INCAA Occasional Papers
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The papers published by the Indian National Confederation and Academy of Anthropologists, Jhargram study aspects of the interaction and linkages between society, state and governance, probing a number of relevant issues of concern including those significant to the contemporary time. The research papers by scholars who have been observing and researching on the theme in the course of the years delve into aspects of the functioning of the State and its structure ...
This compendium of 21 papers, presented at the Indian Anthropology Congress, held at Kannur University, Kerala, under the aegis of the Indian National Confederation and Academy of Anthropologists, attempts to highlight the conditions of various socially excluded groups, such as the tribes, the marginalized and weaker sections, the minorities, the migrants, the victimized and the women, from across India, reinforcing the need for an effective social inclusive ...
The essays emerging out of the Round Table: 2013, one of the academic discourses of the Indian Anthropological Congress delve into aspects of plurality, future of cultures and cultural changes and heterogeneity. They examine the nature of early anthropology and trace the course followed by Indian anthropology that has searched for its own identity. They take up challenges facing anthropology today like the need to work for knowledge that would be instrumental in ...
The papers presented at a symposia deal with development as influenced by various factors such as colonial and post-colonial histories, nature of governance, role of development agencies, accessible resources, education levels, pre-existing organisations to carry out development tasks, gender differentials and empowerment of women. The papers stress the importance of indigenous knowledge and local institutions in development interventions as well as the loss of ...
This publication is a collection of papers on topics relating to biological anthropology. Presenting a range of data collected by surveying population groups in India, the papers deal with anthropometric dimensions, health and morbidity profiles, ageing issues, biochemical variations, dental characteristics, and demographic profiles including biological effects of population migration. They take into account various indigenous communities and other groups in the ...
The dark side of milk consumption remains unknown to the general public, despite the availability of research data by many medical scientists the world over. Attempt through this book is to place these facts before you and safeguard you from premature dearth or needless suffering.
The Book is a collection of papers presented in a symposium at the First Indian Anthropological Congress of the Indian National Confederation and Academy of Anthropologists (INCAA). Though the papers cover diverse fields they are all issue-based and are attempts to dispel the myth that anthropology fails to take in its stride the contemporary problems faced by the human beings. Though the findings of the authors are not conclusive enough they have at least ...