© Kamla-Raj 2004                                                                          Stud. Tribes Tribals, 2(1): 23-27 (2004)

 

 

Health and Hygiene of the Nahs of Arunachal Pradesh

 

Birinchi K. Medhi1 and Bhabatosh Paul2

 

1. Department of Anthropology, Gauhati University,

Guwahati 781 014, Assam, India

2. District Research Office, Daporigo, Arunanchal Pradesh, India

 

KEYWORDS Healthm Nah; Arunanchal Pradesh; malignant spirit; modern medicine

 

ABSTRACT The Nahs live in Taksing Circle of Upper Subansiri district, a remotest area of Arunachal Pradesh. Here communication system is too bad to maintain regular relation with outer world. The people live here principally with their traditional health care practices under the given ecological condition. The modern medicine system suddenly made its presence at this area through the Government Institutions. No doubt the people are traditional, but they accepted the system. Traditional concepts of health continues; at the same time they have grabbed new system without offering conspicuous resistance. The present paper tries to portray how the impinging modern medicine system adjusts and reacts with the traditional one in the Nah heritage.

 


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