Modernity
The Buttocks of the House: Matrilineal Succession Among the Aghem of Wum, North West Cameroon – Ancestral Logic, Social Function, and the Challenge of Contemporary Reform
Aghem, Cameroon Grassfields, Customary law, inheritance, kinship, matrilineal succession, Menchum Division, Modernity, seeh’ndugu, Women, WumBy: CALISTUS ABANG – The Aghem of Wum in Menchum Division are among the most ethnographically distinct groups in the Cameroon Grassfields, due in part to their long history of matrilineal succession – a method of determining descent and transferring property and leadership through the female line. The Aghem term for the matrilineage, ‘seeh’ndugu’, means…
Civic Education Policy of Travancore: Rereading a Letter
By: VISHNU K.M. NAMBOODIRI, AGNEY G.K. – This paper is a theoretical analysis of a letter written by the missionaries of Travancore to the British Resident in 1822, which explained the condition of Christianity in the region and the progress of education as well as the policies adopted for educational and religious transmission. It is…
Change and Continuity: An Ethnographic Perspective of the Sagra Misawa Festival of the Tiwas In Assam
By: SIWANI MECH, HASHMAT HABIB – A festival is the culmination of an ethnic group’s collective way of expressing its beliefs, values, and emotions via ritual and performance. The Tiwa’s, like other ethnic groups in Assam, have made important contributions to the state’s social and cultural fabric, and they, too, observe a number of festivals…
Profiling Modern Risks. An Appraisal of the Works of Bauman, Beck, Castel, Giddens and Baudrillard
By: MAXIMILIANO E. KORSTANJE – Undoubtedly, the fear can be seen a grounding emotion broadly studied by psychology, sociology and anthropology for many years. Every end of millennium represents for human beings a new embodiment of their beliefs, their production, forms of consumption and even their hierarchical lines of authority. As privileged witnesses of the…