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‘I am Here’, Abraham Said

Emmanuel Levinas and Anthropological Science

Rapport, N.

One of the most significant philosophical voices of the twentieth century – the philosopher of ‘the Other’ – Emmanuel Levinas’s work offers a challenge to the discipline of anthropology that claims knowledge of the human. This book endeavours to take Levinasian and anthropological precepts on ‘humanistic science’ equally seriously and offers tentative conclusions.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

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Forthcoming March 2025
‘You Don’t Know’

Precarious Methods and Life in a Workers' Hostel

Nielsen, J. A. E.

People employed at sites of precarious work such as call centres or retail warehouses often live precarious lives. Drawing on ethnographic research in a London hostel for precarious workers, the book explores the political, analytical and practical limitations of using traditional methods of trying to make sense of life in these settings.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology
eBook available Published July 2012
Anyone

The Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology

Rapport, N.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published October 2024
The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel

Ottoman Jews at the Dawn of the Tanzimat Era

Borovaya, O.

Based on newly discovered Ottoman and Jewish sources and using a legal lens on Levantine practices, The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel argues that the acquittal of Rhodian Jews following a ritual murder charge is only adequately understood in the context of the Tanzimat and the Sublime Porte’s foreign relations, and in the context of a shared Ottoman and Jewish history.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Jewish Studies

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eBook available Published May 2011
The 1926/27 Soviet Polar Census Expeditions

Anderson, D. G. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General)

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eBook available Published August 2022
200 Years of Peace

New Perspectives on Modern Swedish Foreign Policy

Biltekin, N., Müller, L., & Petersson, M. (eds)

In the wake of Sweden’s anniversary of 200 years of peace in 2014, this volume brings for the first time a targeted approach to the concept of claimed Swedish exceptionality. Taking on the nation’s policies of neutrality, 200 Years of Peace centers discussion around what it means for a nation to endure a uniquely long period of time without any pronounced conflict.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

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eBook available Published June 2019
24 Bars to Kill

Hip Hop, Aspiration, and Japan's Social Margins

Armstrong, A. B.

Contrary to persistent depictions of an ethnically and economically homogeneous Japan, “ghetto” or “gangsta” J-hop music gives voice to the suffering, deprivation, and social exclusion experienced by many modern Japanese. 24 Bars to Kill gives a fascinating ethnographic account of this music as well as the subculture around it.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Published October 2003
The Abolitions of Slavery

From the L. F. Sonthonax to Victor Schoelcher, 1793, 1794, 1848

Dorigny, M. (ed)

Subjects: Colonial History History: 18th/19th Century

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eBook available Published July 2010
Abortion in Asia

Local Dilemmas, Global Politics

Whittaker, A. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology

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eBook available Published May 2020
Abortion in Post-revolutionary Tunisia

Politics, Medicine and Morality

Maffi, I.

After the revolution of 2011, the electoral victory of the Islamist party ‘Ennahdha’ allowed previously silenced religious and conservative ideas about women’s right to abortion. This book explores the changes and continuity in the local discourses and practices related to the body in Tunisia during this time.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published August 2013
About the Hearth

Perspectives on the Home, Hearth and Household in the Circumpolar North

Anderson, D. G., Wishart, R. P., & Vaté, V. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology Museum Studies Heritage Studies

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Published April 2008
Above the Death Pits, Beneath the Flag

Youth Voyages to Poland and the Performance of Israeli National Identity

Feldman, J.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Jewish Studies Memory Studies Travel and Tourism

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eBook available Published May 2017
The Absent Jews

Kurt Forstreuter and the Historiography of Medieval Prussia

Hess, C.

For nearly a century, it has been a commonplace of Central European history that there were no Jews in medieval Prussia. This groundbreaking historical investigation demonstrates the very weak foundations upon which that assumption rests, tracing it to the ideologically compromised work of a single Nazi-era historian who badly mishandled evidence.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: Medieval/Early Modern

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Published December 2001
Academic Anthropology and the Museum

Back to the Future

Bouquet, M. (ed)

Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Published April 2008
An Academic Skating on Thin Ice

Worsley, P.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published November 2019
Access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies

The Case of France and Belgium

Merchant, J. (ed)

Despite France and Belgium sharing and interacting constantly, access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies are strikingly different. The contributors to this volume are social scientists from France, Belgium, England and the United States and represent different disciplines. Each author has attempted, through the prism of their specialties, to demonstrate and analyse how and why this striking difference in access to ART exists.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

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Published June 2015
Achieving Procreation

Childlessness and IVF in Turkey

Demircioğlu Göknar, M.

