272 Pages
31 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge India
272 Pages
31 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge India
272 Pages
31 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge India
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This book explores the discipline of social-cultural anthropology through an extensive study of the Nicobarese people in one of the remotest human settlements of the Indian Ocean. It examines the social, cultural, economic, political and magico-religious beliefs of the Nicobarese, and traces their ritualistic upbringing from conception till after death. The book also discusses the... Read more
1. My Admission to the Discipline of Anthropology 2. My Initiation into the Discipline in The Land of Wizards 3. Living the Life of a Nancowrian 4. Nature: Coconut and Forest Economy 5. Nature: The Sea Economy 6. Man: The Tribe, the Lineage, the Village 7. Man: The Family 8. Man: As Individual: ‘At the Axis of Self’ 9. Spirit-world and the Sacred Complex of the Nicobarese
Biography
Vijoy S Sahay is Professor (Emeritus), and Former Head, Department of Anthropology, University of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.
