Health Information Systems Project in Andhra Pradesh-Experiences from phcs in Kuppam

Ethnicity and Nationalism Anthropological Perspectives

• Anthropology has the advantage of generating first-hand knowledge of social life at the level of everyday interaction.
• To a great extent, this is the locus where ethnicity is created and re-created.
• Ethnicity emerges and is made relevant through ongoing social situations and encounters, and through people's ways of coping with the demands and challenges of life.
• From its vantage-point right at the centre of local life, social anthropology is in a unique position to investigate these processes.