Women in anthropology: Their contributions and stand in developing the discipline

Human history has seen a long era of patriarchal domination. Women have struggled for long to get equal rights in the society. Decades of conflicts and struggle for equality finally started showing good results at the beginning of 20th century. Anthropology was just born as new revolutionary subject almost two centuries back. As this subject was one of a kind, it attracted academicians around the world. At the beginning, anthropologists like Tylor and Boas became the forerunners of this subject in establishing it on the world platform.

ETHNOBOTANY: Resurrecting Medicinal Culture

The organisms that populated the earth way before we “the humans” showed up were the flora and fauna’s. The major chemistry and biology of life started out with plants, soil, and microbes. Moreover, we are entirely depended on them and because of their existence we as a species were able to evolve in order to … Continue reading ETHNOBOTANY: Resurrecting Medicinal Culture

ETHNOMETHODOLOGY

What you think and what you do are to completely different things same as what one wants and what one should do is. That’s what phenomenology and ethnomethodology as a concept stands for. And one’s understanding to separate the two comes from the society which is a social construction made by we humans and it … Continue reading ETHNOMETHODOLOGY

Post Modernism: The Hyper Reality

We are presently in the post modern era, those days are long gone when we were in transaction from modern era to post modern era. Right now we are living in a global society where orthodoxy of any institution is being nullified. As right now we are confiding in the realm of knowledge over so … Continue reading Post Modernism: The Hyper Reality

Manusmriti:- An Individual’s Perspective

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Passion embarks life’s journey.

Dreams and Desires are something which are backed very carefully by one’s passion to have it. But does this fire of passion have any criteria or code of conduct? While pursuing a dream, heart always wishes to follow the path that passion is leading onto and mind sorts out all the practical conducts of life … Continue reading Passion embarks life’s journey.

Psychodynamics and the Formation of Culture-Personality School

Whenever we pick up a discipline to study about, it creates a persona of its own in our mind.The way we see it is a reflection of our perspective towards it. This perspective varies from one individual to another. When we mix it with our already known knowledge, we create vast possibility of creation of … Continue reading Psychodynamics and the Formation of Culture-Personality School

RACISM: A Baseless Social Phenomena-II

Part 2 :- How are racial groups classified and what are the bases of classification of racial groups? It is clear through our last article about the factors that are responsible for forming different races. Now let’s take a look at how these racial groups are classified and on what basis. A racial group is … Continue reading RACISM: A Baseless Social Phenomena-II

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