Managing social relationships for childless couples in pro-natalist societies can be a difficult art to master. With ethnographic research gathered in northwestern Turkey, this book explores infertility and assisted reproductive technologies within a secular Muslim population and how social experience leads to a decision for — or against — having an IVF.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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eBook available Published February 2024
Adoption, Emotion, and Identity

An Ethnopsychological Perspective on Kinship and Person in a Micronesian Society

Rauchholz, M.

Exploring adoption in the Pacific, this book goes beyond the commonplace structural-functional analysis of adoption as a positive “transaction in parenthood.” It examines the effects it has on adoptees inner sense of self, their conflicted emotional lives, and familial relationships that are affected by a personal sense of rejection and not belonging.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Published March 2008
Advancing Refugee Protection in South Africa

Handmaker, J., Hunt, L. A. de la, & Klaaren, J. (eds)

Subject: Refugee and Migration Studies

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eBook available Published April 2011
Adventures in Aidland

The Anthropology of Professionals in International Development

Mosse, D. (ed)

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Development Studies

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eBook available Published April 2023
Advocacy and Archaeology

Urban Intersections

Britt, K. M. & George, D. F. (eds)

Inspired by the idea of revolution and excitement about the ways archaeology is being used in social justice arenas, this volume seeks to visualize archaeology as part of a movement by redefining what archaeology is and does for the greater good.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published June 2005
Aesthetics in Performance

Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience

Hobart, A. & Kapferer, B. (eds)

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published March 2022
The Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance

Analyzing Political Street Art in Latin America

Bogerts, L.

Through illuminating case studies of street art in Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Caracas, and Mexico City, The Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance explores the visual strategies of persuasion and meaning-making employed by both rulers and resisters to foster self-legitimization, identification, and mobilization.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Urban Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published December 2017
Affective States

Entanglements, Suspensions, Suspicions

Laszczkowski, M. & Reeves, M. (eds)

The volume enhances the anthropological understanding of the various ways through which the state comes to be experienced as a visceral presence in social life.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published July 1996
African Crossroads

Intersections between History and Anthropology in Cameroon

Fowler, I. & Zeitlyn, D. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History

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eBook available Published April 2022
African Political Systems Revisited

Changing Perspectives on Statehood and Power

Bošković, A. & Schlee, G. (eds)

Reexamining a classical work of Social Anthropology, African Political Systems (1940), edited by Fortes and Evans-Pritchard, this book looks at the colonial and academic context from which the work arose, as well as its reception and its subject matter and looks at how the work can help with analysis of current politics in Africa.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Colonial History Development Studies

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Published February 2022
Afropolitan Horizons

Essays toward a Literary Anthropology of Nigeria

Hannerz, U.

Nigeria is a country shaped by internal diversity and transnational connections, past and present. Leading Nigerian writers from Chinua Achebe, Amos Tutuola and Wole Soyinka to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Teju Cole have portrayed these Nigerian Issues, and have also written about some of the momentous events in Nigerian history. Afropolitan Horizons discusses their work alongside other novelists and commentators.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Literary Studies Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Published July 2012
After The History of Sexuality

German Genealogies with and Beyond Foucault

Spector, S., Puff, H. & Herzog, D. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published January 2021
After Auschwitz

The Difficult Legacies of the GDR

Heitzer, E., Jander, M., Kahane, A., & Poutrus, P. G. (eds)

This provocative collection reflects on the heretofore ignored or repressed aspects of German mainstream society—including right-wing extremism, anti-Semitism and racism—to call for an ambitious renewal of historical research and political education to place East Germany in its proper historical context.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published July 2021
After Corporate Paternalism

Material Renovation and Social Change in Times of Ruination

Straube, C.

In this ethnographic study of post-paternalist ruination and renovation, Christian Straube explores social change at the intersection of material decay and social disconnection in the former mine township Mpatamatu of Luanshya, one of the oldest mining towns on the Zambian Copperbelt.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Sociology

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eBook available Published February 2018
After Difference

Queer Activism in Italy and Anthropological Theory

Heywood, P.

