Sacralizing the Diaspora: Cosmopolitan and Originalist Indigenous Religions

Janet Alison Hoskins is Professor of Anthropology and Religion at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She is author of The Play of Time: Kodi Perspectiveson Calendars, History and Exchange (University of California Press, 1994), which won the 1996 Benda Prize for Southeast Asian Studies; Biographical Objects: How Things Tell the Story of People’s Lives (Routledge, 1998) and The Divine Eye and the Diaspora: Vietnamese Syncretism Becomes Transpacific Caodaism (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015). She is also the contributing editor of Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field (with Viet Thanh Nguyen, University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014), Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia (Stanford University Press, 1996); Anthropology as a Search for the Subject: The Space Between One Self and Another (Donizelli, 1999); and Fragments from Forests and Libraries (Carolina Academic Press, 2000).