Papers by Soumhya Venkatesan
Giving and Taking without Reciprocity: Conversations in South India and the Anthropology of Ethics
Social Analysis, 2016
Thalaivar amma: The female leader of Paiyur, Tamilnadu
In Mukulika Bannerjee Editor Muslim Portraits Everyday Lives in India Delhi and Bloomington Yoda Press and Indiana University Press 2008 P 128 140, 2008
After the Event: Video and Its Potential for Uncovering Information
Visual Anthropology, 2015
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Charity: Conversations about Need and Greed
Ethnographies of Moral Reasoning, 2009
Sometimes Similar, Sometimes Dangerously Different: Exploring Resonance, Laminations and Subject-formation in South India
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The anthropological fixation with reciprocity leaves no room for love: 2009 meeting of the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory
Crit Anthr, 2011
Choosing a livelihood: mat weaving in Pattamadai
Seminar 2003 523, Mar 1, 2003
Ram, Kalpana. Fertile disorder: spirit possession and its provocation of the modern. xiii, 317 pp., bibliogr. Honolulu: Univ. of Hawai‘i Press, 2013. $57.00 (cloth)
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2015
Talk and Practice: Ethics and an Individual in Contemporary South India
Cambridge Anthropology, 2014
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“Nondualism is philosophy, not ethnography”
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 2012
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2010
This paper places the anthropology of learning in conversation with the anthropology of work by u... more This paper places the anthropology of learning in conversation with the anthropology of work by unpacking the interrelationship between the processes by which a skill is learned and knowledge about the skill, its possibilities and ramifications. The paper's ethnographic focus is the Labbai mat-weavers of Pattamadai town in South India, who are ambivalent about being weavers. It contrasts this ambivalence with the excitement that weaving generated in a development practitioner who sought to promote the weaving industry and who also learned how to weave. The same skill is approached differently by different kinds of persons: they understand and learn different things. Learning and knowing cannot be easily separated. By focusing on the various purposes and modes of learning, on the social production of knowledge, and on instances of communication and miscommunication, the paper explores the embodied and historicized production of knowledge by different kinds of person: the mat-weavers, the development professional, and, to a certain extent, an anthropologist.j rai_1615 158..175
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2011
Sometimes Similar, Sometimes Dangerously Different: Exploring Resonance, Laminations and Subject-Formation in South India
Ethnos, 2012
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Ontology Is Just Another Word for Culture: Motion Tabled at the 2008 Meeting of the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory, University of Manchester
Critique of Anthropology, 2010
Book Review: Mark Harris (ed.), Ways of Knowing: New Approaches in the Anthropology of Experience and Learning. Oxford: Berghahn, 2007
Critique of Anthropology, 2010
The anthropological fixation with reciprocity leaves no room for love: 2009 meeting of the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory
Critique of Anthropology, 2011
The task of anthropology is to invent relations: 2010 meeting of the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory
Critique of Anthropology, 2012
Critique of Anthropology, 2013
ABSTRACT Does the concept of non-dualism have ethnographic purchase or is it mainly of philosophi... more ABSTRACT Does the concept of non-dualism have ethnographic purchase or is it mainly of philosophical interest? This article comprises the edited presentation and discussions of the 2011 GDAT debate on the motion ‘Non-dualism is Philosophy not Ethnography’. The debaters proposing the motion were Michael Scott and Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov. They were opposed by Christopher Pinney and Joanna Cook. Marilyn Strathern acted as jester – playfully and rigorously engaging with all four speakers. The presentations and the discussions that followed were wide ranging, lively and stimulating.
Shifting balances in a 'craft community': The mat weavers of Pattamadai, South India
Contributions to Indian Sociology, 2006
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American Ethnologist, 2011
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