TY - JOUR AU - Nickolas Surawy Stepney PY - 2020/09/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Eating my words JF - Medicine Anthropology Theory JA - MAT VL - 7 IS - 2 SE - Field Notes DO - 10.17157/mat.7.2.803 UR - http://www.medanthrotheory.org/article/view/5012 AB - Language learning is common preparation for much anthropological fieldwork, but the choices researchers make in this area are distinctly political. Prompted by a chance encounter while studying Hindi, the author reflects on this realisation in view of the numerous languages spoken in India, the interactions involved in hospital-based research, and the place of language in Indian politics more broadly. ER -