Projects

From “poor man’s food” to “nutri-cereals”. On the emergence of a New Millet Assemblage in Odisha, India

Project Management: Prof. Dr. Roland Hardenberg (Frobenius Institute, Goethe University, Frankfurt)

Project Staff: Shilanjani Bhattacharyya, Bijayini Mohanty

Duration: January 2021 – December 2023

Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)

Project Partners: Univeristy of Groningen, Netherlands (Dr. Peter Berger, Ethnology; Prof. Dr. René Cappers, Archaeobotany), ActionAid, Sharanya Nayak (MA Sociology), Indian Institute of Millets Research (IIMR), Prof. V. Tonapi (Director), Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi (IITD), Dr. R. Kumar (Sociology & Political Science), Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre for Development Studies (NCDS), Odisha Millet Mission Project, Bhubaneswar, Prof. S. Mishra (Director)

Salvage Crops, “Savage” People: A Comparative Anthropological and Archaeobotanical Investigation of Millet Assemblages in India

Project Management: Dr. Peter Berger (ethnologist), Prof. Dr. René Cappers (archaeobotanist), both University of Groningen

Project Staff: Dr. Sofia (Sonja) Filatova, Ashutosh Kumar, Nidhi S. Trivedi

Duration: January 2022 – December 2025

Funding: Dutch Research Foundation (NWO)

Project Partners: Prof. Dr. Roland Hardenberg (Frobenius Institute at Goethe University, Frankfurt), ActionAid, Sharanya Nayak (MA Sociology), Indian Institute of Millets Research (IIMR), Prof. V. Tonapi (Director), Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi (IITD), Dr. R. Kumar (Sociology & Political Science), Nabakrushna Choudhury Center for Development Studies (NCDS), Odisha Millet Mission Project, Bhubaneswar, Prof. S. Mishra (Director)

Resource Cultures of Rice and Wheat in South and Central Asia. Religious and (agro-)economic dimensions of cereals

Project Management: Prof. Dr. Roland Hardenberg (Frobenius Institute at Goethe University, Frankfurt)

Project Staff: Togzhan Utetileuova, Indhubala Kesavan, Suneet Kumar

Duration: July 2021 – June 2025

Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG) within the framework of SFB 1017

Project Partners: University of Groningen, Netherlands (Dr. Peter Berger, Ethnology; Prof. Dr. René Cappers, Archaeobotany), Nazarbaev University, Nur Sultan, Kazakhstan (PD Dr. Jeanine Dagyeli), Utkal University (Prof. Dr. Sabita Acharya, Vice-Chancellor), Sharanya Nayak (MA Sociology), WASSAN team group (Dinesh Balam)