ethnography
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The Hakki Pikki Tribe
The Hakki Pikki Tribe from Karnataka were recently in the news because they are stranded in violence-hit Sudan. “Hakki Pikki” translates to “Bird Catchers”. Hakki Pikki is a semi-nodamic tribe whose members were traditionally involved in hunting, but had to give up the activity due to India’s Wildlife Protection laws. They are now involved in… Continue reading
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Irawati Karve
𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐢: 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐌 | Irawati Karve Irawati Karve was the first woman anthropologist in India. She headed the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Deccan College, Pune and also presided over the Anthropology division of the National Science Congress in 1947. Her book, Yuganta: The End of an Epoch, won the Sahitya Akademi Award. Courtesy:… Continue reading
i think, therefore i am.
Cogito, ergo sum is a Latin philosophical proposition by René Descartes usually translated into English as “I think, therefore I am”, probably the one thing that defines our specie.
Kartic Godavarthy 