2020
Volume 16, Number 1
Behaviors of a mixed gender and culture group during a 4-month confinement (SIRIUS-19)
By: CAROLE TAFFORIN – With a view to prepare human groups for long international and interplanetary missions, Scientific International Research in Unique Terrestrial Station (SIRIUS) program develops confinement campaigns whose SIRIUS-19 was 4-month duration. The goal was to simulate four phases of a mission including traveling to the Moon, orbiting the Moon, landing on the…
La gastronomia della nutria: specie aliene, trasformazioni ambientali, ibridazioni culturali e sperimentazioni culinarie
By: AMEDO BOSCOLO, MICHELE FILIPPO FONTEFRANCESCO, GABRIELE VOLPATO – The article addresses the case of the emerging nutria gastronomy by interrogating the relationship it creates in the human-environment relationship by analyzing how it informs how our society copes with the globalization of the bioscape between reaction and adaptation to change.
Lo straordinario e recente ritrovamento delle mummie di Roccapelago
By: GIORGIA COZZA – This article analyzes the discovery of a series of naturally mummified bodies inside the crypt of the church of Roccapelago, in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines. The bodies, now preserved in the local museum of the mummies, date back to the late sixteenth century and the mid-eighteenth century and represent a mine of…
Mάγος καὶ Mαγεία. La magia nella tradizione letteraria greca
caratteristiche mago, classical Greek literature, Grecia, Greece, letteratura greca classica, mageia, magia, magic, magician, magician characteristics, mago, magosBy: ALESSANDRA ROMEO – The study of the historical context, the religion and the literary sources is a fundamental approach to define and interpret the figure of the magician in the Greek world. In the aftermath of the wars between Greece and Persia, Greek culture was strongly influenced by Persian culture, but a strong feeling…
Estetica ed etica del corpo femminile nella contemporanea spettacolarizzazione mediatica
bellezza femminile, corpo della donna, female beauty, female body, female nudity, Julia Kristeva, nudi femminili, violence against women, violenza contro le donneBy: ILARIA MALAGRINÓ – In the last fifty years we have witnessed a significant increase in the exposure of the female body and its nudity, first in advertising and cinema and currently in social networks. The pervasiveness of this practice has now become widespread, but it does not stop questioning, especially in relation to the…
Turismo etnico nel Mursiland: incontri ravvicinati di un certo tipo
autenticità, autentico, authentic, authenticity Antropologia del turismo, Ethiopia, ethnic tourism, Ethnicity, Etiopia, etnicità, guests and hosts, lip-plate, Mursi, Omo Valley, piattello labiale, souvenir, Tourism, Tourism anthropology, tradition, tradizione, travel, turismo, turismo etnico, viaggiBy: SANDRA BUSATTA, MARIANNA MAZZETTO – This article aims to analyze first the relationship between tourists and natives in a liminal area such as the villages built on the road that takes tourists to Mursiland, and the dialogical construction that derives from it, which is in all respects a representation, and secondly in which way…
Women’s Empowerment and Agency: Bottom – up and Top – down
By: CLAUDIO RIGA – This article aims to explore the relationship between the concepts of women’s empowerment and agency. Through a literature review, I will try to clarify the complexities of both and whether they are different or similar, whether women’s empowerment may be conceived as an “expanded agency”, or whether they may conflate into…
Empowerment of women through Self Help Group (SHG): An anthropological study
By: ASHIM DAS, ANANYA HOTA, DIPAK KUMAR MIDYA, RATAN K. SAMANTA – The empowerment of women is one of the central issues in the process of development of countries in all over the world. India has a glorious tradition of recognizing the importance of empowering women over several centuries now. In recent decades, empowerment of…
Literacy Trends and Differences of Scheduled Tribes in West Bengal: A Community Level Analysis
By: SARNALI DUTTA, SAMIRAN BISAI – The present paper is based entirely on secondary sources of information, mainly drawn from the 2001 and 2011 Censuses of India and West Bengal. In this paper, an attempt has been made to analyse the present literacy trends of the ethnic communities of West Bengal, and comparing the data…
Nutritional status and body composition of ovarian cancer patients
By: PRIYANKA DUTTA, JYOTI RATAN GHOSH – Ovarian cancer has emerged as one of the most common malignancies affecting women in India. It was also observed that malnutrition is a common and under-recognized problem among cancer patients. The present study was undertaken to evaluate and compare the nutritional status and body composition of ovarian cancer…
Reproductive Health and Health Care Practices of the Oraon Tribal Women of Nadia, West Bengal
By: LISA BISWAS, PRIYANKA KANRAR, MONALI GOSWAMI – The present study was undertaken to envisage the reproductive health and health-care practices and also find its association with the socio-demographic characteristics among the Oraon tribal women of Nadia district of West Bengal, India. A total of 100 Oraon women were included in this study who were…
Factors associated with the utilization of maternal health care services among Lodha women in West Bengal, India
India, Lodha women, Maternal health care services, socio-demographic factors, supply side factors, West BengalBy: NANDINI GANGULY, SUBHO ROY – The objective of the present study was to find out the trends in utilization of maternal health care services by the Lodha women. Furthermore, attempt has also been made to identify the factors contributing to the utilization of maternal health services. The study has been conducted among the Lodha…
