Goan Anthropology: Festivals , Films & Fish
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Newman's earlier (2000) book is called Of Umbrellas, Goddesses and Dreams. It comprised most of the articles he had written previously. After some years it went out of print and became unavailable. In the years that followed, he continued to write articles about Goa, the former long-time Portuguese colony on the west coast of India, presenting papers at conferences too. As before, they all were scattered, appearing in Portugal, India, Brazil, and the USA. He thought to "kill two birds with one stone" by getting the earlier articles reprinted and including several new ones. Some of the chapters written earlier may contain information that is out of date now. Rather than edit each article and try to bring all the details into line with current facts or figures, Newman notes he has included them as originally written with a few statistical or other updates. In any case, all anthropology turns into social history as time goes by. While concepts and ideas may remain current, the actual conditions described in any research will gradually disappear as societies change. The articles that were published, as the reader will see, appeared in the journals of half a dozen countries, some in conference proceedings that would be extremely difficult to obtain for most scholars. Part of a two-book series, this one too has been brought out in order to make all the articles more easily available to readers, particularly in India and beyond.
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