Alice Tilche
Biographic Data
| ID | 109508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alice Tilche |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alice |
| FAMILY NAME | Tilche |
| SIGNATURE | TILCHE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6398-3620 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Adivasi Art and Activism: Curation in a Nationalist Age
The uneasy alliance of tribal art and the museum movement As India consolidates an aggressive model of economic development, indigenous tribal people known as adivasis continue to be overrepresented among the country’s poor. Adivasis make up more than eight hundred communities in India, with a total population of more than a hundred million people who speak more than three hundred different languages. Although their historical presence is acknowl…
Broken gods: Collaborative filmmaking in troubled times
Drawing on my involvement in the production of Broken Gods, a film that documents the growing participation of India's indigenous groups in projects of cultural erasure and conversion to Hinduism, this article reflects on the relations and tensions between a commitment to collaboration and critique. The film was co-designed with indigenous communities, although such collaboration became impossible due to contrasting religious-political affiliatio…
On politics and precarity in academia
The terror of the neoliberal markets and the terror of politics both threaten academic freedom - sometimes subtly, sometimes more openly. In this Forum, we ask our contributors to reflect on the entanglements between economy and politics and how they contribute to the ongoing precaritisation in academia, how they shape individual researchers' biographies and how they influence academic research. But more importantly, beyond analysis, this Forum a…
Marriage and the crisis of peasant society in Gujarat, India
This contribution takes marriage as the example of a crisis of production and reproduction in rural India. Through the juxtaposition of ethnography separated by six decades, we detail a shift away from land and agriculture as the primary markers of status among the Patidars of central Gujarat, western India, in favour of a hierarchical understanding of international migration. The paper discusses the disconnect between a cultural revolution in fa…
A Brief History of Incivility in Rural Postcolonial India: Caste, Religion, and Anthropology
Anthropological studies of Indian villages conducted in the 1950s and 1960s form a valuable archive of rural life soon after India's independence. We compare sections of that archive with recent fieldwork in the same villages in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and Odisha. If we trust the ethnography of the 1950s, domestic and caste spheres were the locations of village incivility. It is noteworthy that there is no reference in the early work to the Part…
On trusting ethnography: Serendipity and the reflexive return to the fields of Gujarat
We draw on David Pocock's fieldwork of the 1950s in central Gujarat, India, as a comparative resource to think about social change and anthropological knowledge. Revisiting where Pocock had been through new fieldwork, we were encouraged to think about the ways in which places are accessed and subsequently understood. Against our conscious will, the pathways we were able to take through the field strongly resembled those Pocock took sixty years ea…
A forgotten adivasi landscape: Museums and memory in western India
This article focuses on processes of remembering, forgetting and re-remembering. It examines a fundamental tension between the project of retrieving an adivasi past, initiated by an adivasi museum in rural western India, and the social and material landscape surrounding it, characterised, instead, by fragmentation and separation from adivasi identity. The article reflects on a collaborative research project between the researcher, young adivasi c…
Pithorain the Time of Kings, Elephants and Art Dealers: Art and Social Change in Western India
This article analyzes the transformation of Adivasi ("Tribal") painting in western India. Drawing on theoretical approaches to the agency of art objects, it shows how from being a divinity with the power to bring prosperity, the Pithora paintings have emerged as a form of art that can be interpreted as text, and placed within new canons of beauty and style. Here this transformation is shown to be altering the semiotic processes, and the social an…
Inclusion and exclusion in local governance: Field studies from rural India – Edited by B.S. Baviskar & George Mathew
Sacrificing people: Invasions of a tribal landscape - By Felix Padel
On politics and precarity in academia
The terror of the neoliberal markets and the terror of politics both threaten academic freedom - sometimes subtly, sometimes more openly. In this Forum, we ask our contributors to reflect on the entanglements between economy and politics and how they contribute to the ongoing precaritisation in academia, how they shape individual researchers' biographies and how they influence academic research. But more importantly, beyond analysis, this Forum a…
On trusting ethnography: Serendipity and the reflexive return to the fields of Gujarat
We draw on David Pocock's fieldwork of the 1950s in central Gujarat, India, as a comparative resource to think about social change and anthropological knowledge. Revisiting where Pocock had been through new fieldwork, we were encouraged to think about the ways in which places are accessed and subsequently understood. Against our conscious will, the pathways we were able to take through the field strongly resembled those Pocock took sixty years ea…
Marriage and the crisis of peasant society in Gujarat, India
This contribution takes marriage as the example of a crisis of production and reproduction in rural India. Through the juxtaposition of ethnography separated by six decades, we detail a shift away from land and agriculture as the primary markers of status among the Patidars of central Gujarat, western India, in favour of a hierarchical understanding of international migration. The paper discusses the disconnect between a cultural revolution in fa…
Broken gods: Collaborative filmmaking in troubled times
Drawing on my involvement in the production of Broken Gods, a film that documents the growing participation of India's indigenous groups in projects of cultural erasure and conversion to Hinduism, this article reflects on the relations and tensions between a commitment to collaboration and critique. The film was co-designed with indigenous communities, although such collaboration became impossible due to contrasting religious-political affiliatio…
