Jelle J.P. Wouters

Jelle J.P. Wouters studied anthropology in Amsterdam, Oxford, and Shillong. Presently he is a Senior Lecturer at Royal Thimphu College in Bhutan. Before that, he taught at Sikkim Central University and Eberhard Karls University. Over the past years, he has done ethnographic and historical research in the Naga highlands, writing about vernacular democracy and elections, political conflict, kinship and social bonds, and social history. He has published a dozen articles on Nagaland and India's...See more

Jelle J.P. Wouters studied anthropology in Amsterdam, Oxford, and Shillong. Presently he is a Senior Lecturer at Royal Thimphu College in Bhutan. Before that, he taught at Sikkim Central University and Eberhard Karls University. Over the past years, he has done ethnographic and historical research in the Naga highlands, writing about vernacular democracy and elections, political conflict, kinship and social bonds, and social history. He has published a dozen articles on Nagaland and India's Northeast in Contributions to Indian Sociology, Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Studies in History, Asian Anthropology, Economic and Political Weekly, among others. See less