...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...

...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...

...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...

... on “first encounters” is one-sided: it reveals our own preoccupations, but only rarely considers whether our questions are also theirs. In the Forest does not fall into this category. The book, authored by Vishvajit Pandya, a well-known expert on the Andaman Islands, is based on more than two decades...

..., 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...

... of Occupation: Colonialism, Conquest and Foreign Control in Asia explores occupation as spatial processes, structures, and experiences in which administrative power and people's resistance are contested. Spanning the Andaman Islands to the Philippines to Japan, the introduction and following nine chapters...

... 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...

... 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, and the Kayapo...

..., 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...

... is given for such omissions. Instead very outdated books such as those by Arthur H. Smith, Village Life in China (1899) and Chinese Characteristics (1900) are included. There does not seem to be any sound reason for the author's selection. Works on marginal peoples like the Andaman Islanders, Todas...

..., 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 analysis. New York, Praeger [1962] 228 p. . India and Pakistan...

... societies (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...

... 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...