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

Professor Tarini Bedi on UIC campus

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 (SHA) announces the annual juried competition for the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing. The late Victor Turner devoted his career to seeking an accessible language that would reopen anthropology to the human subject, and the competition recognizes the innovative books that further this project. We seek graceful, accessible ethnographic writing which deeply explores its subject and contributes in innovative and engaging ways to the genre(s) of ethnography and the field of humanistic (and/or post-humanistic) anthropology. Read more about her work here: https://bit.ly/bedi-mumbai