French intellectual Claude Levi-Strauss, the founder of structural anthropology, has died at the age of 100, his publishing house Plon said on Tuesday. Levi-Strauss, who was known to a wider public thanks to his 1955 memoir and masterpiece, "Tristes Tropiques", died on Saturday. He would have turned 101 on November 28."He was France's greatest scientist," said writer Jean d'Ormesson, fellow member...
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Jerome Taylor tells the extraordinary story of the nurse-turned-director who ventured into Pakistan's lawless tribal lands armed only with a camera and a beardNurse-turned film director Benjamin Gilmour with one of the actors he recruited from local tribes.As any Hollywood director will tell you, finding the perfect match to play the protagonist in your film can be a notoriously time-consuming and...
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At least 26 people were killed in fresh violence on the western outskirts of Baghdad and in the disputed northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk Monday, police and medics said.In Monday's bloodiest attack, at least 16 people were killed when men dressed in Iraqi military uniforms attacked members of a Sunni Arab tribe in the village of Zaidan, in the Abu Ghraib area on the western edge of Baghdad, police and...
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Cabinet today gave its nod for introduction of a Bill in Parliament for granting Scheduled Tribe status to six communities in Manipur and substituting 'Galo' in place of 'Galong' in the list of Scheduled Tribes in Arunachal Pradesh.The communities that will be included in the list of Scheduled Tribes are Inpui, Liangmai, Rongmei, Thangal, Zeme and Mate. This will fulfil a long standing demand of these...
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recommendation of the Union Government for inclusion of six tribes of the state, Inpui, Liangmei, Mate, Rongmei, Thangal and Zeme in the list of Scheduled Tribes (ST) was welcomed by the Council of Tribal Literature Societies(CTL), Manipur.Chairman of the Council, Ragongning Gangmei said the Cabinet's decision was historic and a landmark for the people of the Northeast region, especially in Manipur...
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SEEKING THE SUN: Venture capitalists in India are rare but their tribe is growing.Copyright...
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The Adivasi Ikya Porata Committee (AIPC) and the Adivasi Hakkula Porata Samiti or Tudum Debba on Friday demanded a comprehensive inquiry into the issue of Lambada migrants from Maharashtra cornering all benefits meant for local Scheduled Tribes. These organisations of primitive tribes sought institution of a committee to go into the matter and also wanted the Police Department to play an active role...
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strike mostly on moonless nights and they strike hard. Firearms are only to scare the victims, their actual weapons are metal rods, hammers and wooden clubs.in Hindi) tribes have become “the toughest challenge” for the Noida and Greater Noida police, said Deputy Superintendent of Police Rajiv Narayan Mishra.“Robber gangs of these wandering tribes are extremely ruthless. They kill their victims over...
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Swine flu has hit an isolated tribe of Indians in the Amazon jungle, with seven dying in the last two weeks, Survival International said on Wednesday. A further 1,000 members of the Yanomami tribe in Venezuela are believed to have caught the flu, the indigenous peoples rights group said.It is feared the flu could sweep through the area and kill many more Yanomami as the Indians have little resistance...
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Despite Mizoram government's assurance of taking back Reang tribes from six refugee camps in North Tripura, who have been staying here for the past decade following ethnic clashes in Western Mizoram, fresh exodus from Mizo villages has been reported.Official sources here today confirmed that as many as 300 Reang families from Western Mizoram took shelter in Tripura villages alleging threat to their...
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