Indigenous Knowledge, Natural Resource Management and Development: The Konda Reddi Experience

Kamal K Misra is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India. A recipient of the Utkal University Gold Medal for standing first in the M.Sc. Examination, Dr. Misra has had his academic training from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar; Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; and the University of Kent at Canterbury, United Kingdom. He is also the recipient of the prestigious Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship in U.K. (1996-97) and the Fulbright Fellowship in the U.S.A. (2003-04). Dr. Misra has taught at Utkal University, Bhubaneswar; the University of Hyderabad; and at Austin College, Texas, U.S.A. He specializes in Environmental Anthropology and Ethno-biology, Anthropological Linguistics, Theory in Anthropology, and South Asian Society and Culture. He has extensively carried out fieldwork in Northeast, Central and South Indian tribal and rural communities. His publications include Anthropology, New Global Order and Other Essays (Concept, 2005), Peoples and Environment in India (Discovery, 2001); Textbook of Anthropological Linguistics (Concept, 2000), Tribal Elite and Social Transformation (Inter-India, 1994), and Social Structure and Change among the Ho of Orissa (Gian, 1987). He has over 50 research papers published in national and international journals of repute and chapters in anthologies. Dr. Misra is on the Board of Editors of Indian Anthropologist (Delhi) and Man and Life (Bidisha).