The word Anthropology has been derived from the root words Anthropo (man) and logos (science) i.e.. science of man, Anthropology is the science or scientific study of man. Anthropology is the science of the man and his work behavior. The Anthropological study of human behavior is not concerned with particular men, men of specific place, span or race, but it is the study of behavior of man in groups, ages, races culture and institutions .Kluckohn the famous American Anthropologist has pointed-out that all social sciences does the study of particular aspect of man, but Anthropology is the only science that does the total study of the man or it is the science of man without portfolio. Mr. Kant the German idealist wrote the book entitled ‘Anthropology’ claiming that the origin of man lies in animals. The study of Anthropology is neither limited by time nor by space, it is the study of man in present and past also his sub-human and pre-human origins. It is the study of man at all parts of the earth, savage and civilized, primitive and urban, past and present.

“The Hill Korwas of Chhattisgarh: A Study on Health and Nutritional Status” is a holistic research work on a particularly vulnerable tribe of Chhattisgarh, found in the north-eastern region of the state. This tribe has been notified and declared as one of the Particular Vulnerable Tribal Groups by the Government of India during the Fifth year plan. The entire work is discussed in several chapters dealing on different aspects such as a brief ethnography of the Hill Korwas, socio-economic demographic profile, nutritional assessment, clinical assessment of 0-6 years children, assessment of food habits and dietary intake, assessment of health status and mother and child health status. We hope that this book will be useful for Government functionaries, NGOs, Research Scholars, Students of Anthropology, Sociology, Home Science, Tribal Studies all those who have an interest in the study of health and nutrition.

This book explores the cross- and trans-cultural dialectic between Tantra and intersecting ‘magical’ and ‘shamanic’ practices associated with vernacular religions across Monsoon Asia. With a chronological frame going from the mediaeval Indic period up to the present, a wide geographical framework, and through the dialogue between various disciplines, it presents a coherent enquiry shedding light on practices and practitioners that have been frequently alienated in the elitist discourse of mainstream Indic religions and equally overlooked by modern scholarship. The book addresses three desiderata in the field of Tantric Studies: it fills a gap in the historical modelling of Tantra; it extends the geographical parameters of Tantra to the vast, yet culturally interlinked, socio-geographical construct of Monsoon Asia; it explores Tantra as an interface between the Sanskritic elite and the folk, the vernacular, the magical, and the shamanic, thereby revisiting the intellectual and historically fallacious divide between cosmopolitan Sanskritic and vernacular local. The book offers a highly innovative contribution to the field of Tantric Studies and, more generally, South and Southeast Asian religions, by breaking traditional disciplinary boundaries. Its variety of disciplinary approaches makes it attractive to both the textual/diachronic and ethnographic/synchronic dimensions. It will be of interest to specialist and non-specialist academic readers, including scholars and students of South Asian religions, mainly Hinduism and Buddhism, Tantric traditions, and Southeast Asian religions, as well as Asian and global folk religion, shamanism, and magic.

The book presents two fundamental theories that characterize the cultural-historical perspective in cognitive semantics: the Four-Level Theory of Cognitive Development (FLTCD) and the Sociocultural Theory of Lexical Complexes (STLC) as well as their application to the analysis of specific material. In particular, the book analyzes the sociocultural history of the MACHINE metaphor, specifically its use in the texts of René Descartes and Francis Bacon. The practical embodiment of STLC is demonstrated through the analysis of lexical complexes such as otkryvat' ‘to open,’ kamen' ‘stone,’ and intelligencija ‘intelligentsia.’ In the final chapter of the monograph, FLTCD and STLC are used for the diachronic analysis of semantic change. The monograph will be of interest to a wide range of linguists, psychologists, cultural anthropologists, and philosophers who consider language as a sociocultural phenomenon.

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This book Tribal Situation and Development in Central India is a comprehensive work prepared with the help of a term of Experts in various fields ranging from social sciences to medical sciences covering contemporary problems and development of the tribals of Madhya Pradesh. It contains an exhaustive account of the geographical location of these tribes, their subdivisions, their way of life, etc. This book also deals with the work done by certain private organizations to help these tribals. Issues, such as land rights, come up for discussion too.