Assa Doron, BA (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), MA (prelim.), PhD (La Trobe)
Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, ARC Postdoctoral Fellow 2009-2012.
Email: assa.doron@anu.edu.au
Biographical Statement
Assa Doron joined ANU in August 2007. He obtained his BA in History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and PhD in social anthropology from La Trobe University, Melbourne. He held a postdoctoral fellowship in the National University of Singapore. He is currently working on issues to do with identity and the cultural politics of disadvantaged groups in North India, as well as on a health project on alternative medicine and biomedical practices in India.
Research Interests
The anthropology of contemporary India, and South Asia and Southeast Asia more generally; development studies and contemporary health practices; urbanization; modernity, and identity politics; religion; tourism studies; postcolonial studies, ethnographic practice, Diaspora studies.
Key Publications
- Caste Away: Subaltern Engagement with the Modern State, Modern Asian Studies Cambridge, UK (2009)
- [with Alex Broom & Philip Tovey] "The Inequalities of Medical Pluralism: hierarchies of health, the politics of tradition and the economies of care in Indian oncology", Social Science and Medicine (Elsevier: available online: doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.07.002), 69(5):698-706 (2009)
- Caste, Occupation and Politics on the Ganges: Passages of Resistance, Ashgate, UK (2008)
- "The Needle and the Sword: boatmen, priests and the ritual economy of Varanasi. South Asia", Journal of South Asian Studies, 29(3):345-367 (2006)
- "Encountering the 'Other': Pilgrims, Tourists and Boatmen in the City of Varanasi (Banaras)", The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 16(2):157-178 (2005)
Career Highlights
Fieldwork in Banaras, Postdoctoral Fellowship at the National University of Singapore, Convener of the ANU South Asian Summer Study School at RSPAS (Asia Pacific Week); ARC discovery grant (2009-2012).
