Anthropology Colloquium is the department’s speaker series that invites a mixture of anthropologists from within and outside of UBC to present their research. This speaker series is scheduled throughout the academic year, typically with a lunch reception in the AnSo Lounge.
Friday, Oct 1st 11:30-1:00 Michael Ames Theatre at MOA
Carla Sinopoli (University of Michigan)
Documenting Large and Small Histories in Late Prehistoric South India: Scalar views from and to Kadebakele
The first millennium BCE in southern India was a time of remarkable change – in material practices and technologies and in social, political, and ideological structures and relations. In numerous locations throughout the South, emergent economic and political inequalities played a role in the creation of small regional polities. In this talk, I examine one such polity – centered at the settlement site of Kadebakele in northern Karnataka, where our excavations have focused since 2003. I view Kadebakele from several scales: beginning with the highly localized small scale local ritual sequences that helped to shape local histories within the settlement and ending with a consideration the material practices and dynamics that connected and differentiated communities across much of southern India.
