Developing relations: Rethinking Development, Intervention and Dependency Among Nayaka Forest Dwellers in South India
Seminar
“Dependency” has long been described by welfare and development workers as one of the central problems of the indigenous (Adivasi) communities of the Nilgiri hills in South India. The discourse of development constructs dependency as a negative marker of social failure and perceives self-…
Ethnographic Writing, Working with Theory, and Publication Strategies with Mark Goodale
Workshop
Registration is required, contact fouzieyha.towghi@anu.edu.au. This two-hour interactive workshop will cover various problems of interest to anthropologists at different career stages (postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers, early career teaching staff), including how to work…
Dual Exposure: Transcendental Harm in the Islamic Ontology of Pollution in Tunisia
Seminar
Exposure to harmful substances typically occurs through the entanglements of bodies and materials in late industrialism. How this exposure is measured depends as much on the sensory perception of these materials, as on knowledge and technologies that reveal unperceivable substances, and assess…
When Work is Worship: Technology, Labor and the Figure of Vishwakarma—”Maker of the Universe”
Seminar
Although Vishwakarma worship in India has long been associated with hereditary artisan castes and their hand tools, his presence has moved beyond craft workshops and into workplaces associated with the country’s infrastructural systems and networks: factories, …