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2011
A Comparative Study on the Dermatoglyphic of Homos and Normal Meiteis of Manipur
By: HOABIJAM VOKENDRO SINGH, SAPAM CHANU PHAREDA – In the present study, an attempt has been made to find out, if there be any associations in between some feminine Meitei males of Manipur in India who are locally known as “Homo” with the normal Meiteis in respect of few dermatoglyphic parameters. The examination of pattern…
Ethanol re-precipitation removes PCR inhibitors from Ancient DNA extract
By: RAJEEV KUMAR PANDEY, DEEPANKAR PRATAP SINGH, GODI SUDHAKAR, VADLAMUDI RAGHAVENDRA RAO – One of the major problems in ancient DNA work is the presence of inhibitory substances, which hampers Taq polymerase activity. Therefore analysis of ancient DNA sample is very challenging. Here we describe a simple and competent ethanol re-precipitation based protocol for the…
Prevalence of hypertension and associated risk factors among Nomad Tribe groups. Screening of hypertension, adiposities and ABO B¡blood group among select nomad tribes of Rajasthan, India
By: BANDANA SACHDEV – Background: Hypertension is strongly correlated with modifiable risk factors such as adiposities, age, stress, high salt intake, Overweight and obesity is conveniently determined from BMI and visceral adiposity is determined by waist circumference. On the other hand, genetic factor has been established as an important non–modifiable predisposing factor. And ABO blood…
Perceiving Pain: Health, Culture and Ritual
By: DAN E. HOUSER, GERALD W. ZAMPONI – For most of us, coming into contact with some form of pain is a daily occurrence: it is both a usual part of the humanexperience and lexicon. Not surprisingly, pain has many differing and contextually specific meanings, and although it isnearly universal across the realm of human…
Gender Inequality as Cultural Diversity Lessons From a Field School Program in Fiji
By: SHARYN JONES, LORETTA A. CORMIER, LISA R. BAKER – We describe an anthropological and interdisciplinary field school, primary involving female undergraduates. Our field program was conducted in 2009 and 2010 on a remote island in Fijian archipelago, in the context of a patriarchal society where gender avoidance is practiced. We had two broad objectives…
The struggling Tharu youth. Study of awareness among the Tharu tribe of India
By: SUBHASH CHANDRA VERMA – The Tharu tribe is a famous tribal community of India. Tharu youths play a very dominant role in their community but they are not connected with the main stream of development. It is just a few numbers of them that are trying to get higher education and advanced technology. They…
To Be a Valenzano. When jewellery production is local identity
By: MICHELE FILIPPO FONTEFRANCESCO – What is the basis of a local identity? Through different models and analytical approaches, the anthropological community has answered this interrogative by considering the possible sense of geographical belonging that a population may feel to the territory, and evidencing the relationship between individuals and a shared idea of community. In…
Former British Colony. Mauritians in the Face of Globalisation
By: SYLVIE MAURER – Mauritius is a former French and British colony in the Indian Ocean. Now, this island country has become a multicultural and multiethnic society due to several waves of immigration from Europe, Africa and Asia, all through the past three centuries. Each wave of immigration brought in new peoples along with their…
The Ideas of God, Good and Evil in the Refigured Yoga Practices in Metropolitan area of Buenos Aires city (Argentina)
By: MERCEDES SAIZAR – Yoga is a widespread therapeutic option; it is the most popular among the oriental rooted medicines, what is more, is accepted and recommended by biomedical doctors like a complementary medicine. Currently, in a context of alternatives therapies offer, yoga appears like one of the disciplines which certain individual uses at least…
An Ethnographic Note on Khondh, a Primitive Tribe and Valmiki, an Acculturizing Tribe from Andhra Pradesh, India
By: Y.S. KUSUMA, B.V. BABU – The present paper reports the ethnographic profile of a primitive tribe namely Khondh and an acculturizing tribe namely Valmiki living in Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh, a southern Indian state. Three mandals (administrative units of the district) were selected and a total of 17 villages from these mandals were…
Il Linguaggio della Vagina. Antropornologia 1
By: MARCO MENICOCCI – La cultura delle masse è oggi una cultura prevalentemente visuale. Tra i segni visuali da tempo in crescita è quello, caratteristico, della depilazione pubica femminile. Originata all’interno della cultura porno come segno di passività, questa pratica si è incontrata con i simboli della pulizia, dell’igiene, del rispetto, trasformando così il proprio…
Il merito della ricerca
