Projects
About the project
Using performance and filmmaking not only for ethnographic documentation of Intangible Cultural Heritage, but also as a platform for imagining and intervening in futures. As anthropologists, we work with rural communities in North India in facilitating spaces where people of different genders, religions, castes and classes can come together to address social issues through verbal performative traditions.
Blog
Visual Anthropology Review 38.2
The cover of Visual Anthropology Review (VAR) recent issue 38.2 features Rajat Nayyar’s photograph of Aaji and her granddaughter in Bihar! Thank you to the editors for including Rajat’s research article “Granular Activisms: Women’s Vocality and Multimodality in Rural North India” alongside excellent scholarship that pushes the boundaries of Visual Anthropology! https://www.visualanthropologyreview.org
“Granular Activisms: Women’s Vocality and Multimodality in Rural North India”
Espírito Kashi founder Rajat Nayyar has just published his article “Granular Activisms: Women’s Vocality and Multimodality in Rural North India” in Visual Athropology Review (VAR) journal of American Anthropology Association (AAA). https://doi.org/10.1111/var.12277 It might be of interest especially to those studying voice, women’s vocal traditions, and community-based filmmaking. In it, Rajat theorizes (different forms of) […]
Blu-ray disks of ‘Kashi Labh’ at Swiss Anthropological Association (SAA)
Blu-ray disks of our film Kashi Labh have arrived at the Swiss Anthropological Association (SAA) in Neuchâtel, Switzerland! The Audio-Visual Commission of the association acquired two copies for their film collection which can be borrowed by university departments and institutes in Switzerland. https://sagw.ch/en/seg/ Many thanks to German International Ethnographic Film Festival where this new archival […]
‘Kashi Labh’ at German International Ethnographic Film Festival 2020 in an online FREE version
Happy to let you all know that my film ‘Kashi Labh’ will be screened at German International Ethnographic Film Festival 2020 in an online FREE version from May 13-17. In the film Kashi Labh, family members often travel long distances to gather and engage with the human, non-human and spiritual aspects of the city during […]
Saba Dewan’s Tawaifnama – A brief review
Saba Dewan’s new book ‘Tawaifnama’ is a remarkable read about contributions of women to Hindustani classical music, All India Radio, theatre, silent film, Bollywood, and in India’s freedom from British. It was fascinating to learn how tawaifs had negotiated the onslaughts by colonialism and Hindu nationalism upon their way of life and art practice. It […]
Kashi Vishwanath Corridor: Discussion with Dr. Dipak Malik, Rajendra Tiwari, Dr. Mohammed Arif
(The author would like to remain anonymous, fearing deportation by the Indian state.) I have been visiting Varanasi for the past 30 years. During this year’s visit, a dear Indian friend of mine and lover of Varanasi asked me to take a tour around the Vishwanath temple and to share what I thought of the […]
Verbal Performative Traditions & Filming-futures in India
May 14th, 2020 – German International Ethnographic Film Festival, Online | ‘Kashi Labh’ | Event Link
November 7th, 2019 – Elphinstone Institute Ethnographic Film Series, University of Aberdeen | ‘Kashi Labh’ | Event Link
June 4th, 2019 – 7th Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association, Lisbon | ‘Kashi Labh’ | Event Link
April 30th, 2019 – 9th Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival, Delhi | ‘Kashi Labh’ | Event Link
April 27th, 2019 – Riga Pasaules Film Festival – Kino Bize, Riga (Latvia) | ‘Kashi Labh’ | Event Link
March 27th, 2019 – Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) Film Festival, Bristol (UK) | ‘Kashi Labh’ | Event Link
March 10th, 2019 – Sjón Anthropological Film Festival, Denmark | ‘Kashi Labh’ | Event Link
November 4th, 2018 – One With A Movie Camera, 7 Marburg International Ethnographic Film Festival, Germany | ‘Kashi Labh’ | Event Link
October 20th, 2018 – Regard Bleu Ethnographic Film Festival, Ethnographic Museum, University of Zurich | ‘Kashi Labh’ | Event Link
October 5th, 2018 – 9th Medical Anthropology Young Scholars Network (EASA), Freie Universität Berlin | ‘Kashi Labh’ | Event Link
September 25th, 2018 – 7th Days of Ethnographic Cinema Film Festival, Moscow | ‘Kashi Labh’ | Event Link
August 20th, 2018 – Department of Media & Communication, SP Pune University | ‘Kashi Labh’ | Event Link
August 18th, 2018 – MaDeIT Innovation Foundation, IIITDM, Kancheepuram | ‘Kashi Labh’ | Event Link
July 27th, 2018 – Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics | ‘Kashi Labh’ | Event Link
June 28th, 2018 – Department of Folklore, University of Tartu | ‘Kashi Labh’ | Event Link
November 30th, 2017 – 116th American Anthropology Association Conference, Washington DC | ‘DigitalBurhwal.in’ | Event Link
November 22nd, 2017 – 8th Festival Internacional do Filme Etnográfico do Recife, Brazil | ‘Ropani’ | Event Link
July 15th, 2017 – Collaboratory for Ethnographic Experiments (EASA Network) Workshop, Lisbon | I-Doc ‘Digital Burhwal’ | Event Link
June 9th, 2017 – FLASP: Learning by Doing Research in Anthropology, Universität Bremen, Germany | I-Doc ‘Digital Burhwal’ | Event Link
March 29th, 2017 – The Acoustics of Dwelling WORKSHOP, SIEF 2017, Germany | ‘Arrival of Devi’, a sonic manifestation | Event Link
February 24th, 2017 – 14th South Asia Graduate Student Conference (SAGSC), University of Chicago | Screening of ‘Ropani’ | Event Link
September 30th, 2016 – 5th International Festival of Ethnological Film „KRATOVO 2016“, Macedonia | Screening of ‘Janeu’ | Event Link
September 27th, 2016 – VI International Festival of Audio-Visual Anthropology, Moscow – Russia | Screening of ‘Janeu’ | Event Link
July 20-23, 2016 – EASA 2016 Conference, Milan – Italy | Screening of ‘Crossing a River, Losing a Self’ | Event Link
May 4th, 2016 – UChicago Center in Delhi | Screening of ‘Janeu’ | Event Link
April 26th, 2016 – Symposium “Word Power” | University of Tartu, Estonia | Screening of ‘Janeu’ | Event Link
October 9th, 2015 – 5th International Conference of Young Folklorists, Viljandi, Estonia | Screening of ‘Vivah Samksara’
May 22nd, 2015 – Student Ethnographic Film Festival, Zadar – Croatia | Screening of ‘Vivah Samskara’
March 18th, 2015 – Centre for Women’s Studies & Development, Banaras Hindu University | Screening of ‘Jakari’
November 27th, 2014 – The Institute of Musicology, Münster University, Germany | Screening of ‘Vivah Samskara’
September 21, 2014 – International Seminar on Indian Feminism in Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh | Screening of ‘Vivah Samskara’
Associations
American Anthropological Association
Centre For Imaginative Ethnography
Ashoka University
EASA
SIEF
Tallinn University
Espírito Kashi 
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