My PhD research was on the
Mortuary Practices in the Central Ganga Valley where I tried to evaluate from
an anthropological/archaeological perspective. My main focus was on social
differentiation, cultural change and demography. I have tried to see the
mortuary rituals in living social context where I have utilized the richness of
symbolic material available to the anthropologist to put “flesh on the bones”
of mortuary customs to draw an ethnographic parallel about much of the activity
surrounding death rituals which have left no physical evidence at all.
As a student of Social
Anthropology, I have conducted research involving primary means (field work)
and secondary means (literature review) and am well equipped with the various
techniques and practices that Social Sciences require for a comprehensive
empirical study. Besides my academic leanings towards the myriad possibilities
Social Anthropology as a discipline has to offer, I have an avid interest in
the world of computers. I am fully comfortable and integrated with both
hardware and software and with no formal training in it, I took it as a
personal challenge to understand it to the core. Today my life includes a
virtual cyber arena where the usability, working and distribution of various
softwares and the understanding of the handling of hardwares give me a sense of
creative satisfaction.
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