Multisituated: Ethnography as Diasporic Praxis by Kaushik Sunder Rajan (2021): A Review by Arushi Sahay
In Multisituated: Ethnography as Diasporic Praxis (published by Duke University Press in 2021), Kaushik Sunder Rajan beckons our attention to…
Decoding PK: A Style of Doing Ethnographic Fieldwork – Kinkar Mandal
PK was a Rajkumar Hirani, directed (2014) movie. The plot follows an innocent alien (Aamir Khan) who lands on Earth…
Kinship, Relatedness and Multi-Species Ethnography in India: An Interview with Radhika Govindrajan
Radhika Govindrajan teaches in the Department of Anthropology, University of Washington. She is a cultural anthropologist who works across the…
Homelessness and Shelter Houses: Some Insights from the Field in Odisha – Itimayee Behera
Introduction This essay is based on the field work done in Cuttack district, Odisha in the year 2020 on a…
Piety, Place and Politics: Rethinking the Spatial Imaginations of Jama Masjid – Afeef Ahmed
It was a normal weekday evening in Jama Masjid. There were crowds, both Indian and international, walking around the 16th-century…
Women in the Field: Gendered Challenges and Dilemmas of Ethnographic Fieldwork – Ruchika Ranwa
Fieldwork, as a static process, has been questioned in the existing debates on ethnography. Field is often changing, unpredictable and…
Land, Resources and Nature in North-East India: Ethnographic Explorations with Dolly Kikon
Dolly Kikon is an anthropologist in the Anthropology and Development Studies Program at the University of Melbourne. Her research focuses…
Education in the Desert: Field Notes from the Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat – Bhavna Harchandani
Formal Education is widely seen as the steppingstone to modernization. But do all citizens have equal access to education in…
A Book discussion on Transdisciplinary Ethnography in India: Women in the Field
A book discussion on Transdisciplinary Ethnography in India: Women in the Field edited by Rosa M. Perez and Lina M.…
A Book Discussion on Intimate City and Mannequin Media with Manjima Bhattacharjya
Manjima Bhattacharjya is a feminist researcher, writer and activist. She has been part of the Indian women’s movement for over…