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2013
Stature Estimation from the Dimensions of Foot in Females
By: JITENDER PRATAP SINGH, MAHESH CHAND MEENA, YASHODA RANI, GIRISH KUMAR SHARMA – Footprint dimensions are strongly correlated with stature and thus give better prediction of stature than the other measurements. It is further concluded that the reliability and prediction of stature by the regression method is better than that of the division factor method.…
The Sickle Cell Anemia health problems. Traditional and Modern treatment practices among the Soliga tribes at B.R.Hills, South India
By: C. MADEGOWDA, C. USHA RAO – The Sickle Cell Disease or the Sickle cell anemia common genetic disease affects millions of people worldwide. Many Soliga tribals suffer from the genetic disorder of the Sickle Cell Disease, 4.2% of the Soligas have AS type of Sickle cell trait (heterozygous), 0.2% of the Soligas have the…
Sexual Dimorphism in Mandibular Ramus of South Indian Population
By: JAMES D. RAJ, SINDHU RAMESH – The determination of sex and estimation of stature are among the important aspect of forensic anthropology and vital in medico-legal investigations. Aim: The purpose of the present study is to analysis of sexual dimorphism in the mandible of South Indian origin. Materials and Methods: A total of 60…
The Lombard necropolis of Dueville (Northeast Italy, 7th-9th c. AD): burial rituals, paleodemography, anthropometry and paleopathology
By: NICOLA CARRARA – The necropolis of Dueville (Northeast Italy, 7th-9th c. AD) is one of the biggest Lombard necropolis in Italy: at present, more than 500 burials have been excavated. This report regards the anthropological analysis of 217 individuals, 74 sub-adult and 143 adults, excavated from 2000 to 2009. Sex was estimated for 134…
“Uocchie, maluocchie…” Il Malocchio nel Vallo di Lauro (AV)
By: CHIARA SINISCALCHI – Il saggio che qui si va a presentare è stato redatto in seguito alla ricerca condotta nell’autunno 2012 nell’area del Vallo di Lauro (AV) avente come tema il fenomeno del malocchio e le pratiche curative ad esso legate presenti nella zona in questione. Il testo è suddiviso in quattro paragrafi che…
Proselytization in India. An Ethnographic Account of the tribes in North-East India
By: RIMAI JOY – Religion as one of the basic institution is a system of beliefs usually involving the worship of supernatural forces or beings which continues to have major influence upon the human society and especially to those individuals or communities who lives a religious life. This paper is an attempt to explain the…
Interrogating Psycho-Social Problems of Muslim Women. The Indian Experience
By: INTEKHAB HOSSAIN, SYED ABUL HAFIZ MOINUDDIN – The present paper is an endeavour to examine and emphasize the issues of psycho-social circumstances of Indian Muslim women in sociological perspective with special indication to their socio-economic, employment, educational attainment, rights and privileges, hindrances and restrictions, role and status as well as their multifarious problems from…
An Ethnographic Account of Sudalai Cult, Tamil Nadu, India
By: SIMON S. JOHN – Worshipping of Demon plays a significant role in the folk religious practices of Tamil Nadu, South India. Sudalai – a male folk deity is considered as a chief of all evil spirits by the people in that region and hundreds of temples for Sudalai exist in the southern region of…
Indigenous Knowledge System Associated with Hunting among the Padams of Arunachal Pradesh, India
By: QUEENBALA MARAK, JINTU KALITA – Hunting is an important economic activity worldwide. However due to many conservation efforts it has gone down tremendously in regions that were once dominantly hunting. However, in Arunachal Pradesh in North-East India, hunting still continues to a large extent. It is one of the favorite activities of the studied…
De-skilling in Handloom Sector A study of the handloom Weavers of Varanasi district, Uttar Pradesh in India
By: TANUSREE SHAW, ARNAB DAS – This paper examines the effect of capitalist control and technological changes in the handloom industry of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. The Karl Marx and Harry Braverman’s concept of deskilling is one of the consequences of the capitalistic control and technological changes and it studied theoretically and empirically in the…
The Tree of Life Design From Central Asia to Navajoland and Back (with a Mexican Detour. Part 2
By: SANDRA BUSATTA – The Tree of Life is an archetype that appears in art and literature the world over, from the Biblical Garden of Eden with its Tree of Life and Tree of Knowledge, to India, where the symbol is represented by a voluptuous woman with her arm around a tree that blossoms with…
Dialogo tra Epistemologia Clinica ed Epistemologia antropologica
By: MAURIZIA TINTI – Il viaggio può assumere funzioni diverse se osservato all’interno delle discipline psicoterapeutica e antropologica: da un lato è un tipo di cura, mentre dall’altro permette lo studio di culture altre. Questo confronto introduce la comparazione tra l’esperienza della follia e quella della cultura, analizzate attraverso lo sguardo critico di Foucault e…
Coltivare le Stelle. La Società del Tabacco nella cultura Crow
