AFFECT OF CONTAGION AND BROKEN RESEARCH

Jan Brunson (jbrunson@hawaii.edu) is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Her ethnographic research in Nepal focuses on global projects of inventory and intervention alongside Nepali women’s projects of reproduction and family making. Her books include the ethnography Planning Families in Nepal (2016) and the co-edited International Handbook on Gender and Demographic Processes (2018).