{"title":"Coexistence in the Anthropocene: Tigers and Humans of the Dibang Valley","authors":"Stefano Beggiora, Victoria May Exeley","doi":"10.1177/0972558x241227858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0972558x241227858","url":null,"abstract":"In the Anthropocene and on the brink of the Sixth Mass Extinction, we are called upon to reflect on how humans can, do, and should live with other species on Earth. This article uses an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on Bruno Latour’s actor-network theory, to unveil the multifaceted ways that tigers and humans have an impact on each other. The result is an interspecies ethnography of the reality of coexistence between two species recognized as dangerous to the other. The indigenous Mishmi people of the Dibang Valley provide us with a complex example, revealing that humans and tigers have equal roles to play, and the article highlights the flexibility of were-tigers and shamanism as one way to navigate this complex relationship.","PeriodicalId":185534,"journal":{"name":"The Oriental Anthropologist: A Bi-annual International Journal of the Science of Man","volume":"41 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140432955","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 Wancho Animation Workshop: Interpreting Local Folklore for Animation in North-East India","authors":"Tara Douglas","doi":"10.1177/0972558x241230661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0972558x241230661","url":null,"abstract":"This article reviews the topic of indigenous knowledge, addressing the ethical and knowledge gaps in Eurocentric education, research, and scholarship based on examples from a participatory media venture in collaboration with people of the Wancho community of North-East India. The objective of the project is to represent the cultural insights that are integral to the local traditions through contemporary media practices and to engage a group of people from various disciplines, outlooks, and ways of life in the decolonization of indigenous representation and media practice.","PeriodicalId":185534,"journal":{"name":"The Oriental Anthropologist: A Bi-annual International Journal of the Science of Man","volume":"103 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140433446","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":"Welcome by Professor Chris Williams","authors":"Chris Williams","doi":"10.1177/0972558x241229651","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0972558x241229651","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":185534,"journal":{"name":"The Oriental Anthropologist: A Bi-annual International Journal of the Science of Man","volume":"140 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140451689","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":"Eco-cosmology, Sustainability, and a Spirit of Resilience: An Introduction","authors":"Lidia Guzy, Uwe Skoda, Stefano Beggiora","doi":"10.1177/0972558x241227862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0972558x241227862","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction to the Special Issue “Eco-cosmology, Sustainability, and a Spirit of Resilience.”","PeriodicalId":185534,"journal":{"name":"The Oriental Anthropologist: A Bi-annual International Journal of the Science of Man","volume":"14 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139861974","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":"Traditional and Contemporary Ecocosmologies Within Western and Christian Traditions: Green Shoots for Integral and Integrative Sustainability Transformation","authors":"Edmond Philip Byrne","doi":"10.1177/0972558x241227864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0972558x241227864","url":null,"abstract":"This article traces persistent and important counter-narratives within Western and Christian traditions, which correlate more closely with many indigenous worldviews from across the globe than with dominant narratives from across these traditions. It posits that a paradigmatic transformation is required toward an integral and integrative eco-cosmology, one that embraces cosmic interconnection and complexity. This may emerge from green shoots emanating from a diverse range of traditions, including, importantly, from within the dominant Western tradition.","PeriodicalId":185534,"journal":{"name":"The Oriental Anthropologist: A Bi-annual International Journal of the Science of Man","volume":"97 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139859413","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":"Traditional and Contemporary Ecocosmologies Within Western and Christian Traditions: Green Shoots for Integral and Integrative Sustainability Transformation","authors":"Edmond Philip Byrne","doi":"10.1177/0972558x241227864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0972558x241227864","url":null,"abstract":"This article traces persistent and important counter-narratives within Western and Christian traditions, which correlate more closely with many indigenous worldviews from across the globe than with dominant narratives from across these traditions. It posits that a paradigmatic transformation is required toward an integral and integrative eco-cosmology, one that embraces