James StaplesJames Staples is reader in social anthropology at Brunel University. He is the author of Leprosy and a Life in South India: Journeys with a Tamil Brahmin (Lexington Books, 2014) and Peculiar People, Amazing Lives: Leprosy, Social Exclusion and Communty Making in South India (Orient Longman, 2007); editor of Livelihoods at the Margins: Surviving the City (Left Coast Press, 2007); and coeditor of Extraordinary Encounters: Authenticity and the Interview (Berghahn, 2015). Read More Read Less