Ameka (2002), Dzokoto and Okazaki (2006) and Guerts (2002) have observed a preponderance of somatic references in the communication of emotion in several spoken Ghanaian languages. This suggests that embodiment features prominently in Ghanaian cultural scripts of emotions. Unfortunately, the...

This qualitative investigation explores children’s perceptions of conflicts with peers in the school setting. Forty girls and boys from grades one and five (mean ages 6.4 years and 10.5 years respectively) were interviewed. Results were analysed using the interpretative phenomenological...

Despite unprecedented economic and social changes within the Indian family, not much attention is paid to the role of the father in the socialisation of young children. This overview provides a contemporary look at the Indian father in the context of ideological beliefs about roles and...

The Hindu worldview presents artha, kama, dharma and moksha as the four major goals of human life. While artha and kama represent physical and psychological goals, dharma and moksha represent moral and spiritual goals, respectively. This article examines the relevance of the concept of moksha in...

The article critically explores the centrality of the concept of madhyam marg (the middle path) in constituting the Indian mind and practice. The first part of the paper engages with scriptural analysis of the early Indian and Buddhist philosophical discourses to explicate the dialectical...

The focus on children in the context of everyday life under vulnerable conditions offers great promise for enriching our understanding of how disputations over culture and forms of belongingness are enacted repeatedly and undramatically: here culture takes a living form rather than a fixed one....

It is common in India as well as elsewhere today to use the word dharma as implied in the idea of the ‘Hindu dharma’, especially when it is understood as a ‘religion’ in the league of other ‘world religions’ such as Judaism, Christianity and Islam. To help...

This article explores the meaning of lajjA as a core Indian cultural concept and how it enters the construction of womanhood in modern India. It discusses how the concept is embedded in India’s social, political and ideological history and its psychological, social and behavioural...

Kartavya is an important Indian cultural concept which governs social relationships in India. Kartavya expresses itself as a selfless act in the service of attainment of larger societal good. This article, at first, attempts to locate the concept of kartavya in the Indian religio-philosophical...

Alcohol consumption among young people has been a great concern in the West. New research concerning the process of globalisation and acculturation points to a disturbing increase in alcohol consumption in the youth of developing countries, such as India. Research has also shown that discourses...