Tejaswini Ganti

Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D. 2000, NYU; M.A. 1994, University of Pennsylvania; B.A. 1991, Northwestern University.

Research interests include Indian cinema, South Asia, anthropology of media, visual anthropology/visual culture, popular culture, cultural policy, nationalism, postcolonial theory, diasporas, and theories of globalization.

212-998-2108
tganti@nyu.edu

Publications

Casting Culture: An Ethnography of the Bombay Film Industry in Postcolonial India, Duke Univ. Press, forthcoming.

Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema, Routledge. 2004.

“And Yet My Heart Is Still Indian: The Bombay Film Industry and the (H)Indianization of Hollywood,” in Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain, eds. L. Abu-Lughod, F. Ginsburg & B. Larkin. Univ. of California Press. 2002.

“Centenary Commemorations or Centenary Contestations? -- Celebrating a 100 Years of Cinema in Bombay,” Visual Anthropology 11(4), 1998.

Films

Gimme Somethin’ to Dance to! (1995) – about the growing popularity of bhangra music in New York City