18 Nov Engaging the Visual in the Anthropology of South Asia
Posted at 12:26h
in IHC Research Focus Groups
Mary Hancock (Anthropology and History, University of California, Santa Barbara)
Wednesday, November 18 / 4:00 pm
3024 Humanities and Social Sciences Building
This presentation focused on the history of visual anthropology and its current theoretical and methodological agendas. Particular attention was paid to visual anthropology in/of South Asia.
Mary Hancock is Professor of Anthropology and History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Womanhood in the Making: Domestic Ritual and Public Culture in Urban South India and The Politics of Heritage from Madras to Chennai.