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The book is very relevant and timely document and significantly enhance the sustainable management of national parks and protected areas: IVth World Congress on National Parks and Protected Areas Caracas, 1992, Vth World Parks Congress in Durban, South Africa, 2003 etc.
The papers that appear in this Special Edition of The Anthropologist serve as an inaugural publication for The Commission for Migration and Diaspora Studies, affiliated to the International Union for Anthropological and Ethnological Studies (IUAES). They were initially intended for presentation at an IUAES international congress that was scheduled to be held in Kunming, People’s Republic of China, but was postponed from July 2008 to July 2009. Each paper is ...
Older works in Indian Anthropology essentially were restricted to compilation and descriptive studies of biological and sociological parameters. The present volume gives an overview of existing studies of this type and the application of modern methods of anthropology with the aim of an analysis of causes, and the understanding of the population biology. The book is recommended to geneticists, demographers, biomedical scientists and palaeo-anthropologists whose ...
This volume covers a wide arena, and truly reflects the nature of anthropology as an integrated discipline. An overview of the volume shows that today anthropology is not concerned with the study of primitive and peasent societies but has included in its scope urban and industrial societies. It is equally concerned with the issues of human development and progress and has become far more integrated.
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 ...
The relationship between human beings and their environment is always dynamic. This assertion requires a systematic study of the changing relationship between the environment and the demographic, adaptive and anthropological structure of human populations. Here, it needs to be emphasized that anthropodemographic studies of Himalayan region are few, and we should develop an integrated approach for a better understanding of the dynamics of interaction between human ...
Ecological problems are to be handled with an integrated approach, for they are intimately connected to the biological endowments as well as to social and cultural characteristics. Adaptation and resource management, for instance, are both biological and cultural issues. The present volume shows the direction to integrated research on environmental topics, and the importance of participation in tribal and peasant development, macro-and micro-environmental ...
Aging process is a multi-factorial phenomenon. Aging is in fact a series of parallel processes directly or indirectly related to one another. The editors and co-editor N. Wolanski and A. Siniarska have a specific vision of this phenomena based on over 40 years panoramic research experience in Poland, USA, Yugoslavia and Mexico. J.F. Schroots from The Netherlands presents age changes in an individual organisms as a system within the more general system of nature. ...
"The volume emphasizes that we should begin to rethink our approaches to children and the issues relating to them in various contexts in our contemporary societies. This rethinking, a gesture of cognitive and political correctness, is consequent upon our understanding on childhood issues. The flaws, as will be apparent from the articles in the volume, consist mostly in the fact that the construction of childhood and its related issues as social categories of ...
Human ecology is a synthetic transdisciplinary science concerned with human life and culture as a dynamic component of ecosystems. Typical of an interdisciplinary science is an approach which integrates topics under study across the usual traditional or classical branches of science. Human ecology synthesizes part of the knowledge of several classical disciplines in a specific way. Of the many possible research orientations for understanding the relationship of ...
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 ...
Obesity has emerged as the most prevalent serious public health problem of our time. It is a condition of excessive fat accumulation in adipose tissue, to the extent that health may be impaired. Certain detrimental effects to health are attributed to obesity. Obesity may develop at an y age in either sex. Several factors may contribute to the development of obesity. Obesity develops over time and, once it develops, is difficult to treat. Obesity should not be ...