This book is a contribution to the anthropology of Italy and of Europe as an ethnography of queer activism in Bologna; and, at the same time, it is an intervention in a set of ongoing theoretical debates in anthropology surrounding the perennial problem of the relationship between ethnographic data and anthropological analysis. It combines discussions of identity and difference, ethics, the fieldwork setting, and anthropology’s turn to ontology.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

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eBook available Published December 2023
After Liberation

Toward a Sociology of the Shoah
Selected Essays

Adler, H. G.

This collection gathers together, for the first time in English, some of H.G. Adler’s most important scholarly essays on the Shoah and connected themes. Spanning his thought across three decades they focus on the fate of the ‘coerced’ human being and reflect on freedom, enslavement, terror, dread, charisma, loneliness, and ideology.

Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies History: World War II

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Published August 1996
After Socialism

Land Reform and Social Change in Eastern Europe

Abrahams, R. (ed)

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies

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eBook available Published July 2020
After Society

Anthropological Trajectories out of Oxford

Pina-Cabral, J. & Bowman, G. (eds)

In the early 1980s, when the contributors to this volume completed their graduate training at Oxford, the conditions of practice in anthropology were undergoing profound change. Here self-ethnography is used to portray the contributors’ anthropological trajectories, showing how analytical and academic engagements interacted creatively over time.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published April 2010
After the Cult

Perceptions of Other and Self in West New Britain (Papua New Guinea)

Jebens, H.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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Published April 2011
After the Event

The Transmission of Grievous Loss in Germany, China and Taiwan

Feuchtwang, S.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General) History (General)

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Published March 2020
After the Pink Tide

Corporate State Formation and New Egalitarianisms in Latin America

Gold, M. & Zagato, A. (eds)

The left-wing Pink Tide movement that swept across Latin America seems to now be overturned, as a new wave of free-market thinkers emerge across the continent. This book analyses the emergence of corporate power within Latin America and the response of egalitarian movements across the continent trying to break open the constraints of the state.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

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Published March 2009
After the 'Socialist Spring'

Collectivisation and Economic Transformation in the GDR

Last, G.

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present

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Published September 1997
After Unity

Reconfiguring German Identities

Jarausch, K. H. (ed)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published June 2023
Against Better Judgment

Akrasia in Anthropological Perspectives

McKearney, P. & Evans, N. H. A. (eds)

Anthropologists have long explained social behaviour as if people always do what they think is best. But what if most of these explanations only work because they are premised upon ignoring what philosophers call 'akrasia' – that is, the possibility that people might act against their better judgment? The contributors to this volume turn an ethnographic lens upon situations in which people seem to act out of line with what they judge, desire and intend.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Medical Anthropology

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eBook available Published December 2016
Against Exoticism

Toward the Transcendence of Relativism and Universalism in Anthropology

Kapferer, B. & Theodossopoulos, D. (eds)

This volume confronts the distortions of orientalism, ethnocentrism, and romantic nostalgia to expose exoticism, defined as the construction of false and unsubstantiated difference. Its aim is to re-found the importance of the exotic in the development of anthropological knowledge and to overcome methodological dualisms and dualistic approaches.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

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Published December 2008
Against Machismo

Young Adult Voices in Mexico City

Ramirez, J.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Published October 2013
Against the Grain

Jewish Intellectuals in Hard Times

Mendelsohn, E., Hoffman, S., & Cohen, R. (eds)

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published June 2021
The Age of Capitalism and Bureaucracy

Perspectives on the Political Sociology of Max Weber

Mommsen, W. J.

In this new edition of Wolfgang Mommsen’s illuminating study, Max Weber is presented in terms of the major questions that preoccupied him as one of the towering social scientists of his time, with insights that are persistently relevant as we deal with the structures and dynamics of modern industrial societies.

Subjects: Sociology History: 20th Century to Present

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Published March 2005
Ageing Without Children

European and Asian Perspectives on Elderly Access to Support Networks

Kreager, P. & Schröder-Butterfill, E. (eds)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

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eBook available Published December 2023
Agency and Archaeology of the French Maritime Empire

Gauthier-Bérubé, M. & Dempsey, A. (eds)

Through detailed archaeological case study, a multiregional approach and a theoretical approach around agencies and individuality, this volume focuses on the diversity of the population that participated in the maritime network of France through the 17th to the 19th century and whose agency and importance is often overlooked.

