M Ciotti
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 41519 |
|---|---|
| NOME | M Ciotti |
| PRENOMES | M |
| SOBRENOME | Ciotti |
| ASSINATURA | CIOTTI M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3070-8603 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 79 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Make No Mystique
We live at the confluence of planetary concerns about disappearing ecosystems and the development of practices for the ethical upkeep, display and at times restitution of the visual-material worlds violently sequestered through colonial conquest.The inquiry of this special issue is situated on the cusp of these only-apparently-competing trends and offers a capacious analytic for the fragile human and nonhuman actors caught in between them that st…
Why do you fall in love? Why do you worship Vishnu and Shiva?’
Jagdish Mittal, Vijay Kumar Aggarwal and Om Prakash (O P) Jain's biographies share a major commitment: the creation of art institutions in post-independent India. Labelled as India's ‘interior designers', these collectors have reshaped the visual-material cosmos that had been profoundly altered by colonialism both at home and abroad over the centuries. Formerly colonised and white-dominated communities' collecting practices are notably absent wit…
Refiguring Art and Anthropology, For Whom? A conversation with George E. Marcus and Fred R. Myers
Art and anthropology
Special issue introduction
Art and Global South
This article employs artifacts from the KMB’s “material culture” as a lens into this institution’s branding process and, within it, its interaction with the Venice Biennale. It analyzes larger questions about the career of the biennale cultural form as it re-territorializes in a new location that is added to the art world map “in progress.” Historically, geographical location has been crucial for many biennales in the Global South to articulate t…
Home‐made biopolitics
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The artist Karl Marx and the auctioned god
Drawing upon ethnographic moments recorded at two of the most prominent art world institutions, the Venice Biennale and the auction house Christie's at its New York headquarters, this article reflects on what it means to investigate the global art world ethnographically and interrogates some of the current trends within the anthropology of art. In particular, the article shows the potential of re–focusing the attention on the interconnectedness o…
Post-colonial Renaissance
Arjun Appadurai has argued that 'the materiality of objects in India is not yet completely penetrated by the logic of the market'.Footnote1 However, the entry and the visibility of modern and contemporary Indian art into the circuits of the global art world increasingly challenge this argument. The story of modern and contemporary Indian art is one of the inscription of local objects and their 'Indianness' into the above circuits, with market val…
ResurrectingSeva(Social Service)
This article examines Dalit (ex-untouchable) and low-caste women activists within the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Underrepresented in Indian political history, these women frequently portray political activities assevaor social service, thus recalling upper caste/class notions of self-sacrifice and philanthropy of colonial memory.Seva, however, finds no place within the history of Dalit politics articulat…
After Subversion
This article analyses the sexual innuendos, the 'irreverent' postures and the sex talk which marked a number of ethnographic encounters with women in north India. While these encounters discursively harassed the anthropologist's interpretive categories, Indian women's 'excess of agency' established a joking intimacy with her. Where encounters radically subverted aspects of the representational history of women across colonial and postcolonial Ind…
Remaking traditional sociality, ephemeral friendships and enduring political alliances
This article explores histories of social separation, impermanent encounters, and lasting political alliances between Dalit ("untouchable") Chamar male youth and members of the upper-caste Brahman community in a village in eastern Uttar Pradesh, North India. The entry of young Chamar people into educational institutions followed by political mobilization and, for some, the transition into employment, has led them to appropriate spaces often beyon…
Futurity in words
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Uttar Pradesh, this article explores low-caste women political activists' self-representation. Low-caste communities have been mobilised to supra-local ideologies that posit ‘classic’ forms of subalternity such as the Dalit condition – and the rights and entitlements attached to it – as their rallying symbols. This article offers a counter-intuitive example to expressions of the burgeoning Dalit identity in no…
The Bourgeois Woman and the Half-Naked One
