Category Archives: Networking

Video | Through the Eye of the Ancestors: An exhibition of historical photographs organized with the Rathwa community – Gujarat

Posted on 24/05/2013 by website administrator

Image: Bhil husband and wife: 1953, Fürer-Haimendorf Collection (SOAS Library PPMS19_6_BHIL_0142) | More information >> Your ancestors and my ancestors existed together; therefore, we should also be together and live happily. – Muja Ratwa Source: subtitles of the concluding discussion of … Continue reading →

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Call for respect to indigenous peoples and an end to gender discrimination: India’s first National Dalit and Adivasi Women’s Congress

Posted on 10/05/2013 by website administrator

Dalit and Adivasi Women Warriors Question Caste and Gender Oppression Sujatha Surepally | Read the entire report with more photos >> (Impressions from the first National Dalit and Adivasi Women’s Congress held on February 15-16, 2013, at Tata Institute of Social … Continue reading →

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Seminar on the issue of trans-border Asia’s trans-border communities: Struggling to preserve their social and cultural characteristics – National Atlas & Thematic Mapping Organisation

Posted on 09/05/2013 by website administrator

Ipsita Pati, The Hindu, Kolkata, February 24, 2013 Tribal groups have to relocate themselves to create new identities or merge with bigger nations as an adaptive strategy to preserve their inherited social and cultural characteristics, said National Atlas & Thematic Mapping … Continue reading →

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Video | Trailer to “Have you seen the arana?” – Kerala

Posted on 03/05/2013 by website administrator

“The stories of ancestors and their discoveries give the film a mystical quality and work like a poetic refrain” – Review by Bikas Mishra >>

Posted in Ecology and environment, Economy and development, Health and nutrition, Maps, Modernity, Networking, Quotes, Storytelling, Video resources - external, Western Ghats - tribal heritage & ecology, Women | Comments Off

Conference on unrecognized languages: Bhasha Research Centre – Gujarat

Posted on 13/04/2013 by website administrator

The Indian Express, Vadodara, Thu Feb 18 2010 Come March, and the city’s linguistic diversity will increase manifold, though for a few days. [...] People speaking as many as 250 languages, which are not recognised by the Indian constitution, will … Continue reading →

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Adivasi Religion and Society Network (ARS): Encouraging communication and collaboration among scholars from all disciplines interested in religion and society among adivasi people

Posted on 08/04/2013 by website administrator

Reflections Why a Network for Adivasi Religions and Societies? Gregory Alles, October 11, 2011. When I first became interested in adivasis and adivasi religions several years ago, I started looking around for scholars of religious studies who were interested in … Continue reading →

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Our trip to the Adivasi festival in Ranchi: School blog about an excursion from the Nilgiri mountains of Tamil Nadu to Jharkhand in central India

Posted on 07/04/2013 by website administrator

[...] This week, our blog is coming to you from the students of Class 9. [...] In order, you can see (back row left-right) Tariq (one of our supervisors), Srudilaya, Prasad, Mridul, Priya (one of our teachers), then (front row … Continue reading →

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Adivasi community event and documentary film screening hosted by Accord – Tamil Nadu

Posted on 06/04/2013 by website administrator

Accord held a meeting in memory of Manoharan who passed away in 2012. He worked with Accord for 20 years. A lecture was delivered by Shashank Kela, author of a recently published book titled ‘A Rogue and Peasant Slave’ dealing … Continue reading →

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EU supported project to “bring back forests on forest land”: Auroville bioregion – Tamil Nadu

Posted on 04/04/2013 by website administrator

01 April 2002 | by Isha; source: Auroville Today, April 2002 European Union supports Auroville’s afforestation project. The planting of 75,000 trees within Auroville, fortifying Auroville’s forest gene and bunding and check dam work needed to combat soil erosion and … Continue reading →

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Slideshow | Community screening of documentary “Have you seen the Arana?” in Gudalur – Tamil Nadu

Posted on 30/03/2013 by website administrator

Bangalore-based filmmaker Sunanda Bhat was invited by ACCORD for a community screening of her award winning documentary ”Have you seen the Arana?” on 24 March 2013 in Gudalur. Her audience comprised students, their teachers and other members of the different Adivasi communities of … Continue reading →

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Video | Learning from one another: An international exchange programme “for a new future for the Ainu people” – Japan

Posted on 25/03/2013 by website administrator

In January 2012, a Maori leader, Te Ururoa Flavell visited Ainumosir (Hokkaido) and Tokyo and witnessed the work Ainu people are doing in their communities to revitalize their culture, language, and rights. He immediately suggested that Ainu youth come to … Continue reading →

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Adivaani “the Adivasi voice”: A publishing house for India’s indigenous population – West Bengal

Posted on 24/03/2013 by website administrator

June 12, 2012 Who is adivaani Ruby Hembrom I believe not everyone is meant to do just one thing in life, I certainly am not. My 8 years of work experience in the Legal field, the Service Industry, the Social Development … Continue reading →

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Slideshow | Saving the wildlife habitat and livelihood of indigenous population of the Niyamgiri Hills – Odisha (Orissa)

