{"title":"We Only Need the Holy Signs, the Saints are Here Just to Make People Feel at Home","authors":"Aparecido Francisco dos Reis","doi":"10.23880/aeoaj-16000191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23880/aeoaj-16000191","url":null,"abstract":"This paper on an Umbanda worship space is part of a research with the religions of African and Amerindian matrix, conducted in the years 2015-16 at the request of the 67th Prosecutor’s Office for Human Rights of the State Public Prosecution Service of Mato Grosso do Sul and the Federation of Afro-Brazilian and Amerindian Cults of the State of Mato Grosso do Sul. As requested, several worship spaces were visited and 2 Fathers-of-Saint, 2 Mothers-of-Saint and 1 Babalorishá were interviewed, with the purpose of demonstrating to the municipal authorities that worship space cults should be considered religions, just like the others present in the municipality. Specifically, this paper analyzes the process of re-signification of Catholic saints in Umbanda as part of the hybridization and syncretism of worship space cults. The methodology consisted of visits to several worship spaces, interviews, and specifically in this case, we will analyze this process of re-signification based on the interview with Mother-of-Saint Fátima, coordinator of the Cabocla Janaína Worship Place in Campo Grande. Her speech has shown that the meanings of the Catholic saints in Umbanda, may be to make familiar a religion considered exotic, or even to syncretize the attributes and roles of the saints and orishas.","PeriodicalId":125575,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Ethnology Open Access Journal","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121390508","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":"The Economic and Political Attractiveness of China Grow Together","authors":"Sergio García-Magariño","doi":"10.23880/aeoaj-16000171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23880/aeoaj-16000171","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes that, in the next decades, Chinese culture, values and even political system will be expanded as a result of its successful economic performance. This expansion will not only be the consequence of a deliberate plan, but mainly the effect of non-intentional dynamics linked to the appeal that those who economically succeed awake on others. In order to test this hypothesis, four interrelated points will be addressed along the paper. First, a short analysis of the projection of China in the world over the last decades will be made. Second, the sociological notion of the “appeal of the successful” will be examined. Third, the Chinese strategy of soft power to deliberately widen its hegemony will be studied, and finally, some conditions that favour the growth of Chinese appeal will be highlighted.","PeriodicalId":125575,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Ethnology Open Access Journal","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116579977","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":"Evaluation of the Nutritional Status of Khasi Children under ICDS Programme in Mawsynram Block of East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya","authors":"Khongsdier R","doi":"10.23880/aeoaj-16000133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23880/aeoaj-16000133","url":null,"abstract":"The present study is concerned with the evaluation of the nutritional status of Khasi children under the ICDS Programme in East Khasi Hills District of Meghalaya. A cross-sectional method of anthropometric study was carried out in 2018-19 for evaluating the nutritional status of 549 children aged 2-6 years, using weight-for-age, height-for-age, and weight-for-height Z-scores relative to the WHO growth references. The findings were compared with those of the monitoring study carried out in 2008-09 by the Government of Meghalaya in collaboration with the Department of Anthropology, North-Eastern Hill University. It was found that the overall mean Z-scores for weight-for-age, height-for-age, and weight-for-height were significantly higher among boys and girls in 2018-19 compared with their coevals in 2008-09. The prevalence of underweight has decreased from 42% in 2008-09 to 22% in 2018-19; whereas the prevalence of stunting has declined from 52% in 2008-09 to 33% in 201819. The prevalence of wasting has also declined from 12% in 2008-09 to 7% in 2018-19, but about 4% of the children were overweight. The decline in the prevalence of undernutrition may be associated with the overall socioeconomic development in the state during the last decade or so, and the impact of the ICDS Programme cannot also be ruled out. While interventions are still necessary to reduce child underweight and stunting; simultaneous preventive measures to control child overweight and obesity may also be initiated in the state.","PeriodicalId":125575,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Ethnology Open Access Journal","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114286660","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 Innovation and Applied Research for Social Entrepreneurship. An Experience of Linking with the Environment Carried Out with Entrepreneurial Older Adults in Nueva Braunau, Los Lagos Region","authors":"Ana Maria Calderon Jaramillo","doi":"10.23880/aeoaj-16000160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23880/aeoaj-16000160","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":125575,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Ethnology Open Access Journal","volume":"265 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133310788","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":"Potential