Speaker
Dr. Vera Lazzaretti (Centre for Research in Anthropology, Lisbon)
Date and Time
May 16, 2024, 10:15 pm - 12:00 pm
Venue
Rämistrasse 49, CH-8001 Zürich, Room RAA-E-12
Abstract
This lecture unpacks some of the (ill)logics of heritage in Hindu nationalist India by questioning the ways in which global heritage and emancipatory concepts and processes, normally associated with struggles for social justice, mutate and are refashioned on the ground in diverse geographical and political contexts. The lecture looks at the 2021 repatriation of a statuette of the Hindu goddess Annapurna from Canada to India, by combining interpretative analysis of media and legal discourses with a longitudinal ethnography of the site in which Annapurna was eventually installed at the heart of Banaras, or Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh, India).
Organization
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies - Islamic Studies
