Tribe (biology)

[Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay]

Tribe (biology)

Counter-views

If believes the construct of homo sapiens sapiens, how does it include the social construct or historical apriori of tribe? the construction of the category tribe was born out of super-ordinate's essentialist gaze that de-sign-ates otherness in the form of a objectified discipline, “Anthropology”. The dichotomous divisions between folk -- non-folk, tribe -- non-tribe, civil-savage, sastriya--loukika typically reflect the colonial pedagogy that constitute otherness by deploying different exonyms to peripheral other ignoring theethnonyms/endonyms as used by a community from their subject-position. These divisions between dominant centre and dominated periphery gave birth to some surrogated subjects like "Folklore" or "Anthropology" in contrast to the white men's (sexism intended) epistemological fields like History, Sociology or Physiology. These subjects subjectify as well as objectify dominated and peripheral "other" in the way of surrogating the “scientific” construction of "human beings"/ "Species Being" or homo sapiens sapiens.^[3]