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Fieldwork in South Asia is a valuable attempt to listen and learn from the memories and significant moments of fieldwork done by anthropologists, sociologists, and even historians from South Asia. The essays lead towards a deeper understanding of concerns of fieldwork located in various field sites across South Asia without assuming or applying fixed normative rules for the whole region. In the process, the volume allows the reader to have an option to locate or relocate ethnographic or other forms of texts in the context of growing methodological contours and dilemmas in the social science.
Above all, this is a book about relationships—multi-layered relationships among people encountered in the field, the ethnographic relationship itself, with all its personal raw edges, and relationship with the land and even non-human realms.
Doing Fieldwork and Discovering Harijan Art in Madhubani
Doing Fieldwork and Discovering Harijan Art in Madhubani
Mithila, also known as Videha or Tirabhukti, comprises the districts of present day North Bihar and the Terai region of Nepal. In the present times it comprises the modern day districts of Darbhanga, Bhagalpur, Saharasa, Purnea, Monghyr, and Terai region of Nepal. Famed for being the birthplace of two religions, Buddhism and Jainism, and also as a seat of Sanskrit culture and learning, the region has acquired recent fame for producing handmade reproductions of ritualistic paintings now known as Madhubani paintings. Madhubani which literally means ‘forest of honey’ has acquired international attention for producing these handmade paper paintings by upper caste Brahmana and Kayastha women. Villages Jitwarpur and Ranti near ...
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