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2012
Analysis of Objects in Migratory Process of Identity Building in Transnational Migration Contexts
By: JONATHAN NANÍ LA TERRA – This paper proposes a methodological challenge in an attempt to provide new ways of looking at transnational phenomena, convinced of the need to seek new types of multi-sited research, interested in following and reconstruct the movement of people, objects and cultures. The article problematizes the real feasibility and the…
Analisi degli oggetti nei processi di costruzione identitaria in contesti migratori transnazionali
By: JONATHAN NANÍ LA TERRA – Quest’articolo vuole essere una proposta metodologica, mossa dall’intenzione di apportare nuove modalità di guardare ai fenomeni transnazionali, convinto della necessità di cercare nuove tipologie di ricerca multisituata, che si propongano di seguire e ricostruire il movimento di persone, oggetti e culture. Nell’articolo si problematizza la reale fattibilità e i…
Origine e sviluppo dei culti afro-brasiliani
By: GILBERTO MAZZOLENI – Credo che una migliore puntualizzazione della collocazione singolare della metropoli carioca, perennemente sospesa e per così dire a mezza strada tra un Sud “bianco” e un Nord “nero”, potrebbe ben spiegare sia l’apertura verso l’Europa che i fervori africani propri di Rio de Janeiro. Così agli europei cittadini (bianchi) questa città…
Revisiting the conceptualization of “Turks” in Bulgaria
By: GABRIELA FATKOVÀ – The information presented in this paper is based on repeated ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Bulgaria between 2008 and 2011. The aim of this study is to highlight the conceptual field of the ‘minority’ category and, in particular, of the construction of a ‘problematic minority’ in Bulgarian public discourse. First, the…
The study of Allelic Frequency of ABO and Rh D Blood Group among the Banjara Population of Akola District, Maharashtra, India
By: ARAVIND CHAVHAN, RAJUSING JADHAO, SANTOSH PAWAR – The distribution of ABO blood groups and Rh (D) factor has been studied in the Banjara population. In the present study O, A, B, and AB blood group percentages of Banjaras of Akola district of Maharashtra are recorded as 27.64%, 22.91%, 37.45% and 12% respectively and the…
I rituali funerari in epoca romana Studi storico-archeologici e archeozoologici
Alimentazione, Antropologia fisica, Archeologia, archeology, Archeozoologia, Italy, Rituali funerari, RomansBy: GIUSEPPINA COLONNELLI, MARCO MANNINO – Il presente lavoro vuole essere una riflessione nata da anni di attività di scavo e studio storico-archeologico, antropologico e archeozoologico, effettuati all’interno del territorio del Comune di Roma. Il carattere interdisciplinare di questi studi ha permesso di poter dare un contributo ad una ricostruzione più coerente ed omogenea dei…
The catacomb mummies of Sicily. A state-of-the-art report (2007-2011)
By: DARIO PIOMBINO-MASCALI, FRANK MAIXNER, ALBERT R. ZINK, SILVIA MARVELLI, STEPHANIE PANZER, ARTHUR C. AUFDERHEIDE – The large number of mummies stored in several churches and crypts on the island of Sicily represents a unique opportunity to investigate lives, lifestyles, nutrition, disease, and funeral customs of a large sample of individuals dating from the late…
Rabbinic Discourse, Law and the Culture of Opposition
By: GEOFFREY SKOLL – A style of discourse associated with a rabbinic tradition in Judaism exemplifies a core oppositional process of the persistent identity system of Jewish culture. Based in an interpretation of law as represented by Torah and Talmud, this style of discourse undermines central reifications of the Greco-Roman-Christian tradition, which constitutes the historical…
Socio-Cultural Factors Affecting Family Size between Muslim and Santal Communities in Rural Bangladesh
By: EMAJ UDDIN, TANZIMA ZOHRA HABIB, SAYEED AKHTER – Family size in a particular society depends on marriage, family composition and adoption norms. It also depends upon modes of production, technological and socio-cultural forces. First purpose of this paper was to describe and compare family size (as a dependent variable) and socio-cultural factor (as an…
Anthropological District. Notes for an anthropological study of the industrial districts
By: MICHELE FILIPPO FONTEFRANCESCO – The article discusses industrial district theory as objects of anthropological enquiry. Providing a review of the history of studies in industrial anthropology and industrial district theory, the articles explores extended case method and in the multi-sited ethnography as viable methodologies to make industrial district an object of anthropological research practice…
An Investigative Study on School Drop-outs in Tribal Settings. A Case of Three selected Tribes in South Karnataka
By: B.R. MANJUNATHA, M. ANNAPURNA – The NPE, 1986 and the Programme of Action (POA), 1992, recognized the heterogeneity and diversity of the tribal areas while underlining the importance of instruction through the mother tongue and the need for preparing teaching/learning materials in the tribal languages. A working group on Elementary and Adult Education for…
Effectiveness of Education on Health. A Cross-Cultural Comparison between Muslim and Horizon Communities in Rajshahi Metropolitan City of Bangladesh
