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"Jelle J P Wouters is a social anthropologist who has carried out long-term ethnographic and historical research among the upland and tribal Nagas in India's generally lesser known Northeastern Region, writing about insurgency, violence, vernacular politics, capitalism, resource-extraction, and social history. Main research area and focus today are environmental humanities, climate change, water, and human-animal-plant entanglements in Bhutan, and Highland Asia more widely.He teaches at the Royal University of Bhutan in the Department of Social Science. He holds an MPhil (Distinction) in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford, and later completed a PhD in Anthropology from the North-Eastern Hill University in Shillong (India). Before joining Royal Thimphu College (Bhutan) as a lecturer he taught for two years at Sikkim Central University, where he was asked to establish the Anthropology Department, and was a visiting fellow (2014-2015) at Eberhard Karls University on a ""Teaching for Excellence"" award granted by the German Research Foundation. He currently also serves as the Chair of the Himalayan Centre for Environmental Humanities, Thimphu. Michael T. Heneise is an American anthropologist and presently Associate Professor in the Department of Archaeology, History, and Religious Studies at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. He has conducted fieldwork across South America, South Asia, and the Himalayas, and his doctoral research at the University of Edinburgh was an anthropological examination of dreams and political agency in the Indo-Myanmar borderlands. Prior to Edinburgh he studied anthropology at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Quito, Ecuador. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Highlander Press; co-founder and former executive director of the Highland Institute, Nagaland; and co-editor of HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies."

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