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Madras Government Museum Bulletin, Anthropology Vision of The Uralis and Sholagas; More Marriage Customs In Southern India; Hook-Swinging; Paliyans

by Edgar Thurston
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9788121241939
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
  • Publisher Imprint: Gyan Publishing House
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  • Pages: 73
  • Original Price: INR 140.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 204 grams
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The author has prepared the text of this multi-volume book through his minute observation on Uralis and Sholagas. He made the following observations, were mostly the same individuals as those measured by him when he visited to Dimbhum in the Indian jungle. He examined 65 Uralis and 18 Sholagas, the subjects of investigation being visual acuity, colour vision and quantitative estimation of two visual illusions, a few observations being also made on other illusions. These people were hardly ideal subjects for psychological experimentation. They came to us in a state of abject fear at the prospect of our examination, and in some cases continued so terrified throughout that their observations were of little value. The observations were made in the open air. There were considerable differences of illumination, as some days were much cloudier than others. The method was fairly readily acquired by most of the people, and, though some were very slow and had to be reexamined several times, there was no case in which he completely failed to get a result. This volume is the product of extensive study of these races. This volume contains nine plates. It was first published in 1903.

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. Thurston was appointed to the Ethnographic Survey of India project, established at that time following the success of Herbert Hope Risley's Ethnographic Survey of Bengal. Risley was an adherent to the theories of scientific racism and had been appointed as director of Ethnology in India.

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