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| Title: | Inventory of indigenous healthcare practices of dairy animals |
| Authors: | Saha, A
Mukhopadhyay, SB
Gupta, D Das |
| Keywords: | Indigenous knowledge
Indigenous healthcare practices
Dairy animals |
| Issue Date: | Apr-2010 |
| Publisher: | CSIR |
| IPC Code: | Int. Cl.8: A61K36/00, A01J |
| Abstract: | The development
of indigenous knowledge (IK) and the associated technology has a logic of its
own as also some kind of rough and ready methodology that is not altogether without
merit and further that there is much to be learn from the vast structure of
such IK as offered by various cultures all over the world. Research on IK and
on farmers’ experimentation is still in its infancy. Keeping these in view, an
attempt has been made to prepare an inventory of IK in healthcare practices of
dairy animals. The study was conducted in purposively selected Birbhum district
of West Bengal. Multistage stratified sampling was applied for selection of
blocks (2) and villages (4). Snow-ball
sampling technique was adopted in the selected villages for collection and
documentation of IK. Participant observation, unstructured interaction and
recording of oral case histories by tape-records were used for preparation of
inventory on indigenous healthcare practices of dairy animals. Attempts were
made to probe the farmers’ rationality towards the IK. Thirty-one IK have been
collected, classified and documented with rationality. |
| Page(s): | 326-332 |
| ISSN: | 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print) |
| Source: | IJTK Vol.09(2) [April 2010]
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