Tribal Studies in North East India, Mittal Publications, 8170998433

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Tribal Studies in North East India

Sarthak Sengupta (Editor)

Synopsis

The impressive collection of papers accommodated in this volume includes sixteen contribution by eminent anthropologists and other social scientists on the demographic features, colourful socio-cultural life, ethnic tensions, folklore, ethno-archaeological aspects, perception of health and illness, developmental issues etc. among a small segments of vast and varied types of the tribal inhabitants of North East India. The book being empirical research based work is expected to attract attention from a wide range of allied academic disciplines, and will be of extremely useful to scholars and academicians who are interested in tribal studies; as well as administrators, planners, policy makers; voluntary agencies and indeed anyone with concern about tribal people of North East India.

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About the author

Sarthak Sengupta

Dr. Sarthak Sengupta (b. 1955) RECEIVED his M.Sc. (1977) and Ph.D. (1983) degrees in anthropology rom Dibrugarh University and Gauhati University respectively. He also worked with the Anthropological Survey of India, Government of India and North Eastern Hill University, Shillong for quite some time and conducted intensive field studies among diverse tribes and castes in Qrunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Assam and Uttar Pradesh. He has had to his own credit eight well knitted books on North East Indian tribes, and more than 135 original research papers published in various reputed nationial and international professioinal journals besides several chapters in edited volumes. He is an active life and executive member of several professional anthropological bodies and members of the editorial boards of Journals of Human Ecology, New Delhi; Bulletin of the Department of Anthropology, Dibrugarh University; and Research Committee, Indian Academy of Social Sciences, Allahabad.

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