A democratization scholar, Boylan’s research analyses development and identity politics in Ghana through an institutional theoretical framework. She conducted field research in Ghana in JuneJuly 2012, December 2012, and JanuaryDecember 2013, including a 3-month long survey project which collected 1,932 responses across 6 districts in Ghana. A description of the dissertation follows below. Decen...

Development economics, on the other hand, deals with the economic, social, political and institutional mechanisms necessary to bring about rapid and large-scale improvements in levels of living, in addition to being concerned with the efficient allocation of scarce or idle resources and with their sustained growth over time. In developing countries, unlike in developed countries, most markets a...

Ethnobotanical knowledge is common and important among the tribal people but much of the information is empirical at best lacking logical validation. A number of ethnic communities residing in the study area are partially or fully dependent on the forest resources to meet their requirements. The present study analyses indigenous knowledge of ethnobotanical plant species and utilization of 68 sp...

The ethnobotanical survey was made during last two years in the tribal population of Madhya Pradesh. Valuable information about the medicinal use of certain wild species against various diseases amongst tribal women are obtained by personal interviews. Some species are being used by them against various veneral diseases. Different plant parts of few species are also used by them for antifertili...

The origin and demographic history of the ethnic populations of China have not been clearly resolved. In this study, we examined the hypervariable segment I sequences (HVSI) of the mitochondrial DNA control region in 372 individuals from nine Chinese populations and one northern Thai population. A relatively high percentage of individuals was found to share sequences with those from other popul...

Use of plants by different ethnic tribal communities for treatment of various ailments in ‘Hili’ block of Dakshin Dinajpur district of West Bengal, India has been documented. As many as 62 plant species belonging to 34 families (61 Angiosperms and one fern), used by Santhal, Oraon, Munda and other communities (Polia, Sabar, Lodha) for medicinal purposes were identified. Largest number of plants...

gabbeh is one type of different types of hand-woven carpets of qashqaei tribes (south and center of iran) which is woven by the women of these tribes. in fact this hand-woven rug is kind of carpet woven to be slef-consumed which was woven from old times with creative and subjective patterns in a two dimensional and abstract format. the patterns are taken from the nature and environment where th...

OBJECTIVES The primary objective of this study is to study Maternal Mortality as per Gravidity among Tribal women at a tertiary level of care in Bastar, Chhattisgarh, India. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a hospital based ,retrospective, reproductive-age mortality study (RAMOS) of tribal women of Bastar region, Chhattisgarh, that were admitted and managed in Obstetrics and Gynecology Departmen...

Despite the wealth of studies on health and healthcare-seeking behaviour among the Bengali population in Bangladesh, relatively few studies have focused specifically on the tribal groups in the country. This study aimed at exploring the context, reasons, and choices in patterns of healthcare-seeking behaviour of the hill tribal population of Bangladesh to present the obstacles and challenges fa...