Anthropology in Human Welfare

Contents: Preface. 1. The role of anthropology in human welfare/Vijoy S. Sahay. 2. Gender, ethnic group and development disparity/A.K. Kapoor, P. Mishra, R.K. Viswas, R.K. Kumar, R. Tyati and A. Arya. 3. Role of social anthropology in forest management/Debashis Debnath. 4. Addressing diverse problems: anthropologist as consultant/B.M. Mukherjee. 5. Tribal development among some tribes of West Bengal/Krishna Mandal. 6. An appraisal of tribal development: the Elwin era and afterwards/Gautam Kumar Bera. 7. An anthropological study on tribal unrest/F. Mollick and B.M. Mukherjee. 8. A functional approach to human rights/Mikki Agrawal and Kalpana Bhardwaj. 9. Human materialism: an anthropological research strategy for human welfare/Malini Srivastava. 10. Applications of ceramic ethnoarchaeology for the study of protohistoric pottery/Alok Shrotriya and Zhou Xue Ying. 11. Identifying the drug abuse in sports persons through forensic investigation/G.S. Venumadhava and S.S. Dharnaik. 12. Application of anthropological knowledge in forensic investigation/J.D. Sharma and I. Gautam. 13. Problems and development of the Saharia Tribe of Madhya Pradesh/Debabrata Mandal. [One article is in Hindi].

"The application of Anthropology in the field of human welfare is too vast. But, it is felt from long back that policy-makers/planners/administrators and people in general are not aware regarding the potential of anthropology and its applications in human welfare. Thus a modest attempt has been made through this book to fulfil the objective.

This book is based on the proceedings of a national seminar entitled \'Role of Anthropology in Human Welfare\'. It contains fourteen papers. The contents of the papers directly or indirectly are useful for the betterment or upliftment of human life. In view of its dynamic nature, the book, which is first of its kind, would be of immense help and useful to general readers, academicians, social workers, sociologists and anthropologists." (jacket)