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…
Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India’s Lonely Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence by Shrayana Bhattacharya (2021): A Review by Dhritimona Bharadwaj
Shrayana Bhattacharya’s Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India’s Lonely Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence (published by HarperCollins India…
Food Culture Studies in India: Consumption, Representation and Mediation – Edited by Simi Malhotra, Sakshi Dogra and Kanika Sharma (2021): A Review by Sohni Chakrabarti
Food is a powerful tool for the analysis of identities, societies and cultures. Food may uphold the status quo by…
The Relevance of Cultural Sociology in Contemporary Times – Shivani Choudhary
Homo sapiens have thrived as a species because of their ability to identify themselves with other members of the group…
Social Theory, Public Sphere and Culture: An Interview with Craig Calhoun
Craig Calhoun is a University Professor of Social Sciences at Arizona State University (ASU). Prior to coming to Arizona State…
Gullah Cuisine as Cultural Retainment and Resistance – Keegan Sweeney
The Lowcountry and surrounding South Carolina’s sea islands have evolved, hosting different groups of people pushing and pulling on one…
Graphic Migrations: Precarity and Gender in India and the Diaspora (2021) by Kavita Daiya: A Review by Aatina Nasir Malik
Graphic Migrations written by Kavita Daiya and published by Yoda Press, examines the 1947 Partition through the frame of the…
Cultural Construction of ‘Uncleanliness’ – Shivani Chunekar
In India, the term ‘social distancing’ has a history that is closely associated with caste. The term ‘social distancing’ has…
The Middle Class in India: Culture, Politics and Consumption: An Interview with Leela Fernandes
The Doing Sociology team interviewed Prof. Leela Fernandes. She is the Director of the Stanley D. Golub Chair of International…
Menstruation, Pain and Silence – Ashlesha Gogoi
The human body experiences pain. According to an article published in Nature, pain happens when “neural sensors in the skin,…