This Felicitation Volume in honour of Professor Aloke Kumar Ghosh is a bunch of scholarly perspectives in anthropology and its allied disciplines based on recent empirical evidences. It is contributed by eminent scholars like Francis M. Salzano, Ambitabha Basu, M. K. Raha, A. R. Banerjee, Ajit K. Danda, P. Dash Sharma, R. K. Kar, Soumen Sen, Ranjan Gupta, Kanchan Roy, Sarthak Sengupta, and many others. What makes this volume remarkable is that it provides a framework through an integrated anthroplogical approach towards understanding various problems relative to population genetics, health and disease and role of ecology and culture therein, regional variation in biological and socio-cultural characteristics, crises for ethnic identity, marriage patterns, economic disparity, family planning, sexual maturation and other biosocial aspects of human society.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR R. Khongsdier
R. Khongsdier hold M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Anthropology from North-Eastern Hill University. He is currently a faculty member of the Department of Anthropology at North-Eastern Hill University. Previously, he was working as Physical Anthropologist of the Anthropological Survey of India, Government of India, Ministry of Human Resources Development, Department of Culture. He had also served in different capacities in different Offices under the Government of Meghalaya. He has had to his own credit a number of scholarly papers published in edited volumes and journals national and international repute. He has also edited a volume on Contemporary Research in anthropology. He is an active member as well as life member of various professional and anthropological bodies. His areas of research interest include genetical demography, population genetics, biosocial studies, human growth and nutrition.
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