ethnography
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Anthropology Current Affairs
Weekly Digest · 30 August – 5 September 2026 For the UPSC Anthropology optional Published Sunday, 6 September 2026 PAPER 1: GENERAL AND PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY The International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances and the Work of Forensic Anthropology The News On 30 August 2026 the United Nations and human rights organisations across the… Continue reading
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Inter-Tribal Interaction Systems in India
Tribal communities in India have never existed as isolated or completely self-sufficient groups. Across different ecological regions, neighbouring communities developed specialised occupations and depended upon one another for food, tools, forest produce, labour, music and ritual services. From the Nilgiri Hills to Central India, Chota Nagpur, Arunachal Pradesh and Wayanad, these inter-tribal systems reveal complex… Continue reading
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Anthropology Current Affairs
Weekly Digest · 23–29 August 2026 For the UPSC Anthropology optional Published Sunday, 30 August 2026 PAPER 1: GENERAL AND PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY Why Do Chimpanzees Keep Throwing Stones at the Same Trees? (Recent Context for Revision) The News This entry is recent context for Paper 1 revision rather than this week’s news: the fieldwork account… Continue reading
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Anthropology Current Affairs
Weekly Digest · 2 August – 8 August 2026 For the UPSC Anthropology optional · Published Sunday, 9 August 2026 · Today, 9 August, is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples – observed in India as World Tribal Day (Vishwa Adivasi Divas) – and the digest opens with the Day itself and its… Continue reading
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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.