Abhijit Guha
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 111281 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Abhijit Guha |
| NOMBRES | Abhijit |
| APELLIDO | Guha |
| FIRMA | GUHA A |
| AFILIACIONES | Vidyasagar University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9605-2993 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 4 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Uneven terrain
This is a book by a veteran anthropologist of the Anthropological Survey of India, and the research work for the monograph was carried out by a prestigious Tagore National Fellowship for Cultural R...
Glimpses from the Anthropological Odyssey of B. R. Ambedkar Through the Caste System in India
B. R. Ambedkar’s original research on the caste system in India is an unexplored area. In this article, an attempt has been made to appreciate the views of Ambedkar on the origin of the caste system in India and the relationship of the anthropological milieu of the United States of America during the time of Franz Boas in shaping his thoughts. Ambedkar gave importance on the endogamy of caste superimposed on tribal exogamy, and he maintained an a…
An Open Letter to Emile Durkheim
How artificial intelligence will change the future of marketing
In the future, artificial intelligence (AI) is likely to substantially change both marketing strategies and customer behaviors. Building from not only extant research but also extensive interactions with practice, the authors propose a multidimensional framework for understanding the impact of AI involving intelligence levels, task types, and whether AI is embedded in a robot. Prior research typically addresses a subset of these dimensions; this …
Nation Building on the Margins
The contributions of the anthropologists towards nation building in the early years after independence of India is still an unexplored research agenda in the social sciences in general and anthropology and sociology in particular. Under this background, an exploration is made in this study to search the contributions of anthropologists towards nation building and it revealed that there were at least five pioneering researches which dealt with the…
A Forgotten Book by a Marginalised Anthropologist
The idea of conducting an anthropological survey on the famine-affected people in Bengal in 1943 was planned and executed by a low profile teacher named Tarak Chandra Das. T.C. Das was not a member of any political party nor did he run any NGO. Indeed, he is a forgotten personality in the annals of Indian anthropology despite his original and groundbreaking contributions to social anthropology and sociology. Historiographers and encyclopaedia wri…
Colonial, Hindu and Nationalist Anthropology in India
The long-standing critique of Indian Anthropology advanced by some notable anthropologists held that Indian Anthropology is the product of a colonial tradition and the anthropologists in India for various reasons followed their colonial masters in one way or the other. There also exists a view of Hindu Anthropology which holds that an Indian form of Anthropology could be found in many ancient Indian texts and scriptures before the advent of a col…
Dialectics of Field and Archive
In this methodological paper, field and archival data standing in a dialectical relationship in the wider context of the contributions and limitations of the subaltern school of history in India and the recent methodological innovations of anthropologists towards multi-sited ethnography have been viewed. 1 Accordingly, the complementary role of archival materials and field observations, in the form of a multi-sited ethnography, has been explored.…
Study on Communication Barriers in the Classroom
The present study is undertaken with the objective to analyse the opinion of secondary school teachers regarding barriers in classroom communication. It is evident from the result of the analysis that barriers existmore, or less, though there is significant difference in opinion among the teachers regarding various dimensions of communication. The majority of the teachers opined that barriers were not due to the source of communication (teacher) …
Pranab Kumar Ganguly
Educational Use of Mobile Phones by Undergraduate Students
As India has the world’s second largestmobile phone user base (over 929.37 million users, May 2011) and Wireless communication has emerged as one of the fastest diffusing media on the planet, fuelling an emergent’ mobile youth culture’, it will be interesting to explore the attitude of undergraduate students towards the use of mobile phones for educational purposes. We all know that mobile phones provide multitude of features and services so much…
Generating Public Consciousness around Land Acquisition for Private Industries
In course of my research on the acquisition of agricultural land for private industries, I came across a variety of public opinion which justified acquisitions. None of the supporters of land acquisition was ready to face the question of food security at the household level, let alone the role of local self-governments, which was endangered by the takeover of fertile land for industries by the government. Under the three sets of public opinion de…
The Macro-Costs of Forced Displacement of the Farmers in India
Campus Anthropology
In this ethnographic account, I attempt to write an anthropological narrative of my own university located in a district town of the West Bengal state in India about 130 kilometres from Kolkata, the capital of the state. My account does not come under the sub-discipline of ‘Educational Anthropology’ in which formal education is studied by the anthropologists as yet another process of the transmission of culture. My point of departure entails view…
Challenges to Corporate Social Responsibility
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Joint Forest Management in West Bengal
Joint forest management (JFM) in West Bengal set an example of participatory development in which panchayats have played a crucial and positive role. But in recent period, the JFM movement has become sluggish and is gradually losing its pro-people character. The present anthropological study of the functioning of a forest protection committee in a village situated near to Arabari in Medinipur district of West Bengal, reveals the various shortcomi…
Ecological Perils in Erstwhile USSR
Until recently, researches on Soviet Socialist economy were carried out to measure gross production and productivity (its increase or decline) both in industrial and agricultural sectors over short and long spans of time period, and these were compared with capitalist countries like USA. But in a more recent period, the researches on the Soviet socialist economy have also started to take into consideration the relationship (in terms of rate and v…
The Darwinian View of Progress
IN THE MARCH 1993 ISSUE of this journal, Amartya Sen offered a critical review of the Darwinian idea of progress and its relevance to the contemporary world. The major argument he advanced is based on a selective reading of Darwin that omits pivotal concepts of the theory of natural selection. Sen fails to consider two major concepts of Darwinian theory -prodigality of reproduction and transmission of variation. Elaboration of these two concepts …
On Theorizing Human Sexuality
Tarak Chandra Das
Glimpses from the Anthropological Odyssey of B. R. Ambedkar Through the Caste System in India
