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drakand@gmail.com, drkamal_anth@ru.ac.bd

Department of Anthropology Room No.#112 Syed Ismail Hossain Sirajee Bhobon (Ground Floor), University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi-6205 Bangladesh. Email: drakand@gmail.com drkamal_anth@ru.ac.bd


DR. MUSTAFA KAMAL AKAND
PROFESSOR
Anthropology

Education Summary  
MSS (JU) PhD (RU)
Research Interest  
Poverty and Rural Development, Development Research, Medical Anthropology, Ethnicity and Migration, Anthropology of Childhood, Urban Anthropology
Level Institution Year
Doctoral
(PhD)		 Rajshahi University 2006
Masters
(MSS)		 Jahangirnagar University 1990
Bachelor/Honors
(BSS)		 Jahangirnagar University 1989
Higher Secondary
(HSC)		 Dhaka Education Board 1986
Secondary
(SSC)		 Dhaka Education Board 1984

Experience in Rajshahi University

Duration Organization/Institute Position
2000-03-28 to Anthropology PROFESSOR

Experience in other Organization/Institute

Duration Organization/Institute Position
1993-05-02 to 2000-03-26 Ministry of Youth and Sports, Government of Bangladesh Branch Manager
1992-10-03 to 1993-04-30 Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) Field Officer

Book Chapter

1. Akand M.K. "Bangladesh: Desh O` Jono-gostheer Porichoi’ (Bangladesh: A Portrayal of the Country and its People" Moksuder Rahman (ed). Swadhin Bangladesher Ovyudoyer Itihas, Dhaka, Aleya Book, (Bangladesh)

Published: February 2015
2. Akand M.K. "Ethnic Identity in a Complex Society: Minorities in an Urban Center of Bangladesh" Identity, Cultural Pluralism and State: South Asia in Perspective, Editors: N. K. Das and V.R. Rao, Anthropological Survey of India, Macmillan Publishers India Ltd. 2009. (India).

Published: March 2009
3. Akand M.K. "Customary Law among the Mahili community of the Northern Bangladesh’ (Bangladesh)." published in Zahidul Islam (ed.) “Anthropology on the Move: Contextualizing Culture Studies in Bangladesh”, Department of Anthropology, University of Dhaka

Published: February 2006
4. Akand M.K. and A.H.M. Z.Karim "The Munda and Mahato People in the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest Area of Bangladesh and Their Environmental Adaptation" Nasiruddin, et al (eds.), Environmental Issues in Bangladesh: An Anthropological Perspective. Environmental Conservation Management Center (ECOMAC), Chittagong, Bangladesh

Published: December 2002

Journal

1. Akand, M.K.,& Gorkey Gourab "Reviewing HIV prevention programs for female sex workers in South Asia to improve health interventions for female sex workers in Bangladesh" SOUTH ASIAN ANTHROPOLOGY, Vol. 01, No. 01, pp. 01–08, ISSN 2618-1541, online ISSN 2618-155X Department of Anthropology at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Published: June 2019
2. Akand M.K. Reshma & et al "Impact Assessment of a Vocational Training Programme for Persons with Disabilities in Bangladesh in the journal Disability, CBR & Inclusive Development (DCID), (formerly Asia Pacific Disability Rehabilitation Journal)," Vol. 23, No.3, 2012; doi 10.5463/DCID.v23i3, Vrije Universitiet, Amsterdam (Netherlands). www.dcidj.org

Published: December 2012
3. Akand M.K. "Ethnicity and Gender in an Underdeveloped Urban Economy: A Study on the Migrants Ethnic Women in Rajshahi City" The Eastern Anthropologist, Vol. 3, April- September, 2011, Ethnographic and Folk Culture Society, Lucknow, Serials Publication, New Delhi, (India). www.efcsindia.com

Published: April 2011
4. Akand M.K. & Rasheduzzaman, A.B.M., "Mouals’ Traditional Resource Utilization in the Sundarbans of Bangladesh: A Case of Mangrove Forest People" Sustainable Forest Management and Poverty Alleviation: Roles of Forest Related Knowledge, Editors: John A. Parrotta, Liu Jinlong and Sim Heok-Choh, IUFRO, 2008, Vienna. (Austria). www.iufro.org

Published: January 2008
5. Akand M.K., "Agricultural Farming in Terrace Barind Tract: A Case Study of Farmers’ Adaptability and Sustainability of Planned Irrigation’" The Social Science Journal 12, Vol. 1,(ISSN 1728-1474), University of Rajshahi, 2006, Rajshahi. (Bangladesh).

Published: June 2006
6. Akand M.K. "Beliefs and Rituals among the Mahili Community in Northern Bangladesh: An Autecological Approach" published in the Journal The Eastern Anthropologists, Vol. 2, No. 59, April-June 2006, Ethnographic and Folk Culture Society, Lucknow, Serials Publication New Delhi, (India). www.efcsindia.com

Published: April 2006
7. Akand M.K. "Folk Culture and Adaptation to the City: A Case Study of the Paharia in Rajshahi" 'Asian Folklore Studies' Vol. 64, No. 1, Institute of Anthropology, Nanzan University, Nagoya, (Japan). ProQuest information and Learning linked.

Published: July 2005
8. Akand M.K., "Ritual Regulations of Mahili Mother-Child Care Practice: A Case Study of Rajshahi City in Bangladesh" published in the Journal MAN AND LIFE, Vol. 31, Nos. 3 & 4, July-December, 2005, the Institute of Social Research and Applied Anthropology, BIDISHA, West Bengal, (India).

Published: July 2005
9. Akand M.K., and Mahmud R. "On Money Market and Exchange: Looking through the Anthropological Spectacles" ‘Journal of Social Development’, Institute of Social Welfare and Research, 2005, University of Dhaka, (Bangladesh).

Published: March 2005
10. Akand M.K., "Traditional Environmental Knowledge of Bawalis: A Case Study of the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest" published in the International Journal of Environment and Development, Vol. 1, December 2004, University of Jammu, Serials Publications, New Delhi, (India).

Published: December 2004
11. Akand M.K. & Islam Zulfiquar "Community and Institutional Level Responses to Wetland Management in Bangladesh: A Capsule of Suggestive Recommendations" Journal of Social Anthropology, Vol. 1, No.1, June 2004, Serials Publications, New Delhi, (India)

Published: June 2004
12. Akand M.K., "The Salish and Social Cohesion in Bangladesh Village: A Case Study" published in the Journal South Asian Anthropologists, September Issue, Vol. 3, No: 2, 2003, Serials Publications, New Delhi, (India).

Published: June 2003

Conference

1. Akand M.K. "Harmonizing Modernity and Traditionality: A Case of Mahili People in Northern Bangladesh published in the proceeding" ‘State, Civil Society and Social Justice’‘Indian Sociological Society’ Karnataka Sociological Association, 2007, Karnataka, India

Published: June 2007

Introduction to Anthropology

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Peasant Society and Agrarian Change

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Applied Anthropology

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Advanced Research Methods in Anthropology

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Criminology and Legal Systems

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Anthropology of Childhood

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