January 30, 2012
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January 25, 2012
Austin City Limits
I am spending a couple of days in Austin visiting our alternate development location. Nothing much to report, just sitting in my hotel room..working!
January 23, 2012
January 19, 2012
The Sentinelese
I came across this fascinating article about a tribe living in the Andaman islands that has been isolated for over 65,000 years. http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/reprints/goodheart/rep-goodheart.htm
This article details the crash of a ship "The Primrose" near the North Sentinel island that is part of the Andaman islands and this led me learn more about this tribe that has fiercely protected its existence and isolation from the modern world, with nothing but bows and arrows. So I came across this article in the Guardian.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/feb/12/theobserver.worldnews12
Describing the Sentinelese tribe of India's remote Andaman islands in his travel journals, the notoriously trite 13th-century explorer Marco Polo wrote: 'They are a most violent and cruel generation who seem to eat everybody they catch.'
While their cannibalism has never been proven, little has changed here in the remotest parts of the Bay of Bengal over seven centuries and Delhi's furthest-flung outpost is still occupied by aggressive 'stone-age' tribes who hunt wild pigs and fish with arrows, believe that birds talk to spirits, and lack both the skills to make fire and a word to describe a number greater than two.
The article goes on to talk about two fishermen who went to poach in those water and were murdered ( can you really call it murder? Is it not just defense?) by the Sentinelese and how the fishermens' families were seeking retribution. Fortunately, no attempt was made to attack the island by the saner heads in the police dept.
More articles I read talk about the death of the last of the Great Andaman tribe who spoke their native language Bo, how attempts at "rehabilitating" the natives led to population decline from diseases to which they have no immunity, alcoholism, loss of self and reliance on govt subsidy and I was glad to read that the Indian govt decided to not force contact with the Sentinelese tribe.
It's not just animals that are on the verge of extinction, its humans and their special ways of life too, as the entire world becomes uniform....Will Telugu one day become extinct, just like Bo?
More reading:
http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/chapter8/text8.htm -- Has some pictures of the native tribes (PG-13)
http://www.eternalidol.com/?p=6285
http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2007/12/01/north-sentinel-rescue/
http://www.eternalidol.com/?p=8593&cpage=1#comment-61213
This article details the crash of a ship "The Primrose" near the North Sentinel island that is part of the Andaman islands and this led me learn more about this tribe that has fiercely protected its existence and isolation from the modern world, with nothing but bows and arrows. So I came across this article in the Guardian.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/feb/12/theobserver.worldnews12
Describing the Sentinelese tribe of India's remote Andaman islands in his travel journals, the notoriously trite 13th-century explorer Marco Polo wrote: 'They are a most violent and cruel generation who seem to eat everybody they catch.'
While their cannibalism has never been proven, little has changed here in the remotest parts of the Bay of Bengal over seven centuries and Delhi's furthest-flung outpost is still occupied by aggressive 'stone-age' tribes who hunt wild pigs and fish with arrows, believe that birds talk to spirits, and lack both the skills to make fire and a word to describe a number greater than two.
The article goes on to talk about two fishermen who went to poach in those water and were murdered ( can you really call it murder? Is it not just defense?) by the Sentinelese and how the fishermens' families were seeking retribution. Fortunately, no attempt was made to attack the island by the saner heads in the police dept.
More articles I read talk about the death of the last of the Great Andaman tribe who spoke their native language Bo, how attempts at "rehabilitating" the natives led to population decline from diseases to which they have no immunity, alcoholism, loss of self and reliance on govt subsidy and I was glad to read that the Indian govt decided to not force contact with the Sentinelese tribe.
It's not just animals that are on the verge of extinction, its humans and their special ways of life too, as the entire world becomes uniform....Will Telugu one day become extinct, just like Bo?
More reading:
http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/chapter8/text8.htm -- Has some pictures of the native tribes (PG-13)
http://www.eternalidol.com/?p=6285
http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2007/12/01/north-sentinel-rescue/
http://www.eternalidol.com/?p=8593&cpage=1#comment-61213
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