Elizabeth Bittel

Photographs

A foray into Visual Ethnography: photosets from the field and elsewhere


On Temple Adornment: Grief and pain, intimacy and solidarity in tattoo ritual

Madurai, India 2017

Created for a conference in memory of Dr. Isabelle Clark-Decès: Love and Survival: Aspiration and Yearning in South Asian Anthropology. Exhibition on permanent display at the Firestone Library at Princeton University.


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landscape in recovery

Kattankudy, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka 2018

Selections from dissertation fieldwork; 35mm film


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economies of sacred nature: Madurai Flower Market

Madurai, India 2017

Part of an ongoing project on economies of flora; 35mm film


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People in Parks

Chengdu, China 2018

Leisure and solidarities; 35mm film


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