ASSISTANT ANTHROPOLOGIST (CULTURAL)
Anthropological Survey of India
Andaman & Nicobar Regional Centre, Port Blair
Ministry of Culture, Government of India
Contact - 9432014088, 8777802176
Email id- adattaansi@gmail.com
Official Mail. a.datta.ansi@gov.in
EDUCATION: Master Degree with First Class in Anthropology, Specialisation in Social Cultural Anthropology in the Year 1993 from University of Calcutta.
1. Joined Anthropological Survey of India, North-West Regional Centre, Dehradun as JRF and SRF from 1994 to1998.
· Project -1, ‘Polyandry: Structure and Change: Studied in Jaunsar Bawar, Chakrata, Dehradun, Sirmur district, Himachal Pradesh, Kinnaur District, Himachal Pradesh.
· Project -2, ‘Cultural Adaptation to Basin Eco System- Study on Beas basin of Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh
2. Joined Anthropological Survey of India in 1998 at North East Regional Centre at Shillong, Meghalaya, 1998-2003
3. Served Anthropological Survey of India at Central Regional Centre, Nagpur, Maharashtra from 2003 to 2010.
4. Served Anthropological Survey of India at Eastern Regional Centre, Kolkata from 2010 to 2024.
5. Presently serving at Andaman and Nicobar Regional Centre of Anthropological Survey of India, Port Blair, Andaman & Nicobar Island.
Working Experience : Worked in fourteen National / Regional Projects of the Anthropological Survey of India
Worked in the National project ' Crafts and Craftsmanship' , In Tirap and Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh among the Nocte and Wanchoo communities of Arunachal Pradesh. 1998-1999
Worked in collaborative project with British Museum, London titled 'Board Games in India' among the Nocte and Wanchoo communities of Arunachal Pradesh. 1998-1999.
Worked in the national project titled 'Dormitory System in India' among the Adi (Padam) community of Arunachal Pradesh and Muria community of Bastar, Chhattisgarh. 2002-2005.
Study of Syncretism in India, Worked in Seven districts of Maharashtra, 2005-2007.
Study of Coastal fishing and fishermen, Studied in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra, 2008
SIA project of POSCO movement of Odisha in 2011 -12.
Bio-Cultural Diversity, Environment & Sustainable Development (Village Studies): Kunkeri Village, Sawantwadi district, Maharashtra; 2013-2015.
Man in Biosphere: at Gulf of Mannar, Tamilnadu, Similipal Biosphere of Odisha, and Kutch Biosphere of Gujarat 2007 -2016.
Extensive work in the project under tribal Sub-plan among Santal, Birhor, Toto, Lepcha, Kharia communities of West Bengal and Sikkim. 2011-2019
Development and Sustainability: at Tripura,
Anthropological Study of Nomadic, Semi-nomadic and Denotified Communities: Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Dadra nagar Haveli, 2020.
Anthropological Study of Nomadic, Semi-nomadic and Denotified Communities: West Bengal, 2021-22
Anthropological Study of Nomadic, Semi-nomadic and Denotified Communities (NITI AAYOG): Haryana, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh. 2022-2023
Worked in regional Project titled 'Inter state Border Studies of Chhattisgarh", 2024
Publication:
1. JAJMANI SYSTEM AMONG THE KINNAURAS OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, 1998, JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA, KOLKATA.
2. SPREAD OF BUDDHISM IN HINDU FOLD: AN ANALYSYS OF KINNAURA’S SOCIAL SYSTEM, 1998, JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA,
KOLKATA.
3. IVORY CRAFTS OF BARPETA DISTRICT OF ASSAM, EDT. BY F. KULIRANI AND L.N. SONI IN BOOK CRAFTS AND CRAFTSMANSHIP: TRADITIONAL
KNOWLEDGE, 2009, BY ALLIED PUBLICATION AND AN.S.I, KOLKATA, PP. 151-175.
4. THE TRADITIONAL WOOD CARVINGOF WANCHOO: A RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT, 2009, IN BOOK CRAFTS AND CRAFTSMASHIP, EDT. BY L.N. SONI
AND F. KULIRANI, MEMOIR NO 102, ANTHROPOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA, KOLKATA, PP. 68-91
5. MAN IN BIOSPHERE: A CASE STUDY OF SIMILIPAL BIOSPHERE RESERVE, 2012, EDITOR DR. S. GHOSAL, GYAN PUBLISHING HOUSE, NEW DELHI.
6. ECONOMY, ECOLOGY AND SOCIAL ORGANISATION IN THE LIGHT OF BACHELOR’S DORMITORY OF ADI PADAM OF ARUNACHAL PRADESH, JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA, VOL 61-62 KOLKATA
7. COASTAL FISHERMEN OF RATNAGIRI DISTRICT OF MAHARASTARA, JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA, VOL 60, KOLKATA.
8. Biosphere Reserve: Gulf of Mannar BR, Tamil Nadu, 2018, in book Man in Biosphere Case Studies on Gulf of Mannar and Agasthyamalai Biosphere Reserve, Edited By Dr. Samit Ghosal, Anthropological Survey of India, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India.
9. POSCO MOVEMENT: A SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT ASSESSMENT, 2023, Indian journal of Anthropological Research, New Delhi.
10. The Lepcha of the Khangchendzonga Reserve forest: an apprisal of Natural Influences Towards the Society, Jointly with Anupam Datta & Sumitabha Chakraborty, 2019, In North Bengal Anthropologist, Vol. 7, Journal of the Department of Anthropology, University of North Bengal.
Training
Social Impact Assessment from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai – One-month training program, September-October 2008.
Training Programme in Visual Anthropology from Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute, Kolkata from 29 May to 17 June 2007.
3. Training –Cum- Orientation Programme in Visual anthropology from 29 September 2010 to 8 October 2010 at Anthropological Survey of India, ERC, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700 091.