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India: Early Ethnographic Fieldwork

In the 1970s, most of our travel around our fieldsite in Karnataka, South India was done by motorcycle. Here are Mark Nichter, myself, and our two-year-old son, Simeon.

Our close friends often had us over for meals. Here our son joins with the other children for breakfast.

In the early years of fieldwork, I always wore a sari.

In the late 1970s, we lived with the Halakki Gowdas in coastal Karnataka. As a way of welcoming me to their village, each woman gave me a strand of her beads.

A Halakki Gowda woman and her children.

Smoke Free Homes: India & Indonesia

A colleague explains the harms of secondhand smoke to a group of women activists in rural Kerala.

Women review educational materials on secondhand smoke developed by our team.

The India team of researchers for Project Quit Tobacco International.

Meeting with a women’s group in Yogyakarta, Indonesia to discuss establishing smoke free homes.

Children & Families

The black marks and black beads are to avert the evil eye (Karnataka, India).

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Parents and children have their hair shaved as an offering to a deity, typically when the child is suffering from illness.

After offering a child’s hair to a deity in exchange for blessings for good health, parents vow to return annually to the temple.

Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Girls return home after attending religious classes (Solo, Indonesia).

Enjoying the freedom of childhood (Maluku Islands, Indonesia).

Rituals in South India

Brahmin priests prepare a special ritual for the god of ayurveda, Dhanvantari.

The man in pink is an ayurvedic practitioner sponsoring this ritual as a offering to the god of ayurveda. If not performed, the illnesses of patients he has cured can come onto his body.

This is a non-Brahmin ritual, buta kola, performed for the local spirits of the land. These rituals promote social solidarity and ensure the well-being of the community.

Community members gather near the buta to discuss interpersonal and community problems. The buta promises to look after the villager’s well-being in the coming year.

Street Life

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