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    Intra-Household Food Sharing in a Selected Semi Urban Area in Matale District: A Case Study
    (19th Conference on Postgraduate Research, International Postgraduate Research Conference 2018, Faculty of Graduate Studies,University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Herath, H.M.D.R.; Angammana, B.H.
    Food is one of the basic needs of human beings. According to the biological approach food can be defined as a combination of organic and inorganic elements which need to nurture the human body; also, food is a cause variable of hungry because hunger is fulfilled by food. When we consider the food consumption in a sociological approach, it is revealed that people get food not only to fill up the hungry but also to fulfill various social needs. It is a appropriate field for researches. The culture formulated based on selecting, preparing, eating and sharing foods, is called a food culture. Food culture is associated with customs and values which are established by the Sinhala community. But due to the commercialization and urbanization of the modern society some cultural factors linked, has made many changes in food behavior. As one aspects of the food behaviour, Intra-household food sharing is important to study. Intra-household food sharing can be defined as the way which people share foods within household. There are many courses that affect for formulation and function of Intra-household food sharing; such as gender and Educational background of the housewives. In Sri Lanka, the semi urban sector which possesses both urban and rural characteristics is vastly expanded including most of the geographical territories. The major objective of this research was to identify the patterns of food sharing within households. Other two specific objectives were to identify factors which effect to Intra-Household Food Sharing in selected semi urban area and to identify fallouts of existing ways of sharing food within households. The ethnographic research methodology was applied basically based on ten case studies in Aluvuhare Grama Niladaree Division of Matale District of Central Province and observations were used as a research instrument to protect the reliability and validity of data. Since food behaviour can be considered as latent function observations had been affected to maintain the reliability of data. Accordingly, basics facts as gender, education, class relations and axiom of amity, Csste etc had been identified as causes which affects for Intra-Household Food Sharing in selected semi urban area. Especially gender played major role in this content with related to the education level of the house wife and the influence of the ancestral family. As fallouts gender discriminations and some health issues etc. had been identified. In this component caste had been identified as a significant fact as people belongs to castes which considered as high castes attempt to follow traditional practices in sharing foods with in the household such as ‘mudhun batha’
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    Straddled Boundaries of Health Care in a Sri Lankan Village: A Medico-Anthropological Analysis
    (International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019) Perera, J.A.P.S.; Angammana, B.H.
    Medical Pluralism (MP) is a vital phenomenon, deeply focused and widely studied in Medical Anthropology and Medical Sociology. Sri Lanka is a medically pluralistic country which offers a wide array of health care/treatment options which are available and utilized successively, alternatively, and/or simultaneously. However, the scholarship on MP in the Sri Lankan context mainly carries the biomedical perspective. In this background, we explored how socio-cultural factors and structures shape MP in a Sri Lankan rural village while there is a rapid proliferation of bio-medicine and health care technologies ranging from basic rural dispensaries to e-health facilities at the macro level. Our objectives were to; identify the dynamics of MP in the chosen village, identify how pluralist medical environment influence the health seeking behavior of the villagers and identify the reasons to cross/straddle and continue medically pluralistic situation in the village. This was an ethnographic study conducted in Dorakumbura Village in Matale district in 2018. The method of data collection included observations, interviews (10), and focus group discussions (05) conducted with a wide array of respondents (ranging from peasants, traditional healers, exorcists, astrologers, doctor, nurses, treatment seekers, to village administrative and related stake holders). We adopted the narrative analysis as the method of data analysis. The research revealed that there are three main sectors of medical pluralism; popular sector, folk sector and professional sector and villagers adopt a combination of treatment practices drawing from local, regional and cosmopolitan medical systems. Kinship and family ties still play a major role in transmitting the traditional knowledge on diseases and related treatments among the villagers studied. The peasants revealed very divers health beliefs and they follow diverse health care/treatment practices from various health traditions which are based on a wide range of social, cultural, ecological and structural factors that shape people’s choices and decisions on health. Although there seems to be a co-existence of several treatment traditions among the villagers, bio-medicine still exerts dominance. Further, cultural propensities and religious faith play a significant role in shaping pluralistic medical practices among villagers studied