Subjects: Archaeology Colonial History Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published January 2025
Agency and Author

German Literature Beyond the Bestseller List

Halverson, R. J. & Schaper, B. D. (eds)

An exacting meditation on the financial realities of authorship, Agency and Author explores how lesser-known German-language writers navigate the German literary landscape. Ranging from literary awards to social media hate campaigns, this volume considers authorial attempts to assert creative agency and the implications for wider, structural change it offers.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Literary Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published July 2020
Agency in Transnational Memory Politics

Wüstenberg, J. & Sierp, A. (eds)

This volume brings together theoretical and practical considerations to provide transnational memory scholars with an interdisciplinary investigation into agency—the “who” and the “how” of cross-border commemoration that motivates activists and fascinates observers.

Subjects: History (General) Sociology Memory Studies

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Published September 2015
The Agendas of Tibetan Refugees

Survival Strategies of a Government-in-Exile in a World of International Organizations

Kauffmann, T.

Since the arrival of the first Tibetans in exile in 1959, a vast and continuous wave of international support has permitted these refugees to survive and even to flourish in temporary residences. This book shows how Tibetan refugees continue to attract resources, while other refugee populations are largely forgotten.

Subject: Refugee and Migration Studies

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eBook available Published March 2021
Agent of Change

The Deposition and Manipulation of Ash in the Past

Roth, B. J. & Adams, E. C. (eds)

Drawn from across the U.S. and Mesoamerica, the chapters in this volume explore the use, meanings, and cross-cultural patterns present in the use of ash. and highlight the importance of ash in ritual closure, social memory, and cultural transformation.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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Published December 1998
Aging and the Aged in Jewish Law

Essays and Responsa

Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)

Subject: Jewish Studies

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Published June 2015
Aging and the Digital Life Course

Prendergast, D. & Garattini, C. (eds)

Breaking new ground in the study of technology and aging, this book examines how technological developments are redefining experiences and expectations around growing older in the twenty-first century. This book explores the key themes of social media, robotics, chronic disease and dementia management, care-giving, gaming, migration and data inheritance.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology

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Published May 2003
Aging in Today's World

Conversations between an Anthropologist and a Physician

Shield, R. R. & Aronson, S. M.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Sociology Medical Anthropology

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eBook available Published May 2009
Alarming Reports

Communicating Conflict in the Daily News

Arno, A.

Subjects: Media Studies Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published September 2023
Alfred Cort Haddon

A Very English Savage

Walsh, C.

Using previously overlooked, primary sources Ciarán Walsh argues that Haddon, the grandson of anti-slavery activists, set out to revolutionize anthropology in the 1890s in association with a network of anarcho-utopian activists and philosophers. His book regards most of what has been written about Haddon in the past as a form of disciplinary folklore shaped by a theory of scientific revolutions.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Published February 2001
Alien Policy in Belgium, 1840-1940

The Creation of Guest Workers, Refugees and Illegal Aliens

Caestecker, F.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Refugee and Migration Studies

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Published November 2013
Alienating Labour

Workers on the Road from Socialism to Capitalism in East Germany and Hungary

Bartha, E.

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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eBook available Published August 2018
All or None

Cooperation and Sustainability in Italy's Red Belt

Sánchez Hall, A.

All or None is a social history and anthropological study of the world’s oldest voluntary collective farms in Ravenna, Italy, addressing the question of the viability of cooperative enterprise as a potential solution for displaced workers, and as a more humane alternative to capitalist agribusiness.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published June 2021
All Tomorrow's Cultures

Anthropological Engagements with the Future

Collins, S. G.

The first edition of All Tomorrow’s Cultures explored the legacy of futures-thinking in anthropology and marked the beginning of a resurgence of interest in anthropological futures. The new edition has been updated to reflect some of the outpouring of work since then, particularly in science and technology studies and in anthropological analyses of indigenous futures.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published September 2011
The Allure of Capitalism

An Ethnography of Management and the Global Economy in Crisis

Røyrvik, E. A.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published July 2021
Almost, but Not Quite Bored in Pula

An Anthropological Study of the Tapija Phenomenon in Northwest Croatia

Matošević, A.

