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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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Studies in Punjab sculpture is the first scholarly attempt by the author which embodies the investigation into the origin of religious sculpture in the medieval Punjab which has not been done so far. Punjab has been known as the sword arm of India from the ancient times. Hence, it has witnessed many historical, cultural and religious visicitudes all through the ages. This volume envisages to highlight the art of sculpture which flourished in the medieval Punjab ...
Despite the largest production base of mango in the world, with respect to number of varieties grown and area under cultivation, the productivity of the fruit in our country is rather low. Besides, some inherent limitations on high-yielding, suitable cultivars and incidence of diseases, this might be attributed to a high incidence of insects and pests. Many a time, this has also resulted in reduced exports due to the aversion of the mango importing countries ...
The present book is incomparable in more than one way. It is for the first time that any publication has been produced by any author of national repute, covering almost all the aspects of art, culture, heritage of Patiala, on a comprehensive scale. Readers and buyers these days have some sort of ethnic and provincial bias against each other. But the present book has overcome this type of psychosis and focuses on an inter-regional kind of readership. The creative ...
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 ...
The present book is a collection of essays, research papers and articles pertaining to the various aspects of history of visual art of Punjab right from the ancient period till the close of the nineteenth century. These were published in the journals of high repute in India and abroad. Some of these were of course presented in the History Conferences in patiala, Amritsar and other places. Chief merit of these works is that they reflect aesthetic ethos of the ...