Banita Behera
Name: Banita Behera
Qualification: M.Phil
Designation: Assistant Keeper
Department: Anthropology
Institute Name: Anthropological Survey of India
College Address: 27 Jawaharlal Nehru Road, Kolkata 16.
Publication title: Journal
Paper title: The High Altitude Cultures of India: Perception of New paradigms
Journal name: International Journal of Historical Archaeology and Anthropological Sciences
Volume: 4
Issue No.: 3
Year: 2019
Page No.: 104-108
ISSN: 2573-2897
About Banita Behera
BanitaBehera has done her Masters and M.Phil in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Currently working as an Assistant Keeper, Officer In charge of Zonal Anthropological Museum of Anthropological Survey of India, Southern regional Centre, Ministry of Culture,Govt. Of India. Since a decade she worked as a young Curator in research and exposition wing at Museum of Tribal Research Institute and National Museum of Mankind, she has also helped in formulating an extensive interactive plans and programs for Museum Sector with reference to protect and promote tangible and intangible cultural heritage of India through the interactive and inclusive exhibits and anthropological field works. She taught Tribal Culture of India to the Master degree students of Social Work in Odisha for some period. Started her career as Field Officer at Social Organization for Rural Development she worked for different women’s Health programs and projects. Her contribution in fieldworks in the toughest parts of India like Leh-ladakh and Himalayan region to document the High Altitude Cultures and among the Tribes of Andaman and Nicobar Islands specifically the Jarawas are some of her extensive contribution to the National Museum of Mankind and Anthropological Survey of India respectively to disseminate unreachable culture to the masses through their exhibitions. Collections of numerous rare vanishing objects and tribal youth dormitory for open air exhibition to the reserve collections of National Museum of Mankind is a major contribution during her period. She has participated and presented papers in many National and International Conferences and has bagged in the way many honors and awards of repute. Her noteworthy contribution to the field of academics has been published in many International Journals. Recently her talk on High Altitude Culture at a Conference in Rome, Italy and Indonesia gathered many inquisitiveness and comments.