culture
Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Indigenous Food Tradition: The 101 Vegetable Practice of the Bodo Tribe during Bwisagu
By: DHRUBAJYOTI NATH, S. SIMON JOHN, HANGMA BORO – Food is a fundamental component of a community’s cultural heritage. Beyond serving as a source of nourishment, it also reflects the community’s deep-rooted traditions and cultural values. Dietary habits are often shaped by belief systems, traditional wisdom, and the natural environment. Over generations, traditional knowledge and…
Cultural and Health Dynamics of Fast-Food Consumption in Rural West Bengal, India: A Study from an Anthropological Perspective
By: SATARUPA SARKAR, ABHIJIT DAS – In recent years, significant changes in lifestyle and food habits have occurred in both rural and urban India. Fast food consumption has increased, affecting health, nutrition, and culture overall. Consumption of fast food is particularly high among children and youth, especially high school and college students, as well as…
Socio-Cultural Dynamics of the Caste System
Caste System, culture, Hierarchy, Modernization and Globalization, Sanskritization, Secularization, WesternizationBy: HARISHCHANDRA MISHRA – This paper presents an analysis of the caste system as a cultural construct. Esteemed social anthropologists and sociologists have perceived caste as a set of cultural beliefs and practices prevalent in Indian society. Caste is traditionally viewed as a cultural system shaped by specific norms and values that dictate the interrelations…
Tribal education in Kashmir: overcoming socio-cultural barriers to inclusive learning
By: MANSOOR AHMAD, ANEESA SHAFI – The educational remoteness of Scheduled Tribes (STs) is still a major issue in many countries, especially in India. This study provides an insightful examination of the educational disadvantage of the Scheduled Tribes in the particular setting of Kashmir, India. The study examines socio-economic, cultural and political aspects of the…
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…
COVID-19 and Challenges of Tribal Livelihood: Study on Perception of Oraon Community of Rarha Village, Jharkhand
By: MANOJ RAUL, DIPANKAR CHATTERJEE, ABHIJIT GHOSAL – During Covid-19, sustainable livelihood practice is one of the major challenging issues for every individual, community, and group member. The Oraon is one of the dominant agricultural-based tribes of Jharkhand state. The studied village is a multi-ethnic, semi-urban, and forest-covered village situated 25 km from Ranchi city.…
The Symbolic Significance of the Egg in Khasi Ritual and Culture
By: CLARISSA CANDACE GIRI – This paper seeks to examine the much-neglected role of the egg in the Khasi creation myth and their connection to its frequent usage in the rites of the original religion of the Khasi people. The paper looks at a few creation myths involving the egg, from different perspectives around the…
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…
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…
Healing and the land: cultural perspectives on health and environment. The case of Aboriginal Australia
Aboriginal, Australia, burning, colonization, Conservation, culture, Environment, Europeans, fire, health, humans, Indigenous, land, Nature, New South Wales, totemism, Victoria, wellbeing, WesternBy: CHIARA TELLARINI – In this article, it is questioned whether and how cultural values and ideas play a role in influencing the ways in which we, as humans, behave towards nature, and how then we end up shaping it differently; this is done by bringing at first the instance of “Western” conceptions on 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…
Pain: How does Anthropology look at it? The Suffering of Body and Mind
By: RAVINDER SINGH – This Paper attempts to explore pain, social and physical, their metaphors and its suffering in and beyond body. Further it reviews evidences for neuro-chemical and neural overlap between social and physical pain. Besides it has explored consequences of this overlap and follows sociocultural aspects of pain in the anthropological lens. It…
Mauritius: Culture Crossings and its Consequences
By: SYLVIE MAURER – Mauritius has been crossed by a wide variety of cultures from the inception of its population through the present. As a result of the waves of different peoples, and therefore, cultures, crossing the island, Mauritius now houses a multicultural “rainbow” population. However, the cultures in place are not given equal social…
Perceiving Pain: Health, Culture and Ritual
By: DAN E. HOUSER, GERALD W. ZAMPONI – For most of us, coming into contact with some form of pain is a daily occurrence: it is both a usual part of the humanexperience and lexicon. Not surprisingly, pain has many differing and contextually specific meanings, and although it isnearly universal across the realm of human…
The struggling Tharu youth. Study of awareness among the Tharu tribe of India
By: SUBHASH CHANDRA VERMA – The Tharu tribe is a famous tribal community of India. Tharu youths play a very dominant role in their community but they are not connected with the main stream of development. It is just a few numbers of them that are trying to get higher education and advanced technology. They…
Former British Colony. Mauritians in the Face of Globalisation
By: SYLVIE MAURER – Mauritius is a former French and British colony in the Indian Ocean. Now, this island country has become a multicultural and multiethnic society due to several waves of immigration from Europe, Africa and Asia, all through the past three centuries. Each wave of immigration brought in new peoples along with their…
Embodying difference. Health care, culture and childbearing through the experiences of Moroccan migrant women in Italy
By: IRENE CAPELLI – This article raises some questions on reproductive and maternal health among Moroccan migrant women in Italy. I will focus on women’s experiences of childbearing in the framework of their immigration processes and in relation to some ‘culturally sensitive’ measures fostered by public health services in dealing with migrant users. In doing…
“One Culture – Many Perspectives”. Understanding Cultural Diversity Through Rural Livelhioods. A Reflection from the Rural Craft Communities in Kandy, Sri Lanka
By: CHANDIMA DILHANI DASKON – There is no universally accepted definition for the concept of culture. Culture should be understood as a specific and unique phenomenon that affirms community’s identity and diversity. Judging one culture by the values of another, over-simplifies the distinctiveness and the wealth of a particular culture. Recognising, understanding and respecting dynamics…
Does Indigenous Knowledge have anything to deal with Sustainable Development?
By: ASHOK DAS GUPTA – In this paper, the author investigates that whether indigenous knowledge has anything to do with sustainable development. First of all this has been targeted to work out that how could knowledge be treated as a integral part of culture that has very broadly a material and a non-material part. This…
Life at the Franco-Italian Concordia station in Antarctica for a voyage to Mars: ethological study and anthropological perspectives
adaptation, Antarctica, Concordia station, culture, human behavior, isolated and confined group, microsocietyBy: CAROLE TAFFORIN – For preparing the next interplanetary missions, this study proposes an ethological analysis of the social group building and individual strategies of a multicultural and mixed gender team in isolation and confinement conditions found in a polar mission. A model of adaptation to space environment is stated and implies physiological, psychological and…
La natura umana. Una prospettiva evolutiva
By: FRANCISCO JOSÈ AYALA – Il 21 maggio 2001 il Prof. Francisco Josè Ayala tenne una lezione dottorale memorabile in occasione del conferimento della laurea ad honorem in Scienze Naturali presso l’Università degli Studi di Bologna. Fu un’occasione speciale in cui un noto esperto di genetica evolutiva faceva il punto sulle conoscenze in campo paleoantropologico…
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…