The Anthropology Colloquia with Vikram Tamboli, UCA

The Anthropology Colloquia will host Vikram Tamboli,  University of California, Los Angeles on November 2.

Tamboli will give a talk called “Seeds of Power: Healing and Harming, Ritual Dance, and Poisoning in the Americas,” which has focused on (Guyanese) seed rattles worn around the ankles.

Vikram Tamboli has been conducting a research at the Penn Museum, as well as the Smithsonian, APS, etc. focusing on early modern American medical and botanical knowledge as it intersects with Indigenous ritual practice, and with the seeds as emblematic of Afro-Indigenous knowledge-scapes. He has also been interested in the rattles that were collected, the traffickers and collectors, and object itineraries.

 Event Co-sponsored by CLALS