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This book provides a socio-psychological enquiry of the phenomenon
of suicide in the Indian context. It addresses the rising trend of
suicides across the world and through case studies explores its
primary reasons, the after-effects on survivors and families and
measures to prevent them. The volume focuses on deciphering the
social and psychological meanings associated with suicide. Through
an examination of psycho-social autopsies of numerous cases, it
highlights the patterns and trends which emerge around mental
well-being, suicide and bereavement. It examines the primary
roadblocks for robust suicide prevention measures and provides
great insights into behavioral and personality categories and their
relationship with suicide. Offering theoretical and empirical
perspectives on the issue of suicide and self-harm, this book will
be of interest to students, researchers, and faculty of behavioral
sciences, psychology, social anthropology, demography, criminology,
social work and sociology. It will also be an essential read for
psychologists and counselors, policy makers, NGOs, CSOs, legal
experts and media personnel working in the area of suicide
prevention and research.
Indian Anthropology: Anthropological Discourse in Bombay
1886–1936 is an important contribution to the history of Indian
anthropology, focusing on its formative period. It looks at the
political economy of knowledge production and the anthropological
discourse in Bombay during the late nineteenth century. This
seminal volume highlights the much forgotten and ignored
contribution of the Bombay Presidency anthropologists, many of whom
were Indians, from different backgrounds, such as lawyers, civil
servants, and men of religion, much before professional
anthropology was taught in India. The other contributions are by
pioneers from Bengal, Punjab, and United Provinces — all British
administrators turned scholars. This volume is divided into three
parts: Part I deals with the six contributions on the history of
the development of anthropology in India; Part II deals with four
contributions on the methodology and collecting ethnographic data;
and Part III deals with four contributions on theoretical analysis
of ethnographic facts. The roots of many contemporary conflicts and
social issues can be traced to this formative period of
anthropology in India. This book will be useful to students and
researchers of anthropology, sociology, public administration,
modern history, and demography. It will also be of interest to
civil servants, students of history, Indian culture and society,
religions, colonial history, law, and South Asia studies.
This volume explores a wide spectrum of Parsee culture and society
derived through essays from the Journal of Anthropological Society
of Bombay (1886–1936). This journal documents intensive
scholarship on the Parsee community by eminent anthropologists,
Indologists, orientalogists, historians, linguists, and
administrators in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Comprising 0.05% of India’s total population today, the Parsees
(now spelled “Parsis”) have made significant contributions to
modern India. Through contributions of Jivanji Jamshedji Modi,
Bomanjee Byramjee Patell, and Rustamji Munshi, eminent Parsee
scholars, the essays in this book discuss the social and cultural
frameworks which constitute various key phases in the Parsee life
nearly 100 years ago. They also focus on themes such as birth,
childhood and initiation, marriage, and death. The volume also
features works on Parsee folklore and oral literature. An important
contribution to Parsi culture and living, this book will be of
great interest to scholars and researchers of sociology, social
anthropology, ethnography, cultural studies, history, and South
Asia studies.
This volume explores one of the most complex labour landscapes of
India - the urban daily labour market. These markets form an
important sector of the urban informal labour market and contribute
significantly to the Indian economy. This book presents an
empirical, comparative picture of daily labour markets, in Gujarat,
Western India. These markets consist mostly of intra-state and
interstate migrant workers who suffer from layered multiple
marginalities based on markers of informality, migrant status,
caste, ethnicity, gender, poor agency and often live in the
peripheries of the cities without any right and entitlements to its
spaces and services. This study, based on an extensive survey of
three cities in Gujarat, contains description and analysis of the
places of migration and their causes as well as the working and
living conditions of the workers along with their spending patterns
on food, health, education and leisure. It mirrors the work, life
and issues of these workers on the regional level while
contributing to a better understanding for future policy
interventions. An in-depth study, the book will be of interest to
students and researchers of Labour Economics, Labour Studies, Urban
Planning, Social Work, Sociology, Anthropology, and Demography. It
will also be useful to NGOs/Trade Unions working with migrant
workers, civil servants in Labour department and other related
departments, city planners and policy makers.
This volume explores the inherent pluralism of Hinduism through
ethnographic and philosophical evidence as presented in the Journal
of Anthropological Society of Bombay. The essays dated 1886–1936
represent a period that marked the emergence of a European-educated
native intelligentsia with a rationalist outlook. The chapters
cover a wide range of topics from Tree Worship in Mohenjo Daro, the
origin of the Hindu Trimurti, interpretation of Avestic and Vedic
Texts, to the second set of more localized chapters that cover the
Muhammadan Castes of Bengal, the Tenets and Practices of a Certain
Class of Faqirs in Bengal, the Theoretical History of the Goddess
Yellamma, and much more. Written during a particular historical as
well as intellectual period that reflected certain key patterns –
a period just following the Bengal Renaissance of the nineteenth
century that ushered in the ideologies of a reformative Hinduism
– this volume highlights how religions of all denominations have
influenced each other and appear to have mingled beliefs and
practices from multiple sources. It shows how tolerance and
inclusiveness along with syncretism have been part of India’s
religious and social history. This book will be of interest to
students and researchers of religions, history, anthropology,
sociology, political science, and sociology of religion. It will
also be useful to those interested in inter-religious dialogues and
civil society.
India has two key social formations, the castes and the tribes.
