The Sentinel Islanders: (Record no. 38930)
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| fixed length control field | 02384nam a22001817a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9789391928650 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 305.85488 |
| Item number | SAS-S |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Sasikumar, M. |
| Relator term | author |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Sentinel Islanders: |
| Sub Title | The most Isolated Tribe in the World |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | By M. Sasikumar |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | New Delhi; |
| Name of publisher | Manohar, |
| Year of publication | 2023. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 215p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | The Sentinel Islanders, also called the Sentinelese, are one of the five Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) of the Andaman and Nicobar islands. They live in the North Sentinel Island of the Andaman group of Islands situated in the Bay of Bengal. They are, perhaps, the only truly isolated hunter-gatherer tribal community in the world today. Of the five PVTGs, the Sentinel Islanders are usually described as the ‘most uncontacted’ and ‘most reclusive’ people on earth. Till today, this group has maintained their independent existence, repelling all attempts to directly engage with and contact them. They remained steadfast in opposition to all the efforts of the colonial and post-colonial administration to contain them with the might of their bows and arrows. Incredibly, they also managed to survive the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, which had a devastating effect on the people of the lsland groups. Curiosity about their lifestyles has endured all these years in all sections of society since 1771, when an East India Company vessel sailing past their island spotted the presence of lights there. It was, however, in November-December 2018, that the Sentinelese received international attention, when an American national went missing after having ventured to encroach upon their land. It was alleged that a Sentinelese killed him after warning him twice to leave the island. This has further reinforced the image of ferocity of a people who do not want any interference from the outside world in their subsistence patterns and long to remain as the ‘masters of their island’. In this book, an attempt has been made to understand their way of life from an anthropological perspective in the light of available historical and anthropological evidences. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | English |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Sentinel Island |
| General subdivision | Tribe |
| Geographic subdivision | Andaman and Nicobar |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Tribal community |
| Form subdivision | Social life |
| General subdivision | Anthropology |
| Geographic subdivision | India |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Tribal group |
| Form subdivision | Colonial and Post colonial period |
| General subdivision | History |
| Geographic subdivision | Bay of Bengal |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Permanent Location | Current Location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Cost, replacement price | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| NASSDOC Library | NASSDOC Library | 2024-03-19 | Rajasthani Granthagar | 934.99 | 305.85488 SAS-S | 54111 | 1295.00 | 2024-04-22 | Books |