Perspectives on Work, Home and Identity from artisans in Telangana: Conversations around Craft

Discussion based on the new book by Chandan Bose (New York: Palgrave, 2019)

 

Reading of an excerpt from the book: Prof. Chandan Bose, cultural anthropologist and Assistant Professor, Dept. of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad

 

Panelists: Dr. Aditya Malik, Vice Chancellor, K.R. Mangalam University; Shri Rajeev Sethi, Founder, Asian Heritage Foundation; and Prof. Savyasaachi, Professor, Department of Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia

 

Chair: Shri Rajiv Sethi

 

Conversations around Craft dwells upon narratives of artisans who share their experiences of making and of being craftspersons in contemporary India. The book is the result of ethnographic study of a household of artisans in Telangana who specialize in the region’s style of murals, narrative cloth scrolls, and ritual masks and figurines. In situating voices of artisans as the central focus of study, Conversations around Craft allows readers to explore the simultaneous and juxtaposing locations where practitioners situate the experience of making and of being craftpersons