Department of Anthropology and Sociology

S. Seigoulien Haokip

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Roles: Department of Anthropology and Sociology PhD Teaching Assistant
Department: Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Qualifications: MA (TISS, Guwahati)
MPhil (JNU, New Delhi)
Email address: 703931@soas.ac.uk
Thesis title: Borderland and capital: identities, networks and social change in India's North East (working title)
Internal Supervisors: Professor Sanjay Srivastava

Biography

Seigoulien is a PhD student at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology.

His MPhil dissertation entitled Merchants and Borderlands: Trade, Culture and Place-making in Manipur, India analysed how mercantile networks are culturally reproduced across distinctive spaces by using archival as well as ethnographic materials. Seigoulien’s PhD project explores social and urban transformations in North East India.

Seigoulien’s research interests, by and large, focuses on North East India. His MA dissertation – based on concurrent fieldwork carried out in Guwahati – investigated religious practices among the Kuki community. It explored how the Kuki people in Guwahati (Assam) articulate the idea of religiosity and spirituality.

As a Citizen Historian with The 1947 Partition Archive, S. Seigoulien Haokip has documented oral histories in Manipur. He was also awarded the Tata Trusts – Partition Archive Research Residency Grant 2021. Inspired by his own ethnographic-based research at SOAS, Seigoulien has also engaged with museums in the UK through knowledge exchanges and collaboration.