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Mar 23, 2023 · Anthropology became established in India during the British colonisation. Subsequently, in the early years of the twentieth century, it was given official recognition in major universities throughout the country with courses on social anthropology and sociology, which led to a progressive professionalisation of the discipline.
- Sara Roncaglia
After completing a BA in social philosophy from Mysore, I went to Bombay to do graduate work in sociology with GS Ghurye, who had been a student of WHR Rivers at Cambridge in the 1920s. At the end of eight years, I became disillusioned with diffusionism and unfocused ethnography. I then went to Oxford, where I worked first with AR Radcliffe-Brown and then EE Evans-Pritchard. At Oxford, I ...
Section 2: Similarity between sociology and social anthropology . The legacy of sociology in India refers to a tradition where it is argued by Indian scholars that there is no difference between the practices of sociology and anthropology. As M.S.A. Rao, a leading sociologist in his overview of the institutionalization of the discipline stated that, ‘It is important to note that a sharp ...
Dec 9, 2008 · While I therefore think that anthropology has more right to the claim of carrying a universal research ethic than other social sciences or humanities (something it shares with many forms of area studies), and that the critical potential developed by the anthropology of colonialism has given us some of the tools to develop that universal claim further, I have also tried to show that the ...
- Peter Pels
- 2008
Sep 6, 2021 · Social anthropology as a mode of inquiry developed before establishing sociology and significantly influenced the latter’s disciplinary trajectory. Bottomore observed that social anthropology had much better traction in India due to its involvement in the policy-making processes, especially the studies of tribal people.
- Rakesh M. Krishnan
- rakeshmkrishnan@gmail.com
- 2021
practised in India. While sociology emerged in the post-Enlightenment con-text of modernity with growing influence of science as a method of knowledge and its application to the study of man, social anthropology grew with the expansion of colonial empire, and became a part of the "technologies of domination of the West over the non-West" (p 8).
Oct 15, 2020 · The contributions of the anthropologists towards nation building in the early years after independence of India is still an unexplored research agenda in the social sciences in general and anthropology and sociology in particular.
