Changing Life of a Remote Tribe

In A Himalayan Tribe: From Cattle to Cash, a welcome sequel to Apa Tanis and Their Neighbours, Von Furer­-Haimendorf describes his observations on the Apa Tanis whom he revisited after a gap of thirty-six years. Robert Redfield, Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead were few of the pioneers who set the pace by re-studying a society after a span of time to find out the changes that had occurred in that particular society. Since then, anthropologists have laid particular emphasis on re-study of a society, particularly primitive ones, by the same author and observation of changes as a result of the encroachment of the complex industrial world on their isolated territories.