[Assam] Cambridge prof: Naga social anthropolgy - reverse anthro

[umesh sharma]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOIMJKMrTcY
here a Cambridge Univ professor tells us what Social/Cultural Antropolgy is about . As a educator it is quite useful - nay critical - to my job success. Ofcourse, any traveller, migrant/immigrant must be a social anthropologist - to survive .  

However, as the learned professor observes - on an academic level - that has mostly been anthropologists going from rich countries to "third world" or poor countries and tribal areas to immerse in their culture (like he did while visiting a remote villlage in Nepal's foothills of Mt Annapurna and later in Nagaland -- to become a musical instrument on whom the culture plays. The anthropologist gets played while analyzing the culture playing it.

isn't it high time Indian anthropologists retured the favor by immersing themsleves in western/ far-eastern socities and learning their cultures - not as outsiders but from within - the way the locals view their culture. I'm sure AssamNet has a few who can enlighten us with their cultural experiences across the globe - in remote as well as ultra-modern world..

any takers?

umesh


Umesh Sharma

Washington D.C. 

1-202-215-4328 [Cell]

Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005

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