Public Health Perspectives and Manifestations of Covid-19 | Chapter 2 | Clinical Manifestations of Covid-19: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach

 Paraphrasing from common parlance, “a virus’ name precedes it”. Due to the name of its causative organism; most would consider COVID-19 as a primarily respiratory illness. This is substantiated by the readily obvious respiratory symptoms and the popular use of facemasks as a means of prevention.COVID–19 presents as a respiratory disease with a multi-systemic representation, multi-sectorial importance and a multidimensional impact on humanity.

This chapter brings to bear, the public health manifestations of COVID-19 providing an overview of the anthropologic, epidemiologic, Global Health, etiologic, pathogenetic, diagnostic and health system concerns and perspectives since the virus was discovered in the last days of 2019.

 

Author(s) Details'

Oladipo Vincent Akinmade
USAID Integrated Health Program Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria.

 

Ugochukwu Anthony Eze
Department of Ophthalmology, Federal Medical Centre, Asaba, Nigeria and Honorary Supervisor University of Edinburgh Masters of Surgery Program in Clinical Ophthalmology, United Kingdom.

 

Please see the book here:  https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/mono/978-81-973195-5-6/CH2

A Custom of Southern Fujian from the Perspective of Anthropology -- Buddha's Birthday | Chapter 7 | Traditions and Cultural Heritage: Genesis, Reproduction, and Preservation

 Religious syncretism is a very prominent feature of Southern Fujian culture. It also generates a variety of festival customs in that part of the province. "Buddha's birthday" is a very important traditional festival in rural areas of Southern Fujian, with a great impact on rural interpersonal relations, culture, spirit, and so on. Through the methods of participation observation and in-depth interview, based on the detailed description of the custom of "Buddha's birthday", including food procurement, sacrificial ceremony, guest banquet, drama performance, etc, this paper attempts to analyze the social function and cultural implication of the festival with the anthropology theories, such as the social function theory of Émile Durkheim and the reciprocity theory of Marcel Mauss. In recent years, due to the prevalence of drunk driving, fighting and comparison, the government has asked people to simplify this custom, which has gradually been weakened. Therefore, at the end of the paper, through the questionnaire, we try to learn about the attitudes of people towards the official simplification of this custom, analyze the significance and value of this custom to local people, and reflect on the way out of the traditional customs in the process of modernization.

Author(s) Details:

Huang Cuimei,
Department of Anthropology and Ethnology, Xiamen University, China.

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/TCHGRP/article/view/9526

An Anthropological Study of “Ethnic Culture into School”: Case Study from Longchuan County Ethnic Primary School | Chapter 5 | Traditions and Cultural Heritage: Genesis, Reproduction, and Preservation

This paper mainly focuses on the “subject” of “ethnic culture into school” from a cultural anthropology perspective, through fieldwork methods such as participant observation and interview. This paper examines how these subjects that have been “silent” in the mainstream research structure for a long time have constructed the social action structure of “ethnic culture into school” based on their respective action logic.

Based on the fieldwork at the Longchuan Ethnic Primary School, this paper shows that the main subjects/actors of “ethnic culture into school” mainly include principals, teachers, students, government management departments, social organizations, students’ parents and the inheritors of intangible cultural heritage. The action objectives and means of these subjects are different, but due to the corresponding power relationship between them and the guidance and regulations of the same cultural situation and value norms, the conflict can be resolved and negotiation becomes possible. On this basis, they jointly build a social action structure of “ethnic culture into school”. This dynamic structure is constantly reproduced in the process of interactive practice with actors, and this academic level “structure process” is the internal practical logic of the long-term, dynamic and process of “ethnic culture into school”.

Author(s) Details:

Li Kaiping,
Department of Anthropology and Ethnology, Xiamen University, China.

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/TCHGRP/article/view/9524