The first academic explanation for how spectators use their imaginations as part of the experience and appreciation of popular fantasy filmmaking.

An in-depth, ethnographic study of the transnational expansion of Santo Daime, a mystical religious tradition organized around sacramental ingestion of the mind-altering ayahuasca beverage.

Shows how feminist writing in British Romanticism developed alternatives to linear time.

Explores questions of death and mortality in several key texts of East Asian literature and cinema.

The first work to offer a comprehensive pragmatist anthropology focusing on sensibility, habits, and human experience as contingently yet irreversibly enlanguaged.

Compares life today in the German Black Forest with Thoreau's experiences at Walden Pond.