Portrait of Anthropological Research
Contents: Preface. I. Some facets in anthropology: 1. Man\'s adaptation: a unifying concept/D.P. Mukherjee. 2. Population genetics in human welfare/D.P. Mukherjee. 3. Swaminarayan Sampraday: a study of syncretism/A.V. Arakeri. 4. Mental disorder: an anthropological appraisal/Sudhendu Chanda. 5. A model for cooperative farming and the interest of the marginal farmer/Ali Asgar Mondal. 6. The place names of Saurashtra of Gujarat: a glimpse of culture/Arup Ray. 7. Poundra-Kshatriya of Sundarban: a discussion/Sudhendu Chanda and Debabrata Mandal. 8. Bhadralok: Chotolok dichotomy in an urban milieu: a componential analysis/Subhash Chandra Chattopadhyay and Asok Kumar Mukhopadhyay. 9. Ecology, economy and belief system: a study on the delta situation/Krishna Basu. II. Tribal studies: 10. Saharia in the cross-road of change at Chambal: a prelude/Debabrata Mandal. 11. Income, expenditure pattern, poverty and indebtedness of five tribal communities in a micro-setting/Tilak Bagchi. 12. The culturally permitted practice of \'drinking habit\' leads to \'alcoholism\' among the Santal individuals/Amit Kumar Ghosh. 13. Myth and architecture: a study among the Santal in West Bengal/Santanu Mitra. 14. Child health in tribal society: a micro study in five tribal communities of Paschim Medinipore, West Bengal/Tilak Bagchi. 15. Role of tribal women towards community development/Samira Dasgupta and Amitabha Sarkar. 16. Minor millet crop (kodo) and its cultural adaptation--a study among the Lepcha of middle Sikkim Tista Valley/Sudhansu Gangopadhyay. 17. Forest, canoe and fishing: the axle of Shompen economy/Amitava Dinda and Sumitabha Chakraborty. 18. A study of transformation among the Rajuar of Orissa/Debabrata Mandal. III. Anthropology of Indian crafts: Crafts of Gujarat: an overview Soni/Tilak Bagchi and Lok Nath. 20. Impact of modern technology on traditional crafts: an elucidation of emerging issues/Gopa Chakraborty. 21. Wood craft and traditional wisdom: a case study among the Nicobarese of Katchal Island/K.M. Sinha Roy. 22. The boat making: a fascinating craft of the Karan of North Andaman Islands/Sumitabha Chakraborty. 23. Nature, man and crafts of Kachchh/Tilak Bagchi. IV. Anthropology in tourism: 24. Tourism in the North Sikkim Himalayas: a study on cultural land scope/Sudhansu Gangopadhyay. 25. Bakkhali of the Sundarban biosphere reserve: a potential spot of tourism/Sunit Mandal. 26. Baneshwar mela of Rajasthan/Tilak Bagchi, Bibha Kaslyan Mohanty and Debabrata Mandal. 27. Sustainable development of the tribes through tourism/Tilak Bagchi and Debarata Mandal. Index.
"Indian anthropology is the gift of British colonialism. British anthropologists and scholars tried to understand social system of the so-called \'other cultures\'. Until 1947 there was a wide belief that anthropologists were concerned only with the study of primitive or tribal people. After independence with the introduction of anthropology in many Indian universities and academic institutions, interaction of anthropologists with foreign scholars, growing interests of the foreigners specially American and British anthropologists in studying Indian society and culture, anthropology is no longer confined to tribal study. Even then tribal studies contribute an important dimension to Indian anthropology. Anthropology nowadays expands in horizons and draws attention on several aspects like crafts, tourism, human genetics, Dalit studies, community development, gender issues and so on. Against the backdrop of the same in the present volume title "Portrait of Anthropological Research" treatises contributed by a number of anthropologists and other social scientists are put together into scholarly quest for understanding some aspects of Indian anthropology." (jacket)