By: AFZAL HOSSAIN – Education and health are the two very important elements of human capital. Educational knowledge enhances human being to get proper healthcare facilities all over the world. In Bangladesh education and health are the two main fundamental rights of every citizen, which is ensured by the constitution. The present study, the author…
Broadcast Media Intervention in Mental Health Challenge in Edo State, Nigeria
CMHA, Edo State, Edolites, FUCC, Mental health challenge, Mentally challenged persons, NAMI, Nigeria, Radio, Television, WFMH, WHOBy: OSAKUE STEVENSON OMOERA, PETER AIHEVBA – In most communities, especially in Africa, people with mental health challenges are denigrated; the society is not sympathetic with sufferers of mental illness. A lot of issues can trigger mental illness. These can be stress (economic stress, social stress, educational stress, etc); hereditary factors; war and aggression; rape;…
Blood Group Frequency Distribution among the Tangsas of Arunachal Pradesh, India
By: HOABIJAM VOKENDRO SINGH, S. SONIA DEVI – The Tangsa tribe is one of the tribes of Arunachal Pradesh which is home to 26 major tribes. The Tangsa people are residing in different circles, in and around Changlang township of the Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh, India. The Changlang district with its headquarters at Changlang…
Anthropometric Study of Nasal Index of the Kosovo Albanian Population
By: GLORIA STAK, FATMIR DRAGIDELLA, METUSH DISHA – Human nose occurs in many shapes and sizes and ethnic influences my results in different appearances of the nose. Nasal index is an ethnic sensitive anthropometric index. It is an important athropometric parameter for classifying the race and sex of the individual whose identity is unknown. This…
Phylogenetic relationships of Muslim populations of Manipur based on morphogenetic markers
By: PAHSANA SHAH, MOHD FAREED, RUQAIYA HUSSAIN, MOHAMMAD AFZAL – In the present paper phylogenetic relationships of Muslim populations of Manipur and its genetic relations with Meitei and Naga tribe based on the morphogenetic traits have been attempted. Till date, no biological research has been reported regarding their phylogeny. Muslims with different castes shows differences…
Knowledge and Practice of Menstrual Regulation. An Assessment among the Underprivileged People in Bangladesh
By: NASIR UDDIN – Menstruation is seen as both a purifying and polluting event in many cultures, including Bangladesh. While seemingly contradictory, this way of thinking has actually two manifestations of the same concept. Menstruation is valued as a means of regularly flushing “bad blood” from a woman’s body, cleaning the woman, and signifying that…
Mauritius: interethnic relations through rice and rum
By: SYLVIE MAURER – According to Aristotle, Man is by nature a social being. Undeniably, humans have evolved towards a social and cultural behaviour, thus codifying their eating habits; even though human beings have a vital need to eat and drink, as it is the case for animals. Humanity has therefore, developed a form of…
Intangible Cultural Heritages of Arunachal Pradesh
By: RASHMIREKHA SARMA, GULRUKH BEGUM – Intangible cultural heritage includes traditions or living expressions, inherited from our predecessors and transmitted to our successors orally or by gesture, discussed mainly within five broad domains: oral traditions and expressions including language; performing arts; social practices, rituals, festive events; knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe or…
La carne, il suolo, il tempo. Analisi dei codici alimentari nei primi capitolo della Genesi
By: MARCO MENICOCCI – Questo lavoro intende esaminare, da una prospettiva storico-religiosa, i primi capitoli del libro della Genesi, sostanzialmente i passi Gen. 1 – 9, trattandone le narrazioni allo stesso modo di come si tratta un mito, redatto da un etnologo, contenente un complesso tema mitico appartenente ad un popolo extraeuropeo. Il presupposto, pertanto,…
Parkinson’s disease in North Karnataka An epidemiological perspective
By: G.S. KADAKOL, SUYAMINDRA S. KULKARNI, BUSHAN B. KULKARNI, SUJAYENDRA S. KULKARNI, L.V.K.S. BHASKAR, G.M. WALI, DATTA NADGIR, S.V. HIREMATH, P.B. GAI – Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive disorder of the brain. It occurs when certain neurons in substantia nigra die or become impaired. Parkinson’s disease is characterized by progressively increasing stiffness all over…
Prevalence of thinness among 6-12 years rural children of Kharagpur A cross-sectional study in West Bengal, India
By: SUBAL DAS, DEBANITA ADDHYA, FALGUNI CHAKRABARTY – Thinness is one of the biggest problems of children residing in rural or tribal areas in our country then their urban counterparts. Children are in growing age needs more varied nutrient to reach their full growth potential. Any obstruction during this stage leads to impaired physical and…
Provisions and Perceptions of the Hosts in Business at Digha. A Study of Beach Tourism in India
By: KARTICK CHAKRABORTY, DIPANKAR CHATTERJEE, ARNAB DAS – The impact of tourism in a society is a complex and varied subject. It is generally agreed that tourism results in both positive and negative impacts for hosts of tourism destinations. There is a need to study hosts perceptions of tourism because local stakeholders are the ones…
Une hypothèse sur la naissance de l’acte de croire et ses conséquences : et si c’était vrai!
