Like many of the traditional medicines of South Asia, Ayurvedic practice transformed
dramatically in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With Doctoring Tradition …

The positive symptoms of psychosis largely involve the experience of illusory social actors,
and yet our current measures of social cognition, at best, only weakly predict their presence …

In response to an oft-encountered stance against semiotic or symbolic analysis in current
anthropological theory, I argue for a broader understanding of semiosis as inherently both …

While cross-disciplinary analysis of ghosts and haunting has burgeoned in recent decades,
much of this scholarship presumes the figure of the ghost as a less than literal apparition …

Bronislaw Malinowski's path-breaking research in the Trobriand Islands shaped much of
modern anthropology's disciplinary paradigm. Yet many conundrums remain. For example …

Taking the social agency of dead bodies as its main theme, this introduction discusses the
articles in this special section on the bioarchaeology of post-mortem agency and discusses …

In this article, I participate in efforts to re-imagine soils as lively, complex, more-than-human
ecologies, by turning to the largely sidestepped subject of spirituality in agriculture. Spiritual …

An experiment in ethnographic theory, this article aims to finds new ways of getting
Japanese spirit worlds into view. In the attempt to find ways of repopulating spirit worlds with …

This chapter explores three of the more significant answers that have gripped human
imagination and characterised particular cultures over millennia: the dead become …

In this ground-breaking new study, Teren Sevea reveals the economic, environmental and
religious significance of Islamic miracle workers (pawangs) in the nineteenth-and twentieth …