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Invitation to Social and Cultural Anthropology is highly useful book for the students at degree level of different Universities and Civil Service examinees. Keeping in view the requirements of students of both the categories, the book includes some special topics like Fieldwork, Tribal situation in India, and Problems of Tribals and Tribal Welfare in India besides the traditional topics of Social and Cultural Anthropology. This would provide the readers with a helpful frame of reference. All possible attempts have been made to cite the examples from vast materials of Indian ethnographic data to help the students to develop a clear perception on the Indian anthropology. The uniqueness of the book lies not only in the incorporation of the data, both of Indian as well as those of the other societies of the rest of the world on a comparative basis, but also in the application of social and cultural anthropology for the welfare of the tribal societies in India which may cater to the requirements of administrators and policy makers in solving the problems of tribals in India. The book would effectively help the target groups to understand the science of Social and Cultural anthropology in a broader perspective as very few books are available on this topic in the Indian context.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction Definition and Perspective of Anthropology; Division of Anthropology; Scope of Social and Cultural Anthropology; The Physical Anthropology; Pre-historic Archaeology; Applied Anthropology; Development of Social and Cultural Anthropology; Relation of Social Anthropology to Social Sciences 2. Man, Culture and Society Nature of Culture; Material and Non-material Culture; Elements of Culture; The Component of Culture; Cultural Relativity; Personality and Culture; Process of Cultural Growth; Cultural Lag; Language and Culture; Cultural evolution; Multilineal Evolution; Cultural Diffusion; Structuralism and Functionalism; Symbolism and Culture; Social custom, Norm, Values and Culture; Functions of Culture; The Relation of Society to Culture, Culture and Civilisation 3. Marriage Mating, Meaning of Marriage, Development of Marriage as a Social Institution, Incest Taboo, Preferential and Prescribed Marriages, Exogamy and Endogamy, Hypergamy and Hypogamy. The Levirate, The Sororate, Widow/widower Marriage, Form of Marriage, Monogamy, Polygyny, Polyandry, Group Marriage, Marriage among Hindus, Ways of Acquiring Mates in Tribal Societies among the Tribals; Divorce and the Dissolution of Marriage, Functions of Marriage 4. The Family Definition and Scope; Different forms Family, Features of the Family. The Origin and Evolution of the Family, Universality of the Family, Functions of Family, The Changing Pattern of Family 5. Kinship System Meaning and Scope; Degree of Kinship; Principles of Classifying Kin; Types of Kinship Terminology; Significance of Kinship; Kinship Usages 6. Descent Definition and Scope; Bilateral Descent, Kindred; Unilineal Descent; The Lineage; Clan; Phratry; The Moity 7. Association and Youth Dormitory Definition and Scope, Sodality; Secret Societies; Associations based on Age; Association based on Sex; Dormitories in India; Functions of the Dormitory; Changing Pattern in Youth Dormitories in India 8. Economic Anthropology Definition and Scope; Characteristics of Primitive Economy; Production; The Organization of Labour; The Division of Labour, Distribution: Systems of Exchange 9. Political Anthropology Definition and Scope; Nature of Political Organisation; Age Organisation as a basis of Political Authority; Principles of Organization; Types of Political System; Stateless System; State System; Social Stratification; Centralized Government; Monopoly of Force; Councils; Chief-doms; Other Institutions Associated; Politics and Government; Politics and Law; Politics and Political Organization; Nation Building process in a State 10. Legal Anthropology Meaning of Law; Definition and Scope; Relation between Custom and Law; Crime and Tort; Nature of Primitive Law; Basic Features of Law; The Function of Law; Case Law and Settlement of Disputes; Evidence, Divination; Conditional Curse; Ordeal; Oath; Punishment; Compensation; Why Law is Obeyed? 11. Anthropology of Religion Definition and Scope; Theories of Origin of Religion; Animism; Animatism; Functional Theory; Sacred and Profane Functions of Religion, Magic Definition, Homoeopathic Magic, Contagious Magic Religion, Magic and Science, Forms of magic, Witchcraft; Religions Specialists; Shaman and Priests, Medicine Man, Witch doctor, Taboo 12. Social Stratification Meaning and Scope; Theories of Social stratification; Status and Rank; Social Class; Caste; Caste in India; Origin of Caste System in India; Characteristic Features of Caste System in Indial Dominant Caste; The Jajmani System; Caste Incompetence; Caste and Class Distinction; Social Mobility; Changing Pattern of Caste System in India; Ethnic Stratification; Stratification on the Basis of Gender 13. Property and its Inheritance Meaning and Scope; Property Rights on Consumables; Land as Property, Incorporeal Property; Inheritance of Property; Patrilineal; Matrilineal and Avuncular inheritance; Collateral Inheritance; Primogeniture and Ultimogeniture. 14. Tribal Situation in India Definition of tribe, Demographic Features, Geographical distribution of tribes, Linguistic classification of tribes, Racial affinities, Economic Organisation, Tribal Integration, Cultural type, Classification Based on Religious Practices. 15. Tribal Problems and Tribal Welfare in India Scope of Tribal Problems; Tribal Development Policy in India Indebtedness; Land Alienation; Bonded Labour; Shifting Cultivation; Tribals and Health; Tribals and Forest Development; Educational Problem of Tribal Tribals and Industrialisation Tribals and Ethnic Indentity Displacement and Tribals; Socio-Political Movements in India, Constitutional Safeguards for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in India 13. Field Work Meaning and Importance of Fieldwork; Fieldwork Tradition and Anthropology, Approaches in Anthropological Fieldwork; Field Methods in Social and Cultural Anthropology; Observation, Interview method, Questionnaire and Schedule, Case Studies and Geneological Method, Census and Survey Method, Ethics of Fieldwork


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  • ISBN-13: 9788126903238
  • Publisher: Atlantic
  • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 8126903236
  • Publisher Date: 2004
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • No of Pages: 432

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