and postcoloniality, but China has been an empire in the modern sense since the mid– eighteenth century, when it conquered vast lands north and west of “China proper.”1 his history has been largely hidden from view because of two unacknowledged obsessions: the fetishization of Western empires over other empires and the prevailing discourse of Chinese victimhood at the hands of Western empires. ...

We explore a theory of morphology grounded in the outlook of the Parallel Architecture (PA, Jackendoff 2002), drawing in large part on Construction Morphology (Booij 2010). The fundamental goal is to describe what a speaker stores and in what form, and to describe how this knowledge is put to use in constructing novel utterances. A basic tenet of PA is that linguistic structure is built out of ...

. cross-cultural understanding dates back to the discovery of the third world, its peoples, and its religions. along this, the place of studying other peoples came in view. demography and orientalism were two disciplines which first aimed at studying other peoples regardless of their beliefs. after some thirty years, emphasis was laid on their beliefs, too. today after disproof of the anticipat...

Abstract This article assesses the merits of Dana Logan’s Awkward Rituals as a notable anthropological intervention in study American religions, one that opens significant converse with Asian ritual traditions, mediated by colonial history. It suggests book presents genealogically measured theoretical advance to tradition studies.