This paper disputes the claim that our understanding of others is enabled by a commonsense or ‘folk’ psychology, whose ‘core’ involves the attribution of intentional states in order to predict and explain behaviour. I argue that interpersonal understanding is seldom, if ever, a matter of two people assigning intentional states to each other but emerges out of a context of interaction between th...

In Finland, folk high school education began in 1889 and consisted of non-formal adult education in Finland. The aim of the study is to research the role of folk high school education into Finnish culture.The study introduces the history of Finnish folk high school education and discusses the role of folk high school education in the Finnish educational system, especially arts education. The pu...

BACKGROUND Sorghum is one of the main staple food crops for the poorest and most food insecure people of the world. As Ethiopia is the centre of origin and diversity for sorghum, the crop has been cultivated for many thousands of years. Hence, indigenous knowledge based sorghum classification and naming has a long tradition. METHODS In order to assess folk taxonomy, various research methods w...

the reservoir hosts and the environment. Leptospirosis is Occupation No. of Males Females primarily an occupational disease, but a contaminated participants environment makes any person vulnerable to infection. Agricultural workers 100 65 35 Fishermen and fisher folk 125 46 79 Calicut is an endemic area for leptospirosis. Clinical cases Hospital sanitary workers of leptospirosis have been recor...

The consideration of folk medicine places us in a hazy domain where meanings are clouded by interests and assumptions which are often at odds with one another. This article on folk medicine in the Iberian Peninsula reveals that while there is no doubt of the vitality of the practice and the relevance of the concept, its content and function depend on the context in which it is used. Folk medici...

(Forthcoming, Journal of Cognition and Culture, 2009, Vol. 9, 3-4) ABSTRACT Many theoretical claims about the folk concept of moral responsibility coming from the current literature are indeterminate because researchers do not clearly specify the folk concept of moral responsibility in question. The article pursues a cognitive approach to folk concepts that pays special attention to this indete...

This contribution discusses the current status of folk costumes in south-eastern Moravia. At the theoretical level, it categorizes levels of clothing culture as they pertain to folk costumes and further addresses the political, social and economic conditions and associations that enable, or even support, the parallel existence of these categories of folk costumes. Although folk costumes, in the...

conclusions in addition to the modern medical diagnostic methods, indigenous knowledge of folk medicine, especially folk orthopedics, with a little thought, guidance and planning can be considered as an appropriate therapeutic method in order to raise the level of public health without any side effects. background medical anthropology is the comprehensive intercultural systematic study of healt...