Plural Nature of Anthropology: Golden Jubilee Lectures

Prof. Ajit K. Danda, FNASc, (Born 1936), is a Ph.D. from Cornell University (U.S.A.) and former Director, Anthropological Survey of India. He held many important positions in various academic institutions and research organizations in this country and abroad. He has diverse areas of research specialization in cultural anthropology viz. tribal economy, peasant transformations, ethnicity and development, research methodology etc. he served in many important committees/commissions constituted by the state and central government.

Kamal K. Misra is Professor and Head, Department of Anthropology, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad. He had his academic training at Utkal University, Bhubaneswar; Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; and the University of Kent at Canterbury, United Kingdom. He is also a recipient of commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship and the Fulbright Fellowship. Dr. Misra has taught at Utkal University, the University of Hyderabad and at Austin College, Texas, USA. He specializes in Environmental Anthropology, Anthropological Linguistics and Theory in anthropology. He has extensively carried out fieldwork in Northeast, Central and South Indian tribal and rural communities. His publications include Social Structure0 and Change among the Ho of Orissa (1987), Tribal Elite and Social Transformation (1994), Text Book of Anthropological Linguistics (2000), and Peoples and Environment in India (2001), co-edited with M.L.K. Murty. He has over 50 research papers published in national and international journals, and book chapters. Dr. Misra is on the Board of Editors of Indian Anthropologist, and Man and Life.

"Kishor K. Basa has been teaching archaeological anthropology in the Department of Anthropology, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar since 1980. A Ph.D. from University of London and a Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellow, University of Cambridge, Professor Basa was Director, IGRMS, Bhopal; Indian Museum, Kolkata and Anthropological Survey of India. He was President, Archaeology Section of Indian History Congress as well as Anthropological and Behavioural Science Section of Indian Science Congress. He has excavated the sites of Malikhoja (Sankerjung), Harirajpur and Gourangapatana—all in Odisha.