Argues that the dairy industry in Japan has always been entwined with notions of Otherness and security seeking, notably in terms of frontiers.

A comparative study of wonder in South Asian religions.

Presents Tantra from an ethnographic vantage point, through a series of case studies grounded in diverse settings across contemporary Asia.

Offers a fresh approach to the problem of the human figure in an age of digital cinema.

Explores mountain regions as cultural landscapes that have been shaped by long-term human-environment interactions.

Takes a multicultural, interdisciplinary approach to the rhetoric of science to expand our
toolkit for the collective management of global risks like climate change and pandemics.

Applies a method of comparative cultural hermeneutics to let the tradition speak on its own terms.

Argues that truth, moral right, political right, and aesthetic value may be understood as arising out of a naturalist account of humanity, if naturalism is rightly conceived.

Details the textual and performative history of the South Asian festival of Indra and its role in the development of classical Hinduism.

Claims unconscious desire plays a constitutive role in global political economy.

This critical reader brings together both essential as well as under-recognized writings from the work of Don Ihde, one of the most important contemporary thinkers on technology and human experience.

Reveals how the persona of India's most famous emperor was constantly reinvented in ancient times to suit a variety of social visions, political agendas, and moral purposes.

Explores the delicate interplay between emigration of Jews from Israel to Germany and the construction of a new identity in the shadow of antisemitism both past and present in their new home.

Contextualizes Sabha Theatre historically, politically, and aesthetically, revealing how it expresses a Tamil Brahmin identity that is at once traditional and modern.

Uses a comparative hermeneutical method to explain the most important terms in the classical Confucian philosophical texts, in an effort to allow the tradition to speak on its own terms.

Explores how discussion of LGBTQ+ themes in a high-school literature course can foster ethical engagement among students.

Provides a theoretical and practical guide to community-engaged scholarship with Indigenous peoples in the United States and Canada.

Explores the duality between humans and Earth through a focus on the economic system changes that began with grain agriculture and has now reached its apogee in global capitalism.

Describes the profound social impact of the overthrow of the Thai absolute monarchy in 1932, and explains the importance of democracy in a country long known for authoritarian politics.

Explores the rich diversity of narratives, rituals, and participants connected with one of the most important celebrations for Hindus in South Asia and in the diaspora.

Chronicles the astonishing and counterintuitive spread of Christianity among a group of previously isolated tribes in a remote and hilly part of Northeastern India.

Ethnography situating the contemporary financial services industry in the US Virgin Islands within broader histories of racial capitalism and gender inequality.

Offers a strong critique of traditional anthropological studies from an Indigenous and postcolonial perspective.

Historical and theoretical discussions that describe and reflect on personal objects from a variety of perspectives.

Comparative, ethnographic study of women who migrate for marriage in rural north India.

Elucidates how neoliberalism rules all areas of life and operates as a form of common sense, taking Mexico as a case study.

Gripping account of the life of the Russian Tsar’s last chief of security and intelligence.

Explores how a folk ballad in southern India transforms the landscape and embeds the deities that are its subject within the social worlds of their devotees.

Draws upon the situated work of professional coffee tasters in over a dozen countries to shed light on the methods we use to convert subjective experience into objective knowledge.

Addresses the revolutionary impact of genetics, isotopes, and data science on the study of migration and mobility in past human societies.

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

Brings together archaeologists, art historians, sociologists, and classicists to explore the origins and development of unequal relationships in ancient societies.

Pioneering essays that demonstrate the significance of the seasons for philosophy, environmental thought, anthropology, cultural studies, aesthetics, poetics, and literary criticism.

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.

Articulates the relationships between kinship, racial ideology, mixed blood treaty provisions, and landscape transformation in the Great Lakes region.

Examines the thought of W. E. B. Du Bois, with attention to its potential for reorienting present-day critical theory and political philosophy.

Examines policies, norms, and classroom practices of the US and Mexican education systems, with the aim of preparing educators to understand and help transnational children and youth.

Examines the culture and chronology of increasingly complex urban societies in western Anatolia during the Early Bronze Age.

Examines the significant impact of Dutch traders and settlers on the early history of Northeastern North America, and their relationships with its Indigenous peoples.

Examines the key role of a hagiographer within a charismatic religious movement.

Reconsiders the legacy of an important Hasidic mystic, leader, and educator who confronted the dilemmas of modernity after World War I and whose writing constitutes a unique testimony to religious experience and its rupture in the Warsaw Ghetto.

A gender studies textbook that takes an anthropological approach.

Embraces the problems and solutions posed by the dynamic dance of digital technology with the traditions of craftsmanship and perceived value in jewelry.

Essays in the field of comparative world religions and corresponding axial civilizations.

Broadens the parameters of religious studies by accounting for material acts that help shape religious worlds.

Traces how alternative food movements are affected by global and local trends, with a focus on how organic agriculture was integrated in Israel.

Investigates the professional practices of astrologers in urban India and their popularity among the educated middle and upper classes.

The first in-depth study of the All World Gayatri Pariwar, a modern Indian religious movement.

A celebration of Anishinaabe intellectual tradition.

Argues that Confucianism and other East Asian philosophical traditions can be resources for understanding and addressing current global challenges such as climate change and hunger.

The second volume of the first in-depth study of a range of literature written by Native Americans who attended government-run boarding schools.

The first book to offer a detailed framework, a fine-grained history, and an analytically nuanced understanding of one of the rarest branches of Hindu worship.

Explores the interplay of religion and food in Native American cultures.

A comprehensive and theory-rich investigation of the history and philosophy of yoga, from its Indian origins to the contemporary context.

Argues that plantation life, its racialized inequities, and the ongoing struggle against them are embedded in not only the physical structures but also the everyday workings of higher education.

Translation of Alexandre Leupin’s award-winning study of Édouard Glissant’s entire work in relation to philosophy.

A significant contribution to anthropology, history, and gender studies that reveals the denials of homosexuality in traditional and contemporary African societies to be rooted in colonialist ideologies.

Explores the civic activism of the Palestinian minority in Israel for a better understanding of the relationship between civic activism and democratization in ethnic states.

The gripping memoir of a young man’s struggle with his sexuality and Muslim identity, culminating in his rise to the Dutch Parliament.

Inspiring collection narrating how peace activists found their calling and why the world still needs peace activism.