BACKGROUND Little is known about the prevalence and severity of DSM-IV mental disorders treated by traditional healers in Uganda. OBJECTIVE To describe the prevalence and severity of DSM-IV disorders handled by traditional healers in Jinja and Iganga districts, Eastern Uganda. METHOD Between January and March 2008, Face-to-Face Interviews were conducted with 400 patients attending tradition...

It can be known from literature that monumental stone has been worshipped in the name of soldiers who died war since Sangam period. Tomb shrine worship is worshipping body a siddha tomb. In Tamil Nadu, Siddhas studied and mind learned art suppressing life with attained immortality. The indirectly said separation death, bio-condensation eternal. To achieve this, if one receives Kundalini spiritu...

Ethnoarchaeological research at highland Maya hunting shrines documents the material remains of interactions between two types of animate beings: humans and the forest. When either active agent enters the others’ domain there are accompanying ceremonial activities to assuage the inherent danger, often leaving physical traces in the material record. These traces, if found in the archaeological r...