James Staples is a Professor of Social Anthropology at Brunel University London, Director of Brunel’s South Asia Research Group, and co-editor of the journal Medical Anthropology. He is author of numerous articles and chapters based on his fieldwork in South India, as well as three books: Peculiar People, Amazing Lives. Leprosy, Social Exclusion And Community Making in South India (2007); Leprosy and a Life in South India (2014); and Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian: The Everyday Politics of Eating Meat in India (2020).
