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Lectures on Enthnography

1925

It seeks to deter- mine which are the permanent varieties of the crania by the facial features, by the stature and the proportion or the body, by the microsevie structure of the hair, and by the colour of the skin. [...] It is said that our notion of mankind and of their works that make the History of the world, is chiefly based on the most progressive and the most civilized communities to the total neglect of the lower strata of society. [...] In a letter of the Council of the Royal Anthropological institute, dated 18th April, 1913, to the Sepretary of State for India expressing their views on the subject of the Oriental Research Institute which time Government of India proposed to found, the Council emphasised on the importance of the study of Social Anthropology in that Institute from an administrative or political point of view, and [...] This was also thourzlit to be i rig4it 1% top iii the direction of, the recognitiun of Anthropology in the widest, sense on the administrative problems of the Empire. "2 " In the discussion of the conference heid at Simla in July, 1911, ri. v,arding the relation of the Musuems to the Educational systems of India. , it was said that one of the most urgient 'weds in India Was in! Ethnographic Museum [...] The crossing that has taken place in the varions parts of the world disproves the conclusion " the dilutation of the blood of the so-caned civilized races by that of the so-called lower races will either set the species on the highway to extinction or cause a relapse to barbarism. "' 1ntor.
anthropology archaeology
Pages
331
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100014
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-xvii L.K. Iyer view
I Anthropology Ethnology and Ethnography
1-ii unknown view
II Race
19-39 unknown view
III Racial History of Malabar Cochin and Travancore
40-63 unknown view
IV Caste
64-95 unknown view
V Sex and Marriage
96-ii unknown view
VI Sex and Marriage—(Contd)
129-iii unknown view
VII Family Kinship and Social Organisation
163-187 unknown view
VIII Magic Soroery and Witchcraft
188-219 unknown view
IX Evolution of Taste in Dress and Ornaments
220-241 unknown view
X Village Community in South India
242-x unknown view
List of Books Consulted
265-269 unknown view
Index
270-i unknown view

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