处于人们注意中心的印度人类学我们应邀著文阐述南亚社会文化人类学的状况,但由于各种原因我们打算只谈印度的情况。就我们所知,阿富汗、巴基斯坦、尼泊尔和孟加拉都没有把人类学作为一门独立的学科,这些国家虽然也有一些人类学者,但他们基本上都不在研究人类学的机构里工作。斯里兰卡有几位著名的人类学家,但他们都在国外为别国服务。印度的情况则不然,一百多年以来,学术团体和非学术机构都承认人类学的重要性。在详细阐述现代印度的人类学的背景材 Indian Anthropology at a People’s Attention Center We are invited to give an account of the state of social cultural anthropology in South Asia, but for various reasons we intend to talk only about the situation in India. To the best of our knowledge, neither in Afghanistan nor Pakistan nor in Nepal nor as Bangladesh has anthropology as an independent discipline. Although there are also some anthropologists in these countries, they basically do not work in institutions that study anthropology. There are several prominent anthropologists in Sri Lanka, but all of them serve foreign countries abroad. In India, otherwise, academic groups and non-academic institutions have acknowledged the importance of anthropology for over a hundred years. Explaining the background of anthropology in modern India