A significant contribution to anthropology, history, and gender studies that reveals the denials of homosexuality in traditional and contemporary African societies to be rooted in colonialist ideologies.

Argues that concern with the nation and national community will be a key factor in redefining twenty-first-century politics.

Evocative, innovative ethnography of spiritual practices and forms of queer, black, and indigenous life in the Dominican Republic.

Rethinks the role of Indigenous and non-Indigenous interactions in the production of ethnographic museum collections.

Offers an in-depth ethnography of paradigm shifts in the lifestyles and values of youth in post-growth Japan.

Argues for an important transformation in the construction of the self among Japanese converts to Roman Catholicism.

Explores the unprecedented and rapid climate changes occurring in the Arctic environment.

An ethnography of Russian teacher education reforms as scripted performances of political theater.

Through an examination of archaeologically recovered texts from China’s northwestern border regions, argues for widespread interaction with texts in the Han period.

A psychological study, based on extensive interview data, of Jewish adults who take on a devout lifestyle.

Explores the evolving role of botanic gardens from products and enablers of modernity and the nation-state, to their recent reinvention as institutions of environmental governance.

A multidisciplinary approach to the study of veganism, vegetarianism, and meat avoidance among Jews, both historical and contemporary.

A unique historical study of the personal nature of religion, spirituality, and healing in the twentieth century based on the letters of ordinary people from around the world.

Reveals how the expanding world-system entangled the non-western world in global economies, yet did so in ways that were locally articulated, varied, and, often, non-European in their expression.

Archaeologists, anthropologists, and classicists discuss how urbanization first emerged in strikingly different sociopolitical contexts in North America, Europe, and the Near East.

Chronicles the history and archaeological study of Lake George, New York’s sunken bateaux of 1758.

Explores the current and future trajectories of the paradigm of postsocialism.

Examines why many governments, rebels, and terrorist organizations are using children as soldiers.

Explores the contemporary nature and the diverse narratives, rituals, and performances of the Navarātri Festival.

Examines the effects of culturally specific interpretations of refugeehood with an ethnographic focus on Cyprus

Essays that examine globalization's effects with an emphasis on the interplay of race and rurality as it occurs across diverse geographies and peoples.

Captures how Indian Protestant Christians negotiate their religious and cultural identities within the Indian diaspora.

This volume brings social and cultural anthropologists into dialogue with historical sociology and illustrates the continued potential of the concept of civilization for all participants.

Examines the many ways water has contributed to power structures in the past, with insights for contemporary water management.

Explores how religious travel in India is transforming religious identities and self-constructions.