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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.
Discovering the Self and Others in Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh
Discovering the Self and Others in Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh
The Road to Visual Anthropology
In the summer of 2002, within weeks of the riots that started from Godhra, I found myself in Ahmedabad. The air was dense with the dust still settling over the raging communal discourse. But that very moment was also the beginning of a new life. Living with mates from distant corners of our land and discovering practices beyond comfortable stereotypes. A couple of semesters breezed by and soon I found myself in the midst of a personal crisis: I had to research, shoot, and edit my first documentary film, for a final classroom project. For the first time the field was looming ...
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