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Anthropology for North-East India : A Reader : Indian Anthropological Congress Commemorative Volume

Edited by Arabinda Basu, Biman K. Das Gupta and Jayanta Sarkar, Indian National Confederation and Academy of Anthropologists, 2004, pbk, xi, 268 p, ISBN : 81-85525-04-9, $25.00 (Includes free airmail shipping)

Anthropology for North-East India : A Reader : Indian Anthropological Congress Commemorative Volume/edited by Arabinda Basu, Biman K. Das Gupta and Jayanta Sarkar

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Northeast India and its people/B.M. Das. 2. Interethnic relations, ethnicity and social stratification : emerging trends in North East India/Saswati Biswas. 3. Interethnic relationship in northeast India and the "Negative Solidarity" thesis/Tanka B. Subba. 4. Regionalism, ethnicity and nationalism in North East India/N.K. Das. 5. Christianity and development among the hill tribes of North-East India/J.J. Roy Burman. 6. The need for a more dynamic approach to tribal studies in North-East India/Rajat Kanti Das. 7. Structure of bridge and buffer communities in the border areas/B.K. Roy Burman. 8. Customary right and the question of land : continuity and change in North-East India/S.B. Chakrabarti and C. Changsan. 9. The economics of transition from shifting to settled cultivation in North East India/J.B. Ganguly. 10. Marriage systems in North East India/Jayanta Sarkar. 11. Clan organization among the Garo of Assam/M.C. Goswami and D.N. Majumdar. 12. On Dimasa Descent System/Dipali G. Danda and Ajit K. Danda. 13. Distribution of traditional crafts in Khasi and Jaintia Hills : geographical and cultural factors/Biman Kumar Das Gupta. 14. Pnar social structure/Sukumar Banerjee. 15. The tribe as a social formation : the case of the Tangsa of Arunachal Pradesh/Annada C. Bhagabati. 16. Contemporary demographic pattern of the Purum (Chote) with special reference to fertility and mortality/Arabinda Basu. 17. Ecology in time and space : structural transformation among the Meitei of Manipur Valley/R.K. Saha. 18. Kinship system of the Lushai/B.B. Goswami. 19. Changes in the land and labour relations in Jhuming in Tripura/Malabika Das Gupta. 20. Lepcha polyandry : analysis and reinterpretation of earlier Data/Jyotirmoy Chakraborty. 21. Socio-economic transformation of the Rajbansis and Kamtapuri-Uttarkhand Movement in North Bengal/Rajatsubhra Mukhopadhyay.

"Anthropology for North-East India : A Reader is a compendium comprising twenty-one pre-published papers on different aspects of the society and culture of North-East India. The papers have been carefully chosen and they cover ethnicity, regionalism, tribal movement, economy and economic organisation and some interesting social systems in this part of the country. The book is intended for wide range of readers including students and research scholars."

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