
Rashmi PramanikSambalpur University · Department of Anthropology
Rashmi Pramanik
M.A M.Phil Ph.D
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Currently I am an Assistant Professor in the PG. Department of Anthropology, Sambalpur University, Odisha, India and basically a social anthropologist by training. My current interests in research are: (1) Children and Childhood (2) Tribal Studies (3) Social Inclusion/Exclusion.
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Folk dances in Western Odisha exclude themselves from
the dances of the other parts of Odisha for its typicality. Dance as
a form of art is not merely for pleasure; rather it is an act of the
folkloric expression of the folks in Odisha, particularly in western
Odisha. The dance gets involved with the folk song, music with
multi dramatic and express...
Cultural beliefs associated with pregnancy and childbirth
among Paudi Bhuyan women has been little documented. Hence, the
study was undertaken with an objective to explore the beliefs and
practices associated with pregnancy and childbirth among Paudi Bhuyan
in the State of Odisha. Further an attempt has been made to understand
the impact of governm...
Society and Culture Development in India is a peer-reviewed journal that will publish articles in the fields of sociology, social anthropology in the main, and sociology of education, sociology of medicine, arts and aesthetics, cultural studies, sociology of mass media, sociology of law, urban studies inter alia and social work. Journal is open to...
“South Asian History, Culture and Archaeology”(SAHCA) is a quarterly peer reviewed journal that seeks to explore the close links between the different disciplines of history, art and archaeology. History is dependent upon sources and archaeological sources provide a vital component in the reconstruction of not only the remote past, but also of the...
the relationship between sustainable development and the general consensus about what constitutes the idea of good living in the material sense of the term. If sustainable development is viewed as a new and desirable approach to economic transformation then what implication would it have for changes in production technologies of businesses and cons...
The genesis of SAHCA lies in the fact that over the years
many scholars have suggested the need for a dedicated
platform where young archaeologists can present their
research and views openly. It was also suggested that this
forum should be structured in a manner that permits extended
discussion beyond the usual question and answer session. It
was...
Society and Culture Development in India is a peer-reviewed journal that will publish articles in the fields of sociology, social anthropology in the main, and sociology of education, sociology of medicine, arts and aesthetics, cultural studies, sociology of mass media, sociology of law, urban studies inter alia and social work. Journal is open to...
The handloom weaving is the oldest art of creating fabrics in the Indian villages through a manual instrument. There are distinct processes applied for creating the course and the artistic fabrics in the villages of western odisha. Both kinds of fabrics have their own demand in the market. Creating artistic fabrics in the handloom is an extraordina...
All over the world, work of some kind is (and has always been) part of most children’s lives. At certain times and places, and in certain forms and relations of work, the exploitation and abuse of children’s capacity for work becomes a serious social problem. It is in this sense – the abuse of children in work, rather than the fact of their involve...
News 24(Hindi)
Link: https://youtu.be/OUHKNrI1IKw
It was a debate on how the school-going children are pressurized with the present day educational system. It was further discussed of how the adults(parents and the teachers) can understand this reality and help the students to build up a healthy environment for them
All over the world, work of some kind is (and has always been) part of most children's lives. At certain times and places, and in certain forms and relations of work, the exploitation and abuse of children's capacity for work becomes a serious social problem. It is in this sense-the abuse of children in work, rather than the fact of their involveme...
This volume honours Professor Deepak Kumar Behera’s social anthropological and especially fieldwork orientated approach. Prof. Behera’s research work focuses primarily on Odisha but his findings go much beyond this region. One of his great contributions has been a sensitization of the academic community as well as the wider society on the issues of...
The prospect of anthropology in India could be examined in two perspectives, which are as follows:
1. The prospect of anthropologists in India.
2. The prospect of the discipline itself in terms of conceptual and theoretical developments.
Our contemporary mosaic of Indian society and culture still provide a breeding ground for the genesis and devel...
