2021
Volume 17, Number 1
Leshoma, the visionary plant of southern Africa
By: LUCA PASQUALI – The bulbaceous plant Boophone disticha – known mainly by the term leshoma given by the Sotho ethnic group – is characterized by powerful hallucinogenic properties and is used as initiatory and divinatory plant among many southern African ethynes. Once known as the main compound of San arrow poisons, its psychoactive properties have been recognized by Western…
Essere Cacciatori. Analisi del significato della pratica venatoria e della relazione ambientale tra i cacciatori del Piemonte meridionale
By: MICHELE FILIPPO FONTEFRANCESCO, ELISA CORDARA – This article explores contemporary hunting in Italy and the meanings associated with this practice among hunters in southern Piedmont. Based on case-study research, the article analyzes the value system of the hunters and highlights competition between different ways of understanding the hunting practice. The hunter is understood at…
Sesso, gender ed etnia: la razzializzazione della società postmoderna ovvero come cancellare le donne
Black Movement, Black Panther Party, BLM, cancel culture, Ethnicity, ethnocentrism, feminism, FtM, Gender, gender identity, LGBT+, MtF, platform capitalism, queer, racialization, trangender, wokeBy: SANDRA BUSATTA, FLAVIA BUSATTA – Platform capitalism in its own way adopts tools used at the end of the last century by powerless people to make their critical voices heard by means of boycotting as well as alternative cultural proposals, and turns gender issues into ethnic ones. It destroys class solidarity (typical of manufacturing…
Reflections on resilience
By: FRANCO VIVIANI – In these COVID-19 agitated times the term resilience has gained widespread resonance in scientific texts and in the media. This widely used analogy in the psychological lexicon was borrowed from metallurgy (a metallic beam under stress returns to normal in a short period of time when the stressor is removed). It…
Mouriddiyya, lan la? Esquisse sullo sviluppo di un transnazionalismo del lavoro fra Senegal e Italia
By: STEFANO GALEAZZI – Muridiyya is one of the most important and powerful Sufi brotherhood in Senegal and has internationally taken the shape of a widespread transnational labour association. Indeed, work plays a strategic role within Mouride contexts, in which marabouts (the spiritual guides) and disciples are interdependent. This article develops a brief historical analysis of…
The Second Half of Leonia. Waste, Morality, Power and Reputation in a highland alpine valley
By: RICCARDO MANISCALCO – This paper is the outcome of three weeks of fieldwork in an alpine highland valley, conducted within the framework of the master’s degree in social and cultural anthropology at the University of Vienna. Adopting a political ecology perspective grounded in the notions of waste regime (Gille 2007) and mass waste (Reno…
Anthropology of Bhagavad Gītā: Death, Rebirth and Liberation
By: ANAND SADASIVAN – Vedānta philosophy is popular for its discussions on ideal action, ethics and self-realisation. Like life on earth, Vedānta gives importance to death and the transmigration of the soul. The much sought after text by aspirants of Vedānta, the Bhagavad Gītā encapsulates all these concepts. The problems that warrior Arjuna poses in…
Assessment of functional disability among a group of slum-dwelling elderly women in Kolkata, West Bengal
By: ANUSHKA GHOSH, SUSMITA MUKHOPADHYAY – The world population has been greying rapidly over the decades that increases the proportion of individuals with deteriorating functional health. It poses greater old-age dependency; and affect quality of life and overall well-being of elderly people. With this backdrop, the present study attempts to understand the burden of aging…
Reproductive behavior among the Tani tribes of Arunachal Pradesh, India
By: ASGHAR, MILLO PUBYANG, LANDI PUSSANG MONIA – Controlling Fertility is important to check the growth of the population. It is, therefore, necessary to understand the reproductive behavior and factors associated with it to control fertility. The present study aims to understand the reproductive behavior among four major tribes of Arunachal Pradesh – Nyishi, Adi,…
Sexual dimorphism of Socio-economic status, Nutritional status and hypertension among the Oraon tribe of Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India
By: BISWAJIT MAHAPATRA, JHUMA DEY, SUPRIYA RAY – The nutritional status and socio-economic profile of tribal people is an important issue in India due to their marginalization from main stream population with respect to various facilities. This paper deals with the assessment of socio-economic status and health status among adult males and females of Oraon…
Knowledge and Practice of Family Planning: A Study among two less known Tribes Singphos and Wanchos of Arunachal Pradesh, India
By: CHAYA RANI HAZARIKA – Family planning plays a pivotal role in population control, poverty reduction and human development. There is a great need and necessity for family planning, particularly among the developing countries like India because of the massive population explosion. This paper reports the knowledge and practice of family planning in the two…
Indigenous Form of Terrace Cultivation among the Mao Nagas
By: DAILI NELI – The interesting question of mankind is the ascertainment of the place which man occupies on earth. In order to survive, man has to co-exist with nature and culture. They depend on nature for everything from food to shelter. However, nature does not in itself specify how resources are to be exploited…
