by admin | Nov 1, 2016 | Articles, Further Readings
The report of the high level committee on socio-economic, health and educational status of tribal communities of tribal communities in India focuses on the causes, circumstances and consequences of this situation and analyzed in detail in order to design appropriate...
by admin | Oct 31, 2016 | Articles
In this paper, the author discusses the various correlates of health among tribal communities in the country. The paper attempts to identify the determining factors for the health status and health behaviors among tribal communities by focusing on certain interacting...
by admin | Oct 31, 2016 | Articles
The paper discusses the preliminary findings from a comparative analysis of the Khasis and the Karbis – two indigenous communities of Nortn Eastern India with two distinctly different kinship systems. It focuses on the inverse relationship between female autonomy and...
by admin | Oct 31, 2016 | Articles
The paper is commentary on the need for better ethical strategies for doctoral research with scheduled tribes. The author has also made recommendations to improve the ethical strategies employed in research with the tribes.
by admin | Oct 31, 2016 | Articles
The paper is a review of existing literature on tribal health, illness and medicine of Orissa. It points to two sets of literature in the area. The first set attributes the tribal health outcomes implicitly or explicitly to the tribal ‘beliefs’ which do not conform to...