Examines the relationship of precarious employment to state policies on citizenship and social inclusion in the context of postapartheid South Africa.

The essential guide on how to teach about dreaming.

Explores the significance of levity and humor in South Asian religious traditions.

A comprehensive investigation of household life during the Upper Paleolithic era.

The potential of events for interpreting changes in the archaeological record.

New edition of Aihwa Ong’s classic ethnographic study of Malay women factory workers.

Advocating a global as opposed to a Eurocentric perspective in the college classroom, discusses why and how to teach about China's Silk Road.

An indispensable, up-to-date overview of the archaeology of the Native peoples and earliest settlers of eastern Massachusetts.

Explores the ways that immigrant youth identities are shaped by dominant discourses.

The diary of Mircea Eliade, the seminal thinker on religion, during the period he served as a diplomat in Portugal.

Examines the importance of fetishism in nineteenth-century cultural theory.

A look at the voluntary sector in Japan, which has emerged strongly only in recent years.

Explores the question of student silence from students’ perspectives and challenges the conventional wisdom about silent students.

A demographic portrait of gay and lesbian couples who live together in committed relationships.

A comprehensive cultural and historical portrait of Italian American identities in Boston’s North End.

Looks at perceptions of the miraculous in a variety of contemporary South Asian religious traditions-Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity.

Uses new critical approaches to demonstrate deep affinities in these vastly different filmmakers’ philosophies on film, fantasy, and reality.

The story of a 17th century Mohawk woman's interaction with her land, the Jesuits, and the religion they brought.

An interdisciplinary look at the dramatic changes in the contemporary Japanese family, including both empirical data and analyses of popular culture.

How Victorians reacted to the new sciences of geology and archaeology.

How perceptions of land and space influence social and aesthetic conditions in the Tamil region of India.

Anthropological case studies of the interplay of space, culture, and power in Iberia since 1850.

A comprehensive overview of Ayurveda.

A reconsideration of the relationship between fieldwork and anthropological knowledge.

Argues convincingly, if counterintuitively, that modern medicine has little impact on longevity or mortality.