 ANTHROPOMETRY

INDERA P. SINGH AND M.K. BHASIN (University of Delhi, Delhi, India)

With a Foreword by: P.C.BISWAS

First Printed: 1968 • Reprinted: 1989 • Size: 180 x 240 mm • Pages: XVI + 252 • Binding: Hard • ISBN 81-85264-02-3 • Price : US $ 25/- Rs. 450/-

The book will be of great use as a manual to students and research workers in the field of Physical Anthropology                                                              

                                                                          —INDIAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH

Although coverage is restricted to the more time honoured approaches, it is nonetheless complete and serve as a valuable reference for this aspect of Physical Anthropology

—HUMAN BIOLOGY (U.S.A.)

...The book is a good, inexpensive source in English on metrical landmarks and how to use them in measuring the human body                                                                                          

                                                                                            —AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST

CONTENTS

1. Introduction 2. Instruments 3. Somatometry 4. Osteology 5. Osteometry 6. Craniometry 7. Statistical Methods References Index

 STUDIES ON MAN: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES

M.K. BHASIN (University of Delhi, Delhi, India)

2000 • Pages: 328 • Size: 180 × 240 mm • ISBN 81-85264-24-4  • Binding: Hard • Price : US $ 75/- Rs. 1450/-

Consisting of twenty three-papers contributed by faculty members of the Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India, this book documents the enormous diversity and varied aspects of anthropological research in India. Each dealing with a specific domain, these articles are integrated by the fact that they address to the issues and challenges confronting contemporary human populations. Not only does this book mirror the anthropological researches in one of the premier Anthropology Departments in India, but also advances several theoretical and methodological dimensions of current interest.

 INDIA – AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL OUTLINE

M.K. BHASIN AND VEENA BHASIN (University of Delhi, Delhi, India)

2002 • Pages: 177 • Size: 140 × 220 mm • ISBN 81-85264-29-5 • Binding: Hard  • Price: US $ 25/- Rs. 450/-

India is a multicultural country. Because of its diversity, it provides an ideal situation for undertaking anthropological works. How communities and populations continue to retain their identity, in social and cultural terms on one hand and biological on the other, and how they acquire the characteristics of the others because of cultural borrowing or interbreeding are the questions anthropologists systematically investigate. India offers an ideal case for examining unity in diversity both with biological and socio-cultural perspectives. Keeping this in view, the present book is an attempt to locate certain important features of India and her populations, and their historical and cultural backgrounds. The first part of the book gives an introduction, while its second part is a full-length treatment of the situation in India. The health scenario and population dynamics are also discussed in the second section. This book introduces the reader to the anthropological reality of India

 ANTHROPOLOGY: TRENDS AND APPLICATION

(Special Issue of The Anthropologist - No. 1)

M.K. BHASIN and S.L. MALIK (University of Delhi, Delhi, India)

2002 • Pages: 274 • Size: 180 × 240 mm • ISBN 81-85264-30-9 • Binding: Hard  • Price: US $ 75/- Rs. 1450/-

This volume covers a wide arena, and truly reflects the nature of anthropology as an integrated discipline. This volume is divided into five sections-        I. Ecology, Demography and Health; II. Human Biology; III. Medical Anthropology; IV. Human Rights and V. Development, Society and Its Future-consisting in total twenty-one research papers. An overview of the volume shows that today anthropology is not concerned with the study of primitive and peasent societies but has included in its scope urban and industrial societies. It is equally concerned with the issues of human development and progress and has become far more integrated.

 A MANUAL OF BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

INDERA P. SINGH and M.K. BHASIN (University of Delhi, Delhi, India)

2004 • Pages: 560 + Figures • ISBN 81-85264-34-1•  Size: 180 × 240 mm • Binding: Hard  • Price: US$ 100/- Rs. 1950/-

Biological anthropology can be defined as the scientific study of nature-nature relationship, although each element of this interaction, i.e. nature and nurture, can be holistically studied in itself. Thus there is genetical study of a morphological, anatomical or serological trait, and there is also anthropology of food and nutrition in the orbit of biological anthropology. Disciplines like ecology and demography, which lie at the interface of cultural and biological which anthropology are indispensable to determine the biological status of a population. For accomplishing the studies of nature, nurture and their ensuring relationships, the concept of population, consisting of the people sharing the same gene pool, is imperative. Biological anthropology as it stands today is an investigation of micro-evolutionary adaptational process, dialectically related to natural and cultural environments, which determine the survival value of a population. In addition to delineating the biological profile of a Mendelian group, the applied dimensions of biological anthropology determine the pathogenic characters of a population, suggesting viable and concrete programmes for their alleviation. The present manual consists of osteology, anthropometry (craniometry, osteometry, somatometry), somatoscopy, dental, physiology, nutrition, dermatoglyphics and demography. Each techniques, its execution and other related aspects have been described in detail. The manual contains a chapter on statistics which describes how data are to be statistically treated and inferences drawn.

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