INDIAN ethnology has been a favourite exercising ground for theorists. Recent political developments have done much to encourage them along certain lines. Starting from above and adopting the view of ...

The women of the Dani tribe of Papua, Indonesia, practice the tradition of ritually amputating parts of their fingers when a loved one dies. In late-October 2024, a post on Facebook highlighted an ...

PROF. G. S. GHURYE, head of the Department of Sociology in the University of Bombay, here examines the position of primitive tribes in India and the question of their administration. He goes into ...