By: MARCO MENICOCCI – Questo numero speciale di Antrocom Online Journal of Anthropology ospita nove contributi, praticamente degli estratti, derivati da alcune tesi scelte tra quelle che hanno partecipato al nostro concorso. Si tratta di ricerche che, per l’originalità delle impostazioni, per i risultati raggiunti e sopratutto per il loro valore scientifico, ci sono parse…
Etnogenesi in Rwanda. Costruzione coloniale ed effetti di ritorno
By: GIULIA BECCHIS – In questo articolo mi soffermerò sul processo di etnologizzazione che coinvolse il Rwanda nei cinquant’anni della colonizzazione, che coincise con la costruzione di un immaginario sulla storia del paese e sulla sua società che ebbe un ruolo centrale nel Rwanda postcoloniale così come nella sintassi delle violenze genocidiarie del ’94. Questo…
Museo-grafare le culture locali. Un caso di studio: la sezione del legno del museo etnografico di Pinerolo
antropologia culturale, catalogazione, Italy, musei etnografici, museologia, patrimonio demoetnoantropologicoBy: MARIA ANNA BERTOLINO – L’interesse per la tematica museale ha da sempre accompagnato lo sviluppo delle discipline demoetnoantropologiche. Oggi, con i cambiamenti che tale istituzione sta affrontando, si aprono nuovi stimolanti campi d’indagine antropologica, etnografica e sociologica, in particolar modo per quanto riguarda i “musei etnografici” (anche denominati “di Arti e Tradizioni popolari” o…
Monterosso, fra turismo e tradizione
By: FRANCESCO BRAVIN – Monterosso al Mare, Cinque Terre, in provincia della Spezia, è una località conosciuta e rinomata dove il turismo è attualmente la risorsa principale. Ma come ha influito il turismo sulla vita dei Monterossini? Come è cambiata la vita “tradizionale”? e come la “tradizione” entra in gioco in un contesto turistico? Fra…
Embodying difference. Health care, culture and childbearing through the experiences of Moroccan migrant women in Italy
By: IRENE CAPELLI – This article raises some questions on reproductive and maternal health among Moroccan migrant women in Italy. I will focus on women’s experiences of childbearing in the framework of their immigration processes and in relation to some ‘culturally sensitive’ measures fostered by public health services in dealing with migrant users. In doing…
Pathologies And Cultural Dynamics. Dental Anthropology In The Medieval Sample From Ferento (VT)
archeology, Dental anthropology, dental health, Dental pathologies, Ferento, Italy, Medieval, Traits of teethBy: DANIELE CENCELLI – The methods and principles of Dental anthropology was used to inquire into population of Ferento, demonstrating that Ferento as a important core for anthropology. Ferento is inserted among Early Middle Ages sites as a town where we can see commune dental pathologies and disorder (decay, calculus, enamel hypoplasia, malocclusion and malposition).
Donne migranti ucraine e luoghi di aggregazione fra connazionali. Un rapporto complesso e articolato
By: ELENA OTTELLI – L’articolo presenta alcuni risultati di un’indagine rivolta al rapporto che un piccolo gruppo di donne ucraine intrattiene o ha intrattenuto con alcuni luoghi pubblici presenti nel territorio della città di Brescia; l’attenzione si è focalizzata sui luoghi finalizzati all’aggregazione fra connazionali e frequentati nel tempo non occupato da attività lavorative salariate.…
When a Machi Arrives at the Hospital. An Experience of Integration between Indigenous and Occidental Medicine in Santiago de Chile
By: IRENE SCHOEFBERGER – My thesis deals with an experiment of integration between traditional Mapuche medicine and biomedicine in a public hospital in Santiago de Chile. Furthermore, it deals with the Mapuche identity as it is claimed and its influence in the pursuit of intercultural health policies. My thesis suggests that the decision to consider…
Comunità “confuse”. I Mauriziani a Palermo tra induismo e induismi
By: GIULIA VIANI – Considerata per molto tempo omogenea, la comunità mauriziana di religione induista di Palermo si è rivelata, alla luce di nuovi studi, un’entità composita. Tale eterogeneità riproduce la situazione dell’isola di Mauritius, conseguente alla sua vicenda coloniale, in cui si assiste alla frammentazione degli Indo-mauriziani in quattro gruppi che rivendicano una propria…
Donne e madri nella migrazione
conflitti di genere, emigrazione al femminile, etnopsichiatria, maternità, modificazioni genitali femminiliBy: STEFANIA VIAPIANA – I flussi migratori hanno assunto negli ultimi anni una forte caratteristica “femminile”, assumendo dei tratti sempre più strutturali. Questo comporta nel Paese ospitante, una messa in discussione dei valori tradizionali nella famiglia migrante, conflitti di coppia e “risignificazione” della maternità ed il confronto con l’accoglienza delle strutture socio-sanitarie in particolare. Integrazione…
I re tragici di Israele. La narrazione delle origini della monarchia in Israele come problema storico
By: MARCO MENICOCCI – Lo strumento per la liberazione di Israele dai babilonesi è la monarchia persiana e un altro modello di monarchia si aggiunge a quello noto di derivazione egiziana. Un modello decisivo: in fondo Israele nasce realmente proprio dopo l’intervento persiano e lo stesso Yhwh diviene dio unico proprio a seguito dell’incontro con…
