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This book makes an in-depth study of health culture and care among the people of Barak Valley of Assam, with special reference to hepatitis and gollbladder stone. Going deep into the history of Barak Valley, it describes in detail the people’s method of understanding different diseases and the role of the healer.
Discussing at length the social and other variables of hepatitis and gollbladder stone such as sex, age and socio-economic background of the ...
Ethnography, the backbone of social anthropology, enjoys privileged position in social science research. But often it suffers from inadequate theoretical framework, and the current shift to post-modern writing on culture demands a treatment hitherto different from that of the classical kind. This book carefully considers the two requirements; it provides the ongoing theoretical debates on South Indian kinship and social organisation as also on ethnography which ...