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{"title":"Morbidity Profile of Traffic Police Personnel of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra","authors":"P. K. Sahu, F. Mollick","doi":"10.21088/ijra.2454.9118.8222.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21088/ijra.2454.9118.8222.1","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Morbidity is a state of disease, disability, or poor health condition due to any cause; it may be referred to as the existence of a disease that affects the person's health condition. Traffic police personnel are involved in the occupation of controlling traffic in urban areas. The physical and social environment of the workplace contributes a significant role in occupational health, as traffic police personnel spend at least 8 to 10 hours a day at work. That's why health is affected by the working environment to a large extent. The lifestyle and food culture likely contribute to the elevated morbidity pattern. Several studies indicate that police officers have a risk of increasing specific diseases related to their occupation and lifestyle. Objective: To assess the morbidity pattern concerning the occupational health of traffic police personnel. Material and Methods: The present study was conducted during the fieldwork of Ph.D., among the Traffic police personnel of Nagpur and Wardha district of Vidarbha region Maharashtra. The procedures contributing to this work comply with the ethical standard as per the University's Ethical comity. The traffic police personnel were told about the study's objective, and their written consent was obtained. Result: The present study revealed significant differences in Age, Height, Weight, and Systolic and Diastolic blood pressure among males and females (p = 0.001). Out of 277 personnel, more than fifty percent of traffic police personnel suffered from Musculo skeleton disorder, followed by respiratory problems (17 percent), obesity, and eye-related problem (both in 14.1 percent). 7.6 percent of traffic personnel suffered from skin infections, 7.2 percent from diabetes, 5.4 percent from heart problems, and 2.5 percent from hypertension (High blood pressure) reported by the traffic police personnel. 26.02% of personnel are Systolic and 45.37% of personnel were found Diastolic hypertensive blood pressure category according to physiological measurement.","PeriodicalId":105930,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Research in Anthropology","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123098098","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}

{"title":"Role of MGNREGA on Women Empowerment: A Socio-economic Study in Medinipur District, West Bengal","authors":"A. Ghosal, A. Das, J. R. Ghosh","doi":"10.21088/ijra.2454.9118.8222.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21088/ijra.2454.9118.8222.3","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most pressing concerns on a global scale is getting more power into the hands of women. In India, there is an illustrious history of realising the significance of giving women more agency over the course of several centuries. One of the primary goals of India's 9th Five Year Plan is to advance women's rights, which the Indian government has declared a priority. The process of enabling women to realise their identities, individualities, and strengths throughout all aspects of life is referred to as empowering women. The government has developed a number of different plans and programmes in the hope of rescuing more women from impoverishment and the dangers of everyday life. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), which was passed into law in 2005, is an example of one of these programmes. The MGNREGA is an extremely important institution that helps fulfil both the tactical and the strategic requirements for women's participation. It has been a ray of hope for rural women's empowerment and contributed significantly to the improved living standards and economic situations by establishing equal remuneration for male and female workers. Additionally, it has become a glimmer of hope for rural women's empowerment. In the current study, an attempt was made to investigate women's empowerment in a hamlet located in the Paschim Medinipur District of West Bengal by using the MGNERGA programme.","PeriodicalId":105930,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Research in Anthropology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115589209","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}

{"title":"Socio-Cultural Lifestyle of Tri-Natives: Gond, Bhil and Santhal","authors":"Om Prakash Kumar, A. Soni","doi":"10.21088/ijra.2454.9118.8222.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21088/ijra.2454.9118.8222.5","url":null,"abstract":"Tribal lifestyle is deeply associated with their culture, art and craft. A larger mass of tribal people live in rural areas. In central India, the area of Vindhya, Satpuda and Aravali Mountain ranges, starching from east to west in the states of West Bengal, Orissa, Jharkhand, Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan form a big tribal belt. Gond, Bhil and Santhal are the three biggest tribal communities residing in this central tribal region of India. These three dominating groups are comparatively developed then other tribal groups of the area, though their overall economy is still based on agriculture and labor work resulting in economic backwardness. But, new generation is gradually, getting educated and exposed to salaried jobs and modern technology. Due to better communication, exposure, marketization and modernization their culture is changing with time and need. Though, they have strong bond with their indigenous culture, religion and art, which has kept their tradition and lifestyle intact with relevant changes. But, changing lifestyle and economy has affected their art and craft. Themes, raw material and technology are changing their forms, symbols and patterns. Paintings have shifted from walls to canvas and taken professional shape. Festive and regular enjoyment with dance and music had developed as stage performance. But, they have not at all lost touch with their roots and cultural awareness is again revitalizing their bond with traditional dance, music and other art and craft forms. Celebrations are still celebrated with tribal songs and dances within the village's open courtyard. There are also several cultural and culinary habits, languages, social structures inclusive of marriage, and varieties of consciousness.","PeriodicalId":105930,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Research in Anthropology","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126673446","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}

