A PROFILE OF SOCIAL CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Growing Complexities, Renewal Of Emphasis And Emerging Issues

A PROFILE OF SOCIAL CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Growing Complexities, Renewal Of Emphasis And Emerging Issues

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Rajat Kanti Das

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The Title 'A PROFILE OF SOCIAL CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Growing complexities, Renewal of emphasis and Emerging issues written/authored/edited by Rajat Kanti Das ', published in the year 2023. The ISBN 9789357223522 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 256 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Kalpaz Publications. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Anthropology. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms.

Year:

2023

Language:

English

Publisher:

Kalpaz Publications

Pages:

256

Book Category:

pub

Subject:

Anthropology

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ABOUT THE BOOK

The book is on Social-cultural anthropology - its meaning and purpose, growing complexities and areas of conflict, new concerns and future possibilities. An impression has been created that social-cultural anthropology as it is practised today is a type of arrangement or a matter of convenience to get easy access into the social and cultural world. Far from it, the distinctive outlooks followed by social-cultural anthropologists in their approach have made it possible for them to pursue their self-directed way of looking at human society and culture more intantly. This is not something which is limited to behavioural manifestations only. Indeed, anthropological interpretation, by which it analyses and translates other cultures, has some unique properties. There are glimpses of these in the book. Be it social structure, tribal way of transformation, ethnicity, political emancipation, knowledge-ignorance dichotomy, humanistic pursuit, bio-diversity preservation or bio-cultural impact assessment - in studying them social-cultural anthropologists follow their own course to good effect.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rajat Kanti Das (b. 1942), M.Sc., Ph.D from the University of Calcutta, started his career as a Primary Investigator in the Social Studies Section of Assam Census, Shillong for a brief period. On being recommended by the UPSC in 1964, he joined the Govt. D.M. College at Imphal, Manipur as a Lecturer in Anthropology. He remained there for more than two decades and became the Head of the Department. Subsequently, he joined the Department of Anthropology of Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal as a Reader. Ultimately, he became a Professor in the same Department. After the completion of regular service, he rejoined the Department after being awarded the U.G.C. Emeritus Fellowship for two years. All along, he has been associated with various academic activities like Ph.D. supervision, reviewing papers in national and international Journals, contributing to edited volumes and Research Journals. He was a Member of the National Advisory Council of Anthropological Survey of India. Rajat Kanti Das was the Editor-in-Chief of 'Vidyasagar University Journal of Biological Sciences' for two terms. At present, he is the Editor of the 'Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society' (JIAS) and holds the Office of the President of the Indian Anthropological Society.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements ........................................................................... 9
1. Introduction .................................................................................. 11
2. Tracing the British Link ................................................................. 31
3. Tribal studies taking new directions ............................................... 67
4. Ethnicity and identity formation ..................................................... 87
5. Social structure signifying change in meaning and context ............ 105
6. Search for political space and meaning in and
outside the state ........................................................................... 127
7. Extending the scope of ethnographic study to
knowledge-ignorance .................................................................. 157
8. Humanistic anthropology and Rabindranath
Tagore’s universal humanism ....................................................... 175
9. Traditional knowledge and belief system in biodiversity
preservation ............................................................................... 189
10. Looking at food, food intake and other related issues
from a bio-cultural perspective ................................................... 201
11. Concluding part: social- cultural anthropology’s search
for meaning and credibility ......................................................... 217
Appendix .................................................................................. 237
Index ........................................................................................ 241

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