Rural change and anthropological knowledge in post-colonial India: A comparative 'restudy' of F.G. Bailey, Adrian C. Mayer and David F. Pocock

Lead Research Organisation: School of Oriental and African Studies
Department Name: Anthropology and Sociology

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Title Film: Sundarana: Film Premiere; discussion in Amsterdam, 11th of September 2014 
Description Title: Sundarana: Marriage, migration and social change among the Patidars of central Gujarat' 2014, 42 minutes, directed by Dakxin Bajranje Chhara and Alice Tilche In the 1950s the anthropologist David Pocock conducted research in the village of Sundarana, central Gujarat, with a focus on the Patidar community; in 2013 we returned to see what changed. We find a village from where everybody aspires to emigrate. The documentary shows how international migration has become key to ideas of status, belonging and for the village's economic and social reproduction; conversely the failure to migrate is the failure to become a recognized social person. The film documents the consequences of these changes by following a young man's failed attempts at emigrating and at finding a marriage partner. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2014 
Impact We (Alice Tilche and Edward Simpson) first screened the film at a public venue in Amsterdam to gauge audience feedback before a final edit and a series of screenings (as yet to happen) at public venues in the UK and in India. Erik de Maaker, a Visual Anthropologist at Leiden University, moderated the discussion which focused on sex selective abortion, migration and the problems of finding suitable marriage partners. As a consequence of this discussion the film was re-edited. Subsequent sceenings: 2015 Sundarana. marriage, migration and social change among the Patidar community. Ethnographic film festival, Taiwan. 2015 Sundarana. marriage, migration and social change among the Patidar community. SOAS, University of London. Migration and Diaspora Series, Department of Anthropology & Sociology. 
 
Title The civility of indifference 
Description A 15 minute experiemental film based on an original work by F.G. Bailey charting the rise of Hindu nationalism in post-colonial and rural India. Produced by Edward Simpson and narrated by Indira Varma. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2015 
Impact Film was a central part of the public exhibition hosted by the Brunei Gallery Oct-Dec 2015. 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kgL6tlhre8
 
Description We have conducted new fieldwork in the villages so rigorously documented by anthropologists in the 1950s. Today, all three fieldsites (in Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat) display varying legacies of post-colonial development policies, economic and land reform, and technological, corporate and media expansion.

In each location, there has been a growth of grass-roots Hindu chauvinist politics. In Odisha, land rights and tribal identities have become burning issues, as people have been brought into conflict with transnational corporations and rapacious extractive industries. Rapid industrialisation in Madhya Pradesh has brought villagers into wage relations with India's industrial houses. In Gujarat, the village has become part of the transnational networks of migration, which directly link the politics and economy of rural India to the United Kingdom and elsewhere.

Each field location displays different sociology and emergent development and cultural trends. The impossibility of a single future for rural India emerges clearly.

The trends identified in the 1950s as influencing the future direction of village life continue to define in a broad sense what village life is about:

• The role of agriculture and the material and symbolic capital of small-scale land-holding is declining.

• Livelihoods, and agricultural production, are diversifying.

• Caste hegemony remains, but other forms of ethnic and religious politics dominate daily life.

To such general trends, we add the following details:

• Mass unemployment, 'over' education, and cultures of 'waiting' are endemic.

• Religion dominates public discourse in many locations.

• Land fragmentation is combined with speculative land and construction markets.

• Private monopolists dominate many local supply chains.

• Transnational capital has become increasingly sophisticated at extracting revenue.

• Service professions and a middle class have entered rural life.

• A mobility paradigm organises daily and life-cycle expectations for many.

In a more general sense, we have found:

• The village, however hollowed out in economic or migratory terms, is regularly evoked as a unit of political mobilization and identity.

• The strategic decisions of transnational capital strongly influences the direction of life in villages. Local governments often seem out of step with the realities which surround them; national government policy similarly reflects realities rather than defining them.

• The distinction between villages and cities appears to be collapsing, to the degree that the vocabulary of social science and public requires reworking.
Exploitation Route This project started as an attempt to understand the nature of social change in rural India in the postcolonial decades. By looking back in time and through the discovery and analysis of trends and trajectories we find that the project material is now asking us to think about the future of the rural world, more than the past. These questions are of significance to the larger share of the world population.

