Department of Anthropology

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The Department of Anthropology offers M. Sc. and Ph.D. programmes in different fields of Anthropology. It was established under the faculty of Science in the year 2001. The academic programmes are so designed as to enable the students and scholars to acquire a good understanding of people, society and culture at the micro level. The special focus of the department is to examine and analyze the regional and local issues of greater anthropological significance. The department has an innovative plan to develop interdisciplinary interaction for strengthening its teaching and research programmes. Participatory approach and Lab to Land method has been adopted to develop the teaching and research activities of the department. The thrust areas of the department are human nutrition, forensic anthropology, ethnomedicine, medical anthropology, developmental anthropology and tribal development.

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Author: search.filters.author.Sengupta, S.Subject: search.filters.subject.Assam

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    Fertility and Mortality Differential among the Dibongiya Deori of Lakhimpur District, Assam
    (University of North Bengal, 2016) Borah, Juri; Sengupta, S.
    An attempt is made in this paper to look into the fertility and mortality differentials among the Dibongiya Deori of Assam. Apart from these, distribution of women according to age group, age at marriage, age at first conception, age at first child birth are also taken into consideration for the present study. The analysis demonstrates that the Dibongiya Deori women married at relatively younger age exhibits moderately higher conception and higher reproductive wastages.