Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Vijoy S Sahay (Full Name: Vijoy Shankar Sahay), is Professor and Head of the Department of Anthropology, University of Allahabad, Allahabad- 211 002, in India. His early training in anthropology has been in Ranchi University, Ranchi, under the leadership of Late Professor L. P. Vidyarthi. After having secured First position in First Class in both, B.A. (Honors) and M. A. in Anthropology, Professor Sahay was awarded doctoral degree in Anthropology from Ranchi University, Ranchi in 1979 for his research work in the Nicobar Archipelago. His topic of research was The Nicobarese: A Study in Nature-Man-Spirit Complex. During the course of field work for his doctoral degree in 1974, he stayed for over three and a half months in one of the most inaccessible and inhospitable islands of the Nicobar group, the Island of Chowra that was then dreaded as the 'land of wizards'; and every Chowrian was then supposed to possess spiritual and supernatural powers. The Chowrians were great navigators. They organized long ceremonial voyages on their primitive type of canoes to maintain their traditional system of inter-island trade relationship, which in some ways resembled the 'kula' of the Trobriand Islands, as described by Malinowski (1922) in his book Argonauts of the Western Pacific. The Car Nicobarese believed that a Chowrian could change the direction of the wind and the wave. Sahay's article entitled "Experiencing Anthropology in the Nicobar Archipelago", published in the Eastern Anthropologist, presents an exquisite account of his sojourn in Chowra. Simron Jit Singh in his book In the Sea of Influence: A World System Perspective of the Nicobar Islands, besides quoting him extensively writes (2003:144), "The first lucid, field-based account comes from the Indian anthropologist Vijoy S Sahay (1976, 1979), apparently the last witness to the system of inter-island trade as it existed then.". }
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- Vijoy_S_Sahay abstract "Vijoy S Sahay (Full Name: Vijoy Shankar Sahay), is Professor and Head of the Department of Anthropology, University of Allahabad, Allahabad- 211 002, in India. His early training in anthropology has been in Ranchi University, Ranchi, under the leadership of Late Professor L. P. Vidyarthi. After having secured First position in First Class in both, B.A. (Honors) and M. A. in Anthropology, Professor Sahay was awarded doctoral degree in Anthropology from Ranchi University, Ranchi in 1979 for his research work in the Nicobar Archipelago. His topic of research was The Nicobarese: A Study in Nature-Man-Spirit Complex. During the course of field work for his doctoral degree in 1974, he stayed for over three and a half months in one of the most inaccessible and inhospitable islands of the Nicobar group, the Island of Chowra that was then dreaded as the 'land of wizards'; and every Chowrian was then supposed to possess spiritual and supernatural powers. The Chowrians were great navigators. They organized long ceremonial voyages on their primitive type of canoes to maintain their traditional system of inter-island trade relationship, which in some ways resembled the 'kula' of the Trobriand Islands, as described by Malinowski (1922) in his book Argonauts of the Western Pacific. The Car Nicobarese believed that a Chowrian could change the direction of the wind and the wave. Sahay's article entitled "Experiencing Anthropology in the Nicobar Archipelago", published in the Eastern Anthropologist, presents an exquisite account of his sojourn in Chowra. Simron Jit Singh in his book In the Sea of Influence: A World System Perspective of the Nicobar Islands, besides quoting him extensively writes (2003:144), "The first lucid, field-based account comes from the Indian anthropologist Vijoy S Sahay (1976, 1979), apparently the last witness to the system of inter-island trade as it existed then."".