Stephen P Hughes
Senior Lecturer
Department of Anthropology and Sociology
School of Oriental and African Studies University of London
United Kingdom
Biography
Stephen P Hughes born and raised in California, He earned his BA in Anthropology (Hon) and Philosophy at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, US and went on to complete my MA and PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology at The University of Chicago. Over the course of the last thirty years his work has focused on Tamil speaking south India. He have worked on various research projects relating to the history and ethnography of media including Tamil cinema, film exhibition, drama, music, gramophone, radio, popular publishing, election campaigns and the emergence of satellite TV.
Research Interest
Anthropology
Publications
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Hughes, Stephen (2007) 'Music in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Drama, Gramophone and the Beginnings of Tamil Cinema'. The Journal of Asian Studies, (66) 1, pp 3-34.
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Hughes, Stephen (2010) 'Our tryst with celluloid magic'. The Hindu - Sunday Magazine, pp 1.
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Hughes, Stephen (2013) '“The production of the past: Tamil film history as a living archiveâ€. '. BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, (4) 1, pp 71-80.
