Pub Date : 2021-09-29DOI: 10.1177/2277436X211043631
Binu Dorjee, P. Saha, J. Sen
The present study assesses the association of different socio-economic variables with children’s BMI-for-age z-scores (BAZ) and influence of children’s height on BAZ, a proxy index of nutritional status. The study was undertaken among 322 girls belonging to the Bengali Hindu Caste Population (BHCP) aged 5–13 years. These girls were the students of two schools located in Siliguri town of West Bengal, India. The prevalence of short stature, underweight and overweight was assessed using the World Health Organization’s (WHO, 2007, Growth Reference Data for 5–19 years) references. The statistical analyses used were St. Nicolas House Analysis (SNHA), analysis of variance (ANOVA), linear and logistic regression. The prevalence of underweight, overweight and obesity was 19.3%, 17.8% and 5.9%, respectively. The prevalence of short stature (−2.0 HAZ) was 8.7%. The range of BAZ was from −5.69 to 4.15. The variation of BAZ explained by height-for-age z-scores (HAZ) was 11.4%. The BAZ was observed to be associated with mothers’ occupation as revealed by 2% variation through SNHA analysis. The present study observed the usefulness of SNHA for non-parametric data with unequal sub-sample or categories. However, SNHA was not devised to assess the direction and magnitude of variables of interest. The finding of the present study supports the use of BAZ as a proxy adiposity measure among the overweight/obese populations and populations with normal growth in height. The study further supports the recommendations that mother empowerment can help improve nutritional status of a girl child.
本研究评估了不同社会经济变量与儿童年龄bmi z-score (BAZ)的关系，以及儿童身高对BAZ(营养状况的代理指标)的影响。这项研究是在322名年龄在5-13岁的孟加拉印度教种姓(BHCP)女孩中进行的。这些女孩是印度西孟加拉邦西里古里镇两所学校的学生。根据世界卫生组织(世卫组织，2007年，5-19年增长参考数据)的参考资料，评估了身材矮小、体重不足和超重的流行程度。统计分析采用St. Nicolas House Analysis (SNHA)、方差分析(ANOVA)、线性回归和逻辑回归。体重过轻、超重和肥胖的患病率分别为19.3%、17.8%和5.9%。身材矮小(−2.0 HAZ)的患病率为8.7%。BAZ的取值范围为−5.69 ~ 4.15。由年龄-身高z分数(HAZ)解释的BAZ变异率为11.4%。通过SNHA分析，发现BAZ与母亲职业相关，差异为2%。本研究观察到SNHA对具有不等子样本或类别的非参数数据的有用性。然而，SNHA不是用来评估感兴趣的变量的方向和大小的。本研究的发现支持在超重/肥胖人群和身高正常增长人群中使用BAZ作为替代肥胖指标。这项研究进一步支持了赋予母亲权力有助于改善女童营养状况的建议。
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Pub Date : 2021-08-11DOI: 10.1177/2277436X211028973
Thanuja Mummidi
The relation between indigenous people and development agencies is much discussed in anthropology (Bicker et al., 2004; Pottier et al., 2003; Sillitoe et al., 2002). This relation is more often than not, one of conflict. A conflict that builds from distrust by the people on the development agent and disrespect from the latter on the former. The research on which this article is based addresses this conflict by recording the voice of the Konda Reddis, an indigenous group, through video for development communication. The video recorded peoples’ responses periodically to the key question, ‘is life in the hills or in the resettlement colony better, and why?’ Playing back these videos to the different respondents, including officials responsible for the development programme, in between responses was attempted to help them reflect on what they had said earlier in relation to what others had said, allowing room for them to reflect and respond again. The camera and video recording became the medium of real space and time, bringing the Konda Reddis, development agents and the anthropologist in conversation with each other.
