Women
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…
Hypertension and nutritional status among the women of Bharia and Gond tribe of Patalkot region District-Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh, India
By: AJAY KUMAR AHIRWAR, RAJESH KUMAR GAUTAM, PRIYANKA AGRIYA – – Hypertension is a major health problem worldwide, killing 9.4 million people annually. Ignoring high blood pressure can lead to life-threatening complications. The present cross-sectional study surveyed 198 women (129 Bharia and 69 Gond) aged 20-74 from Patalkot, Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh, India. Data was collected…
in MiscellaneaIl femminile nelle culture native americane
Arikara, Caccia, cibo, fulmine, Native American, Pawnee, pene, Pueblo de Acoma, puerperio, sangue mestruale, sesso, vulva vagina, WomenBy: SANDRA BUSATTA – La Terra/Pietra ebbe origine dalla vecchia Nokomish ed era sola. Allora la Pietra costruì una ciotola e la immerse nel terreno; lentamente il terriccio contenuto nella ciotola si trasformò in sangue e cominciò a mutare forma. Così il sangue si trasformò in Wabus, il Coniglio e questo assunse sembianze umane e…
A Comparative Study of Morbidity Patterns in Elderly Women of Rural and Urban Areas of Upper Assam, India
By: DALI DUTTA – Aging is a natural process with its own dynamics, largely outside of human control. The elderly have distinct health issues, different from those of younger adults. This study focused on the socio-demographic profile and morbidity patterns among elderly women in Upper Assam. Conducting a cross-sectional study, women aged 60 and above…
Unmasking Injustice: A Comprehensive Review of Violence Against Women in India
By: NAJMA ANJUM MIRCHAL, TARUN JOSHI – Violence against women in India encompasses a range of abuses, including physical, sexual, and psychological harm. This analysis aims to shed light on the issue within India’s patriarchal society, where such abuse has become normalized. Despite laws aimed at protecting women, their status often remains unchanged, highlighting the…
The Gift of Lah-Suk: The Traditional Practice of the Konyak Tribe of the Tobu Area
By: AMO B. KONYAK, LUCY ZEHOL – As the title indicates, the present work is to analyze and understand the traditional practice of gift-giving among the Konyak of the Tobu area. In recent years, many changes have taken place in the social and cultural front that resulted in the giving up of traditional practices such…
Witch-Hunt Accusations and Violence against Women among Misings of Assam, India
By: DINESH MISHONG, APPARAO THAMMINAINA – Witchcraft and witch-hunt cases are frequently reported in the news media from Assam, India. Most often, women are the victims of witch-hunts in this region. They identify a witch based on suspicion without any evidence of harm being done. Upon identification as a witch by a mibo (a ritual…
Health after Menopause: A Study on Anthropometric Measurements and their Relationship to Postmenopausal Health among the Tribal Mishing Women of Guwahati City, Assam
By: RITA TAID, B. LANGSTIEH – Menopause just like birth and death is an inevitable part of a woman’s life. This event is significant as it is believed to have a substantial impact on a woman’s life. The objective of this paper is to assess the age-specific variance in anthropometric measurements and adiposity levels among…
Body as a site of fight: Women and smallpox vaccination in Travancore
By: AGNEY G.K., PRATHEEP P.S. – Due to the heavy death toll inflicted, smallpox was an abhorred visitor in Travancore (the southernmost princely state in pre-independent India). Ayurvedic medicines and prayers to epidemic deities were the only curative techniques practised by the populace before the introduction of vaccination to the princely state in the early…
A study on high-risk Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) types 16 & 18 infections among the women of the Barak Valley in Northeast India
By: PRITAM DAS, GULRUKH BEGUM, SUNIL THAKUR, PULAKES PURKAIT, DIPNEET KAUR – Despite India has a high incidence of cervical cancer, there aren’t enough large-scale population-based investigations on the prevalence and genotype distribution of the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). Out of the several high-risk types, HPV-16 and HPV-18 are primarily responsible for the bulk of…
Health Status of Menopausal Women: A Study on Menopausal Health of Mishing Women in Assam
By: RITA TAID, B. LANGSTIEH – Menopause is a significant event that occurs in every woman’s life. The main findings on menopausal health reveal that the average age of menopause varies slightly between countries, which shows that fertility drops early in life of those women who attain menopause earlier. Menopause is not only a major…
