Through lens and text: constructions of a "stone age" tribe in the Andaman Islands.
Through lens and text: constructions of a "stone age" tribe in the Andaman Islands.
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通过镜头和文字：安达曼群岛“石器时代”部落的建筑。
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10.1093/hwj/dbn081
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2009
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Pandya V
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Pandya V
孟加拉湾北哨兵群岛的居民长期以来一直被描述为世界上最后幸存的石器时代部落之一。随着时间的推移，这一主张的“真理价值”得到了加强，这是通过一个复杂且往往是共谋的代表秩序来维持的，例如印度国家机构、全球媒体、旅行作家、人类学家和安达曼群岛的非部落社区。本文考察了构成这种表征秩序的视觉和文本实践，并与使其容易受到激进调查的历史和人种学现实相对抗。通过对摄影图像及其相关文本的真实倾向的批判性关注，本文试图询问有关石器时代人的民族志确定性，并思考承认他们为历史行为者的可能性。
The inhabitants of the North Sentinel Islands in the Bay of Bengal have for long been described as one of the last surviving Stone Age tribes of the world. The ‘truth value’ of this assertion has been reinforced over time through a complex and often collusive representational order sustained by for instance the institutions of the Indian state, the global media, travel writers, anthropologists and the non-tribal communities of the Andaman Islands. This paper examines the visual and textual practices that constitute this representational order and pits against it the historical and ethnographic realities that render it vulnerable to radical inquiry. With its critical focus on the truth-bearing propensities of photographic images and their accompanying texts, this paper seeks to interrogate received ethnographic certitudes about an imputed Stone Age people and ponders the possibilities of acknowledging them as historical actors.