2013-03-13
Dr. Nathaniel Roberts vom CeMIS erhält den Bernard Cohn Preis der Association for Asian Studies

CeMIS anthropologist Dr. Nathaniel Roberts wins the Bernard Cohn Prize of the Association for Asian Studies

Dr. Nathaniel Roberts was awarded the 2018 Bernard Cohn Prize for his book "To Be Cared For: The Power of Conversion and the Foreignness of Belonging in an Indian Slum" (2016, University of California Press). To Be Cared For offers a unique view into the conceptual and moral world of slum-bound Dalits (“untouchables”) in the South Indian city of Chennai. Focusing on the decision by many women to embrace locally specific forms of Pentecostal Christianity, Nathaniel Roberts challenges dominant anthropological understandings of religion as a matter of culture and identity, as well as Indian nationalist narratives of Christianity as a “foreign” ideology that disrupts local communities.