Revisiting Anthropology in Today’s Context
Journal Title: Anthropology – Open Journal - Year 2017, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
Anthropologist have gone through a long journey in the advancement of the tools that help us to understand the humans from many angles. Today, we have arrived at a juncture where we are inundated with so much information that putting together and making sense of it all, has become a big mission in itself.
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Tara Devi S. Ashok
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- DOI 10.17140/ANTPOJ-2-e003
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