While several studies examine the e¤ect of marriage market conditions on post-marital labor supply, few account for the e¤ect that these conditions may have on pre-marital investment decisions and mate selection. This paper investigates theoretically and empirically how changes in marriage market conditions a¤ect pre-marital investments. I …rst show how a change in the sex ratio –that is, the r...

The best known example of oblique marriage, i.e. marriage between an ego and an alter in adjacent genealogical levels, involves the marriage of a man with his ZD, to whom he himself is MB. There are a number of discussions of this phenomenon (Rivière 1969, Lavé 1966, Good 1980; also Parkin 1997: 106-8), but in general it is probably best interpreted as a variant of bilateral cross-cousin marria...

BACKGROUND Blood group serology plays a vital role in transfusion medicine. The Bombay (Oh) phenotype is characterized by the absence of A, B, and H antigens on red cells and occurs rarely, especially in tribal populations of India. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES This is a field-based random population study in the Bhuyan tribal community. The study reports three cases of the rare Bombay (Oh) phenotype ...

Objectives: The paper constitutes an ample study on digital dermatoglyphics, from a pathological perspective. Material and methods: Study population was represented by 200 subjects (100 men and 100 women) of all ages, coming from an endogamous rural locality the village of Butea, county of Iaşi and there were used 400 dermatoglyphic files. It was noted that the high level of endogamy within the...

Finger prints of 684 men and 700 women coming from 7 Moldavian endogamous rural communities have been taken into study, viewed from the perspective of the incidence of the transverse palmary fold (TPF) and of some similar ridge formations. It was observed that the relatively high degree of endogamy of the communities under study is to be correlated with a high frequency of the classical forms o...

Hereditary hemolytic disorders are important public health challenges in India. They cause a high degree of morbidity, mortality and fetal wastage in vulnerable communities. Tradition-bound-psychosocial influences are detrimental to the process of prevention. This study was designed to create awareness, motivate, and sensitize two major vulnerable tribal communities: Bhuyan and Kharia for hemog...

Deficyt enzymu LCHAD to rzadka choroba genetyczna, relatywie cz?sta w populacji kaszubskiej. Celem moich bada? by?o przyjrzenie si? kwestii pochodzenia przestrzennego (geograficznego), wyznaniowego i narodowo?ciowego ma??e?stw na Kaszubach od lat 70. XIX w. do drugiej po?owy XX stwierdzenie czy uprawnione jest twierdzenie cz??ci lekarzy i? przyczyn? du?ej cz?stotliwo?ci wyst?powania tej choroby...

regarded as one of the most important concepts in structuralism, the theory of binary opposition has long been used as a yardstick against which structuralists measure their researches in the wide realms of linguistics, narratives, philosophy, cultural studies, anthropology, and psychology. employing binary opposition in structural anthropology, lévi-strauss aimed to discover human’s cognitive ...

BACKGROUND: Genetic research has potential benefits for improving health, such as identifying molecular characteristics of a disease, understanding disease prevalence and treatment, and developing treatments tailored to patients based on individual genetic characteristics of their disease. Indigenous people are often targeted for genetic research because genes are easier to study in communities...

OBJECTIVES This study was aimed at to sensitize, motivate, and screen two major vulnerable tribal communities--Bhuyan and Kharia, for hemoglobinopathies and allied hemolytic disorders, along with prospective and retrospective genetic/marriage counseling to the affected persons. For sustainability, imparting of relevant training to local paramedical staff, and to undertake periodic follow up for...