Introduction / Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart -- Religion, experience and change -- Healing / Geoffrey Samuel -- Embodiment, performance, and healing / Anne Sigfrid Grønseth -- Mortuary rituals / Satsuki Kawano -- Ritual, myth and creativity -- Anthropology, dreams and creativity / Katie Glaskin -- Sacrifice / Kathryn McClymond -- Charisma and myth / Raphael Falco -- Work, play and gender -- Secular rituals / Margit Warburg -- Anthropology of sport / John Traphagan -- Gender / Victoria Goddard -- Gendered spaces in anthropology / Susan Rasmussen -- Studies of world religions -- Christianity / Simon Coleman -- The anthropology of islam / David W. Montgomery -- Perspectives on violence and globalization -- Ethnographies of political violence / Sami Hermez -- Warfare and ritual in anthropology / Bryan Hanks -- Globalization and its contradictions / Thomas Hylland Eriksen -- Emergent themes -- Languages in change / Jonathan Hill and Juan Luis Rodriguez -- Indigenous knowledge / Paul Sillitoe -- Philosophy in anthropology / Nigel Rapport -- Anthropology and the Iliad / Margo Kitts -- Disaster anthropology / Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew J. Strathern.