Gender and Food Policy: The Role of Women in Agricultural and Rural Development in North- Eastern Mexico
Bidi workers more often are the most vulnerable sector of the society. The beedi industry is traditionally a female dominated informal sector, particularly in tobacco processing and beedi rolling. Most of the beedi workers are women who operate from their homes and are isolated from the rest of the industrial workforce and for this reason they are...
Children without parents are not only among the most vulnerable members of society – their care and protection also presents a major child-care policy challenge. In spite of this, they are all but doomed to have their special needs ignored and their rights abused in many cases. Children without a biological family who are cared for in some form, al...
This volume honours Professor Deepak Kumar Behera’s social anthropological and especially
fieldwork orientated approach. Prof. Behera’s research work focuses primarily on Odisha but his
findings go much beyond this region. One of his great contributions has been a sensitization of the
academic community as well as the wider society on the issues of...
The study tries to find out the various forms of plays and games played by the school-going Binjhal children of West Odisha within their constantly changing socio-cultural context. Data have been collected through observation, personal interview and focused group discussion in four villages of two different Blocks of Bargarh district. The play of t...
“Kathani” is a folk tradition that is transmitted orally from one generation to the next. Many of the Kathanis have similarities with the tradesman and craftsman that are described in history. The Rajkumar seeing the Rajkumari at the bathing pond, falling in love with her at the first sight, and the journey of marrying the Rajkumari are the most en...
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is universally acknowledged as an important catalyst for social transformation and national progress. India, a successful ICT powered nation, has always laid a lot of accent on the use of ICT, not only for good governance but also in diverse sectors of the economy such as health, agriculture, education...
Medicinal plants are useful for curing human diseases and play an important role in healing due to presence of phyto- chemical constituents. Odisha having a rich diversity of medicinal plants and rich plant diversity has provided an initial advantage to the local people for scrutinizing various plant species for the purpose of food, medicine, perfu...
The paper reflects the feelings of the overburdened school-going children of four different schools of Sambalpur city. The study records the voices of the children both at school and home. Our findings show that teachers always have sky-high expectation from the students and the students find it really difficult to attain that level. Parents expect...
Childhood is a cultural construction and very much a part and parcel of our complex social order. It is a matter of serious concern that children are not given due scope to voice their views in matters affecting their own lives. The study critically examines the physical and mental workload of the some school-going children in two different but rel...
The Right of children to Free and Compulsory Education Act has come into force from April 1, 2010 in order to bring the marginalized groups into the mainstream. From this day, the age groups of 6-14 years are provided 8 years of free and compulsory elementary education. The Prime Minister Shri Manmohan Singh has emphasized that if the children are...
Children without parents are not only among the most vulnerable members of society—their care and protection also presents a major child-care policy challenge. In spite of this, they are all but doomed to have their special needs ignored and their rights abused in many cases. Children without a biological family, who are cared for in some forms, al...
The insight of “occupational risk” is usually elucidated as the panorama of occurrence of the outcome of threats in any operational situation. These are obvious either as some sort of enduring or impermanent health damages, or abridged bodily and psychological prospective. Coal mining has substantial security threat to its workers for it precarious...
The insight of “occupational risk” is usually elucidated as the panorama of occurrence of the outcome of threats in any operational situation. These are obvious either as some sort of enduring or impermanent health damages, or abridged bodily and psychological prospective. Coal mining has substantial security threat to its workers for it precarious...
Children have good ideas. They can think of things that adults would not. Furthermore, full respect of the best interests of the child, which is among the key principles in child rights protection, requires that children are given opportunities to voice their opinions on matters that affect them. Children feel that they want adults to have more con...
India is home to the largest number of child labourers in the world. Child labour involves employment of children in any work that deprives them of their childhood. It interferes with their ability to attend regular school and is mentally, socially, physically or morally dangerous or harmful. Their involvement is a reflection of contemporary expans...
