About the Book

Notwithstanding so much of attention paid to the welfare of scheduled tribes during the six and a half decades of independence, they are still at the bottom of human development. Even, they are being gradually dispossessed of whatever resources they had under their control in the past. In fact, the modern development paradigm cannot address the problems of these people and there is an urgent need for an alternative paradigm. The present book, which is an outcome of a national seminar, and contains papers on themes such as nutrition and growth, tribal economy, tribal development, concept of tribe, health, disease and healthcare, etc., promises to be of immense value for social scientists, policy makers and administrators.

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About the Author / Editor

P.K. Misra is former Professor of Anthropology, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong. He served in Anthropological Survey of India, Government of India, for two and a half decades in various capacities. He was also Visiting Professor at the University of Oregon, Eugene, USA, University of Mysore, Mysore, India and the University of West Indies, Port of Spain, Trinidad. He has published a number of articles in scientific journals and has many books to his credit. H.K. Bhat has recently retired as Professor of Anthropology, University of Mysore, Mysore. He was a Visiting Fellow, Association of Commonwealth Universities, at the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of the West Indies, Port of Spain, Trinidad, in 1992. He has also published several articles on medical anthropology, applied anthropology and tribal cultures in reputed journals. K.K. Misra is Professor of Anthropology at the Central University of Hyderabad and is currently on deputation to the Government of India as Director of Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal, with additional charge of Director, Anthropological Survey of India, Kolkata. Recipient of many awards, his research interests include environmental anthropology, anthropological linguistics, theory in anthropology, and museum anthropology. He has written/edited/co-edited nine books and has published more than 50 research papers in journals of repute and anthologies. He is also the editor of Humankind and Journal of Anthropological Survey of India, and is on the editorial advisory boards of several professional journals.

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