NEW PERSPECTIVES IN ANTHROPOLOGY

By: P.K. Seth, S.Seth
Publisher:MD Publications Pvt Ltd
Pub. Date: 1993
Print ISBN-13: 9788185880198
Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY
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The book, New Perspectives in Anthropology, brings together information about many diverse attributes of MAN in an attempt to understand him in its entirely. As the subtlety and complexity of anthropology becomes better understood, the issues emerging from the integration of biology, behaviour and culture inter alia human evolution, primate behaviour and human variation shall become increasingly relevant and interesting.

Author(s)
P.K. Seth
S.Seth





Preface

Page :ix

Contributors
Page :xv

Foundations of Applied Anthropology A Reassessment Cyril S. Belshaw
Page :1

The Evolution of the Brain and Intelligence Among Primates Frank E. Poirier
Page :27

Structure, Function and Diversity of Indian Rhesus Monkeys P.K. Seth, S. Seth
Page :47

Culture, Economics, Demography and Genes in Motor Development of Man Anna Siniarska, Napoleon Wolanski, Ryszard Przeweda
Page :83

Interplay between Humans and Infective Agents Genetic Aspects Friedrich Vogel
Page :123

Investigations on the Regional and Ethnic Variability of the PI Subtype Polymorphism in India H. Danker-Hopfe, Hubert Walter
Page :137

Physical Anthropology of the Tribes of Northeast India B.M. Das
Page :159

Growth during the First Year of Life G. Brush, G.A. Harrison
Page :193

Human Longevity Will Modern Medicine make Dying Optional? William A. Stini
Page :203

Nai Barbers as Paramedics Ruth S. Freed, Stanley A. Freed
Page :237

Migration and Genetic Exchange in Shahrestan, North Iran Eric Sunderland, H. Mehrai
Page :259

Network and Exchange Among older People in a Rural American Community John Van Willigen
Page :273

Recent Discoveries and Studies of the Human Skeletal Remains of Ancient Sri Lankans A palaeoanthropological update Kenneth A.R. Kennedy
Page :299

The Foundation of Bioethics and the Concern of an Anthrooplogist Brunetto Chiarelli
Page :343

Index
Page :347