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...

About a half of the autochthonous people of the world with about 635 tribal groups and subgroups including 75 primitive tribes live in India. The state of Orissa occupies a unique position in the tribal map of India having 62 scheduled tribes including 13 primitive tribes with a population of over 8.15 million constituting 22.3% of the population of the state as per 2001 Census. There is a pauc...

BACKGROUND The study was carried out to record adverse pregnancy outcomes and to obtain information about sex ratio at birth in rural especially tribal areas in the State of Maharashtra, India. Although the tribal population is considered vulnerable to innumerable adversities, regretfully information about pregnancy wastage among them is not available. About 10% population of the state is triba...

A cornerstone of American-Indian cultures is a deep sense of interconnectedness with the natural environment. To preserve this sense of interconnectedness on tribal lands, many American Indians believe that sovereignty over environmental affairs on tribal lands is essential. But a number of shortcomings have historically and continually weakened tribal authority, and years of federal neglect ha...

The paper provides a comprehensive picture of knowledge and use of contraceptives among scheduled tribes of India and selected central hilly states where tribal population contributes more than 30% of the total tribal population of the country. An attempt is also made to know how far scheduled tribes differ from non-tribes in the states, namely Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh, using...

This article investigates emerging patterns of pilgrimage in the context Shiʿite Islam and studies case Arbaʿyin based on two weeks participatory observation, walking from al-Faw peninsula far south Iraq to city Karbalâ. I identify three narratives this pilgrimage—tribal, ideological orthodox—and discuss their commonalities differentials. The maʿāzīb system tribal narrative is core comparison, ...

We report an analysis of more than 240,000 loci genotyped using the Affymetrix SNP microarray in 554 individuals from 27 worldwide populations in Africa, Asia, and Europe. To provide a more extensive and complete sampling of human genetic variation, we have included caste and tribal samples from two states in South India, Daghestanis from eastern Europe, and the Iban from Malaysia. Consistent w...

The origins and genetic affinities of the more than 500 tribal populations living in South Asia are widely disputed. This may reflect differential contributions that continental populations have made to tribal groups in South Asia. We assayed for the presence of the intergenic COII/tRNALys 9-bp deletion in human mtDNA in 646 individuals from 12 caste and 14 tribal populations of South India and...