TISS Guwahati- Centre for Sociology and Social Anthropology is delighted to present Eroteme Volume 3. Happy Reading!
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- EROTEME2 Message From The Centre Chair
- EROTEME3 CENTRE REPORT2025-2026
- EROTEMEFaculty Highlights 4
- EROTEME5 From First Steps to Farewells: The SSA Family
- EROTEMEStudent Spotlight Academic Achievements:
- EROTEMECentre Initiatives/Activities FRIDAY DISCUSSIONS
- EROTEME8 Field Visits and Reports
- EROTEMEField Visits and Reports FIELD VISIT TO KALAKSHETRA
- EROTEME10 ‘On Sociology, Teaching, and a Changing World’
- EROTEME11 In Conversation with Prof. Sanjay Barbora (contd.)
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- EROTEMESTUDENT CORNER 15
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- EROTEMEMargins (continued)
- EROTEME18 Photo by Ana Jovanovski on Unsplash
- EROTEME19 ck by the flowers, but weirdly critical of the rest of the wild foliage in their conservative views of a garden. Nevertheless, it was thriving amongst the rows of concrete. Lying on the moist soil with my hands under my head, I was almost content with my garden, almost because I was only wishing, stubbornly like a child my age would, for that one corner to be housed with the summer dream of a mango tree; after all, I shared history with such a tree.
- EROTEME20 devtas and asuras where there were only…things, or no-things. Though there was some sense in locating impurities caused by a bathroom near our kitchen or mandir But my parents acknowledged him immediately by estimating the cost of redoing much of our home. It would resolve our circumstances. And as long as I got to hear prospects of a room to myself, I was happy.
- EROTEME21 The Story of Migration in ‘Dinwa Ginat Mori’
- EROTEME22 Illusion
- EROTEME23 Ra ta ta ta ta ta ta
- MEET THE TEAMEROTEME VOLUME 3 Editorial Team
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EROTEME
Field Visits and Reports
FIELD TRIP: MAWPHLANG SACRED GROVES
Students visited the ancient sacred grove of Mawphlang- a forest protected by the Khasi community for over eight centuries. For studying the sociology of religion, it offered a living text in animism and totemism. Walking among mosscovered monoliths and sacrificial stones, they encountered a worldview in which nature has a sacred presence. Students observed how religious belief, clan structure, and environmental conservation are woven into a single cultural fabric
GAUHATI HIGH COURT VISIT
A visit to the Gauhati High Court for the paper law and society brought students face to face with the machinery of law in action. Observing proceedings from the courtroom gallery, they watched abstract legal principles take concrete form in argument, procedure, and judgment. The experience was enriched by conversations with practising lawyers, who spoke candidly about the realities of the profession. It helped them understand how access to justice is also shaped by social and economic circumstances.
FIELDWORK IN SUALKUCHI
The village of Sualkuchi, long celebrated as the weaving heart of Assam, served as the setting for a rural practicum and ethnographic study. Students practised the core methods of their discipline:
observation, immersion, and the patient work of listening. They explored how the famous silk-weaving tradition organises the local economy, together structures questions households, and binds of caste, labour, and livelihood. Their time in Sualkuchi offered an invaluable lesson in translating fieldwork from a classroom concept into a lived, grounded practice.