Dr Soumhya Venkatesan - publications

Authored book

• Soumhya Venkatesan. Craft Matters: Artisans, Development and the Indian Nation. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2009. eScholarID:4b1244
• Venkatesan, Soumhya. Crafting Culture: Pattamadai mats from South India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, 2002. eScholarID:4b1301

Edited book

• Soumhya Venkatesan and Thomas Yarrow. ed. Differentiating Development. Oxford: Berghahn, 2011. eScholarID:95563

Book contribution

• Soumhya Venkatesan. "Gods, people, horses and pots." In Kumbham, ed. Khaleeli. B; Ramaprasad. D; Ram. G; Chari. P, 59-67. Chennai: The Crafts Council of India, 2011. eScholarID:132886
• Penelope Harvey, Soumhya Venkatesan. "Faith, reason and the ethics of craftsmanship." In The social after Gabriel Tarde, ed. Matei Candea, -. London: Routledge, 2010. eScholarID:15256
• Venkatesan, Soumhya. "Conversations about need and greed." In Ethnographies of moral reasoning, ed. Karen Sykes, 67-89. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. eScholarID:3b3216
• Venkatesan, Soumhya. "Thalaivar amma." In Muslim Portraits, ed. Mukulika Bannerjee, 128-140. Delhi and Bloomington: Yoda Press and Indiana University Press, 2008. eScholarID:3b5407
• Venkatesan, Soumhya. "Women, Gender and Crafts: India." In Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, ed. Suad Joseph, 11-14. Leiden: Brill, 2007. eScholarID:3b5406

Journal article

• "Sometimes similar, sometimes dangerously different: exploring resonance, laminations and subject-formation in South India." Ethnos 77, no. 3(2012) . eScholarID:129324
• Soumhya Venkatesan (ed); Matei Candea (ed.) Casper Bruun Jensen; James Leach; Morten Axel Pedersen; Gillian Evans. "The task of anthropology is to invent relations: 2011 meeting of the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory." Critique of Anthropology 32, no. 1(2012) . eScholarID:132815
• Jeanette Edwards, Perveez Mody, Elizabeth Povinelli, Soumhya Venkatesan (ed.), Rane Willerslev. "The anthropological fixation with reciprocity leaves no room for love. 2009 meeting of GDAT." Critique of Anthropology 31, no. 3(2011) : 210-250. eScholarID:107669 | DOI:10.1177/0308275X11409732
• Soumhya Venkatesan. "The social life of a 'free' gift." American Ethnologist 38, no. 1(2011) : 46-58. eScholarID:94806 | DOI:10.1111/j.1548-1425.2010.01291.x
• "Learning to weave; weaving to learn...what?" Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 16, no. s1(2010) : S158-S175. eScholarID:86897 | DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9655.2010.01615.x
• Soumhya Venkatesan, Michael Carrithers, Karen Sykes, Matei Candea, Martin Holbraad. "Ontology Is Just Another Word for Culture: Motion Tabled at the 2008 Meeting of the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory." Critique of Anthropology 30(2010) : 152-200. eScholarID:86896 | DOI:10.1177/0308275X09364070
• Venkatesan, Soumhya. "Rethinking agency: persons and things in the heterotopia of 'traditional Indian craft'." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 15, no. 1(2009) : 78-95. eScholarID:1b5455 | DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9655.2008.01531.x
• Venkatesan, Soumhya. "Shifting balances in a 'craft community': the mat weavers of Pattamadai, South India." Contributions to Indian Sociology (n.s.) 40, no. 1(2006) : 63-89. eScholarID:1b4008 | DOI:10.1177/006996670504000103
• Venkatesan, Soumhya. "Choosing a livelihood: mat weaving in Pattamadai." Seminar 523(2003) . eScholarID:1b4007
• Venkatesan, Soumhya. "Production and representation: mat weaving in a South Indian town." Occasional Paper, Centre of South Asian Studies, U. of Cambridge 3(2002) . eScholarID:15187

Exhibition

• Venkatesan, . Crafting Culture: Pattamadai mats from South India, Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 01 April 2002 01. eScholarID:10b1