Politicians and San Juan (Chuao, Venezuela, 2005)
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Selected publications:
Forthcoming. The vernacularisation of democracy. Politics, caste and religion in India. Delhi, London: Routledge.
Forthcoming. "We are Kshatriyas but we behave like Vaishyas": diet and muscular politics among a community of Yadavs in North India’. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies.
2007. The vernacularisation of democracy: popular politics and political participation in North India. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 13, 639-656.
2004. "We (Yadavs) are a caste of politicians": Caste and modern politics in a North Indian town. Contributions to Indian Sociology 38(3): 43-72. (Reprinted in Caste in question: Identity or hierarchy, Dipankar Gupta (ed). New Delhi: Sage, 2004.)
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Dr Lucia Michelutti has worked extensively in North India (1998-2000, 2001, 2007) and more recently in rural Venezuela (2005-2006). She received her MA and PhD from the LSE. Her doctoral and post-doctoral research projects explored through ethnographic and archival work the interlocking relationships between caste, popular politics and religion in the town of Mathura (Uttar Pradesh). Dr Michelutti currently holds a four-year ESRC Research Fellowship for a project entitled: "The vernacularisation of democracy: ethnographic comparisons across India and Venezuela." The project investigates the social and cultural practices of popular politics and the dynamics of new forms of socialism. She is currently writing a monograph based on her recent fieldwork on the Bolivarian socialist revolution in rural Venezuela. Dr Michelutti’s other major research interest is the anthropology of history and the impact of colonial legacies on political cultures in South Asia and Latin America. 
