A groundbreaking work that treats writing as a ritual practice and texts as ritual objects.

How the computer revolution can ease polarization and help calm the culture wars.

Explores how tradition and modernity coexist in regional Japan, arguing that the rural/urban dichotomy is outmoded for understanding this contemporary society.

This is the first general theory of time-consciousness and social experience ever developed.

Examines the backpacking trip usually taken by Israeli youth following military service.

Examines the economic activities of self-employed brickmakers and the unpaid family members and others who assist them in Mexico.

Examines the Góral, a little-studied ethnic group in Poland.

Examines the growing popularity of alternative medicine as a personal health care option.

Examines how small firms, like large ones, are mobilizing to compete in a global economy.

A surprising look at how the Internet does, and does not, affect public discourse and social practice in the Middle East and Kuwait in particular.

Interviews with fourteen pioneers in psychedelic research.

Interrogates the comfortable and stable contours of "home," asking what it means to women in different social, class, sexual, ethnic, and racial contexts in different times and places.

Looks at how foreigners were regarded in three ancient civilizations, finding that cultural, not biophysical, differences were key in distinguishing "us" from "them. "

The first comprehensive account of the ethical issues facing biological anthropologists today.

Chronicles the growing impact of job uncertainty on workers in Europe.

A fascinating look at fans of a variety of popular culture phenomena in Japan.

Uses the world's fair of 1992 to spotlight changes in the political cultures of Spain and Europe.

Offers an analysis of the dynamics of Taiwan's export-oriented industrialization, particularly its impact on women and other workers.

Focuses on the lives of female Hindu ascetics and the significance of gender to the tradition of renunciation.

Addresses how shepherding communities in Israel and the Middle East might be preserved.

An exploration of Hindu women’s folk religion focusing on goddess worship and women’s rituals.

Explores the social and political history of the Qu`ayti and Kathiri sultanates of Hadhramawt during their gradual incorporation into the British Empire.

Confronts major questions facing anthropology, Marxist theory, cultural studies, feminism, and history.

A comparative analysis of the social and cultural dimensions of nationalism in the Middle East.

Applies narrative analysis to the study of social movements.