Elizabeth Branigan (Australian National University)

submitted: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 19:23:29 +1000 (EST)

Ms. Elizabeth Branigan
Phd Research Scholar
Department of Anthropology
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Australin National University
Canberra A.C.T. 0200
Australia

phone: 03-9471-9110
email: liz@postbox.anu.edu.au

description of work:

I am currently undertaking Phd research in the disciplines of Anthropology
and Women's Studies. My dissertation explores issues to do with gender,
identity, activism and development in south India. I conducted my fieldwork
amongst a group of uneducated, rural women involved in activism and
development in the Nellore District of Andhra Pradesh from 1994-1995. This
covers the period of the state's prominent literacy drive, rural women's
protests against liquor (the Anti-Arrack Movement) and local NGOs' move into
the realm of health provision. I am also interested in Telugu feminist
literature, and local forms of goddess worship.