Crime free society is a dream of every human individual on earth. But it never happened ever since the origin of humans on the planet earth. Crime is always perpetuated in one form or the other. With the advancements in science and…
The idea of the life course approach is based on the hypothesis of developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD). According to this approach, the exposures acting during a critical window of biological development can alter the structure or function of organs,…
Human existence has never had a chance to stay in a state of tranquillity. Do we really understand the real meaning of wealth in life? Mahatma Gandhi once said, “It is health which is real wealth, and not pieces of gold and…
I Despite being a serious student of Anthropology for almost 50 years, the question makes me uneasy. It is easy to explain to the novice or beginner; but how to convince someone who has read and practised Anthropology? I must admit that…
As we approach the date set for the IUAES 2023 Congress questions continue to abound about where it is to be convened and who are the rightful conveners for this once in five years mega event. The questions are not inappropriate since…
Whenever my son watched zombie films, I used to ask him, “why do you watch such gory films, when it is not possible, humans eating and hunting other humans?”. He used to say, “when Americans are making such films and watching them,…
Twenty-first century has begun on a challenging note with the entire world grappling with the vagaries of nature and its consequences on human societies’. Forest fires and 490C temperature in Northern Canada, first, second and now fear of third and fourth wave of Covid-19 has thrown the entire world in a tizzy. Human civilization is…
Cyberspace and its virtual communities have initiated numerous methodological transformations. The availability of large amounts of data online requires renewed skills for digitizing and interpreting data. Establishing real-time connect has become part of the accepted epistemological practices. At the onset of the…
Poem written by Dr. Geetika Ranjan Professor, Department of Anthropology, North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong. I am Anthropology I have been walking through the years in quest of the human and his peers Traversing times and places from the yore The myriad human, I endeavor to explore Called a colonial hand maiden in the bygone…
The concept of communication is integral to anthropological knowledge generation and its applications, and has always been a part of anthropological explorations. Edward Sapir’s (1931:4) article on “communication” in the Encyclopaedia of Social Sciences observed, “every cultural pattern and every single act…
