SKYROS CARNIVAL is the 2nd volume in the VoxLox book series of art/anthropology dialogues. It features sixty color and black and white photographs by Dick Blau, an ethnographic essay by Agapi Amanatidis and Panayotis Panopoulos, and a CD and DVD by Steven Feld. In the book’s opening pages, each of the collaborators describes their role and [...]

New from Oxford University Press Edited by Ute Husken and Frank Neubert In common understanding, but also in scholarly discourse, ritual has been long viewed as an undisputed and indisputable part of (especially religious) tradition, performed over and over in the same ways: stable in form, meaningless, preconcieved, and with the aim of creating harmony [...]

New from Oxford University Press By Frederique Apffel-Marglin Even in the twenty-first century some two-thirds of the world’s peoples–the world’s social majority–quietly live in non-modern, non-cosmopolitan places. In such places the multitudinous voices of the spirits, deities, and other denizens of the other-than-human world continue to be heard, continue to be loved or feared or [...]

Oxford University Press announces the publication of Ritual, Media, and Conflict. The book can be purchased either from the Press or through the Ritual Studies Bookshop. Rituals can provoke, initiate, or escalate conflict. In Iraq suicide attacks, beheadings, and “surgical” bombings were both ritualized and mediatized as strategies for legitimizing violence. Smuggled video images of [...]

Corinne A. Kratz’s Affecting Performance has been reissued, making available a major work in performance studies, linguistic anthropology, ritual and symbolic studies, and African studies. A classic study widely used in the classroom, the book examines how ceremonial performance works and the contradictory dynamics of gender and ethnicity in Okiek initiation ceremonies in Kenya. Combining [...]