BOOKS:
FORTHCOMING BOOKS:
Cultural Models: Genesis, Typology and Experiences. Oxford: Oxford University Press
2012 - (in press) Macedonia: The Political, Social, Economic and Cultural Foundations of a
Balkan State. Co-edited with Ljupcho Risteski. London: I.B. Tauris.
PUBLISHED BOOKS:
2011 - A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology. New York: Wiley. Co-edited with David
Kronenfeld, Giovanni Bennardo, and Michael Fischer.
2009 - Experiencing Vilnius: Voices on the Process of Othering. Vilnius: Leidykla Kronta.
2009 - Research Design and Field Methods. New York: Altamira.
2002 - Special Issue: Edgy Paradigms: Strategies for doing Comparative Analysis. Guest editor for
special issue of Anthropological Theory 2 (1).
2000 - Comparative Research and Cultural Units. Guest editor for special issue of Ethnology 39 (4).
2000 - Culture, Self, and Meaning. Prospect Heights (IL): Waveland Press.
1999 - New Trends in the Culture of Work in Sri Lanka. Guest Editor for Anthropology of Work
Review 19 (3).
1998 - Romantic Love and Sexual Practices: Perspectives from the Social Sciences. Editor.
Westport (CN): Praeger.
1998 - Using Methods in the Field: a Practical Introduction and Casebook. Co-edited with Elisa J.
Sobo. Walnut Creek (CA): Altamira
1993 - Seasonal Cycles: Change and Continuity in a Sri Lankan Community. New Delhi: Asian
Educational Services.
RESEARCH AREAS:
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Eastern Eruope--Macedonia, Lithuania, Albania.
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South Asia--Sri Lanka
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U.S.
RESEARCH TOPICS:
Cultural models, cognition, cultural evolution; globalization; social and psychoanalytical
dynamics-how social structure and its properties are independent of (have nothing to do with, and
often are antithetical to) psychological aspects of being human; globalization as a continuation of
cultural evolution and as leading to a radical rupture in human lifeways, culture and nation-state
polities; romantic love cross culturally as a means for finding transcendent meaning and as a
universal bonding agent used also to construct group solidarity and life meanings; Psychedelics--a
means to broaden the human experience into the unknown whatever that may be.
SUPERVISING:
I have acted as a Masters and PHD supervisor in Lithuania, Maceodnia, Sri Lanka, the U.S. and
Ireland.