This paper explores the interplay between development, identity politics and middle-class aspirations amongst low-caste Chamar women in rural north India. It argues that this interplay has reinvigorated notions of women's domesticity, education and modern conjugality as they emerged in the reforms and 'modernising' efforts of sections of Indian society, since the nineteenth century, in their encounter with the colonial 'civilising mission'. It wi…
Caste, occupation and politics on the Ganges
The Conditions of Politics
In this article I analyse the structural and cultural conditions of low-caste women's political agency in urban north India. Whereas in Western feminist political theory, the sexual division of labour is considered to be a key constraint for women's political participation, I show how this has a secondary relevance in the context analysed. I argue that issues concerning the division of labour are intertwined with and subject to those of male cons…
Ethnohistories behind local and global bazaars
In this article I analyse the history of weaving in a Chamar community on the outskirts of the city of Banaras, eastern Uttar Pradesh (UP). I explore the recruitment of rural Chamar men as apprentices to the city's Muslim master weavers, the consequent emergence of a class of Chamar artisans and its gradual disappearance from the 1990s onwards. I argue that the weaving era represented a historical moment of relative prosperity for the Chamar comm…
At the margins of feminist politics? A comparative analysis of women in Dalit politics and Hindu Right organisations in northern India
This article draws on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in northern India on historically marginalised women's political participation. In particular, it examines women party activists in Dalit politics and the possibilities for the existence of feminist politics in the spaces analysed dense with masculine powers, caste identity-driven politicians and women's obstacles in building a political career for themselves. It is argued that these women pr…
"In the past we were a bit "Chamar
This article analyses the ideological uses of formal education in a community of Chamars (former 'Untouchables' or Dalits) in northern India. In particular, it focuses on the ways it is deployed for self- and community improvement. Education is especially needed to forge an alternative to the inherited, essentialized, and derogatory Chamar identity. Furthermore, recent anti-establishment political mobilization amongst the low castes in northern I…
"In the past we were a bit "Chamar
This article analyses the ideological uses of formal education in a community of Chamars (former 'Untouchables' or Dalits) in northern India. In particular, it focuses on the ways it is deployed for self- and community improvement. Education is especially needed to forge an alternative to the inherited, essentialized, and derogatory Chamar identity. Furthermore, recent anti-establishment political mobilization amongst the low castes in northern I…
ResurrectingSeva(Social Service)
This article examines Dalit (ex-untouchable) and low-caste women activists within the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Underrepresented in Indian political history, these women frequently portray political activities assevaor social service, thus recalling upper caste/class notions of self-sacrifice and philanthropy of colonial memory.Seva, however, finds no place within the history of Dalit politics articulat…
The Bourgeois Woman and the Half-Naked One
This paper explores the interplay between development, identity politics and middle-class aspirations amongst low-caste Chamar women in rural north India. It argues that this interplay has reinvigorated notions of women's domesticity, education and modern conjugality as they emerged in the reforms and 'modernising' efforts of sections of Indian society, since the nineteenth century, in their encounter with the colonial 'civilising mission'. It wi…
Post-colonial Renaissance
Arjun Appadurai has argued that 'the materiality of objects in India is not yet completely penetrated by the logic of the market'.Footnote1 However, the entry and the visibility of modern and contemporary Indian art into the circuits of the global art world increasingly challenge this argument. The story of modern and contemporary Indian art is one of the inscription of local objects and their 'Indianness' into the above circuits, with market val…
At the margins of feminist politics? A comparative analysis of women in Dalit politics and Hindu Right organisations in northern India
This article draws on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in northern India on historically marginalised women's political participation. In particular, it examines women party activists in Dalit politics and the possibilities for the existence of feminist politics in the spaces analysed dense with masculine powers, caste identity-driven politicians and women's obstacles in building a political career for themselves. It is argued that these women pr…
The Conditions of Politics
