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Soft drinks play an important role in the society today. Although an American soft drink, yet Pepsi plays an important role in the social functions and as daily drinks among the Nyishi tribe of Arunachal Pradesh. Many people, after conversion to Christianity have started taking it instead of alcohol, while some people use it after boiling in socio religious festivals instead of alcohol. While conducting a survey on it, the author found that the youths of Arunachal Pradesh are solely into Pepsi, not even coca cola. While interviewed, they were of the view that they prefer the taste of Pepsi rather than coca cola. This paper shows a modest attempt of inclusion of a particular soft drink as part of enculturation.

Keywords: Pepsi, enculturation, conversion, Christianity, alcohol, syncretism

Nowadays, our world is being confronted with human-induced global problems such as climate change, space management, and energy crisis. In this situation, the multi-disciplinary research approach is the best way to resolve the global crisis. For example, anthropology and architecture, both disciplines are interrelated through working with/for people. As a discipline, architectureshapes all the places and spaces around us and anthropology tries to explain all the aspects of human life, both are interconnected. For a long time, anthropologists particularly social anthropologists have paid attention to studying societies, culture, tribals, their culture, and their social upliftment. As well as they have engaged themselves to study different behaviours and patterns of culture. By doing this they have paid less attention to the ‘house’ where we live. In recent decades, few anthropologists have begun to connect architectural works with social-cultural anthropology. They proposed the term ‘architectural anthropology’ to describe the interrelation between humans and their built environment. Based on existing literature, this paper explored how our dwellings can be a research object for anthropologists and prospects of architectural research from an anthropological viewpoint. This paper also provides a potential lead for anthropological research on architecture to a deeper understanding and better approaches for tackling the challenges of human-induced global problems.

Keywords: Architectural Anthropology, Ethnography, House, Culture, Human Induce Global Problems, Climate Change

Since the Palaeolithic era, humans have gotten tattoos. It is an aesthetic modification of the body that expresses social, religious, and cultural views. An anthropological viewpoint views tattoos as a form of self-expression as well as a means of establishing and enforcing social boundaries. They can also serve as status symbols and a way for someone to show their allegiance to a certain group. This essay will examine the significance of tattooing from an anthropological standpoint, focusing on the function of tattoos in defining social and cultural borders. The numerous types of tattooing and their meaning in varied circumstances will also be covered.

Keywords: Tattoo, Anthropological standpoint, Socio-cultural significance

The process of Modernisation, Globalisation facilitated by Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has brought tremendous social change and transformation all over the world. Sonowal Kachari which is one of the oldest tribes (Schedule tribe) of Assam is not an exception. They are of Tibeto-Burman origin and mainly inhabitant of Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, North-Lakhimpur, Dhemaji, Jorhat and Golaghat district of Assam. The headquarters of the Sonowal Kacharai Autonomous Council is located in Dibrugarh. In this paper we have selected nine Sonowal Kachari villages of Dibrugarh District of Assam, for understanding social change among Sonowal Kachari tribe. The villages undertaken in the study are namely: - 1. Dainijan village, 2. Kakati gaon, 3. Duliya gaon, 4. Duliya Kuhiyarbari, 5. Lepetkata Sonowal Kachari gaon, 6. Changmai goria gaon, 7. Dhamal gaon, 8. Tepor gaon, 9. Gajai gaon Nine (09) village headmen, Nine (09) ASHA workers, Nine (09) Teachers and Ninety (90) villagers (10 each from each 9 villages) were taken as respondent which were selected by purposive sampling method. A total of 117 respondents were taken into account. The study is based on both primary source which include interview and observation method and secondary data are collected from journals, books, magazines, newspapers and internet sources etc.

It has been found that there are changes in the road and infrastructure development in and around the selected villages, changes in the education, health scenario, changes in their culture, lifestyle, family system, dressing habit and food pattern and so on.

Keywords: Impact, Modernisation, Globalisation, Social change, Sonowal Kachari tribe

Management of virus and disease outbreak has always been an issue. This is shown by the outbreak of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) which has affected the totality of human society. This study aims to assess how the church significantly view, approach and handle COVID-19 situation in Nigeria. The methodology used is qualitative and interview methods. The paper observed that the church because of its symbiotic relationship with the governmentis pivotal in management of the virus outbreak and regulation of human attitude regardless of the role of Legislators, executive and institutions, such as National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). Through the religious philosophy of Kierkegaard, it was also shown that the COVID-19 has pointed the need for personal relational relation with God as a way of reducing anxiety and stress.

Keywords: Church, Human Existence, COVID-19, Nigeria, Kierkegaard