Effects of social stigma on children living with hiv/aids in Pune district, India
By: DAVID MARIAKUMAR MATHANGI – Studies have shown that stigma and discrimination fuel HIV transmission and hinder access to programmes and services. The greatest impact of HIV is on children and young people. An attempt to arrive at a clear picture of the effects of social stigma due to HIV/AIDS on Children Affected with HIV/AIDS…
Secular Trend in Some Anthropometric Measurements of Monpa Boys in Arunachal Pradesh, India: A Comparison of over 3 Decades-Gap Findings
By: BHABOKLANG SOHKHLET – Data on height, sitting height, and body weight of Monpa boys were obtained from two cross-sectional studies whose findings were based on data collected during 1977 and 2014 by Duarah and the present author respectively. The study shows that though the present Monpa population have undergone different transitional stages over the…
The risk of T2DM with Alcohol consumption, Smoking, Hypertension and Family History of Hypertension: A Study on Bengalee Hindu Caste Population
Alcohol Consumption, Bengalee Hindu Caste, Family History of Hypertension, hypertension, India, Smoking, T2DMBy: PRANABESH SARKAR, DIPTENDU CHATTERJEE, ARUP RATAN BANDYOPADHYAY – The risk of T2DM has been proliferated with help of modifiable (smoking, alcohol consumption) and non-modifiable (hypertension, family history of hypertension) risk factors. The magnitude of risk varied in different populations. The present study was conducted to understand the association between T2DM with smoking, alcohol consumption,…
Prevalence of Anaemia and its association with socio-demographic factors among the Pnar women of Jowai Town, West Jaintia Hills District, Meghalaya, India
By: MERRY C. PASSAH, DHRUBA KUMAR LIMBU – Anaemia is the most common and widespread nutritional deficiency disorder in the world, especially among women in developing countries. In the present study an attempt has been made to assess the prevalence of anaemia among the Pnar women of Jowai town and the socio-demographic factors associated with…
Prevalence of anemia in adolescence girls of Arunachal Pradesh, India
By: PRASANTA NANDA, KUMARI DEHUTI, PINKI YADAV, PRIYA CHOUDHARY, PATE JUMSI, TALOM TALOH, RATNA TAYENG – A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out among the adolescent girls of Dera Natung Government College Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh on 21st September 2019 to understand the prevalence of anaemia among adolescent college students. The study showed that only 19.29%…
Health Perceptions and Ethnomedicinal Practices among the Tai Khamti in Namsai District of Arunachal Pradesh, India
By: HEEROCK JYOTI BARUAH – With the current pace of globalisation and increased anthropogenic activities, forest resources are rapidly deteriorating. Consequently, the primary challenge to the forest fringe communities is the reduction of biodiversity and the gradual change in climatic conditions. Such societies are naturally dependent on the forest resources for their livelihoods and the…
The Pisai: A study on the Village Administration among the Tiwa
By: RAKTIM PATAR – The study of village administration as a part of traditional institutions has attracted the attention of policymakers, researchers and social scientists. It may be difficult to define and categorize traditional institutions into social, cultural, political and economic institutions since tradition in any given society is a composite whole. As a passive…
An Ethnographic Profile of the Monsang Tribe
By: FRANCIS MONSANG S.H., RAJESH KUMAR GAUTAM – This paper presents an ethnographic profile of the Monsang tribe, one of the lesser known Naga tribes in the Chandel district of Manipur, a northeastern state of India. The objective of the paper is to make a systematic ethnographic compilation of Monsang history, society, culture and tradition…
Forest Management Policies and Tribals of Jharkhand: Retrospect and Prospect
By: AMBRISH GAUTAM – Bir bano? disum ale horoko kale sukua, said the Mundas to Hoffman when he was writing his Encyclopaedia Mundarica in the last quarter of the 19th century. ‘We the Mundas do not like to live in a country where there are no forests’, is not just a casual statement of some…
Himalayan Pastoralism: A Study On The Livelihood And Mobility Of The Bakarwal Tribe
By: UBAID AHMAD DAR – The paper aims to look at the relation of livelihood and mobility, and the health hazards faced by the pastoral Bakarwal tribe based in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Livelihood pattern of Bakarwals constitutes mostly of herding animals, and seasonal migration plays an all-important role in attaining the…
Modernisation and Change: A Case Study of Lawm and Sawm among the Kukis
By: JANGKHOMANG M.R. – All the tribes in India follow a specific type of village-based youth organisation, called dormitories, and known by different names among the different tribes. This is also true in case of the tribes inhabiting the North Eastern part of the Indian sub-continent. It is well known that the socio-cultural life of…
Socio-Economic and Political Perspectives of Disaster: A Case Study of Flash Floods in Goa
By: SAISH S. NAYAK DALAL – Natural disasters are the nature’s way to maintain the balance as some people believe, while others consider it a punishment by the almighty for the sins committed by the humans. Within this framework, the factor that remains throughout is the will power and mental health of humans. Dealing with,…
Tattoo: A Cultural Heritage
By: PAYEL GHOSH – Tattooing is considered a “visual language,” which inscribes cultural traits on the skin of the owner. This paper tries to explore the importance of tattoos in tribal life as a cultural heritage, by means of a case study in two Santhal villages to find whether there is any age and sex…