Description: Contributions from scholars in anthropology, religion, and area studies -- stemming from research in East and Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas - collected to represent a form of historically grounded, ethnographically driven social science that seeks to understand social phenomena by dialogically engaging global and local perspectives
Brief description: Felicity Aulino is a medical anthropologist and ethnographic filmmaker with primary area specialization in Thailand. She is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Massachusett s Amherst and the Five College Consortium Program in Culture, Health, and Science.
Review Quotes: Essays that reflect Stanley Tambiah's approach to historically grounded anthropology.-- "--The Chronicle of Higher Education"