This project is of interest to those working in rural India on questions of development. Here we do not simply have in mind conventional notions of development as poverty reduction or the improvement in life opportunities. The research suggests that fundamental changes are afoot for what it means to be 'rural'. The countryside is becoming something else that is neither village, nor town, but is fundamentally dependent on mobility and migration. The vast spaces between India's cities are becoming 'rurban' in their outlook and character. This has fundamental implications for what the people who live in such regions do, who they do it with and why.
Sectors Environment,Government, Democracy and Justice
 
Description Alongside the academic focus, the outputs were designed to engage a wider audience. From the outset, this research was to explore a number of intrinsically interesting issues of broader appeal and human interest: other ways of life, change, new longevity, memory, global inequality, and the lived-realities of the post-colonial world. These are expressed as tangible outputs in the original Case for Support as a 'documentary film' and as a 'photography exhibition'. The project has made two documentary films (we also have material for two further films) Sundarana (45 mins) and The Civility of Indifference (15 mins) and put on a major exhibition at the Brunei Gallery at SOAS, which was much larger, complicated and ambitious than our original plans: The Future of the Rural World? India's villages 1950 to 2015. The exhibition was open between October and December 2015, and we have been making plans for the exhibition to tour in 2016 and 2017 (for which additional funds are secure from other sources). Again, scale of the exhibition was not anticipated in the original project design but has gained an unforeseen momentum of its own. The exhibition was extremely-well received and we look forward to taking it to other audiences, alongside other events, workshops and activities. We conducted around 20 tours of the gallery, held two receptions, and maintained a visitors' book. We have also produced a substantial catalogue of the exhibition, which will be published later in 2016. As mentioned elsewhere in the submission to ResearchFish the PI on the project Edward Simpson was due to give his professorial inaugural lecture at SOAS on 29th of October 2015 to both summarise the findings of the project and to open the exhibition at the Brunei Gallery. Unfortunately, this event was cancelled at the last moment due to the disruptive occupation/closure of SOAS by students in an unrelated protest. The organisational energy which had gone into this preparing for this event (media invitations etc) was unfortunately lost and has not yet been recouped. However, the foundation of a resource (Exhibition materials, films and catalogue) which can tour and engage communities, school and so forth outside the academic sphere has been created and will be put to use in the coming years.
First Year Of Impact 2015
Sector Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Education,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections
Impact Types Cultural,Societal
 
Title Rural change and anthropological knowledge in post-colonial India: a comparative 'restudy' of F.G. Bailey, Adrian C. Mayer and David Pocock, 1950-2012 
Description This dataset results from an anthropological project that 'restudied' three villages in India that had originally been studied by anthropologists in the 1950s. The villages are Sundarana in Gujarat, Jamgod in Madhya Pradesh and Bisipada in Orissa. Sundarana was studied by David F. Pocock in 1953-1956; Jamgod by Adrian Mayer in 1954-1956 and Bisipada by F.G. Bailey in 1952-1959. The dataset consists of: (1) maps and census data generated by the fieldwork in 2012; (2) digitised fieldnotes (some 4,500 pages) of anthropologist F.G. Bailey's fieldwork in Orissa in the 1950s, for which the high definition images are hosted by the SOAS Digital Collection; (3) interviews with Bailey and Mayer about their research (video and audio); (4) photographic collection of Orissa in the 1950s; (5) images of Bisipada village, Odisha of 1950 and 2012; (6) ethnographic data collected during the 2012 resurvey of Jamgod, Madhya Preadesh; (7) ethnographic data collected during the 2012 resurvey of Sundarana, Gujarat. Concerned with understanding social change through anthropological methodology, the researchers used an open and reflexive methodology and some of the material consequently describes the working and decision-making processes of the research team. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2017 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Long term archive project for understanding rural change in India 
URL http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-852771
 
Title The F.G. Bailey Papers 
Description This is an online archive of the research papers of the anthropologist F.G. Bailey. The archive contains around 4,000 pages of fieldnotes, maps and census materials written in English and Oriya. The papers relate to the fieldwork F.G. Bailey conducted in Orissa, India in the 1950s. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2016 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact We have started to model social change in Orissa on the basis of this data and to think about social change. 
URL http://digital.soas.ac.uk/fgb/about
 
Description 23rd European Conference on South Asian Studies (Zurich) 23-26 July 2014 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Our aim was to share the initial results with colleagues from India (the global south) in an multi-disciplinary research environment.


