Students of anthropology ask myriad questions about humans, their evolution and cultural development from the past to the present day. Knowing something about the life in the past and how the people in other parts of the world live, makes most of us curious. This is the appeal of anthropology. In this book, in order to capitalize on the students curiosity, we present a wide range of topics authored by experts in physical and social anthropology.
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The present study takes a comprehensive integrated view of culture traits in a smaller region. It fills an important gap by way of covering the themes of material culture, social institutional and ideational level of culture at regional level of Karnataka. This book titled 'Cultural Traits and Cultural Zones in Karnataka' covers the present districts of Belgaum, Bijapur, Dharward and Karwar. The authors have also used the secondary data related to ...
The relationship between anthropology and sociology has always been tempestuous except at Harvard University during the 1960’s. When the two disciplines are put side by side they, at first sight, seem to be almost indistinguishable because they use a common terminology and share the only general theory which exists in the social sciences. But they are quite different in what and how do they study and what they teach their students. They are temperamentally ...
This book is not a textbook in its real terms, but almost all the essays presented here deal with topics such as function/functionalism, structure/structuralism, diffusion/diffusionism etc. which find a place in the syllabi of anthropology and cognate subjects taught in universities in India.Moreover, these issues are dealt with at much greater depth and in wider expanse. In no textbook is one likely to find the philosophical appraisal of functionalism discussed. ...