TALK ‘Documentation of living traditions: Ethics and politics' by Dr. Urmimala Sarkar Munsi at Sahapedia, C-1/3, First Floor, Safdarjung Development Area > 5pm on 9th February 2017

Time : 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm Add to Calendar 09/02/2017 17:00 09/02/2017 20:00 Asia/Kolkata TALK ‘Documentation of living traditions: Ethics and politics' by Dr. Urmimala Sarkar Munsi Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2017/02/talk-documentation-of-living-traditions.html Sahapedia, C-1/3, First Floor, Safdarjung Development Area, New Delhi - 110016 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)

Venue : Sahapedia, C-1/3, First Floor, Safdarjung Development Area, New Delhi - 110016

Venue Info : www.sahapedia.org | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Green Park(Yellow Line)' 

Event Description : We are excited for the 3rd edition of 'बैठक evenings with Sahapedia' with Dr. Urmimala Sarkar Munsi on ‘Documentation of living traditions: Ethics and politics.’ Do join us for the session. 

About the Talk : The first day I heard of the word 'ethnography' in the beginning of my undergraduate course in Anthropology, I was made to understand that it was perhaps one of the most problematic words in social sciences - signifying a hierarchy of the right to intrude into the lives of others, by assuming supremacy of the ethnographer over the ethnographic subject. I also remember seeing mug shots -- of 'tribal' men and women -- in books written by E.T. Dalton, H.H. Risley, S.C. Roy and other colonial and Indian ethnographers - literally putting photos on record - of standard 'specimens' in frontal and lateral view. Documentation thus has always been an oppressive and political tool. 

Most problems of ethnographic documentation of living traditions may be summarized within these above frames. The talk will address ideas of the ethics and politics of documentation techniques that borrow from ethnography heavily and assume the rights to generalize and place documented material as the truth - thus suggesting ways out of the colonial trope by developing a more reflective method of documentation. 

Dr. Urmimala Sarkar Munsi is a Ph. D. - in Social Anthropology. To know more about her click on the link- www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/usmunsi

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