Bengkala is an Indonesian village located on the north shore of Bali that has existed for over 700 years. Currently, 2.2% of the 2185 people in this village have profound congenital deafness. In response to the high incidence of deafness, the people of Bengkala have developed a village specific sign language which is used by many of the hearing and deaf people. Deafness in Bengkala is congenita...

ease is otherwise when too many people collect in a village and use the tank both for bathing and drinking purposes. Moreover, when there is.a collection of people in a village, there is a chance of a carrier arriving from outside. It appears that something of the kind happened in this case. On the 24th February, which was the day of the marriage, two of the guests were attacked with cholera an...

a population of a little over 4,000. The people of this village are pure Russians and obtain their livelihood chief!)7 by agriculture and sheep farming, a few only work outside. The fields cultivated by these people are at so great a distance from the village that it entails their absence from home for several days together, in consequence of which they are obliged to provide themselves for thi...

Since the Great East Japan Earthquake on 11 March 2011, Iitate Village has continued to be classified as a deliberate evacuation area, in which residents are estimated to receive an annual additional effective radiation dose of >20 mSv. Some companies still operate in Iitate Village, with a special permit from the Cabinet Office Team in Charge of Assisting the Lives of Disaster Victims. In this...

In a survey of five villages in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, Serpulina pilosicoli was isolated from rectal swabs from 113 of 496 individuals (22.8%). Colonization rates ranged from 22.6-30.1% in four of the villages but was only 8.6% in the other village. In comparison colonization was demonstrated in only 5 of 54 indigenous people (9.3%) and none of 76 non-indigenous people livin...

To estimate the reliability of ultrasound for the detection of colonic wall pathology induced by the intestinal parasitic helminth O. bifurcum, three studies to assess the intraand inter-observer variation of the technique were performed. In the endemic area of northern Ghana, 181 people from a low prevalence village and 62 people from a high prevalence village were examined twice by the same o...

the dissemination of western culture in the world has promoted a type of consumer culture which corresponds with the capitalist system. this has not only affected on urbanites, but has also made dramatic changes the life style of rural people. so nowadays contentment is not deemed valuable and many people believe that these values are outmoded. in this article, hesar khorvan village has been se...

The Indian village has often been seen as the ultimate signifier of " authentic native life " , a place where one could see or observe the " real " India and develop an understanding of the way local people organised their social life. Though it was during the colonial period that the Indian society was first essentialised as a land of 'village republics', the later traditions of scholarship to...