The Companion to the Anthropology of Religion is a collection of specially-commissioned, ethnographically informed essays that address the varieties of religious experience in the contemporary world.[...]
Civilizing Women is a riveting exploration of the disparate worlds of British colonial officers and the Muslim Sudanese they sought to remake into modern imperial subjects. Focusing on efforts to stop female circumcision in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan between 1920 and 1946, Janice Boddy mines colonial [...]