Environment is a very broad concept, especially in social science. The
environment makes us who we are by affecting our thoughts, feelings, and
behaviours, not just our external circumstances. Everything that affects us
during our lifetime is part of our environment. This is why growing fears
about the deteriorating condition of the environment con...
Environment is a very broad concept, especially in social science. The
environment makes us who we are by affecting our thoughts, feelings, and
behaviours, not just our external circumstances. Everything that affects us
during our lifetime is part of our environment. This is why growing fears
about the deteriorating condition of the environment con...
The process of becoming an individual subject is immersed in gender identification. This means that one does not just become a person, but rather a man or a woman, a boy or a girl. The problem of the girl-child is a long neglected area, marked by deep-rooted gender bias prevailing in India, which calls for immediate attention. Female children are p...
Knowledge of traditional medicine is an integral part of the indigenous knowledge of local communities . One of the basic features of traditional knowledge is that it is unwritten and exists in the minds of the local people. It is transmitted orally from one generation to another. Documenting Indigenous Medicinal Knowledge (IMK) may help to preserv...
Role conflict of employed women in life career families has become an inevitable subject for discussion in the context of recent globalization. Women's liberation movements in the last centuries expanded the opportunities for qualified women in India to enter in to the workforce for personal satisfaction and supplemental income in family. In this c...
The process of becoming an individual subject is immersed in gender identification. This means that one does not just become a person, but rather a man or a woman, a boy or a girl. The problem of the girl-child is a long neglected area, marked by deep-rooted gender bias prevailing in India, which calls for immediate attention. Female children are p...
This volume honours Professor Deepak Kumar Behera’s social anthropological and especially fieldwork orientated approach. Prof. Behera’s research work focuses primarily on Odisha but his findings go much beyond this region. One of his great contributions has been a sensitization of the academic community as well as the wider society on the issues of...
Role conflict of employed women in life career families has become an inevitable subject for discussion in the context of recent globalization. Women’s liberation movements in the last centuries expanded the opportunities for qualified women in India to enter in to the workforce for personal satisfaction and supplemental income in family. In this c...
Kathani" is a folk tradition that is transmitted orally from one generation to the next. Many of the Kathanis have similarities with the tradesman and craftsman that are described in history. The Rajkumar seeing the Rajkumari at the bathing pond, falling in love with her at the first sight, and the journey of marrying the Rajkumari are the most ent...
The presentation reflects the feelings of the overburdened school-going children of four different schools of Sambalpur city. The study records the voices of the children both at school and home. Our findings show that teachers always have sky-high expectation from the students and the students find it really difficult to attain that level. Parents...
Education as a means of advancement of capacity, well-being and opportunity is uncontested. As a basic component of human development, the 83rd Amendment to the constitution has made free elementary education a fundamental right of all the citizens of India. Acknowledging that the tribal people comprise the most deprived and marginalized groups wit...
Education as a means of advancement of capacity, well-being and opportunity is uncontested. Acknowledging that the tribal people comprise the most deprived and marginalized groups with respect to education, a host of programmes and measures have been initiated since India’s Independence. The basic objective of the study is to discuss on the support...
The presentation analyses three important rituals associated with the child birth. It examines the concept of purity and pollution relating to mother and the child.
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is universally acknowledged as an important catalyst for social transformation and national progress. Over the past few decades, technology has completely transformed our lives in all possible ways. India, a successful ICT powered nation, has always laid a lot of accent on the use of ICT, not only for...
The process of becoming an individual subject is immersed in gender identification. This means that one does not just become a person, but rather a man or a woman, a boy or a girl. Female children are pestered with innumerable problems and victimized to social stigma in our rigid and traditional male dominated society. Socialization of the girl chi...
Does it cost us to donate blood? NO
It won’t cost us rather it will bring sweet smiles on the faces of the needy people.
It is need of the hour for us in general and for the women in particular to take up the initiative for this noble and voluntary cause.
