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This article draws on ethnographic data on the distribution of scholarship programs at two Nepali state‐run schools. Anchored in the cross‐field of educational anthropology and the anthropology of bureaucracy, this article examines schools not just as sites of learning but as institutions that control and regulate access through bureaucratized mechanisms. We draw attention to scholarship processes...
John Gumperz's work was characterized by a concern for social justice. This article traces some of the ways this concern manifested itself through such concepts as “key situation,” and in research foci on moments of social selection in powerful state institutions. It reviews some critiques of Gumperz's approach to the problem of how social difference is tied to social inequality, and some of the productive...
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