North-East India: The Horizon Of Anthropology

Year:2008,Binding:Hardcover,Pages:328,Language:English, Description:- , About The Author:- Dr. Khagen Chandra Mahanta, M Sc (Sau.), PhD (Gau.) was a faculty member of the Department of Anthropology, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh-786004, Assam, India for 32 years. Over the years he had been teaching Social and Cultural Anthropology to the post-Graduate Classes of the University. As the seniormost Professor of the Department, besides teaching, he was actively engaged in providing guidance and supervision to researchers for PhD degree of the University. As a faculty member and research guide and supervision, he covered a wide range of ethnographic study among some thirty five tribal and non-tribal communities of the whole of North-East India. He also contributed papers on Scheduled Tribes of Assam for Publishing in the Encyclopaedia Profile of Indian Tribes by the National Institute of Rural Development Hyderabad, over and above contributing papers on the Scheduled Casters of Assam for publishing by the Assam Institute of Research for Tribals and Scheduled Castes, Guwahati. His publications totaling 42 papers mostly deal with the current burning socio-cultural p[roblems of the Scheduled Castes and Tribes of North-East India. Some of his works are concerned with the study of environment vis-