credits

This site was developed in conjunction with the exhibit Singing Pictures: Art and Performance of Naya's Women, which opens July 5th 2007. Special thanks to the National Museum of Ethnology in Lisbon, Portugal for their involvement with the exhibit, which is open from 5 July 2007 through 6 January 2008.

Ákos Östör, Professor of Anthropology & Film Studies, Wesleyan University
Lina Fruzzetti, Professor of Anthropology, Brown University

Special thanks to Aditi Nath Sarkar* for his contributions from long-term fieldwork in Naya Village.

Graphics / Coding – Jason Lalor
Design / Coding – Anne Loyer
Project Management – Dan Schnaidt
Video Editing – Zack Vose
Media Digitization / Video Production — Allynn Wilkinson
Videography – Ákos Östör
Sound Recording – Lina Fruzzetti

* Aditi Nath Sarkar is currently a Visiting Associate Professor at the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, Gujarat. He is the author of numerous articles and museum exhibitions about the Patua tradition of West Bengal and a co-producer of the documentary, Future of Our Cities: Calcutta. He co-directed Singing Pictures with Fruzzetti and Östör.

acknowledgements

at Brown University:

• President Ruth Simmons for support and partial funding of the Singing Pictures project
• The Solomon Research Fund
• Katherine Grimaldi, Marjorie Sugrue and Mathilde d'Andrade of the Anthropology Department
• Patrick Molitonis for life history summaries and editing

at Wesleyan University:

• Faculty Grants in Support of Scholarship
• Zack Potter-Vose for audio and video editing
• Donna Rak of the Anthropology Department
• Anne Loyer, Dan Schnaidt and Allynn Wilkinson of Information Technology Services for web design and digital scanning

in Calcutta:

• Smti Aditi Sen for translations
• Sri Subodh Ghar for transcriptions
• Sri Tarun Mitra and Sri Subir Sarkar of the American Institute of Indian Studies