Joshua Esler, “Tibetan Buddhism among Han Chinese: Mediation and Superscription of the Tibetan Tradition in Contemporary Chinese Society” (Lexington Books, 2020)

Post date 24th September 2020
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While Tibetan Buddhism continues to face restrictions and challenges imposed by the state in contemporary China, it has in fact entered mainstream Chinese society with a growing middle-class …

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Post date 24th September 2020
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Agitated children, turbulent trajectories: Towards a comparison between Europe and South America – a workshop report by Álvaro Jiménez Molina

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This article describes the main discussions and contributions of the first workshop of the International Research Network on Disruptive Behaviours. The workshop was held at the “Centre for…

Post date 21st May 2018
Post author By Álvaro Jiménez Molina
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Kocku von Stuckrad, “The Scientification of Religion: An Historical Study of Discursive Change, 1800-2000”

New Books in Anthropology

Science and religion are often paired as diametric opposites. However, the boundaries of these two fields were not always as clear as they seem to be today. In…

Post date 6th July 2015
Post author By Kristian Petersen
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Heaven knows pop’s miserable now

Post date 7th February 2020
Post author By Alberto Acerbi
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Ceci N’est Pas un Contact: the Fetishization of Isolated Indigenous People [Excerpt]

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Words matter. Peruvian legislation recognizes two categories of indigenous peoples with little or no interaction with outsiders and the state: “peoples in voluntary isolation” and “peoples in initial…

Post date 27th May 2016
Post author By Glenn H. Shepard
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