
Rumya Sree Putcha, "The Dancer's Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India" (Duke UP, 2022)
New Books in Anthropology
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Is That How Anthropology Gets Started?
The representation that we see visual representation in particular becomes really important for how Brahminical epistemologies became so tethered to like the British anthropological machine. I've been working on a project where I'm like sort of tracing the representation of yogic men and dancing women in the photoanthropology of the mid-19th century mid to late 19th centuries. That's primarily how anthropology gets started in the colonial Indian context is that? And then years later me reading Du Mois like oh his work does not like say as much because he's drawing only from Vedic and Brahminical records or whatever it may be. So that becomes this sort of wobbly field I guess
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