Beschreibung
Autorenporträt
The Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI), a premier research organization under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, is dedicated to map the Bio-Cultural Profile of Indian populations, utilizing manpower specialized in Biological and Cultural Anthropology, Human Ecology, Psychology, Biochemistry, Linguistics and Folklore; developing the organization as launching pad for technology-based research to be applied in human development; understanding, documenting and preparing database and disseminating information about bio-cultural diversity of Indian populations through published research work, seminars, workshops, awareness programmes, outreach programmes, audio-visual documentation, museum documentation; and development of library for facilitating research in anthropology. So far, AnSI has published 43 People of India Volumes, 120 Monographs, 120 Occasional Publications, 6 Coffee Tables Books, 2 Atlas on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and 20 publication are in pipeline.