Dr. Amitabha Sarkar (Born: 1952) is a M.Sc., Ph.D (Science) in Anthropology from the University of Calcutta and is specialized in advanced Social Cultural Anthropology. His outstanding empirical contribution towards anthropological research arena is based on impact of industrialization, tribal ethnography, culture ecology, ethno-science, religious belief system being integrative process and culture change alongwith management of environment with traditional knowledge. He has published about 14 (fourteen) books and more than 100 (one hundred) research papers in reputed journals. He possesses 35 years of research experience and has carried out empirical study among tribal and the weaker sections of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and West Bengal. He is the life member of INCAA, Indian Science CongressAssociation, Society for Indian Medical Anthropology (SIMA)and Indian Anthropological Society. He was associated with Anthropological Survey of India from 1977 to 2012. He is also a consultant researcher and involve in generating empirical data from tribal area of Odisha.
