Biography

In 2001 Dr. Alex Aisher became the first foreign scholar for over forty years to conduct longterm anthropological fieldwork in the tribal state and internationally contested borderland of Arunachal Pradesh in the Eastern Himalayas. In 2007 he was one of two UK anthropologists to be awarded a prestigious British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, during which he designed and developed DecisionSeed®, an original participatory group decision support tool inspired by his work with communities and organisations in Northeast India, South India and the UK.

Role

Visiting Research Fellow, School of Global Studies

Community and Business

Dr. Alex Aisher, Director of DecisionSeed Ltd., is an anthropologist based at the Department of Anthropology, Sussex University. In 2007 he was one of two UK anthropologists to be awarded a prestigious British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, during which he designed and developed DecisionSeed®, a new participatory group decision support tool inspired by his work with communities and organisations in Northeast India, South India and the UK.

- South Asia - ecological anthropology - indigenous knowledge - religion and ritual - ethnographic methods - methods in development - applied anthropology - space and place - popular ethnography

Graduate:

• Poverty, Marginality and Everyday Lives (SPR-2012, SPR-2011)
• Methods in Development (SUM-2011)
• Anthropology and Ethnography (AUT-2010)
• Households, Livelihoods and Development Interventions (SPR-2009)
• The Political Economy of the Environment (AUT-2007)

Undergraduate:

• Reading Ethnography (SUM-2012)
• Development, Business and Corporate Social Responsibility (SPR-2011)
• Religion and Ritual (AUT-2010)
• Anthropological Issues in Culture and Representation (AT) (SPR-2006, 2007)
• Ethnographic Film (AT) (AUT-2006)
• The Anthropological Imagination (AT) (AUT-2005, 2006)
• Religion and Ritual (AT) (AUT-2005)

Student Consultation

Tuesday 10.00-11.00

Aisher, Alexander (2012) Coevolving with the landscape? Migration narratives and the environmental history of the Nyishi tribe in Upland Arunachal Pradesh. In: Origins and migrations in the extended eastern Himalayas. Tribal Cultures in the Eastern Himalayas . Brill, Leiden. ISBN 9789004226913

Aisher, Alexander (2007) Voices of uncertainty: spirits, humans and forests in upland Arunachal Pradesh, India. Journal of South Asian Studies, 30 (3). pp. 479-498. ISSN 0085-6401