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Doing Elwin Justice[edit]

This stub hardly does Elwin justice. He can perhaps be called a famous, influential, primitivist who argued for tribal rights in the face of encroaching modernity. I turned to this page in the hopes of identifying more activist anthropologists like Elwin. If anybody reads this and knows of some comparable figures who were active elsewhere in the world in the colonial period, please mention them somewhere in the article. I do not have time to do justice to Elwin in this forum myself, sorry. 82.111.242.154 (talk) 19:18, 6 April 2008 (UTC)R.E.D.[reply]

OK. I've taken the liberty to fix some of the most atrocious parts of the page a bit, like the introduction that said inaccurately he was a missionary, but I'm not going to do much more. n.b. this page is still woefully inadequate. 82.111.242.154 (talk) 22:15, 21 May 2008 (UTC)R.E.D.[reply]

Was he naturalized Indian citizen?[edit]

I am shocked to learn that he was a paedophile. Anyway it is not quite clear if he was a naturalized Indian citizen. In that case the category Indian anthropologist should be removed. BengaliHindu (talk) 11:43, 18 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The article says only that he married a 13 year old girl in 1940, when he would have been 38, and that they had two children before he divorced her. She was certainly too young to marry in England, but among the Gonds, where he lived, was that acceptable? Maybe that was what he was ashamed of in later life. NRPanikker (talk) 15:14, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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