1. Irene Stengs, a cultural anthropologist, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Meertens Instituut in Amsterdam, where she works on festive culture and ritual in the Netherlands. New public rituals, dynamics in lifecycle celebrations, and the relation between celebrity culture and everyday life in the Netherlands form her principal interests. She has also conducted research on modern cults, material culture, and social imaginary in urban Thai society. In 2009, Stengs published Worshipping the Great...