Essays in Social Anthropology

Essays in Social Anthropology is a collection of essays and papers presented by the author or delivered as lectures on various occasions of seminars and conferences. These essays are the foundations of social anthropology as it has grown over last one century. Thought some of the theories depicted in these essays may have been controversial or may even have lost their significance in this last decade of the twentieth century but these were at the base of social anthropology and on these theories only the structure of the discipline was laid, So these have also been included in this location of essays.
This book has been presented in a way that it does not only interest social anthropologists and academicians in this discipline, it may also arouse interest and zeal among the general readers who are given to serious reading