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1876
Elizabeth Ferry and Stephen Ferry, "La Batea" (...
A collaboration between anthropologist Elizabeth Ferry and her photographer brother Stephen, it combines text and images to paint a picture of the lives of small-scale miners in Colombia in a unique and powerful way...
60 min
1877
Sam van Schaik, "Buddhist Magic: Divination, He...
As far back as we can see in the historical record, Buddhist monks and nuns have offered services including healing, divination, rain making, aggressive magic, and love magic to local clients..,,
45 min
1878
Robert M. Geraci, "Temples of Modernity: Nation...
What is the relationship between science, religion and technology in Hinduism?
42 min
1879
Ronit Ricci, "Banishment and Belonging: Exile a...
Ricci suggests that the island served as a concrete exilic site as well as a metaphor for imagining exile across religions, languages, space and time...
90 min
1880
Fabio Rambelli, "Spirits and Animism in Contemp...
In Japan, a country popularly perceived as highly secularized and technologically advanced, ontological assumptions about spirits (tama or tamashii) seem to be quite deeply ingrained in the cultural fabric...
51 min
1881
Nicholas H. A. Evans, "Far from the Caliph’s Ga...
Evans offers a sustained and compelling critique of the doubt/belief binary in the anthropology of religion and Islam,..
44 min
1882
Joshua Esler, "Tibetan Buddhism among Han Chine...
Esler sheds light on this recent development in Sino-Tibetan Buddhism that is gaining increasing momentum in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan...
59 min
1883
Stephanie Newell, "Histories of Dirt: Media and...
Newell, along with a team of researchers across a variety of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, explore this idea of “dirt” across the long 20th century...
44 min
1884
Sarah Shulist, "Transforming Indigenity: Urbani...
Shulist examines the role that language revitalization efforts play in cultural politics in the small city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, located in the Brazilian Amazon.,.
53 min
1885
S. Lawreniuk and L. Parsons, "Going Nowhere Fas...
Lawreniuk and Parsons brings together more than a decade’s worth of research during one of the most consequential moments in Cambodian history.,,
79 min
1886
Durba Mitra, "Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and th...
Mitra shows how deviant female sexuality, particularly the concept of the prostitute, became foundational to this knowledge project and became the primary way to think and write about Indian society...
43 min
1887
Rachel V. González, "Quinceañera Style: Social ...
A quinceañera is a traditional fifteenth birthday celebration for young women (though in contemporary times, it can also be for young men) in many Latinx communities...
64 min
1888
David Livingstone Smith, "On Inhumanity: Dehuma...
Smith takes an unflinching look at the mechanisms of the mind that encourage us to see someone as less than human...
63 min
1889
Ann-elise Lewallen, "The Fabric of Indigeneity:...
Combining ethnographic fieldwork in contemporary Ainu communities and organizations with museum and archival research, Dr. Lewallen shows how Ainu women engage in the “self-craft” of identities and cultural viability through clothwork...
72 min
1890
Jack Santino, "Public Performances: Studies in ...
Santino offers a deep and wide-ranging exploration of relationships among genres of public performance and of the underlying political motivations they share...
65 min
1891
Jean Jackson, "Managing Multiculturalism: Indig...
Jean Jackson narrates her remarkable journey as an anthropologist in Colombia for over 50 years.,.
55 min
1892
Sai Balakrishnan, "Shareholder Cities: Land Tra...
Balakrishnan examines the novel phenomenon of the conversion of agrarian landowners into urban shareholders in India’s newly emerging “corridor cities.”
47 min
1893
Ezra Cappell and Jessica Lang, "Off the Derech:...
This book combines powerful first-person accounts with incisive scholarly analysis to understand the phenomenon of ultra-Orthodox Jews who leave their insular communities and venture into the wider world.,,
39 min
1894
Dana M. Malone, "From Single to Serious: Relati...
Malone shines a light on friendship, dating, and, sexuality, in both the ideals and the practical experiences of heterosexual students at U. S. evangelical colleges....
70 min
1895
Judith Mair, "The Routledge Handbook of Festiva...
Mair offers a comprehensive evaluation of the most current research, debates, and controversies surrounding festivals...
44 min
1896
Sandra Young, "The Early Modern Global South in...
Young proposes a new set of terms with which to understand the racialized imaginary inscribed in the scholarly texts that presented the peoples of the south as objects of an inquiring gaze from the north...
70 min
1897
C. De Beukelaer and K. M. Spence, "Global Cultu...
How should we understand the role of cultural industries in contemporary society?
41 min
1898
Brad Walters, "The Greening of Saint Lucia: Eco...
Walter's book based on the results of a long-term, field-based research project that began in 2006...
66 min
1899
Marco Puleri, "Ukrainian, Russophone, (Other) R...
Puleri examines a complex process of identity formation in the context of exposure to a diversity of linguistic and cultural influences...
53 min
1900
Harriet Evans, "Beijing from Below: Stories of ...
Between the early 1950s and the accelerated demolition and construction of Beijing's “old city” in preparation for the 2008 Olympics, the residents of Dashalar—one of the capital city's poorest neighborhoods...
84 min