Both groups can be studied from the perspective of society (samaj)
and culture (sanskriti). However, studies on castes largely deal
with social structure and less on culture, while studies on tribes
focus more on culture than on social structure. What has resulted
from this bias is a general misunderstanding that tribes have a
rich culture but lack social structure. This volume emerges out of
an in-depth empirical study of the social structure of five
Scheduled Tribes (STs) in Gujarat, western India, viz., Gamit,
Vasava, Chaudhari, Kukana and Warli. It analyses and compares their
internal social organisation consisting of institutions of
household, family, lineage, clan, kinship rules and marriage
networks. The book also deals with changes taking place in the
social structure of contemporary tribal societies. While the focus
is mainly on the data from tribes of western India, the issues are
relevant to pan-Indian tribes. An important contribution to the
studies on tribes of India, this book will be of great interest to
students and researchers of anthropology, sociology, demography,
history, tribal studies, social work, public policy and law. It
will also be of interest to professionals working with NGOs and
civil society, programme and policy formulating authorities and
bureaucrats.
Indian Anthropology: Anthropological Discourse in Bombay 1886-1936
is an important contribution to the history of Indian anthropology,
focusing on its formative period. It looks at the political economy
of knowledge production and the anthropological discourse in Bombay
during the late nineteenth century. This seminal volume highlights
the much forgotten and ignored contribution of the Bombay
Presidency anthropologists, many of whom were Indians, from
different backgrounds, such as lawyers, civil servants, and men of
religion, much before professional anthropology was taught in
India. The other contributions are by pioneers from Bengal, Punjab,
and United Provinces - all British administrators turned scholars.
This volume is divided into three parts: Part I deals with the six
contributions on the history of the development of anthropology in
India; Part II deals with four contributions on the methodology and
collecting ethnographic data; and Part III deals with four
contributions on theoretical analysis of ethnographic facts. The
roots of many contemporary conflicts and social issues can be
traced to this formative period of anthropology in India. This book
will be useful to students and researchers of anthropology,
sociology, public administration, modern history, and demography.
It will also be of interest to civil servants, students of history,
Indian culture and society, religions, colonial history, law, and
South Asia studies.
This volume explores a wide spectrum of Parsee culture and society
derived through essays from the Journal of Anthropological Society
of Bombay (1886-1936). This journal documents intensive scholarship
on the Parsee community by eminent anthropologists, Indologists,
orientalogists, historians, linguists, and administrators in the
late 18th and early 19th centuries. Comprising 0.05% of India's
total population today, the Parsees (now spelled "Parsis") have
made significant contributions to modern India. Through
contributions of Jivanji Jamshedji Modi, Bomanjee Byramjee Patell,
and Rustamji Munshi, eminent Parsee scholars, the essays in this
book discuss the social and cultural frameworks which constitute
various key phases in the Parsee life nearly 100 years ago. They
also focus on themes such as birth, childhood and initiation,
marriage, and death. The volume also features works on Parsee
folklore and oral literature. An important contribution to Parsi
culture and living, this book will be of great interest to scholars
and researchers of sociology, social anthropology, ethnography,
cultural studies, history, and South Asia studies.
This book underscores how, apart from bacteriological factors,
human behavioural characteristics as well as the socio-cultural
factors that affect people's lives contribute to the risk for and
prevention of infection, with particular focus on malaria. It
argues that the implementation of malaria-control measures can be
successful only if it considers the human response to malaria and
control measures. Any new tool which is introduced in a particular
area - be it a new vaccine, a new drug combination, the promotion
of impregnated bed nets, spraying of insecticides, or improved home
management - will be effective and sustainable only if it is
adapted to needs of the local population, i.e., if it makes sense
to them. This volume also studies traditional knowledge systems
with respect to health and malaria, arguing that local knowledge
about infection is the result of an amalgamation of the biomedical
and the traditional. By attempting to identify how traditional and
biomedical elements interrelate in local illness concepts, it hopes
to assist health interventionists in providing efficacious health
education and awareness among people.
This book provides a socio-psychological enquiry of the phenomenon
of suicide in the Indian context. It addresses the rising trend of
suicides across the world and through case studies explores its
primary reasons, the after-effects on survivors and families and
measures to prevent them. The volume focuses on deciphering the
social and psychological meanings associated with suicide. Through
an examination of psycho-social autopsies of numerous cases, it
highlights the patterns and trends which emerge around mental
well-being, suicide and bereavement. It examines the primary
roadblocks for robust suicide prevention measures and provides
great insights into behavioral and personality categories and their
relationship with suicide. Offering theoretical and empirical
perspectives on the issue of suicide and self-harm, this book will
be of interest to students, researchers, and faculty of behavioral
sciences, psychology, social anthropology, demography, criminology,
social work and sociology. It will also be an essential read for
psychologists and counselors, policy makers, NGOs, CSOs, legal
experts and media personnel working in the area of suicide
prevention and research.
This book underscores how, apart from bacteriological factors,
human behavioural characteristics as well as the socio-cultural
factors that affect people's lives contribute to the risk for and
prevention of infection, with particular focus on malaria. It
argues that the implementation of malaria-control measures can be
successful only if it considers the human response to malaria and
control measures. Any new tool which is introduced in a particular
area ? be it a new vaccine, a new drug combination, the promotion
of impregnated bed nets, spraying of insecticides, or improved home
management ? will be effective and sustainable only if it is
adapted to needs of the local population, i.e., if it makes sense
to them.
This volume also studies traditional knowledge systems with
respect to health and malaria, arguing that local knowledge about
infection is the result of an amalgamation of the biomedical and
the traditional. By attempting to identify how traditional and
biomedical elements interrelate in local illness concepts, it hopes
to assist health interventionists in providing efficacious health
education and awareness among people.
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