By: MARCO MENICOCCI – Riferendosi alle pratiche rituali dei Crow connesse con il culto del Tabacco, Lowie, l’etnologo cui dobbiamo la maggior parte dei documenti su questo popolo, dichiara: “In short the Tobacco ceremony resembles not a unified plot but rather a chain of casually coupled episodes from the tribal repertory” (Lowie 1935: 296). Il…
Gene Diversity Analysis and Microdifferentiation Process in North Indian Muslim Populations
By: RUQAIYA HUSSAIN, AHSANA SHAH, MOHD FAREED, MOHAMMAD AFZAL – Indian population is well known for its genetic diversity, ethnicity and microdifferentiation process. The present work deals with the distribution of A1A2BO, Rh (D), PTC tasting ability and Red green Colorblindness to study the genetic structure, fitness and microdifferentiation process among different Muslim populations of…
Colombo e la nudità dei “selvaggi”
By: GILBERTO MAZZOLENI – Siamo ben lontani dalle monolitiche definizioni dell’età di Colombo, Cortéz e Pizarro. Trascorsi secoli di speculazioni (sempre più razional-positivistiche) l’equazione biblica di nudità = vergogna non è più meccanicamente accettata e condivisa, mentre vari movimenti contemporanei (vedi il cosiddetto nudismo) arriverebbero ad apprezzare la schietta e presunta naturalità di quelli che…
Health Awareness Patterns. A Cross-Cultural Comparison between Muslim and Horizon Communities in Rajshahi Metropolitan City of Bangladesh
By: AFZAL HOSSAIN – Health is one of the very important elements of human capital. The knowledge of health awareness enhances human being to get proper healthcare facilities all over the world. In Bangladesh health is one of the main fundamental rights of every citizen, which is ensured by the constitution. The present study, the…
Birth and the Evil Eye in the Amazigh Culture in Morocco: The Case of Ayt Merghad
By: FATIMA GADDAR – During the last decades, many beliefs in the Moroccan culture have undergone profound changes. However, people’s attitudes towards the evil eye as a destructive power have not changed that much. The belief in its notion is still a significant aspect of the Amazigh culture which is the concern of the present…
Community Condom Outlet. The Magical Man to Prevent HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh
By: NASIR UDDIN, MAKSUDA KHATUN, MUSFIKUR RAHMAN, AFSANA AKTER – Bangladesh is believed to be a low HIV prevalent country although the potentiality of spreading HIV remains high because of several contributing factors. There is many sex –workers active with highest sexual contacts and partner exchange but low condom use by both sex workers and…
Prevalence of Under-nutrition among the Juangs. A study on a particularly vulnerable tribal group of Odisha, India
By: MONALI GOSWAMI – This study is undertaken to determine the overall prevalence of under-nutrition based on body mass index (BMI) of the Juangs, a vulnerable tribal population of Odisha, India. A total of 414 adult males and 423 adult females (≥18 years) were considered for anthropometric data from fifteen villages under two blocks of…
La mummia nelle farmacopee medioevali
By: FEDERICO LUGLI – Le mummie non sono solamente corpi umani imbalsamati sopravvissuti allo scorrere del tempo ma appartengono anche al mondo della storia della medicina in quanto utilizzate come medicinale a partire dall’Età Medievale. Sono state sfruttate come rimedio ad un elevato numero di patologie e hanno ricoperto il ruolo di baluardo della scienza…
La silenziosa protesta degli Hikikomori
By: DARIO MELIGRANA – Hikikomori. Una parola decisamente esotica, che significa ritiro e che da una decina di anni a questa parte caratterizza un fenomeno sociale molto diffuso nel Giappone e che sembrerebbe non avere eguali nelle società Occidentali e definisce, nello specifico, quel gruppo di adolescenti e giovani adulti (14-25 anni) che per un…
Socio-Economic factors influence the age at first marriage of Muslim women of a remote population from North-East India
By: ANJALI HALOI, DHRUBA KUMAR LIMBU – The present cross sectional study was undertaken among the Assamese Muslim women of Kamrup district, Assam, one of the North-Eastern states of India with a view to understand the differences in the age at first marriage of women and socio-economic factors influencing it. The findings of the present…
The Role of Art in Two Neighborhoods and Responses to Urban Decay and Gentrification
By: GEOFFREY SKOLL, MAXIMILIANO E. KORSTANJE – One of the most troubling aspects of cultural studies, is the lack of comparative cases to expand the horizons of micro-sociology. Based on this, the present paper explores the effects of gentrification in two neighborhoods, Riverwest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA and Abasto in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Each neighborhood…
The Ban of Non-Timber Forest Products collection effect on Soligas migration in Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary, India
By: C. MADEGOWDA, C. USHA RAO – The livelihood of tribals depends on forest resources and they have been living in the forest from time immemorial. The major sources of income for the Soligas are from Non –Timber Forest Products, subsistence agriculture, and labour. The Non –Timber Forest Products collection was banned in 2006 under…
The Invisible Hunger: Is Famine Identifiable from the Archaeological Record?
