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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOADI11932/00001
Notes
- Abstract:
- These men are gathered in the Nyishi settlement of Talo to resolve a long-standing dispute between Nyishis and Apatanis. The man in the centre, sitting in front of the long piece of wood, is a Nyishi. In his right hand he holds small pieces of bamboo, with which he is enumerating his grievances against Apatanis by placing those small pieces on the long piece. To the left of this man, and behind him, sits an Apatani man wrapped in a shawl. He is Padi Lalyang, a rich and influential man of Reru village, who came to Talo, only a four-hour walk from the Apatani valley, to participate in the negotiations. Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, who came here from the Apatani valley to oversee the negotiations, was only able to witness long speeches: 'The Daflas [Nyishis] seem to love arguing, and with men of so many villages assembled, there are everywhere mel [negotiations] and councils, with larger and smaller groups gathered around a claimant placing stick after stick on the ground and explaining in an endless flow of words exactly how many mithan, maje [bell], cloths and dao [machete] his opponent owes him. Usually the defendant waits quietly and when the accuser has at last finished, takes up tally sticks himself and proves not less eloquently that all the claims put forward are more than outweighed by outstanding claims from his father's or grandfather's time against the family of the claimant.' These negotiations between Nyishis and Apatanis seemed close to resolution when the Apatanis reduced their demands by three quarters, asking for the return only of bells and brass plates recently paid as ransom, as well as 36 mithuns. The Nyishis agreed but offered only 17 mithuns, and the ten days of talk ended in stalemate. ( en )
- General Note:
- Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf (1909-1995) was born and educated in Vienna, gaining a PhD in anthropology from the University of Vienna in 1931. A grant from the Rockefeller Foundation enabled him to study at the London School of Economics, under the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski. In 1936, he went to the Naga Hills in northeast India for his first fieldwork; over the next four decades, he worked extensively in south & central India, northeast India and Nepal. In 1950 he was appointed Professor of Anthropology at SOAS, where he established the Department of Anthropology. During his career, he published seventeen books, most of them ethnographies of tribal cultures. He was President of the Royal Anthropological Institute (1975-77) and a pioneer in the field of visual anthropology.
- General Note:
- Haimendorf's original image reference number: [ns10]_28
- General Note:
- ஆசியா -- இந்தியா -- அருணாசலப் பிரதேசம்
- General Note:
- ఆసియా -- భారతదేశం -- అరుణాచల్ ప్రదేశ్
- General Note:
- ආසියානු -- ඉන්දියාව -- ఆంధ్ర ప్రదేశ్
- General Note:
- एशिया -- भारत -- अरुणाचल प्रदेश
- General Note:
- Library of Congress Subject Headings list the Nyishi as the Dafla people. Ethnologue gives Dafla as an alternate name for the Nyishi. Haimendorf's indexers preferred the name Nyishi.
- General Note:
- This photograph was taken on 1945 January 10
- General Note:
- SOAS name authority for "Haimendorf, Christoph Von Fürer- (1909-1995); anthropologist" is GB/NNAF/P146323.
- General Note:
- VIAF (name authority) : Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995 : record number 109123297
- General Note:
- This item is protected by copyright. Please use in accord with Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC). High resolution digital master available from SOAS, University of London - the Digital Library Project Office.
- General Note:
- Digitised from: 35mm B&W neg PANATOMIC X
- General Note:
- Dieses Bild ist urheberrechtlich geschützt. Creative Commons (CC)-Lizenzen: Namensnennung-NichtKommerziell unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 international (CC BY-NC). Dieses Bild ist als in hoher Auflösung zur Verfügung. Kontaktieren Sie den Digital Library Project Office an der SOAS, University of London.
- General Note:
- Cette image est protégée par le droit d'auteur. S'il vous plaît, utiliser en accord avec la licence Creative Commons: Attribution-Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale (CC BY-NC). Fichiers numériques de haute résolution sont disponibles sur la SOAS, Université de Londres - le Bureau du projet de bibliothèque numérique.
- General Note:
- Funded in the United Kingdom by JISC
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- SOAS, University of London
- Holding Location:
- Archives and Special Collections
- Rights Management:
- © 1945, The Estate of Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf. The Estate is currently (2015) represented by Nicholas Haimendorf, son of Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf. ----- Creative Commons (by-nc-nd). -- This image may be used in accord with Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs.
- Resource Identifier:
- PP MS 19/6/APA/1293 ( SOAS Archives catalog number )
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