Subhash Walimbe - Academia.edu (original) (raw)

Subhash Walimbe

Subhash R. Walimbe is Professor and former Chair of the Anthropology Department of Pune University. He received his Master’s (1972) and Ph.D. (1078) degree from the Pune University. His long association with Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute (Deemed University) helped him establish fully equipped laboratory solely devoted for archaeological human skeletal research. This being the only facility in the subject in India, over the last 35 years, Walimbe and his team had an opportunity to examine human remains from over 65 archaeological sites (dated between 8000 BCE to 800 AD) collected by various Indian Universities. He is also instrumental in creating national level facility of ancient-DNA laboratory in India. He is executive member of several professional bodies and recipient of research finding from reputed national and international agencies. Major emphasis of his career research is on examining the relative quality of hunter-gatherer’s and farmer’s health and nutrition. His current research uses ethnographic data to model cultural frontiers of health for archaeological populations. He is the author of edited one book (Wiley-Blackwell), seven monographs / skeletal reports and over 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals.
Address: 28, Ideal Colony,
Matoshri Sulabha Society,
Paud Road, Kothrud, Pune 411029
India

less

Uploads

Papers by Subhash Walimbe

PDF of slide presentation Story of Human Evolution, Migration and adaptation: Part IV: The future... more PDF of slide presentation
Story of Human Evolution, Migration and adaptation: Part IV: The future os humanity

PDF of slide presentation Story of Human Evolution, Migration and adaptation: Part III: Health at... more PDF of slide presentation
Story of Human Evolution, Migration and adaptation: Part III: Health at the beginning of agriculture: Issuers of adaptation and cultural progress: Indian scenario

PDF of slide presentation Story of Human Evolution, Migration and adaptation: Part II: Journey th... more PDF of slide presentation
Story of Human Evolution, Migration and adaptation: Part II: Journey through the last 1,00,000 years in the Indian sub-continent

PDF of slide presentation Story of Human Evolution, Migration and adaptation: Part I: Humans as a... more PDF of slide presentation
Story of Human Evolution, Migration and adaptation: Part I: Humans as a member of Order Primates

Teaching notes for the course on Biological Anthropology in Indian Universities

Journal of Indian Anthropological Society, 2022

I am honored by the invitation of the Indian Anthropological Society to offer this Prestigious Pr... more I am honored by the invitation of the Indian Anthropological Society to offer this Prestigious Professor Dharani Sen Memorial Lecture. When Professor Barun Mukhopadhyay, the then General Secretary of the Society, called sometime in the last year conferring the honour, I was very much confused. Whether little I could contribute to the anthropological knowledge base deserves this respect? I was not fortunate to be in the academic domain during the Dharani Sen's era. But we grew up with the platform they created for us. I remember, 50 years back, on the 8 th of August 1970 to be precise, in my very first lecture as a postgraduate student, my teacher Professor R.K. Mutatkar taught us about the four sub-branches of anthropology, viz. cultural, physical, archaeological and linguistic. Like several of us, I wanted to find a human fossil ancestor and Siwalik Hills was the first choice! When I talked about my desire while thinking of Ph.D. registration in 1972, I was simply asked to go either to Chandigarh or Kolkata. Not many anthropologists were then working in the area of archaeological anthropology. Chandigarh was not possible for some reasons.

archaeological studies, 2011

The South East Asian Review, 2022

This study looks at human skeletal remains in the Indian subcontinent, taking into account recent... more This study looks at human skeletal remains in the Indian subcontinent, taking into account recent research developments.

Antiquity, 2000

The idea of indigenous people in South Asia is more complex than elsewhere, in part because it in... more The idea of indigenous people in South Asia is more complex than elsewhere, in part because it involves longstanding and intimate contact between ‘tribal’ and non-tribal peoples (Béteille 1998; Gardner 1985; Lukacs in press). Additional complications arise from the hierarchal and endogamous structure of Hindu social and ritual organization, including the plight of people who occupy the lowest stratum of the hierarchy — ‘untouchables’ (Charsley 1996; Delikge 1992; 1993). Because the system of socioreligious stratification known as caste does not encourage social mobility, new ethnic identity is often sought by groups whose position in the hierarchy is low (Dumont 1980; Klass 1980; Kolinda 1978). Biological anthropologists are interested in the caste system for the opportunities it offers to understand the interaction of cultural behaviour with the biological patterning of human genetic and phenotypic diversity (Majumder 1998; Majumderet al. 1990; Malhotra 1974). Although most Western...

Frontiers in Public Health, 2016

A Companion to South Asia in the Past, 2016

American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2000