It must not be forgotten that although a high standard of morality gives but a slight or no advantage to each individual man and his children of the same tribe, yet an increase in the number of well-endowed men and advancement in the standard of morality will certainly give an immense advantage to one tribe over another. A tribe including many members who, possessing in a high degree the spirit...

In The Wholeness of Nature (1996), Henri Bortoft shows how a Goethean science of qualitative wholeness complements the analytic and causal- explanatory framework that underlies most research in the natural and social sciences. Goethe's insights and methods suggest that a better understanding of Indian tribes may occur when a tribe is regarded as its own abstraction and its own explanation. In G...

Based on sequences of 20 chloroplast fragments, we generated a fully resolved phylogeny of Oryzeae and estimated divergence times of its major lineages as well as explored the historical biogeography of the tribe. Our results (1) confirmed the monophyly of Oryzeae and two-subtribe subdivision; (2) indicated that Maltebrunia, Potamophila and Prosphytochloa were genetically distinct enough to des...

The Paper presents an accounts of wild edible food plants used by shan tribe of Assam. The shan tribe of Assam is Sino-Tibetan race of Mongoloid stock whose ancestors migrated from South -west china. They depend upon forest products for their day to day needs, i.e, food, fodder and shelter etc. Their food include leaves, tubers, bulbs, rhizomes, flowers fruits and seeds of various wild plants s...

Two new related Colombian genera of Lachesillidae, including three new species, from the Department of Valle del Cauca, are here described and illustrated. They belong in the tribe Graphocaeciliini (Eolachesillinae). The new genera differ from the other genera in the tribe lacking ocelli, by characters of the male clunium, phallosome, endophallus, paraprocts, and female subgenital plate, gonapo...

Honduranuragen. n. and the type species H. centraliamericanasp. n. are described and illustrated. The new genus shows the characters of Sensillanurini Cassagnau, 1983 tribe and is distinguished by the fusion of cephalic and abdominal tubercles: clypeal with antennofrontal and dorsointernal with dorsoexternal on head; presence of fused tubercles on each side of abdominal segment V. Most of the t...

The new issid taxon, Folifemurum duplicatum gen. et sp. nov. from China is described and illustrated. This description includes external morphology of the adult, and structures of the male and female genitalia. The genus is placed in the tribe Parahiraciini. A diagnosis of Folifemurum gen.nov. is given and is compared to the related genus Neodurium Fennah. In addition, a key to all genera of th...

A review of the Afrotropical genus Stephanospathius Belokobylskij is provided. A new species Stephanospathius benoitisp. n. from the Republic of Congo, and the male and, for the first time, the female of Stephanospathius ornatipes (Kieffer) are described. A discussion of the status and composition of the tribe Stephaniscini is given and a new name for this tribe, Leptospathiini, nom. n., is pro...

Tabasconura gen. nov. (Neanuridae) and type species T. tapijulapana sp. nov., are described and illustrated. The new genus possesses all characters of the tribe Sensillanurini Cassagnau, and is characterised by the presence of slightly elongated tubercles on the body and also elongation and thickening of the sensillum S2 as well as S7 on antennal segment IV. Development of S7 is a character of ...

Cultural diversity in East Java is a leading potential tourism activities, this because the culture unique and has its own characteristics each region. One of them Banyuwangi which located eastern part Island nicknamed The Sunrise Java, making transformed into tourist area that develops through artistic local wisdom Osing Tribe. tribe native considered original tribe, sub-ethnic Javanese tribe....