Let us join hands together to speed up this movement.
The way we think about human trafficking and migration is changing. Moreover, at the global, regional and
national levels of policy-making, practice and advocacy, trafficking is showing signs of developing into a
mainstream topic, and with it, so are directly related migration issues. To keep abreast of developments, a
pertinent question to ask in...
Information and Communication Technology (ICT): A Motivating Tool to Enhance Quality Education in Schools
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is universally acknowledged as an important catalyst for social transformation and national progress. Over the past few decades, technology has completely transformed our lives in all possible way...
Leprosy is the oldest disease known to man. The fear of leprosy leads to the stigma and discrimination and is due to lack of understanding and knowledge about leprosy - which increases misconceptions about the disease’s transmission and treatment. No disease has been more closely associated with stigma than leprosy, and it has become a metaphor for...
Leprosy is regarded as a chronic and progressive bacterial infection characterized for centuries by immense social stigma. Given the fact that stigmatization occurs for both males and females affected by leprosy, a number of interesting questions arise. Does stigmatization tend to equalize status differentials between men and women, as both may bec...
The present paper attempts to address the problem of documentation of traditional knowledge and suggests a digitisation method for the purpose. The present study, conducted in the Semiliguda block of Koraput District, tries to explore the importance of documentation and digitisation of tacit indigenous medicinal knowledge, available in oral traditi...
Juego y Juegos Indígenas de Niños: Un Patrimonio Cultural de Odisha Occidental, India El estudio del juego a través del tiempo y las culturas ha demostrado consistentemente que se trata de un fenómeno multifacético que se encuentra en todas partes en diversas sociedades humanas. El presente trabajo hace un esfuerzo humilde para explicar cómo los di...
Mining occupies a paramount place in the advancement of a nation and precisely speaking, it constitutes the basic feedstock for industrial growth in a mineral rich nation like India. Like other states, mining is an integral part of the economic activities and sometime the only avenue of earning bread for many native people in Odisha. Besides the av...
Medicinal plants are useful for curing human diseases and play an important role in healing due to presence of phyto- chemical constituents. Odisha having a rich diversity of medicinal plants and rich plant diversity has provided an initial advantage to the local people for scrutinizing various plant species for the purpose of food, medicine, perfu...
The importance of traditional values under the practices in shamanism is on the verge of vanishing. When the world is endeavoring to look at the indigenous knowledge system to be applied for the all-round development of the people, the scope for discovering the shamanistic practices is really revamped. Shamanistic knowledge system, though primarily...
The study of play through time and across cultures has consistently demonstrated that, it is a multi-faceted phenomenon being ubiquitous among diverse human societies. The present paper makes a humble endeavour to intricate how different types of traditional games of rural children are being enriched with cultural heritage of a society and act as a...
Bidi workers more often are the most vulnerable sector of the society. The beedi industry is traditionally a female dominated informal sector, particularly in tobacco processing and beedi rolling. Most of the beedi workers women who operate from their homes and are isolated from the rest of the industrial workforce and for this reason they are easy...
This article builds on Allison James and Alan Prout’s call to focus more on theorizing the social construction of time in childhood and explores how school, as an organization and an experience, influences students’ conceptions of childhood and experiences of being a child. Extending the conception of time of childhood to include their future proje...
The study tries to find out the various forms of plays and games played by the school-going Binjhal children of West Odisha within their constantly changing socio-cultural context. Data have been collected through observation, personal interview and focused group discussion in four villages of two different Blocks of Bargarh district. The play of t...
The study tries to find out the various forms of plays and games played by the school-going Binjhal Children of West Odisha within their constantly changing socio-cultural context. Data have been collected through observation, personal interview and focus group discussion in four villages of two different blocks of Bargarh district. The play of the...
The Right of children to Free and Compulsory Education Act has come into force from April 1, 2010 in order to bring the marginalized groups into the mainstream. From this day, the age groups of 6-14 years are provided 8 years of free and compulsory elementary education. The Prime Minister Shri Manmohan Singh has emphasized that if the children are...
