Indian Anthropology (eBook, ePUB)

Anthropological Discourse in Bombay, 1886-1936
Redaktion: Lobo, Lancy; Shah, A. M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Indian Anthropology is an important contribution to the history of Indian anthropology, focusing on its formative period. It looks at the political economy of knowledge production and the anthropological discourse in Bombay during the late nineteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000462500
• Artikelnr.: 62497136

Autorenporträt

Lancy Lobo is currently the Director, Centre for Culture and Development, Vadodara, India. He has earlier served as the Director, Centre for Social Studies, Surat. He has conducted extensive studies on dalits, tribals, OBCs and minorities in rural and urban Gujarat. He has authored, co-authored and edited twenty-two books. A.M. Shah is former Professor of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India. He has been felicitated with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Indian Sociological Society, the Swami Pranavananda Award by the University Grants Commission, a National Fellowship by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, and the Distinguished Service Award by the University of Delhi. He has been a Visiting Fellow at several universities and institutes in India and abroad and has authored and edited many books on a variety of subjects. His books and papers on household and family in India are collected in an omnibus (Delhi, 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Inauguration of the Anthropological Society of Bombay, 1886:
A Vision for Anthropology in India Part I: History of the Development of
Anthropology in India 1. Anthropology in India 2. Progress of the Study of
Indian Anthropology in Europe, and Cognate Matters 3. Development or
Evolution of Anthropology in India 4. Study of Anthropology in India 5.
The Study of Anthropology in the West 6. The Retrospect and the Prospect of
the Work of the Anthropological Society of Bombay Part II: Methodology and
Collecting Ethnographic Data 7. Importance of Collecting Facts
(Presidential Address) 8. Collecting Diverse Social and Cultural Facts
(Presidential Address, 1906) 9. The Study of Ethnography in the Bombay
Presidency 10. The Ethnographical Survey of India Part III: Theoretical
Analysis of Ethnographic Facts 11. Totem Theories 12. Is the Retention of
the Term Animism in Census Justified? 13. The Superstition of Concealing
One's Proper Age as Shown by the Indian Census Statistics 14. Interpreting
a Government House Reception from a Cultural Anthropology Perspective