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Madras Government Museum Bulletin, Anthropology Todas of The Nilgiris; Eurasian School-Boys; Meriah Sacrifice Post; Walking Through Fire; Malaialis of The Shevaroys; Scissors People; Sorcery In Coimbatore; Nayadis of Malabar

by Edgar Thurston
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9788121241281
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
  • Publisher Imprint: Gyan Publishing House
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  • Pages: 100
  • Original Price: INR 350.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 380 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): N/A

The present rambling notes, made during a stay among the Todas, amid the grateful quietude of Paikara on the western Nilgiri plateau, must be regarded as a supplement to the account of this tribe, which was published as his first anthropological essay. Happily the Eurasian, like the English schoolboy, knows his birthday, at least in the majority of cases, and it is possible to group them in regular sequence according to their age. He accordingly publish, with no idea of finality, but as a guide for other possible workers in a useful and practical field of statistical research, the detailed figures relating to 186 Eurasian youths, between the ages of twelve and eighteen, who have come to his laboratory for examination. The book is the product of extensive study of these races. The subject of the book is very illuminating and delicate. There is no statement in the book to which exception may justly be taken. This multi-volume book (originally numbered vol. 4, no. 1) offers erudite observations on: the Todas of the Nilgiris; Eurasian school-boys; Meriah sacrifice post; walking through fire; Malaialis of the Shevaroys; scissor people; sorcery in Coimbatore; and Nayadis of Malabar. This volume has seven plates, and was first published in 1901.

Edgar Thurston CIE was a superintendent at the Madras Government Museum who contributed to studies in the zoology, ethnology and botany of India and published works related to his work at the museum. Thurston was educated in medicine and lectured in anatomy at the Madras Medical College while also holding his position at the museum. His early works were on numismatics and geology and these were followed by researches in anthropology and ethnography. He succeeded Frederick S. Mullaly as the superintendent of ethnography for the Madras Presidency.

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