From Bindu to Ojas
… is a first edition, from 1970, of what became the amalgamation of several chapters of “Be Here Now” by Baba Ram Dass aka Richard Alpert. I get…
… is a first edition, from 1970, of what became the amalgamation of several chapters of “Be Here Now” by Baba Ram Dass aka Richard Alpert. I get…
From Marx’s London Notebook no b63 Heft LXIV – the last four pages on Francois Bernier on India. As Engels several times says, the handwriting is impossible. ARCH00860.B_63…
Remembering serving on this film festival doco jury. A great experience: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/docu-on-kol-filmmakers-karbala-journey-wins-award/articleshow/87875803.cms …
In this excerpt from A Woman’s Job: Making Middle Lives in New India, Asiya Islam examines the lives of educated young women working in precarious jobs in Delhi’s service sector. The…
CITU – 1988 West Bengal
I. Introduction In 2010 India found itself mired in a medical crisis of diplomatic proportions. The crisis was precipitated by a paper (Kumaraswamy et al 2010) published in…
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/uncommon-cause/paper Chip Zuckerman: Thank you, John, for engaging with me about your new book. I should start by telling readers that we went to graduate school …
https://www.routledge.com/Mother-Tongue-Prestige-The-Sociolinguistics-of-Privilege-in-Urban-Middle-Class-Education-in-India/Chandras/p/book/9781032404554 Priya M. Dabak: This book is divided i…
As a growing area of inquiry in STS, maintenance studies brings two critical insights to the post-Actor Network Theory (ANT) landscape. First, relations are not a state of…
“[45] In India there are wild asses as large as horses, or even larger. Their body is white, their head dark red, their eyes bluish, and they have a…
Podcast with Caro Caduff, Professor in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London, in conversation with Shagufta Bhangu, Lecturer in the Department of Global…
Podcast with Cecilia Van Hollen, Professor at Georgetown University, in discussion with Fabien Provost, social anthropologist, French Research Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). This next epis…
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Podcast with Nickolas Surawy Stepney, Research Associate, King’s College London, in discussion with Thandeka Cochrane, Postdoctoral Research Associate, King’s College, London. This episode t…
Comparison rebooted as participatory research did not quite take off as a turn (not only through lack of time and funds) but thankfully it is still bubbling away…
In 1867, Marx wrote about of Mary Anne Walkley, overworked to death for a society dress – according to the London Chronicle. Now, instead of ruffle of lace,…
by Isa Prieto – I arrive at Chennai airport at 1 am. As soon as I step outside the airport, the humid air envelops me, and I immediately…
Shahu Patole. 2024. Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada. Anna He Apoorna Brahma. Translated by Bhushan Korgaonkar. Gurugram, Haryana: Harper Collins India, Paperback, 386 pages, ISBN-13: 978-9356295834 …
Shahu Patole. 2024. Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada. Anna He Apoorna Brahma. Translated by Bhushan Korgaonkar. Gurugram, Haryana: Harper Collins India, Paperback, 386 pages, ISBN-13: 978-9356295834 …
Since 2019, a growing group of “anti-natalist” activists have been used as a foil to demonstrate rising anxieties regarding future prospects of life on earth. Writing for the…
Prof. Saibaba recounts horrific conditions in prison August 26, 2024 Prof Saibaba recalled his nine years of solitary prison life in the ‘anda cell’ of Nagpur jail in a…
Shahu Patole. 2024. Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada. Anna He Apoorna Brahma. Translated by Bhushan Korgaonkar. Gurugram, Haryana: Harper Collins India, Paperback, 386 pages, ISBN-13: 978-9356295834 …
In Migrants and Machine Politics, Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil examine how India’s urban poor navigate and shape political networks to secure representation and accountability within …
Reflecting on the complexities of conducting research in a region gripped by administrative upheaval and political uncertainty, I write to open up this forum to fellow anthropologists and…