{"title":"Obstacles to Acquire Modern Medical Institutional Facility with Special Reference to Maternal Health Care among Tribals of South Bastar in Chhattisgarh","authors":"Swapan Kumar Kolay, Siddharth Chowdhary","doi":"10.21088/ijra.2454.9118.8122.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21088/ijra.2454.9118.8122.1","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: The Maternal Mortality Ratio of Chhattisgarh is 269 (SRS 2010-11) which are higher than the National average (178). If we analyze the state wise data of MMR we found that Chhattisgarh is fourth in position amongst all states of India. Maternal and child health care is an important aspect of health seeking behaviour which is largely neglected among the tribal groups (Basu et al., 1990). It has been seen that inspite of a lot of government incentive programmes for women health care and development, some obstacles create obstruction to acquire modern medical institutional facilities. It is a burning concern for the development because the problems of tribal women differ from a particular area to another area owing to their geographical location, historical background and the processes of social change (Chauhan, A., 1990). Objectives: The study concerned with the objective of understanding the gap between government modern health facilities and tribal women with special reference to maternal health care. Study Area: For the study purpose tribal dominating villages of south Bastar, Chhattisgarh was selected. Chhattisgarh is known as 10th largest state of India where Bastar is known as its rich and uniqueness of bio-cultural diversity in the whole world. Methodology: Random sampling technique was the key instrument for selecting sample as well as Snowball sampling is also used to identify a few households where maternal and infant related problems occurred through some key informants in the village and ask each of them to identify households where maternal problems have occurred. Questionnaire on different variables of knowledge, attitudes, belief and opinion about government health institution were organised by direct interview. Along with above semi participatory observation was strength for the data collection. Result: The findings stated that the acceptance of modern institutional health facilities is poor amongst tribal people. In addition, a lot of females suffered from ill health due to pregnancy and childbirth in the absence of a well defined concept of health consciousness. Conclusion: The health problems of mothers arise as a result of synergistic effects of malnutrition, poverty, illiteracy, unhygienic living conditions, infections and unregulated fertility. Apart from that superstitious beliefs play an essential obstruction to acquire modern medical facilities. At the same time, poor infrastructure and ineffective public health services is also responsible for low inadequate obstetric care. Keywords: Maternal mortality; Seeking behavior; Modern medical institutional; Tribal women; Superstitious beliefs.","PeriodicalId":105930,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Research in Anthropology","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128699437","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}

{"title":"Spiritual Resilience and the Intervention of Holy Scripture","authors":"Sindhu Varghese","doi":"10.21088/ijra.2454.9118.8122.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21088/ijra.2454.9118.8122.3","url":null,"abstract":"This paper “spiritual resilience and the intervention of holy scripture” is to explore new facets, reinforce and approve of the fact that Holy Scripture is an augmentation of spiritual resilience. In today’s turbulent times, spiritual resilience is the greatest asset a person can have. The need is to know how subjects have shown this trait. In this paper, literature and previous studies have been reviewed to come out with the fact that Holy Scripture reading and trusting God has helped build resilience to over come difficult situations in life giving one inner peace and strength. This study reinforces that trusting in God is the greatest strength one can get. This paper will impact for a non-resilient person to venture into and discover that spiritual resilience and quality of life is not anything hard, but revolves on hope, faith and trust. Keywords: Holy Scripture; Spiritual Resilience; Faith; Hope; God.","PeriodicalId":105930,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Research in Anthropology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127010493","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}

{"title":"An Appraisal of Prevailing Issues in Rural Tribal Health Care System in India","authors":"Nand Kishor Yadav, A. Soni","doi":"10.21088/ijra.2454.9118.8122.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21088/ijra.2454.9118.8122.2","url":null,"abstract":"Better health is one of the most important aspect of the overall development and progress of any country. In the context of India, tribals are an integral part, which are 8.6 percent of the total population of the country. Scarce public health care services in India and related issues are currently the most discussed topic with recent outbreak of Covid-19 affecting human life terribly and still persisting. Health care issue affects every individual in the society. In tribal areas health care issues become even more important because as it seems that this section of society is still comparatively in unprivileged condition and not properly exploited the benefits of development process.India's development cannot be imagined without improvement of rural and tribal health. This article highlights major issues prevailing in the rural tribal health care system of India, which arises many barriers to tribal health and the holistic development of the country. Based on the blending results of several multi-factual studies, it is known that there exist many issues prevailingin the rural tribal health care delivery system. Many issues are there which are responsible for poor and complex tribal health status among the tribes, such as, low awareness about health, different religious and cultural beliefs, unrealistic health practices, living in difficult and inaccessible areas, financial problems, various infectious diseases, nutritional deficiencies, and poor public health care facilities, etc. These issues have attracted renewed attention from physicians, health policy experts, various health agencies as well as the general public, particularly tribal societies, which are most affected by these issues. Keywords: Health Status; Health Infrastructure; Rural Health Care Services; Tribal Culture And Practices; Health Policy; Public Involvement And Awareness.","PeriodicalId":105930,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Research in Anthropology","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126654197","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}

