Sirpa Tenhunen


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Sirpa Tenhunen is an anthropologist who works as a senior university lecturer at the University of Jyväskylä. Her current research deals with climate change and digital technologies. Her most recent book is “A Village Goes Mobile: Telephony, Mediation and Social Change in Rural India,” published by Oxford University Press in 2018.


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Sirpa Tenhunen's current research deals with climate change and digital technologies. Her previous long-term ethnographic fieldwork in rural India sought to understand how mobile phone use contributed to social changes. Her research interests also include development, gender, and kinship. Her latest book, “A Village Goes Mobile: Telephony, Mediation and Social Change in Rural India,” was published by the Oxford University Press in 2018. In addition to eight books, she has published articles in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Ethnos, Modern Asian Studies, and Contemporary South Asia. Her books, Introduction to Changing India: Culture, Politics, and Development (Anthem Press 2012) and Muuttuva Intia (in Finnish, Edita 2007), which she wrote with Minna Säävälä, give a general idea of contemporary India as well as her research. She has been a visiting scholar at Brown University and the University of Western Ontario.


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