Micro-etnografia notturna. Riflessioni di un antropologo in discoteca
By: ALESSANDRO TESTA – Non sono un frequentatore abituale di discoteche o di clubs, come si preferisce chiamarle oggi. Questi appunti sono l’esito di osservazioni che hanno avuto luogo in alcune discoteche romane molto frequentate e da me precedentemente sconosciute, nell’arco temporale di alcuni fine-settimana di primavera. Essi pongono, credo, problemi metodologici di “scala” e…
Royal Anthropological Institute or Royal Academy? Post-Modern Anthropology as Contemporary Art
By: EDWARD DUTTON – It has been widely argued that postmodern and cultural relativism are replacement religions in Romantic, neo-tribal tradition (e.g. Scruton 2000, Kuznar 1997) This article attempts to better understand the nature of postmodern anthropology by looking at it through the prism of Art. Following Scruton (2000), it argues that, since the Enlightenment,…
“One Culture – Many Perspectives”. Understanding Cultural Diversity Through Rural Livelhioods. A Reflection from the Rural Craft Communities in Kandy, Sri Lanka
By: CHANDIMA DILHANI DASKON – There is no universally accepted definition for the concept of culture. Culture should be understood as a specific and unique phenomenon that affirms community’s identity and diversity. Judging one culture by the values of another, over-simplifies the distinctiveness and the wealth of a particular culture. Recognising, understanding and respecting dynamics…
Does Indigenous Knowledge have anything to deal with Sustainable Development?
By: ASHOK DAS GUPTA – In this paper, the author investigates that whether indigenous knowledge has anything to do with sustainable development. First of all this has been targeted to work out that how could knowledge be treated as a integral part of culture that has very broadly a material and a non-material part. This…
The Rebellion in Heaven. The beginning
By: MAXIMILIANO E. KORSTANJE – From Middle Age onwards, the philosophers and theologians devoted notable endeavors to explain the evilness in the Hebrew-tradition. Whether one figure out God is an entity characterized by love, compression and omnipresence, it remains to be seen why he creates exactly his most staunch enemy, or why one of his…
Secondary Burial of the Chakpa Lois of Phayeng Village, Manipur, India
By: HOABIJAM VOKENDRO SINGH – The Chakpa Lois of Phayeng village despite of a lot of influence from major communities still embrace their traditional death ritual by burning the body and picking up the bones by misubis and kept into a luphu and buried with due ritualistic observation.
Appraisal Of Risk Factors For Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 in Central Indian Population: A Case Control Study
By: LAKSHMI G. RAMA, S.S. BANDYOPADHYAY, L.V.K.S. BHASKAR, MADHUBALA SHARMA, RAGHAVENDRA V. RAO – Diabetes mellitus is characterized by high levels of blood glucose, late onset of disease and associated with serious complications. Genetic and environmental risk factors are known to exist and the importance of elucidating these risk factors in different populations will be…
Natural Selection Intensity in Settibalija. A Mendelian Human Population from South India
By: DEVA S.R.S. PRAKASH, GODI SUDHAKAR – The selection intensity indices were computed based on the demographic information pertaining to fertility and mortality among Settibalija, an endogamous Mendelian population of Andhra Pradesh, South India. The total fertility and mortality indices are slightly lower than other Andhra populations studied earlier. In the present caste population, the…
Obesity, Diabetes and the Thrifty Gene. The Case of the Pima
By: FLAVIA BUSATTA – The great tenacity and perseverance with which the Gila River Pima fight diabetes has uncovered much about the disease. Thank you to Gila River Pima a most significant discovery has made that is genetic discoveries made on samples from Caucasian are not useful for the cure of the disease among the…
Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms of PARKIN Gene in Ten Indian Populations
By: JAYA SANYAL, L.V.K.S. BHASKAR, AVISHEK CHATTERJEE, BISWANATH SARKAR, BIDHAN CHANDRA RAY, VADLAMUDI RAGHAVENDRA RAO – Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common progressive neurodegenerative brain disorder after Alzheimer’s disease. Due to the complex etiology of PD, there is possibility that single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in PARKIN gene could be associated with the disease…
Sul rapporto tra Athena e Medusa
By: IGOR BAGLIONI –
Contrastive Study of “Time” in Iranian-Indian Mythology
By: BIBIAGHDAS ASGHARI, M. ANNAPURNA – The main aim in the study is to compare and contrast the textual contents and the formal structures that are involved in the myth of ‘time’ in Indian and Iranian mythologies. Three questions will be replay: What are the divisions of time? What is the function of time in…