A PROFILE OF SOCIAL CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Growing complexities, Renewal of emphasis and Emerging issues - Hardcover

About the Book: The book is on Social-cultural anthropology - its meaning and purpose, growing complexities and areas of conflict, new concerns and future possibilities. An impression has been created that social-cultural anthropology as it is practised today is a type of arrangement or a matter of convenience to get easy access into the social and cultural world. Far from it, the distinctive outlooks followed by social-cultural anthropologists in their approach have made it possible for them to pursue their self-directed way of looking at human society and culture more intantly. This is not something which is limited to behavioural manifestations only. Indeed, anthropological interpretation, by which it analyses and translates other cultures, has some unique properties. There are glimpses of these in the book. Be it social structure, tribal way of transformation, ethnicity, political emancipation, knowledge-ignorance dichotomy, humanistic pursuit, bio-diversity preservation or bio-cultural impact assessment - in studying them social-cultural anthropologists follow their own course to good effect. About the Author: Rajat Kanti Das (b. 1942), M.Sc., Ph.D from the University of Calcutta, started his career as a Primary Investigator in the Social Studies Section of Assam Census, Shillong for a brief period. On being recommended by the UPSC in 1964, he joined the Govt. D.M. College at Imphal, Manipur as a Lecturer in Anthropology. He remained there for more than two decades and became the Head of the Department. Subsequently, he joined the Department of Anthropology of Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal as a Reader.