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Project Collaborator

Laura Ring

Metadata Librarian and Librarian for Southern Asia and Anthropology The University of Chicago Library

Biography

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Laura Ring is a Subject Specialist in South and Southeast Asian Studies and Anthropology. For more information about her work, please visit her staff profile.

Featured Project

Audio Cultures of India: New Approaches to the Performance Archive

2013 – 2014

Projects

Interwoven: Sonic and Visual Histories of the Indian Ocean World

Interwoven: Sonic and Visual Histories of the Indian Ocean World

This project explored the historical significance of South Asian artistic practices and the complex ways they helped shape local and transregional cultures.
Interwoven lays the foundations of a new paradigm for understanding movement, practice, materiality, and embodiment as constituting factors of social relations across long temporal arcs and geographic itineraries unbounded by national borders in the Indian Ocean region. The project builds upon and ...