by Sasha Beg | Dec 31, 2020
This paper is based on an ethnographic study on Indian social scientists building an academic career in the United Kingdom. It articulates in-depth interviews and the analysis of texts by those intellectuals in order to access narratives on trajectories, sentiments of...
by Sasha Beg | Dec 31, 2020
In contrast to earlier education policies, the New Education Policy of India 2020 seeks to refigure the higher education ecosystem through introduction of greater flexibility and instilling a forward looking momentum to meet the challenges of neoliberal global...
by Sasha Beg | Dec 31, 2020
This presentation clarifies how misfortune caused by spiritual being shapes kinship. Previous studies on Tibetan societies have focused on the notion of patrilineal descent as an important element to construct kinship. There is also, however, an important category of...
by Sasha Beg | Dec 28, 2020
Kristin Lozanski, in her paper “Defining ‘Real India’: Representations of Authenticity in Independent Travel” (2010), argues that the natives whom tourists want to “befriend” cannot be just any natives – relationship with tourism service providers will be seen as...
by Sasha Beg | Dec 28, 2020
A strong relationship between food and ritual has existed in Puri, Odisha, one of the most important pilgrim places in India’s sacred Hindu Geography. The food offering made to Lord Jagannath is transformed as Mahaprasad, greatly valued by Odiyas and other devout...
by Sasha Beg | Dec 23, 2020
Rabies is the most lethal infectious disease on Earth and, when it becomes clinically diagnosable, it is incurable. Only preventive dog vaccination and post-exposure human vaccination can stop its spreading and save human and animal lives. In India, rabies kills about...
by Sasha Beg | Mar 16, 2020
Social exclusion of tribes is closely related to their marginal status in society. Marginalisation leads to criminalisation among youths in remote and tribal areas of India. Tribal communities can be brought into the mainstream development fold through appropriate...
by Sasha Beg | Mar 9, 2020
The origin of ethnographic museums in independent India can be traced back to the year 1950 with the establishment of Museum of Ethnography in the Department of Anthropology at Lucknow University and formation of Ethnographic and Folk Culture Society in it.Since...