B. R. Ambedkar’s original research on the caste system in India is an unexplored area. In this article, an attempt has been made to appreciate the views of Ambedkar on the origin of the caste system in India and the relationship of the anthropological milieu of the United States of America during the time of Franz Boas in shaping his thoughts. Ambedkar gave importance on the endogamy of caste superimposed on tribal exogamy, and he maintained an a…
The Macro-Costs of Forced Displacement of the Farmers in India
The Darwinian View of Progress
IN THE MARCH 1993 ISSUE of this journal, Amartya Sen offered a critical review of the Darwinian idea of progress and its relevance to the contemporary world. The major argument he advanced is based on a selective reading of Darwin that omits pivotal concepts of the theory of natural selection. Sen fails to consider two major concepts of Darwinian theory -prodigality of reproduction and transmission of variation. Elaboration of these two concepts …
On Theorizing Human Sexuality
Ecological Perils in Erstwhile USSR
Until recently, researches on Soviet Socialist economy were carried out to measure gross production and productivity (its increase or decline) both in industrial and agricultural sectors over short and long spans of time period, and these were compared with capitalist countries like USA. But in a more recent period, the researches on the Soviet socialist economy have also started to take into consideration the relationship (in terms of rate and v…
Joint Forest Management in West Bengal
Joint forest management (JFM) in West Bengal set an example of participatory development in which panchayats have played a crucial and positive role. But in recent period, the JFM movement has become sluggish and is gradually losing its pro-people character. The present anthropological study of the functioning of a forest protection committee in a village situated near to Arabari in Medinipur district of West Bengal, reveals the various shortcomi…
Challenges to Corporate Social Responsibility
Tarak Chandra Das
The Macro-Costs of Forced Displacement of the Farmers in India
Campus Anthropology
In this ethnographic account, I attempt to write an anthropological narrative of my own university located in a district town of the West Bengal state in India about 130 kilometres from Kolkata, the capital of the state. My account does not come under the sub-discipline of ‘Educational Anthropology’ in which formal education is studied by the anthropologists as yet another process of the transmission of culture. My point of departure entails view…
Generating Public Consciousness around Land Acquisition for Private Industries
In course of my research on the acquisition of agricultural land for private industries, I came across a variety of public opinion which justified acquisitions. None of the supporters of land acquisition was ready to face the question of food security at the household level, let alone the role of local self-governments, which was endangered by the takeover of fertile land for industries by the government. Under the three sets of public opinion de…
Educational Use of Mobile Phones by Undergraduate Students
As India has the world’s second largestmobile phone user base (over 929.37 million users, May 2011) and Wireless communication has emerged as one of the fastest diffusing media on the planet, fuelling an emergent’ mobile youth culture’, it will be interesting to explore the attitude of undergraduate students towards the use of mobile phones for educational purposes. We all know that mobile phones provide multitude of features and services so much…
Study on Communication Barriers in the Classroom
The present study is undertaken with the objective to analyse the opinion of secondary school teachers regarding barriers in classroom communication. It is evident from the result of the analysis that barriers existmore, or less, though there is significant difference in opinion among the teachers regarding various dimensions of communication. The majority of the teachers opined that barriers were not due to the source of communication (teacher) …
Pranab Kumar Ganguly
Dialectics of Field and Archive
In this methodological paper, field and archival data standing in a dialectical relationship in the wider context of the contributions and limitations of the subaltern school of history in India and the recent methodological innovations of anthropologists towards multi-sited ethnography have been viewed. 1 Accordingly, the complementary role of archival materials and field observations, in the form of a multi-sited ethnography, has been explored.…
A Forgotten Book by a Marginalised Anthropologist
The idea of conducting an anthropological survey on the famine-affected people in Bengal in 1943 was planned and executed by a low profile teacher named Tarak Chandra Das. T.C. Das was not a member of any political party nor did he run any NGO. Indeed, he is a forgotten personality in the annals of Indian anthropology despite his original and groundbreaking contributions to social anthropology and sociology. Historiographers and encyclopaedia wri…
Colonial, Hindu and Nationalist Anthropology in India
The long-standing critique of Indian Anthropology advanced by some notable anthropologists held that Indian Anthropology is the product of a colonial tradition and the anthropologists in India for various reasons followed their colonial masters in one way or the other. There also exists a view of Hindu Anthropology which holds that an Indian form of Anthropology could be found in many ancient Indian texts and scriptures before the advent of a col…
How artificial intelligence will change the future of marketing
In the future, artificial intelligence (AI) is likely to substantially change both marketing strategies and customer behaviors. Building from not only extant research but also extensive interactions with practice, the authors propose a multidimensional framework for understanding the impact of AI involving intelligence levels, task types, and whether AI is embedded in a robot. Prior research typically addresses a subset of these dimensions; this …
Nation Building on the Margins
The contributions of the anthropologists towards nation building in the early years after independence of India is still an unexplored research agenda in the social sciences in general and anthropology and sociology in particular. Under this background, an exploration is made in this study to search the contributions of anthropologists towards nation building and it revealed that there were at least five pioneering researches which dealt with the…
An Open Letter to Emile Durkheim
Glimpses from the Anthropological Odyssey of B. R. Ambedkar Through the Caste System in India
B. R. Ambedkar’s original research on the caste system in India is an unexplored area. In this article, an attempt has been made to appreciate the views of Ambedkar on the origin of the caste system in India and the relationship of the anthropological milieu of the United States of America during the time of Franz Boas in shaping his thoughts. Ambedkar gave importance on the endogamy of caste superimposed on tribal exogamy, and he maintained an a…
Uneven terrain
This is a book by a veteran anthropologist of the Anthropological Survey of India, and the research work for the monograph was carried out by a prestigious Tagore National Fellowship for Cultural R...
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