Posted on 12/03/2013 by website administrator

The Dongaria tribe along with other villagers of 150 villages of Rayagada district demonstrating before the Orissa State Assembly in 2005. Photo: Ashoke Chakrabarty courtesy The Hindu To view the entire slideshow published in The Hindu, Aug 24, 2010, click here >> … Continue reading →

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Alcohol and drug-awareness group, political leaders and women activists worried: Increased alcoholism in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh

Posted on 11/03/2013 by website administrator

What’s the price of the ‘right’ to alcohol? By Mari Marcel Thekaekara, New Internationalist, March 8, 2013 While successive governments have patted themselves on their backs, each claiming credit for our galloping economy, India refuses to talk about the enormous social costs to … Continue reading →

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Village artist Sanyasi Lohar – West Bengal

Posted on 10/03/2013 by website administrator

“Sanyasi Lohar, though not a Santal himself but spending his life in a Santal village, Bishnubati, has developed naïve Santali designs into a sophisticated art-form” – Martin Kämpchen Photo: Baul singer – terra cotta mural by Sanyasi Lohar © 2013 Slideshow | … Continue reading →

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Slideshow | Two day tribal Youth Leadership Training Camp at Johar, Human Resource Development Centre (HRDC) Dumka – Jharkhand

Posted on 08/03/2013 by website administrator

Photos: courtesy Boro Baski, Ghosaldanga Bishnubati Adibasi Trust © 2013 The two day tribal Youth Leadership Training Camp ended with a very high note at Johar, Human Resource Development Centre (HRDC) Dumka, Jharkhand. The camp was organised by Fr. Soloman sj, Director, … Continue reading →

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Collective Inquiry helps educators to build shared knowledge and learn together – Asia Society Partnership for Global Learning

Posted on 08/03/2013 by website administrator

Collective inquiry is the process by which educators build shared knowledge and learn together. It’s also a common practice that high-performing school systems around the world use to create and sustain a strong teaching profession. Collective inquiry helps build a shared … Continue reading →

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Realising the importance of experiencing things at a small, local level: South Asian stories from Californian streets – USA

Posted on 02/03/2013 by website administrator

ZAHIR JANMOHAMED, The Hindu, February 2, 2013 A radical walking tour in Berkeley shows that South Asian activism in the U.S. pre-dated 9/11. Anirvan Chatterjee stops at the corner of Dwight and Telegraph in Berkeley, opens up a four-inch binder … Continue reading →

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Locations of dialects, languages, and language families – Linguistic Survey of India map collection

Posted on 02/03/2013 by website administrator

The LL-MAP team is happy to announce the completion of the digital adaptation of the Linguistic Survey of India map collection. This important series of maps was a survey of the languages of British India, conducted in the first several decades of the 20th century … Continue reading →

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Tip | A Digital Library of Language Relationships: searchable database and maps – multitree.org

Posted on 02/03/2013 by website administrator

Search information and create a customized map on multitree.org/search (e.g. Gondi, Santali) >> A customized map showing the distribution of the Santali created on multitree.org MultiTree is a project of The LINGUIST List to create and present a digital library of scholarly hypotheses about language relationships and … Continue reading →

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Video | Portrait Dayamani Barla known as the “Iron Lady of Jharkhand”

Posted on 23/02/2013 by website administrator

Documentary directed and produced by Leena Manimekalai.  IAWRT Documentary Fellowship (2012) “Still I Rise” is a video portrait of indigenous tribal journalist and activist Dayamani Barla. “I was amidst the world of non Adivasi journalists because I was completely a newcomer … Continue reading →

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Locating familiar feminist traditions within their own communities: Participants at the National Dalit and Adivasi Women’s Congress – Maharashtra

Posted on 18/02/2013 by website administrator

View a slideshow here >> Excerpts from the Concept Note What does it mean to be a Dalit woman, an Adivasi woman? At this conference, which is conceptualized, organized and co-ordinated by Dalit and Adivasi women, we frame these fundamental … Continue reading →

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The Indigenous Peoples Funding and Resource Guide – free download and other resources

Posted on 07/02/2013 by website administrator

The Indigenous Peoples Funding and Resource Guide, which was developed in collaboration with International Funders for Indigenous Peoples and First Peoples Worldwide, has been distributed to hundreds of Indigenous communities and nonprofit organizations in both English and Spanish. more> Source: … Continue reading →

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Community-based volunteer-run radio station: a tool for revitalizing languages – Cultural Survival

Posted on 02/02/2013 by website administrator

Listen to flute player Robert Mirabal of Taos Pueblo who shares his thoughts on music in Native American culture – Living Voices Track 2 >> Language experts believe that 90% of the world’s estimated 6,000 languages could disappear entirely by the end of … Continue reading →

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Report on JAGWAR Santal Literary Meet 2013 – Jharkhand

Posted on 01/02/2013 by website administrator

JAGWAR Santal Literary Meet 2013: Santal Onolia Helmel 2013 A Report The first Santal Literary Meet – in Santali named “JAGWAR: Santal Onolia Helmel” – was held at the Johar HRD Centre, Dumka, Jharkhand, on 23-24 January 2013. It began … Continue reading →

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