Explores the cultural dynamics of this ancient form of Sanskrit theater.

Multifaceted exploration of the dimensions of education for climate justice.

A comparative study of wonder in South Asian religions.

Details the textual and performative history of the South Asian festival of Indra and its role in the development of classical Hinduism.

Claims unconscious desire plays a constitutive role in global political economy.

Provides a theoretical and practical guide to community-engaged scholarship with Indigenous peoples in the United States and Canada.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Assesses the range and magnitude of Robert Gardner’s achievements as a filmmaker, photographer, writer, educator, and champion of independent cinema.

Looks at southern Chinese martial arts traditions and how they have become important to local identity and narratives of resistance.

Thorough exploration of the distinct culture of the Mappila Muslims of Kerala, India.

Examines the lives of recent Russian-Jewish immigrants in Germany.

David N. Keightley’s seminal essays on the origins of Chinese society are brought together in one volume.

Traces the historical dimensions of Native North American drama using a critical perspective.

Interdisciplinary celebration of the cultural contributions of members of the African Diaspora in the Western hemisphere.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

Written by leading women scholars, this first and only book published about Lithuanian women details the historical, social, economic, and political issues affecting women during the transition from communism to democracy.

Uses ethnographic tools to analyze political disorder and its representation at the end of the Cold War.

Examines American and Middle Eastern texts in studies of Orientalism and Occidentalism, and argues for a new approach to cultural studies that incorporates a wider variety of materials.

Guides students through the step-by-step procedure of qualitative social research using the dialogical hermeneutic method of analysis.

This collection of essays addresses two major issues of contemporary culture: the problem of violence in relation to notions of "difference" and power; and the role of mediation in making possible non-conflictive play of cultural differences.

Based on qualitative and quantitative studies in the United States and Puerto Rico, this book demonstrates the significant effect of patients' and health care providers' ethnic and cultural backgrounds on chronic pain.

Placing identity within its cultural context, Fitzgerald offers ethnographic case material to examine the meaning and changing metaphors of ethnicity, male and female identity, and aging and identity. ...

This book investigates cultural and social identity in contemporary complex societies, focusing especially on Eastern Europe. Mach explains the role of symbols and symbolic forms in he relations between ...

This book contains the most recent research in the intrinsically interdisciplinary field of Sephardic Studies. It provides new insights into Sephardic history, culture, folklore, languages, music, and ...

Portelli offers a new and challenging approach to oral history, with an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective. Examining cultural conflict and communication between social groups and classes ...

This book is a study of the relationship between ethnicity and socioeconomic status. it is the first to empirically study both the white and nonwhite underclass. Jiobu uses United States census data on ...

Designed as a reader for courses, this anthology presents an array of theories and interpretations in the field of modern cultural anthropology. It provides a deeper understanding of the major theoretical ...