cosmic interconnection and complexity. This may emerge from green shoots emanating from a diverse range of traditions, including, importantly, from within the dominant Western tradition.","PeriodicalId":185534,"journal":{"name":"The Oriental Anthropologist: A Bi-annual International Journal of the Science of Man","volume":"157 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139799918","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":"Eco-cosmology, Sustainability, and a Spirit of Resilience: An Introduction","authors":"Lidia Guzy, Uwe Skoda, Stefano Beggiora","doi":"10.1177/0972558x241227862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0972558x241227862","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction to the Special Issue “Eco-cosmology, Sustainability, and a Spirit of Resilience.”","PeriodicalId":185534,"journal":{"name":"The Oriental Anthropologist: A Bi-annual International Journal of the Science of Man","volume":"107 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139802112","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 Note on 75 Years of Indian Independence","authors":"D. Meena, Avijit Sahay","doi":"10.1177/0972558x221137390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0972558x221137390","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":185534,"journal":{"name":"The Oriental Anthropologist: A Bi-annual International Journal of the Science of Man","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126119556","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}
B. Kuiti, S. Acharya, K. C. Satapathy, D. K. Barik, P. Patra
{"title":"Assessment of Nutritional Status Among Children and Adolescents of Juang Tribe in Keonjhar District of Odisha, India","authors":"B. Kuiti, S. Acharya, K. C. Satapathy, D. K. Barik, P. Patra","doi":"10.1177/0972558X221122945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0972558X221122945","url":null,"abstract":"Assessment of the nutritional status is a major public health concern in India. Thinness (low BMI-for-age) is an important anthropometric measure of undernutrition. In the present scenario, tribal children were facing undernutrition due to lack of income, inadequate food intake, and suffering with various diseases. The objectives of the present study were to determine age groups and sex specific prevalence of thinness among children and adolescents of the Juang tribe of Keonjhar district in Odisha, India. The present cross-sectional study was carried out among 237 (106 male and 131 female) Juang children and adolescents aged 1–17 years. The prevalence of thinness was assessed by using proposed age-sex specific international reference. We used standard statistical technique for comparing the BMI-for-age z-score (BMIZ) means across the educational categories. The overall prevalence among the studied children was 15.61% and educational category wise prevalence of thinness among preschool, school going children, and adolescents were 11.94%, 19.05% and 15.12% respectively. Present scenarios of nutritional health status among Juang children and adolescents have secured a moderate position or have relatively improved. Continuity of the different intervention programs and government undertaking health policies may make a stable situation for good health among Juang children.","PeriodicalId":185534,"journal":{"name":"The Oriental Anthropologist: A Bi-annual International Journal of the Science of Man","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121445317","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":"Home Remedies as Agency in the Face of COVID-19 in Zimbabwe","authors":"Phillip Thebe","doi":"10.1177/0972558X221122253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0972558X221122253","url":null,"abstract":"Research questions: Why have Zimbabweans relied on home remedies during COVID-19? What are some of these remedies? How are they used? How are they received by the people comparative to medical and scientific approaches? Purpose of the study and methods used: Using narratives from below obtained from repeated conversations with 10 people as well as extensive social media observation spanning a year, this article explores Zimbabweans’ use of home remedies during COVID-19. Findings: It finds that home remedies (the most fashionable being steaming and Zumbani tea) are used simultaneously with western medicines. This is amid a hopeless health system, a ravaging and incurable pandemic, growing distrust of western institutions and vaccines, and the need to be mobile in daily livelihood activities performed in a distressed economy. These home practices are criticized by people demanding respect for the severity of COVID-19 who reproof “unscientific” grassroots practices, conversations, and conspiracies on the pandemic. Nevertheless, equally observable are daily testimonies of victory, healing, and hope. Conclusion: The study concludes that home remedies are used in Zimbabwe as a form of agency to respond to the uncertainty brought by COVID-19.","PeriodicalId":185534,"journal":{"name":"The Oriental Anthropologist: A Bi-annual International Journal of the Science of Man","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128619425","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}