{"title":"Representation of Indian Tribal Art and Heritage in Indian Museums: An Overview with Reference to Central India","authors":"Om Prakash Kumar, A. Soni","doi":"10.21088/ijra.2454.9118.7221.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21088/ijra.2454.9118.7221.7","url":null,"abstract":"Museums may apply intangible heritage to improve their visitors have a better grasp of the subject matter. Museums may bridge the gap between themselves and their non-visitors with the aid of physical and intangible cultural assets, respectively. Identifying, documenting, and representing intangible components of a museum's collections is essential for this purpose. Museums may encourage towns, organizations, and people to conserve their intangible cultural heritage by displaying it in their permanent collections. With local communities' assistance, museums may regularly organize exhibitions and educational events such as gallery tours, seminars, conferences, and workshops. In their ecological pockets within their definite geographical areas, various ethnic groups from different regions exist, each with their own micro-cultural identity and bio-cultural diversity, vital in determining and recognizing a particular ethnic group through their identity. This article also provides an overview of the significant museums in central India. Moreover, it seeks to focus on the role played by museums in raising cultural awareness about art and culture in India. Keywords: Cultural Identity; Bio-cultural Diversity; Museums; Indian Museologists.","PeriodicalId":105930,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Research in Anthropology","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127453749","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}

{"title":"Perceiving Social and Economic Gerontology issues in Elder Healthcare","authors":"Basavaraj Pundappanavar, Jai Prabhakar S C","doi":"10.21088/ijra.2454.9118.7221.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21088/ijra.2454.9118.7221.4","url":null,"abstract":"Population ageing, which implicate an increasing share of elderly persons in a population, represents an unprecedented global demographic transformation and expected to intensify as the twenty first century progresses. The biomedical view, ageing related to physical and mental deterioration of people. Morbidities endured by understanding the sustainability and curable factors. The imbalance occurred due to the very fact that what problems previously endured due to the medical advancement and often cured today. However, somewhere there is blurred line existing between these two important aspects of elderly health i.e. between curing and enduring the issues. In the existing scientific literature, the two commonest concepts discussed and reported are medicalization and bio-medicalization. However, the opposite concept contradicting to the abovementioned concepts operationalized and defined as demedicalization. The paper discussed the present issues of gerontology and knowledge on elder healthcare through available literature review. Keywords: Eaging; Social; Economic; Healthcare.","PeriodicalId":105930,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Research in Anthropology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116657372","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}

{"title":"Social Distancing or Physical Distancing: An Imposed Moral Dilemma in People of India","authors":"B. Behera, Abhishikta Ghosh Roy","doi":"10.21088/ijra.2454.9118.7121.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21088/ijra.2454.9118.7121.3","url":null,"abstract":"The outbreak of pandemic COVID–19 in different countries including India is intensifying and leading to take urgent measures on priority to prevent the spread of the virus to the Humankind. The important steps have necessitated the immediate adoption of measures to ensure social distancing in order to prevent the transmission of the virus. Every individual of the world is expected to cooperate in the implementation of such measure steps designed to reduce the transmission of the virus. Scaling down the challenges that associated with the outbreak of COVID-19 the conventional operations within the precincts comes first which necessary to ensure compliance with social distancing guidelines issued from time to time by various health authorities and Government. Become an exception during this period Social distancing term faced with the unprecedented and extraordinary outbreak of moral dilemma in people. It is necessary that Social Scientists as guardian of the society at all levels respond to the call of the people on social or physical distancing and ensure that the measures adopted to control the spread of virus by issuing directions and taking recourse between both.","PeriodicalId":105930,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Research in Anthropology","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121994154","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}

{"title":"Relevance of Ethnomuseology for Ethnographical Museums and Tribal Cultural Heritage","authors":"Om Prakash Kumar, A. Soni","doi":"10.21088/ijra.2454.9118.7121.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21088/ijra.2454.9118.7121.1","url":null,"abstract":"Ethnomuseology is an interdisciplinary concept that mainly incorporates the Museum Studies and Ethnography / Anthropology with varieties of ethnic arts / artifacts. Ethnographical Museums all over world are the result of specialized field of Ethnomuseography. Since the initial stage and even till today Socio-Cultural Anthropologists are playing significant role to enrich the field of Ethnomuseography and contributing to the development of ethnographical museums in India and abroad. The present paper discusses about ethnographic museums in relation to tribal heritage of India in the wave of modernization and globalization. Most of the Ethnographic collections or cultural heritages are still prevalent in the form of living traditions. But, many of them are gradually lost or vanishing with time in the changing scenario due to cultural change. It is high time to preserve it by ethnomuseographical means. An attempt has also been made to discuss the ways through which such ethnographic museums are growing in India and abroad. In case of ethnographic museums especially community museums and tribal museums; Action Museology deals with the various aspects of tribal cultural sustainability and act as a key explanation to preserve and propagate the tribal cultural heritage.","PeriodicalId":105930,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Research in Anthropology","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128419659","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}