Based on interviews and fieldwork conducted among residents of Pula – a coastal city in Northwestern Croatia, this study explores various aspects of a local feeling of boredom. This is mirrored in the term tapija, a word of Turkish origin describing a property deed.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published March 2010
Alsace to the Alsatians?

Visions and Divisions of Alsatian Regionalism, 1870-1939

Fischer, C. J.

The region of Alsace, located between the hereditary enemies of France and Germany, served as a trophy of war four times between 1870–1945. With each shift, French and German officials sought to win the allegiance of the local populace. In response to these pressures, Alsatians invoked regionalism—articulated as a political language, a cultural vision, and a community of identity—not only to define and defend their own interests against the nationalist claims of France and Germany, but also to push for social change, defend religious rights, and promote the status of the region within the larger national community.

Subject: History (General)

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Published April 2008
Alternative Exchanges

Second-Hand Circulations from the Sixteenth Century to the Present

Fontaine, L (ed)

Subject: History (General)

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eBook available Published October 2023
The Amazonian Puzzle

Ethnic Positionings and Social Mobilizations

Boyer, V.

By examining the multiple cultural and ethnic threads that traverse this landscape, The Amazonian Puzzle sets out to show how the category of caboclo (a powerful spiritual entity to some, and to others a despised peasant of mixed ancestry) reveals deep currents of ethnic recompositions, religious interpenetration, and social hierarchy.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published November 2016
Ambassadors of Realpolitik

Sweden, the CSCE and the Cold War

Makko, A.

This groundbreaking study looks at the tension between realism and idealism in Swedish diplomacy during the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe and 1975 Helsinki Accords. It offers a compelling counternarrative of this period, showing that Sweden strategically ignored human rights violations in Eastern Europe in its pursuit of national interests.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published September 2019
Ambiguous Childhoods

Peer Socialisation, Schooling and Agency in a Zambian Village

Clemensen, N.

Drawing on rich linguistic-ethnographic details of Zambian children interacting, combined with observations of school and household procedures, the author provides a rare insight into the lives, voices, and learning paths of children in a rural African setting.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Development Studies Educational Studies

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eBook available Published May 2012
Ambiguous Pleasures

Sexuality and Middle Class Self-Perceptions in Nairobi

Spronk, R.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

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eBook available Published July 2019
Ambiguous Transitions

Gender, the State, and Everyday Life in Socialist and Postsocialist Romania

Massino, J.

Ambiguous Transitions provides an accessible, intimate exploration of gender and citizenship in socialist Romania. Author Jill M. Massino connects women’s everyday lives to larger political, economic, and social processes, challenging conventional understandings of life in socialist Romania as uniformly oppressive.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Published January 2003
The Ambivalent Alliance

Konrad Adenauer, the CDU/CSU, and the West, 1949-1966

Granieri, R.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published December 2016
America Observed

On an International Anthropology of the United States

Dominguez, V. & Habib, J. (eds)

There is surprisingly little fieldwork done in and on the United States by anthropologists from abroad. America Observed seeks to fill that gap by bringing into greater focus empirical as well as theoretical implications of this phenomenon for anthropological research and practice.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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An American Icon in Puerto Rico

Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play

Aguiló-Pérez, E. R.

Since her creation in 1959, Barbie has become an icon of femininity to girls all over the world. In this monograph, author Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez explores the ways through which women and girls in Puerto Rico construct their own identities in relation to femininity, body image, race, and nationalism through Barbie play.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

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Published January 1995
The American Impact on Postwar Germany

Pommerin, R. (ed)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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Published November 2004
Americanization and Anti-americanism

The German Encounter with American Culture after 1945

Stephan, A. (ed)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published December 2005
The Americanization of Europe

Culture, Diplomacy, and Anti-Americanism after 1945

Stephan, A (ed)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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Published July 2014
Americans in Tuscany

Charity, Compassion, and Belonging

Trundle, C.

In the first ethnographic monograph of Americans in Italy, Catherine Trundle argues that charity and philanthropy are the central means through which many American women negotiate a sense of migrant belonging in Italy. In exploring the often-ignored role of charitable action in migrant community formation, Trundle contributes to anthropological theories of gift giving, compassion, and reflexivity.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

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eBook available Published March 2023
Amnesia Remembered

Reverse Engineering a Digital Artifact

Aycock, J.

