Indian Anthropology: Anthropological Discourse in Bombay, 1886-1936

ISBN-13: 9781032074986 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 160 str.

Lancy Lobo; A. M. Shah

Opis

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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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