By: JOHANNA MORGAN – Famine, as defined by an acute (short-term) or chronic (long-term or cyclical) period of starvation, is identifiable in the historical period from written records and potentially with archaeological corroboration, but in prehistory other approaches must be employed. Several of these are discussed including studies of diet and nutrition, paleodemography, environmental catalysts,…
Space and Identity. A Study on the Tradition and Change of the Gujars of Himachal Pradesh
By: DIPANKAR CHATTERJEE, ARNAB DAS – The unique life-ways of the ‘Gujar’ pastoral community of India have evoked significant interest in recent time as they are struggling hard to retain their cultural identity against the increasing pressure of different forces of change. The ‘Gujars’ are wedded to herding buffaloes since long past and nurturing a…
Dementia and Epilepsy. Family and Kinship care Analysis
By: RAVINDER SINGH, VIBHA SHARMA, UPMESH KUMAR – 38 interviews of epilepsy patients and 22 interviews of care givers of Dementia (Alzheimer Disease) were conducted between August 2006 and July 2007 in neuropsychiatric hospital. The content analysis of these interviews is illuminated here in the paper. The cultural dimensions of epilepsy and dementia reveal social…
Community Participation in Disaster Management: Role of Social Work to Enhance Participation
By: ANWAR HOSSAIN – Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable areas to natural disasters in the world. Almost every year different types of natural disasters occur in Bangladesh and destroy many lives and resources of people. Although it is not possible to prevent the occurrence of disasters influenced by natural causes, proper plan, management…
Chirurgia estetica e “bello sociale” contemporaneo. Come la società contemporanea plasma se stessa
By: DENISE CAPPADONIA – L’articolo che segue prende le mosse dalla necessità di comprendere le ragioni che spingono gli attori sociali – inscritti nella contemporaneità occidentale – a ricorrere alla chirurgia estetica al fine di corrispondere a un ideale prestabilito di bellezza fisica. Questo ideale (definito in questa sede “bello sociale”) appare diffuso in maniera…
Biochemical Polymorphisms in Reddy Population of Visakhapatnam District in South India
Andhra Pradesh, Blood groups, Caste population, India, Polymorphism, Red cell enzymes, Serum proteinsBy: KONATHALA G. KUMARI, M. RAMESH, T.L. PATHI, GODI SUDHAKAR, DHRITIMAN SARMA – Introduction: The investigation of human blood genetic markers is a convenient tool to study genetic variation within and between human populations. The present investigation reports the variation in the distribution of some genetic markers (blood groups, plasma proteins and red cell enzymes)…
Indigenous Knowledge on Medicinal Plants among the Iruliga tribal population of Western Ghats areas, Karnataka, India
By: S.L. GURUPRASAD, N. NINGAIAH, M.R. GANGADHAR – This article is on the Folk and indigenous knowledge system of the tribal community of Western Ghats of Karnataka particularly on medicinal plants and their socio-economic dependence on the forests. There are numerous herbs available in their surrounding where the tribes are living and that herbs are…
The Tree of Life Design. From Central Asia to Navajoland and Back (With a Mexican Detour) Part 1
By: SANDRA BUSATTA – The Tree of Life design is thought to be originated in Central Asia possibly from shamanic cultures, and can be seen as a favorite pattern in many carpets and rugs produced in a huge area, from Afghanistan to Eastern Europe. From the Middle East, together with other Christian and Moorish designs,…
The Colonization of Space. An Anthropological Outlook
alien communication, colonization, cultural adaptation, interstellar travels, physical adaptation, Space AnthropologyBy: MORENO TIZIANI – The colonization of space implies an adaptation of both physical and cultural type. The human species is characterized by a great adaptive capacity that, in a basically extreme environment, reveals all its plasticity. However, this capacity must be aided by appropriate technological solutions that identify the problems related to long stays…
La colonizzazione dello spazio. Una prospettiva antropologica
adattamento culturale, adattamento fisico, Antropologia dello spazio, colonizzazione, comunicazione aliena, viaggi interstellariBy: MORENO TIZIANI – La colonizzazione dello spazio implica un adattamento di carattere sia fisico sia culturale. La specie umana è connotata da una grande capacità adattativa che, in un ambiente fondamentalmente estremo, rivela tutta la sua plasticità. Tuttavia, tale capacità deve essere aiutata da soluzioni tecnologiche adeguate che individuino le problematiche connesse alle lunghe…