South Indian Ethnology

Indian Ethnology

A history of ethnology

collected his data from three sources: conversation with natives, their accounts being reproduced in translation, and in particular the services of a remarkable Indian who was able to analyse acutely his own people; the author's personal experience when participating in drug-taking ceremonies; from a secondary source, the Spanish chronicles. The uniqueness of the book lies in Reichel-Dolmatoff'...

ChroniC panCreatitis: south indian perspeCtive

It was Zuidema from Indonesia who first reported a series of 45 patients with pancreatic calcification with diabetes mellitus who were poor and consumed a proteinand calorie-deficient diet, and also had striking clinical features of malnutrition like emaciation, parotidomegaly, hair and skin changes not unlike that of Kwashiorkor.1 This was followed by a series of reports of similar patients fr...

Selected References, in English, on the Ethnology of the Indians of Mexico, Central and South America

This bibliography provides selected references to the current English language literature on the ethnology of the Indians of Mexico, Central America, and South America. Leads for further research will be found in Section 1. Publications listed are not available from the Smithsonian Institution. Copies may be seen in larger libraries or obtained through interlibrary loan. Publications on the his...

Anthropometric Measurement of Maximum Tibia Length in South Indian Population

Introduction: The human stature forms part of his or her biological profile. It becomes more important during personal identification in case of mass disasters and in search of missing persons. We measured various parameters of the dried tibia, then by applying linear regression we formulated maximum tibia length which can be conveniently used for arriving at human stature. Methods: The obtain...