High altitude anthropology

The people living in high altitude are as for generations together have been experiencing events of a different kind of situation and as such they are making biological as well as sociocultural adjustments in a distinctive manner to exploit the potentials and prospects of such locations to the best of their advantage and to tackle problems and barriers in the best way that they had learnt and acquired over generations of human existence in such high altitude areas. This specialised human experience, that used to flow from high altitude areas has always attracted the attention of Anthropologists and Archaeologists.
This well edited book highlights different dimensions of life and living in high altitude areas, which range from high altitude adaptation to effects of small altitude of stature, anthropological perspectives of high altitude study, demographic profile, anthropology of shifting hill cultivation, deities and castes in high altitude areas, impact of high altitude on life, situation of life of areas, man in high altitude hill planning, development of highland society, role of social forestry in hilly villages and impact of development on highlanders.
This book would facilitate a greater communication among the scientists working in the field of high altitude. anthropology in India well as as in other countries of the world.