Pub Date : 2021-06-30DOI: 10.31703/gasr.2021(iv-i).05
Ghazala Idrees
Miscarriages are a trauma that devastates the social and family life of the sufferers. They create unexpected social and psychological problems concerning shakeup in endogamy, physical and mental torture, offensive diatribe from the family males and in-laws. Medical reasons like chromosomes abnormalities, uncontrolled growth of cells, and Rh factor, which are apparently evident in such serious conditions, are conveniently ignored and accepted as a natural process. Pakistan is a traditionalist society where miscarriages among women stem from malnourishment and a lack of basic body-enhancing ingredients. Added to this anomaly is the cruel system based on social discrimination, psychological pressures, political structure that does little for women rights, illiteracy, a cursed baradari system, and non-vibrant socio-economic system and an endless load of domestic labor, psychological and physical torture by the in-laws, deficient nutrition and indigenous healers who are more of quacks.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-30DOI: 10.31703/gasr.2021(iv-i).02
A. G. Chaudhry, Aftab Ahmed, M. Irshad
Increased life expectancy and low mortality rates are the major reason for the increasing number of the older population. Developed countries are not only facing this problem, but the number of developing countries are also increasing. Pakistan is also among those countries having a greater portion of the older population. Objective: The present study was focused on exploring the relationship between the educational achievement of older persons and their disease profile. Methods: A structured tool was developed to interview 384 older persons. Data were coded and analyzed in SPSS. Male and female participation was with ratio 70:30 while 53.9% sample was age 60-65 years. Results: Most of the respondents were illiterate, followed by primary, secondary, and matriculation degree holder elders. Hypertension, Heart problem, Diabetes, Arthritis, and Asthma issue are observed among older persons. Diabetes is the only disease reported by OPs with a qualification from illiterate to a Master degree with varied percentiles. Regression model [ y=5.0749+.0646x] with R Square = .0013. Conclusion: We conclude that a relationship exists among study variables but non-significantly while the value of R^2tells us how assertive you can be that each distinct variable has some correlation with the dependent variable, which is the important indicator.
{"title":"Limited Formal Education and its Impact of Disease Profile of Older Persons of Rawalpindi","authors":"A. G. Chaudhry, Aftab Ahmed, M. Irshad","doi":"10.31703/gasr.2021(iv-i).02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31703/gasr.2021(iv-i).02","url":null,"abstract":"Increased life expectancy and low mortality rates are the major reason for the increasing number of the older population. Developed countries are not only facing this problem, but the number of developing countries are also increasing. Pakistan is also among those countries having a greater portion of the older population. Objective: The present study was focused on exploring the relationship between the educational achievement of older persons and their disease profile. Methods: A structured tool was developed to interview 384 older persons. Data were coded and analyzed in SPSS. Male and female participation was with ratio 70:30 while 53.9% sample was age 60-65 years. Results: Most of the respondents were illiterate, followed by primary, secondary, and matriculation degree holder elders. Hypertension, Heart problem, Diabetes, Arthritis, and Asthma issue are observed among older persons. Diabetes is the only disease reported by OPs with a qualification from illiterate to a Master degree with varied percentiles. Regression model [ y=5.0749+.0646x] with R Square = .0013. Conclusion: We conclude that a relationship exists among study variables but non-significantly while the value of R^2tells us how assertive you can be that each distinct variable has some correlation with the dependent variable, which is the important indicator.","PeriodicalId":179879,"journal":{"name":"Global Anthropological Studies Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130984584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-06-30DOI: 10.31703/gasr.2021(iv-i).03
A. Riaz, A. G. Chaudhry, Aftab Ahmed
The biggest health disaster of the 21st century hit the world in Nov-2019 in the Hubei Province of China. The present study focused on the role of socio-cultural practices in the COVID-19 spread. Further geographical mobility discussed as a reason for the spread. It is a qualitative study based on observations, key informants interviews, and desk research. The study revealed three main elements that bring Coronavirus to Gujrat, return of migrant laborers, and pilgrimages, especially from Iran and Saudi Arabia. The paper highlights the role of law enforcement agencies in the implementation of government policies to control the Corona spread. The role of religious institutions carries a significant value as paper research shows how people used the Mosques to get spiritual strength. The study founds that local socio-cultural practices became a major factor behind the high number of Corona cases in Gujrat. Cultural practices and facetious attitudes play a supporting role to spread COVID19 in Gujrat.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-30DOI: 10.31703/gasr.2021(iv-i).01
S. Haider, Homayun Alam, M. Ali
In the contemporary world of a strong digital order, yesterday's political borders give the impression of being not that more important. The old world was determined through its concepts of borders, frontiers, statehood, institutions, or the membership of its citizens. The strongholds of a state are its physical borders, politics (process), polity (structures/institutions) and policy (content/normative). This article analyzes how social orders pass on to normative orders in everyday life in times of COVID-19 and crisis for expatriates in Germany's most international city Frankfurt am Main. It tries to reflect how physical borders are influencing still people and to what extent sources of borders are shaping everyday life.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-30DOI: 10.31703/gasr.2021(iv-i).04
Riaz Ahmad Muazzmi, Faiza Iqbal, Ghyas Ahmad Muazzmi
