ANTHROPOLOGY IMPORTANT ARTICALS

Tribal women farmers train to be ‘nutrition entrepreneurs’ to contribute to healthier community diets   The hands that farm the fields and cook the family meals are now taking on bigger ventures by running small businesses that contribute to healthier community diets. To take on the role of ‘nutrition entrepreneurs’ tribal women farmers in Telangana, […]

How a School Is Giving Hope to  Chattisgarh’s “Particularly Vulnerable” Pahadi Korba Tribe The only primary school in one of the most remote and backward regions of Chhattisgarh has brightened the future prospects of the Pahadi Korva tribes living here. It is the region’s first school since India’s independence and, notwithstanding the remote forests and

Kharchi Puja, Synthesis Of Tribal And Hindu Culture, Begins In Tripura All rituals were performed as usual but due to the Covid-19 restrictions unlike earlier years gathering of devotees were much less. The annual festival of worship of Fourteen Gods popularly known as Kharchi Puja in Tripura started on Saturday. Moreover, the annual fair is

Gujarat: For those from tribal districts, long journey to get to oxygen beds   Satish Chaudhary’s hopes of getting an oxygen bed, however, were dashed as the state-run NCH and the civic body’s SMIMER hospital had stopped new admissions of from Wednesday citing low oxygen supply. A 35-year-old Covid-19 patient from the tribal-dominated Palwada village

In Thane’s rural and tribal areas, Zilla Parishad seeks to do away with unsafe child hammocks In the tribal areas, all homes have two wooden poles fixed in the ground a metre apart, with a saree or bedsheet tied to the two poles serving as a cradle for newborn children. The Thane Zilla Parishad has

 Van Dhan Kendras in Maharashtra: Helping Transform Lives and Livelihoods  A group of a few dedicated boys led by an able leader, with enabling support from government organizations, has done wonders in Thane district of Maharashtra. The grassroots tribal organization to which the boys belong has been able to secure orders worth Rs. 1.57 crore

     Govt taking measures to upgrade all Eklavya model schools: Tribal Affairs minister     Eklavya Model Residential Schools were started in 1997-98 with the aim of imparting quality education to children belonging to the ST category in remote areas. Union Minister for Tribal Affairs Arjun Munda said on Monday that the government is making

  Sal leaf plates pile up so does agony of Kandhamal’s tribal women   Earlier, the amount earned from the sales was enough to sustain the collectors for about six months. PHULBANI: Marginalized forest dwellers of Kandhamal, especially women, who depend on minor forest produce like sal leaf for a living, have been badly affected during the

  Deifying of leopards by Maharashtra’s Warli tribe has prompted a better man-wild relationship   ‘Waghoba’ is the institution under which the Warli tribe of Maharashtra has been worshipping leopards.     Across India, worship of nature as gods and goddesses is a common practice. The latest study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) India has documented

Protests, outrage over Assam’s bid to convert land for industries   The Assam government’s approval of an ordinance to allow conversion of land without clearances for setting up micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) triggered protests across the State on July 2. The State Cabinet had on June 29 approved the industrial ordinance, whose details