Bhrigupati Singh is an associate professor of anthropology and sociology at Ashoka University in India, visiting associate professor of psychiatry at Brown University and a research fellow at the Carney Institute for Brain Science, both in Rhode Island, US. His books include Poverty and the Quest for Life: Spiritual and Material Striving in Rural India (2015) and, as co-editor, The Ground Between: Anthropologists Engage Philosophy (2014).