E Fiks - Anthropology & Medicine, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Laparoscopic tubal ligation is the most prevalent method of contraception amongst India's rural and urban poor. Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in rural Rajasthan in …
This book unravels the institutions surrounding witchcraft in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh through theoretical and empirical research on witchcraft, violence and …
S Binder - HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
This article examines so-called Miracle Exposure Programs conducted by Atheist activists in South India as a performance of secular difference. It retraces how activists use the …
The public healthcare system in rural India is chronically under-resourced. It embodies and often perpetuates the wider politics of the Indian state towards its rural communities with …
In certain parts of India, women are branded as witches, suffer mob humiliation and, at times, are lynched. To understand this phenomenon, this study engages in a critical analysis of …
CS Shain - Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography, 2017 - ojs.library.dal.ca
Moving beyond what various scholars call the “human exceptionalism” in the social sciences, this multispecies research explored the relationships between Mycobacterium …
P Pranjal, V Singhal, S Sarkar… - … Health, Environment, and …, 2024 - igi-global.com
Mental health illnesses have assumed pandemic proportions, especially post-COVID, adversely impacting society and the global economy. The effect is more pronounced in …
In this thesis, I study the practices of witchcraft among the Khasi, a tribal people of northeast India. The Khasi form most of the population of the state of Meghalaya. Following British …
In certain parts of India, women are branded as witches, suffer mob humiliation and, at times, are lynched. To understand this phenomenon, this study engages in a critical analysis of …