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Mythri Jegathesan

@mythrijega.bsky.social
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she/her/hers | anthropologist | studies plantations and work | author of Tea and Solidarity | co-editor of Anthropology of Work Review| www.mythri-jegathesan.com

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Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
with thanks to Miranda Melcher / @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, and of course @mythrijega.bsky.social for the wonderful words pictured below and on the cover!
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University of Washington Press @uwapress.uw.edu · 21/05/2026
On @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social discusses A VOLATILE PICTURE (June 16)—on Tamil photographic practices in Sri Lanka and the making and moving of images across borders, communities, and generations. Listen to the interview: newbooksnetwork.com/a-volatile-p...
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Mythri Jegathesan @mythrijega.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Unearthing this seems relevant and helpful for context of understanding the market politics that govern diplomatic ties between Iran and Sri Lanka: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
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Trenches Equivalent: Waging Sri Lanka’s “War of Position”
In 2018, I sat with Vijeyeletchumi, a Hill Country Tamil plucker in her tea estate line-room home. Lifting her skirt, she revealed a trail of fou...
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Contemporaries at Post45 @atpost45.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
🗣️ *My So-Called Life* turned 30 (1994-1995) this year! We've got a cluster for you, stay tuned— Ed. by @dfmorgan.bsky.social, & ft. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social, Steven T. Gravatt, @cmceleney.bsky.social, @elishacohn.bsky.social, @mythrijega.bsky.social, @ehl.bsky.social, @oliviastowell.bsky.social
portrait of young people distorted through a watercolor filter
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Katie Ulrich @katieulrich.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The series has essays by wonderful contributors who were SO great to work and think with. Thanks to all of them, as well as the Cultural Anthropology team. @dominicboyer.bsky.social @beatricecointe.bsky.social @mythrijega.bsky.social @markomonteiro.bsky.social @hannahcknox.bsky.social and many more
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Katie Ulrich @katieulrich.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Excited that this series on substitution, co-edited by Alice Rudge, Véra Ehrenstein, and myself, is now live. “Substitution constitutes a method for tracing continuities amid seeming change, disruption amid seeming continuity, and possibility within constraint.” culanth.org/fieldsights/...
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Substitution
Substituting one thing for another–things, people, habits–happens all the time. Substitution is so mundane that it can easily be taken for grante...
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