Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1111/1468-2451.5501013

Affiliations: 1: Ajantha Subramanian is Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology and Social Studies at Harvard. She received her PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University in 2000. Since then, she has been a postdoctoral fellow with the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill's Programme in Creating the Transnational South (2000-01); a visiting professor with Cornell University's Department of Anthropology (2001-02); and a fellow at Yale University's Programme in Agrarian Studies (2002)., Email: ajanthas@hotmail.com