Gananath “Obey” Obeyesekere, professor of anthropology, emeritus, died at his home in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on March 25. He was 95. An ethnographer of religion whose scholarship bridged the disciplines ...

This course is compulsory on the MSc in Social Anthropology (Religion in the Contemporary World). This course is available on the MA in Modern History, MRes/PhD in Anthropology, MSc in Anthropology ...

Tufts' religion and anthropology departments officially settled into their new homes in Eaton Hall yesterday, christening their offices with a celebration attended by professors, students and ...

The Manavu chapel is a building of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Sam Hardy said Latter-day Saint teenagers and teenagers from other religious traditions are leaving religion behind ...

The spiritual and the sacred are fundamental to social life—even in contexts we understand to be entirely secular. By applying classical and contemporary anthropological theories to the study of ...

Environmental ethics, religion and ecology, climate change and disasters, environmental and climate justice, indigenous environmentalism and sustainability, posthumanism, relational cosmopolitics, ...

The curious case of Christianity in the history of anthropology. On one level, the premise of Timothy Larsen's new book is straightforward. If you are like most people who know anything at all about ...

Nicholas Holowka joined the department as an assistant professor beginning January 2020. Nick conferred his PhD from Stony Brook University in 2015. He was recently a postdoctoral fellow in human ...