He has also published a book (monograph) entitled 'Cultural Dimensions on Tribal Health' in 2010. He was a Convenor of a session on Tribal Health' at prestigious 17" world Congress of International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) on "Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds" held at Manchester, U.K (2013). He also presented a paper in the 16 World Congress of IUAES held at Kunming, China (2009). He acted as a Managing Editor of the North Bengal Anthropologist Annually (2012-2013), the Journal of the Department of Anthropology, University of North Bengal. He chaired and co-chaired sessions and presented numerous papers in the various national and international seminars, symposiums, and conferences.
Dr. Tarafdar is a life member of Indian Anthropological Association, Indian National Confederation and the Academy of Anthropologists. He was also the member of the Programme Advisory Committee (Tribal Affairs), All India Radio, Siliguri. He also remained the member of International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES).
The age old health care practices of a simple society generally do not contain sufficient knowledge to cope up with emergent ailments incepted after the communication with the complex or modern societies. So the persisting health seeking behavior would be insufficient and inefficient for initiating remedy to such ailments which has never been existed before.
Medical Anthropology is an area of specialization within the cultural anthropology as a subject matter of medical and health beliefs and practices, or simply "the fusion of the two fields of medicine and anthropology" (Grolig and Haley, 1976). The Society for Medical Anthropology defines it as 'all inquiries into health, disease, illness, and sickness in human individuals and populations that are undertaken from the holistic and cross-cultural perspective distinctive of anthropology as a discipline-i.e., with an awareness of species' biological, cultural, linguistic, and historical uniformity and variation.
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