23rd European Conference on South Asian Studies (Zurich) 23-26 July 2014
Panel 41: Agrarian relations in contemporary rural India
Convenors: Urs Geiser (University of Zurich); Madhura Swaminathan (Indian
Statistical Institute); Ramakumar R (Tata Institute of Social Sciences)

Studying the agrarian question through intensive surveys of villages has been an important intellectual tradition in Indian social sciences. This panel would try to assemble survey-based studies of Indian villages in the 2000s to understand the nature of agrarian relations in rural India.
Paper: Land holdings and land distribution in contemporary Indian villages
Deepak Kumar (Indian Statistical Institute); V.K. Ramachandran
This paper uses a unique data set from the Project on Agrarian Relations in India to investigate patterns of land holding, distribution of ownership and operational holdings of land across regions, castes and classes, and to analyse different forms of land tenure and types of tenancy relations.103

Paper: Changes in the concentration of land ownership: results from village resurveys in Maharashtra, India
Ramakumar R (Tata Institute of Social Sciences)
This paper would deal with changes in the concentration of land ownership in a set of eight villages in Maharashtra State, India. The results of the paper are drawn from a larger study of agrarian change in these eight villages between the 1950s and 2000s.

Paper: Class, caste, families, houses, and land in a western Maharashtra village: factors mediating continuity and change, 1975-2012
Lee Schlesinger (University of Michigan)
Analyzing household survey data from a Maharashtra village in 1975 and 2012, the paper examines the relationship between family composition, wealth, and status to compare various conditions mediating economic change and to recognize structural factors affecting who benefits and who suffers.

Paper: Dalit households in Indian villages
Madhura Swaminathan (Indian Statistical Institute); V.K. Ramachandran
This paper tries to address the question of caste discrimination in contemporary rural India by examining differences in a range of socio-economic variables between Dalit households and Other Caste households, based on more than 12 detailed village surveys, conducted between 2005 and 2010.

Paper: Managing land by Iphone: migration, agrarian relations and power in central
Gujarat
*Alice Tilche (School of Oriental and African Studies)
This paper examines how different kinds of migration, and the devaluation of older agrarian identities, has affected agrarian relations and the dominance of the Patidar caste in central Gujarat.

Paper: Agrarian relations and rural change in Bisipada, Kandhamal, Odisha
*Tina Otten (SOAS)
This restudy of the village Bisipada in Highland Odisha, India, studied by F.G. Bailey in the 1950s, analyses qualitative and quantitative data regarding changed agrarian relations.

Paper: Diversification of employment and income among rural workers
Niladri Sekhar Dhar (Tata Institute of Social Sciences); Arindam Das (Foundation
For Agrarian Studies); Aditi Dixit
We examine diversification of employment, earnings and incomes among hired manual worker households in a cross-section of Indian villages. These aspects are examined in the context of the supply of labour, labour absorption in agriculture and the prevalence of different types of wage contracts.

Paper: Some aspects of employment and labour in Eastern Vidarbha: results from the re-survey of a village
Karan Raut (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai)
This paper is based on a re-survey of Zanjiya village in Gondia district of Maharashtra. This paper attempts to analyse some aspects of labour and employment at the level of one village between 1957 and 2007.

Paper: Toil, property and propriety: social and political dynamics of rural female labour relations in Tamil Nadu
Taneesha Mohan (London School of Economics)
Survival of labour tying arrangements, its re-enforcement and embellishment, increasingly experienced by the female agricultural class, emerges from social control and power within rural societies. Have such experiences under agrarian capitalism altered labour relations in Tamil Nadu?

Paper: The changing shape of the village and agriculture in Central India: 1950-2013
*Tommaso Sbriccoli (SOAS)
An examination of a substantial range of data 1950-2013 on patterns of work, land holding and inter-village relations.

The PI received an invitation to talk about the research findings in India.
The interaction during this panel did much to raise awareness of the project in South Asia.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Adrian Mayer visits Madhya Pradesh 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Coverage in the Times of India of the research project
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
URL http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhopal/English-ex-prof-to-revisit-Dewas-district-his-researc...
 
Description Anthropological Survey of India Meeting Bhopal, 23-24 March 2013 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The Anthropological Survey of India has embarked on a similar but much larger programme of research. Dr Tina Otten and Dr Tommaso Sbriccoli went to meet the Survey, hear about their research and discuss what we were doing with them,



This led to further meetings and sharing of research findings.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Cambridge Seminar 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Cambridge Anthropology Seminar
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Centre for Social Studies, Surat, India, 11th of January 2013 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact We met with the entire Faculty of the Centre for Social Studies in Surat, with whom the project has an affiliation, in order to discuss the project, brain-storm and introduce what we have been doing to their local networks.

Personally, we developed relations with researchers at the Centre. This resulted in a further collaborative grant application to the British Council, which was unfortunately not successful. Our interaction has also strengthened relations between SOAS and the Centre in a more general sense.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Copenhagen Lecture 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Public Lecture at the University of Copenhagen
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description DfID Briefing India 21st of November 2012 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Dr Tommaso Sbriccoli had a meeting with DfID officials (Emma Spicer, Peter Evans and Jaya Singh Verma) at their offices in Delhi to discuss the aims and intentions of the ESRC-funded project.

