Anthropology and research in social sciences

APPLICATION AREAS OF ANTHROPOLOGY

  

Endeavours to act a professional forum to  disseminate cumulative experience gained by anthropology in specific areas of its application in developmental, welfare and creative aesthetic domains of human existence.

Volume I contains anthologies of five such Inter-disciplinary applications oriented subfields of anthropology, respective areas. The areas covered in this volume are:

-Faring Systems research/

                John van Willigen

-Forensic Anthropology

                Surinder Nath

-Human Growth and Assessment of

 Nutritional Status/ J.C. Sharma

-Management Anthropology/

                J.M. Bradshaw and Mario

                D. Zamora

These essays are likely to be of immense use to applied as well as academic practitioners of anthropology, allied sciences interfacing with anthropological knowledge and methods.

About the author

 Dr. Anil Mahajan (b 1952) is currently a Research Associate in Development Anthropology at Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Prior to this he taught social anthropology at Panjab University, Chandigarh and physical science at Civil Avitation College (Gulf States) – and ICAO/ UNDP managed institution in Arabian Gulf. He has been actively involved in the application of anthropology to adult education and environmental management in India.His recent books includes Studies in Medical Anthropology (1990) C0-ed.) and Human Encounter with Drought Co-ed. (1991)

Dr. Surender Nath (b1945) is currently a reader in Forensic Anthropology at the University of Delhi, where he has been associated with the co-ordination and teaching of forensic Science and Forensic Anthropology courses for over fifteen years.

A leading scholar in the area of forensic applications or Fingerprints and Skeletal materal, he is widely recognised for his scientific researches in the fields of dermatoglyphics. (Science of Fingerprints), human biological growth and analysis of  Skeletal material.

In addition to this, he has published over fifty-five scientific articles in international and national journals. He has produced six Ph. Ds. and authored, An Introduction to forensic Anthropology and Fingerprint Identification in crime Detection.

  

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