Bøger i Articulating Journeys: Festivals, Memorials, and Homecomings serien

Based on long-term, multi-sited fieldwork, Waiting for Elijah is an intimate portrait of time-reckoning, syncretism and proximity in one of the world's most polarized places, the Bosnian Field of Gacko.

Focusing on the spatial dynamics of Muharram processions in the Iranian city, this book offers an alternative approach to understanding the process of urban transformation, and puts forward a spatial genealogy of Muharram rituals that provides a platform for developing a fresh spatial approach to ritual studies.

This collection brings ethnographic insight into the ever more topical question of homemaking, exploring a diverse range of socio-political contexts worldwide (from Jewish returnees from Israel to Ukraine to young gay South Asians in London) and provoking new understandings of the material and symbolic process of making oneself "at home."