Kalpana Ram
Department of Anthropology
Macquarie University
Australia
Biography
Professor at Macquarie University
Research Interest
Dr. Ram has recently published on activism and modernity among Dalit women, as well as on Tamil religious cinema, and the marginalisation of certain forms of ritual dance in the construction of Indian nationalism (see links to these papers). Her most recent series of papers in journals such as South Asia, Asian Studies Review, South Asian History and Culture, Journal of Royal Anthropological Society (forthcoming 2011) as well as in several edited collections, all deal in various ways with the politics of knowledge in various domains: in midwifery and childbirth; the instability between scientific and older ethical discourses on what it is to 'know one's body', as enunciated by rural poor women; the politics of class as performed in medical clinics.
