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Two Interviews by Vinicius Kauê Ferreira: Chandana Mathur (National University of Ireland, Maynooth) and Soumendra Patnaik (University of Delhi)
No full textThe interviews published in this issue of American Anthropologist seek to contribute to the global conversations that the World Anthropologies section has been fostering in recent years. We may not all agree about whether globalization is a recent phenomenon, but I am convinced that we all agree that social issues of a global sort require global dialogues that also take the local into account. To that end, the interviews I conducted with Chandana Mathur and Soumendra Patnaik, and that AA includes here, focus on how social issues, intellectual trajectories, and scientific institutions are intertwined, and shape and reshape global connections. These interviews not only ask about the role of anthropology in responding to contemporary challenges but also ask how our discipline itself is being challenged and how it responds to those challenges. The accounts Chandana Mathur and Soumendra Patnaik provide capture a good deal of such social and disciplinary transformations. My aim in interviewing them was to explore aspects of both their personal trajectories and their academic work that epitomize anthropology's efforts to engage in these global issues. What is more, as the attentive reader may notice, in interviewing them I sought to explore the possibility that anthropology might make some progress in such global conversations by adopting a more symmetrical attitude when it comes to institutional and epistemological practices
The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair‐Trade Tea Plantations in India by Sarah Besky.
No full textBook review: the abstract is included in the text
Anthropology and the Irish Encounter
No full textIn their discussion of ancestral versus contemporary anthropology
in Ireland, Keith Egan and Fiona Murphy (this issue)
do not draw a parallel distinction, quite probably deliberately,
between “metropolitan” and “native” anthropologies.
Positing a category of “native anthropology” opens up an
explosive set of issues about the claim to be “native”—all the
more combustible in a place that has known settler colonialism
since the 12th century, tidalwaves of out-migration (and
consequently a vast and tuned-in diaspora) due to famine in
the 19th and economic stagnation in the 20th century, and
a total demographic makeover through in-migration in the
past two decades. Nonetheless, even though they do not resort
to this distinction, Egan and Murphy are likely to agree
that they are describing an Irish version of a quandary that is
all too familiar to native anthropologists from marginal anthropological
traditions, predominantly in the postcolonial
world: namely, what is to be done when the acknowledged
gold standard of metropolitan ethnographic writing renders
your home place in a way that is unrecognizable to you
Anti-Microbial Activity of Chandana Chooranam (Santalum album.linn) & Anti Platelet Aggregation activity and Thrombolytic activity of Cheenalinga Chendhuram
No full textCHANDANA CHOORANAM:
The heart wood of Chandana Chooranam was tested for its efficacy in the management of Leucorrhoea in this study. This has been chosen from the book Gunapadam ‘Mooligai Vaguppu’ by Murugesan Mudaliyaar.
The Literature Review showed that the plant possess Anti-microbial activity.
The heart wood chandanam was identified and authenticated.
Phyto chemical study revealed that the Ash and Acid insoluble ash value were within permissible limits.
The TLC was done and the Rf value showed that the plant possess seven compounds Phyto vchemical Analysis The data shows the presence of Tannins, Phlobatannins, Terpenoids, Cardiac glycosides, carbohydrates, Volatile oil, fixed oil.
The pH of Chandana Chooranam lies in the range of 6.4 so it is slightly acidic.
Toxicological studies revealed that the drug has no significant toxic effect till 400mg/kg rat.
Pharmacological studies showed that the heart wood has potent, Anti-microbial activity.
Clinical study was conducted in out and in patient department of Government Siddha Medical College, Anna Hospital, Chennai – 106. 50 patients were selected out of which 10 were in patients. Chandana Chooranam was administered in the dosage of 1 gm twice a day with milk. Routine investigations in blood, urine, and ultra sonogram were done for all patients.
Clinical study showed improvement in symptoms like watery discharge, muco purulent discharge, itching in vulva, lower abdominal pain, low back pain and dysuria and showed good results in 84% of the cases, 10% of the cases showed moderate results and 6% if the cases showed mild result.
Statistical analysis is significant both in clinical and pharmacological study.
CHEENALINGA CHENDHURAM:
Cheenalinga Chendhuram was selected for this study to establish the action on Anti platelet aggregation activity and Thrombolytic activity.
To collect the information about the drug, various text books and literatures were referred. From them, the author came to an idea about the drug and its efficacy on The Physio chemical analysis of the drug shows that it contains potassium, aluminium, phosphorous, calcium, mercury, sodium, iron, sulphur, Sulphate, Oxalates. It is related to Anti platelet aggregation activity and Thrombolytic activity.
Pharmacological studies showed the test drug has got Significant Anti platelet aggregation activity and Thrombolytic activity.
In clinical study the drug has showed,
The results revealed that the drug possess: 62.5% Marked relief, 25% moderate relief, 12.5% mild relief. The patients were responding well from the beginning of the treatment and no side effects were reported.
This present study suggests that cheenalinga chendhuram has the remarkable medicinal value against the disease cerebro vascular accident, Deep vein thrombosis, Myocardial Infarction treatment
The Ethnographic Past.
No full textIt is May 2015, and I am returning for a second fieldwork stay in the small Indiana town where I
conducted doctoral fieldwork from 1989 to 1991. I have been on the phone from Ireland with some
people I used to know. A former coal miner has told me that I am arriving just in time for the local
Workers’ Memorial Day event. We meet up in a completely transformed shopping mall, and I follow
his motorbike in my car as we drive down a highway that did not exist back then towards the
premises of the Central Labor Council of Southern Indiana
A Passage to Indiana: Reflections on Fieldwork in a Reverse Direction
No full textMy two years (1989-91) of dissertation fieldwork
were spent in Southern Indiana in a small town
located near the flagship plant of a major
multinational corporation, the Aluminium Company of
America (Alcoa). As an Indian woman anthropologist
whose work centres on mainstream American culture, I
have become well used to the inevitable amused chuckle
drawn by this disclosure. Any exploration of the
intentions underlying the project, of the fieldwork
experience itself, of the particular difficulties involved
in writing about it, and (most pertinently for this
collection) of the residues remaining, however, requires
reaching beyond the cheap paradox element of this
fieldwork encounter
Marx at the Margins, four ways
No full textAppearing shortly before the publication of the second edition of Kevin B.
Anderson’s Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity and Non-Western
Societies, this Dialectical Anthropology forum features commentaries by Marxian
scholars from four of the world regions that came in for extended discussion in the
book. It concludes with a final response from Anderson. The forum was a long time
in the making, and had been of great interest to Ananth Aiyar, the late editor of this
journal, so it is particularly tragic that he did not live to see it in print
Response to Eamonn Slater and Eoin Flaherty: Marx on Primitive Communism: The Irish Rundale Agrarian Commune, its Internal Dynamics and the Metabolic Rift
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