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Accepted Paper
Indigenous knowledge of Tribal Medicinal practices in Central India : an Anthropo-Pharmaceutical approach
Somnath Chakraverty
(B. E. C., University of Calcutta)
Raja Chakraverty
(Gupta College Of Technological Sciences,asansol)
Paper short abstract
The indigenous collective knowledge on community health and ethno-medicinal practices have evolved and refined through trial and error method spontaneously experienced for generations as also shared within a community. The uncertainty in curing diseases has traditionally integrated the essential elements of science with supernatural beliefs, interpretations and performances.
Paper long abstract
In this multidisciplinary model of approach, the traditional health practices and ethno-medicinal system accessible in a particular locality, rather within a distinct topo cultural area is explored for understanding varied facts of common ethno-medicinal practices. The study includes the system of transmission of the indigenous knowledge in synchronic and diachronic dimensions, on potential resources and its process of mobilization.