Dr. Marcia Barzani

Senior Lecturer
School of Business and Social Sciences
University of Roehampton
LONDON SW15 5PU

Telephone +44 (0) 20 8392 3000

To date Dr. Barzani's research has focussed primarily on South Asia, particularly north west India. She has carried out intensive fieldwork among the social and political elites of Rajasthan and has published on ritual and kingship. Other publications include work on pregnancy rituals, the analysis and anthropological interpretation of archival resources, transnational South Asian marriage and pilgrimage as well as review articles on anthropological materials for students of cultural studies.

More recent research interests include landscape as well as the performative aspects of political ritual. She is currently working on diasporic Islam in the UK and Pakistan.

Publications:

Balzani, M. and Schroeder, I. (2007) Performing Visions of Order in Public Space: Ritual as Political Action, Routledge.

Balzani, M. (2006) Spectacle and Power in the Organisation of Kingly Ritual: The case of Jodhpur Rajastan, The Power of performance, Delhi, Manohar, Eds. H Bruckner and P Zarrilli.

Single author (2006) Transnational marriage among Ahmadi Muslims, Global Networks.

Balzani, M. (2004) Pregnancy rituals among the Rajput Elite in contemporary Rajasthan: anthropology & the world of women, Playing for Real: Hindu Role Models, Religion, and Gender. Thomas, L., Suthren Hirst, J (eds), Delhi: OUP, pp142-160.

Balzani, M. (2003) Modern Indian Kingship: Changing Traditions and Rituals of Legitimation in Jodhpur, James Currey: Oxford, School of American Research Press: Santa Fe & Delhi: OUP.

Balzani, M. (2003) Review of 'Hindu Women and Marriage Law: From Sacrament to Contract', Women's Studies International Forum, pp280-281.

Balzani, M. (2001) Pilgrimage and Politics in the Desert of Rajasthan, Contested Landscapes: Movement, Exile & Place, Oxford: Berg, Eds. B Bender & M Winer, pp211-214.

Balzani, M. (1999) Pilgrimage, Tourism and Politics in the Desert of Rajasthan, http://www.wac.nct.ac.za/wac3311.osp.

Balzani, M. (1998) Limits of Self Regard, Mottram, E, Balzani et al Gen.ed, Talus, Editions.

Balzani, M. (1998) Nomad Sense, Griffiths, B, Balzani et al Gen.eds, Talus, Editions .

Balzani, M. (1996) Franz Boas and the Foundation of American Anthropology: a guide for American Cultural Studies, Democratic Vistas, 2, pp80-104.

Balzani, M. and V. Joshi (1994) The Death of a Concubine’s Daughter: palace manuscripts as a source for the study of the Rajput elite, South Asia Research, 14:2.

Balzani, M. and C.W. Bush (1993) Review of 'Balzani, M. and C.W. Bush, Hopis and Hippies: prophecy in motion', Democratic Vistas, 1:2, pp78-107.

Balzani, M. and. Bush, C.W. (1992) Is he a Bedouin? Post-War American and French Responses to North Africa in the Work of Paul Bowles and Albert Camus, Dale Carter (ed.) The End of the Ike Age, Denmark: Aarhus University Press, pp104-123.