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Soumhya Venkatesan
Soumhya Venkatesan
To study the mat and silk weaving traditions of Pattamadai village and Kanchipuram town in Tamil Nadu
Lecturer in Social Anthropology, the University of Manchester, UK
I would like to thank the Trustees for their timely and generous awards. In the year following my Cambridge M Phil I returned to India and was given a second grant to conduct ethnographic research among weaving communities. This work formed a pre-PhD pilot study and I returned to Cambridge in 1996 to commence work on my PhD entitled "Crafting discourse: mat weaving in Pattamadai, South India". I was awarded the PhD in 2002.
