Chakrapani Upadhyay
Biographic Data
| ID | 204104 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chakrapani Upadhyay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chakrapani |
| FAMILY NAME | Upadhyay |
| SIGNATURE | UPADHYAY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Sociology S.M.B. Government P.G. College Nathdwara Rajasthan India |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Gaming lounges in India afford socially productive gambling
We use ethnographic observations, interviews, and surveys to illuminate video game-related gambling in India, where players use as currency decorative in-game weapon covers referred to as skins. We focus on gaming and gambling related to virtual items acquired in the popular shooter game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and our study unfolds among young adults who play in face-to-face centers called gaming lounges or zones. We consider how netwo…
Indian Gaming Zones as Oppositional Subculture
On the basis of participant observation and questionnaire data, we consider the cultural shaping of video gaming pleasure and distress in face-to-face gaming centers in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. We analyze how and why young adult Indian gamers experience their play as both deeply satisfying and dangerously addictive. To explain this dual consciousness, we join the concept of cultural consonance (individuals' relative consistency with their cultu…
Developing culturally sensitive affect scales for global mental health research and practice
Religious Ritual Is Good Medicine for Indigenous Indian Conservation Refugees
We tested whether religious ritual lessens or increases stress and anxiety among indigenous Sahariya conservation refugees recently displaced from a wildlife sanctuary in central India. Combining ethnography with structured survey and salivary analyte data (the stress hormone cortisol), we tracked di/stress over two 9-day periods before, during, and after Sahariya celebrations of the Hindu holidays of Holi and Navratri. Results show postritual im…
The mental health costs of human displacement
Of Leopards and Other Lovely Frightful Things
In this paper, we argue that shamans as compared to non-shamans demonstrate a deeper connection to wildlife. Shamans display particularly powerful love and reverence for leopards. That shamans more deeply revere, even worship, nature suggests that indigenous Animism does impact the environmental thought and practice of our informants. However, our indigenous informants’ pro-environmental thinking is most strongly linked to only particular classes…
Witch Hunts, Herbal Healing, and Discourses of Indigenous Ecodevelopment in North India
In this article, we examine the environmental thought and practice of indigenous peoples living in and around a wildlife sanctuary in North India. Analysis reveals that those religious specialists (such as shamans) who possess knowledge of herbal healing are more committed than other villagers to preventing or mitigating the overharvesting of natural resources. To explain these results, reference is made to a specific juncture of native tradition…
Beyond Self-Interest and Altruism
This article discusses the environmental ethics of Indigenous herbalists inhabiting the Phulwari ki Nal Wildlife Sanctuary in Rajasthan, India. Our respondents protected forests from activities like illicit tree felling because (a) they realized that their own human well-being is tied to the fate of the natural world, and (b) wild animals such as leopards form non-human communities that intrinsically deserve to live and prosper. Framing herbalist…
Religious Ritual Is Good Medicine for Indigenous Indian Conservation Refugees
We tested whether religious ritual lessens or increases stress and anxiety among indigenous Sahariya conservation refugees recently displaced from a wildlife sanctuary in central India. Combining ethnography with structured survey and salivary analyte data (the stress hormone cortisol), we tracked di/stress over two 9-day periods before, during, and after Sahariya celebrations of the Hindu holidays of Holi and Navratri. Results show postritual im…
Developing culturally sensitive affect scales for global mental health research and practice
Witch Hunts, Herbal Healing, and Discourses of Indigenous Ecodevelopment in North India
In this article, we examine the environmental thought and practice of indigenous peoples living in and around a wildlife sanctuary in North India. Analysis reveals that those religious specialists (such as shamans) who possess knowledge of herbal healing are more committed than other villagers to preventing or mitigating the overharvesting of natural resources. To explain these results, reference is made to a specific juncture of native tradition…
The mental health costs of human displacement
Indian Gaming Zones as Oppositional Subculture
On the basis of participant observation and questionnaire data, we consider the cultural shaping of video gaming pleasure and distress in face-to-face gaming centers in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. We analyze how and why young adult Indian gamers experience their play as both deeply satisfying and dangerously addictive. To explain this dual consciousness, we join the concept of cultural consonance (individuals' relative consistency with their cultu…
Of Leopards and Other Lovely Frightful Things
In this paper, we argue that shamans as compared to non-shamans demonstrate a deeper connection to wildlife. Shamans display particularly powerful love and reverence for leopards. That shamans more deeply revere, even worship, nature suggests that indigenous Animism does impact the environmental thought and practice of our informants. However, our indigenous informants’ pro-environmental thinking is most strongly linked to only particular classes…
Beyond Self-Interest and Altruism
This article discusses the environmental ethics of Indigenous herbalists inhabiting the Phulwari ki Nal Wildlife Sanctuary in Rajasthan, India. Our respondents protected forests from activities like illicit tree felling because (a) they realized that their own human well-being is tied to the fate of the natural world, and (b) wild animals such as leopards form non-human communities that intrinsically deserve to live and prosper. Framing herbalist…
Of Leopards and Other Lovely Frightful Things
In this paper, we argue that shamans as compared to non-shamans demonstrate a deeper connection to wildlife. Shamans display particularly powerful love and reverence for leopards. That shamans more deeply revere, even worship, nature suggests that indigenous Animism does impact the environmental thought and practice of our informants. However, our indigenous informants’ pro-environmental thinking is most strongly linked to only particular classes…
Witch Hunts, Herbal Healing, and Discourses of Indigenous Ecodevelopment in North India
In this article, we examine the environmental thought and practice of indigenous peoples living in and around a wildlife sanctuary in North India. Analysis reveals that those religious specialists (such as shamans) who possess knowledge of herbal healing are more committed than other villagers to preventing or mitigating the overharvesting of natural resources. To explain these results, reference is made to a specific juncture of native tradition…
The mental health costs of human displacement
Developing culturally sensitive affect scales for global mental health research and practice
Religious Ritual Is Good Medicine for Indigenous Indian Conservation Refugees
We tested whether religious ritual lessens or increases stress and anxiety among indigenous Sahariya conservation refugees recently displaced from a wildlife sanctuary in central India. Combining ethnography with structured survey and salivary analyte data (the stress hormone cortisol), we tracked di/stress over two 9-day periods before, during, and after Sahariya celebrations of the Hindu holidays of Holi and Navratri. Results show postritual im…
Indian Gaming Zones as Oppositional Subculture
On the basis of participant observation and questionnaire data, we consider the cultural shaping of video gaming pleasure and distress in face-to-face gaming centers in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. We analyze how and why young adult Indian gamers experience their play as both deeply satisfying and dangerously addictive. To explain this dual consciousness, we join the concept of cultural consonance (individuals' relative consistency with their cultu…
Gaming lounges in India afford socially productive gambling
We use ethnographic observations, interviews, and surveys to illuminate video game-related gambling in India, where players use as currency decorative in-game weapon covers referred to as skins. We focus on gaming and gambling related to virtual items acquired in the popular shooter game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and our study unfolds among young adults who play in face-to-face centers called gaming lounges or zones. We consider how netwo…
Sociology (8 works) · Geography (6 works) · Indigenous (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works)