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Lina Fruzzetti

Anthropology

#2071

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#2663

Historical Rank

#813

USA Rank

Social Anthropology

#96

World Rank

#113

Historical Rank

#15

USA Rank

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Lina Fruzzetti's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Lina Fruzzetti is an American cultural anthropologist and documentary filmmaker. Since 1975, she has been a professor of anthropology at Brown University in the United States. Apart from having published ethnographic studies about rural communities and gender relations in East Africa, India and Tanzania, she is the author of several ethnographic films. These films were written and co-directed with her husband, Ákos Östör, cultural anthropologist and professor emeritus of anthropology at Wesleyan University. Since 2016 Fruzzetti is also a Fellow at the Jawaharlal Nehru University Institute for Advanced Studies in New Delhi, India.

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Lina Fruzzetti's Published Works

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In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1988) (249)
The gift of a virgin : women, marriage, and ritual in a Bengali society : with a new introduction on some contemporary issues in context (1982) (99)
Concepts of person : kinship, caste, and marriage in India (1985) (51)
Hierarchy Purified: Notes on Dumont and His Critics (1976) (31)
The cultural construction of the person in Bengal and Tamil Nadu (1976) (27)
Seed and earth: a cultural analysis of kinship in a Bengali town (1976) (25)
Fatigue and Fear with Shifting Polio Eradication Strategies in India: A Study of Social Resistance to Vaccination (2012) (22)
Lawrence of Arabia: A Film's Anthropology (2000) (22)
Kinship and Ritual in Bengal: Anthropological Essays (1984) (12)
Partition and Poliomyelitis: An Investigation of the Polio Disparity Affecting Muslims during India's Eradication Program (2015) (9)
Is there a structure to north Indian kinship terminology? (1976) (8)
Correspondence: On a Comparative Sociology of India: A Reply to Marriott (1977) (5)
The gender of the nation: allegoric femininity and women’s status in Bengal and Goa (2002) (4)
Conch Shell Bangles, Iron Bangles: An Analysis Of Women, Marriage, And Ritual In Bengal (1975) (4)
Culture, Power, and Agency: Gender in Indian Ethnography (2006) (3)
For an Ethnosociology of India? (1991) (3)
When Marriages Go Astray: Choices Made, Choices Challenged (2013) (2)
Culture and Change Along the Blue Nile (1990) (2)
Farm and Hearth: Women in a Farming Community (2019) (1)
Keep Her under Control: Law's Patriarchy in India (1999) (1)
Landscapes of Urban Memory: The Sacred and the Civic High-Tech City (Book) (2003) (1)
Sociology (1989) (0)
Merchants, Markets, and the Dam (2019) (0)
"KINSHIP/INTERPRETATION/AND CULTURE" IN INDIA (2006) (0)
Transdisciplinary Ethnography in India (2021) (0)
Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls: Popular Goddess Worship in West Bengal (review) (2007) (0)
Law, Courts, and Regional Development (2019) (0)
Culture and Development (2019) (0)
Agricultural Schemes: Tenants and Institutions (2019) (0)
Ethnology: Kinship in Bengali Culture. Ronald B. Inden and Ralph W. Nicholas (1979) (0)
Review Essay: Women's Many Places (1988) (0)
Continuity and Change in Rural West Bengal. G. K. Lieten (1995) (0)
White Nile Arabs: Political Leadership and Economic Change (1983) (0)
The Sudan, the Blue Nile, and the Question of Development (2019) (0)
Centers, Margins, and Women in South Asia (1997) (0)
BOOK REVIEW (2002) (0)
Introduction To Second Indian Impression: Some Contemporary Issues In Context (1993) (0)
India: An Introduction. 1980. Produced by Worldview Productions for the International Film Foundation (Sam Bryan (1983) (0)
As As a conclusion (2021) (0)
Village Development Projects: A Case Study (2019) (0)
Knowing and the production of knowledge (2021) (0)
Introduction (2021) (0)
HIERARCHY REVISITED (2014) (0)

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