To what extent would you attribute this to your academic training? Were there things you learnt on the job, through trial and error, just from being with your interviewees? The award committee has praised your book for its “potential to influence museum anthropology in its methodology, grace of narration, and participant-centred analysis”. When I began working on it, I too came from another discipline – visual art – and was able to carve a place for it within oral history. As far as being welcomed by another discipline is concerned, perhaps this speaks to the malleability of Remnants as a project. It is an enormous honour to be recognized for the work, and particularly for it to find resonance in landscapes across the world from where it was written. How do you feel about the award? As someone who describes herself as an oral historian, what is it like to be welcomed by another discipline? Author Aanchal Malhotra (Courtesy HarperCollins)
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