Amitabha Sarkar
Biographic Data
| ID | 3973472 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amitabha Sarkar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amitabha |
| FAMILY NAME | Sarkar |
| SIGNATURE | SARKAR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Anthropologist & Head of Office, Anthropological Survey of India, Vijay Bhawan, JAGDALPUR - 494001. |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8009-2739 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Dialogic Health Systems Research Framework (DHSRF)
Health Systems Research (HSR) has witnessed significant progress in theory, methodology and practice over the last two decades. The complexity of health systems has allowed for diverse lenses for HSR. However, given the absence of dialogue between the different streams of HSR, the diversity of this field, perhaps its greatest strength, is turning out to be quite the challenge. Without a common language that enables researcher interaction and crit…
Questioning global health in the times of Covid-19
The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic and the inequitable response to it has created a space for rethinking the knowledge translation that informs current health policy formulation and planning. Wide recognition of the failure of global health governance and national health systems has led to calls for reviving the Primary Health Care (PHC) agenda for post-COVID health systems development. Despite the joint international declaration on PHC made fou…
Global social challenges for development studies in the Crisis in the Anthropocene
This panel discussion session explores some of the central dimensions of the Crisis in the Anthropocene that constitute global social challenges in the context of development studies. The conference theme highlighted the profound human impact on our blue-green-brown planet, that is already breaching planetary boundaries and pushing us beyond the roughly 1.5°C tipping point. This threatens liveability and sustainability in many localities and regi…
Aspects of Tribal Culture in the Forest Environment of Bastar
The cultural pluralism in Bastar may be understood in terms of individual tribal life and culture with their territorial distribution. Life and culture of this tribal people are nurtured in the cradle of nature chiefly in the forest of sal, sagun, mohua and other forest timbers and plants. Ghotul—the youth dormitory is one of the famous social institutions and very common among the Muria tribe and as per their legend Lingo-pen is the chief deity …
Stratification of Bastar Tribes
Caste system, ethnic formation and other religion-based communities speak of plurality in India, depicts a variety of cultural variations. Concerning Indian society the saying of ‘unity in diversity’, it is revealed that the diversity is not only distinctive feature of caste but it goes beyond, providing a typical stratification in the social order; while the world of Indian tribes, is conspicuously different than the caste society, which is conc…
Syncretism at Sundarbans
Ethnic conflict
Global social challenges for development studies in the Crisis in the Anthropocene
This panel discussion session explores some of the central dimensions of the Crisis in the Anthropocene that constitute global social challenges in the context of development studies. The conference theme highlighted the profound human impact on our blue-green-brown planet, that is already breaching planetary boundaries and pushing us beyond the roughly 1.5°C tipping point. This threatens liveability and sustainability in many localities and regi…
Ethnic conflict
Syncretism at Sundarbans
Stratification of Bastar Tribes
Caste system, ethnic formation and other religion-based communities speak of plurality in India, depicts a variety of cultural variations. Concerning Indian society the saying of ‘unity in diversity’, it is revealed that the diversity is not only distinctive feature of caste but it goes beyond, providing a typical stratification in the social order; while the world of Indian tribes, is conspicuously different than the caste society, which is conc…
Aspects of Tribal Culture in the Forest Environment of Bastar
The cultural pluralism in Bastar may be understood in terms of individual tribal life and culture with their territorial distribution. Life and culture of this tribal people are nurtured in the cradle of nature chiefly in the forest of sal, sagun, mohua and other forest timbers and plants. Ghotul—the youth dormitory is one of the famous social institutions and very common among the Muria tribe and as per their legend Lingo-pen is the chief deity …
Questioning global health in the times of Covid-19
The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic and the inequitable response to it has created a space for rethinking the knowledge translation that informs current health policy formulation and planning. Wide recognition of the failure of global health governance and national health systems has led to calls for reviving the Primary Health Care (PHC) agenda for post-COVID health systems development. Despite the joint international declaration on PHC made fou…
Global social challenges for development studies in the Crisis in the Anthropocene
This panel discussion session explores some of the central dimensions of the Crisis in the Anthropocene that constitute global social challenges in the context of development studies. The conference theme highlighted the profound human impact on our blue-green-brown planet, that is already breaching planetary boundaries and pushing us beyond the roughly 1.5°C tipping point. This threatens liveability and sustainability in many localities and regi…
The Dialogic Health Systems Research Framework (DHSRF)
Health Systems Research (HSR) has witnessed significant progress in theory, methodology and practice over the last two decades. The complexity of health systems has allowed for diverse lenses for HSR. However, given the absence of dialogue between the different streams of HSR, the diversity of this field, perhaps its greatest strength, is turning out to be quite the challenge. Without a common language that enables researcher interaction and crit…
Geography (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Ethnic group (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (3 works) · Development economics (2 works)