The last decade has seen an unexpected return of the religious, and with it the creation of new k...

The powerful individualist and subjectivist turn in anthropology - a turn that cannot be easily s...

In various ways, the essays presented in this volume explore the structures and aesthetic possibi...

This book seeks a reconsideration of the phenomenon of sorcery and related categories. The contri...

Events aregenerative momentsin at least three senses: events are created by and condense larg...

The Sinhalese exorcism rituals are perhaps the most complex and the most magnificent in performan...

Analyzing both historical contexts and geographical locations, this volume explores the continuou...

Anthropology begins in the encounter with theexotic : what stands outside of and challenges con...

Does populism indicate a radical crisis in Western democratic political systems? Is it a revolt b...

Numerous humanly caused destructions of just the last hundred years dwarf the World Trade Cent...

The civil war in Sri Lanka and the part that nationalism seemed to play in it inspired the writin...