Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.1177/0976343020170204
Arghya Santra, A. K. Kisku
The architecture of houses ever built can broadly be divided into two main divisions: one, polite or modern architecture and another, vernacular architecture. The former ti;pe is built by textually trained architects and the later type is built by the inhabitants themselves through learning the craftmanship from their own experiences. Researches on architecture have been initiated and mostly done by architects and architectural historians. But these researches mainly focussed on the polite architecture. Anthropologists, to some extent, have researched on vernacular architecture but not as much as they have given importance to the study of kinship, religion, societi;, and culture of particular group of people. Reflecting on the existing literature, this paper attempts to illuminate on the nature of architectural research so far conducted by anthropologists and also opportunities for further research.
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Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.1177/0976343020170209
Somenath Bhattacharjee
Political organization is the means through which a society maintains social order and reduces social disorder. It refers to the way power is distributed and embedded in society. Political organization has to do with the way power is used in the co-ordination and regulation of behaviour, in such a way that order is maintained. The present study is done on the Karbi tribal group of Karbi Anglong district, Assam. Their traditional political organization has an immense social significance. In the daily livelihood of the concerned people, local administration and social regulations is being maintained by the traditional political organization. The present study is primarily focused on to know about the role and significance of traditional political organization in the socio-cultural and socio-political aspects of the Karbi people. Data has been collected through intensive field work particularly on the basis of case studies and interviews. It has a major objective to focus on, the significance of territorial administration of the Karbi king.
{"title":"Territorial Administration of a Little Known Tribal King: A Study on the Karbis of Karbi Anglong, Assam","authors":"Somenath Bhattacharjee","doi":"10.1177/0976343020170209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0976343020170209","url":null,"abstract":"Political organization is the means through which a society maintains social order and reduces social disorder. It refers to the way power is distributed and embedded in society. Political organization has to do with the way power is used in the co-ordination and regulation of behaviour, in such a way that order is maintained. The present study is done on the Karbi tribal group of Karbi Anglong district, Assam. Their traditional political organization has an immense social significance. In the daily livelihood of the concerned people, local administration and social regulations is being maintained by the traditional political organization. The present study is primarily focused on to know about the role and significance of traditional political organization in the socio-cultural and socio-political aspects of the Karbi people. Data has been collected through intensive field work particularly on the basis of case studies and interviews. It has a major objective to focus on, the significance of territorial administration of the Karbi king.","PeriodicalId":186168,"journal":{"name":"The Oriental Anthropologist","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132114594","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 : 2017-06-01DOI: 10.1177/0976343020170107
M. Shrivastava
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Pub Date : 2017-06-01DOI: 10.1177/0976343020170109
R. Thakur, R. Gautam
The objective of present study was to find out the pubertal age from adolescent symptoms, and correlation with nutritional status. To achieve the goal a cross sectional study was conducted on sub sample of241 boys and girls (108 girls and 133 boys) of12to18 years of age of district Sagar of Madhya Pradesh. Adolescent symptoms namely age at menarche in girls and hair at auxilian;, moustache and beard were recorded for boys. Beside that anthropometric measurementsheight and weight were also taken following standard procedure. It was found that the underweight boys and girls were on an average 1 year delayed in appearance of adolescent symptom than normal subjects. It is surprising that the stunted girls have on average 6 month early menarche; whereas stunted boys have on an average 8 month delayed appearance of adolescent symptoms. Undernourished girls were found to have an average 2 years 6 month delayed menarche than normal girls.
{"title":"Differential onset of Puberty and Adolescence among girls and boys of a Central Indian Town (Sagar)","authors":"R. Thakur, R. Gautam","doi":"10.1177/0976343020170109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0976343020170109","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of present study was to find out the pubertal age from adolescent symptoms, and correlation with nutritional status. To achieve the goal a cross sectional study was conducted on sub sample of241 boys and girls (108 girls and 133 boys) of12to18 years of age of district Sagar of Madhya Pradesh. Adolescent symptoms namely age at menarche in girls and hair at auxilian;, moustache and beard were recorded for boys. Beside that anthropometric measurementsheight and weight were also taken following standard procedure. It was found that the underweight boys and girls were on an average 1 year delayed in appearance of adolescent symptom than normal subjects. It is surprising that the stunted girls have on average 6 month early menarche; whereas stunted boys have on an average 8 month delayed appearance of adolescent symptoms. Undernourished girls were found to have an average 2 years 6 month delayed menarche than normal girls.","PeriodicalId":186168,"journal":{"name":"The Oriental Anthropologist","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130039261","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 : 2017-06-01DOI: 10.1177/0976343020170108
Aakash Upadhyay, S. Rai
The notion ofblack and white is not something new to us. It is a known fact that Africans face several challenges in finding their place within any kind of sociehj. Like most immigrant groups, black migrants must adjust from being the majority in their home society to being a minorihj in the other society. Black migrants, unlike light-skinned migrants, also face an entirely different set of issues directly related to fitting in with other society. They must reconstruct and redefine their identihJ in terms of their present society's system of race relations and hierarchies. This research will make an attempt to study the present status of African migrants in north campus area. It also takes into account their perception of Delhi as a cihj, a place to migrate and live. Although even in the past they faced problems of racism and social exclusion, the recent incidents of discrimination and criminalization against African community have inspired the research to take place. An attempt has been made to take up their perception of Delhi as a place, as their new home and how they feel about the inclusion and exclusion within a new sociehJ.
