tobacco
Prevalence and Patterns of Smoking Behaviour among Adults in Sagar District, Madhya Pradesh, India
By: ASHOK KUMAR YADAV, NANDKISHOR YADAV – Smoking remains a significant public health concern in India, with notable regional variations. This study assessed the prevalence and patterns of smoking behavior among adults in Sagar District, Madhya Pradesh. A community-based cross-sectional design was used, and data were collected from 390 respondents through a structured questionnaire. Descriptive…
Mummies and ‘impossible’ drugs. A new look to the Svetlana Balabanova’s ethnobotanical revisionism
By: GIORGIO SAMORINI – In the 1990s, the Bulgarian chemist Svetlana Balabanova undertook a series of chemical analyses aimed at searching for drugs in almost a thousand human remains from the archaeological sites of four continents. Most of these analyses resulted in findings that were ‘impossible’ from the point of view of the accepted history…
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…
Coltivare le Stelle. La Società del Tabacco nella cultura Crow
By: MARCO MENICOCCI – Riferendosi alle pratiche rituali dei Crow connesse con il culto del Tabacco, Lowie, l’etnologo cui dobbiamo la maggior parte dei documenti su questo popolo, dichiara: “In short the Tobacco ceremony resembles not a unified plot but rather a chain of casually coupled episodes from the tribal repertory” (Lowie 1935: 296). Il…