And Compiled By Frank M. LeBar . New Haven : HRAF Press , 1973 . viii, 236 pp. Illustrations, Index, Bibliography. $15.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Murray J. Leaf The Andaman Islanders . By Lidio Cipriani . Edited and translated by D. Tayler Cox . New York : Frederick A. Praeger , 1966 . xii, 159 pp. Appendix, Index, Photographs. $8.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 652 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Kathleen D. Morrison Archaeology and History: Early Settlements in the Andaman Islands . By Zarine Cooper . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2002 . xv , 207 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 1166 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U...

...George H. J. Weber Archaeology and History: Early Settlements in the Andaman Islands . By Zarine Cooper . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2002 . xv, 207 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 820 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E...

...Shigeru Sato Sharing the Blame: Subhas Chandra Bose and the Japanese Occupation of the Andamans, 1942–45 . By T. R. Sareen . Delhi : S. S. Publishers , 2002 . xii , 270 pp. Rs 495. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA: COMPARATIVE...

...Satadru Sen Abstract T he penal colony that the british established in the Andaman Islands at the end of the 1850s was originally intended as a place of permanent exile for a particular class of Indian criminals. These offenders had, for the most part, been convicted by special tribunals...

... implementation, nor serious diminution in the early years of work. It does mean a very major stepping up in the conception and development of new major independent centers. New Yor\ City ALBERT MAYER The Andaman Islanders. BY LIDIO CIPRIANI. Edited and translated by D. Tayler Cox. New York: Frederick A. Praeger...

... understanding the global implications. Overall, the book is a welcome contribution to studies of nuclear stability in South Asia. PRAVEEN K. CHAUDHRY Ohio University Archaeology and History: Early Settlements in the Andaman Islands. By ZARINE COOPER. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002. xv, 207 pp. $45.00...

...Ken MacLean These minor shortcomings aside, the book represents a significant contribution to the scholarship on the Andaman Islands, yet remains accessible to the serious reader interested in indigenous interpretations of “contact events.” The author's approach should also be of considerable...

..., a rough outline appears practicable. Among the most ancient inhabitants of the area are the various tribes of Negritos, the Eta, the Semang, and the Andaman Islanders. One of their characteristics, in this region just as in Africa, seems to be that, with the exception of but one group, they everywhere...

... in the Andaman Islands. By ZARINE COOPER. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002. xv, 207 pp. $45.00 (cloth). The Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal have remained isolated from the outside world for a very long time, and their enigmatic aboriginal people, known as Negrito, have fascinated anthropologists...

... by Japanese bombing (or the looting that accompanied it) and the occupation of the Andaman Islands. And yet, relatively remote though Japan and China might be from South Asia's consumer history, across much of the Asian continent there was a common chronology to this unfolding techno-history, beginning...

... of the Ongee people, a tiny (ninety-six people in 1983) group of determinedly migratory, mixed-economy pygmy foragers on Little Andaman Island, an Indian possession in the Indian Ocean. He begins his account: It could be argued that, with the exception of a doctrine of cultural relativism, anthropology's...

... situations in which ethnographic data were collected. Over half the book deals with the colonial relationship in Asian societies (Papua New Guinea, Palau Islands, Ponape, Trobriand Islands, Andaman Islands, Yap, and Montagnards). The remainder of the book focuses on Algonquians (Canada), Zimbabwe...

... peoples like the Andaman Islanders, Todas, and Veddas are included but the voluminous books of Shirokogoroff on the Tungus and Barton's on the Ifugaos are not included. An obscure book by O'Malley on Indian Caste Customs (1932) is included, but the much more important works of Bougie, Hocart, Dumezil...

..., allegedly involved in anti-British activity on the northwest frontier as well as in the Mutiny, spent eighteen years exiled to the Andamans. In a clerical position there, thanks to his earlier role as a government munshi , he collaborated with a British official on an ethnographic study of the island. He...

.... (Review article) London, Cassell, 1962. 295 p. illus., maps. SARKAR, S. S. The Jarawa of the Andaman Islands. QURESHI, ISHTIAQ HUSAIN. The Muslim com- Anthropos 57 (1962), 670-677. munity of the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent. Hague, Mouton, 1962. 334 p. TINKER, HUGH. India and Pakistan: a political CEYLON...

... (Papua New Guinea, Palau Islands, Ponape, Trobriand Islands, Andaman Islands, Yap, and Montagnards). The remainder of the book focuses on Algonquians (Canada), Zimbabwe, and the Kayapo (Brazil). The essays view the colonial situation from three vantage points: the ethnographer dealing with the natives...

... but successfully provides an introduction to the literature of eight hundred years of China watching. It is a useful addition to the growing literature on globalization of food. E. N. ANDERSON University of California, Riverside Sharing the Blame: Subhas Chandra Bose and the Japanese Occupation of the Andamans...

... (and not the practice of widow immolation) can be correlated with that community's interest in constructing a particular identity and shaping certain traditions associated with ideals of female domesticity. SATADRU S E N discusses British colonial policies and practices directed at Andaman islanders in the second half...