在人类学中，土著居民与发展机构之间的关系被广泛讨论(Bicker et al.， 2004;Pottier et al.， 2003;silitoe et al.， 2002)。这种关系往往是一种冲突。这种冲突源于人们对发展代理人的不信任和后者对前者的不尊重。这篇文章所基于的研究，通过发展传播视频记录了Konda Reddis(一个土著群体)的声音，解决了这一冲突。这段视频定期记录了人们对一个关键问题的回答，这个问题是:“住在山区还是在移民聚居区的生活更好?为什么?”“将这些视频播放给不同的受访者，包括负责开发项目的官员，在他们的回答之间，试图帮助他们反思自己之前所说的话，并将其与他人所说的话联系起来，给他们反思和再次回答的空间。”相机和视频记录成为了真实空间和时间的媒介，将Konda redis、开发代理人和人类学家带到彼此的对话中。
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1177/2277436X211005908
Vandana Kumari, V. Srivastava, R. Sahani
Identities make solidarities of one variety while they disrupt larger solidarities. Identities also are socially constructed by political leaders and the state. Jaunsar-Bawar is declared as a ‘Scheduled Tribe Area’ by the government of India. Hence, those living in the region even when they identify themselves as belonging to privileged castes enjoy the benefits of being categorised as ‘Scheduled Tribes’or STs. These privileged castes have come to dominate politics in the region and are depriving the really deprived Scheduled Castes of the benefits of development. The latter is becoming politically restive and are resisting upper-caste dominance. This article endeavours to study how the politics of identities affect the course of development along with the dynamics of conflict based on fieldwork data collected from the region.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1177/2277436X211008315
Priyankar Kanrar, N. Som, Subho Roy
We examined how the perception/beliefs towards lifestyle and the actual lifestyle are related to body composition, blood pressure and blood sugar levels among Santals and Hindu caste populations using the cultural consonance model. The study involved 210 individuals (109 Bengali Hindu and 101 Santals), aged 18–50 years living in the city of Howrah, West Bengal, India. Principal component analyses were performed to extract the components from the variables used in perception towards lifestyle. Multiple linear regression analyses and multivariate analysis of covariance were used to understand association of body composition, blood pressure and blood sugar levels with both the perception towards and actual lifestyle and ethnicity, respectively. Results showed that there is a difference between perception towards and actual pattern of lifestyle among the members of two ethnic groups, indicating low cultural consonance. However, both the variables were associated with body composition, blood pressure and blood sugar levels, but not ethnicity, after removing the effects of socio-demographic and lifestyle variables. We conclude that shared knowledge and perception towards healthy lifestyle among individuals, perhaps encoded in own culture, often fail to get translated in actual lifestyle pattern and eventually affect physical health.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1177/2277436x211016688
P. C. Joshi
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1177/2277436x20970299
S. Pathak
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1177/2277436X20970293
K. Yadav
The fifth chapter, ‘The Document in the Digital’, brings us to the current regime of biometric and cloud-based identity. The chapter explores the implications of these technologies on discourses of citizenship, welfare and surveillance. The creation, legitimisation and universalisation of Aadhaar as the mobile ID that, like a parasite, has engulfed other genres of ID documents is the main theme of this chapter. This chapter is based on the ethnography of porters, their hopes and stakes associated with welfare claims in the making of this new ID genre. The book reflects a painstaking work from the part of the author. It provides a formidable base on which further researches can be undertaken on practices of identification in India.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1177/2277436X20968982
P. Khattri
cited references of theories and concepts are connected with the present case studies that add to the uniqueness of this book. The book meticulously talks about the role and impact of outsiders in such movements. But it would have been more enriching if it could connect them with larger indigenous movements of the world, explaining the processes in which people relate with those movements and get influenced. Where the book is filled with narratives of tribal people, while reading, one may often feel the absence of the narratives/perceptions/views of outsiders such as people in administration, policy making and leadership. The book strongly mentions the methodological aspects of how the researcher got access to the villages and tribal leaders, established rapport, conducted interviews. Due to the long duration of his continued visits, the author is able to provide a holistic overview of what happened to people during and after the displacement. It would be more appropriate if the pictures would have been placed inside the chapters and not in the last.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-18DOI: 10.1177/2277436X211011289
G. Begum
Information on the dynamics of consanguinity is always important for public health strategy. It provides a direct roadmap for healthcare providers and health policymakers to make people aware of the consequences of consanguinity. The present study aims to investigate the attitude of the Muslim people practising consanguinity in the char (river island) areas of Barpeta district in Assam. It intends to seek a cultural explanation behind the practice of consanguinity. The study was conducted cross-sectionally among the Muslims living in different villages of the temporary, semi-permanent and permanent river islands of Barpeta district in Assam. A total of 556 married couples were included in the study. Of these, 103 couples are consanguineous and the rest 453 are non-consanguineous. To study the prevalence of congenital disorders, a sample of 153 males and 121 female inbred children of the consanguineous couples and 701 male and 571 female children of the non-consanguineous parents have been included in the study. The prevalence of consanguineous marriage in the chars was found to be 18.53% and the average coefficient of inbreeding was 0.05996796. Of the consanguineous marriages, the most favoured type was between the first cousins (63.11%), followed by half first-cousin marriages (12.62%). Altogether 14.60% of inbred were found to have some type of congenital disorder against 0.31% non-inbred. In the chars of Barpeta, it is not only ignorance but poor economic condition is also a reason behind the practise of consanguinity. Consanguineous marriage provides means of escaping the expenditure incurred in dowry or bridewealth payment. With seasonal floods, river erodes their village and crops completely every year. Family remains the sole source of stability and security. Consanguineous marriage therefore forms a sort of social capital as they are a source of secured and stable married life in the most hostile ecological settings where these people are living. Social security is of utmost priority behind these marriages in the char.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-29DOI: 10.1177/2277436X211005922
Madhulika Sahoo, J. Pradhan
The modern healthcare system often experiences difficulties in understanding and providing care to indigenous communities. This is mainly because of the cultural distance between mainstream healing methods and indigenous health belief systems. The Lancet series (2006) on indigenous health discussed the integration of Western and traditional health practices and identified the importance of this integration for betterment of the human world. To understand what health and health care signify to tribal communities in India, it is necessary to examine the whole social system and the beliefs and behaviours related to their culture that provides meaning to people. This study examines the traditional medicinal practices and socio-cultural healthcare beliefs and behaviours of diplaced tribal communities in Odisha and Chattisgarh. The current study has used the health belief model (HBM) to examine the perceived susceptibility and severity of diseases among tribal communities, pertaining to their reproductive healthcare beliefs and practices.
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