Notes on Everyday Life, Ethnography, and the Promise of Imagination – Proshant Chakraborty
“Imagine yourself….” Imagine yourself as an ethnographer. You are sitting at the threshold of a house that has been your…
Absence of Women In Public Spaces: The Gendered Appropriation Of A Juice Shop – Prarthana Banarji
The smell of nicotine hits me from two meters away. I read the signboard over the shop again – My…
Potters Without a Wheel: Ethnography of the Mritishilpis in Kolkata by Saswati Bhattacharya: A Review by Vanshika Yadav
Saswati Bhattacharya’s book Potters without a Wheel: Ethnography of the Mritshilpis in Kolkata, published by Routledge in 2022, takes the…
Dead in Benaras: Ethnography of Funeral Travelling by Ravi Nandan Singh (2022): A Review by Snigdha Vishnoi
Ravi Nandan’s Dead in Benaras: Ethnography of Funeral Travelling, published by Oxford University Press in 2022, is a compelling ethnographical…
Globalising Everyday Consumption in India: History and Ethnography edited by Bhaswati Bhattacharya and Henrike Donner (2020): A Review by Chinggelniang
Globalizing Everyday Consumption in India: History and Ethnography edited by Bhaswati Bhattacharya and Henrike Donner (and published by Routledge in 2020)…
Ethnographers before Malinowski: Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922 edited by Frederico Delgado Rosa and Han F. Vermeulen (2022): A Review by Ashwin Tripathi
Ethnographers before Malinowski: Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922 edited by Frederico Delgado Rosa and Han F. Vermeulen (published by Berghahn…
They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria by Daniel E. Agbiboa (2023): A Review by Priyanjali Mitra
In his rich and detailed examination of corruption practices in the transport sector of Nigeria, Daniel Agbiboa offers an account…
An Ethnographer in the Corporate Land: A Session By Snigdha Vishnoi
In this session, Snigdha Vishnoi highlights the strengths and limitations of using the ethnographic method in corporate settings and a…
Mobilities, Climates and Infrastructures: An Interview with Malini Sur
Malini Sur is an Associate Professor in Anthropology at Western Sydney University and serves as the President of the Australian…
Beyond the Narrative: War as an Aberration of Ideology – Md. Abu Salek Khan
Introduction War as a historical event is mostly told in terms of a binary opposition, the winner and the loser.…