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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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