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SUMMARY:Eyes of the Ancestor: ‘returning’ photographs to an Indian vil
 lage - Dr Mark Elliott (MAA\, University of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes
DESCRIPTION:'In January 2012 the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeo
 logy and Anthropology and the Grassi Museum fur Volkerkunde in Leipzig sha
 red historic photographs of Adivasi communities in India with Vaacha\, the
  Museum of Voice in Tejgadh\, Gujarat. These photographs\, taken by three 
 Europeans between the 1920s and 1940s\, formed an exhibition staged by loc
 al Rathwa museum curators at an important ancestral site. Following the ex
 hibition\, researchers and curators from Cambridge\, Leipzig and the Unive
 rsity of East Anglia visited the homes of Rathwa families where copies of 
 the photographs were on display\, talking to them about what the photograp
 hs meant to them\, the memories they evoked and the concerns they raised. 
 A pilot for a more long-term project to engage contemporary adivasi audien
 ces in research on these pieces of their cultural heritage\, this small ex
 pedition provided stimulating and often surprising encounters around the b
 lack and white images. This presentation reflects on the processes through
  which the project took place\, the different intentions of the various pa
 rticipants in India and in Europe\, and the reactions to the experiment so
  far.'\n\n\nAs a preamble to the first international conference on Explori
 ng modern South Asian history with visual research methods\, Cambridge\, U
 K\, 15-16 March 2013 (http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2066/)\, the Cent
 re of South Asian Studies is organising a seminar series that will introdu
 ce the theme of the conference. Several historians and anthropologists wil
 l discuss a selection of ethnographic / anthropological films of South Asi
 a in relation to current historiographical methodologies. The series is or
 ganised in collaboration with the Royal Anthropological Institute and CRAS
 SH.
LOCATION:S2 Seminar Room\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambrid
 ge\, CB3 9DP
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