Author Archives: B.R.

In Tea and Solidarity,  Dr. Jegathesan explores the stories of the women, men, and children who have built their families and lived in line houses on tea plantations in Sri Lanka. Dr. Jegathesan seeks to expand anthropological understandings of dispossession and draws … Continue reading →

Dr. De Leon does a phenomenal job at outlining the path migrants cross to enter into the United States. The author nicely infuses  ethnography and archaeology to depict migrants’ journey. I love how the author allows the participants to take their … Continue reading →

Dr. Ana-Maurine Lara’s Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty is a poetic ethnography of queer, Black, and Indigenous people and spiritual practices in the Dominican Republic. These entanglements offer a complex understanding of Caribbean Black, Indigenous, and queer communities. Lara argues for and uncovers … Continue reading →

Dr. Garcia’s Pastoral Clinic is a fascinating ethnography surrounding the lives of those who are recovering addicts across different but interconnected fields. “From the clinic to the courthouse,” Dr. Garcia argues that the singularness of of release and rehabilitation is … Continue reading →

By interviewing midwives, observing CASA home visits and meetings, and gathering data, Dr. Dixon nicely conveys how Mexico’s infrastructure is creating inequalities for those who become pregnant in Mexico. Through a process called maternal conditioning, people are making decisions based … Continue reading →

Dr. Anand Vivek Taneja beautifully argues how the renewed interest of Hindustan is indicative of residents’ hope of India as the potential for Muslim belonging in a future India. Although contemporaneously associated as a Muslim North Indian practice, the historical use … Continue reading →

Dr. Shange’s focus on the theme of carceral progressivism in the school system was provocative and very timely. Dr. Shange defines carceral progressivism as the paradoxical dynamic in which social reform practices, particularly those that target inequities in communities of … Continue reading →

Thomas’s ethnography on Jamaica’s violence works well as an example of an ethnography. Thomas is well-immersed in the community, and she does a fascinating job explaining the landscape (for example “up the road” and “down the road”) while still using … Continue reading →

One of my favorite quotes from this week’s reading is when deciding on your research topic “if you truly already know what you will find, then the research is unnecessary (26).” My research question is do more socially integrated youth … Continue reading →

Tsing’s argument that honing in on mushroom picking to expand our imagination and thought process on the rigid debate of jobs or the environment intrigued me. Usually, when I imagined the economic impact on ecological resources I think of forests … Continue reading →