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Ivana Maček is a Crotian-Swedish anthropologist. Ivana Maček is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, and a licensed psychotherapist. Since 1990s, she has done research, written, and lectured on mass political violence in Bosnia and Hercegovina, comparative genocide, anthropological methods with special focus on the non-symbolic communication, engagement of Swedish professionals in global warzones, as well as memory and intergenerational transmission of war experiences within Bosnian families in Sweden. Her major international publications are Sarajevo Under Siege (PENN 2009), and Engaging Violence (Routledge 2014).

Bengt G. Karlsson

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Bengt G. Karlsson
Born27 February
CitizenshipSwedish
Occupationprofessor
Academic work
DisciplineAnthropology
InstitutionsStockholm University

Bengt Gosta Karlsson Bermsjo is a professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University. His research engages mainly with Indigenous people in Northeast India and political ecology. He is known for his book, Unruly Hills: A Political Ecology of India’s Northeast, and article, "Anthropology and the 'Indigenous' Slot."[1]

Studies

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Karlsson studied anthropology, development and economics at Uppsala University. He received his PhD in Social Anthropology at Lund University in 1997.[2]

Academic career

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Karlsson started teaching Anthropology at Linköping University and Uppsala University. In 2006 he was promoted to associate professor at Uppsala University. In January 2010 he took up the position as a senior lecturer at Stockholm University. Karlsson was Head of Department between 2011 and 2014. In 2014 Karlsson was promoted to full professor at Stockholm University. He was elected member of the Social Science Faculty Board at Stockholm University.[2]

Karlsson has been a guest researcher at the University of North Bengal, University College London, University of Chicago and North-Eastern Hill University. During 2008-2009 he worked as an affiliated teacher at the Center for Social Sciences at Tbilisi State University in Georgia. He has also held a position as Director of the Nordic Centre in India (www.nordiccentreindia.com), promoting student and research exchange between the Nordic countries and India.[2]

He was also a committee member of the Swedish Research Council and in 2015 he became a working member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities.[2]

Research

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Karlsson is an environmental anthropologist.[3]

Books

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Contested Belonging: An Indigenous People’s Struggle for Forest and Identity in Sub-Himalayan Bengal (Routledge, 2000)

Unruly Hills: A Political Ecology of India’s Northeast (Berghahn Book, 2011)

Leaving the Land: Indigenous Migration and Affective Labour in India (Cambridge University Press, 2019, co-authored with Dolly Kikon)

Edited volumes

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Indigeneity in India (Kegan Paul 2006, with Tanka B. Subba)

Geographies of Difference: Explorations in Northeast Indian Studies (Routledge, 2017, with M. Vandenhelsken and M. Barkataki-Ruscheweyh)

Seedways: The Circulation, Care and Control of Plants in a Warming World (Vitterhetsakademien, 2021, with Annika Rabo).

Johan Lindqvist is a Swedish anthropologist.

Annika Teppo is a Finnish anthropologist.

  • Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA)

Andrew O. Brandel is an anthropologist.

Ohn Maung (flimmaker)

Operation Bluebird

Tsanthungo Ngullie T. A. Ngullie

https://nagalandpost.com/index.php/2024/10/29/tribute-to-late-t-a-ngullie/

https://nagalandpost.com/index.php/2024/10/29/remembering-t-a-ngullie/


I Anungla Aier is a Naga anthropologist and former bureaucrat from Nagaland, India. She was the former principal of Kohima Science College. In 2019 she was awarded the Dr Panchanan Mitra Award by the Asiatic Journal.

Career

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Aier completed her PhD from the Department of Anthropology of North-Eastern Hill University in 1996. Her thesis, the fourth from the department, was titled, Nagaland Ethnography, History and Development.[4]

in 2009

Dr I. Anungla Aier, Director of Women’s Studies Centre, Nagaland University

In 2019 she was awarded the Panchanan Mitra Award by the The Asiatic Society.[5][6]

Since her retirement, Aier has been giving ethnography workshop for students.[7][8] In May 2025 she was elected president of the Central Nagaland Women Association at its first general conference for a three year term.[9]


https://morungexpress.com/higher-education-department-bids-farewell-director-addl-director

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anungla-aier-37a85238/?originalSubdomain=in

https://kscj.ac.in/index.php/component/content/article/9-events-workshop/353-ethnographic-fieldwork-and-field-recording

Selected publications

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  • Aier, A. (2018) Studies on Naga Oral Tradition: Memories and Telling of Origin Myth and Migration. Dimapur: Heritage Publishing House.
  • Aier, A. (2004). Cultural Change among the Nagas: Festivals and Dress. In N. Venuh (ed.) Naga Society: Continuity and Change, pp. 49-60. New Delhi: Shipra Publications.[10]

Dr. Ditamulü Vasa

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Books:
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    • 2009 (with Tiatoshi Jamir): Re-interpreting the Myth of Longterok, Indian Folklife (33):5-9.
    • 2010 (with Tiatoshi Jamir): Folklore and the Archaeologist’s Spade, The Northeast Window 6 (9): 24-26.

References

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  1. ^ Karlsson, Bengt G. (2003-12-01). "Anthropology and the 'Indigenous Slot': Claims to and Debates about Indigenous Peoples' Status in India". Critique of Anthropology. 23 (4): 403–423. doi:10.1177/0308275X03234003. ISSN 0308-275X.
  2. ^ a b c d "Bengt G. Karlsson | IIAS". www.iias.asia. Retrieved 2025-05-21.
  3. ^ "Bengt G. Karlsson". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2025-05-21.
  4. ^ "Department of Anthropology, NEHU, Shillong: PhD Awardees" (PDF). North-Eastern Hill University. 2024. Retrieved 13 July 2025.
  5. ^ "Naga woman receives prestigious award". Nagaland Post. 19 October 2020. p. 1. Retrieved 13 July 2025.
  6. ^ "Dr I Anungla Aier conferred Dr Panchanan Mitra Award". The Morung Express. 18 October 2020. p. 1. Retrieved 13 July 2025.
  7. ^ "Nagaland State level workshop on Ethnography and Visual documentation". 2020-12-09. Retrieved 2025-07-13.
  8. ^ "Two-day International workshop held at Kohima Science College, Jotsoma". Department of Information & Public Relations, Government of Nagaland. 31 March 2023. Retrieved 13 July 2025.
  9. ^ "Ao, Sumi, Lotha women unite in Mokokchung for first Central Nagaland Women Association conference". Mokokchung Times. 31 May 2025. Retrieved 13 July 2025.
  10. ^ Naga society : continuity and change. Internet Archive. Delhi : Shipra Publications. 2004. ISBN 978-81-7541-207-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) CS1 maint: publisher location (link)