Anthropometric characteristics of rural Bengali adolescent girls from North Bengal, India
By: ISITA SINHA, NEHA RANI PAL, NITISH MONDAL, JAYDIP SEN – Adolescence is the developmental period through which children grow into adults. Adolescents are the future generations of any country and their physical growth and nutritional needs are important for overall development of a society. The present cross-sectional investigation was undertaken to determine anthropometric characteristics…
Assessment of the Nutritional Status among the School-going Children aged 6-8 Years from Port Blair, South Andaman, India: A Cross-sectional Study
By: VEERESHWAR K. RAO, MUTHU PANDI, KAUSTAV DAS, KOEL MUKHERJEE – Regular nutritional monitoring is imperative specifically among the children for formulating more effective nutritional policies at the national level. Keeping this view, the present cross-sectional study was undertaken to determine the nutritional status by using four commonly used anthropometric indicators: stunting (low height for…
Neck circumference as an alternative measure of central obesity among pre-hypertensive adults
By: SUSMITA ROY, SHREYASI ROY, JAYDIP SEN – There is a dearth of cut-offs of neck circumference (NC) to define central obesity among pre-hypertensive adults. Primary aim is to find the association of NC and waist circumference (WC) among pre-hypertensive adults and to find optimal cut-offs of NC to predict central obesity among pre-hypertensive adults.…
Double Burden of Malnutrition in the Same Households
By: PAUL PIYALI, SUMAN CHAKRABARTY – The coexistence of dual form of malnutrition in terms of mother over-nutrition and child undernutrition might be a major public health issue in developing countries like India due to rapid nutritional transition and life style change. This study was conducted in order to assess the prevalence of dual form…
Impact of Dam-Induced Displacement and Resettlement: A Case Study of Indira Sagar Project Polavaram
By: ANIL K. KUMAR, NAGARAJU CHIKKALA – Involuntary displacement from one’s land and habitat carries with it the risk of the migrant becoming poorer than before displacement, since a significant number of migrants do not receive adequate compensation for loss of their assets nor effective assistance to re-establish them and make them productive. Unless the…
Borderland: a Peril of Cultural Identities
Arunachal-Bhutan borderland, border, Borderland, Borderland Identity, cross-border Identity, Cultural Border, Indo-Bhutan Border, Kalaktang Circle, Monpas, Samdrung, Sharchops, Warrangpam, West Kameng-Bhutan BorderBy: NYATO DOJI, DHRITIMAN SARMA – The creation of a political border has led to the surfacing of many socio-cultural activities in all the borderlands across the globe, igniting the interest of social scientists worldwide. Borderland studies more than often accentuates the history of how the political border came into being and its impact on…
Is mother’s employment making a negative impact on the obesity level of their daughters?
By: DIGANGGANA TALUKDAR, GULRUKH BEGUM – The present study aims to study the nutrition of the pre-adolescent urban girls from 6-10 years of age of Guwahati city in relation to some social factors like parental education, parental occupation, family income, food habit and family type. A total sample of 222 girls were collected cross-sectionally and…
Status and Problems of Jenukuruba Tribal Students in Mysuru District of Karnataka
By: B.R. MANJUNATHA, M.R. GANGADHAR – The Jenukuruba community is a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal group of India, they are inhabiting Karnataka, Kerala, and the Tamilnad States of south India. They are geographically, socially isolated and an economically and educationally very backward community. In the after Independence period, sincere and concerted efforts were made for the…
General Mental Ability and Head Size of Children’s
By: DHANSAY, SUBAL DAS – General mental ability is a terminology that represents an individual level of learning, perceiving command, and resolve problems. Objectives of the present study are to assess the mental ability of children’s belonging to different socio-economic class; to examine the sexual difference in general mental ability and head size and to…
Distribution of ABO and Rhesus blood groups among Tribal Students of Arunachal Pradesh, India
By: PRASANTA NANDA, HAGE TUNYA, HIRANMAYA SHARMA, RATNA TAYENG – All human populations share the same known blood systems. The best-known blood type classification is the ABO system, which is often coupled with another system, the Rhesus blood type (expressed as Rh+ve or Rh-ve). Overall, in human, the O blood type (usually resulting from the…
Index of Anthropometric Failure among 2-5 years Anganwadi Children of Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India
By: MANISHA GHRITLAHRE, SUBAL DAS – Background: Nutritional status of children is of paramount interest of all health surveys world-wide. Anthropometry is an important parameter for assessing nutritional status of children of growing age. Severe and acute undernutrition can be easily assessed using anthropometry. Objective: To assess the nutritional status using Composite Index of Anthropometric…
Labour Market Participation and Marital Violence against Women in Rural Bangladesh: Men Reports
By: RIPON KUMAR SARKAR, K.M. RABIUL KARIM – The main objective of this research was to examine the impact of women’s employment on marital violence in rural Bangladesh. The present study findings reveales that different factors are related to the association between women’s labour market participation and marital violence. For example, women’s age, women’s education,…