Dr Alice Tilche
Lecturer in Anthropology and Museum Studies
School/Department: Museum Studies, School of
Telephone: +44 (0)7963 658 916
Email: at520@leicester.ac.uk
Web: https://www.alicetilche.com/
Profile
Research
Alice is currently running several collaborative research projects aimed at capturing the experience of the pandemic among India’s most marginal indigenous and nomadic communities through arts-based methodologies. In the past she has conducted research projects on indigenous art and activism; art, religion and nationalism; and on migration and rural transformation. Her research has been funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust and the Arts and Humanities Research Council UK among others.
Research Projects
Supporting Indigenous Creative Economies in a Digital Age (2022-23)
Disturbing Images: visualising the Covid-19 pandemic at India's margins (2022-23)
Using the arts to mitigate the impact of Covid-19 among India's indigenous and nomadic communities (AHRC, 2020-2022)
Making and unmaking indigeneity: art, religion and inequality in India (Leverhulme Trust, 2015-2019)
Rural change and anthropological knowledge in post-colonial India (ESRC, 2011-2015, research fellow)
Publications
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Books
Tilche. 2022. Asivasi Art and Activism: Curation in a Nationalist Age. University of Washington Press
Simpson, E. and Tilche, A. 2016. The future of the rural world? India's villages 1950-2015. SOAS: University of London
Journal Articles
Tilche, A. 2022. Broken Gods: collaborating with communities in troubled times. American Anthropologist (forthcoming).
Tilche, A. and Simpson, E. 2018. Marriage and the crisis of peasant society in Gujarat, India. Journal of Peasant Studies, 45(7): 1518-1538 https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2018.1477759
Tilche, A. and Simpson, E. 2018. On trusting ethnography: methods, self, and the agency of fields of Gujarat, India. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 23(4): 690 78 https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12695
Simpson, E., Tilche, A. Jeffery, P. Otten, T. Sbriccoli, T. 2017. A brief history of incivility in rural India, 1950-2015. Caste, religion and anthropology. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 60 (1): 58-59 https://doi.org/10.1017/S001041751700041X
Tilche, A. 2016. Migration, bachelorhood and discontent among the Patidars. Economic and Political Weekly, 51(26-27): 17-24 https://www.epw.in/journal/2016/26-27/review-rural-affairs/migration-bachelorhood-and-discontent-among-patidars.html
Tilche, A. 2015. A forgotten Adivasi landscape: memory and museums in western India. Contributions to Indian Sociology. 49 (2): 188-215 https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0069966715578048
Tilche, A. 2014. Pithora in the time of kings, elephants and art dealers: art and social change in western India. Visual Anthropology. 20(1): 1-20 https://doi.org/10.1080/08949468.2015.973255
Book Chapters
Tilche, A. 2021. Budhan-Podcast: a community arts podcast about health and rights during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Pandemics in Asia. Madhu Singh (ed).
Tilche, A. 2019. Migration, bachelorhood and discontent among the Patidars. In India’s villages in the 21st century. S. Jhodka and E. Simpson (eds).
Tilche, A. 2019 Art and religious reform among the Rathavas of western India. Brill’s encyclopaedia of the religions among the indigenous people of South Asia. Carrin, M. & H. Tambs-Lyche (eds). Brill.
Tilche, A. 2005. Translating museums. In G.N. Devy, Geoffrey V. Davis, K.K. Chakravarty (eds) Indigeneity: Culture and Representation. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan.
Book Reviews
Tilche, A. 2011. Sacrificing people. An invasion of a tribal landscape. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 2, 17
Tilche, A. 2009. Hindu nationalism: a reader (C. Jaffrelot) Contemporary South Asia. 17, 3
Films
2021. Budhan-podcast (multimedia project in collaboration with Budhan Theatre and the Adivasi Academy).
2019. Broken gods. Directed by Dakxin Bajrange Chhara & Alice Tilche. 42 min. Nomad Movies.
2013. Sundarana. Directed by Dakxin Bajrange Chhara & Alice Tilche. 43 min. Nomad Movies.
Supervision
indigenous art and museums
art and activism
art and anthropology
migration, mobility and displacement especially in relation to art and heritage
art, religion and nationalism
visual and multimodal methodologies
Teaching
Locating Art (MA in Art Museums and Gallery Studies)
Indigenous Museologies (MA in Museum Studies)
Qualifications
BA (Hons), Social Anthropology, SOAS
MSc Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology, Oxford
PhD Social Anthropology, SOAS