As an introduction to studying and reverse engineering a digital artifact, this volume is intended for nontechnical audiences wanting to learn how to conduct their own similar research on computer software. While presented through an archaeological lens, it is also suitable for readers in history, game studies, and other areas in the humanities and social sciences, as well as computer science and engineering.

Subjects: Archaeology Media Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published September 2023
An Anthropology of Disappearance

Politics, Intimacies and Alternative Ways of Knowing

Huttunen, L. & Perl, G. (eds)

All over the world, people deliberately disappear from their families, communities and the state’s bureaucratic gaze, as victims of oppressive regimes or while migrating along clandestine routes. This edited volume brings together scholars who engage ethnographically with such disappearances in various cultural, social and political contexts.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Memory Studies

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eBook available Published May 2021
Analysing Historical Narratives

On Academic, Popular and Educational Framings of the Past

Berger, S., Brauch, N., & Lorenz, C. (eds)

From ancient Greece to modern-day bestsellers, the studies gathered in Analysing Historical Narratives offer a wide-ranging look at the techniques used by historical texts, showing how in spite of the pursuit of objectivity, narrative strategies inevitably derive from historians’ contemporary concerns.

Subject: History (General)

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Published January 2007
Anarchism, Revolution and Reaction

Catalan Labor and the Crisis of the Spanish State, 1898-1923

Smith, A.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published January 2016
The Anatomy of Murder

Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich

Hildebrandt, S.

Of the many medical specializations to have been transformed by the rise of National Socialism, anatomy has received little attention. As historian and physician Sabine Hildebrandt reveals, anatomists progressed through gradual stages of ethical transgression; in some cases, the traditional model of working with deceased bodies gave way to experimentation with the “future dead.”

Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History

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eBook available Published November 2019
The Anatomy of the Holocaust

Selected Works from a Life of Scholarship

Hilberg, R.
Pehle, W. H. & Schlott, R. (eds)

Historian Raul Hilberg produced a variety of archival research, personal essays, and other works over a career that spanned half a century. The Anatomy of the Holocaust collects some of Hilberg’s most essential and groundbreaking writings—many of them published in obscure journals or otherwise inaccessible to nonspecialists—in a single volume.

Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies

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Published July 2000
And Keep Your Powder Dry

An Anthropologist Looks at America

Mead, M.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published December 2006
Andrzej Wajda

History, Politics & Nostalgia In Polish Cinema

Falkowska, J.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

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eBook available Published April 2022
Anglo-American Relations and the Transmission of Ideas

A Shared Political Tradition?

Dobson, A. & Marsh, S. (eds)

With a central objective to interrogate the notion of a shared Anglo-American political tradition, Anglo-American Relations and the Transmission of Ideas opens up new debate on the nature of the ‘first principles’ that were to frame the development of Anglo-American ideas embedded in our everyday institutions and organizations.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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Published March 2022
Animals, Plants and Afterimages

The Art and Science of Representing Extinction

Bienvenue, V. & Chare, N. (eds)

From quaggas to thylacine to dinosaurs, Animals, Plants and Afterimages brings together leading scholars in the humanities and life sciences to explore how extinct species are represented in media, art, literature and elsewhere, crossing academic boundaries to explore how portrayals of disappeared species embody cultural assumptions.

Subjects: Media Studies Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Animism beyond the Soul

Ontology, Reflexivity, and the Making of Anthropological Knowledge

Swancutt, K. & Mazard, M. (eds)

The contributors to this volume offer compelling case studies that demonstrate how indigenous animistic practices, concepts, traditions, and ontologies are co-authored in highly reflexive ways by anthropologists and their interlocutors.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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Animism in Rainforest and Tundra

Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia

Brightman, M., Grotti, V. E., & Ulturgasheva, O. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

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The Annoying Difference

The Emergence of Danish Neonationalism, Neoracism, and Populism in the Post-1989 World

Hervik, P.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies

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An Anthropological Toolkit

Sixty Useful Concepts

Zeitlyn, D.

