Experiencing Anthropology in the Nicobar Archipelago

ISBN-13: 9780367539825 / Miękka / 2023 / 246 str.

Vijoy S Sahay

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Vijoy S Sahay is Professor (Emeritus), and Former Head, Department of Anthropology, University of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.