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If It's Not Awkward, It's Not Anthropology with Shweta Krishnan
The Ivory Tower Boiler Room welcomes our fourth guest, Shweta Krishnan, PhD candidate in Anthropology at George Washington University. Shweta is doing her field work on the revival movement surrounding DonyiPolo, a religion centered in the Northeast-Indian states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. She also talks more generally about how bafflingly difficult it can be to do anthropological research in a way that is respectful towards the people you are writing about. Below, you will find a glossary of terms and a bibliography; this is a new feature which, we are pleased to announce, will…
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