Increased awareness of the project which will hopefully pave the way for a wider audience for publications from the project when they start to emerge.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2012
 
Description European Association of Social Anthropologists, 31st July-3rd of August 2014 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Our aim was to build networks through which to publicise the research and to develop future collaborative partnerships/publications.


European Association of Social Anthropologists, 31st July-3rd of August 2014
Panel: What to do with 'old' anthropology? Zeitgeist, knowledge and time
Convenors: *Edward Simpson (SOAS); Peter Berger (University of Groningen)

This panel will ask how we should conceptualise and dwell amidst the anthropology of our ancestors. How can we collaborate with previous generations of anthropologists - living or dead - and relate to the work they produced?

Anthropology has matured as a discipline to have written histories, ancestors and identifiable phases of particular theoretical fashion. But what kind of knowledge is the 'old' anthropology of the twentieth century?

What should we do with it? How are we to understand and relate to it?

Within the discipline, some scholars stress a paradigm of innovation, newness and excitement, believing that the discipline should endlessly regenerate itself. Others rather stress continuity and the seemingly inescapable heritage of colonial forms of knowledge production and practices. Either way, the 'old' anthropology of the twentieth century has become little more than footnotes and a set of background references to things that happened before the present. Is that all it can be?

We invite papers on any intimate collaboration between contemporary researchers and 'old' anthropology.
Themes may include 'restudying' the same locations, revisiting ideas and theories, using old field notes or diaries, as well as more general conceptualisations of the production of knowledge across time.

Ethnographies as field sites: the ways of dealing with the Soviet time ethnography of Lithuania
Auksuole Cepaitiene (Lithuanian Institute of History)
The paper discusses the ways of dealing with the Soviet time ethnography of Lithuania. It suggests treating and 'reading' the ethnographies as field sites, and keeping the aspects of cultural imagination, and culture that is public next to political intentionality, knowledge production, and time.

Tour diaries, monographs and object collections: working with colonial knowledge about the Naga of northeast India
Vibha Joshi (Tuebingen University/University of Oxford)
Taking the example of the Naga of northeastrn India this paper considers the modern day impact of 'old' anthropology on the indigenous peoples who were written about and part of whose material cultural history is to be found in Western museum collections.

On collaboration with an eminent, yet unknown "old" anthropologist: revisiting field notes, field sites and ideas of Józef Obrebski
Anna Engelking (Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences)
The paper describes my collaboration with J. Obrebski, Polish anthropologist, whose achievements, innovative for his time, remained mostly unpublished. Different ethnographic revisits of his work are a testament to an inspiring dialogue between a contemporary researcher and the "old" anthropology.

Everything I need to know about (political) anthropology I learned from FG Bailey
Felix Girke (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
FG Bailey's work is often condensed to his 1969 "Stratagems and Spoils". But beyond this staple reference in political anthropology, he offers a large and coherent opus, with succinct lessons in theory and method that can arguably stand the test of time - if we care to read them.

The present in the past: an exercise in turning time upside down
*Tommaso Sbriccoli (SOAS)
Drawing on the restudy of an Indian village previously studied by the British anthropologist A. C. Mayer, this paper interrogates past and present anthropological knowledge by engaging in the methodological exercise of inverting the causal relation usually established between the two.


Communal violence and the civility of indifference
*Tina Otten (SOAS)
F.G. Bailey's work analysed through a year-long re-study conducted between 2012 and 2014

Searching for 'Pollok': anthropology in the footsteps of an ancestor
*Alice Tilche (School Of Oriental And African Studies)
This paper reflects on the fortunes and challenges of working in the footsteps of an ancestor. It raises questions on anthropologists' role in shaping the imagination, history and self-representation of a village or people, and on different styles and approaches to the discipline.

Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf and the anthropology of India
Peter Berger (University of Groningen)
What to do with 'old' anthropology? Study it! This paper is a plea for an intensive and balanced involvement with the lives and work of our academic ancestors. This paper discusses the case of Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, why he is largely forgotten, and why this is not a fortunate situation.

'Old' German vs. 'old' English anthropology in Odisha/India: what to do with it?
Georg Pfeffer (Freie Universität Berlin)
'Old' German ethnology meant conjectural history, 'old' English anthropology was conceived as functionalism. My paper reviews and evaluates the work of Hermann Niggemeyer (Frankfurt) and F. G. Bailey (Manchester) conducted almost simultanuously during the mid-1950s among the Kond of highland Odisha/India.

