health
Where do you shit? In developing countries, the answer to this question may determine whether you live or die. Around 2.6 billion people do not have access to a toilet – about four in ten of the world’s population. Instead, they defecate in the open – in the bush, the forest, by riverbanks and lakes, near train tracks and by the side of the road. The consequences are...
The paper aims to describe certain aspects of illnesses and compare health facilities between regions in eastern Nepal. The focus is on diseases whose remedies have implications for changes in socio-cultural conditions. The impact of health services as they presently exist is discussed from the points of views of doctors, administrators, health workers and villagers. Data was collected in...
Despite the advance of modern medicine in Nepal, the role of the shaman as folk curer remains strong. In a survey of 19 village panchayat areas, not one was without its shamanistic curer who went under various names as jhankri, dhami, janne, or jharphuke. While these appeared to depend largely on the exorcism of possessing spirits to cure diseases, there...
The villager in Nepal has ideas about what medicine should be, respect for specialists who can diagnose and cure, and a faith in the basic validity of the system. This paper explores the methods of healing within a village in central Nepal. As can be seen, there are various techniques of curing - herbal, ritual, western - all of which are integrated into a system designed to deal with the...
The research on which this description of illness and its treatments was carried out in the village of Dhungagaun, which is located about 50 miles north-west of Kathmandu in Nuwakot District, in the Bagmati Zone.
Predominently a Brahman-Chhetri village, over half of its 2,000 inhabitants are of the high (sacred thread-wearing) castes. Apart form Brahmans and Chhetris, other high caste...
One of the fundamental goals of anthropological research in Nepal must be to generate data, explanations and recommendations which can be used by policy makers to improve the quality of life of the inhabitants without causing either long or short term degradation of the environment. In particular the socio-economic systems of existing hill and mountain populations must be stabilised in their...
Among the high castes (Brahman and Chhetri) of Nepal, a healthy, growing family brings substantial social reward, while childlessness is punished. Yet childlessness is not only feared because it incurs negative social and cultural sanctions, but also because of the lack in Brahman-Chhetri society of viable, institutionalised alternatives to having one's own children. This combination in Nepal...
Parks Victoria have pioneered the approach that is Healthy Parks Healthy People. Many organisations, inside and outside the parks sector, are realising the potential of this innovative approach to park management and community well being. Parks Victoria chose and developed Healthy Parks Healthy People as it encompasses all that they are committed to as the parks agency for the people of...
This report documents different approaches to conservation of medicinal plants and traditional knowledge in Bolipara union of Thanchi upazila of Bandarban hill district. This initiative involved the collection of baseline data on medicinal plants and their uses, motivating people towards the uses and practices, identification and knowledge sharing with the traditional healers,...
Ethnobotany is a subject of more than scholarly or historical interest in Nepal. In the five years 1970-75, the export earnings for the sale of Nepalese medicinal plants rose from one and a half to nearly ten million rupees, a trend that held in subsequent years and represents about 3% of the total exports of Nepal. Potential uses of medicinal plants from the higher altitude areas remains...
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