William S. Sax

William Sturman Sax (* 1957 in Colville , Washington ) is an American anthropologist and professor at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

Life

Sax earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in South Asian Studies and Asian Language and Literature from the University of Washington in 1980 . While still a student, he earned a degree in Hindi from Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi . In 1982 he received his master's degree in anthropology with the thesis The Ramnagar Ramlila: a theater of pilgrimage at the University of Chicago . In 1987 he received his Ph.D. in Chicago with the writing Chaya Maya: the songs and journeys of Nandadevi. PhD. He then worked initially as a fellow , from 1988 as a lecturer at Harvard University . From 1989 to 2000 he was Senior Lecturer for Philosophical and Religious Studies at the University of Canterbury at Christchurch . Since 2000, Sax has held the full professorship for ethnology at the South Asia Institute at Heidelberg University and heads the department for anthropology.

Sax is divorced and has two daughters.

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With his department, Sax conducts research primarily on the ethnography of India, the anthropology of religion and medical ethnology. The geographical focus is the western Himalayan region.

• Mountain Goddess: Gender and Politics in a Central Himalayan Pilgrimage . Oxford University Press, New York 1991, ISBN 978-0-19-506432-2 (English).
• Dancing the Self: personhood and performance in the pandav lila of Garhwal . Oxford University Press, New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-19-513915-0 (English).
• God of Justice: ritual healing in the central Himalaya . Oxford University Press, New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-19-533585-9 .

Web links

• Sax at his chair at Heidelberg University