Author: Tanya Matthan

Tanya Matthan is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests span political ecology, anthropology of finance, and critical agrarian studies. She is currently writing her dissertation which examines narratives and experiences of economic and ecological uncertainty among farmers in central India. This research investigates the socio-material life of risk across multiple sites, including the monsoon rain, insurance claims, market speculation, and groundwater extraction.

Tanya Matthan

Tasting Qualities

October, 2020 / By Tanya Matthan

Sarah Besky’s ethnographically and historically rich study of the Indian tea industry begins with a deceptively simple question: what makes […]