Benu Verma
Biographic Data
| ID | 660439 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benu Verma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benu |
| FAMILY NAME | Verma |
| SIGNATURE | VERMA B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gender and Livelihoods Research, India |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5447-8649 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Of devotion and disgust
In this paper I argue that the method of participant observation is as contingent as it is strategic and that ethnographic fieldwork in a religious field cannot be undertaken justifiably by circumventing the question of personal religious belief, as it is indeed the status of the ethnographer's belief which facilitates learning in and of the field. I will show that in my field, belief in the guru becomes a modality to partake in the power relatio…
Mobile Girls Koottam
Additional informationNotes on contributorsBenu VERMABenu VERMA is a Research Fellow and Program Lead with the Institute of Social Studies Trust. She holds a PhD in Sociology and Social Anthropology. She is passionate about ethnographic and qualitative social research and aspires to bring the nuance of anthropological method to development sector research, especially on gender concerns
The dashing ladies of Shiv Sena
The dashing ladies of Shiv Sena: political matronage in urbanizing India." Contemporary South Asia, 25(3), pp. 317–318
‘Plenitude of the Singular
‘Draupadi's disrobing’ as a motif in the Sanskrit Mahabharata has been dealt with in a subjunctive mood of storytelling by Vyasa. This enables the appropriation of the episode by many literary authors who have deployed the figure of Draupadi through the popular theme of her disrobing, to express the socio-political concerns of their times. Through the many ‘sideshadows’ of Draupadi, thus constructed in the literary space in varied genres, she has…
The dashing ladies of Shiv Sena
The dashing ladies of Shiv Sena: political matronage in urbanizing India." Contemporary South Asia, 25(3), pp. 317–318
‘Plenitude of the Singular
‘Draupadi's disrobing’ as a motif in the Sanskrit Mahabharata has been dealt with in a subjunctive mood of storytelling by Vyasa. This enables the appropriation of the episode by many literary authors who have deployed the figure of Draupadi through the popular theme of her disrobing, to express the socio-political concerns of their times. Through the many ‘sideshadows’ of Draupadi, thus constructed in the literary space in varied genres, she has…
The dashing ladies of Shiv Sena
The dashing ladies of Shiv Sena: political matronage in urbanizing India." Contemporary South Asia, 25(3), pp. 317–318
Mobile Girls Koottam
Additional informationNotes on contributorsBenu VERMABenu VERMA is a Research Fellow and Program Lead with the Institute of Social Studies Trust. She holds a PhD in Sociology and Social Anthropology. She is passionate about ethnographic and qualitative social research and aspires to bring the nuance of anthropological method to development sector research, especially on gender concerns
Of devotion and disgust
In this paper I argue that the method of participant observation is as contingent as it is strategic and that ethnographic fieldwork in a religious field cannot be undertaken justifiably by circumventing the question of personal religious belief, as it is indeed the status of the ethnographer's belief which facilitates learning in and of the field. I will show that in my field, belief in the guru becomes a modality to partake in the power relatio…
Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work)