Social Anthropology in India : An Ethnography of Policy and Practice, Vol. I to III

Contents: Vol. I: Foreword. Acknowledgements. From the editor’s desk. 1. Composition and location of Indian tribal population. 2. Practicing social anthropology in India/M.N. Srinivas. 3. Anthropology in policy and practice in India/L.K. Mahapatra. 4. Social anthropology in India: an introduction/Srinivasan. 5. The culture of social anthropology: retrospection/P.C. Jain. 6. Practicing social anthropology in India: trends and dimensions/B.R. Ghosh. 7. Anthropology and rural development in the third world: a conceptual framework/Hari Mohan Mathur. 8. Anthropology in India: A critical comment/Vinay Kumar Srivastava. 9. An anthropological perspective of development and displacement/S.K. Chaudhury. 10. Anthropology approach to community development: a perspective/B.N. Sahay. 11. Social policy, planning and social anthropology creating a new outlook/Nanjunda D.C. and Steven Wind. 12. Anthropology as a policy science: a review/J.V. Willigen. 13. Tribal knowledge, utilization and sustainable rural development in the 21 century/Kolawole D. 14. Traditional methods: a guarantee for sustainable?/Robe-Zwahlen. 15. Indigenous and scientific knowledge: some critical comments/Arun Agrawal. 16. Indigenous economies: bridging the gap between economics and anthropology/Valentina Mazzucato. 17. Teaching anthropology in India: some preliminary observations/Vinay Kumar Srivastava. 18. Social anthropology and its contribution to planning/David Pocock.

Vol. II: 19. Against consensus? Anthropological critique and the deconstruction of international water policy/Martin T. Walsh. 20. Anthropology and policies for tribal development: an analysis/Naresh C. Saxena. 21. Indian census: an anthropological investigation/Padmanabha. 22. Social mobility in India: An anthropological perspective/Y.D. Yadav, John Rodricks, Annapurna, M. Midatata Rani and Venu Gopal P.N. 23. Anthropological concepts on problems of planning and research for social development/B.K. Roy Burman. 24. Molecular anthropology: a bio scientific investigation/Venu Gopal P.N. and A. Chandra Shekar. 25. Tribals rights and conservation of forests in India/S. Lakshmi. 26. Cultural anthropology and the social reforms in India/Kashiuk Gangooley. 27. Anthropology of genocide: Tribal Movements in Central India against over-industrialization/Felix Padel and Samarendu Das. 28. Can there be an anthropology of child labour?/D.C. Nanjunda. 29. A historical survey of ex-criminal tribes of Karnataka -- a case study of princely Mysore (Karnataka)/Midatala Rani.

Vol. III: 30. Swimming upstream: anthropology and social development at the World Bank/Paul Francis. 31. Medical pluralism and health seeking behaviour of primitive society: a medico-anthropological study/Nanjunda D.C., Annapurna M. Midatala Rani and Jyothi Lakshmi S. 32. Anthropology in a post-colonial Africa: The survival debate/Paul Nchoji Nkwi. 33. Death in new social context: a challenge in anthropological enquiry/M.C. Arunkumar. 34. Research process in social anthropology: some conceptual issues/Nanjunda D.C. and Steven Wind. 35. Anthropology, indigenous knowledge and water resources management/Dungumaro. 36. Naxalism in Chhattisgarh (India): An anthropological perspective/S. Narayan. 37. Religion, function and community: A funeral case of the Nattukottai Chettiars of Tamilnadu/Kala Shreen. 38. Plight or fate? Primitive tribal groups in Karnataka/Nanjunda D.C., Annapurna, Midatala Rani, Subramanya S. and Venu Gopal. 39. Anthropology of participatory research: a theory of balance/S. Sumathi. 40. Issues involved in education among tribal women/Marzieh Gorji Poshti. 41. Constructing and reconstructing childhood: issues in the cultural study of childhood/Nanjunda D.C. 42. Health behaviour of Koraga and Soliga Tribals of Karnataka: some preliminary observations/K. Rajashekara Reddy, Parvathy D.C. and Chinnappa D.E. 43. Social exclusion of primitive tribal children of Karnataka: a reconstruction/Nanjunda D.C. and Midatala Rani. 44. GIS technology for indigenous knowledge: a review/Robert Win. 45. Cultural richness of green pharmacy: reconciling industry and indigenous interests/Nanjunda D.C. and Venugopal P.N. 46. The anomaly of slow growth of anthropology in the South Indian Academia/N. Subba Reddy. Appendix. References. Index.

“Do you understand the meaning of social policy? Can you elaborate the role of anthropology in policy framing? Can you discuss how we can use applied anthropology in different situations? This book gives detailed explanations for all these questions.

The main and vital objective of this volume is to make in the book a few selected articles that represent some of the more worthwhile contributions to the knowledge of development of anthropology of policy with special reference to India. However, few excellent articles have been specifically written to this volume only. While selecting the articles, the author have tried completely to emphasize the concept, principles and applied aspects of the anthropology and have tried promptly to concentrate more on combination of social and technology related components of social anthropology regarding policy framing. This volume will be highly useful to university faculty members, policy-makers, development organizations, researchers and NGOs working on rural and tribal development and to the other readers as well.” (jacket)