Presenting 60 theoretical ideas, David Zeitlyn asks, ‘How to write about anthropological theory without making a specific theoretical argument?’ and ‘Is it possible to practice anthropology without arguing for a single specific approach?’ To answer, he gives a series of mini-essays about an eclectic collection of theoretical concepts that over many years he has found helpful.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Published June 2013
An Anthropological Trompe L'Oeil for a Common World

An Essay on the Economy of Knowledge

Corsín Jiménez, A.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Anthropologies of Education

A Global Guide to Ethnographic Studies of Learning and Schooling

Anderson-Levitt, K. M. (ed)

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)

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The Anthropologist as Writer

Genres and Contexts in the Twenty-First Century

Wullf, H. (ed)

Writing is crucial to anthropology, but which genres are anthropologists expected to master in the 21st century? Although academic writing is an anthropologist’s primary genre, they also write in many others, from drafting administrative texts and filing reports to composing ethnographically inspired journalism and fiction. This book explores how writing shapes anthropologists and their discipline.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Published October 2000
Anthropologists in a Wider World

Essays on Field Research

Dresch, P., James, W. & Parkin, D.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Applied Anthropology

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Published July 2003
Anthropology & Law

Donovan, J.M. & Anderson, III, H.E.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

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Anthropology & Mass Communication

Media and Myth in the New Millennium

Peterson, M.A.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Media Studies

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Anthropology & Philosophy

Dialogues on Trust and Hope

Liisberg, S., Pedersen, E. O., Dalsgård, A. L. (eds)

The present book is a workroom in which anthropologists and philosophers have begun a dialogue on trust and hope. The interdisciplinary efforts of the contributors demonstrate how the collaboration of anthropologists and philosophers can result in new and challenging ways of thinking about trust and hope.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Published August 2004
Anthropology and Consultancy

Issues and Debates

Stewart, P. & Strathern, A. (eds)

Subject: Applied Anthropology

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Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent

Reorienting Anthropology for the Future

Ahmad, I. (ed)

Tim Ingold has raised many questions which are crucial for anthropology as a discipline, such as whether ethnography is central to the subject, and how imagination, reality and truth are joined in anthropological enterprises. His interventions have impacted anthropologists and scholars at large. This volume contributes to the debate about the interrelationships between ethnography and anthropology and takes it to a new plane.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Anthropology and Nostalgia

Angé, O. & Berliner, D. (eds)

Anthropologists are realizing that nostalgia constitutes a fascinating object of study for exploring contemporary issues of identity, politics and history making. Contributors to this volume explore nostalgic narratives and practices in the fields of heritage and tourism, exile and diasporas, postcolonialism and postsocialism, business and economic exchange, social, ecological and religious movements, and nation building.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Theory and Methodology

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Anthropology and Political Science

A Convergent Approach

Aronoff, M. J. & Kubik, J.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Anthropology and Public Service

The UK Experience

MacClancy, J. (ed)

Many anthropologists are now finding jobs in commercial organizations or in government. This volume shows how anthropologists can set new agendas, and revise old ones in the public sector. Included are discussions of anthropologists’ work with the Department for International Development, the Ministry of Defence, the UK Border Agency, and their contributions to prison governance.

Subject: Applied Anthropology

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Published January 2006
Anthropology and Sexual Morality

A Theoretical Investigation

Salazar, C.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Anthropology as Ethics

Nondualism and the Conduct of Sacrifice

Evens, T. M. S.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Anthropology Now and Next

Essays in Honor of Ulf Hannerz

Eriksen, T. H., Garsten, C. & Randeria, S. (eds)

The scholarship of Ulf Hannerz is characterized by extraordinary breadth and visionary nature. Contributions honor Hannerz’ legacy by addressing theoretical, epistemological, ethical and methodological challenges facing anthropological inquiry. The book showcases anthropology, a discipline devoted to the study of localized phenomena, in a world of global connectedness and accelerated change.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility

Dolan, C. & Rajak, D. (eds)

The collection traces the connections and conflicts between the local politics of corporate engagement and the global movements of CSR, revealing the ways in which social and environmental relations are transformed through the regimes of ethical capitalism.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Published August 2011
The Anthropology of Empathy

Experiencing the Lives of Others in Pacific Societies

Hollan, D. W. & Throop, C. J. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published September 2023
An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange

