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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 Bediโ€™s book, ๐˜”๐˜ถ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฃ๐˜ข๐˜ช ๐˜›๐˜ข๐˜น๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ: ๐˜ˆ๐˜ถ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฃ๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜จ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ถ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฃ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ข, 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 Hostetlerโ€™s newest book, ๐˜˜๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜›๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฃ๐˜ถ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜—๐˜ฆ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด, 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…