http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/ Indo-Eurasian_research Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:06:24 GMT Dagmar Riedel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13688 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13688 Dear all, Going through the emails about this dispute I am struck by two issues: 1 / Aside from "normal" disagreements about ritual practice in which priests Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:02:35 GMT Francesco Brighenti http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13687 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13687 ... http://www.andaman-video.org/tans01.html http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/chapter1/text1.htm#sentineli Regards, Francesco Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:06:45 GMT rodo pfister http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13686 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13686 [Mod. note. Another tough one, Rodo. :^) I'd use the same strategy: write to one of the authors. I found this webpage and email address for the second author, Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:41:00 GMT rodo pfister http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13685 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13685 yes, will do (thanks for the trouble) ... parochial list ... no thai people no fun .... :^) cheers ! & good health rodo Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:17:13 GMT Steve Farmer http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13684 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13684 Dear Rodo, Tough to find that journal in the West, I think -- I just checked. There are two journals by that name -- one very rare, maybe defunct? (the one you Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:39:23 GMT rodo pfister http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13683 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13683 [Mod. note. The link you included just yielded an error page, Rodo, so I removed it. I can find references to the paper online, but no link where it can be Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:30:40 GMT Arash Zeini http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13682 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13682 Dear Dan, In your latest email you write: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13676 ... Modi seems to have known the Persian Rivāyats Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:07:39 GMT Dagmar Riedel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13681 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13681 Dear all, Reading Trudy's obsevation about the shift in focus in the thread started by Franceso's original inquiry about cow sacrifices, I noticed that nobody Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:22:13 GMT richardwsproat http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13680 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13680 It is worth noting that Juliette's paper that Steve cites argues that Jarawa and Onge are in fact relatives of Proto-Austronesian, part of a family she calls Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:52:22 GMT Steve Farmer http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13679 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13679 Dear John, I'd like to add a quick comment not on the linguistic issues involving the Andaman islands, on which I don't have any formed opinion, but on the Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:50:50 GMT Trudy Kawami http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13678 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13678 I have been away for a few days & seem to have lost the direction of this thread - at least in my own cluttered mind. We started out talking about giving cows Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:19:55 GMT John Colarusso http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13677 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13677 We must thank Michael for his useful and thorough e-mail about the Andamans. His remark about Bo and the other languages is correct: Like any other languages Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:21:39 GMT Dan Lusthaus http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13676 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13676 Dear Arash and List, Like Arash, I would have to do some additional research beyond Sharafi's article on the Mrs Tata trial before offering additional comments Sun, 07 Feb 2010 07:11:54 GMT Francesco Brighenti http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13675 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13675 ... An example of this religious custom I'm currently concerned with is the black cow "with imperfect horns" constituting the sacrificial fee (daksina) at Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:20:58 GMT doris srinivasan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13674 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/13674 Dear All: Not being an Iranianist, I'm not sure I catch all the subtleties In Arash's argument. But as for giving a cow to priest as payment (daksina) for