"Our Relations…the Mixed Bloods"
(April 2021)
Indigenous Transformation and Dispossession in the Western Great Lakes Larry Nesper - Author Michael S. Wiggins Jr. - With a Foreword by
Édouard Glissant, Philosopher
(April 2021)
Heraclitus and Hegel in the Whole-World Alexandre Leupin - Author Andrew Brown - Translator
Native Foodways
(March 2021)
Indigenous North American Religious Traditions and Foods Michelene E. Pesantubbee - Editor Michael J. Zogry - Editor
Till Kingdom Come
(January 2021)
Medieval Hinduism in the Modern Himalaya Lokesh Ohri - Author
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.
Hinduism, as is well known, has taken a multitude of shapes and forms. Some Hindu “little traditions” have remained obscure or understudied to this day due to their regional remoteness. One such offshoot is the influential ...(Read More)
South of the Future
(December 2020)
Marketing Care and Speculating Life in South Asia and the Americas Anindita Banerjee - Editor Debra A. Castillo - Editor
Unique interdisciplinary analysis of gendered and racialized economies of care in South Asia and the Americas.
South Asia and Latin America represent two epicenters of migrant care work and the globalized reproductive market. Yet scholars and the media continue to examine them in geographical and conceptual isolation. South of the Future closes both these gaps. It investigates nannying, elder care, domestic work, and othe...(Read More)
Evocative, innovative ethnography of spiritual practices and forms of queer, black, and indigenous life in the Dominican Republic.
Theoretically wide-ranging and deeply personal and poetic, Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty is based on more than three years of fieldwork in the Dominican Republic. Ana-Maurine Lara draws on her engagement in traditional ceremonies, observatio...(Read More)
Broadens the parameters of religious studies by accounting for material acts that help shape religious worlds.
In Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger analyzes the agency of materiality—the ability of materials to have an effect on both humans and deities—beyond human intentions. Using materials from three regions where Flueckiger conducted ex...(Read More)
Ceremony Men
(May 2020)
Making Ethnography and the Return of the Strehlow Collection Jason M. Gibson - Author
Rethinks the role of Indigenous and non-Indigenous interactions in the production of ethnographic museum collections.
By analyzing one of the world’s greatest collections of Indigenous song, myth, and ceremony—the collections of linguist/anthropologist T. G. H. Strehlow—Ceremony Men demonstrates how inextricably intertwined ethnographic collections can become in complex his...(Read More)
Argues for an important transformation in the construction of the self among Japanese converts to Roman Catholicism.
In many parts of the world, the Roman Catholic Church in the twenty-first century finds itself mired in scandal, and its future prospects appear fairly dim in the eyes of many social critics. In From Situated Selves to the Self, however, Hisako Omori finds a radically different situation, with jubilant...(Read More)
