Anthropology in India and Anthropological Journals in India

Abstract

Nilika, you are the current Editor of Indian Anthropologist. If you look at issues published in the last 10 years, what would you say are the leading issues or topics you and your colleagues work on? And is it different if you look at other anthropology journals from India and abroad including Contributions to Indian Sociology? NM: In Indian Anthropology the leading issues that have appeared in Indian Anthropologist are in the fields of Indigenous issues, Development studies, Public Health, Environmental issues, Urban and gender studies. There are competing journals like Sociological Bulletin, The Eastern Anthropologist, Economic and Political Weekly, Social Change and some others where in addition to these economic and political subjects like poverty, labour, protest and movements, Dalit (caste issues) and minorities (Muslim), issues of governance and public policy find place. I largely work on Gender and disability issues. On the latter very few publications appear in the journals. VRD: If you look at the earliest issues of Indian Anthropologist, do the issues your predecessors published at that time resonate very much with what you are doing today? In other words, what has changed, if anything,