Anna‐lena Wolf
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 784395 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Anna‐lena Wolf |
| PRENOMES | Anna‐lena |
| SOBRENOME | Wolf |
| ASSINATURA | WOLF A L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4307-0506 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 4 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
"It would taste better with sugar"-Navigating deprivation and confidence in everyday life on a tea plantation in Assam
This story focuses on an ordinary working day on a tea plantation in Assam from the perspective of Jiya-a tea plucker on Dolani Tea Estate. It illustrates how Jiya navigates fundamental deprivations in her everyday life structured by the company's relentless siren without losing track of the scope for confident action. The photos, the plantation, the protagonist, and the incidents described in the story are based on real places, persons, and obse…
Ethical Recursivity
While anthropologists have been cautious to avoid essentialism, the notion "informant" in anthropology's promotion of scholar-informant solidarity has been surprisingly undifferentiated. Based on my experience of interlocutors' heterogeneity during my fieldwork on Assam tea plantations, I illustrate the ambiguity, porosity and mutability of the category of the "informant." I argue that the general imperative to support informants occludes that th…
"Beyond "Enclaves
Labor mobility to and from tea plantations in India has been treated as an exception. Plantations continue to be imagined as unaltered enclaves with an immobile, bonded, or fixed labor force as their key feature. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in India, this article investigates forms of labor mobility to and from Assam tea plantations. While tea labor is not spatially immobile, I argue that spatial mobility does not necessarily lead to upward s…
Attuned to the Everyday
In May 2017, Veena Das joined the second edition of «Anthro-pology Talks» at the University of Bern. Every two years, the Institute of Social Anthropology invites leading social and cultural anthropologists to discuss their recent work. After a series of lectures and workshops, the event concludes with an interview about the visiting scholar’s work and their thoughts on the future of our discipline
"Beyond "Enclaves
Labor mobility to and from tea plantations in India has been treated as an exception. Plantations continue to be imagined as unaltered enclaves with an immobile, bonded, or fixed labor force as their key feature. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in India, this article investigates forms of labor mobility to and from Assam tea plantations. While tea labor is not spatially immobile, I argue that spatial mobility does not necessarily lead to upward s…
Attuned to the Everyday
In May 2017, Veena Das joined the second edition of «Anthro-pology Talks» at the University of Bern. Every two years, the Institute of Social Anthropology invites leading social and cultural anthropologists to discuss their recent work. After a series of lectures and workshops, the event concludes with an interview about the visiting scholar’s work and their thoughts on the future of our discipline
"Beyond "Enclaves
Labor mobility to and from tea plantations in India has been treated as an exception. Plantations continue to be imagined as unaltered enclaves with an immobile, bonded, or fixed labor force as their key feature. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in India, this article investigates forms of labor mobility to and from Assam tea plantations. While tea labor is not spatially immobile, I argue that spatial mobility does not necessarily lead to upward s…
"It would taste better with sugar"-Navigating deprivation and confidence in everyday life on a tea plantation in Assam
This story focuses on an ordinary working day on a tea plantation in Assam from the perspective of Jiya-a tea plucker on Dolani Tea Estate. It illustrates how Jiya navigates fundamental deprivations in her everyday life structured by the company's relentless siren without losing track of the scope for confident action. The photos, the plantation, the protagonist, and the incidents described in the story are based on real places, persons, and obse…
Ethical Recursivity
While anthropologists have been cautious to avoid essentialism, the notion "informant" in anthropology's promotion of scholar-informant solidarity has been surprisingly undifferentiated. Based on my experience of interlocutors' heterogeneity during my fieldwork on Assam tea plantations, I illustrate the ambiguity, porosity and mutability of the category of the "informant." I argue that the general imperative to support informants occludes that th…
Sociology (4 obras) · Political science (3 obras) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (3 obras) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 obras) · Anthropology (2 obras) · Law (2 obras) · Linguistics (2 obras) · Aesthetics (1 obras) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (1 obras) · Ambiguity (1 obras)