In this article I analyse the structural and cultural conditions of low-caste women's political agency in urban north India. Whereas in Western feminist political theory, the sexual division of labour is considered to be a key constraint for women's political participation, I show how this has a secondary relevance in the context analysed. I argue that issues concerning the division of labour are intertwined with and subject to those of male cons…
Ethnohistories behind local and global bazaars
In this article I analyse the history of weaving in a Chamar community on the outskirts of the city of Banaras, eastern Uttar Pradesh (UP). I explore the recruitment of rural Chamar men as apprentices to the city's Muslim master weavers, the consequent emergence of a class of Chamar artisans and its gradual disappearance from the 1990s onwards. I argue that the weaving era represented a historical moment of relative prosperity for the Chamar comm…
The artist Karl Marx and the auctioned god
Drawing upon ethnographic moments recorded at two of the most prominent art world institutions, the Venice Biennale and the auction house Christie's at its New York headquarters, this article reflects on what it means to investigate the global art world ethnographically and interrogates some of the current trends within the anthropology of art. In particular, the article shows the potential of re–focusing the attention on the interconnectedness o…
Futurity in words
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Uttar Pradesh, this article explores low-caste women political activists' self-representation. Low-caste communities have been mobilised to supra-local ideologies that posit ‘classic’ forms of subalternity such as the Dalit condition – and the rights and entitlements attached to it – as their rallying symbols. This article offers a counter-intuitive example to expressions of the burgeoning Dalit identity in no…
After Subversion
This article analyses the sexual innuendos, the 'irreverent' postures and the sex talk which marked a number of ethnographic encounters with women in north India. While these encounters discursively harassed the anthropologist's interpretive categories, Indian women's 'excess of agency' established a joking intimacy with her. Where encounters radically subverted aspects of the representational history of women across colonial and postcolonial Ind…
Remaking traditional sociality, ephemeral friendships and enduring political alliances
This article explores histories of social separation, impermanent encounters, and lasting political alliances between Dalit ("untouchable") Chamar male youth and members of the upper-caste Brahman community in a village in eastern Uttar Pradesh, North India. The entry of young Chamar people into educational institutions followed by political mobilization and, for some, the transition into employment, has led them to appropriate spaces often beyon…
At the margins of feminist politics? A comparative analysis of women in Dalit politics and Hindu Right organisations in northern India
This article draws on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in northern India on historically marginalised women's political participation. In particular, it examines women party activists in Dalit politics and the possibilities for the existence of feminist politics in the spaces analysed dense with masculine powers, caste identity-driven politicians and women's obstacles in building a political career for themselves. It is argued that these women pr…
"In the past we were a bit "Chamar
This article analyses the ideological uses of formal education in a community of Chamars (former 'Untouchables' or Dalits) in northern India. In particular, it focuses on the ways it is deployed for self- and community improvement. Education is especially needed to forge an alternative to the inherited, essentialized, and derogatory Chamar identity. Furthermore, recent anti-establishment political mobilization amongst the low castes in northern I…
Ethnohistories behind local and global bazaars
In this article I analyse the history of weaving in a Chamar community on the outskirts of the city of Banaras, eastern Uttar Pradesh (UP). I explore the recruitment of rural Chamar men as apprentices to the city's Muslim master weavers, the consequent emergence of a class of Chamar artisans and its gradual disappearance from the 1990s onwards. I argue that the weaving era represented a historical moment of relative prosperity for the Chamar comm…
The Conditions of Politics
In this article I analyse the structural and cultural conditions of low-caste women's political agency in urban north India. Whereas in Western feminist political theory, the sexual division of labour is considered to be a key constraint for women's political participation, I show how this has a secondary relevance in the context analysed. I argue that issues concerning the division of labour are intertwined with and subject to those of male cons…
Futurity in words
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Uttar Pradesh, this article explores low-caste women political activists' self-representation. Low-caste communities have been mobilised to supra-local ideologies that posit ‘classic’ forms of subalternity such as the Dalit condition – and the rights and entitlements attached to it – as their rallying symbols. This article offers a counter-intuitive example to expressions of the burgeoning Dalit identity in no…