Approaches or Examining African American Muslims","authors":"Aminah Al-Deen","doi":"10.23880/aeoaj-16000116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23880/aeoaj-16000116","url":null,"abstract":"desires.” He went on to clarify, “many of these communities had germinating concepts that most citizens are permitted to attempt such as building small, successful communities with schools and industry built on the rhetoric of their leaders without plans to realize them.” There were several efforts to establish a sustainable physical presence of an American communal Islam that were not thought out for the long term of future generations as Amish or Mormons did for example.","PeriodicalId":125575,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Ethnology Open Access Journal","volume":"125 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133551169","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":"The Subjective Condition of Human Communication, a Synthesis","authors":"Vivian Romeu","doi":"10.23880/aeoaj-16000159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23880/aeoaj-16000159","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":125575,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Ethnology Open Access Journal","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134277154","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":"How to Perform SEM/EDX Analysis on Bone? Procedural Aspects and Main Anthropological Applications","authors":"S. Tambuzzi","doi":"10.23880/aeoaj-16000178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23880/aeoaj-16000178","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":125575,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Ethnology Open Access Journal","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133269722","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":"A Study on Ethnomedical and Health Practices among the Malayali Tribes of Tamil Nadu","authors":"A. Jaiswal","doi":"10.23880/aeoaj-16000188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23880/aeoaj-16000188","url":null,"abstract":"Disease and ill health have become significant focuses of human beings since immemorial. Health and sickness are biological concepts. But traits like beliefs, religion, philosophy, education, socio-economic conditions etc. also assess how people feel about health and sickness. This study aimed to study the health and ethnomedical practices among the Malayali Tribes of Tamil Nadu. The research involved a general household survey of 113 houses and covered 534 individuals of various age groups of Malayali tribal communities in India’s Villupuram district, Tamil Nadu. The present’s primary stress was finding how reality is socially constructed and using participant observation to understand people’s emic perspectives. Unstructured interviews with open general questions were conducted to go into greater depth of data. The present study’s findings discussed the health and wellbeing among Indigenous people, the health and illness of the Malayalis Tribe, their health-seeking behaviour, and the various indigenous medicines practised by the Malayali tribe for various illnesses and diseases. Malayalis well understand the concept of health. They link it with the economic condition, nutrition, food habits, work pressure, etc. They also relate it to biological needs. They also differentiate between illness and disease. Their ways of identification of diseases are appreciable. But there is a straight decline in their ethnomedical practices with the emergence of state initiatives, various plans, and schemes.","PeriodicalId":125575,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Ethnology Open Access Journal","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114753477","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":"The Travesti (Travesti (Transvestite)) Body in the Anthropocene: Cultural Intersections","authors":"D. Jd","doi":"10.23880/aeoaj-16000213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23880/aeoaj-16000213","url":null,"abstract":"When we consider it as a cultural element, the body assumes a myriad of new social and political meanings in contemporary times. The progressive destruction of the planet, the deep inequalities and the complex class relations are inscribed in the body, by the body and with the body. We see these intersections in an especially relevant way when we consider the existence of travesti (Travesti (Transvestite)) s, people aligned with the feminine whose body exists at the border of the cultural constructions of sex and gender, and more specifically travesti (Transvestite) sex workers in Brazil. It is intended to theoretically elaborate some of the ramifications of this chaotic scenario and its links with the cultural production of the body, with emphasis on the travesti (Transvestite) body. For this, we will articulate the cyborg theory, by Haraway (2009); of rubble and contamination, by Tsing (2019) and the ethnography of Anjos Neto (2019).","PeriodicalId":125575,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Ethnology Open Access Journal","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117206305","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":"How Kinship Runs: Mothering, Discipline and Nation","authors":"Lorena Valencia-Gálvez","doi":"10.23880/aeoaj-16000176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23880/aeoaj-16000176","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":125575,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Ethnology Open Access Journal","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121294402","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}