Changing Perspectives of Anthropology in India
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 26,23 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
The Modern Anthropology of India
Author : Peter Berger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 19,4 MB
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134061188
Book Description
The Modern Anthropology of India is an accessible textbook providing a critical overview of the ethnographic work done in India since 1947. It assesses the history of research in each region and serves as a practical and comprehensive guide to the main themes dealt with by ethnographers. It highlights key analytical concepts and paradigms that came to be of relevance in particular regions in the recent history of research in India, and which possibly gained a pan-Indian or even trans-Indian significance. Structured according to the states of the Indian union, contributors raise several key questions, including: What themes were ethnographers interested in? What are the significant ethnographic contributions? How are peoples, communities and cultural areas represented? How has the ethnographic research in the area developed? Filling a significant gap in the literature, the book is an invaluable resource to students and researchers in the field of Indian anthropology/ethnography, regional anthropology and postcolonial studies. It is also of interest to students of South Asian studies in general as it provides an extensive and critical overview of regionally based ethnographic activity undertaken in India.
Shifting Perspectives in Tribal Studies
Author : Maguni Charan Behera
Publisher : Springer
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 28,95 MB
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9811380902
Book Description
This book brings together multidisciplinarity, desirability and possibility of consilience of borderline studies which are topically diverse and methodologically innovative. It includes contemporary tribal issues within anthropology and other disciplines. In addition, the chapters underline the analytical sophistication, theoretical soundness and empirical grounding in the area of emerging core perspectives in tribal studies. The volume alludes to the emergence of tribal studies as an independent academic discipline of its own rights. It offers the opportunity to consider the entire intellectual enterprise of understanding disciplinary and interdisciplinary dualism, to move beyond interdisciplinarity of the science-humanities divide and to conceptualise a core of theoretical perspectives in tribal studies. The book proves an indispensable reference point for those interested in studying tribes in general and who are engaged in the process of developing tribal studies as a discipline in particular.
Perceptions of Climate Change from North India
Author : Aase J. Kvanneid
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 17,94 MB
Release : 2021-03-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 1000359042
Book Description
Perceptions of Climate Change from North India: An Ethnographic Account explores local perceptions of climate change through ethnographic encounters with the men and women who live at the front line of climate change in the lower Himalayas. From data collected over the course of a year in a small village in an eco-sensitive zone in North India, this book presents an ethnographic account of local responses to climate change, resource management and indigenous environmental knowledge. Aase Kvanneid’s observations cast light on the precarious reality of climate change in this region and bring to the fore issues such as access to water, NGO intervention and climate information for farmers. In doing so, she also explores classic topics in the study of rural India including ritual, gender, social hierarchy and political economy. Overall, this book shows how the cause and effect of climate change is perceived by those who have the most to lose and explores how the impact of climate change is being dealt with on a local and global scale. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the anthropology of climate change, environmental sociology and rural development.
Application and Methodological Perspectives in Dermatoglyphics
Author : R. S. Bali
Publisher : Northern Book Centre
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 34,18 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Dermatoglyphics
ISBN : 9788172110567
Book Description
Explore the recent methodological advances in dermatoglyphics, particularly-genetics, developmental variations, ethnic variability, inheritance, forensic and clinical aspects of dermatoglyphics. This volume is an aid to assist those who are engaged in application of dermatoglyphics, especially in the field of human biology, anthropology, forensic science and medicine.
Changing Perspectives of Anthropology in India
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 23,77 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Anthropologie - Inde - Congrès
ISBN : 9788170193357
Book Description
Anthropology In India Developed In The Hey Day Of British Hegomony. Throughout The Last Four Decades After Independence It Has Been Maintaining The Specific British Pattern In The Operational Meaning Of The Subject. Anthropology Was Initially Started At One University In The Sub-Continent Ans Since Then It Has Now Been Opened In Nearly 24 Universities. A Completely New Generation Of Anthropologists Trained In Free India Are Now Actively Engaged In Research.
Sociology and Social Anthropology in India
Author : Yogesh Atal
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 17,60 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 9788131720349
Book Description
The Indian Council of Social Science Research, the premier organization for social science research in India, conducts periodic surveys in the major disciplines of the social sciences to assess disciplinary developments as well as to identify gaps in research in these disciplines.
A Companion to the Anthropology of India
Author : Isabelle Clark-Decès
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 38,13 MB
Release : 2011-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1405198923
Book Description
A Companion to the Anthropology of India offers a broad overview of the rapidly evolving scholarship on Indian society from the earliest area studies to views of India’s globalization in the twenty-first century. Provides readers with an important new introduction to the anthropology of India Explores the larger global issues that have transformed India since the end of colonization, including demographic, economic, social, cultural, political, and religious issues Contributions by leading experts present up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of key topics such as population and life expectancy, civil society, social-moral relationships, caste and communalism, youth and consumerism, the new urban middle class, environment and health, tourism, public and religious cultures, politics and law Represents an authoritative guide for professional social and cultural anthropologists, and South Asian specialists, and an accessible reference work for students engaged in the analysis of India’s modern transformation
Changing Perspectives on the Archaeology of the Central Mississippi Valley
Author : Michael J. O'Brien
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 12,16 MB
Release : 1998-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0817309098
Book Description
Fourteen experts examine the current state of Central Valley prehistoric research and provide an important touchstone for future archaeological study of the region The Mississippi Valley region has long played a critical role in the development of American archaeology and continues to be widely known for the major research of the early 1950s. To bring the archaeological record up to date, fourteen Central Valley experts address diverse topics including the distribution of artifacts across the landscape, internal configurations of large fortified settlements, human-bone chemistry, and ceramic technology. The authors demonstrate that much is to be learned from the rich and varied archaeological record of the region and that the methods and techniques used to study the record have changed dramatically over the past half century. Operating at the cutting edge of current research strategies, these archaeologists provide a fresh look at old problems in central Mississippi Valley research.
Anthropology and Africa
Author : Sally Falk Moore
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 37,23 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813915050
Book Description
African studies in anthropology throw light on the way Anglo-Europeans and Americans have conceived of the rest of the world and the way academic disciplines have changed in this century.
