Essays in anthropology
Subtitle: presented to Rai Bahadur Sarat Chandra Roy.
By: Edited by J. P. Mills, K. P. Chattopadhayay, B. S. Guha [and others].
Contributors: Mills, J. P. 1890-1960, ed.; Indian Science Congress Association. S.C. Roy commemoration committee.
Publisher: Maxwell co.
Published: 1941
Place of publication: Lucknow
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Roy, Sarat Chandra, rai bahadur, 1871-1942.; Anthropology.; Ethnology -- India.; India -- Social life and customs.
Notes: Bibliographical foot-notes. Bibliography at end of some of the essays.
Plate accompanied by guard sheet with explanatory letterpress.
"Published for the S. C. Roy commemoration committee of the Indian science congress association."--Dust jacket.
--Some studies in the making of a culture pattern, by Irawati Karve.--The Indus and the Vedic civilisation, by Radhakumud Mookerjee.--The "folk consciousness" of the Santals, by W. J. Culshaw.--Sex taboos in primitive society, by Radhakamal Mukerjee.--Sociological superstitions, by P. Kodanda Rao.--Hindu influence on Munda songs, by M. B. Bhaduri.--The Chenchus, by G. Ahmad Khan.
Table of contents: title: Some recent contact problems in the Khasi hills, by J. P. Mills.; title: Basic concepts in anthropology, by D. G. Mandelbaum.; title: Psychological interpretation of culture-traits, by N. N. Sen Gupta.; title: Theories of culture change and culture contact, by A. Aiyappan.; title: Conflict and social behaviour, by K. P. Chattopadhyay.; title: Bongaism, by D. N. Majumdar.; title: The new systematics and anthropology, by E. W. E. Macfarlane.; title: Anthropological study of South Indian brains, by R. Krishna Rau & A. Ananthanarayana Ayer.; title: Abdominal bulge in health (males) by G. M. Kurulkar.; title: Primitive ideas of menstruation and the climacteric in the East Central provinces of India, by Verrier Elwin.; title: Religion and ethics among the Konyak Nagas and other Indian tribes, by Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf.; title: Non-Hindu elements in the culture of the Bhils of Gujarat, by P. G. Shah.; title: The women's hunt, by W. G. Archer.; title: Clan-god myths and worship among the Nimar Balahis, by Stephen Fuchs.