Veena Bhasin
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India is a multicultural country. Because of its diversity, it provides an ideal situation for undertaking anthropological works. How communities and populations continue to retain their identity, in social and cultural terms on one hand and biological on the other, and how they acquire the characteristics of the others because of cultural borrowing or interbreeding are the questions anthropologists systematically investigate. India offers an ideal case for ...
It is generally presumed that tribals in India tend to be healthy, living as they do in unpolluted surroundings away from the stresses and strains of modern living. This no longer hold good as evident from the many health reports appearing with health related problems. It is alarming that sufficient data regarding tribal health is not available with the government itself. The plight of trabals whose health parameters are already well below the national average is ...
This volume, edited in honour of Professor Alex F. Roche, comprises, articles written by scholars from all over the world. It reflects the idea that today ecological studies are not only multidisciplinary but also multinational. The volume shows that ecology is the meeting point of different systems, biological, socio-cultural, psychological and this approach can be used for understanding man-environment relationship and also, for resolving ecological crises.