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

The very institution of the state is widely conceived of as inseparable from war. If it constitut...

Analyzing both historical contexts and geographical locations, this volume explores the continuou...

The state is frequently conceived as a universal, although one apparently extraordinarily difficu...

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

As corporate practices are becoming more fused with state processes, the state itself is increasi...

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

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

Events are 'generative moments' in at least three senses: events are created by and condense larg...

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

Anthropology begins in the encounter with the 'exotic': what stands outside of-and challenges-con...

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