Pub Date : 2021-10-26DOI: 10.31901/24566802.2021/46.1-3.2060
S. Padhy
Plant life is ever devoted for the benevolence of others. The philosophy of selfless sacrifice is to be learned from the plants. This ethnobotanical theme narrated by Srikrishna to his friends while tending the cows in the epic Bhagavata, is the point of discussion in this communication.
{"title":"Ancient Science of India 1: Ethnobotanical Visions of Young Srikrishna, Reflected in the Epic Bhagavata","authors":"S. Padhy","doi":"10.31901/24566802.2021/46.1-3.2060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31901/24566802.2021/46.1-3.2060","url":null,"abstract":"Plant life is ever devoted for the benevolence of others. The philosophy of selfless sacrifice is to be learned from the plants. This ethnobotanical theme narrated by Srikrishna to his friends while tending the cows in the epic Bhagavata, is the point of discussion in this communication.","PeriodicalId":85684,"journal":{"name":"The Eastern anthropologist","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81152109","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 : 2021-09-25DOI: 10.31901/24566802.2021/44.1-3.2057
Srinivasu Kodi
ABSTRACT Fishing is one of the fulltime activity for fishermen which provides livelihood for them. The occupation of fishing has been executed by the engaging indigenous knowledge to thrive their livelihoods. In fact, the earlier studies related to fishing communities are explored through the ethnographic accounts to understand society and culture. The fishing communities are having lower literacy and economic development in the studied area but having wider range of knowledge over the marine ecology and fishing methods is an interesting aspect. This paper provided how the fishing communities are employed different type of fishing nets, boats for fishing expeditions by engaging indigenous knowledge. And, it is also provided the engagement of fishermen’s knowledge to identify different school fish by locating fishing grounds in the sea.
{"title":"Indigenous Knowledge and Engaging Marine Fishing Practices in North Coastal Andhra Pradesh","authors":"Srinivasu Kodi","doi":"10.31901/24566802.2021/44.1-3.2057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31901/24566802.2021/44.1-3.2057","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Fishing is one of the fulltime activity for fishermen which provides livelihood for them. The occupation of fishing has been executed by the engaging indigenous knowledge to thrive their livelihoods. In fact, the earlier studies related to fishing communities are explored through the ethnographic accounts to understand society and culture. The fishing communities are having lower literacy and economic development in the studied area but having wider range of knowledge over the marine ecology and fishing methods is an interesting aspect. This paper provided how the fishing communities are employed different type of fishing nets, boats for fishing expeditions by engaging indigenous knowledge. And, it is also provided the engagement of fishermen’s knowledge to identify different school fish by locating fishing grounds in the sea.","PeriodicalId":85684,"journal":{"name":"The Eastern anthropologist","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73122892","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 : 2021-04-15DOI: 10.31901/24566802.2021/45.1-3.2058
Bhagavatula Venkata Raviprasad
ABSTRACT The present study among the Nepali, in Andaman and Nicobar Islands is the first report on their location and existence of this community in South Andaman District of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. One hundred and fourteen individuals in Nepalibasti of Port Blair city constitute the sample for the present demographic study. The Nepali population is demographically young and occupationally diversified. Majority can sign their name in Hindi and Nepali. They had migrated to Andaman and Nicobar Islands more than five decades ago ‘voluntarily’ and many stated that ‘one among their kin’ who already had been here persuaded and assisted them to migrate. The Nepali are yet to be ‘assimilated’ like Bengali or Bhantu or Moplah. The Nepali children born in Andaman and Nicobar Islands are still young and dependent on their parents economically and also emotionally.
{"title":"Demographic Study of the Nepali in Andaman and Nicobar Islands","authors":"Bhagavatula Venkata Raviprasad","doi":"10.31901/24566802.2021/45.1-3.2058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31901/24566802.2021/45.1-3.2058","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The present study among the Nepali, in Andaman and Nicobar Islands is the first report on their location and existence of this community in South Andaman District of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. One hundred and fourteen individuals in Nepalibasti of Port Blair city constitute the sample for the present demographic study. The Nepali population is demographically young and occupationally diversified. Majority can sign their name in Hindi and Nepali. They had migrated to Andaman and Nicobar Islands more than five decades ago ‘voluntarily’ and many stated that ‘one among their kin’ who already had been here persuaded and assisted them to migrate. The Nepali are yet to be ‘assimilated’ like Bengali or Bhantu or Moplah. The Nepali children born in Andaman and Nicobar Islands are still young and dependent on their parents economically and also emotionally.","PeriodicalId":85684,"journal":{"name":"The Eastern anthropologist","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84162985","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 : 2021-04-05DOI: 10.31901/24566802.2021/43.1-3.2056
N. Geda
ABSTRACT Over the last few decades, despite progress made in improving female’s decision-making dependence, the challenges posed by female’s low status in Sub-Saharan African countries (SSA) are still influential research agenda. The aim of this scooping review is to assess the effects of women’s autonomy on healthcare decision-making. The researchers did the study based on 15 articles selected from PubMed and Google Scholar. The selection deliberated only those published in the last 15 years, primarily based on nationally representative findings from Sub-Saharan African countries. The selected studies focused on decision-making autonomy on healthcare parameters. All studies reported significant positive impacts of female’s decision-making autonomy on children’s health, and women’s well-being, such as improved children’s nutrition, maternal and children’s well-being, reduced mortality rate, and health service utilization. However, the impacts were more substantial or visible at the community level than at individual or household levels. The study recommended strengthening womens’ involvement in education, promoting peer education, improving husband-wife communication, promoting rural women’s participation in economic activities, and owning assets. More importantly, any intervention should focus more on community norms than only individual decision-making per se.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-15DOI: 10.31901/24566802.2020/42.1-3.2055
M. Muhibbu-Din
ABSTRACT The paper examines the debate on science of politics and its relevance to African social formations. The scientific approach as applied in the natural science experiments is not replicable in the study of social phenomena. Scientific study of social phenomenon is limited and not generalizable like the pure sciences such as mathematics or engineering. This work examines the theoretical debate around the possibility or otherwise of a universally valid social science, the tyranny of Western social sciences and African social reality, and the imperative of developing independent African scholarship responsive to local social realities. Historical and explorative qualitative research design is used. Findings show statistical approach and comparative methods have made significant contribution to the scientific study of social reality. Nevertheless, the nature of what is studied is rooted in cultural peculiarities, and cannot be universal. Western social science theories are Eurocentric and teleological. African scholarship needs socially relevant theories for advancing precepts, theories with cultural imprint relevant to local social realities.
