Photo: Thanggoulen Kipgen
Uwe Skoda is Associate Professor of Indian and South Asian Studies in the Department of Global Studies at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He is currently working on the topic of visual culture, especially photography, and on subjects from the field of political anthropology, especially the transformation of kingship, indigenous societies, Hindu nationalism and domestic politics. Relationships of kinship and social structures are a further field of research.
Uwe Skoda studied ethnology, political science and history in Berlin and London. As part of the DFG-funded Orissa Project, he wrote his doctoral thesis on transitions between the caste and tribal societies in Odisha's highlands, using the example of Aghria - a peasant caste that immigrated to the tribal area. The results of this work were published in 2005 under the title The Aghria - A Peasant Caste on a Tribal Frontier (Delhi: Ma-nohar). In the context of this work, he undertook an 18-month field research in Odisha, India, as a doctoral project and later a further 24-month long-term research in Odisha and Jharkhand.
