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) […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
The Spectacle of Lynchings in India
This blogpost addresses the ethics of representing the violence of lynchings through photographs/videos of the spectacle of lynchings. On March 18, 2016, a group of men murdered two Muslim cattle herders who were on their way to sell bulls at an animal fair in India’s Jharkhand state. The attackers, all linked to a local “cow protection” […]
Panel participation at ICQI, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
Got a chance to present initial thoughts about our next project at International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry-ICQI, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, on the power of a song and the activist potential of ethno-fiction filmmaking (by involving the community in imagining and intervening in futures). https://icqi.org Arts Based Research ~ Ethnography and Research Creation Panel: Dr. […]
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