Student Field Notes

Bengaluru Hair Stories A scanned page from Bharati Debi’s “Hairstyle: Panorama of the Tribal World.” My time in Bengaluru is spent with [...]

Hyderabad Hair Stories My aunt buying flowers and garlands from a flower vendor for pooja. In Hyderabad, I am being hosted by [...]

The sudden heavy rains and typhoons in the summer of southern China have almost become a routine. On a rear night, I went to [...]

That summer, I went to an experimental music festival in Beijing. The organizers brought together artists from different countries and cultural backgrounds to perform [...]

The Conversation Before the Conversation: Notes from a Theater Company's Twentieth Anniversary Sentences about dialogue covered the walls. Someone had taped short quotations up [...]

Where Are the People? Notes from a Theater Company's Twentieth Anniversary Before I flew to Taiwan, I had a small, slightly embarrassing problem: I [...]

Traces/Echoes/Fragments of 印尼 in Fujian Fragments from the myriad photographs I took while “tracing” 印尼 across Fujian. I grew up knowing remarkably [...]

Before leaving for Fujian, I carried collective life in the vocabulary of research. I wanted to understand how cooperation, obligation, and care persist through [...]

In late June, when my fieldwork in Thailand was approaching the end, the rumors of a possible military coup d’état were widely spread on [...]