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Isabel Salovaara is a PhD student in Anthropology at Stanford University. Her research focuses on markets for supplementary education in India and what they can teach us about the changing futures of work, status, and aspiration in an era of digital mediation.
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Unbounding Bureaucracies: A Conversation with Matthew S. Hull
Matthew S. Hull's article on the effects of bringing a corporate call center into the bureaucratic operations of the Punjab police offers a new perspective on t... More
Teaching Ethnographic Methods with Progressive Dystopia
Savannah Shange’s Progressive Dystopia presents an ethnography of Robeson Justice Academy, a San Francisco school distinctive for its explicit espousal of a soc... More
Thinking and Teaching Corruption, Caste, and the State with Namita Dharia
Namita Vijay Dharia’s “Embodied Urbanisms” explores the metabolic nature of corruption discourse in the context of rapid real estate development in Gurugram, In... More
"Pausing...to Come Together": An Interview with Anna Eisenstein
In the following interview, Anna Eisenstein delves into the multiple dimensions at play in an ‘anthropology of pace.’ As the author elaborates on her analysis o... More
Spirits and Substances of Modernity: An Interview with Andrea Wright
In the following author interview, Andrea Wright reflects on her ethnographic and historical engagements with Indian labor migration to the Gulf. While flows of... More
Syllabus Archive: Anthropology and the “Making” of Arts and Technologies
Making is central to knowing. Doing ethnographic fieldwork makes this obvious. It is less obvious in the classroom, however, where sitting and reading texts tog... More
Visual Collaboration and Brainstorming Tools for Student Teams
Group brainstorms and projects can be a great way to get students to work collaboratively on course topics, engage in more open-ended discussions, and develop a... More
The Gaushala and the IIT
I met Mr. Prasad, at his suggestion, in a trendy coffee shop in an area of Patna dominated by entrance exam tutorial classes for medical colleges and the Indian... More
Teaching Kinship as a Crossroads with Kathryn Mariner
This post will present a lesson plan and short author interview to accompany Kathryn Mariner’s article “‘Who you are in these pieces of paper’: Imagining Future... More
Teaching Infrastructures: A Conversation with Gabrielle Hecht
This post presents a conversation with Gabrielle Hecht, Frank Stanton Foundation Professor of Nuclear Security, Professor of History, and Professor (by courtesy... More