The Way of Life : Studies on Environmental Social and Cultural Issues

Contents: Preface. Introduction. I. Environmental issues: 1. Environment and development: some reflections/Ajit Kumar Danda. 2. The environmental impact of large river valley projects/Mamata Desai. 3. Degradation of Himalayan forests/S.S. Negi. 4. Forest movement in India/J.J. Roy Burman. II. Social issues: 5. Modelling of the functional social network of child care and its structural change/Jaan Valsiner. 6. Deciding who we are: the order of the sons of Italy and the creation of Italian American ethnicity/Frank A. Salmaone. 7. Identity issue in the Indian context/S.K. Chatterjee. 8. Socio-political agitation and tribal people of Rajasthan: a case study of the Bhils of Banswara district/Shyam Lal. 9. Socio-religious movement among the Namasudra Community of Bengal/N.K. Ghatak. 10. Plights of hotel boys in Western Orissa/D.K. Behera and S.S. Mahanty. 11. Emerging socio-economic patterns of the displaced Jhalo Malos: a case study/Atul Chandra Bhowmick. III. Cultural issues: 12. Hunting and the gnostic vision/Brian Morris. 13. The Toda polyandry: a dying institution of the Nilgiri Hills/Jakka Parthasarathy. 14. Devadasi/R.S. Hiremath. 15. Psycho-social factors in the acceptance of induced abortion among married women/K.P. Singh. 16. Dokra: a dwindling art of bastar/Amitabha Sarkar. 17. The transition from oral tradition to written literature the Santals became literature/Peter B. Andersen. 18. Glimpses of Santali language and literature/Amal Kumar Das.

In this book we have included a total of eighteen articles we have distributed these articles in three parts. Part one includes four articles on environment forest and forest movements while part two includes seven articles on different social issues. Part three covers of remaining seven articles cultural issues.  These eighteen articles show varied aspects of human environment society and culture. Though there are innumerable variations but we have tried to show only a few of these traits. Human culture as also human environment are dynamic in nature. Therefore the same are always subjected to change. What were there in the past may not be the same in the present and what are in the present may not be found in the future. We firmly believe that the articles which we have included in this book, will be able to satisfy a large number of readers who include social scientists academicians and scholars planners and administrators and also common readers. (jacket)