Anthropology : Trends and Applications/edited by M.K. Bhasin and S.L. Malik. Delhi, Kamla-Raj Enterprises, 2002, v, 256 p., tables, figs., $42. ISBN 81-85264-30-9.

    Contents: Preface. I. Ecology, demography and health: 1. Ecology people, and health: the Indian scenario/M.K. Bhasin and Veena Bhasin. 2. Population dynamics, problems and prospects of high altitude area: Ladakh/Veena Bhasin and Shampa Nag. 3. Anthropometric perspective on nutritional status/S.P. Singh. 4. A study among some "Meendharas" of Sunderbans, West Bengal/Ranjana Ray, Indranil Chakraborty and Nandini Bhattacharyya. II. Human biology: 5. Increasing prevalence of obesity and role of exercise/S.K. Verma and Ajita. 6. Prevalence of overweight and obesity among adult urban females of Punjab : a cross-sectional study/Sharda Sidhu and Harleen Kaur Tatla. 7. High incidence of haemoglobin-E in tribal populations of Tripura, North East India/Swapan Kumar Das, Madhusnata De, Bani Sengupta, Nikhilesh Das, Dilip Kumar Bhattacharya and Geeta Talukder. 8. Reconstruction of stature from long bone lengths/Surinder Nath and Prabha Badkur. 9. Age changes and sex differences in Somatotypes among Jats of Delhi/Inuka Gakhar and S.L. Malik. 10. Anthropological significance of Alloalbuminaemia/Harsurinder Kaur and Neeraj Mehta. 11. Consanguinity and its effects on fertility and child survival among Muslims of Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir/M.K. Bhasin and Shampa Nag. III. Medical anthropology: 12. Biomedical anthropology in the service of mankind in the new millennium: Are we ready?/R.S. Balgir. 13. Some thoughts on the anthropology of mental health and illness with special reference to India/Vinay Kumar Srivastava. IV. Human rights: 14. Cultural relativism and universal human rights: contributions from social science of the middle east/Richard Harvey Brown and Laure Bjawi-Levine. 15. Sociological and pedagogical reflections on the chances of human beings under the qualitatively structural changes of the world system/Klaus Kuhnekath and Heinz Sunker. 16. Good science, bad science: the contribution of the modern anthropologist to the delivery of human rights/Brian Milne. V. Development, society and its future: 17. Anthropology and development: in search of a paradigm/B.G. Banerjee and A.K. Sinha. 18. Derailed development: review of development and rehabilitation models for tribal India/Shalina Mehta. 19. Science and technology as the inevitable necessity of man’s development in the 21 century/Mohammad Taghi Sheykhi. 20. Information technology creates Allophobia. How to eliminate it ?/Nikos Gousgounis. 21. A task ahead/Peter J.M. Nas. Index.

    "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." (jacket)

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