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Biographical Objects: How Things Tell the Stories of People's Lives

The Arthurian legend closes with a promise: On a distant day, when his country calls, the king will return. His lost realm will be regained, and his shattered dream of an ideal world will, at last, be realized. This collection of original essays explores the issue of return in the modern Arthurian legend. With an Introduction by noted scholar Raymond H. Thompson and 13 essays by authors from the fields of literature, art history, film history, and folklore, this collection reveals the flexibility of the legend. Just as the modern legend takes the form current to its generation, the myth of return generates a new legend with each telling. As these authors show, return can come in the form of a noble king or a Caribbean immigrant, with the mystery of an art theft or a dying boy's dream.

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Janet Hoskins

Janet Hoskins will spend three months at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center as a Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Distinguished Fellow in spring 2013. She is a professor of anthropology and religion at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Her research interests include transnational religion, migration and diaspora in Southeast Asia, and she has done extended field research in Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. During her time at Shorenstein APARC, she will be completing a book manuscript dealing with Caodaism, a syncretistic Vietnamese religion born in French Indochina, which now has a global following of about four million people, and a considerable presence in California. She is also co-editing (with Viet Thanh Nguyen) a volume introducing the field of Transpacific Studies (to be published by University of Hawaii Press).

Hoskins is the author of The Play of Time: Kodi Perspectives onHistory, Calendars and Exchange (University of California, 1996 Benda Prize in Southeast Asian Studies), and Biographical Objects: How Th

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Janet Hoskins

Professor of Anthropology and Religion
Pronouns She / Her / HersEmailjhoskins@usc.eduOffice KAP 348FOffice Phone (213) 740-1913

Education

  • Ph.D. Anthropology, Harvard University, 1984
  • M.A. Anthropology, Harvard University, 1982
  • B.A. Anthropology, Pomona College, Claremont, 1975

  • Tenure Track Appointments

    • Professor of Anthropology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 06/01/1995 – 10/01/1995
    • Professor of Anthropology, University of Southern California, 09/01/1985 –
    • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 01/01/1984 – 09/01/1985

    Visiting and Temporary Appointments

    • Visiting lecturer and researcher, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Paris, Spring 2024
    • Lee Kong Chian International Fellowship, Visiting Professorship at Stanford and the National University of Singapore, 2012-2013
    • Visiting Researcher in Residence, Kyoto University Center for Southeast Asian Studies, 2011-2012
    • Visiting Scholar, Getty

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