Pithorain the Time of Kings, Elephants and Art Dealers: Art and Social Change in Western India
This article analyzes the transformation of Adivasi ("Tribal") painting in western India. Drawing on theoretical approaches to the agency of art objects, it shows how from being a divinity with the power to bring prosperity, the Pithora paintings have emerged as a form of art that can be interpreted as text, and placed within new canons of beauty and style. Here this transformation is shown to be altering the semiotic processes, and the social an…
Adivasi Art and Activism: Curation in a Nationalist Age
The uneasy alliance of tribal art and the museum movement As India consolidates an aggressive model of economic development, indigenous tribal people known as adivasis continue to be overrepresented among the country’s poor. Adivasis make up more than eight hundred communities in India, with a total population of more than a hundred million people who speak more than three hundred different languages. Although their historical presence is acknowl…
A Brief History of Incivility in Rural Postcolonial India: Caste, Religion, and Anthropology
Anthropological studies of Indian villages conducted in the 1950s and 1960s form a valuable archive of rural life soon after India's independence. We compare sections of that archive with recent fieldwork in the same villages in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and Odisha. If we trust the ethnography of the 1950s, domestic and caste spheres were the locations of village incivility. It is noteworthy that there is no reference in the early work to the Part…
A forgotten adivasi landscape: Museums and memory in western India
This article focuses on processes of remembering, forgetting and re-remembering. It examines a fundamental tension between the project of retrieving an adivasi past, initiated by an adivasi museum in rural western India, and the social and material landscape surrounding it, characterised, instead, by fragmentation and separation from adivasi identity. The article reflects on a collaborative research project between the researcher, young adivasi c…
Sacrificing people: Invasions of a tribal landscape - By Felix Padel
Inclusion and exclusion in local governance: Field studies from rural India – Edited by B.S. Baviskar & George Mathew
A forgotten adivasi landscape: Museums and memory in western India
This article focuses on processes of remembering, forgetting and re-remembering. It examines a fundamental tension between the project of retrieving an adivasi past, initiated by an adivasi museum in rural western India, and the social and material landscape surrounding it, characterised, instead, by fragmentation and separation from adivasi identity. The article reflects on a collaborative research project between the researcher, young adivasi c…
Pithorain the Time of Kings, Elephants and Art Dealers: Art and Social Change in Western India
This article analyzes the transformation of Adivasi ("Tribal") painting in western India. Drawing on theoretical approaches to the agency of art objects, it shows how from being a divinity with the power to bring prosperity, the Pithora paintings have emerged as a form of art that can be interpreted as text, and placed within new canons of beauty and style. Here this transformation is shown to be altering the semiotic processes, and the social an…
On trusting ethnography: Serendipity and the reflexive return to the fields of Gujarat
We draw on David Pocock's fieldwork of the 1950s in central Gujarat, India, as a comparative resource to think about social change and anthropological knowledge. Revisiting where Pocock had been through new fieldwork, we were encouraged to think about the ways in which places are accessed and subsequently understood. Against our conscious will, the pathways we were able to take through the field strongly resembled those Pocock took sixty years ea…
Marriage and the crisis of peasant society in Gujarat, India
This contribution takes marriage as the example of a crisis of production and reproduction in rural India. Through the juxtaposition of ethnography separated by six decades, we detail a shift away from land and agriculture as the primary markers of status among the Patidars of central Gujarat, western India, in favour of a hierarchical understanding of international migration. The paper discusses the disconnect between a cultural revolution in fa…
A Brief History of Incivility in Rural Postcolonial India: Caste, Religion, and Anthropology
Anthropological studies of Indian villages conducted in the 1950s and 1960s form a valuable archive of rural life soon after India's independence. We compare sections of that archive with recent fieldwork in the same villages in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and Odisha. If we trust the ethnography of the 1950s, domestic and caste spheres were the locations of village incivility. It is noteworthy that there is no reference in the early work to the Part…
On politics and precarity in academia
The terror of the neoliberal markets and the terror of politics both threaten academic freedom - sometimes subtly, sometimes more openly. In this Forum, we ask our contributors to reflect on the entanglements between economy and politics and how they contribute to the ongoing precaritisation in academia, how they shape individual researchers' biographies and how they influence academic research. But more importantly, beyond analysis, this Forum a…
Adivasi Art and Activism: Curation in a Nationalist Age
The uneasy alliance of tribal art and the museum movement As India consolidates an aggressive model of economic development, indigenous tribal people known as adivasis continue to be overrepresented among the country’s poor. Adivasis make up more than eight hundred communities in India, with a total population of more than a hundred million people who speak more than three hundred different languages. Although their historical presence is acknowl…
Broken gods: Collaborative filmmaking in troubled times
Drawing on my involvement in the production of Broken Gods, a film that documents the growing participation of India's indigenous groups in projects of cultural erasure and conversion to Hinduism, this article reflects on the relations and tensions between a commitment to collaboration and critique. The film was co-designed with indigenous communities, although such collaboration became impossible due to contrasting religious-political affiliatio…
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