anthropology
Locating Anthropology in National/ New Education Policy (NEP) 2020 in India: An Overview
anthropology, Cultural Sensitivity, Education Reform, Indian Knowledge Systems, Multidisciplinary Education, NEP 2020By: SHUCHI SRIVASTAVA, RAHUL PATEL – The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 presents a transformative vision for India’s educational landscape, emphasizing holistic, inclusive, and multidisciplinary learning rooted in Indian cultural values. This review paper critically examines the relevance and potential contributions of anthropology within the NEP 2020 framework. Drawing on a diverse range of literature,…
Structure, Change and Continuity of Culture of Indian Civilization: An Anthropological Reappraisa
By: ARUN MAKAL, ABHRADIP BANERJEE, KRISHNENDU POLLEY – Civilization encompasses a complex tapestry of traditions, both grand and modest, including tribal, rural, and urban cultures. Early civilizations, such as those in ancient Egypt, the Aegean, and China, flourished in fertile river valleys conducive to agriculture. Similarly, Indian civilization saw the rise of settlements around the…
Malnutrition in Indian Women due to changing food habits: An Anthropological Perspective
By: SIMRANJEET KAUR, ANIL KISHORE SINHA – Malnutrition remains a persistent global health issue, hindering human development. The World Health Organization defines it as an imbalance and lack of essential nutrients, leading to deficiencies in the human body. It broadly encompasses nutritional crises and obstacles to a nation’s food security. Malnutrition’s impact is complex, yet…
Relativismo linguistico versus relativismo culturale: fra l’estetica di Benedetto Croce e l’antropologia di Edward Sapir
By: ALESSANDRA SIGNORILE – The following pages take their cue from Edward Sapir’s contributions to linguistic research, starting with his reference to Benedetto Croce’s theories (Language. An introduction to study of speech, 1921). The reasons for a possible comparison between the two authors will be explored in depth, firstly emphasising the main points of convergence…
Age at Natural Menopause in India: An Anthropological Study of Determinants, Symptoms and Attitude among Rural Women of North Karnataka
anthropology, betel, biology, culture, gutka, India, Karnataka, Natural menopause, oral health, tobaccoBy: V. NAYANA, J. SANDEEP – Age at natural menopause is a vital biological event in every woman’s life because of the increase in diseases and other problems after middle age. The timing of the menopause can’t be accurately predicted or determined and differs greatly from one woman to another and from one ethnic group…
Dynamics of Tribal Entrepreneurship in India: A case study from Assam
By: PROSPERU DAIMARI, ROMESH M. SINGH – Entrepreneurship is considered a vital venture for economic growth and generates economic growth, jobs, and wealth. It is adopted by people from different parts of the world irrespective of the difference in culture, race, ethnicity, religion and caste. The present paper aims to explore and examine socio-cultural factors…
Socio-economic and Demographic Determinants of Double Burden of Malnutrition among Rajbanshi School-going Children aged 9-14 Years from North Bengal, India
By: ANTARA BOSE, ISITA SINHA, PUSHPA LATATIGGA, NITISH MONDAL, JAYDIP SEN – The Double Burden of Malnutrition (DBM) is a recent phenomenon in the nutritional situation among populations belonging to the low-middle-income countries. Socio-economic, demographic factors with adoption of western lifestyle, unhealthy diets and physical inactivities are the main cause of DBM. The study aims…
Gender and Violence in a Domestic Space During COVID-19 in India: Insights from Anthropology
By: LOVEENA SEHRA, SUBAL DAS – In the last few decades, gender issues have received importance from scholars across disciplines. The literature on the pathophysiology and epidemiology of domestic violence is extensive but an increase in domestic violence has led the academicians to seek epistemological answers from society. Further, the surge in domestic violence cases…
Troubled Mind and Healing Rituals: Re-Thinking Mental Health
By: MADHUR MRINAL – This paper presents nine cases of troubled mind and healing rituals during a short field work in different healing sites in Delhi. Following the WHO’s promotion of the integration of traditional medicines, AYUSH and allopathic medicine, India has integrated traditional medicines as an integral part of our cultural heritage, to support…
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…
Royal Anthropological Institute or Royal Academy? Post-Modern Anthropology as Contemporary Art
By: EDWARD DUTTON – It has been widely argued that postmodern and cultural relativism are replacement religions in Romantic, neo-tribal tradition (e.g. Scruton 2000, Kuznar 1997) This article attempts to better understand the nature of postmodern anthropology by looking at it through the prism of Art. Following Scruton (2000), it argues that, since the Enlightenment,…
Lévi-Strauss, ovvero l’antropologo nudo. Crudo, cotto o al sangue?
