Ankana Das
Biographic Data
| ID | 4099140 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ankana Das |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ankana |
| FAMILY NAME | Das |
| SIGNATURE | DAS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Delhi |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7536-5907 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Taming Tigers, Honoring Spirits: Forest Rituals and the Bāules in the Sundarban
Bāules, a forest-dependent occupational group, traverse the precarious ecologies of the Sundarban, where survival hinges on ritual mastery as much as on physical abilities. Positioned at the liminal threshold between human settlement and wilderness, they enact knowledge that blurs the boundaries between technique and devotion. Their engagements with unseen forces emerge in everyday acts of mantras, gestures, and rituals, rather than doctrinal cat…
Tribal Migrant Labourers in the Sundarbans: Effects of Migration on prevalent Social, Cultural and Political Life
A closed reading of the mobility of tribal life in West Bengal can take us to the Sundarbans in the southern fringes of Bengal; where the Santhals can be traced, who migrated from their homelands in the Chota Nagpur, to the tide country (Sundarbans) only a few centuries ago, to clear forested lands and to start cultivating the virgin land. Colonization here plays a very important role, since this migration was a direct result of the colonial barb…
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Tribal Migrant Labourers in the Sundarbans: Effects of Migration on prevalent Social, Cultural and Political Life
A closed reading of the mobility of tribal life in West Bengal can take us to the Sundarbans in the southern fringes of Bengal; where the Santhals can be traced, who migrated from their homelands in the Chota Nagpur, to the tide country (Sundarbans) only a few centuries ago, to clear forested lands and to start cultivating the virgin land. Colonization here plays a very important role, since this migration was a direct result of the colonial barb…
Taming Tigers, Honoring Spirits: Forest Rituals and the Bāules in the Sundarban
Bāules, a forest-dependent occupational group, traverse the precarious ecologies of the Sundarban, where survival hinges on ritual mastery as much as on physical abilities. Positioned at the liminal threshold between human settlement and wilderness, they enact knowledge that blurs the boundaries between technique and devotion. Their engagements with unseen forces emerge in everyday acts of mantras, gestures, and rituals, rather than doctrinal cat…
Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Agency (philosophy) (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · BENGAL (1 works) · Bricolage (1 works) · Colonialism (1 works) · Context (archaeology (1 works) · Ethnography (1 works) · Ethnology (1 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (1 works)