2013
Volume 9, Number 2
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…