Resumo: In this paper, I suggest a vision for Public Anthropology that offers the potential to
transcend the limits of our mandate as a merely academic enterprise, challenging us to consider
ethical forms of action and intervention within the current global conjuncture.
Drawing on my ongoing involvement with the indigenous groups in the Andaman Islands, this paper
examines the post tsunami conjuncture in the islands when the postcolonial politics of internal
colonization subverted the opportunity for radical transformation in the situation of the indigenous
groups. I map a necessarily provisional and contingent topography for such a project, while taking
note of some recent developments that can lead to radically altered modes of engagement with
government and institutional processes in India.
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