Shi'a is a popular sect of Muslims all over the world, and they have so many interesting signs and symbols in their culture; it is a need of the hour to explore and get in-depth knowledge about unique symbols which have remarkable latent meanings. This paper deals with the symbolic spiritual interpretation of colors in the Shi'a populace of the Chakwal. An Anthropological qualitative research technique was used to collect empirical data based on a native point of view. The main objectives of the research were to describe the explicit and implicit human cognitive positive & negative connotations of colors and significance of the colors in dresses, 'Alam and ritual performances in the daily life of Shi'a culture. In this paper, an attempt has been made to understand, analyze the historical symbolic meaning of the colors and how socio-culturally people attached with black, red and green colors in the Shi'a community.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-30DOI: 10.31703/gasr.2020(iii-i).03
Amir Zia, Riaz Ahmad Muazzmi, Ghyas Ahmad Muazzmi
Panchayat is a traditional judicial institute mostly remained in practice for centuries in various regions of Punjab. The transformation of traditional platforms into a Lego-political judicial institution has to be seen as the politics of judicial dispensation. The research is an attempt to investigate how political order is maintained through legal cover in social cosmos. The village Panchayat has been an important institution which disposes of numerous disputes/issues for maintenance of power structure. What are the reasons that still support both systems to work contemporarily? There may be clashes of justice in some cases but the law only supports the legal justice system with all its errors and flaws. Why is this injustice with the justice system? As in many countries like India and Bengal both systems have legal recognition. If the traditional justice system is no more working institution then why is this system still working?
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Pub Date : 2020-12-30DOI: 10.31703/gasr.2020(iii-i).01
Amna Mushtaq, Touqir Nasir, A. Sultana
Discourse is a wide-ranging term to cover many forms of human utterances and textual forms of communication. Development through multiple stages gave birth to CDA which bridges the micro-structure of linguistic choices to macro-structures of social reality. Theorists like Van Dijk, Fairclough, and Fowler contributed to its development with the foundation provided by Halliday's SFL. The qualitative research endeavors to analyze 'Red Birds', a novel written by Mohammad Hanif under Huckin's model of CDA to highlight the absurdity of war and international aid. The three dimensions of Fairclough's model are at the background of Huckin's model. The analysis has been carried out at three levels i.e. broad level, sentence level, and word level. A well-thought analysis reveals the nature of war in a region where there is nothing to destroy. It has also been concluded that the aid programs are nothing more than 'making them orphan and then adopting them' which clearly runs incongruous to the spirit of aid.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-30DOI: 10.31703/GASR.2020(III-I).04
Shahid Iqbal, Anwaar Mohyuddin, Riaz Ahmad Muazzmi
This study examines the long-term effects of parental international migration on the schooling of children left behind in Pakistan. Although parents' migration usually benefits children economically but the lack of parental care may cause relational and psychological problems that may affect children's welfare in the long term. The locale of the present study is district Gujrat where the labor migration is considered as the best viable way to cope with an increasing poverty and the scarcity of public resources for sustaining households' incomes. To gain the objectives of the study, a mix methods approach has been used for the collection and analysis of data. In the present study the impact of migration on the education of the children was measured through their enrolment in school, type of institution and level of investment on education, dropout from the school, level of achievement. The results show that parental migration has a positive impact on the enrolment of children and investment on education, but it has negative impact on the dropout and level of achievement especially in case of boys.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-30DOI: 10.31703/gasr.2020(iii-i).02
Arslan Yousaf, Laraib Arshad
The purpose of this study was to determine the cultural role of food myths, people's perceptions of socioecological food pattern and their tales. Myths and food play an important role in culture and lifestyle. How they seek satisfaction from the related socio-ecological foods. People use their cultural myths every day in life, significantly older generations in rural areas. The wider description of food myths and health are investigating the generally used traditional approach that tends to take a more reductionist approach to food myth and health. The various powwow on food myths and health are being explored related to ethical issues of personalized nutrition diet and fitness. Ethnographic methods were used to conducted interviews in Alipur village of Punjab. Survey data were collected from 40 randomly selected household heads from one village, and in-depth interviews were conducted with 26 household heads who shared cultural practices about food myths.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-30DOI: 10.31703/gasr.2020(iii-i).05
A. Sultana, Gulfam
The study deals with the dilemma of son preference and its causes and consequences. The fieldwork was conducted in village 'Danyor' in Gilgit-Baltistan, for the period of six months. Socio-economic survey was conducted from seventy-five households, detailed in-depth interviews were taken from thirty respondents in addition to 35 case studies. The field findings revealed the prevailing perceptions are sons as powerful and socially strong, owner and successor of family property, old age security for parents, symbol of prestige, custodian of family strength and honor etc. On the contrary, daughters are considered as burden of dowry and financial dependency on parents. The study concludes that son preference results in many discriminatory practices against female child such as abortion of female fetus, high infant mortality, lower status of daughters bearing mother in the family, short birth spacing, high probability of husband's remarriage and increased chances of being divorced.
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