The person writing this piece seems to think that only the Onge are
"Negritos" while the other Andaman groups are "Mongoloid." I am
surprised that so many journalists who write in national newspapers and
magazines (as became evident during the flurry of writing after the
tsunami), don't bother to underake some ground work to at least get
their basic facts right. How can one trust anything they report when
these preliminary things are completely inaccurate?

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Sita Venkateswar
Senior Lecturer,
Social Anthropology Programme
Massey University
Private Bag 11-222
Palmerston North
Aotearoa/New Zealand

Ph:64-6-3505799 ext.2515
Fax:64-6-3505689

http://anthropology.massey.ac.nz/staff/Venkateswar



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