Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. 1969. 97pp, select bibliography, paperback covers soiled. Discusses the structure of Indian society, as well as kinship, marriage and inheritance. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 66550). More
Ithaca. Cornell University Press. 1994. ix + 221pp, some leaves creased at fore edge, very good copy in dustjacket with faded spine. After the sudden death of a young girl who was suffering from a fever the villagers of Bisipara in eastern India are convinced that her death was caused... More
Calcutta. Shillong. 1960. Endpaper maps, black and white photographic illustrations and line drawings, 110pp, index, bibliography, glossary, first few pages little creased, price-clipped dustjacket now protected, a good copy. An ethnographic study of the Idu Mishmis - one of the main tribes inhabiting the wild and rugged hills of the... More
New Jersey. Prentice Hall. [c.1971]. Map, xiv + 164pp, a good copy in trifle worn and marked paperback, small tear on head of spine. "This essay is an attempt to convey what one anthropologist and historian has learned about India. It draws on the work of hundreds of other scholars... More
United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2011. xxiii + 155pp, index, bibliography, a very good copy. Workplace bullying, a pattern of persistent and targeted emotional abuse within the context of an evolving unequal interpersonal relationship, has so far not received academic attention in India. This book explores the phenomenon of... More
Department of Publication. University of Gauhati. Assam. 1960. Map, tables, 9 folding, illustrations, xii + 149pp, appendices, index, patchily faded dustjacket. The Rabha are a sub-group of the Bodo people of Assam. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 4280). More
Bombay. Marg. 1992. Map, black and white and colour photographic illustrations, 136pp, tall quarto, bookseller's sticker front free endpaper, minor wear dustjacket, a very good copy. A pioneering study on the tribal art of India, this surveys the different traditions that prevail in the country on a regional basis because... More
London. John Murray. 1936. Black and white photographic illustrations, 243pp, notes (glossary), lower hinge cracked, endpapers and edges browned, cloth covers little discoloured, corners bumped, The Gonds live in Central India. The author lived among them from 1932-1935, wrote about them and photographed them. These are his personal recollections of... More
Shillong. Published on behalf of the Adviser to the Governor of Assam. 1964. Second edition. Foreword by Jawaharlal Nehru. Endpaper maps, black and white illustrations including photographs, 296pp, index, inscription half-title, edges browned, dustjacketrubbed on extremities and some loss on spine. Discussion of the tribes of the North East Frontier... More
Bombay. Bhatkal. 1963. Third revised edition. xiv + 404pp, index, endpapers patchily browned, good copy in torn dustjacket, now protected First published in 1943 as The Aborigines So-Called and Their Future. "In this third revised edition Dr. Ghurye, besides giving a historical account of these tribes and the attitude of... More
Delhi. B.R. Publishing Corporation. 1981. Reprint. xxi + 227pp, index, appendices, reprinted without the chromo-lithographic illustrations of the 1908 original, minor wear and browning priceclipped dustjacket, still a sound copy. Study of the Meitheis (or Meiteis) an ethnic group of Manipur, bounded by Burma on the east, Nagaland on the... More
United Kingdom: Zed Books Ltd, 1996. x + 246pp, bibliography, index, a very good paperback copy. A study of the politics of representation which explores the construction of a "city of intensities" - Calcutta. The author analyzes representations of Calcutta in a variety of discourses: in the gossip and traveller-lore... More
Delhi. Mittal Publication. 1986. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations and line drawings, 71pp + 16 plates, some staining to margin of one plate, tall quarto, price-clipped dustjacket worn with some loss, otherwise a good copy. Contains diaries of two tours undertaken by two British officers - J.P. Mills of... More
New York. Abrams. 1985. Profusely illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, 272pp, bibliography, index, dustjacket. Russian jam label which the accompanying note says was bought in Kabul in the early 1980s during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan has adhered to 16 lines of text on page 79,spine of... More
Delhi. Oxford University Press. 1992. Second Edition. 241pp, notes, bibliography, index, inscription half title, dustjacket spine sunned, otherwise very good. "This thought-provoking book reveals important aspects of Indian society, myth, rituals, fables and arts. It looks at Hindu infancy and childhood in order to show how these are shaped within... More
New Delhi. Affiliated East-West Press. 1969. xx + 140pp, indices, extremities trifle worn, endpapers and edges lightly foxed, otherwise good. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 35127). More
Delhi. Motilal Banarsidass. 1982. Black and white frontis, xiv + 435pp, references, index, slightly worn dustjacket, now protected, otherwise good. This festshrift for the well known anthropologist Professor Louis Dumont is a collection of essays by 17 scholars on the Brahmanical ideologies of kingship, householdership and renunciation. (When referring to... More
Bombay. Asia Publishing House. 1961. Map frontis, black and white photographic illustrations, xviii + 276pp, index, references, notes in text, signature of a prior owner front free endpaper, trifle patchily browned endpapers, covers flecked and sunned, dustjacket worn. Still a sound copy. " Eight villages in seven different linguistic areas... More
Albuquerque. University of New Mexico Press. 1962. 230 - 245pp, offprint from the Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, original stapled wrappers trifle faded. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 67379). More
Bloomington. Indiana University Press. 2002. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, viii + 504pp, bibliography, index, paperback, light wear on front cover, very good copy. This lively anthology of ethnographic writing on South Asia explores the ways ordinary people live and make their worlds in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and... More
New Delhi. Govt. of India, Ministry of Home Affairs. 1980. v + 125pp, references, covers worn and foxed with chipped corners, inside mostly clean, a good reading copy. Occasional papers on tribal development, 28. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 160064). More
United States: Cornell University Press, 2012. Black and white illustrations, x + 174pp, index, notes, a very good copy. Transnational customer service workers are an emerging touchstone of globalization given their location at the intersecting borders of identity, class, nation, and production. Unlike outsourced manufacturing jobs, call center work requires... More
New Delhi. Allied Publishers. 2006. xii + 346pp, references, appendices, index, hardback covers a little bumped and rubbed at extremities, publisher's label front free endpaper, good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 143458). More
Osaka. National Museum of Ethnology. 1993. Maps, black and white illustrations, 320pp, a very good copy. Senri Ethnological Studies series. 10 papers written by Japanese scholars examining the cultural anthropology of Indian society for the National Museum of Ethnology. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 143104). More
Bombay. Allied Publishers. 1961. Map, black and white photographic illustrations, xxv + 200pp, glossary, name prior owner front free endpaper, small bookseller's label verso front cover, a good copy in little shelfworn paperback. The author spent a year travelling through villages in India, recording her discussions with people regarding their... More
