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Valluvar astrologer casting an horoscope
Valluvar astrologer casting an horoscope
Visit of Alexis Avdeeff (doctoral student at the EHESS, Toulouse)
01 JUNE 12
Alexis Avdeeff, a PhD student in Anthropology at the EHESS (LISST-Centre d'Anthropologie Sociale), laureate of the Louis Dumont Fund for Supporting Research in Social Anthropology, will be visiting the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO during the months of June and July in order to complete the translation of his fieldwork data for his dissertation, entitled: The Palm-Leaves and the Stylus. Occupational change and identity issues surrounding a divinatory practice: the case of Valluvar astrologers in Tamil Nadu.

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