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Archaeology & Anthropology -  Juniper Publishers Opinion To state the obvious, the sentiment of love plays an extremely important role among human beings. Throughout the world, there is romantic love and there is parental love and there is the love between siblings and there is the is love between friends. Of course, one can ask whether one form of love is more significant than the other forms. Alas, a quite significant truth is that if any one of the forms of love mentioned were completely absent among human beings, then it would be unequivocally true that owing to the absence of the form of love in question, there would clearly be a quite substantial difference in the behavior of human beings that would reflect the absence of that form of love. Regardless of the type of love, the very nature of love at its very best is the genuine affirmation that is clearly a majestic display of that love. And while it is certainly the case that a person can occasiona...

Archaeology & Anthropology -  Juniper Publishers Introduction The arrival of modern medical sciences and new inventions in the field of health has immensely benefitted human beings all over the world. But despite these successes in the field of sciences, there are communities in parts of the world who are reluctant to maintain their well-being through modern medicine. Their approach towards health is not just a matter of concern in the continuum of health and illness; rather it is entangled with their whole system of ethos and ideals. This paper explores the approach of the Manica community in central Mozambique towards the health issues of diarrhoea. Following, this paper discusses: a. The burden of diarrhoea in Mozambique and the World Health Organization’s (WHO) initiatives to eradicate this problem. b. ‘Beliefs’ as an eccentric component to modern medicine and an integral component in world-view of a community; and c. The pollution theory amongst Manicans. Al...

Preindustrial Water Management in Eastern Africa Authored by Chapurukha M Africanist anthropologists have intensively studied land use and land rights, but rights to water are often more fundamental; managing water is often the centerpiece of social organization related to the environment. Not surprisingly, water management has been the center of many anthropological approaches to the origins of social complexity. Our paper will discuss how East African communities managed, used, stored, and distributed water and how they developed intensive agricultural practices in relatively arid environments. We examine two comparative examples from Eastern Africa in detail: hill slope irrigation systems and rice farming in Madagascar. To Read more.. Fulltext in Global Journal of Archaeology & Anthropology in Juniper Publishers