This book explores how religion is and has been created, transmitted, embodied and changed in specific locations in late imperial, modern and contemporary Taiwan and China. Locating research not only on temples, mosques, churches, schools, tea houses, festival sites, burial grounds and shrines, but also cities, neighbourhoods, counties and districts, it explores the rich, and often overlooked, details that fill the lived experience of people doing religion. Seeking to focus on interactions between place, text and agency, this book aims to reflect on the layered and specific histories that develop as a consequence of this interplay. By reducing the scale of the studies to a specific locale, phenomena such as religious change, conversion practice, individual transformation and the transmission of texts, authority, and charisma, can be reappraised.

The contributors to this volume explore questions such as: How do the particular circumstances of time and place shape religious experience? What is specific to a location that influences the nature of religious practice there? What religious power is embodied in a place? How are narratives created around a location? What is characteristic of the religious world in a particular place? In particular, and in different ways, they ask how and why individual texts or sets of texts are transmitted in a particular place at a particular time, how such specific circumstances influence the transmission of authority within a group (or help to disperse that authority), and how authority and charisma are related to specific locations.

《跨‧文化：人類學與心理學的視野》不是一本普通的書，它的催生動力來自一甲子的累積、推進與迸發。本書包含14篇研究論文，在人類學與心理學的文化研究領域都展現了跨越的企圖心，除了各篇共通地在研究議題上的跨越，還有幾項較明顯的跨越類別，分別集結於「跨時間的台灣原住民族研究」、「跨學科的社會文化心理研究」和「跨境域的比較性人類學研究」三個標題之下呈現。撰寫此書各章論文者，以民族學研究所的研究人員為主，藉由難得的六十週年所慶留下研究印記，回饋長年滋育個人學術生命的民族學研究所，更期望透過此專書的出版，與學界、社會大眾共同分享研究成果。

《當代巫文化的多元面貌》一書為華語世界巫文化研究的田野與理論對話交流，將比較視野從臺灣擴展到鄰近區域的中國南北方及東南亞。十五篇文章的作者各自在不同的田野地點從事長期與深入的調查，提出1990年迄今新的現況調查資料，顯現巫文化當代的多元面貌。本書著重國家與地方社會互動下特有的時空脈絡，強調不同地區巫信仰文化的獨特性，並使用當地的專有詞彙及語言來理解分析。同時採用華語社會普遍慣用的巫概念，對西方shaman理論提出反思，孕育新的研究取向與理論視野，為巫文化的動態民族誌注入新血。