background: to study the prevalence and risk factors of urinary incontinence in tribal women and to assess the treatment seeking behavior of affected women. methods: a cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in khardi, a tribal village, selected by random sampling, in thane district, maharashtra, india during the period october 2010 to january 2011. all women aged 20 years and above wer...

OBJECTIVES To describe the Indian Health Service (IHS) oral health surveillance system and the oral health status of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) children aged 1-5 years. METHODS A stratified probability sample of IHS/tribal sites was selected. Children were screened by trained examiners at community-based locations including medical clinics, Head Start, preschools, kindergarten,...

Roughly the size of Alaska, Mongolia is a landlocked country between Russia on its northern frontier and China on its southern border. With just over three million inhabitants, it is sparsely populated, with nearly half of the people living in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar, and in other provincial centers. The tribal networks in Mongolia are the main tenants of social structural characteristi...

Where ethnic violence divides groups by both religious and tribal affiliation, how does the ‘ethnic’ characterization of conflict affect perceptions crises? From a survey experiment in Jos, Nigeria, we find that priming respondents with versus frames leads to differently interpret causes violence, issues viewed as most salient cause religion important solution. The findings emphasize where more...

Culinary nationalism in India has given rise to a hegemony of vegetarianism, excluding numerous regional and ethnic cuisines the process. A homogeneous culinary identity is attempted by othering specific communities like Christians Muslims, lower caste Hindus, tribal groups, disputing legitimacy their national belonging and, hence, traditions. The traditional gender roles women kitchen spaces, ...

The paper highlights some commonly used ethnoveterinary medicines for domestic animals to treat ailment. The data was gathered from ethnic people specially Gond and Korku in the tribal pockets of Betul district. A total 25 species belonging to 25 genera, representing to 19 families as employed for 14 types of animal diseases. The species, family and vernacular name, plant part(s), drug preparat...

In early India, people handcrafted jewellery out of natural materials found in abundance all over the country. Seeds, feathers, leaves, berries, fruits, flowers, animal bones, claws and teeth; everything from nature was affectionately gathered and artistically transformed into fine body jewellery. Even today such jewellery is used by the different tribal societies in India. It appears that both...

The Afghan resistance sees its struggle more in terms of a "holy war" (jihad) than as a war of national liberation. In a country in which reference to the "nation" is avery recent phenomenon, where the State is perceived as exterior to society and where allegiance belongs to the local community, Islam remains the sole point of reference for all Afghans. It is only in the southern Pushtun tribal...