Ethnography and Doing Ethnographic Fieldwork

Prof. Subhadra C. Mitra

Prof. Subhadra Mitra Channa taught Anthropology at the University of Delhi. She retired from service on 31 October 2016. Her areas of interest are marginalisation and identity, gender, religion and cosmology, ecology and landscapes. She was a Charles Wallace Fellow to the UK (Queen’s University 2000) and a Visiting Professor to MSH, Paris (2002), a Fulbright visiting lecturer to the USA (2003) and a Visiting Professor in 2008-9 to USC, USA, Visiting Prof. to University of Bahia, Brazil, 2019. She has written about ninety scholarly papers and is the author/editor of ten books. She was the president of the Indian Anthropological Association and the editor of the Indian Anthropologist; she was chair of the Commission on the Anthropology of Women (IUAES), Chair of the Commission in Marginalization and Global Apartheid, and was elected vice president as well as a Senior Vice President of IUAES (International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences). She was awarded the S.C. Roy Memorial Gold Medal by the Asiatic Society for her lifetime contribution to cultural anthropology. Her most recent publications include, ‘Gender in South Asia’ (Cambridge University Press); ‘The Inner and Outer Selves’ (Oxford University Press) and the edited book, ‘Life as a Dalit’(ed.) (Sage Publications) and Gendering Material Culture (ed.), Anthropological Perspectives on Indian Tribes (Orient Blackswan) and Religious Pluralism in India (ed. With Lancy Lobo, Routledge. She is at present the Editor of Reviews in Anthropology (Taylor and Francis)