The Cream of the Nation
Discover the winning 2026 project "The Cream of the Nation: Improving Livestock, Protecting the Cow, Educating Breeders. An Ethnography of an Indian Cattle Research Center" from the Louis Dumont Fund, which supports research in social anthropology.
The dissertation, entitled "The Cream of the Nation: Improving Livestock, Protecting the Cow, Educating Breeders. An Ethnography of an Indian Cattle Research Center", examines the contemporary practices, techniques, and representations of actors involved in cattle breeding in the context of northern India.
Jeanne Bonnet
After studying history and anthropology, Jeanne Bonnet has been a PhD candidate in anthropology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and affiliated with the Centre d’Études Sud-Asiatiques et Himalayennes (CESAH) since October 2025. For her doctoral fieldwork, she is studying the Hindi language at INALCO and is continuing the research she began during her master’s degree on the relationships between animal husbandry, the classification of living beings, and reproduction.
