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New Day Cafe: Anthropologist Irawate Karve [1]
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Date: 2025-01-20
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I was introduced to the pioneering Indian anthropologist Irawati Karve by the BBC. Karve began doctorate-level education by, in 1927, studying in Germany with then renowned anthropologist and eugenicist Fischer. At that fraught period in history, she was given the assignment to prove that white Europeans were more logical and reasonable than the rest of the world. Instead the research she was to do showed the opposite, that there was no correspondence between race and intelligence.
She bravely published the results of her work and Fischer gave her the worst grade on the scale. The Nazis went on to use Fischer’s theories.
From the BBC: www.bbc.com/…
“Throughout her life, Irawati would display this streak of gumption combined with endless empathy, especially for the women she encountered. At a time when it was unthinkable for a woman to travel too far away from home, Irawati went on field trips to remote villages in India after returning to the country, sometimes with her male colleagues, at other times with her students and even her children, to study the lives of various tribespeople. She joined archaeological expeditions to recover 15,000-year-old bones, bridging the past and present. These gruelling trips took her deep into forests and rugged terrain for weeks or months, with the book describing her sleeping in barns or truck beds and often going days with little food. Irawati also bravely confronted societal and personal prejudices as she interacted with people from all walks of life.”
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