Exploring modern South Asian history with visual research methods: Recent Episodes
Cambridge University
As a preamble to the first international conference on Exploring modern South Asian history with visual research methods, Cambridge, UK, 15-16 March 2013, the Centre of South Asian Studies is organising a seminar series that will introduce the theme of the conference. Several historians and anthropologists will discuss a selection of ethnographic / anthropological films of South Asia in relation to current historiographical methodologies. The series is organised in collaboration with the Royal Anthropological Institute and CRASSH.
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Dr William Gould (University of Leeds) and Mr. Dakxinkumar Bajrange – ‘History, memory and stigma: Filming India's 'criminal'/denotified tribes in western India’
Dr Mark Elliott (MAA, University of Cambridge) – Eyes of the Ancestor: ‘returning’ photographs to an Indian village
Dr Kriti Kapila (King’s College London) – Gods, Moneylenders and Anthropologists: Three Raj Gond Worlds in the Twentieth Century