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.