Making Contact with a Remote Tribe
The Indian anthropologist who made friendly contact with a remote Sentinelese tribe.
In November 2018, the Sentinelese tribe in the Andaman Islands hit the headlines after an American missionary was killed by arrows as he attempted to approach their isolated island. Very few people have come close to this remote community, but one person who has is Indian anthropologist Dr Madhumala Chattopadhyay. She was part of a team from the Anthropological Society of India who made friendly contact with the tribe in 1991. She tells Rihanna Dhillon about their extraordinary trip.
Image: Making contact with people from North Sentinel Island
Credit: Madhumala Chattopadhyay
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