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Shilanjani has pursued a B.A. in Social Sciences and an M.A. in Women’s Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India. For her master’s research, Shilanjani studied the everyday experiences of spirituality and dissent among ‘Baul’ women of eastern India. Shilanjani has also worked with the Tata Trusts and the Ministry of Women and Child Development in India in facilitating the implementation of the National Nutrition Mission. Since 2021, she has been a Junior Researcher (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) and PhD student in the DFG Project 'From poor man’s food to nutri-cereals: Emergence of a new millet assemblage in Odisha, India' at the Frobenius Institute, which explores socio-cultural dynamics of resurgence of millet cereals and related policy discourses in Odisha, India. As a part of the project, Shilanjani wishes to understand how millets are emerging as actors of continuity and change that contribute to significant cultural transformations among tribal communities, especially in the realms of social organization, labour relations, cosmological ideas, and religious practices.

Research interests

Thematic focus: anthropology of religion, resource cultures, gender, indigenous communities

Regional focus: India