SARA DICKEY is a professor of anthropology at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. She is the author or co-editor of several books including Cinema and the Urban Poor in South India, Home and Hegemony: Domestic Service and Identity Politics in South and Southeast Asia, and South Asian Cinemas: Widening the Lens.

"This innovative analysis builds on captivating stories of everyday life, connecting the capitalist forces we categorize as 'global' with the spaces, practices, and organizations that ground daily experience. It marks an important achievement." - Mary Hancock (University of California at Santa Barbara) "This raw, evocative, and beautifully written book is for anyone interested in class, India, socioeconomic inequality, or ethnography … Highly recommended." (Choice) "Dickey has an exceptionally rich longitudinal perspective on how patterns and logics of social organization change and how class shapes lives.  She lays out the complex cultural context in and through which material class dynamics operate." - Mark Liechty (University of Illinois at Chicago)

SARA DICKEY is a professor of anthropology at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. She is the author or co-editor of several books including Cinema and the Urban Poor in South India, Home and Hegemony: Domestic Service and Identity Politics in South and Southeast Asia, and South Asian Cinemas: Widening the Lens.

"This innovative analysis builds on captivating stories of everyday life, connecting the capitalist forces we categorize as 'global' with the spaces, practices, and organizations that ground daily experience. It marks an important achievement." - Mary Hancock (University of California at Santa Barbara) "This raw, evocative, and beautifully written book is for anyone interested in class, India, socioeconomic inequality, or ethnography … Highly recommended." (Choice) "Dickey has an exceptionally rich longitudinal perspective on how patterns and logics of social organization change and how class shapes lives.  She lays out the complex cultural context in and through which material class dynamics operate." - Mark Liechty (University of Illinois at Chicago)

SARA DICKEY is a professor of anthropology at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. She is the author or co-editor of several books including Cinema and the Urban Poor in South India, Home and Hegemony: Domestic Service and Identity Politics in South and Southeast Asia, and South Asian Cinemas: Widening the Lens.

"This innovative analysis builds on captivating stories of everyday life, connecting the capitalist forces we categorize as 'global' with the spaces, practices, and organizations that ground daily experience. It marks an important achievement." - Mary Hancock (University of California at Santa Barbara) "This raw, evocative, and beautifully written book is for anyone interested in class, India, socioeconomic inequality, or ethnography … Highly recommended." (Choice) "Dickey has an exceptionally rich longitudinal perspective on how patterns and logics of social organization change and how class shapes lives.  She lays out the complex cultural context in and through which material class dynamics operate." - Mark Liechty (University of Illinois at Chicago)