Soumendra Mohan Patnaik
Biographic Data
| ID | 155778 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Soumendra Mohan Patnaik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Soumendra Mohan |
| FAMILY NAME | Patnaik |
| SIGNATURE | PATNAIK S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delhi |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6181-8429 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Managing the Disaster of Covid-19: An Analysis of Public Policy in Odisha on India’s East Coast
This paper is a critical reflection on Covid-19 management strategies adopted in Odisha, a state on India’s east coast. The unprecedented scale and magnitude with which the pandemic affected the entire world was the cause of great uncertainty and collective anxiety. Managing it at the level of the entire nation state with great diversity of race, language, ethnicity, class, caste and culture has posed a great challenge for policy makers and admin…
Anthropology in India and Anthropological Journals in India
Social Change and some others where in
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic
Until recently, I was the vice-chancellor of Utkal University at Bhubaneswar, the capital city of Odisha, on the east coast of India. The government of Odisha promptly declared the closure of all educational institutions of the state on March 14, 2020, before the rest of the country did so on March 25, 2020. Anticipating a complete shutdown of the city, including the market and other civic amenities, I ensured that the students on the campus vaca…
The Incessant Journey Man
Obituary: Vinay Kumar Srivastava: A memoir (3 December 1952-23 December 2020)
Indian Anthropological Association (IAA)
The Indian Anthropological Association (IAA), the premier body of professional anthropologists in India, has pursued the goal of making anthropology meaningful in public life since its inception in 1964. Indian Anthropologist , the official journal of the association, contains anthropological insights on complex social processes with implications for development policy and practice. The IAA has five regional chapters that carry out its goals and …
Two Interviews by Vinicius Kauê Ferreira: Chandana Mathur (National University of Ireland, Maynooth) and Soumendra Patnaik (University of Delhi)
The interviews published in this issue of American Anthropologist seek to contribute to the global conversations that the World Anthropologies section has been fostering in recent years. We may not all agree about whether globalization is a recent phenomenon, but I am convinced that we all agree that social issues of a global sort require global dialogues that also take the local into account. To that end, the interviews I conducted with Chandana…
"Who Is Healthy among the Korwa?" Liminality in the Experiential Health of the Displaced Korwa of Central India
The Korwa, an indigenous community of Central India, were displaced from their forest abode four decades ago because of the state's forest policy. The resettled Korwa do not consider the new space their home and summarize their journey of displacement from hill forest to lowland villages in terms of deprivation of healthy life. The Korwa complain of fever, diffuse aches, fatigue, and frail bodies forming a part of their everyday lives thereby sig…
Professor J.S. Bhandari (5th July 1937-6th June 2001)
Tribe and Displacement: Social Implications of Rehabilitation
The displacement and rehabilitation discourse has mainly centered around the political, humanitarian and emotional issues emerging from and affecting the entire process. This paper highlights the other but very important side of the displacement debate. Taking the concepts of social structure and change as key heuristic devices, the present paper seeks to contextualize the processes of social disarticulation and re-articulation in case of a displ…
Ecological System and Economic Life Among the Parajas of Orissa
In the best decide, the ecological approaches to human society have become very popular mainly of environmental degradation. Ecological crises have affected all societies but the small have experienced the worst consequences of the degradation of their environment. In this articles between eco-system and economic life of the Parajas of Koraput District of Orissa has been. After giving a suoint amount of the Parajas, their economic life in relatio…
"Who Is Healthy among the Korwa?" Liminality in the Experiential Health of the Displaced Korwa of Central India
The Korwa, an indigenous community of Central India, were displaced from their forest abode four decades ago because of the state's forest policy. The resettled Korwa do not consider the new space their home and summarize their journey of displacement from hill forest to lowland villages in terms of deprivation of healthy life. The Korwa complain of fever, diffuse aches, fatigue, and frail bodies forming a part of their everyday lives thereby sig…
Ecological System and Economic Life Among the Parajas of Orissa
In the best decide, the ecological approaches to human society have become very popular mainly of environmental degradation. Ecological crises have affected all societies but the small have experienced the worst consequences of the degradation of their environment. In this articles between eco-system and economic life of the Parajas of Koraput District of Orissa has been. After giving a suoint amount of the Parajas, their economic life in relatio…
Tribe and Displacement: Social Implications of Rehabilitation
The displacement and rehabilitation discourse has mainly centered around the political, humanitarian and emotional issues emerging from and affecting the entire process. This paper highlights the other but very important side of the displacement debate. Taking the concepts of social structure and change as key heuristic devices, the present paper seeks to contextualize the processes of social disarticulation and re-articulation in case of a displ…
Professor J.S. Bhandari (5th July 1937-6th June 2001)
"Who Is Healthy among the Korwa?" Liminality in the Experiential Health of the Displaced Korwa of Central India
The Korwa, an indigenous community of Central India, were displaced from their forest abode four decades ago because of the state's forest policy. The resettled Korwa do not consider the new space their home and summarize their journey of displacement from hill forest to lowland villages in terms of deprivation of healthy life. The Korwa complain of fever, diffuse aches, fatigue, and frail bodies forming a part of their everyday lives thereby sig…
Two Interviews by Vinicius Kauê Ferreira: Chandana Mathur (National University of Ireland, Maynooth) and Soumendra Patnaik (University of Delhi)
The interviews published in this issue of American Anthropologist seek to contribute to the global conversations that the World Anthropologies section has been fostering in recent years. We may not all agree about whether globalization is a recent phenomenon, but I am convinced that we all agree that social issues of a global sort require global dialogues that also take the local into account. To that end, the interviews I conducted with Chandana…
Indian Anthropological Association (IAA)
The Indian Anthropological Association (IAA), the premier body of professional anthropologists in India, has pursued the goal of making anthropology meaningful in public life since its inception in 1964. Indian Anthropologist , the official journal of the association, contains anthropological insights on complex social processes with implications for development policy and practice. The IAA has five regional chapters that carry out its goals and …
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic
Until recently, I was the vice-chancellor of Utkal University at Bhubaneswar, the capital city of Odisha, on the east coast of India. The government of Odisha promptly declared the closure of all educational institutions of the state on March 14, 2020, before the rest of the country did so on March 25, 2020. Anticipating a complete shutdown of the city, including the market and other civic amenities, I ensured that the students on the campus vaca…
The Incessant Journey Man
Obituary: Vinay Kumar Srivastava: A memoir (3 December 1952-23 December 2020)
Anthropology in India and Anthropological Journals in India
Social Change and some others where in
Managing the Disaster of Covid-19: An Analysis of Public Policy in Odisha on India’s East Coast
This paper is a critical reflection on Covid-19 management strategies adopted in Odisha, a state on India’s east coast. The unprecedented scale and magnitude with which the pandemic affected the entire world was the cause of great uncertainty and collective anxiety. Managing it at the level of the entire nation state with great diversity of race, language, ethnicity, class, caste and culture has posed a great challenge for policy makers and admin…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Social and Economic Development in India (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Law (3 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (3 works) · Art (2 works)