Talk:Mary Hancock

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By Sachi Anjunkar


Mary Hancock was a Professor Emerita University of California, Santa Barbara[1] as of April 2024. According to her university profile, her research interests include the politics of heritage in urban South Asia, Proselytic media and evangelical Christian missionary activity, Religion, gender and nationalism in modern South Asia.

She has published no books, papers pertaining to Ancient India or Caste.

In 2016, she signed a letter endorsing a letter submitted by the South Asia Faculty Group[2][3] where it addressed the State Board of Education, California Department of Education, dated May 17, 2016. In this letter they requested removing the word India from textbooks. In addition, they falsely[4] stated:

  1. "There is no established connection between Hinduism and the Indus Civilization."
  2. "It is inappropriate to remove mention of the connection of caste to Hinduism."


Publications related to India[edit]

Books[edit]

  1. Hancock, Mary E. Womanhood in the Making: Domestic Ritual and Public Culture in Urban South India. Westview Press, 1999.
  2. Hancock, Mary E. The Politics of Heritage from Madras to Chennai. Indiana University Press, 2008.
  3. Hancock, Mary E. "Remembered Futures, Everyday Histories: Studying Public Memory in Tamil Nadu." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, vol. 31, no. 1, 2008, pp. 81-102.
  4. Hancock, Mary E. "Domestic Ritual and Identity in Contemporary South India." Contributions to Indian Sociology, vol. 34, no. 1, 2000, pp. 95-123.

General Publications on Religion and Cultural Studies[edit]

  1. Hancock, Mary E. "The Global Mediation of Evangelical Christianity." Religion, vol. 40, no. 1, 2010, pp. 53-73.
  2. Hancock, Mary E. "Gender, Nationalism, and Memory: Public Representations of the Past in Contemporary South India." Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 66, no. 2, 2007, pp. 383-411.

Journal Articles[edit]

  1. Hancock, M. and S. Srinivas. "Spaces of Modernity: Religion and the Urban in Asia and Africa." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, vol. 32, no. 3, 2008, pp. 617-630.
  2. Hancock, Mary, and Smriti Srinivas. "Articulations of Religious Practices and Imaginaries with Urban Landscapes." Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2018.
  3. Hancock, M. and T. Gordon. "‘The Crusade is the Vision’: Branding Charisma in a Global Pentecostal Ministry." Material Religion, vol. 1, no. 3, 2005, pp. 386-403.
  4. Hancock, M. "Subjects of Heritage in Urban South India." Environment and Planning, D: Space and Society, vol. 20, no. 6, 2002, pp. 693-718.
  5. Hancock, M. "Modernities Remade: Hindu Temples and Their Publics in Southern India." City and Society, vol. 14, 2002, pp. 1-35.
  6. Hancock, M. "Home Science and the Nationalization of Domesticity in Colonial India." Modern Asian Studies, vol. 35, part 4, 2001, pp. 871-904.
  7. Hancock, M. "Festivity and Popular Memory in South India." South Asia Research, vol. 21, no. 1, 2001, pp. 1-21.
  8. Hancock, M. "Unmaking the ‘Great Tradition’: Ethnography, National Culture, and Area Studies." Identities, vol. 4, nos. 3-4, 1998, pp. 343-388.
  9. Hancock, M. "The Uncertain Subject(s) of Femininity: Ethnographic Approaches to Hindu Practice and Feminine Agency." Nivedini, vol. 5, no. 2, 1997, pp. 5-27.
  10. Hancock, M. "Hindu Culture for an Indian Nation: Gender and Elite Identity in Urban South India." American Ethnologist, vol. 22, no. 4, 1995, pp. 907-926.

Book Chapters[edit]

  1. Hancock, M. "Gendering the Modern: Women and Home Science in British India." Gender, Sexuality, and Colonial Modernities, edited by Antoinette Burton, Routledge, 1999.
  2. Hancock, M. "Hindu Culture for an Indian Nation: Gender and Elite Identity in Urban South India." Religion in Culture and Society, edited by John Bowen, Allyn and Bacon, 1998, pp. 226-247. Reprinted with permission from American Ethnologist.
  3. Hancock, Mary. "Conversionary Christian Place-making in 19th century Madurai." Spaces of Religion in Urban South Asia, edited by Istvan Keul, Routledge, 2021, pp. 39-55.
  4. Hancock, Mary. "Landscapes of Christian Modernity in Colonial India: The Gendered Matter of Hindu Ritual and Christian Conversion." In Ritual, Caste, and Religion in Colonial South India, edited by Michael Bergunder, Heiko Frese, and Ulrike Schroeder, Primus, 2011.
  5. Hancock, Mary. "Representing India's Pasts: Time, Culture, and the Problems of Performance Historiography." In Representing the Past: Essays in Performance Historiography, edited by Thomas Postlewait and Charlotte Canning, University of Iowa Press, 2010.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Mary Hancock University Profile accessed 18 April, 2024
  2. ↑ 5-17 Prof. S. Shankar et al support letter
  3. ↑ 5-17 Kamala Visweswaran South Asian Faculty Group
  4. ↑ Gupta, S. P. 'The Dawn of Civilization.' In History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization: Volume I: Part 1, edited by G. C. Pandey and D. P. Chattopadhyaya. New Delhi: Centre for Studies in Civilizations, 1999.
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