Secret Archives and Sacred Texts in Gujarat
Ottoman History Podcast
English - December 23, 2018 10:20 - ★★★★★ - 195 ratingsPlaces & Travel Society & Culture History history middle east ottoman empire turkey islam Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Episode 394
with Olly Akkermanhosted by Nir Shafir
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How do you conduct research on an archive you can’t talk about? This was the problem faced by our guest Olly Akkerman on her research trip to Gujarat when she went to work on the manuscript library of the Alawi Bohra community of Baroda. The sacred library was only accessible to the leaders of the Bohra community and its contents can’t be revealed publicly. In this podcast, Akkerman tells us the story of how she turned an initial obstacle into an opportunity to conduct a type of anthropological research on the social lives of manuscripts, a method she calls social codicology.
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