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Contemporary Religiosities

The last decade has seen an unexpected return of the religious, and with it the creation of new k...

The Retreat of the Social

The powerful individualist and subjectivist turn in anthropology - a turn that cannot be easily s...

Aesthetics in Performance

In various ways, the essays presented in this volume explore the structures and aesthetic possibi...

Celebration of Demons

The Sinhalese exorcism rituals are perhaps the most complex and the most magnificent in performan...

Beyond Rationalism

This book seeks a reconsideration of the phenomenon of sorcery and related categories. The contri...

In the Event

Events aregenerative momentsin at least three senses: events are created by and condense larg...

Celebration of Demons

The Sinhalese exorcism rituals are perhaps the most complex and the most magnificent in performan...

Against Exoticism

Anthropology begins in the encounter with theexotic : what stands outside of and challenges con...

Democracy’s Paradox

Does populism indicate a radical crisis in Western democratic political systems? Is it a revolt b...

The World Trade Center and Global Crisis

Numerous humanly caused destructions of just the last hundred years dwarf the World Trade Cent...

Legends of People, Myths of State

The civil war in Sri Lanka and the part that nationalism seemed to play in it inspired the writin...

Egalitarian Dynamics