NOTE 83 that this society continually calls upon the totality of its productive forces to supply its members with the minimum necessary for subsistence (1977:162). The economy of tribal societies elsewhere has often been subjected to similar ethnocentric narrative as Bhasin displays in her book. Hence we can safely conclude that most anthropologists in India have not been able to shed off the colonial mind-set they have inherited. Home-grown Orientalism still rules the discipline because, we argue, power comes from the act (conscious or otherwise) of Europeanizing or Americanizing which means partaking of the intellectual loot of the West and thus gaining legitimacy in the East. They have, willingly or unwillingly imported lock, stock and barrel the active western mind-set to see the subordinate cultures in their own country. To them, the challenge thrown by the Subaltern Studies collective are confined to the historical domain and do not pertain to anthropology. It is this submission to the Orientalist method and system of thinking and studying alien cultures, which is probably responsible for the present stagnation in anthropology. Anthropology has even become an anathema to many who have begun to identify themselves as sociologists instead of anthropologists. Though the distinction between the two is difficult to make either with regard to scope or quality of research particularly in India, the desire to call themselves 'sociologists' is not because of its 'glamour' as some would hold but because of the stigma of colonialism which anthropologists have not grown ashamed of as yet. But since deriving from the Orientalists has taken place at the level of episteme and the mind-set, disciplinary switch-overs make little difference. The sociologists, as much as the geographers and historians, have proved themselves no different from the anthropologists as far as their episteme and mind-set are concerned. BIBLIOGRAPHY Bhasin, Veena. 1989. Ecology, Culture and Change: Tribals of Sikkim Himalayas. New Delhi: Inter-In dia Publications. Clastres, Pierre, 1977. Society against the State. New York: Urizen Books. Crapanzano, V. 1986. 'Hermes' dilemma: The masking of subversion in ethnographic description'. Writing Culture. Eds. J. Clifford and G.E. Marcus. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press. Das, A. K. 1962. The Lepchas of Darjceling. Calcutta: Cultural Research Institute. 1978. The Lepchas of West Bengal. Calcutta: Editions Indian. Derrida, Jaques. 1978. 'Structure, Sign and Play'. Writing and Difference. Trans. Alan Bass. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. Foucault, Michel. 1980. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977^Ed. Colin Gordon. New York: Random House.