Janet Hoskins

  • Professor of Anthropology and Religion
  • USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Office: (213) 740-1913

Expertise Summary

Expert in Southeast Asia, non-Western mythology and gender relations in the Pacific

Expertise

  • Vietnam's indigenous religions
  • Indonesia's indigenous religions
  • Headhunting in Southeast Asia
  • Refugees from Southeast Asia
  • Migrants from Vietnam in Europe
  • Buddhism in Southeast Asia
  • Human rights in Vietnam and Indonesia
  • Caodaism - a new religion from Vietnam
  • Covid-19 in Vietnam
  • Shamanism
  • Spiritism
  • Gender pluralism in Southeast Asia

Languages

  • English
  • French
  • Vietnamese
  • Indonesian

Additional Information

  • President, Society for the Anthropology of Religion, American Anthropological Association (2011-2013)
  • Author of The Play of Time: Kodi Perspectives on Calendars, History and Exchange (1993); Biographical Objects: How Things Tell the Stories of Peoples’ Lives (1998); and The Divine Eye and the Diaspora:  Vietnamese Syncretism becomes Transpacific Caodaism (2015)
  • Editor of Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia (1996); Fragments from Forests and Libraries (2000); The Forest of Taboos by Valerio Valeri (2000); and Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field (2014)