Academic Publications

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​Books

• Aich, R. S. (2026) Kamot, human- shark conflict in Sundarbans. Sister Nivedita University press, Kolkata

• Aich, R. S. (2022). White Sharks and Caged Humans; an Ethnographic Exploration of Great White Shark Cage Diving in New Zealand. Niyogi Books, India, Delhi.

 

Book Chapter

• Aich, R. S. (in press). Shark–human holistic research and knowledge system: A transdisciplinary blue turn in anthropological research. In Handbook on Blue Humanities. Routledge.

• Aich, R. S. (in press). Where the golden shark swims: Contemplations on art and personal narratives in human-shark interactional research. In M. Ullrich, J. Ullrich, & T. Weber (Eds.), Blue animal aesthetics: Cultural animal studies. Metzler.

• Aich, R. S. (2026). White sharks and humans: Embodied encounters in a multispecies contact zone. In An anthology of interdisciplinary studies and research (Vol. 2). Sister Nivedita University Press.

• Aich, R. S. (2024). Poster of a hyperreal monster, and the evolving eras of white shark image. In J. Hooper & C. Kline (Eds.), Emerging voices for animals in tourism. CABI Publishing.

 

Journal Articles

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• Aich, R. S. & Weber, T. (2023). SHHRKS -Appell zur ganzheitlichen Erforschung der Hai-Mensch-Beziehung (SHHRKS-Appeal for holistic research into shark-human relationship). Ozean: Tierstudien. Neofelis Verlag. 

• Aich, R. S., & Chakraborty, P. . (2022). Kamot: The first academic investigation of human-shark conflict in Sundarbans. TRACE ∴ Journal for Human-Animal Studies, 8. https://doi.org/10.23984/fjhas.110497

• Aich, R.S. (2021). Jaws, old dwellings, and heartbreak; Meditations of a shark anthropologist on multimodality. Entanglements, experiments in multimodal ethnography.Aich, R. S. (2021).

• Aich, R.S. (2021) The Kamot Ganga Puja: Sharks of Sundarban. Visual Ethnography, 10(1), Article 1. http://www.vejournal.org/index.php/vejournal/article/view/264

• Jøn, A.A. & Aich, R. S. (2015). Southern Shark Lore Forty Years After Jaws: The positioning of sharks within Murihiku, New Zealand. in Australian Folklore: A Yearly Journal in Folklore Studies, vol. 30.

 

Academic Letters and Essays​

• Aich, R.S. (2021). Great White Shark a hyperreal monster; conceptual contemplation on the

• post-Jaws image. Academia Letters, Article 3448. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL3448.

• Aich, R.S. (2021). Jaws and beauty, reflections on Great White Shark demystification. Academia Letters, Article 2869. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL2869

• Aich, R.S. (2021). Cage less diving with white sharks, a multispecies perspective. Academia Letters, Article 2494.https://doi.org/10.20935/AL2494

 

Documentary

• Iridescent Skin; An Ethnographic Documentary of Cage Diving in New Zealand. (2020).

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Media publications

• Aich, R. S. (2020). Human shark conflict in Sundarban. Sudu Sundarban Charcha (Bengali magazine), 48–50.

• BBC(2018). Why the Jaws shark is not a 'man-eating monster' http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-42956475

• Sharkresearch institute website(2018).https://www.sharks.org/blogs/shark-culture/encounters-of-the-great-white-shark-and-caged-humans-in-new-zealand

• Scroll India (2018). An-indian-shark-anthropologist-writes-about-his-encounter-with-a-great-white https://scroll.in/magazine/864443/my-heart-stopped-an-indian-shark-anthropologist-writes-about-his-encounter-with-a-great-white

• University of Canterbury Research Report (2017). Relating to great white sharks.

• Radio New Zealand (2017). Tell me about your thesis, White shark cage diving in Bluff.

• Stuff, New Zealand (2015). Shark diving helps conservation researcher.