Soumhya Venkatesan

2023

Freedom

Venkatesan, S., Jun 2023, Cambridge Handbook of the Anthropology of Ethics and Morality. Ed. Laidlaw, James.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 251-280 29 p. (Cambridge Handbooks in Anthropology).

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2021

The wedding of two trees: Connections, equivalences and subjunctivity in a Tamil ritual

Venkatesan, S., Sept 2021, In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 27, 3, p. 478-495 17 p.

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2020

Afterword: Putting together the anthropology of tax and the anthropology of ethics

Venkatesan, S., 1 Jul 2020, In: Social Analysis. 64, 2, p. 141-154 14 p.

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Materially present gods: Tamil Hindu priests as practical theorists of animated and fetishized things

Venkatesan, S., 10 Apr 2020, (Accepted/In press) In: American Ethnologist.

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Morality is fundamentally an evolved solution to problems of social co‐operation

Venkatesan, S., Gellner, D. (Editor), Curry, O. S., Cook, J. & Alfano, M., 18 May 2020, In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. NS 26, p. 415-427 13 p.

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2016

Attention to infrastructure offers a welcome reconfiguration of anthropological approaches to the political: 2015 annual debate, GDAT

Venkatesan, S., Bear, L., Harvey, P., Lazar, S., Rival, L. & Simone, A., 22 Feb 2016, In: Critique of Anthropology. p. 1 50 p.

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Giving and taking without reciprocity: Conversations in South India and the anthropology of ethics.

Venkatesan, S., 1 Sept 2016, In: Social Analysis. 60, 3, p. 36 56 p.

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2015

After the event: video and its potential for uncovering information

Venkatesan, S., Aug 2015, In: Visual Anthropology. 28, 3, p. 298-307 19 p.

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The concept of neo-liberalism has become an obstacle to the anthropological understanding of the twenty-first century: 2012 debate of the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory

Venkatesan, S., Laidlaw, J., Eriksen, T. H., Martin, K. & Mair, J., 2015, In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 21, 4, p. 911 923 p.

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There is no such thing as the good: The 2013 meeting of the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory

Venkatesan, S. (Editor), Venkatesan, S., Das, V., Al-Mohammad, H., Robbins, J., Stafford, C. & Mair, J., 2015, In: Critique of Anthropology. 35, 4, p. 430-480 50 p.

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2014

Auto-relations: doing cosmology and transforming the self the Saiva way.

Venkatesan, S., 2014, Framing cosmologies: : the anthropology of worlds. Manchester: Manchester University Press, p. 77-94 17 p.

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Talk and Practice: Ethics and an Individual in Contemporary South India

Venkatesan, S., 1 Sept 2014, In: Cambridge Anthropology. 32, 2, p. 26-41 16 p.

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2013

From stone statue to god and back again

Venkatesan, S., 2013, A Companion to Objects and Materials. London: Routledge, p. 72-81 9 p.

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2012

Differentiating Development: Beyond an Anthropology of Critique

Venkatesan, S. & Yarrow, T. (Editor), 1 Feb 2012, Oxford: Berghahn Books Inc. 220 p.

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Sometimes Similar, Sometimes Dangerously Different: Exploring Resonance, Laminations and Subject-Formation in South India

Venkatesan, S., Sept 2012, In: Ethnos. 77, 3, p. 400-424 25 p.

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The Task of Anthropology is to Invent Relations

Venkatesan, S., Candea, M., Brun-Jensen, C., Pedersen, M., Leach, J. & Evans, G., Mar 2012, In: Critique of Anthropology. 32, 1

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The task of anthropology is to invent relations: 2011 meeting of the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory

Venkatesan, S., Jensen, M. C. C. B., Leach, J., Pedersen, M. A. & Evans, G., Mar 2012, In: Critique of Anthropology. 32, 1

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2011

Gods, people, horses and pots

Venkatesan, S., Khaleeli, B. (Editor), Ramaprasad, D. (Editor), Ram, G. (Editor) & Chari, P. (Editor), 2011, Kumbham. Chennai: Crafts Council of India, p. 59-67

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Learning to Weave; Weaving to Learn … What?

Venkatesan, S., 1 Jan 2011

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The anthropological fixation with reciprocity leaves no place for love: 2009 meeting of the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory

Venkatesan, S., Edwards, J., Willerslev, R., Povinelli , E. & Mody, P., 2011, In: Critique of Anthropology. 31, 3, p. 210-250

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The anthropological fixation with reciprocity leaves no room for love. 2009 meeting of GDAT

Venkatesan, S., Edwards, J., Willerslev, R., Povinelli, E. & Mody, P., Sept 2011, In: Critique of Anthropology. 31, 3, p. 210-250

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The social life of a “free” gift

Venkatesan, S., Feb 2011, In: American Ethnologist. 38, 1, p. 47-57 10 p.

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2010

Faith, reason and the ethics of craftsmanship: creating contingently stable worlds

Venkatesan, S., Harvey, P. & Candea, M. (Editor), 2010, The social after Gabriel Tarde: debates and assessments. London: Routledge, p. 129-142

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Learning to weave, weaving to learn...what?

Venkatesan, S., May 2010, In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 16, 1, p. S158-S175

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Ontology is just another word for culture: Motion tabled at the 2008 meeting of the group for debates in anthropological theory, University of Manchester

Carrithers, M., Candea, M., Sykes, K., Holbraad, M. & Venkatesan, S., 2010, In: Critique of Anthropology. 30, 2, p. 152-200 48 p.

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2009

Conversations about need and greed

Venkatesan, S. & Sykes, K. (Editor), 2009, Ethnographies of moral reasoning: Living paradoxes of a global age. New York: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, p. 67-89 23 p.

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