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Day 13: Khajuraho II

We were wrong to sec­ond guess the woman from the other day. She gen­uinely wanted our com­pany only, noth­ing more. We returned the next morn­ing where the woman, named Sayra, her eldest daugh­ter Anjum, and youngest Zeba were all work­ing on break­fast. The two girls worked in the kitchen, while Sayra sat on the floor in …

02.17.2011 – 9:08:AM | By Matt Carney | Posted in India II | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Day 11: Khajuraho

This is the Dis­ney­land of India. It’s not pre-designed, of course–the three tem­ple groups here are gen­uine, all of them circa 1000CE, and real peo­ple live here. I’ve just never seen this many tourists crowded into one place in this coun­try before, nor have I been to an Indian city with merely 15,000 res­i­dents, nor …

02.16.2011 – 2:22:AM | By Matt Carney | Posted in India II | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Day 5: Mumbai

Mum­bai is a city that would eat you alive by mis­take if you were too care­less; it would lib­er­ate you if just care­less enough. It’s easy to be over­whelmed by the abject chaos of the smoggy streets. But the thing is, land­ing in a place like India is always over­whelm­ing at first, even for some­one …

02.06.2011 – 11:22:AM | By Matt Carney | Posted in India II | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

All the Young Gents: A Look into the Lives of Madurai’s Young Men

Over the course of five weeks, I con­ducted inves­tiga­tive field research on the lives and influ­ences of col­lege age men liv­ing in Madu­rai, India. Is the boo­gie man of West­ern influ­ence really per­me­at­ing Indian youth cul­ture today? Or do they cling fer­vently to tra­di­tion and her­itage? Read and learn what I uncovered.

07.20.2010 – 10:58:PM | By Matt Carney | Posted in Ethnography | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)