Explorations in Anthropology : P K Bhowmick and his Collaborative Research Works

Swapan Kumar Pramanick and Samita Manna

Published by Serials Pub, New Delhi, 2007

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Contents About Prof. P.K. Bhowmick. Foreword. Preface. List of contributors. Editorial. I. P.K. Bhowmick and his anthropological legacy 1. Professor P.K. Bhowmick the field anthropologist oriented with indigenous vision/Rebati Mohan Sarkar. 2. Research methods in cultural anthropology and the University of Calcutta/Harsha N. Mookherjee. 3. Methodological approaches in studying anthropological problems/Amal Kumar Mallick. 4. A new mentality Professor P.K. Bhowmick/M. Afsaruddin and Taniya Sharmeen. II. Explorations in anthropology Section I. Ethnography 1. Introduction/Manis Kumar Raha. 2. Society and economy of the Mahalis of Midnapur West Bengal/Syamalkanti Sengupta. 3. Life in Kachari Village Dimasa lifeway an ethnographic study/Dipali Danda. 4. Culture and society of the Gadabas of Andhra Pradesh an ethnographic profile/A.V. Subba Rao. 5. An analytical study of the maring society of Manipur/Rajat Kanti Das. 6. Socio cultural life of the Kukis of Manipur a historical analysis/T.S. Gangte. 7. Socio cultural change among the Kondh/Bijay Kumar Behera. 8. Ethnohistory of the Koras of West Bengal/Ashoke Kumar Jana. 9. The Bhoksa a little known tribe of Uttar Pradesh/Niranjan Kumar Ghatak. 10. A study on anthropological (bio social) aspects of child and maternal health among the Nicobarese of Car Nicobar Island/Madhumala Chattopadhyay. 11. The Savaras a snake charming community of West Bengal/Himangsu Mohan Ray. 12. The Bagals of Border Bengal a cattle herding community in Search of identity/Swapan Kumar Chakraborty. 13. The Bauris of West Bengal a socio economic study/Kartik Chandra Shasmal. 14. Society and economy of the Dhimal an agricultural community of Eastern Nepal/Rishikeshab Regmi. 15. Social anthropological study of cattle Herders in Chhattisgarh/Lok Nath Soni. Section II. Religion in Indian perspective 1. Introduction/Baidyanath Saraswati. 2. Anthropology of tribal religiosity a micro study in a common ecological setting/Debashis Debnath. 3. Stratification and religion in the Rabha society of Tufanganj/Pabitra Kumar Gupta. 4. Religion and society in eight villages of Eastern Midnapur West Bengal/Tarasish Mukhopadhayay. 5. Religious complex in a metropolitan fringe/Asoke Kumar Biswas. 6. Tarakeswar study of a Hindu place of pilgrimage in West Bengal/Prafulla Chakrabarti. 7. Sacred complex in Holy Godavari (Rajahmundry) in Andhra Pradesh an anthropological study of religious behaviour/Vaddi Arjanna. 8. Food and rituals a study of their interrelationship in Fringe Bengal/Bela Jana. 9. Concept of disease and methods of treatment (Medical and Non Medical) in West Bengal/Pratima Chowdhury. 10. Concept of illness and health seeking behaviour in West Bengal a micro study/Archana Sinha. 11. Religion magic and witchcraft among the Kondh of Bataguda area of Phulbani District of Orissa/Arun Kumar Chatterjee. 12. Death as viewed in society among the castes/Ratna Gupta (nee Mallik). 13. Rituals in tradition and modernity a socio ethnographic study of funeral rituals among the Hindus of the Kangsabati Valley of West Bengal/Manibrata Bhattacharya. Section III. Rural social institutions and administration 1. Introduction/Sachchidananda. 2. Joint family in the district of 24 Parganas West Bengal a sociological study/Satyajiban Chakraborty. 3. A study of sociological import of rural indebtedness in the district of 24 Parganas West Bengal/Chittaranjan Banerjee. 4. Traditional Caste Panchayat and aspects of social movement a micro study in Eastern Midnapore West Bengal/Narayan Chandra Maiti. 5. Pattern and continuity of rural administration in West Bengal/Shibnath Banerjee. Section IV. Development action and applied anthropology 1. Introduction/Sachchidananda. 2. Social development and maladjustment a case study in the tribal areas of Andhra Pradesh/M.V. Krishna Rao. 3. A study in development anthropology in ecological and cultural perspective of Garhwal/Sudhir Kumar Biswas. 4. Anthropology in action in the tribal areas of Adilabad District. Seller Inventory # 64938

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