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Anthropology Today: Contemporary Trends in Social and Cultural Anthropology SHALINA MEHTA (Panjab University, Chandigarh, India) 2010 • Pages: 178 • Size: 180x240 • ISBN 81-85264-53-8 • Binding: Hard • Price: US $ 45/- Rs.1450/ (Anthropologist Special Issue No. 7)
Cyber space’s, technology, ecological changes and environmental crisis, proxy wars and remote technologies controlling these wars, changing definitions of international borders along with plethora of treaties and trade regulations are redefining human societies. Anthropology has moved out of its nascent insecurities and is accepted among sciences, humanities and social sciences as a political discipline that has the unique advantage of providing alternatives to many established notions of structured world communities. Anthropological methodologies and its unflinching faith in field work centered empirical data generation have become content of many grounded theories in several other disciplines. There is universal appeal in anthropological imagination. We are no longer a tribe of marginalized scholars whose primary interest is to document communities that are on the verge of extinction because of historical, cultural or natural processes of extermination. If we want to accept the collectivism of ‘tribe’ to represent our unique ability, then we must move forward and say that we as a tribe are not only engaged with ‘other tribes’ but with every community and social and cultural concern that processes of social and cultural transformations pose to our collective survival and sustainability of our ecosystems. This volume is a beginner’s vision that reaches out to only few of these innumerable challenges
CONTENTS
Editorial
List of Contributors
SECTION - 1
Peter J. M. Nas, Marlies de Groot and Michelle Schut • Cities Full of Symbols
Maheshvari Naidu • Tied to Each Other: Gazing on Networked Connectivity and Closure – Transnationalised Work and Workers
Jyotsna Bapat • Understanding Urban Relocation and Rehabilitation Issues
Loshini Naidoo • Crossing Boundaries: Constructing New spaces for African Refugee Students in Greater Western Sydney
Jean Charles Lagree • Chinese Students in Paris
SECTION - 2
R.E.S. Tanner • Western Psychology and Traditional Methodologies. Some Rational Considerations
C.O. Aluede • Religious Belief and Perception of Illness in Esanland, Edo State of Nigeria
Priscilla Weeks • Social Science Perspectives on Invasive Species
SECTION – 3
Harjant Gill • How Milind Soman Made Me Gay Exploring Issues of Belonging and Citizenship amongst Gay South Asian Men in Diaspora
Ilufoye Sarafa Ogundiya • From Ethnopolitical Agitation to Terrorism: Interogating the Niger Delta Crisis in Nigeria
SECTION – 4
Krishan Sharma • Sociobiology: The Relevance of Biology in Social Inquiry
Abhik Ghosh • Symbolizing Human Life: Anthropological Explorations into Culture
Samuel Oluwole Ogundele • Global Encounters and Challenges of Human Development in Nigeria
Nikos Gousgounis • The Challenge of Anthropology as Humanitarian Science in the Eternal Search of Originality between the Cultural Difference and the Societal Otherness
Index
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