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Urmila Mohan on the Jugaad Project

Urmila Mohan on the Jugaad Project

Update: 2023-12-19
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Urmila Mohan is an anthropologist who established the Jugaad Project, an open platform for publishing articles on material culture.


Here are some of the topics covered in our conversation:



  • The meaning of jugaad as everyday innovation

  • The need for an open global platform to share articles in material culture

  • How published articles benefit their subjects

  • Prayer beads as spiritual technology that is only partly replaced by fidget spinners

  • Articles on bamboo weaving in Java and the infrastructure of Durga Puja in India

  • The new book publication


https://www.thejugaadproject.pub
http://www.urmilamohan.com/
https://www.thejugaadproject.pub/home/likhai-wood-carving

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Urmila Mohan on the Jugaad Project

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