Ethnographic & Health Profile of Four Tribal Communities in Tamil Nadu

ISBN-13: 9786139471973 / Angielski

Dr. Pandiaraj Govindaraj

Opis

This book is an attempt to study health care practices and Ethnomedicine of tribes of Tamil Nadu in relation to their ecological and Socio-cultural determinants. The term Ethnomedicine or tribal medicine denotes the medical beliefs and practices of tribes that have evolved in their own cultural and ecological settings. A cross-cultural analysis of the initiation of the medical functionaries with the mode of their knowledge and approach made in the study.

O autorze

Govindaraj, Dr. Pandiaraj
I am a trained Anthropologist, completed Post Graduation and Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, INDIA. I have gone through the course of my academic research, projects, field study and contributed greatly to ethnographic research conducted by the University of Madras.