By: SANDRA BUSATTA – Come afferma Eriksen (2001:310), la variazione culturale all’interno della modernità non era sufficiente ad attirare l’attenzione dell’autore di Tristi Tropici (1955), che rappresenta l’unico lavoro sul terreno svolto da Lévi-Strauss, per la tesi di dottorato. Questa esperienza di ricerca, poche settimane su cento anni di vita, quasi sparisce al cospetto di…
Religion: Fact or fancy?
By: SANDRA BUSATTA – Are questions of truth essential to the integrity of a study of other cultures or irrelevant? While I am tempted to state that questions of truth are essential to the integrity of a study, I must consider that probably my idea of truth is different from the one of people ready…
L’anthropologie existentiale: présence, coprésence et leurs détails
By: ALBERT PIETTE – L’article constitue un projet théorique qui a pour but de déplacer le regard et l’analyse des sciences sociales de ses trois axes fondamentaux: la collectivité, l’action et la relation, et de se focaliser sur les êtres, les existences et les présences. L’article montre également l’importance des détails, les “restes” dans les…
Good To Think: Animals and Power
By: SANDRA BUSATTA – In Totemism (1962a) and The Savage Mind (1962b) Lévi-Strauss claimed that there was no intrinsic connection between kinship-linked naming systems and food taboos, but it was rather an illustration of a special way of thinking, what he called the “savage” science of concrete ([1962b] 1964b:29). Animal species, with their many observable…
Antropologia multidisciplinare o multiantropologia indisciplinata?
By: EMILIANO BRUNER – Il flusso di informazioni attualmente disponibili crea evidenti sovraccarichi sia nell’organizzazione personale della conoscenza sia nell’integrazione tra discipline differenti. La multidisciplinarietà viene a gran voce acclamata e reclamata come soluzione da un lato a una ingestibile produzione di nozioni, dall’altro ad una certa stanchezza culturale di molte discipline in stasi preoccupante.…
Antropologia e cooperazione allo sviluppo: le regole della buona convivenza
By: MARIA CHIARA MIDURI – I concetti di Sviluppo e di Cooperazione Internazionale sono particolarmente complessi e in continua evoluzione, tuttavia essi non sono termini astratti, ma sono diventati principi che, tramutandosi in precise scelte politiche, incidono direttamente sulla vita quotidiana degli individui, nel presente e nel futuro. Quando ci si occupa di cooperazione allo…
LOST VEMA. Luoghi, osmosi, società e territorio. Dinamiche e processi di antropizzazione a VEMA
By: MORENO TIZIANI, MARIA CHIARA MIDURI, LUCIA GALASSO – Capire come l’essere umano si rapporta all’ambiente in cui vive racchiude in sé aspetti che afferiscono sia all’antropologia culturale che all’antropologia biologica. Studiare i fattori che influenzano le modalità di stanziamento e di antropizzazione del territorio, sia in senso spaziale che temporale, risulta quanto mai utile…
Honour and Shame in the Mediterranean
By: SANDRA BUSATTA – Negli anni Sessanta del ventesimo secolo si aprì un nuovo settore di studi agli antropologi anglosassoni: l’area mediterranea. La “scoperta” della regione non era affatto nuova; in realtà, era già stata resa popolare da romanzieri Gotici e poeti Romantici. Durante i tre decenni che seguirono la Seconda Guerra Mondiale, antropologi anglosassoni…
Diversidad cultural en Europa
By: FIDEL GINOCCHIO REYES – Gli uomini, come gli animali, vivono in gruppi più o meno organizzati in “società”, condividendo comportamenti che, nel loro insieme, formano una cultura, diversa per ogni società umana. L’antropologia socioculturale si occupa della descrizione e della comparazione delle civiltà o culture, cercando di stabilire le differenze e le somiglianze che…