Isabel M. Salovaara

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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

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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

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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

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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

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"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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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