Shweta Krishnan

Shweta Krishnan is a PhD Candidate at the George Washington University. She brings anthropology of religion into dialogue with multispecies ethnographies and transnational feminism to examine the revival of the religious discourse of Donyipolo in contemporary North-East India. Drawing on ethnographic and archival methods, she works with the Mising tribal community in Majuli, Assam to explore the formation of tribal subjectivities, networks, geographies and human-nonhuman kinships. Her work revisits and reimagines classical anthropological categories like “tribe” and “kinship,” by demonstrating the complex ways in which they are contested and negotiated vis-à-vis a religious revival.