essays and reviews

Four red cans with white lettering in English script "Araliya" and below it, yellow lettering of Jack Mackerel canned fish with a grey scaled fish
The image depicts an essay titled Plantation Errata with six images of plantation life from Sri Lanka: a tea kettle, a stone footpath, a bowl of rice, betel leaf and tobacco, wage slips, and a woman's gold necklace.

Essays

Jegathesan, Mythri. 2024. “The undersurface” American Ethnological Society (AES) Online Collection: Photographic “Returns” to Field Sites. Editors: Ipsita Dey and Christina Kefala. https://americanethnologist.org/online-content/collections/photographic-returns/the-undersurface-by-mythri-jegathesan/

 

Jegathesan, Mythri. “Policing the Patriline” Polity 11(1). June 2023. Social Scientists’ Association: Colombo. https://polity.lk/policing-the-patriline-reading-the-current-economic-and-political-crisis-through-the-plantation-mythri-jegathesan/

 

Jegathesan, Mythri. 2022. "Comment" (Luke Heslop’s "From haunted houses to housed hauntings: ghosts, oracles, and kinship ambivalence in a Sri Lankan merchant family"). Current Anthropology 63(4): 420-421.

Jegathesan, Mythri. 2023. “Policing the Patriline: Reading the Current Economic and Political Crisis through the Plantation".” Polity. Social Scientists’ Association: Colombo. https://ssalanka.org/policing-the-patriline-reading-the-current-economic-and-political-crisis-through-the-plantation-mythri-jegathesan/

Jegathesan, Mythri. 2022. “Passing Blood, Consuming Memories: Making Fish Cutlets with Amma.” e-flux journal #128, June 2022. https://www.e-flux.com/journal/128/474724/passing-blood-consuming-memories-making-fish-cutlets-with-amma/


Jegathesan, Mythri. 2022. “Plantation Errata.” Scroll Projects on Paper. Part 3: Language is Migrant. January 2022. Eds. Aziz Sohail and Syma Tariq. Print Express.


Jegathesan, Mythri. 2021. "Nesting Paternalisms: Postwar Indo-Lankan Diplomacies on Sri Lanka’s Plantations." Hot Spots, Fieldsights, March 16. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/nesting-paternalisms-postwar-indo-lankan-diplomacies-on-sri-lankas-plantations


Jegathesan, Mythri. 2020. "a body writing." Commoning Ethnography 3(1): 129-135. https://doi.org/10.26686/ce.v3i1.6653 


Jegathesan, Mythri, and Maya Kaneko. 2019. “Work for a life.” Anthropology News, June 12, 2019. https://www.anthropology-news.org/articles/work-for-a-life/

 

Ananda, Kitana and Mythri Jegathesan. 2019. "What Sri Lanka needs now" CNN website, April 28, 2019. Website: https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/28/opinions/sri-lanka-attack-threatens-fragile-peace-ananda-jegathesan/index.html

 

Jegathesan, Mythri and Anderson, Ryan. 2018. “Disrupting Silicon Valley's Stories.” Anthropology News, 59: e58-e63. https://doi.org/10.1111/AN.1034

 

“Bargaining for a living wage: reflections on the economic rights of Tamil tea plantation workers in Sri Lanka” HimalSouthasian. February 2010. 23(2): 38-41.

Book Reviews

Jegathesan, Mythri. 2019. Review of Debarati Sen's Everyday Sustainability: Gender Justice and Fair Trade Tea in Darjeeling (SUNY Press, 2017). Pacific Affairs 92(3): 613-616.

 

Jegathesan, Mythri. 2017. Review of Kumari Jayawardena and Rachel Kurian’s Class, Patriarchy and Ethnicity on Sri Lanka’s Plantations (Orient Black Swan, 2015). Contributions to Indian Sociology 51(1): 116-119. doi: 10.1177/0069966716677422

 

Jegathesan, Mythri. 2016. Review of Daniel Bass’ Everyday Ethnicity in Sri Lanka: Up-Country Tamil Identity Politics. (Routledge, 2012. Asian Ethnology 75(1): 263-266.

 

Jegathesan, Mythri. 2015. Review of Nira Wickramasinghe. Sri Lanka in the Modern Age (2nd Edition, Oxford University Press, 2014). South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. 38 (4): 858-861.

 

Jegathesan, Mythri. 2013. Review of Sonali Deraniyagala. Wave (Vintage, 2013). Columbia Magazine.