Many of anthropology’s terms of art are taken from afar. Especially in the half century after 1870 ...
Aarti Sethi
Aarti Sethi is an anthropologist who works on the economic and social life of debt in rural India. Her current book project examines farmer suicides in Vidharba, central India. She has published on and has ongoing interests in South Asian visual and media cultures, particularly cinema and circuits of spectatorship, and urban history. She is a founding member of Kafila and on the editorial board of New Text, a copyleft academic publishing house based in New Delhi. 