Attitudes towards Menopause and Menopause related symptoms: A cross sectional study among the Mising Tribal women of Majuli River Island, India
By: PARISMITA SAIKIA – The main aim of the present study is to understand the attitudes of Mising menopausal women toward menopause and menopause related symptoms. For the purpose of the study, Majuli, one of the greatest river islands in the world is selected as the study area. The present study is a cross sectional…
Labour Market Participation and Marital Violence against Women in Rural Bangladesh: Men Reports
By: RIPON KUMAR SARKAR, K.M. RABIUL KARIM – The main objective of this research was to examine the impact of women’s employment on marital violence in rural Bangladesh. The present study findings reveales that different factors are related to the association between women’s labour market participation and marital violence. For example, women’s age, women’s education,…
Coping with the weight-centric model of health care: the role of interoception
By: FRANCO VIVIANI – Interoception (IC) is mostly self-awareness. IC is a little sense constantly monitoring how we feel inside. It can go awry, potentially distorting our body image. This paper considers different aspects of this sort of sixth sense and its role in a medical and social milieu dominated by the stigma for oversized…
Socio-Demographic profile and reproductive health status of slum women of Bhilai, Chhattisgarh
By: PBHUMIKA TIWARI, PRIYANKA AZAD, SUBAL DAS – A slum is a residential area with substandard housing that is poorly serviced and/or overcrowded, and therefore unhealthy, unsafe, and socially undesirable. The aim of the present study is to explore the socio-demographic and reproductive health status of slum dwelling women of Bhilai, Chhattisgarh. A cross-sectional study…
The Anthropology of Dress: A Study in the change of Assamese women dress in Assam
By: SIWANI MECH, DEBARSHI PRASAD NATH – As a cultural artefact, the dress holds an important position in everyday life. Other than covering one’s body, it is representational and can be linked to questions of identity, nationalism, status, class and caste. This paper highlights the importance of clothing as a significant part of material culture…
Effect of Gendered Norms on Women’s Labor Force Participation in Northern Rural Bangladesh
By: RIPON KUMAR SARKAR – Labor force participation for women is considered as an imperative sign for achieving gender equity. Like men women’s participation in the labor force can play an important role in the economic growth of a developing country like Bangladesh. However, due to socio cultural factors and slow growth in the rates…
Ciocche e trecce: la donna tra i suoi nodi
By: NADIA BERTI – This work shows the role of women’s hair in society and in history. The work was presented at the ninth edition of the festival “The violence illustrated” of Bologna, within Open (h) Air, a Paola Luciani project. Hidden under the hair’s symbol there is the image of a woman free to…
An overview of Somatic Symptoms among the two Menopausal Groups
By: DOYEL DASGUPTA – Present study aims to find out the prevalence of somatic symptoms and the factors influencing the onset of symptoms among the Bengali speaking Hindu menopausal women of Eastern India. A total number of 371 women (30-55 years) were selected as study participants and they were divided into two groups on the…
Stature Estimation from the Dimensions of Foot in Females
By: JITENDER PRATAP SINGH, MAHESH CHAND MEENA, YASHODA RANI, GIRISH KUMAR SHARMA – Footprint dimensions are strongly correlated with stature and thus give better prediction of stature than the other measurements. It is further concluded that the reliability and prediction of stature by the regression method is better than that of the division factor method.…
Interrogating Psycho-Social Problems of Muslim Women. The Indian Experience
By: INTEKHAB HOSSAIN, SYED ABUL HAFIZ MOINUDDIN – The present paper is an endeavour to examine and emphasize the issues of psycho-social circumstances of Indian Muslim women in sociological perspective with special indication to their socio-economic, employment, educational attainment, rights and privileges, hindrances and restrictions, role and status as well as their multifarious problems from…
Medea è più colpevole di Achille? Donne e cadaveri, ovvero la sindrome di Absirto
By: VALERIA PALUMBO – Esiste un rapporto “privilegiato” tra donne e riti della morte e quindi cura dei cadaveri. Questo vuol dire che esistono tabù più forti: è il motivo per cui le donne che, nel corso della storia, li hanno violati hanno creato maggiore scandalo. Dalla leggendaria Medea, passando per Fulvia, Irene di Bisanzio…