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Dalibandhu Pukkalla has completed his Master and MPhil in Social Anthropology at the Department of Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad. Currently, he works at Anthropological Survey of India, Southern Regional Centre, Mysore, Karnataka, India. His research interests are Anthropology of Fishing, Cognitive Anthropology and Psychological Anthropology. 

Education

2022 Ph.D (Pursuing) (Social Anthropology), Department of Studies in Anthropology, University of Mysore, Karnataka

                Advisor:  Prof MR Gangadhar

2018 MPhil (Social Anthropology), Department of Anthropology, University of Hyderabad, India.

Dissertation: Health behavior and occupational risks among the fishing community of Peda Jalaripeta, Vishakapatnam district, Andhra Pradesh

 Advisor: Prof BV Sharma

2015 M.A (Social Anthropology),  Department of Anthropology, University of Hyderabad, India.

 Dissertation: Health and Hygiene Behaviour among the Yanadi Of Gonupalli, In Nellore District of Andhra Pradesh.

  Advisor: Prof BV Sharma




PUBLISHED ARTICLES


 2023      Dalibandhu Pukkalla and K.R. Rama Mohan. Marine Fishing Community in South India and Impacts of Technological               Transformation.  Asia-Pacific Journal of Rural Development, 32 (2), 196-206.

2021   Dalibandhu Pukkalla and K.R. Rama Mohan. Local Knowledge and Marine Livelihoods among the South Indian Fishing               Community. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 56 (3): 549- 557.

2020     Dalibandhu Pukkalla and BV Sharma. Transmission and Erosion of Local Knowledge Practices in a Fishing Village in South       India. Journal of Ecological Anthropology, 22 (1): 34-42. 

2020       BV Sharma, Snigdha Vishnoi and Dalibandhu Pukkalla. Whys and Wherefores for Dropout of Scheduled Tribe Children from                             public schools in the state of Telangana, India. South Asian Anthropologist, 20 (2): 105-117.

2020     Dalibandhu Pukkalla and BV Sharma. Divinatory Functionaries and Expansion of Healing Systems among the South Indian         Fishing Community. Man In India, 100 (1-2): 123-133.

2018       Dalibandhu Pukkalla. Healthcare schemes of Government in Tribal Areas. In BV Sharma, Sudhakar Rao N and Koteswara Rao                          K(Ed), Sourcebook for Functionaries in tribal Areas, Volume 04, Centre for Innovations in Public Systems (CIPS), Government of                       Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad.

2018     Dalibandhu Pukkalla. Contemporary Tribal Challenges. In BV Sharma, Sudhakar Rao N and Koteswara Rao K (Ed),                                          Sourcebook for Functionaries in tribal Areas, Volume 01, Centre for Innovations in Public Systems (CIPS), Government of Andhra     Pradesh, Hyderabad.

2018       Dalibandhu Pukkalla and BV Sharma. Occupational health risk and etiologies among the Jalari community of Northern Districts                       in Andhra Pradesh. Journal of Human Ecology, 61(1-3). 2.

2016       Dalibandhu Pukkalla. Water and Health: A view from Anthropology, In Benjamin A Cohen and Stephen Goldsmith(Ed) “The                                report on Practical Research in support of Sustainable Urbanization”.

2016        BV Sharma, Dalibandhu Pukkalla and Srinivasu N. What matters in the schooling of tribal girls?. Eastern Anthropologist, Vol.16 (02).

2016   BV Sharma and Dalibandhu Pukkalla. Gender Discrimination among tribes of Andhra Pradesh, India. “The Oriental         Anthropologist,  Vol 16(1).

2016         Dalibandhu Pukkalla. Health and Hygienic practice among Yanadis of Nellore District, A.P. South Asian Anthropologist, Vol 16(1).

2016         Dalibandhu Pukkalla. Health Consciousness and Ethnomedical Practices among Yanadis of Nellore District, A.P, in Dimensions                            of  Tribal health in India, Rajpramukh KE and Jai Kishan(ed), Swastik Publications. New Delhi.