Researchers

Prof. Sabita Acharya

Vice Chancellor of Utkal University, Bhubaneswar

Email: sacharya.uu[at]
gmail.com

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Dr. Peter Berger

Faculty of Religion, Culture and Society/Institute of Indian Studies, University of Groningen

Project Manager: Salvage Crops, “Savage” People. A comparative anthropological and archaeobotanical investigation of Millet Assemblages in India

Email: p.berger[at]rug.nl

Personal Website

Shilanjani Bhattacharyya (MA)

Faculty of Religion, Culture and Society/Institute of Indian Studies, University of Groningen & Frobenius Institute, Goethe University, Frankfurt

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

Project Title:
Musing the mundane: mediations of millet-‘making’ among Kondhs of Highland Odisha.

Email: S.Bhattacharyya[at]em.uni-frankfurt.de

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Prof. René Cappers

Groningen Institute of Archaeology

Project Manager:
Salvage Crops, “Savage” People. A comparative anthropological and archaeobotanical investigation of Millet Assemblages in India.

Email: r.t.j.cappers[at]rug.nl

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Prof. Jeanine Dagyeli

Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna

Email: jeanine.dagyeli[at]
univie.ac.at

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Dr. Sonja Filatova

Groningen Institute of Archaeology

Project Staff:
Salvage Crops, “Savage” People. A comparative anthropological and archaeobotanical investigation of Millet Assemblages in India.

Email: sonja.filatova[at]
rug.nl

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Prof. Roland Hardenberg

Frobenius Institute/Goethe University, Frankfurt

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

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

Email: hardenberg[at]em.uni-frankfurt.de

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Indhubala Kesavan (MPhil)

Frobenius Institute/Goethe University, Frankfurt

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

Project Title:
A preliminary account on the soco-historic aspects in the making of the ‘rice bowl’ of Odisha.

Email: indhubalakesavan93[at]
gmail.com

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Ashutosh Kumar (MA)

Faculty of Religion, Culture and Society/Institute of Indian Studies, University of Groningen

Project Staff:
Salvage Crops, “Savage” People. A comparative anthropological and archaeobotanical investigation of Millet Assemblages in India.

Project Title:
An Overview of Didayi Shifting cultivators and their Lifeworld.

Email: ashutosh.kumar[at]
rug.nl

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Suneet Kumar (MPhil)

Frobenius Institute/Goethe University, Frankfurt

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

Project Title:
Usage of rice in rituals and meaning-making of the “socio-cosmic” world of Jodia-Poraja.

Email: suneet.17[at]
stu.aud.ac.in

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Bijayini Mohanty (MA)

Department of Anthropology, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar

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

Project Title:
The Socio-Cultural bonding of Millets with the Sauras of Gajapati District.

Email: bijayinimohanty[at]
gmail.com

Nidhi Trivedi (MA)

Faculty of Religion, Culture and Society/Institute of Indian Studies, University of Groningen

Project Staff:
Salvage Crops, “Savage” People. A comparative anthropological and archaeobotanical investigation of Millet Assemblages in India.

Project Title:
Locating the Parenga in their Everyday.

Email: n.s.trivedi[at]
rug.nl

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Togzhan Utetileuova (MA)

Frobenius Institute/Goethe-University, Frankfurt

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

Project Title:
Not far from the Soviet Union: the pursuit of perfect (hybrid)seeds and reindustrialization in North Kazakhstan’s wheat fields.

Email: Utetileuova[at]em.uni-frankfurt.de

Personal Website