Balancing Acts: An Ethnographer’s Thoughts on Studying Religion
Anthropologists sometimes study sensitive topics and it is therefore not uncommon for ethnographic work to attract serious criticism along such lines. In …
God’s Daily Briefings: Religious Leadership in a Global Pandemic
TILAK PAREKH The Voice of God Religious leaders possess immense power and influence. Believers may listen to government ministers or public health …
Hinduism & Coronavirus: How The Digital Becomes Sacred
TILAK PAREKH The coronavirus has led to seismic and widespread changes across all nodes of society, not least, religion. In a recent …
A Cultural Zoo: Shaligram Stone in an Ammonite World
Author: Holly Walters, a cultural anthropologist at Wellesley College, United States. Her work focuses on religion, language, and ritual practice in South …
Living Fossils
One of the most popular jokes among anthropologists is how often our work is mistaken for palaeontology. Almost every one of my …
Rajalakshmi Nadadur Kannan: Copyright, capitalism, and a postcolonial critique of Karnatic music
Karnatic music, or South Indian classical music, is understood as “religious” music, deemed to be “divinely inspired,” and performers are seen as …