Ajit K Danda
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The present study carried out at Kandhmal district of Odisha which was once famous for human sacrifice to appease darni-the earth deity; in fact in the name of such sacrifice chiefly female infanticide was practised by the Kandh and Pano community which was known as merriah. The present empirical study at the hilly-forest terrain of Kandhamal among the Pano or Kui Domanga community, categorized as Scheduled Caste-the stigma of untouchability has been imposed ...
The papers published by the Indian National Confederation and Academy of Anthropologists, Jhargram study aspects of the interaction and linkages between society, state and governance, probing a number of relevant issues of concern including those significant to the contemporary time. The research papers by scholars who have been observing and researching on the theme in the course of the years delve into aspects of the functioning of the State and its structure ...
The essays emerging out of the Round Table: 2013, one of the academic discourses of the Indian Anthropological Congress delve into aspects of plurality, future of cultures and cultural changes and heterogeneity. They examine the nature of early anthropology and trace the course followed by Indian anthropology that has searched for its own identity. They take up challenges facing anthropology today like the need to work for knowledge that would be instrumental in ...
The dark side of milk consumption remains unknown to the general public, despite the availability of research data by many medical scientists the world over. Attempt through this book is to place these facts before you and safeguard you from premature dearth or needless suffering.
The Book is a collection of papers presented in a symposium at the First Indian Anthropological Congress of the Indian National Confederation and Academy of Anthropologists (INCAA). Though the papers cover diverse fields they are all issue-based and are attempts to dispel the myth that anthropology fails to take in its stride the contemporary problems faced by the human beings. Though the findings of the authors are not conclusive enough they have at least ...
Papers presented at the Indian Anthropological Congress, held at Pune during 21-23 February 2007.
Accounts on history of development of anthropology are few. Proportionately fewer are those that have been attempted by the scholars from India, even during the post-independence decades. Despite the fact that a few among them referred to the traditional literatures of India that had important anthropological bearings, they never found mention in the syllabus of anthropology followed by any of the universities over hear. As a result, anthropology remains an ...