...the still-young Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, sent expeditions into the West to collect American Indian artifacts for a planned display at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. With the...
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Crossing and conversion 
by Peter van der Veer
Crossing and conversion: Conclusion
by Peter van der Veer
...the world that are carried in language. Some linguistic anthropologists call this linguistic or semiotic ideology. Anthropologists of China and India have continuously been bothered by the question of “belief”...
A Universe of Terms ![]()
by Kajri Jain
media
...studies, anthropology, and area studies. Media were of interest to scholars of India’s religions before religion was of interest to those working on Indian media. Were it not for the...
Science and the soul: New inquiries into Islamic ethics 
by Anand Vivek Taneja
On intellectual hospitality and the plenitude of time: A response to Bardawil
by Anand Vivek Taneja
...am acutely aware of this writing from India, where I am currently doing fieldwork, and where the colonial historical project of vilifying Muslim rule in India has now become the...
Figurative publics: Crowds, protest, and democratic anxieties
Figurative publics: Crowds, protest, and democratic anxieties
Rethinking public religion: Word, image, sound
The elegy for good days: Encounters with Urdu poetry in Delhi
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto ![]()
by Craig Calhoun
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto
...plea for pursuing necessary knowledge. Bhutto’s assassination comes just three months after the 60th anniversary of Pakistan’s birth. The partition of what had been British India in August 1947 was...
Deathless questions and other interviews ![]()
by Joseph Blankholm
“Twin tolerations” today: An interview with Alfred Stepan
...then a specialist on comparative religion but I had traveled frequently to India, and I was absolutely certain that you don’t need secularism in the classic social science sense of...