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Pub Date : 2017-06-01DOI: 10.1177/0976343020170101
Md. Rajwanul Haque, M. Mostofa, Z. M. Babar
Women empowerment being the subject of concern among the policy makers of developing countries, the integration of women into the development process and their participation in economic activities have been gaining importance in many national development plans but most of the women still have to face physical and/or mental torture in the household level. This study attempts to visualize the women's violence facing status and its adaptive capacihJ. Household survey was adopted among the 1600 reproductive aged women in 16 districts of Rajshahi division. To examine the effect of different socio-economic and demographic variables on women's torture by their husband multivariate logistic regression is employed. This study found that the empowerment level is in better position of some women but their spousal relationship is bad or even ven; bad in some cases irrespective of all levels of education than those women who have good spousal relationship. Further those women who face torture b1J both husband as well as family members irrespective of all levels of education, they occupied better empowerment than those who faced any torture. So it is suggested to provide effective policy to minimize the gap between men and women and to ensure their rights in every sphere of life.
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Pub Date : 2017-06-01DOI: 10.1177/0976343020170113
A. Pandey
The present article attempts to analyse the nature-man-spirit complex concept of Prof L.P. Vidyarthi with reference to the mathematical computation ofPradip K. Singh who pioneered the constancy of nature-man-spirit and tried to prove it through mathematical equations. It is interesting that Prabhat K. Singh also gave light on the question of constant phenomena of nature-man-spirit but the other way round. This attempts to bring out the fallacy of interpretation and limitations of the variables involved in a larger gamut of the phenomenon of nature-man-spirit complex employed by Pradip K. Singh as well as Prabhat K. Singh in their arriving at the conclusion of constancy of nature-man-spirit complex.
本文试图结合开创了“天人精神的恒定性”的普拉迪普·辛格(pradip K. Singh)的数学计算，对L.P. Vidyarthi教授的“天人精神”复合体概念进行分析，并试图通过数学方程来证明这一概念。有趣的是，Prabhat K. Singh也阐明了自然-人-精神的恒定现象的问题，但相反。本文试图揭示Pradip K. Singh和Prabhat K. Singh在得出自然-人-精神复合体的恒常性结论时所使用的自然-人-精神复合体现象的更大范围内所涉及的变量的解释谬误和局限性。
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Pub Date : 2017-06-01DOI: 10.1177/0976343020170114
D. Bezbaruah, G. Devi
The monuments of Assam found scattered throughout the land are placed within the period 5th -19th centunJ A.D. One of the most commonly found types of monuments in the Greater Guwalzati area of Assam·are the religious stntctures which are in use as temples. These monuments have specific legends associated with them and have some root in mythology. One of the important aspects noticed iu some of the monuments is the presence of nonanthropomorphic shrines which are located in the deep interior of the monuments. These shrines are dedicated to particular Hindu God/Goddess, but they lack a proper anthropomorphic form. These are crude stone structures found in association with idols of Gods and Goddesses prepared on metals. The present paper is an attempt to understand this coexistence of anthropomorphic and non anthropomorphic fomz of shrines in the monuments of Greater Guwahati, Assam from anthropological as well as archaeological perspective. The methods applied for collecting data are exploration, unstructured Interview and nonparticipant observation method.
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Pub Date : 2017-06-01DOI: 10.1177/0976343020170112
Ratika Thakur, A. K. Sinha, R. Pathak
Traditional birth care attendants (TBAs) or dais have been main health care providers for women during childbirth, prenatal and post natal care. High mortalihJ rate in India led to training ofTBAs followed by tl1eir incorporation into health institutions. Later schemes and policies of Government of India promoted institutional deliveries. It led to change in role and status ofTBAs at the village level. The present study aimed to explore the current transition of traditional birth care institution in Mashobra block, District Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. It was found that the role ofTBAs was largely taken up by Auxilian; Nurse Midwife (ANMs) and ASHA workers, and TBAs were not included in the priman; health care management at the village level even though, women of the village still looked up to TBAs for primary care. Since the role ofTBAs in tenns of caring and sensitivihJ to cultural needs cannot be overlooked, it was concluded that the existing TBA and health care model should be made stronger by means of training and association ofTBAs with health institution to strengthen maternal and child health at village level.
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