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.