Comments on: Pandemic Anthropology http://savageminds.org/2009/04/29/pandemic-anthropology/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:06:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joanna Kirkpatrick http://savageminds.org/2009/04/29/pandemic-anthropology/comment-page-1/#comment-632917 Joanna Kirkpatrick Sun, 13 Jun 2010 05:44:08 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=1908#comment-632917 I notice that nothing has been posted under this topic of Globalization since last year. Here goes for globalization the most brutal: Today’s Guardian newspaper published an article by Bianca Jagger on the fight for their lives and culture by the Dongria Khondhs of Orissa. At this point all Indian government agencies except for the Forest and Lands have given consent to Vedanta, a global mostly UK-owned but partly Indian-owned as well, bauxite mining corp., to bulldoze the Khondh’s Niyamgiri Mountain. Survival International made a short film about these people’s struggle, and updates have appeared on their site: http://www.survivalinternational.org/tribes/dongria Their film, “Mine” can be viewed on this website. The Guardian link for the Khondh story is here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jun/13/mining-aluminium-tribes-india-jagger The situation has been complicated by the fact that Maoist Naxal groups have been fighting police and special forces on behalf of the tribals in Orissa, Jharkand and West Bengal, as well as a government supported fake tribal group operating to destroy tribal settlements and people. The stakes are huge profits for multinational mining companies. Vedanta is not the only one. Suggest that anthropologists on this blog who are concerned by the march of global capitalism against the peoples and cultures that we presume to study should take note and see if they can help. If you are inclined, check with Survival International on their website. I notice that nothing has been posted under this topic of Globalization since last year. Here goes for globalization the most brutal:

Today’s Guardian newspaper published an article by Bianca Jagger on the fight for their lives and culture by the Dongria Khondhs of Orissa. At this point all Indian government agencies except for the Forest and Lands have given consent to Vedanta, a global mostly UK-owned but partly Indian-owned as well, bauxite mining corp., to bulldoze the Khondh’s Niyamgiri Mountain.

Survival International made a short film about these people’s struggle, and updates have appeared on their site:
http://www.survivalinternational.org/tribes/dongria
Their film, “Mine” can be viewed on this website.
The Guardian link for the Khondh story is here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jun/13/mining-aluminium-tribes-india-jagger

The situation has been complicated by the fact that Maoist Naxal groups have been fighting police and special forces on behalf of the tribals in Orissa, Jharkand and West Bengal, as well as a government supported fake tribal group operating to destroy tribal settlements and people.
The stakes are huge profits for multinational mining companies. Vedanta is not the only one.

Suggest that anthropologists on this blog who are concerned by the march of global capitalism against the peoples and cultures that we presume to study should take note and see if they can help. If you are inclined, check with Survival International on their website.

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