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- Title
Perception of Health and Illness: Reflections from Gond Tribe of Chhattisgarh, India.
- Authors
Dhanjal, Harshdeep Singh; Sharma, K. K. N.
- Abstract
Health is an inevitable component of human life and a major characteristic for well being and overall social development. It is influenced by common beliefs, customs and practices in any society an individual lives in. Like every culture, tribals as well have their own belief and practices pertaining to health, disease and illness. In fact, every society has its own perception of health, illness and medical culture for treatment of the sick. Tribals, while living with the forests since long have acquired an unwritten form of knowledge (popularly known as indigenous or traditional knowledge) which is orally transmitted from one generation to another. The interaction of tribal people with nature is intertwined with their indigenous knowledge, the knowledge which is held by the members of a particular community evolved through many years of regular experimentation. It serves the routine needs of the tribals as well as crises situation of life including health. This knowledge helps tribal people to sustain with their needs of day to day life including their health. The study tries to explore the perceptions of health and illness of the Gond tribe of Chhattisgarh and their existing use of ethnomedicine and ethnomedical practices.
- Publication
Antrocom: Online Journal of Anthropology, 2021, Vol 17, Issue 2, p335
- ISSN
1973-2880
- Publication type
Academic Journal