Which way round? Some thoughts on second lives of ethnographic writings
Almut Schneider (Department of Anthropology, University of Münster)
This paper pleads for a multifaceted collaborative relationship with 'old' ethnographies. Avoiding the beaten tracks of contemporary views and terminologies, they seem to hold a particular potential for generating novel perspectives on contemporary issues.

Hierarchy redux
Anastasia Piliavsky (Cambridge)
In the anthropology of South Asia Dumont-and hierarchy-is but a horse not worth flogging. I argue that while Dumont's total social edifice was rightly abandoned, the removal of hierarchy from our arsenal of analytical tools obscures the relational principle of mutual dependence across differences of rank, which has not lost its force.


The foundation laid by this panel will be refined and developed further at a forthcoming conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists in 2015. This will lead to a group publication.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Future of the Rural World? Africa and Asia 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact We hosted a workshop at Woburn House London to present and extend the findings of this research project to a global frame of reference. We invited high-profile speakers whose work speaks to similar issues in other parts of the world.

Ongoing publication and collaboration plans emerged from the day.

The day consisted of four keynote provocations followed by a round table discussion on The Future of the Rural World? chaired by Baroness Valerie Amos. The day ended with a reception in the Brunei Gallery at SOAS.

Keynote Speakers:
Professor Peter Ho, Chair Professor of Chinese Economy and Development, Delft University of Technology
Professor Katy Gardner, Professor of Anthropology, LSE
Professor Henrietta Moore, Director of the Institute for Global Prosperity and Chair in Philosophy, Culture and Design at UCL.
Professor Edward Simpson, Professor of Social Anthropology, SOAS, University of London and ESRC project team members.

Between 50 and 100 people were in attendance throughout the day. The final round table was thought-provoking and raised new questions for research.

We invited representatives of the ESRC to this event.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://www.soas.ac.uk/south-asia-institute/events/future-of-the-rural-world/30oct2015-future-of-the-...
 
Description Oxford Anthropology Seminar 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Oxford Anthropology Seminar
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Professorial Inaugural Lecture 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I chose to present the findings of this research project as my professorial inaugural lecture at SOAS. I had intended to combine the lecture with the official opening of the project exhibition The Future of the Rural World? in the neighbouring Brunei Gallery.

Everyone involved in the project put a lot of organisational energy into these events. Unfortunately, the event had to be cancelled at the last minute due to a student occupation (for an unrelated reason). This was frustrating and disappointing, in the short term. However, the cancellation of the lecture brought quite a lot of favourable and sympathetic publicity to the project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://www.soas.ac.uk/about/events/inaugurals/29oct2015-postponed-prof-edward-simpson-inaugural-lect...
 
Description SOAS South Asia Institute Seminar 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Lecture for the SOAS South Asia Institute
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description South Asia Conference Madison, 2015 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact We hosted a double session of at the South Asia Conference in Madison as a way of presenting our findings to academics engaged with similar issues, including two participants from India.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description The Costs of Culture: Ritual and The Domestic Moral Economy: Queens Belfast, 16-17 September 2013 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Three project members presented their research at the event to raise awareness of the project in the UK.

Discussions about possible publications and future joint research initiatives are ongoing.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description The Future of the Rural World? Interview for Terra Nuova 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact An interview for the Italian lifestyle magazine Terra Nuova. Pages 70-74.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description The Theory and Praxis of Space in India, Milano, Università Statale, 29 October 2014 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact The aim was to present the research to an Italian research audience in the hope of generating further interest and dissemination activities. Much of this activity is also focused on the career development of one of the post-doctoral researchers employed on the project.

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Who are 'we'?: Reimagining alterity and affinity in anthropology 3 September 2014, University of Cambridge 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact This was a publication-led event. The aim was to introduce the research to anthropologists who work in other parts of the world.

Who are 'we'?: Reimagining alterity and affinity in anthropology
3 September 2014, University of Cambridge

Panel 1: 'We'/'Us' and the reimagining of anthropology
1.15-1.45 pm: Affinities and Alterities of Anthropology, Mahmut Mutman, Istanbul Sehir University, Turkey
1.45-2.15 pm: Towards an Ecumenical Anthropology, João de Pina-Cabral, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent
2.15-2.45 pm: Anthropology as History: A Rough Guide to the Archive (restudying the work of Adrian Mayer, F.G. Bailey, and David Pocock), *Edward Simpson, SOAS, University of London


Publication-led event.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014