Anthropology

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In Search of Tunga

Prosperity, Almighty God, and Lives in Motion in a Malian Provincial Town

By André Chappatte
Subjects: African Studies, Religion, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology
Series: African Perspectives

The lives of young male Muslim “adventurers” in a Malian town

Sojiji

Discipline, Compassion, and Enlightenment at a Japanese Zen Temple

By Joshua A. Irizarry
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Religion, Anthropology
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

An intimate and insightful look into the life of a head Sōtō Zen temple in 21st century Japan

Shugendo

Essays on the Structure of Japanese Folk Religion

By Hitoshi Miyake
Edited by H. Earhart
Subjects: Religion, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

The first comprehensive English translation of a foundational work on Japanese asceticism and folk religion

Cage of Freedom

Tamil Identity and the Ethnic Fetish in Malaysia

By Andrew C. Willford
Subjects: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Political Science, Religion

An ethnographic look at rituals across class and status among Malyasian Tamils

Islam and the Prayer Economy

History and Authority in a Malian Town

By Benjamin F. Soares
Subjects: African Studies, Anthropology, Religion, Islamic Studies

A close look at the changing terms of exchange between gifts and blessings

On the Banks of the Ganga

When Wastewater Meets a Sacred River

By Kelly D. Alley
Subjects: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Religion, Nature/Environment, Natural Resources

Explores the collision of sacred purity with environmental pollution of the river Ganga (Ganges)

Our Women Are Free

Gender and Ethnicity in the Hindukush

By Wynne R. Maggi
Subjects: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Gender Studies, Religion

An exploration of the lives of women among the Kalasha, a tiny, vibrant community in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province

Unconventional Sisterhood

Feminist Catholic Nuns in the Philippines

By Heather Lynn Claussen
Subjects: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Gender Studies, Religion

An unusual ethnography of Catholic sisters in the Philippines

Ecology and the Sacred

Engaging the Anthropology of Roy A. Rappaport

Edited by Ellen Messer & Michael Joshua Lambek
Subjects: Anthropology, Religion

A meaningful homage to an extraordinary anthropologist

The Middle East Remembered

Forged Identities, Competing Narratives, Contested Spaces

By Jacob Lassner
Subjects: Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Religion, Anthropology

A meditation on the art of history-writing in the medieval Near East

The Rope of God

By James T. Siegel
Subjects: Asian Studies, Anthropology, Religion, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

An ethnography of Aceh, Indonesia, by a master anthropologist

Gendered Missions

Women and Men in Missionary Discourse and Practice

Edited by Mary Taylor Huber & Nancy C. Lutkehaus
Subjects: Anthropology, History, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Religion

Explores the roles and expectations of women and men in Christian missionary experience

Comparing Jewish Societies

Edited by Todd M. Endelman
Subjects: Anthropology, Sociology, Religion
Series: The Comparative Studies in Society and History Book Series

Introduces a rigorous comparative dimension to the study of Jewish civilization and culture

Changing Lives, Changing Rites

Ritual and Social Dynamics in Philippine and Indonesian Uplands

Edited by Susan Russell, Clark E. Cunningham, and Clark Cunningham
Subjects: Anthropology, Sociology, Religion, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia

Seven papers explore the ways in which cultural identity and socioeconomic change among local societies in insular Southeast Asia are expressed in ritual

The Birth of the Gods

The Origin of Primitive Beliefs

By Guy E. Swanson
Subjects: Anthropology, Religion
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks
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