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This paper is a story about lifelong learning in a Swedish context. The need for lifelong learning is a recurring issue in the political discussions and media reporting. According to Delors (1996), lifelong learning is a prerequisite for modern society. A common way to discuss lifelong learning is to make a difference between formal, informal and non-formal learning. According to Dunn (2003), non-formal learning is about skills, knowledge, attitudes and behaviors that people acquire in their daily lives. We on the other hand believe that all kinds of learning always include the above concepts and that the discussion of lifelong learning is about creating certain subject. Our aim is to visualize desirable subjects through discourse analyze (Foucault,1980). The empirical material consists of curricula and syllabi for a project at the University of Gavle in which individuals with intellectual disabilities are offered education at post-secondary level.
{"title":"Lifelong Learning for All!","authors":"Katarina Florin, Erika Åkerblom, E. Hedlund","doi":"10.30935/MJOSBR/9599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30935/MJOSBR/9599","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is a story about lifelong learning in a Swedish context. The need for lifelong learning is a recurring issue in the political discussions and media reporting. According to Delors (1996), lifelong learning is a prerequisite for modern society. A common way to discuss lifelong learning is to make a difference between formal, informal and non-formal learning. According to Dunn (2003), non-formal learning is about skills, knowledge, attitudes and behaviors that people acquire in their daily lives. We on the other hand believe that all kinds of learning always include the above concepts and that the discussion of lifelong learning is about creating certain subject. Our aim is to visualize desirable subjects through discourse analyze (Foucault,1980). The empirical material consists of curricula and syllabi for a project at the University of Gavle in which individuals with intellectual disabilities are offered education at post-secondary level.","PeriodicalId":85684,"journal":{"name":"The Eastern anthropologist","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84525161","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 : 2020-06-05DOI: 10.31901/24566802.2020/39.1-3.2053
Renu Jethi
{"title":"Food and Nutritional Security through Nutrition-Sensitive Interventions in the Hills of Uttarakhand, India","authors":"Renu Jethi","doi":"10.31901/24566802.2020/39.1-3.2053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31901/24566802.2020/39.1-3.2053","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85684,"journal":{"name":"The Eastern anthropologist","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87208820","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 : 2020-04-15DOI: 10.31901/24566802.2020/39.1-3.2250
G. Temaj
ABSTRACT The data present distribution of the ABO and Rh (D) blood groups between inhabitants of southwest Kosovo (District of Prizren). It is shown that frequency of allele O is higher followed by frequency of allele A and B. the frequency of Rh- negative varies from 8 to 21 percent. The present study shows to be similar with results reported in West European Countries.
{"title":"The Distribution of the ABO and Rhesus Blood Groups among the Albanian Population in the Southwest Part of Kosovo (District of Prizren)","authors":"G. Temaj","doi":"10.31901/24566802.2020/39.1-3.2250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31901/24566802.2020/39.1-3.2250","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The data present distribution of the ABO and Rh (D) blood groups between inhabitants of southwest Kosovo (District of Prizren). It is shown that frequency of allele O is higher followed by frequency of allele A and B. the frequency of Rh- negative varies from 8 to 21 percent. The present study shows to be similar with results reported in West European Countries.","PeriodicalId":85684,"journal":{"name":"The Eastern anthropologist","volume":"127 9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79587540","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 : 2020-04-15DOI: 10.31901/24566802.2019/38.1-3.2049
Obaje Godwin Sunday
{"title":"A Correlational Analysis of Sexual Dimorphism, 2d:4d, Age, and Weight among the Ikwo Population in Nigeria","authors":"Obaje Godwin Sunday","doi":"10.31901/24566802.2019/38.1-3.2049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31901/24566802.2019/38.1-3.2049","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85684,"journal":{"name":"The Eastern anthropologist","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90441968","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}
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