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Mathangi Krishnamurthy is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras and Chairperson of the Archive of IIT Madras. She holds a PhD in anthropology from The University of Texas at Austin, and was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her book "1-800-Worlds: The Making of the Indian Call Centre Economy" published by OUP in 2018 chronicles the labour practices, life-worlds, and media atmospheres of Indian call centre workers. Co-edited with Veena Mani, her new book, "The Postcolonial Sporting Body: Contemporary Indian Investigations" brings together articles with photo essays to investigate upcoming work in Indian sports studies. She has also been a columnist for the blog 3quarksdaily and The Hindu, and writes occasionally on cultural production and practices for popular press.
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Indian Institute of Technology Madras Associate Professor
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Publications (9)
- Contemporary Ritual: Teyyam and the Creation of Its Epistemic World Save
- Introduction Save
- Making sense of 'new age data sets': Researching from afar Save
- An Afropolitan in South Asia Encounters between Postcolonial Subjects Save
- The Work of Sporting Bodies: Football and Masculinity in North Kerala Save
- Navigating the body multiple: Biomedicine, genetics, and sex/gender in the lives of cah patients Save
- Making a locality: the politics of land and football in North Kerala Save
- Sociology of sport: India Save
- Resources and rebels: A study of identity management in Indian call centers Save