About the Book: Dimensions of Anthropology: A Prismatic Panorama
Anthropology is the study of man in a holistic way. One fundamental necessity of
anthropological research is the exercise to keep the studies out of any bias or
pre-conceived, value- loaded thought, which in turn calls for a rigid exclusion
of value judgements. Chemist devotes himself or herself to the understanding of
the elements and analyses their behavior in relation to each other at the
laboratory, similarly, an anthropologist observes, describe and analyses the
contextual situation in the field which is considered as his laboratory.
Initially anthropologists devoted their cornerstone to ethnography. Ethnographic
study is the base line studies