The Bourgeois Woman and the Half-Naked One
This paper explores the interplay between development, identity politics and middle-class aspirations amongst low-caste Chamar women in rural north India. It argues that this interplay has reinvigorated notions of women's domesticity, education and modern conjugality as they emerged in the reforms and 'modernising' efforts of sections of Indian society, since the nineteenth century, in their encounter with the colonial 'civilising mission'. It wi…
Caste, occupation and politics on the Ganges
After Subversion
This article analyses the sexual innuendos, the 'irreverent' postures and the sex talk which marked a number of ethnographic encounters with women in north India. While these encounters discursively harassed the anthropologist's interpretive categories, Indian women's 'excess of agency' established a joking intimacy with her. Where encounters radically subverted aspects of the representational history of women across colonial and postcolonial Ind…
Remaking traditional sociality, ephemeral friendships and enduring political alliances
This article explores histories of social separation, impermanent encounters, and lasting political alliances between Dalit ("untouchable") Chamar male youth and members of the upper-caste Brahman community in a village in eastern Uttar Pradesh, North India. The entry of young Chamar people into educational institutions followed by political mobilization and, for some, the transition into employment, has led them to appropriate spaces often beyon…
Post-colonial Renaissance
Arjun Appadurai has argued that 'the materiality of objects in India is not yet completely penetrated by the logic of the market'.Footnote1 However, the entry and the visibility of modern and contemporary Indian art into the circuits of the global art world increasingly challenge this argument. The story of modern and contemporary Indian art is one of the inscription of local objects and their 'Indianness' into the above circuits, with market val…
ResurrectingSeva(Social Service)
This article examines Dalit (ex-untouchable) and low-caste women activists within the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Underrepresented in Indian political history, these women frequently portray political activities assevaor social service, thus recalling upper caste/class notions of self-sacrifice and philanthropy of colonial memory.Seva, however, finds no place within the history of Dalit politics articulat…
Art and Global South
This article employs artifacts from the KMB’s “material culture” as a lens into this institution’s branding process and, within it, its interaction with the Venice Biennale. It analyzes larger questions about the career of the biennale cultural form as it re-territorializes in a new location that is added to the art world map “in progress.” Historically, geographical location has been crucial for many biennales in the Global South to articulate t…
Home‐made biopolitics
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
The artist Karl Marx and the auctioned god
Drawing upon ethnographic moments recorded at two of the most prominent art world institutions, the Venice Biennale and the auction house Christie's at its New York headquarters, this article reflects on what it means to investigate the global art world ethnographically and interrogates some of the current trends within the anthropology of art. In particular, the article shows the potential of re–focusing the attention on the interconnectedness o…
Refiguring Art and Anthropology, For Whom? A conversation with George E. Marcus and Fred R. Myers
Art and anthropology
Special issue introduction
Make No Mystique
We live at the confluence of planetary concerns about disappearing ecosystems and the development of practices for the ethical upkeep, display and at times restitution of the visual-material worlds violently sequestered through colonial conquest.The inquiry of this special issue is situated on the cusp of these only-apparently-competing trends and offers a capacious analytic for the fragile human and nonhuman actors caught in between them that st…
Why do you fall in love? Why do you worship Vishnu and Shiva?’
Jagdish Mittal, Vijay Kumar Aggarwal and Om Prakash (O P) Jain's biographies share a major commitment: the creation of art institutions in post-independent India. Labelled as India's ‘interior designers', these collectors have reshaped the visual-material cosmos that had been profoundly altered by colonialism both at home and abroad over the centuries. Formerly colonised and white-dominated communities' collecting practices are notably absent wit…
Sociology (16 obras) · Political science (13 obras) · Law (12 obras) · Politics (10 obras) · Gender Studies (9 obras) · Aesthetics (8 obras) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (8 obras) · Caste (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (7 obras)