ANTHROPOLOGY SINPPETS

Team TRIFED Van Dhan India shows the way ‘Work from Home’. Continuing working from home, located in 27 States of the country, a group of over 500 officials from TRIFED, an organisation under the M/o Tribal Affairs, have unleashed the power of Webinars to keep in touch with each other and keep moving and working. […]

Computer Science COVID-19 data presented at Anthropology conference New Mexico Highlands University faculty and students presented their findings on using artificial intelligence and machine learning to model the spread of COVID-19 on the Navajo Nation at the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Conference in March. The ongoing research project was featured in the prestigious Anthony

Northeast citizens faced racial discrimination amid COVID-19 outbreak, says govt. study  They were “harassed, abused and traumatised” and disparagingly called „coronavirus,‟ says study A study commissioned by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) on racial discrimination and hate crimes against people from the northeast States found that the “northeast India seamlessly fits [an]

Register of Indigenous Inhabitants of Nagaland Why in News Recently, an apex body of Naga tribes, Naga Hoho has cautioned the Nagaland Government with respect to preparation of the Register of Indigenous Inhabitants of Nagaland (RIIN), seen as a variant of Assam’s National Register of Citizens. Key Points Background: The State government had formed a

Tribal body flags concerns over Nagaland’s version of NRC ‘RIIN could have unforeseen and dangerous implications for the Nagas as a people’ An apex body of Naga tribes has asked the Nagaland government not to be hasty with the exercise to prepare the Register of Indigenous Inhabitants of Nagaland (RIIN), seen as a variant of

Arunachal’s tribes revive indigenous lockdown rituals.  A tribal lockdown ritual has staged a comeback in Arunachal Pradesh, the State geographically closest to China’s Hubei province where the COVID-19 outbreak began. Arr-Rinam is the Galo equivalent of lockdown imposed by consensus for 48 hours whenever an epidemic strikes. The Galos, one of the 26 major tribes

Nutrition policy to suggest steps to tackle anaemia Draft identifies it as a major health problem in State The draft nutrition policy being finalised by the State government identifies anaemia as a major health problem in the State, especially among women and children. More women and children have anaemia in 2005-06 than in 1999-99, the

Odisha’s Tribal Communities Are Reeling Under a Land Grab Project Masquerading as ‘Afforestation’  The forest department‘s move to aggressively promote commercial plantation activities on community forest land in the name of compensatory afforestation is usurping the forest rights of the tribal communities Pratima and many others in the village said that the police had threatened

A hamlet that thrives on the ancient barter system Women from Naxal-hit Sukma region gather to exchange forest produce for rice and salt The Edugurallapalli tribal shandy that gathers on Fridays is reminiscent of the ancient barter system, where tribals exchange forest produce for rice, iodized salt and other commodities. The shandy is in the