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De-colonising the Aesthetic Sense:The story of craft revival in Aruvacode pottersâ€™ village

Jinan K.B. - eSocialSciences - 2006

Experiential knowledge is what indigenous knowledge is all about. Unfortunately again the Western intellectuals are reframing indigenous knowledge to suit their purposes. In the course of living with indigenous communities through a project to revive the craft in a potters' village, the author...

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History and Anthropology: A Marriage Made in Heaven

Mintz, Sidney W. - eSocialSciences - 2007

Anthropology is a science of inquiries about the origins and continuities of the patterned differentiation of human … beings into distinguishable groups. During the last hundred years, most such inquiries in academic anthropology could be … organized under four headings, and in the U.S., these headings became the subfields of anthropology: physical anthropology …

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WCD Working Papers: Dams and Cultural Heritage Manaagement

Brandt, Steven A.; Hassan, Fekri - eSocialSciences - 2006

Recognising that the construction of large dams has also led to incalculable loss, destruction, and damage of cultural resources ranging from shrines of local communities to world heritage monuments, the objective of this report is to provide an overview of past and present cultural heritage...

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Grounding the Spirit: Revival of Irula Art as a Form of Narrative Tradition

Pascal, Leena - eSocialSciences - 2007

Kriebish had, for a long time, cherished a dream of setting up a learning and documentation centre dedicated to the study of oral literature, village religion and customs, music and dance, traditional arts and crafts, theatre and cinema of the Tamil people. Would the dream ever come true? One of...

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Code of Ethics: Issues and Dilemmas

Shah, Ghanshyam - eSocialSciences - 2007

The paper discuses the need and importance of having a ethical code of ethics for research work done in the country.

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Motherhood, Mothers, Mothering: A Multidimensional Perspective

Krishnaraj, Maithreyi - eSocialSciences - 2006

The question of matriarchate as female dominance, remains unresolved. While non materialist anthropologists dismissed it outright, socialist scholars accepted it as a stage in social evolution. If matrifocal clans or collective mothering oncet provided power and assistance for raising a human...

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Poverty Knowledge and Poverty Action: Evidence from Three States in India

Krishna, Anirudh - eSocialSciences - 2005

Even as some households are coming out of poverty, other households are concurrently falling into poverty. Poverty creation and poverty destruction are proceeding alongside. A bottom-up methodology for studying poverty was developed to help examine movements out of and into poverty at the...

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Can â€˜Beautifulâ€™ Be â€˜Backwardâ€™? Indiaâ€™s Tribes in a Long-Term Demographic Perspective

Maharatna, Arup - eSocialSciences - 2009

The paper examines the present condition of tribals in India with a demographic perspective. Construction of a long-term demographic perspective on Indiaâ€™s tribal population rests on the premise that aggregation over diverse tribal groups is valid not only in statistical and quantitative...

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WCD thematic Review I.1: contributing Paper: Assessing the Project- social Impact and Large Dams

Brody, Hugh - eSocialSciences - 2006

This paper looks at a number of questions about the social impacts of large dams. It does not set out original or integrated findings in these matters. Rather, the material here comes from experience in a number of roles in relation to a number of specific projects. [This is one of 126...

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Underground Gun Markets

Cook, Philip J.; Ludwig, Jens; Venkatesh, Sudhir A.; … - eSocialSciences - 2005

This paper provides an economic analysis of underground gun markets drawing on interviews with gang members, gun dealers, professional thieves, prostitutes, police, public school security guards and teens in the city of Chicago, complemented by results from government surveys of recent arrestees...

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