Experiencing Anthropology in the Nicobar Archipelago

Auteur

Vijoy S Sahay is Professor (Emeritus), and Former Head, Department of Anthropology, University of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Résumé
This book explores the discipline of social-cultural anthropology through an extensive study of the Nicobarese people in one of the remotest human settlements of the Indian Ocean.

Contenu

1. My Admission to the Discipline of Anthropology 2. My Initiation into the Discipline in The Land of Wizards
   3. Living the Life of a Nancowrian 4. Nature: Coconut and Forest Economy 5. Nature: The Sea Economy 6. Man: The Tribe, the Lineage, the Village 7. Man: The Family 8. Man: As Individual: `At the Axis of Self
      9. Spirit-world and the Sacred Complex of the Nicobarese