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A Review of The Navajo and the Animal People: Native American Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Ethnozoology
Get PDFField Report: Collecting Data on the Influence of Culture and Indigenous Knowledge on Breast Cancer Among Women in Nigeria
Get PDFCulture has been shown to influence health beliefs and health-related behaviors because it influences the type of information women have been exposed to, as well as their resources for interpreting such information. This field report summarizes my approach to understanding how culture influences breast cancer screening behaviors among women seeking care at a local non-profit clinic in Lagos, Nigeria
The Black Day: Yarsagunbu, the State, and the Struggle for Justice
Get PDFThe emergence of the unified Nepal with its centralized structure has put indigenous peoples in danger. Exclusion has been a primary medium to negate the indigenous peoples and their knowledge. Violence has become a new weapon to silence these peoples. The state is still reluctant to accept indigenous peoples\u27 demands though the peoples\u27 aspiration of justice reflects their own socio-cultural and political context, affected by the state led exclusion and violence. The interrelation of this hidden structural violence and continued historical exclusion by the state has led to continuing direct violence and injustice on the indigenous peoples of Nepal
Remarks: Regional Constructions of Cultural Identity Forum
Get PDFWhen I began writing poetry, it was not with any audience in mind, nor any poet in mind. Those poems just had a life of their own and, in my present life, I\u27m beginning to find the meaning in them. They are probably my greatest teachers
Traditional Pottery of Bhaktapur
Get PDFIn 2014, I conducted fieldwork studying traditional pottery making in Bhaktapur, Nepal. The pottery, which is made for commercial purposes today, is still produced with a traditional ash firing process. My fieldwork consisted of interviews, observations, and interactions with a traditional family of potters. I found that, while pottery production is still continuing among the Newar community, it has changed in recent years to adapt to technological advances, including the electric wheel and the availability of resources such as clay, plastic, and electricity. The increasingly wide variety of economic opportunities available to the younger generation poses challenges to the continuation of this occupation
