SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY

S.L. Doshi and P.C. Jain

About the Book

There are many variants of social anthropology. The Indian variant is a combination of British social anthropology and Indian sociology. Of late the combination has also affected the methodology. It is argued that the students of social anthropology cannot be served by yesterdays social anthropology which is only a state recipe. The present work is a revisit to the contemporary situation of tribals in India. For the first time a book on the strength of empirical evidence establishes that the Indian tribals constitute a distinct type of society. This type is, of course, neither a Hindu society, nor a Christian one. It is a society which has its own ethnic, historical and cultural identity. The official tribal policy, tribal movements and other aspects of primitive life have been critically examined in this book. It also looks at Indian social anthropology from new conceptual, theoretical and fieldwork insights. This concise and legible book will provide key text to all students of social and cultural anthropology.

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Contents

•     The Culture of Anthropology

•     The Scope of Social Anthropology

•     Social Anthropology as a Social Science

•     Methods of Social Anthropology

•     Races of Man and Racism

•     The Nature of Culture

•     Culture Processes and Theories of Culture Growth

•     Social Structure and Structuralism

•     The Family

•     Marriage

•     Kinship

•     Clan

•     Gender Issues in Tribal Society

•     Religion, Rituals and Magic

•     Primitive Economic System

•     Primitive Political System

•     Social Movements among Indian Tribes

•     Tribals: Conceptual Clarification and Their Problems

•     The Changing Tribal India

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About the Author / Editor

S.L. Doshi has taught sociology at the M.L. Sukhadia University, Udaipur and South Gujarat University, Surat. He is also a Visiting Professor at M.D. University, Rohtak. Dr. Doshi has written, co-authored and edited more than two dozen books including Postmodern Perspectives on Indian Society, Modernity, Postmodernity and Neo-sociological Theory, Rural Sociology, Social Anthropology and Tribal Ethnicity, Class and Integration. P.C. Jain is Associate Professor of Sociology, Rajasthan Vidyapeeth University, Udaipur. He has also authored many books and research papers. He is a seasoned anthropological field worker.

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