UCSB Anthropology Brown Bag Lecture Series Presents:
Verrier Elwin and the Tribal Question in Modern India
By Dr. Ramachandra Guha
Verrier Elwin (1902-1964) was a prolific but controversial ethnographer of
South Asian tribal peoples (e.g., the Nagas, the Maria, the hill people of
Northeast India--Melvyl lists 76 entries under his name). He was a
consummate (in both senses) fieldworker. As can be gathered from the recent
bombing of trains in Northeastern India, the "Tribal Question" is highly
charged, setting off state interests, economic forces, and modern migration
against "tribal" interests.
Dr. Guha is a visiting professor at UC Berkeley. He is a prolific writer and
author among other things of "The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and
Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya" (Oxford University Press and University of California
Press, 1990). He was the Manley Lecturer in Environmental Studies here at
UCSB a few years back.
Monday, February 10, 1997
HSSB 2001A, The Anthropology Conference Room
