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Among all branches of anthropology, social-cultural anthropology occupies its special status. It is so because it is concerned with the social-cultural customs, practices, institutions, associations and communities of people residing in different parts of the globe. It also makes us aware of ethos, edos, exotic customs and traditions of the people of world communities. The book covers such topics as:
1. Anthropology and its main branches. 2. Basic concepts of ...
The book “Neo Anthropological Theory” presents the contributions of those great anthropological thinkers who have propounded their theories after Second World War particularly from 1950 onwards. About the contributions of great classical anthropological thinkers, we have sufficient books. But about the contributions of great neo anthropological thinkers, we have few books having expressions in foreign English language. They lack Indian expressions. As ...
Bio-Cultural evolution is an important part of Anthropology subject taught in our country on post-graduate level. This book presents a comparative picture of biological evolution and cultural evolution. Without biological evolution, cultural evolution is impossible and without cultural evolution, human evolution is meaningless. Accordingly information on biological and cultural evolution has been framed together in an integrated manner.
Development is a process which has always been a matter of opinions among the experts of various fields. In case of social sciences, experiences, with the passage of time, demand changes in social development strategy specially when one is dealing with a complex issue like tribal development. The book covers almost all aspects of tribal development, including past, present and future strategies. It is also true that varied tribal cultural traits in India do not ...
The present work is an outcome of scholarly exercise done by the authors on the part of field analysis. This book is an enthusiastic attempt in exploring and highlighting the relationship between forest and tribals. Their relationship is called as Vannputra (Forest son).The enthnographic details on content of the book have been explained in thirteen chapters excluding introduction and conclusion, In Chapter one to six-attempts have been made to present the ...
This book deals with various aspects and issues of development--planned, implemented, monitored and evaluated for the betterment of people. Giving a conceptual overview of developmental anthropology, it describes in detail the theories, models and approaches of development. It also extends discussion on cultural indicators of development, socio-cultural factors supporting it, various impediments, governmental, non-governmental and International agencies of ...