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The Wind in the Bamboo: A Journey in Search of Asia's "Negrito" Indigenous People

The Wind in the Bamboo: A Journey in Search of Asia's "Negrito" Indigenous People

Mirante, Edith

Paperback

AnthropologyTravel WritingSoutheast Asia

Publisher Price: $25.00

ISBN10: 974524189X
ISBN13: 9789745241893
Publisher: Orchid Pr
Published: Apr 30 2014
Pages: 308
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Historically defined as Negrito because they physically resemble small Africans, these forest peoples may have the most ancient ancestry in Asia. Captured for slavery, exhibited at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, nearly exterminated by disease and a cataclysmic volcano, they survive in a few places: Malaysia, the Philippines and India's remote Andaman Islands. Some are armed with spears and blowpipes, a few with cellphones and graduate degrees. Edith Mirante, author of Burmese Looking Glass and Down the Rat Hole, weaves a compelling Chatwinesque narrative examining race and identity and the environmental, social, political challenges these indigenous peoples face in contemporary Asia.

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