Veena Das

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Veena Das ( Hindi वीना दास ; born 1945 ) is an Indian anthropologist and professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore , USA. She is known as an anthropologist for her studies of the anthropology of violence and social suffering.

Several international prizes were awarded, including the Anders Retzius Medal . She has been a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1999 and of the British Academy since 2019 . The University of Chicago awarded her an honorary doctorate in 2000 and the University of Durham in 2018.

Education and academic background

Veena Das grew up under difficult circumstances in Delhi , where she developed her love for literature and philosophy in the Delhi Public Library. She studied Sanskrit at Indraprastha College, where she graduated in 1964. She then switched to sociology , which she graduated from the Delhi School of Economics with a master's degree and a doctorate in 1970. Her teacher was MN Srivinas, who gave her great freedom in her studies, so that she finally discovered her love for anthropology. (In India there is no separation between sociology and anthropology.)

From 1967 to 2000, Veena Das taught anthropology at the Delhi School of Economics. From 1997 to 2000 she also taught at the New School for Social Research . In 2000 she moved to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

research

Veena Das conducts research on a range of topics, including how to use philosophical and literary traditions from India and other regions to gain a theoretical and practical understanding of the world. Another research focus is on group violence and urban transformations. The book Mirrors of Violence: Communities, Riots and Survivors in South Asia (Oxford University Press 1990), edited by her, was one of the first publications to address questions of violence in the anthropology of South Asia.

Her most recent publications are Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary (2007) and Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty (2015). She is also the co-editor of The Ground Between: Anthropologists Engage Philosophy (2014), Living and Dying in the Contemporary World: A Compendium (2015) and Politics of the Urban Poor (in preparation).

See also

Ethnological theories on violence

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Emily Martin: Review essay: Violence, language, and everyday life . In: American Ethnologist . tape 34 , no. 4 , November 1, 2007, ISSN  1548-1425 , pp. 741-745 , doi : 10.1525 / ae.2007.34.4.741 ( wiley.com [accessed February 24, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter D. (PDF; 575 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved February 24, 2018 .
  3. ^ Honorary Degrees 2000-2009. University of Chicago, accessed February 25, 2018 .
  4. ^ Clara Gaspar: Durham University awards four honorary degrees. University of Durham, July 3, 2018, accessed December 5, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b Speakers | Veena Das | Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University. Retrieved February 24, 2018 .
  6. ↑ a b Anthropology | Krieger School of Arts and Sciences | Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved February 24, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME That, Veena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1945