Part of South Asian Studies Council Brown Bag Fall 2016 Series. South Asia Brown Bag is a bi-weekly colloquium organized by graduate students at Yale University interested in and involved with research related to South Asia, broadly conceived. Advanced graduate students and visiting scholars across departments present their work in an informal setting for discussion and interaction.
Luisa Cortesi, Doctoral Candidate at the Department of Anthropology and School of Forestry and Environment Studies shall present her ongoing doctoral research about rural North Bihar in India, a space of troubled waters, mud and people. In particular, Luisa shall focus on how women negotiate their family life and social identity as a mucky quagmire, confront their ways of knowing space and choosing risk while floating on, but at times sinking in, the tension between nature and culture.