Linguistic Clues to Andamanese Prehistory: Understanding the North-South Divide

doi:10.1017/9781139026208.010

9 - Linguistic Clues to Andamanese Prehistory: Understanding the North-South Divide

from Part III - Tropical Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2020

Juliette Blevins

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Tom Güldemann ,

Patrick McConvell and

Richard A. Rhodes

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Tom Güldemann: Affiliation:
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Patrick McConvell: Affiliation:
Australian National University, Canberra
Richard A. Rhodes: Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley

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They were once home to a range of hunter-gatherer societies, who are best known from the descriptions of Man (1883) and Radcliffe-Brown (1914, 1922). These writers, along with the Andamanese themselves, split the population of the Andamans into two primary language/culture groups, the ‘Great Andaman Group’ and the ‘Little Andaman Group’ (Radcliffe-Brown 1922: 11).

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Information: The Language of Hunter-Gatherers , pp. 198 - 230

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