The Right of children to Free and Compulsory Education Act has come into force from April 1, 2010 in order to bring the marginalized groups into the mainstream. From this day, the age groups of 6-14 years are provided 8 years of free and compulsory elementary education. The Prime Minister Shri Manmohan Singh has emphasized that if the children are...
The Right of children to Free and Compulsory Education Act has come into force from April 1, 2010 in order to bring the marginalized groups into the mainstream. From this day, the age groups of 6–14 years are provided 8 years of free and compulsory elementary education. The Prime Minister Shri Mannwhan Singh has emphasized that if the children are...
THE BOOK “Kadamba Gatha” in verse consisting of eighteen Chapters was compiled by Sri
Gopinath Purohit in 1914, when he was a teacher in the Rajbati Primary school. In 1947, the then
Raja Dharanidhar Indra Deo Deb donated the State grant of Rs.150/- and the manuscript was sent
to the Manager, Saraswat Press along with the grant money by the then He...
Children without parents are not only among the most vulnerable members of society—their care and protection also
present a major child‐care policy challenge. In spite of this, they are all but doomed to have their special needs ignored and
their rights abused in many cases. Children without a biological family, who are cared for in some forms, als...
Children without parents are not only among the most vulnerable members of society-their care and protection also present a major childcare policy challenge. In spite of this, they are all but doomed to have their special needs ignored and their rights abused in many cases. Children without a biological family, who are cared for in some forms, also...
India has a rich heritage of indigenous knowledge and practices of healing and care. Traditional knowledge on medicinal plants includes information, whether documented or non documented, of the different kinds and functions of plants developed in or known since ancestral times but subjected to contemporary improvements and adaptations. However, the...
India has a rich heritage of indigenous knowledge and practices of healing and care. Traditional knowledge on medicinal plants includes information, whether documented or non documented, of the different kinds and functions of plants developed in or known since ancestral times but subjected to contemporary improvements and adaptations. However, the...
The paper provides an ethnographic description from a small city in eastern India. The focus is on children's negotiation with their parents and teachers regarding their recreational activities, study/tution hours, engagement in extracurricular activities, household activities, and so on.
The indigenous people of Western Odisha have been experiencing a threat due to rapid growth of industrialization in this region. Many industries are being set up around the Hirakud reservoir by exploiting the natural resources. In the name of development and economic reformation many people are affected both directly and indirectly. The articulatio...
The indigenous people of Western Odisha have been experiencing a threat due to rapid growth of industrialization in this region. Many industries are being set up around the Hirakud reservoir by exploiting the natural resources. In the name of development and economic reformation many people are affected both directly and indirectly. The articulatio...
The book deals with a vital problem of children living in contemporary urban India. It gives a picture of the overburdened school-going children in a small city of Eastern India. The book reveals as to how the innocent school children are sandwitched between the skyhigh expectation of the parents and teachers. It critically examines the everyday ex...
The book deals with a vital problem of children living in contemporary urban India. It gives a picture of the overburdened school-going children in a small city of Eastern India. The book reveals as to how the innocent school children are sandwitched between the skyhigh expectation of the parents and teachers. It critically examines the everyday ex...
The paper reflects the feelings of the overburdened school-going children of four different schools of Sambalpur city. The study records the voices of the children both at school and home. Our findings show that teachers always have sky-high expectation from the students and the students find it really difficult to attain that level. Parents expect...
Childhood is a cultural construction and very much a part and parcel of our complex social order. It is a matter of serious concern that children are not given due scope to voice their views in matters affecting their own lives. The study critically examines the physical and mental workload of the some school-going children in two different but rel...
This chapter is a part of a volume edited by Lucia Rabello de Castro of Brazil. The paper analyses the workload of school students in different categories of school located in a small city of eastern India.
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