
October 10, 2012
1:00 pm
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2:30 pm
168 Dulles Hall, History Conference Room
Belief Worlds and Shifting Realities: Of Weretigers and Name Magic
Margaret Lyngdoh, University of Tartu, Estonia, and North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong. Margaret will discuss her fieldwork on supernatural belief in northeastern India, including the practical and representational challenges of conducting fieldwork at home; she will also tell us about gender distinctions among were-tigers.
