Dr Soumhya Venkatesan

Lecturer in Social Anthropology

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ORCID: 0000-0001-5083-9187
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Biography

PhD (Social Anthropology) Cambridge 2002.

MPhil (Social Anthropology) Cambridge

MA (History of Art) National Museum Institute, New Delhi, India.

BA (History) Women's Christian College, Madras, India.

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I welcome queries from students who are interested in questions of materiality, agency, craft and human/god relations. While my own regional specialisation is in India, I have also conducted fieldwork among carpet weavers and traders in Uzbekistan.

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Publications

Afterword: Putting together the anthropology of tax and the anthropology of ethics

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Morality is fundamentally an evolved solution to problems of social co‐operation

Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review

Materially present gods: Tamil Hindu priests as practical theorists of animated and fetishized things

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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Projects

Living paradoxes: moral reasoning and social change in Asia and the Pacific

Project: Research

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Student Theses

Dreams and disasters on the banks of the Brahmaputra: dwelling and aspiration in Majuli, Northeast India

UoM administered thesis: Phd

Rewilding Scotland's Highlands: Life, Death and the Labour of Nonhumans

UoM administered thesis: Phd

Working the fabric: resourcefulness, belonging and island life in the Harris Tweed industry of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland

UoM administered thesis: Phd

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