Saiba Varma

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Hands that Matter

Theorizing the Contemporary

Hands that Matter

It might seem like our pain is different, but what I hear you sayingis that our categorizations, the local and the atmospheric, the physical and the emotion... More

Interview: Patchwork Ethnography

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Interview: Patchwork Ethnography

Last year, Member Voices published Gökçe Günel, Saiba Varma, and Chika Watanabe’s “A Manifesto for Patchwork Ethnography.” The authors posted their manifesto ah... More

A Manifesto for Patchwork Ethnography

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A Manifesto for Patchwork Ethnography

Even prior to the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic, “traditional” anthropological fieldwork was in trouble. For some time now, ethnographers have been questioni... More

Our Electric Biomedicine

Theorizing the Contemporary

Our Electric Biomedicine

An X-Ray Machine in a Congolese Town by Trisha Phippard ... More

Interrogating the “Postconflict” in Indian-Occupied Kashmir

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Interrogating the “Postconflict” in Indian-Occupied Kashmir

On November 26, 2003, the Indian state accepted Pakistan’s offer of a ceasefire along the Line of Control, the de facto border separating Indian- and Pakistani-... More