Janet Hoskins
- Professor of Anthropology and Religion
- USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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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)