Dr. Aheibam Preetibala
Anthropologist (Cultural)
Anthropological Survey of India
Ministry of Culture
Government of India
Western Regional Centre
Udaipur-313001
Rajasthan, India
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RESEARCH INTEREST
Built Environment, Vernacular Architecture, Material Culture, Natural Resources Management, North-East India, De-notified and Nomadic Communities of India
EDUCATION
PhD in Anthropology, University of Hyderabad (2018)
Thesis titled “Natural Resources and Community Dynamics: A Case Study of Sand Quarrying In A Village In Manipur” under the supervision of Professor R. Siva Prasad.
M Phil. in Anthropology, University of Hyderabad (2013)
Dissertation titled “An anthropological understanding of the traditional architecture of the Meitei house”
M.A. Anthropology (5 years Integrated Masters ), University of Hyderabad (2007-2012)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Associate Editor, Journal of Anthropological Survey of India (since April 2021)
Team Leader- National project titled ‘Study of De-notified, Nomadic, Semi- Nomadic communities in India.' Communities studied- Mogia of Rajasthan (2018) , Miyana of Gujarat (2019) and Banjara of Gujarat (2020)
Team Leader- National project ‘Ethnographic study of Denotified, Nomadic, Semi-Nomadic communities’ for NITI Aayog. Communities studied- Langa (2021), Mangnyar (2022) and Gihara (2022) of Rajasthan, Idu Mishmi of Arunachal Pradesh (2023)
Team Leader- project titled ‘Anthropological Study Of 329 De- Notified Communities from The Lists of the Idate Commission Report.' Community studied- Bagri or Bawri of Rajasthan (2023)
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Drawing and Disbursing Officer, Anthropological Survey of India, Western Regional Centre, Udaipur, Rajasthan (July 2019- December 2023)
Head of Office, Anthropological Survey of India, Western Regional Centre, Udaipur, Rajasthan (October 2020-August 2021)
SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES
Talk on ‘Experiences of women researchers in Anthropological Field work’ in the webinar on ‘Anthropology of Women: Workplace and Beyond’, 8th March, 2021, organised by Anthropological Survey of India, Ministry of Culture, Government of India
Poster titled ‘Community dynamics and natural resources: A case study of sand quarrying in a village in Imphal West district of Manipur, India‘ in the annual event of Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften, 2017, Berlin, as part of the Centre for Development Studies (ZELF) team, Freie Universitat, Berlin.
Paper titled, ‘Community dynamics and natural resources- a case study of sand quarrying in a village in Manipur’ in the 22nd Humboldt India Project Workshop, 12th May 2017, organised by the Department of South Asia Studies, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Paper titled ‘Documenting the Yûmjao: understanding the vernacular architecture of the Meitei’ in the conference on ‘South Asian Vernacular Architecture, Challenges to its Continuity and Strategies for its Future: CONFERENCE, DEMONSTRATIONS AND EXHIBITION’ (11-13 December 2015), jointly organised by School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal, Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal and Indian Trust for Rural Heritage and Development, New Delhi
Co-presented a paper titled “Haze of quarry dust” in the International Seminar on Development, Resources and Livelihoods (February 12-13,2015) organized by the Department of Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad, India
Paper titled 'The cultural embodiment of the architecture of the dwelling house' in the Graduate Research Meet organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Guwahati, Assam (31st October-1st November, 2014)
AWARDS
Erasmus+ Fellow, Centre for Development Studies (ZELF), Workgroup Prof. Hermann Kreutzmann, Institute of Geographical Sciences, Freie University Berlin (April-September 2017)
University Grants Commission, India, Senior Research Fellowship (2016-2018)
University Grants Commission, India, Junior Research Fellowship (2014-2016)
University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test qualified in 2011.
SPIC-MACAY, Gurukul Scholarship Program (2010)
PUBLICATIONS
Preetibala, Aheibam (2018). Beyond Environmental Problem: sand quarrying in a village in Manipur, IUN Journal of Social Sciences, A Journal of ICFAI University, Nagaland, vol. II (4): 1-14. Heritage Publishing House.
Preetibala, Aheibam (2019). Documenting the Yûmjao: Understanding the Vernacular Architecture of the Meitei in R.Khare, S.Mitra and B.Raghuwanshi (eds.) SOUTH ASIAN VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE: Challenges to its Continuity and Strategies for its Future, proceedings of the ‘South Asian Vernacular Architecture Challenges to its Continuity and Strategies for its Future Conference, Demonstration & Exhibition’ , Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, 11 -13, December 2015 (25-42), SPA Press.
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