TRIBAL AND FOLK ART CULTURE OF CHHATTISGARH ORIENTED TOWARDS PROFESSIONALISM

A Comparative S‌tudy on Pop, Elite and Folk Art

Pop Art is the representative of a cultural identity that has been represented as a kind of art in the mid-twentieth century. It is based on the ordinary manifes‌tations of people’s lives, and by concentrating on media and propaganda it has become pervasive in a short time as if it is a newly emerged culture that has appeared not from the inside of community but from outside and by those sociol...

The Folk Medicine Culture of Yazd Jews

Background: The current population of the Yazd Jews is the survivors of a very large and ancient congregation of this people in central Iran. The long inhabitancy of this people in Yazd during the history of Islamic Iran, on one hand, and the current small numbers of these people, demonstrates the necessity of a comprehensive ethnography of this population. The present study aims to collect, st...

Tribal Culture and the Islamic Awakening

Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment of Tribal District Headquarter Dantewara of Chhattisgarh State (India)

Dantewara District or Dakshin Bastar District is situated in the State of Chhattisgarh in Indian. The district is part of Bastar Division. Until 1998, the Dantewara District was a tehsil of the larger Bastar District. Dantewara District has an area of 10,238.99 km2. It is bounded on the north and northeast by Bastar District, on the east by Malkangiri District of Orissa state, on the south and ...

Public health advocacy to reinstate reproductive rights of Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PTGs) in Chhattisgarh

Introduction Baigas, Pahari Korwas, Abujhmarias, Birhors and Kamars have been designated as Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PTGs) in Chhattisgarh. These communities face high levels of poverty, malnutrition, and limited access to health and nutrition services, manifested in high mortality rates. As a strategy for curtailing the once decreasing population of PTGs after 1979, Madhya Prades...