Trends and Issues in Tribal Studies
Contents: Preface. I. Tribal health: 1. Safe motherhood practices among Indian tribal communities: facts from NFSH-II/A.K. Ravishankar, S. Ramachandran and A. Subbiah. 2. Health status of tribals in Orissa/Soubhagya Ranjan Padhi and Biswajita Padhy. 3. Dimensions of female tribal health in India/Rajesh Jaiswal. 4. Oral-story narratives: a tribal and ethnic response to epidemics in Tibet and Yi of China/Shuguang Wang. 5. Issues and perspectives of HIV-AIDS among tribal people in the Koraput district of Orissa/P.K. Kar, P. Mishra and S.R. Padhi. 6. Social assessment of HIV / AIDS among autochthones of Rajasthan/Devesh Kumar Sahu and Ankita Arya. 7. Energy and nutrient intakes among women in Tok Muda village, Selangor, Malaysia/Snigdha Mishra, Seti Haireyah, Pradip Kumar Mishra, Asbi bin Ali and Junainah Abdul Hamid. 8. Practice of ethno-medicine among the tribals/Bibekananda Nayak. II. Tribal welfare: 9. Role of government agencies in the welfare of the tribes of Orissa: a case study of scheduled caste and scheduled tribe research and training institute/N. Panigrahi. 10. An evaluation of development paradigms and sustainable development of tribal children in Orissa/S.N. Tripathy. 11. Secondary education: quality perspective and issues in tribal region of Orissa/Dibakar Sarangi. 12. Educational development of SCs and STs and Tamil Nadu Government budget: a critique/Debajani Dhal. 13. Self-governance and natural resource management during reforms period: evidence from the schedule areas of Orissa/Nihar Ranjan Mishra. 14. Democratization with inclusion: representation and empowerment of scheduled tribes through panchayats/Satyapriya Rout and Pratyusna Patnaik. 15. Sustainable livelihood of tribals: issues and concerns/J.K. Mohanty. 16. Development driven displacement and it\'s impact on tribals/Krishna Chandra Pradhan and Prakash Chandra Panigrahy. 17. Empowering women through combating gender-based violence and discrimination: Nepalese experience of using public interest litigation as a strategic tool/Raju Prasad Chapagai.
"The present publication encompasses a remarkable collection of research papers by specialist scholars on different aspects of tribal and ethnic studies. The main objective of collating is to provide certain guiding principles and course of action for the student and practitioners of sociology, anthropology, cultural, tribal and ethnic studies regarding the current socio-cultural problems. It is hoped that this assortment of ethnographic, analytical, conceptual and theoretical issues, covering a wide range of subjects in the present array of papers will certainly provide intellectual stimulants.
The outcome of this effort could be widely disseminated to all potential users including government and non-government organizations (NGOs), practitioners, grassroots activists and researchers, so that the process of transforming research results into action can be accelerated." (jacket)
