Recently, I was asked to present a “meet the author” talk to some students at Freie Universität Berlin, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology. My…
Category:Fields of Desire
The amazing Sophie Chao recently asked me some questions for her More than Human Worlds site. We talked about desire, fieldwork, why we do anthropology,…
In this important new book, High argues that poverty reduction policies are formulated and implemented in fields of desire. Drawing on psychoanalytic understandings of desire,…
Fields of Desire: Poverty and Policy in Laos Order from NUS Press here. Order through University of Chicago Press Books here.
Holly High uses her formidable talents as a scholar and writer to displace the tired antinomy of village studies in which rural people are either…