Essays in ethnology
By: edited and translated by John V. Ferreira, Stephen Fuchs, Klaus Klostermaier
Publisher: Reliance Pub. House
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Translated from: ger
Number of pages: 375
Subjects: Ethnology
Notes: Originally published: Bombay : New Literature Pub. Co., 1969.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Historical basis of ethnology  -- Wilhelm Koppers; title: The culture of the primitives  -- Klaus Klostermaier; title: Two basic problems of ethnology from the culture-morphological viewpoint  -- Ad.E. Jensen; title: Ethnological field-research and culture-historical ethnology  -- Hermann Baumann; title: The spiritual life of simple food-gatherers and hunters  -- Josef Haekel; title: The way of life, economy and society of the food-gatherers  -- Ruediger Schott; title: The religion of the African pygmies  -- Paul Schebesta; title: The differentiated hunters and food-gatherers  -- Josef Haekel; title: The development of plant-cultivation as an ethnological problem  -- Ferdinand Herrmann; title: Pastoral and nomadic peoples  -- Helmut Straube; title: The meaning of the megaliths  -- Robert Heine-Geldern; title: The high-god belief among the primitive tribes of northeast India  -- Stephen Fuchs; title: The oldest forms of the state -- Wilhelm Koppers.