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Talk:Matthew Hull

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Sachi Anjunkar


Matthew Hull is an associate professor in the department of Anthropology at University of Michigan[1] as of May 2024. According to his university profile, his research interests research focuses on the nexus of representation, technology, and institutions.

He has published no books, research or papers pertaining to Hindus, Ancient India, Indus Civilization or caste.

On November 5, 2017, he signed the letter submitted by the South Asia Faculty Group (SAFG) to the California State Board of Education[2] where he:

  • He misrepresented scholarship stating "Mythological terms substitute for historical ones for example the 'Indus Valley Civilization' (a fact-based geographic term) appears to be replaced with a religiously-motivated and ideologically charged term 'Indus-Saraswati/Sarasvati Civilization'. The Saraswati is a mythical river"[3][4][5]
  • Implied that Christians and Muslims existed in Ancient India, prior to the founding of these religions ​.

Publications related to India[edit]

Journal Articles[edit]

  1. Hull, Matthew S. "Communities of Place, Not Kind: American Technologies of Neighborhood in Post-Colonial Delhi." Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 53, no. 4, 2011, pp. 757–790.
  2. Hull, Matthew S. "Democratic Technologies of Speech: From WWII America to Post-colonial Delhi." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, vol. 20, no. 2, 2010, pp. 257-282.
  3. Hull, Matthew S. "Ruled by Records: The Appropriation of Land and the Misappropriation of Lists in Islamabad." American Ethnologist, vol. 34, no. 4, 2008, pp. 501–518.
  4. Hull, Matthew S. "The File: Agency, Authority, and Autography in a Pakistan Bureaucracy." Language and Communication, vol. 23, no. 3-4, 2003, pp. 287-314.
  5. Hull, Matthew S. "Corporations and States: A Customer-Service Corporation Inside the Punjab State Police." Cultural Anthropology, vol. 37, no. 4, 2022, pp. 764–792.
  6. Hull, Matthew S. "Towards a History of Files." Administory: Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsgeschichte, vol. 4, 2019, pp. 3-9.

Book Chapters[edit]

  1. Hull, Matthew S. "Market Making in Punjab Lotteries: Regulation and Mutual Dependence." In Rethinking Markets in Modern India: Contested Jurisdiction and Embedded Exchange, edited by Ajay Gandhi, Barbara Harriss-White, Douglas E. Haynes, and Sebastian Schwecke, Cambridge University Press, 2020.

References[edit]

  1. Matthew Hull University Profile accessed on May 29, 2024
  2. 2017 South Asia Faculty Group (SAFG) Letter to the California State Board of Education
  3. Chakrabarti, Dilip, and Sukhdev Saini. The Problem of the Sarasvati River and Notes on the Archaeological Geography of Haryana and Indian Punjab. Aryan Books International, 2009.
  4. Danino, Michel. The Lost River: On the Trail of the Sarasvati. Penguin Books, 2010.
  5. McIntosh, Jane R. A Peaceful Realm: The Rise and Fall of the Indus Civilization. Westview Press, 2002, p. 24. ​where she stated "Suddenly it became apparent that the “Indus” Civilization was a misnomer—although the Indus had played a major role in the development of the civilization, the “lost Saraswati” River, judging by the density of settlement along its banks, had contributed an equal or greater part to its prosperity. Many people today refer to this early state as the “Indus-Saraswati Civilization” and continuing references to the “Indus Civilization” should be an abbreviation in which the “Saraswati” is implied. There are some fifty sites known along the Indus whereas the Saraswati has almost 1,000. This is misleading figure because erosion and alluviation has between them destroyed or deeply buried the greater part of settlements in the Indus Valley itself, but there can be no doubt that the Saraswati system did yield a high proportion of the Indus people’s agricultural produce"