Any culture has its own practices to heal different health disorders and diseases. Any culture has evolved certain system of medicine to treat diseases in its own way. This is well variable across groups. It can be noted that disease and ailment, particularly in the simple societies is not an isolated phenomenon, rather they are interwoven with the environment, particularly the forest ecology. Their traditional healing are based on deep observation of ethno-ecology. The present study has been done on the Karbi tribal group of Karbi Anglong, Assam. The district is rich in biodiversity. Such resources are interwoven to their livelihood. The Karbi people had a strong belief that different malevolent supernatural agencies can create tremendous harm and allied misfortune to the reproductive mother as well as to the new born. The concerned people are very much psychologically dependent on the traditional healers and ethno-gynaecologists for the treatment related to such cases. The concerned healers use several locally available plant resources for such treatment. Meanwhile, particularly in the cases of reproductive mother-child health, a number of floral and faunal resources are also used by them, as a part of their ethnic diet. The present study has the prime objective to reveal the relationship between ethno-ecology and indigenous knowledge of the health care system of the Karbis, particularly related to reproductive mother-child health issues. The study has been primarily conducted through intensive fieldwork. Several anthropological methods are used in this regard to collect primary data.
Karbi Anglong district of Assam is a zone of diversified natural resources and multicultural tradition. The present article highlights their traditional weekly markets or Hats (which is locally termed as Hithi), organised and participated by the Karbi tribal people as well as their traditional number system and practices of barter system. Such markets are either conducted weekly or fortnightly. Primary data related to the present study has been collected through field works with the help of anthropological methods. The prime objective of the present study is to find out how indigenous knowledge, locally available natural resources and traditional economic organisations have collectively sustained the daily livelihood of the marginal areas, through the traditional markets as well as through the age-old barter system, under the acute threat of COVID-19 pandemic. It has been found that such traditional markets are the platform for the Karbi people of the rural areas, to channelise their local production and to generate a scope of earning for themselves under the lockdown phases of COVID-19 pandemic.
Social inequality lies in certain features of all human societies. Predominantly in most of the countries, men enjoy authority, power and rights over resources. On the other hand, by empowerment we mean, to a large extent, the increase of women’s relative access to economic opportunities and resources. The anthropological study of economic organization is a focal point for discovering the relationship between material and non-material aspects of the environmental resources and human behaviour as well as the social system within which it is exchanged and distributed as cultural goods and services. In India, tribal people are found to be dwelling in the hills and forest-covered regions. Their livelihood and traditional economic organization is intimately associated with multifarious natural and environmental resources. In tribal societies, womenfolk play a very crucial role. In this context, environmental resources related to traditional economic organization have generated a scope of income for them, and it can generate a wider potential for their economic self-dependence. The present study has been done on the Karbi tribal group, of Karbi Anglong, Assam, to analyse the significance of environmental resources in the empowerment of women.
The social inequality lies rather in certain features of all human societies. Predominantly in most of the countries the men enjoy the authority, power and rights over the resources. In contrary, by empowerment we mean to a large extent about the increase of womens' relative access to economic opportunities and resources. The anthropological study of economic organization is a focal point for discovering the relationship between material and non material aspects of the environmental resources and human behaviour as well as the social system within which it is exchanged and distributed as cultural goods and services. In our country the tribal people are dwelling in the high hills and forest covered regions. Their livelihood and traditional economic organization is intimately associated with multifarious natural and environmental resources. In the tribal societies women folk play a very crucial role. In this context, the environmental resources related to traditional economic organization has generated a scope of income for them and it can generate a wider potential for their economic self dependence. The present study has been done on the Karbi tribal group, of Karbi Anglong, Assam to analyze the significance of the environmental resources in the empowerment of women.
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