Dienstag
02
JUL

17.15 Uhr

Rajasthan Fieldwork Retrospective: Four Decades

Prof. Ann Grodzins Gold (Syracuse University)

I began my doctoral research in rural Rajasthan towards the end of the rainy season in 1979. My most recent formal fieldwork project was in 2010-2011. Since then I have revisited the same region frequently to connect with old friends, observing and photographing informally. This lecture offers a visual and narrative account uniting personal and intellectual history while sketching longitudinal transformations in the region. Needless to say, over these four decades I have also changed -- as have anthropology, the natural environment, and postcolonial conditions. My local and partial knowledge is inevitably embedded in many broader contexts but my fieldwork methods rely on intimate ethnography and stay close to the ground.

Ann Grodzins Gold is emerita Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University. Her research has focused on pilgrimage, gender, expressive traditions, environmental history, and most recently landscape and identity in a small market town. She has authored or co-authored five books all based on fieldwork in provincial Rajasthan, most recently Shiptown: Between Rural and Urban North India (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017).

Adresse

4010

010.01.05

Voßstr. 2

69115 Heidelberg

Veranstalter

SAI, Abt. Ethnologie