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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.