Immigrants in Classical Greece, Imperial Rome, and Tang China
A review of My Neighbor the Barbarian: Immigrant Neighborhoods in Classical Athens, Imperial Rome, and Tang Chang’an, by Ryan Russell…
Religious Autobiography in Pre-Colonial South Asia
A review of The Searching Self: Religious Autobiography in Pre-Colonial South Asia, by Chloe Anne Martinez. It was common, in…
Bagpiping in the Indian Himalayas
Listening to Postcolonial Sounds: Fieldwork on Bagpiping in the Indian Himalayas It’s a hot morning in September, 2013, and I’m…
Multiple Personality & Social Movements
A review of Know Thyselves: Theorizing Multiple Personality through Social Movements, by Jennifer Taylor. Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), formerly known…
Death, Gender & Tradition in Nepal & Tibet
A review of Death, Gender and Extraordinary Knowing: The Delog (’das log) Tradition in Nepal and Eastern Tibet, by Mary…
Evangelical Christianity & Sri Lanka State Formation
A review of The Effects of Evangelical Christianity on State Formation in Sri Lanka, by Oshan Fernando. Oshan Fernando’s The…