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As a group of indigenous people with distinct cultural and social identities, the tribals in India have had a turbulent history in the new nation-state. The focus of intense ethnographic scrutiny in the colonial period, they were the subject/object of extensive painting and photographic collections, which were commissioned in the hey-day of anthropology. Indeed India was regarded as the museum of mankind. Various Land Acts and Forest Acts enforced in the colonial period made inroads into their already fragile culture.
Late Neela Ashok Karnik had been officially invited as an ifu lecturer in the project area „Migration“. She had turned in her papers but unfortunately her health condition made it impossible for her to take part in ifu. Neela Ashok Karnik died in January 2001. To honour her and her scientific work we include her projected contribution to the ifu curriculum in this book. We thank Mr Karnik for his kind support in editing the paper (editor’s note).
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Karnik, N. (2002). Displaying the Other. Tribal Museums and the Politics of Culture in India. In: Lenz, I., Lutz, H., Morokvasic, M., Schöning-Kalender, C., Schwenken, H. (eds) Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries. Schriftenreihe der Internationalen Frauenuniversität »Technik und Kultur«, vol 11. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-09527-9_8
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