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Socio-Cultural Determinants of Longevity among the Tangkhuls of Ukhrul, Manipur: An Exploratory Cross-Sectional Study
By: SANJOY AKOIJAM, RINHORLA SHADANG, KANGABAM AMARDEEP, HAOBIJAM VOKENDRO – Aging patterns in communities worldwide are influenced by traditional lifestyles and cultural practices, in addition to biomedical factors. Few studies have examined the socio-cultural determinants of longevity in communities in India’s northeastern region. The main objective of this paper is to assess the association between…
Jagoi Rās: A Sacred Synthesis of Ritual, Bhakti, Aesthetics, and Community Experience
By: LAIMAYUM SUBHADRA DEVI, SERAM RAJESHWARAN SINGH – Jagoi Rās is a living cultural tradition that integrates devotion, ritual practice, aesthetic expression, and community participation within Manipuri Vaiṣṇava society. Extending beyond performance, it functions as a contemplative discipline in which the dancer assumes the dual role of devotee and medium, while the community collectively engages…
From Myth to Performance: An Anthropological Study of Cultural Transmission and Sacred Expression in Poothan and Thira of Kerala
By: RAHUL NR, BANITA BEHERA – This study examines how Poothan Thira supports Kerala’s cultural and spiritual continuity. It analyses how the performance conveys complex mythological and moral narratives, and how it adapts to modern social issues to remain relevant. Poothan Thira serves as a dynamic medium that upholds moral consciousness, cultural pride, and collective…
Triple Burden of Malnutrition (TBM) among the adults Gope of Purulia district, West Bengal, India
By: SHIULE GOPE, LATU LAL MAHATA, KAILASH CHANDRA, SADARUDDIN BISWAS – The relationship between the diet of a mother and the wellbeing of a fetus and an infant continues to be a matter of great importance despite uncertainty and controversy because of various dimensions attached to it. The current study was undertaken to reveal the…
Pilgrimage as the pillar of national unity at Kechopalri Lake in West Sikkim: A sociological observation
By: HASIBUL RAHAMAN – We all know that a coin has two sides, which are seen as the beauty of a thing, a person, a place, a thought, and so on. Just as there is unity and diversity, these two phenomena are connected. Unity has several dimensions such as territory, language, etc. Moreover, pilgrimage is…
Becoming shamans among Digaru Mishmis and Sherdukpens of Arunachal Pradesh, India
By: EVA UMPO, ASGHAR – Shamanism still plays a significant role among the communities of Arunachal Pradesh. Every community has its particular terminology for a religious specialist, a large population from Digaru Mishmi and Sherdukpen. Both communities still follow their age-long indigenous ways of shamanism, which have been passed from generation to generation. The present…
The Pattern of Livelihood: A Study of Fishing Community Living Along Wular Lake, Jammu & Kashmir
By: PHASHMAT HABIB – The increasing impact of fish and fisheries products on socioeconomic standpoints, in terms of income, employment generation, nutrition value, and many more, benefit the livelihood patterns of many fishing communities in the world. But this is not in the case with the fishing community of the Kashmir valley living along the…
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…
Perspectives on Health, Health Needs and Health Care Services among Select Nomad Tribal Populations of Rajasthan, India
By: BANDANA SACHDEV – Objective: To study the opinion of select nomad tribal communities of Rajasthan State in India on health, health needs, and health care services. Methods: A cross-sectional study involving 1113 nomadic populations in select districts of Jhunjhunu, Sikar and Churu were undertaken. A perception on regarding various health issues among the study…
Dream-Land. The mythical skinheads’ communitarianism
By: MARCO MENICOCCI – Skinheads are a kind of subculture2 with well-defined aesthetical, iconographical and ideological connotations, which are deliberately shown and clearly flaunted. Those kind of people can be easily recognized on the basis of their behaviour, clothes, music styles and phrasing, expression. These aspects help Skinheads show their identities to the others and…