Anthropological Researches in India 1

Trends in Molecular Anthropological Studies in India

Indian population is characterized by wide diversity and unique population structure shaped by different waves of migration and the practice of caste endogamy. Anthropologists have been studying the peopling of India and the relationships between different populations using traditional genetic markers. With the advent of molecular genetic techniques the focus has turned to using the DNA polymor...

Recent Researches in Metallurgical

The Systematic Literature Review and Researches on Development of Microfinance Industry in India

Microfinance is the array of financial services, including loans, savings and insurance, available to Poor entrepreneurs and small business owners who have no collateral and would not otherwise qualify for a standard bank loan. Recent proliferation of microfinance market has swiftly increased the competition in microfinance Indian market, new technology and new devices are emerging at phenomal ...

13 Sexual Risk Reduction among Married Women and Men in Urban India: An Anthropological Intervention

Worldwide, the number of people living with HIV/AIDS is currently estimated at 33.2 million (UNAIDS 2007). In the early stages of the epidemic, the disease primarily affected men (Mann, Tarantola, and Netter 1992), but this proportion quickly changed, so that women manifested the most rapid increase in global infection rates (Vuylsteke, Sunkutu, and Laga 1996). In sub-Saharan Africa, there has ...

Collective Action, Common Property, and Social Capital in South India: An Anthropological Commentary

Anthropologists and economists commonly employ opposing self-stereotypes to characterize their respective perspectives: concern with relations and processes versus the distribution of outcomes, with contextual understanding versus selective explanation; constructionist versus positivist epistemologies, inductive versus deductive research designs, participant observation versus regressions on ex...