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Indian Journal of Research in Anthropology

Volume  2, Issue 1, January - June 2016, Pages 61-76
 

Review Article

Approaches of Involvement of Male in Reproductive Health: Changing Paradigms in Anthropological Research

Jitendra Kumar Premi, Mitashree Mitra

*Seniour Assistant Professor ** Professor, School of Studies in Anthropology, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India-492010.

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 All culture have involved some system of explanation regarding conception, pregnancy, and childbirth and all have developed sets of beliefs and techniques for dealing with these mammalian and human processes. All societies have been able to connect the act of sexual intercourse to the onset of pregnancy, its outcomes and their survivals. Various cultures of the world, primitive as well as civilized, are sufficiently acquainted with the fact of biology to relate the pregnancy of a given women to the act of sexual intercourse. Culture influences not only how individuals are treated for their reproductive health problems within given systems of medicine, but also how individuals living within local communities define and experience their reproductive health. Reproductive health has emerged as an organizational framework that incorporates men into maternal and child health programs. For several decades, medical anthropologists have conducted reproductive health research that explores male partners’ effects on women’s health and the health of children summarizes exemplary research in this area, showing how ethnographic studies by medical anthropologists contribute new insights to the growing public health and demographic literature on men and reproductive health.  The contributions of cultural anthropology, with its ethnographic tradition of in-depth, field based research and its central concept of culture. Cultural anthropologists have argued that gender is a key organizing principle of social relations, influencing both sex and reproduction. In this paper it is try to understand the wholistic characteristics and dimensions of the research in the reproductive health and involvement of men.

Keywords: Anthropological Approaches; Appraisal; Involvement of Male; Reproductive Health; Participation of Men.

Corresponding Author : Jitendra Kumar Premi