Category: Anthropology
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Reaching Anthropology or how I chose a risky endeavor!
Many people have asked me ‘why on earth should you change your discipline from English literature to Anthropology?’ To put it pithily I have come to love what I am doing and I have been trying to build a ‘career capital’ which should enable me to continue to do so. Not that I have been…
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Canadian Trajectories of Kerala Studies: Interview with Robin Jeffrey
‘One evening in December 1967, I travelled from Makara in Coorg to the Kerala side of the ghats. I still remember passing over the ghats and seeing all those red flags fluttering on the Kerala side of the border. E.M.S. had formed the United Front government earlier that year. This image fascinated me then. I…