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The
Khasi, who number about 1 million in India's north-eastern state of
Meghalaya, carry on the
matrilineal tradition. The youngest daughter inherits, children take their mother's surname, and once married, men live in their mother-in-law's home.
I am a British born woman who studied Visual Anthropology at University of Oxford. I focused on integration and segregation of communities through material culture and visual symbolism/mythology with concepts of ethnicity, gender relations, minorities and nationalism. As well as ritual and performance as marking the rhythms of life.
This has been adequate preparation for this trip in which I will be taking a visual ethnography of the Khasi tribe focusing particularly on women. How their traditional culture is alive in a modern day context through material culture, visual storytelling and mythology. I will be documenting this visual ethnography through film, audio, photography and writing. The focus will be on Khasi women storytelling through these means in collaborative way.
They will be the co-authors of this visual ethnography that will be available online. Furthermore, with the final visual ethnography we will be going into schools exploring how to engage girls and women as well as boys and men all over the world in a process of engaging with this particularly unique
matrilineal tribe so that they can develop their own empowerment to increase equality between genders.
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