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History and Anthropology: A Marriage Made in Heaven
Mintz, Sidney W. - eSocialSciences - 2007
. Anthropology is by its nature a historical form of inquiry, and history and anthropology can be mutually helpful in the pursuit of …Anthropology is a science of inquiries about the origins and continuities of the patterned differentiation of human … beings into distinguishable groups. During the last hundred years, most such inquiries in academic anthropology could be …
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WCD Working Papers: Dams and Cultural Heritage Manaagement
Brandt, Steven A.; Hassan, Fekri - eSocialSciences - 2006
Recognising that the construction of large dams has also led to incalculable loss, destruction, and damage of cultural resources ranging from shrines of local communities to world heritage monuments, the objective of this report is to provide an overview of past and present cultural heritage...
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Grounding the Spirit: Revival of Irula Art as a Form of Narrative Tradition
Pascal, Leena - eSocialSciences - 2007
Kriebish had, for a long time, cherished a dream of setting up a learning and documentation centre dedicated to the study of oral literature, village religion and customs, music and dance, traditional arts and crafts, theatre and cinema of the Tamil people. Would the dream ever come true? One of...
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Book Review: Being Mothers
Yesudian, P. Princy - eSocialSciences - 2007
Review of Janani: Mothers, Daughters, Motherhood edited by Rinki Bhattacharya; Sage India, New Delhi, 2006; Pp 200, Rs. 280.
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On Researching Organisations
Nayak, Dhanwanti - eSocialSciences - 2011
Review of Anthropologists Inside Organisations: South Asian Case Studies Edited by Devi Sridhar, Sage India , New Delhi; 2008, 184 pp., Rs 585.
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Can ‘Beautiful’ Be ‘Backward’? India’s Tribes in a Long-Term Demographic Perspective
Maharatna, Arup - eSocialSciences - 2009
The paper examines the present condition of tribals in India with a demographic perspective. Construction of a long-term demographic perspective on India’s tribal population rests on the premise that aggregation over diverse tribal groups is valid not only in statistical and quantitative...
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The Behavioral Equivalence of Organizational Culture
Rao, Indu - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper presents findings from an extensive review of literature on organizational cultural (OC) and highlights the relevance of OC with respect to individual, organizational, intra-organizational, industry and external environment related variables. This paper presents a behavioral...
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Anthropology and Bioethics: Linking Knowledge Production and Professional Regulation
Kumar, Maya Unnithan - eSocialSciences - 2009
The paper revolves around Anthropology and Ethical Guidelines: from a stand alone code to everyday disciplinary …
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WCD thematic Review I.1: contributing Paper: Assessing the Project- social Impact and Large Dams
Brody, Hugh - eSocialSciences - 2006
This paper looks at a number of questions about the social impacts of large dams. It does not set out original or integrated findings in these matters. Rather, the material here comes from experience in a number of roles in relation to a number of specific projects. [This is one of 126...
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Underground Gun Markets
Cook, Philip J.; Ludwig, Jens; Venkatesh, Sudhir A.; … - eSocialSciences - 2005
This paper provides an economic analysis of underground gun markets drawing on interviews with gang members, gun dealers, professional thieves, prostitutes, police, public school security guards and teens in the city of Chicago, complemented by results from government surveys of recent arrestees...
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