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Manohar American Studies in the Anthropology of India by Sylvia Vatuk
American Studies in the Anthropology of India is a collection of eighteen original essays by former Fellows of the American Institute of the Studies who have carried on anthropological research in India under the sponsorship of the Institute in past years. The essays were compiled and edited by Sylvia Vatuk, Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, who is herself a former Junior Fellow of the Institute. The authors are, with one exception, American scholars who have specialized in the anthropology of India during their academic careers, and most of whom are currently teaching on the faculties of American universities and colleges.The subjects of their essays range widely over major sub-disciplines of physical anthropology, social/cultural anthropology, and chapters dealing with "The Study of India as a Civilization," "India through Life Histories and Journals," "Kinship and Marriage in India," "Indian Oral and Musical Traditions," "Archaeology and Physical Anthropology of India," and "Social Change in Modern India,"The volume was put together for issue on the occasion of the Tenth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, convened in New Delhi in December 1978. It both commemorates the contribution made by the American Institute of Indian Studies to the advancement of scholarly research in and on India during the past fifteen years, and presents a broad sample of the kinds of topics and issues on which such research in the field of in the field of anthropology has focussed.About the EditorSylvia Vatuk is Associate Professor and Chairpe