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Anthropology Professor Tarini Bedi's new book, "Mumbai Taximen: Autobiographies and Automobilities in India," wins 2022 Victor Turner Prize

Professor of Anthropology Tarini Bedi’s book, 𝘔𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘪 𝘛𝘢𝘹𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯: 𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢, won a 2022 Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing from The Society for Humanistic Anthropology! The Society for Humanistic Anthropology…

History Professor Laura Hostetler with book Qing Imperial Illustrations of Tribtuary Peoples

History Professor Laura Hostetler's new book contextualizing imperial tributary relationships within the Qing Dynasty, "Qing Imperial Illustrations of Tributary Peoples," published

History Professor Laura Hostetler’s newest book, 𝘘𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴, translates ethnographic texts and hand-painted scrolls in order to contextualize imperial tributary relationships within the Qing Dynasty. Read more here: https://bit.ly/hostetler-qing-cartography…