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This book is the outcome of a National Seminar on ‘Anthropology of Traditional Indian food’ organized by Anthropological Association (AA), Mysore, held on 12th-14 March 2013. Eminent scholars from all over India participated and presented papers in the seminar on themes such as food and health care, food and nutrition, food and cultural beliefs, food and language, ...
The volumes deal with issues pertaining to medicine, health and culture. An outcome of the first National Conference of the Society for Indian Medical Anthropology held in Mysore in 2007, the volume has papers by eminent medical anthropologists from India and abroad that take the illness and disease dimension of health and culture. They take up medical pluralism and health-seeking behaviour, ethno-medicine and traditional treatments, healthcare drives and the ...