By: ALBERT PIETTE – Cet article propose une hypothèse sur l’origine de l’acte de croire, à partir de la comparaison des sépultures (qui sont contemporaines, entre 50000 et 100000 ans) de l’Homme de Néanderthal et d’Homo sapiens, appelé aussi « Homme moderne ». Une différence importance pourrait résider dans l’absence d’offrandes chez les Néandertaliens alors…
Is Caste System a Kind of Indigenous Knowledge System?
By: ASHOK DAS GUPTA – The Global Knowledge can be broadly disassociated into two types: Indigenous and Modern. Indigenous or Traditional Knowledge traits are scattered worldwide among the folk people. These are oral and undocumented, subjected for loss and rediscovery, outcome of trial and error from informal experimentations during the course of folk life. These…
Perspectives on Health, Health Needs and Health Care Services among Select Nomad Tribal Populations of Rajasthan, India
By: BANDANA SACHDEV – Objective: To study the opinion of select nomad tribal communities of Rajasthan State in India on health, health needs, and health care services. Methods: A cross-sectional study involving 1113 nomadic populations in select districts of Jhunjhunu, Sikar and Churu were undertaken. A perception on regarding various health issues among the study…
Bill-Postings as Pervasive Media Culture. Evidence from Edo Central District of Edo State, Nigeria
By: OSAKUE STEVENSON OMOERA – This study examines the problem of bill-postings as pervasive media culture, using Edo Central District (ECD) of Edo State, Nigeria as a case study. To achieve the set task, it adopts an evaluative methodology. This is complemented by interviews and random photographic snapshots of indiscriminately posted-bills across the district under…
Genetic Sensitivity to Phenylthiocarbamide -Effect on Body Mass Indices and DNA damage
By: GURSATEJ GANDHI, GAZALJIT KAUR, AMANJIT KAUR, NARESH MAHAJAN, JASMEET KAUR – As sensitivity to bitter taste (phenylthiocarbamide [PTC] perception) has been maintained at high frequency worldwide, its use as a potential genetic marker for food preferences and dietary choices and its influence on body weight/adiposity which in turn maybe a contributor to various co-morbidities…
Cameroon’s War: The Fight Against Impunity. A Normative Analysis
Cameroon, Corruption, Globalization, Good Governance, impunity, Rule of Law, Sovereignty, Sustainable DevelopmentBy: THIERRY ONGA – The choice of the resolution of conflict by arbitration conducted by the mediator in the conflict to establish and monitor over time the specific causal relationships between trade, conflict, and rules thus legalizing politics. In other words, legalization would operate over time, a transfer of skills as well as powers to…
Nutritional status of children as indicated by z-scores of the Hmars: a tribe of N.E. India
By: TEMSUTOLA MAKEN, L. ROBERT VARTE – Introduction: In North-East India, many growth studies have been published for the populations of Assam and Meghalaya. However, no study, especially with regard to the nutritional status of the Hmars of Mizoram has been undertaken. So, more growth and nutritional studies are needed to carry out in populations…
The Mead Hall. Notes on the Name of Milan, Italy
By: SANDRA BUSATTA – When I started reading an article by Fumagalli (2008) about the etymology of the name of Milan, the capital of Lombardy as well as the economical heart of Italy, at first I began jotting down notes, only to notice that there was an Ariadne’s thread of symbols. The final result of…
Dream-Land. The mythical skinheads’ communitarianism
By: MARCO MENICOCCI – Skinheads are a kind of subculture2 with well-defined aesthetical, iconographical and ideological connotations, which are deliberately shown and clearly flaunted. Those kind of people can be easily recognized on the basis of their behaviour, clothes, music styles and phrasing, expression. These aspects help Skinheads show their identities to the others and…
Towards a bio-psycho-cultural anthropology of AIDS
By: JACQUES J. ROZENBERG – This paper aims to outline a theoretical framework which could define the bio-psycho-social basis of the representations of the HIV sufferers, regarding the complex relationships between the biologic reality of HIV, its psychic and psychopathologic manifestations, as well as its social stigma. We wish to unify these different aspects for…
Il dolore come valore. Modificazioni del corpo e sofferenza
By: STEFANO MENICOCCI – La diffusione, soprattutto a partire dagli anni ’80 dello scorso secolo, delle modificazioni corporee a fini estetici, dalla chirurgia estetica sino ai tatuaggi, costituisce un fenomeno culturale complesso che solo in parte ha attratto l’attenzione degli studiosi. Una delle caratteristiche delle modificazioni corporee, naturalmente, è che comportano un intervento sul corpo…