Interactions, Transactions and Ethics in Asia and Beyond

Copeman, J., Long, N. J., Chau, L. M., Cook, J. & Marsden, M.(eds)

This volume advocates for an analytical focus on intellectual exchange, as well as producing an ethnographically informed framework for its study across cultures and contexts.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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The Anthropology of Moralities

Heintz, M. (Ed.)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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The Anthropology of Retirement

Life Beyond Work

Miller, D. & Garvey, P. (eds)

Experience of retirement varies considerably across the globe, from areas where most people cannot afford to retire to places where a multitude of new possibilities are being developed for retirees. This book is an anthropological approach to consider the range of contexts and consequences that impact life beyond work.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
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The Anthropology of the Fetus

Biology, Culture, and Society

Han, S., Betsinger, T. K., & Scott, A. B. (eds)

As a biological, cultural, and social entity, the human fetus is a multifaceted subject which calls for equally diverse perspectives to fully understand. Anthropology of the Fetus seeks to achieve this by bringing together specialists in biological anthropology, archaeology, and cultural anthropology, all with the ultimate goal of developing a holistic anthropology of the fetus.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)

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An Anthropology of War

Views from the Frontline

Waterston, A. (ed)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

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Anthropology, Nationalism and Colonialism

Mendes Correia and the Porto School of Anthropology

Ferraz de Matos, P.

Contributing to the history of anthropology, this book looks at the Porto School of Anthropology and analyses the life and work of its main mentor – Mendes Correia (1888-1960). Focused on Portugal, the analysis is also comparative with other international contexts.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published October 2021
The Anthroposcene of Weather and Climate

Ethnographic Contributions to the Climate Change Debate

Sillitoe, P. (ed)

While it is widely acknowledged that climate change is among the greatest global challenges of our times, it has local implications too. This volume forefronts these, giving anthropology a voice in this great debate, which natural scientists and policy makers have dominated thus far.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Urban Studies Sustainable Development Goals

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Anti-americanism in Latin America and the Caribbean

McPherson A. (ed)

Subject: History (General)

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Published December 2014
Anti-liberal Europe

A Neglected Story of Europeanization

Gosewinkel, D. (ed)

The history of modern Europe is often presented with the hindsight of present-day European integration, which was a genuinely liberal project based on political and economic freedom. Many other visions for Europe developed in the 20th century, however, were based on an idea of community rooted in pre-modern religious ideas, cultural or ethnic homogeneity, or even in coercion and violence. Anti-liberal Europe examines these visions, including those of anti-modernist Catholics, conservatives, extreme rightists as well as communists, arguing that antiliberal concepts in 20th century Europe were not the counterpart to, but instead part of the process of European integration.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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The Anti-Social Contract

Injurious Talk and Dangerous Exchanges in Northern Mongolia

Højer, L.

Set in a remote district of villagers and nomadic pastoralists in the northernmost part of Mongolia, this ethnography reveals an everyday universe where uncertain relations are as much internally cultivated in indigenous Mongolian perceptions of social relatedness, as it is externally confronted in postsocialist surroundings of unemployment and diminished social security.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General)

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Antisemitism in Galicia

Agitation, Politics, and Violence against Jews in the Late Habsburg Monarchy

Buchen, T.

Antisemitism in Galicia investigates the interaction of agitation, violence, and politics against Jews on the periphery of the Danube monarchy. In its comprehensive analysis of the functions and limitations of propaganda, rumors, and mass media, it shows just how significant antisemitism was to the politics of coexistence among Christians and Jews on the eve of the Great War.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Jewish Studies

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Published April 2015
Anxious Histories

Narrating the Holocaust in Jewish Communities at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century

Silverstein, J.

Over the last 70 years, memories and narratives of the Holocaust have played a significant role in constructing Jewish communities. This book explores one field where these narratives are disseminated: Holocaust pedagogy in Jewish schools in Melbourne and New York.

Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies

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Applications of Anthropology

Professional Anthropology in the Twenty-first Century

Pink, S. (ed)

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Medical Anthropology

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Arab Spring

Uprisings, Powers, Interventions

Fosshagen, K. (ed)

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Archaeogaming

An Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games

Reinhard, A.

Video games exemplify contemporary material objects, resources, and spaces that people use to define their culture. This book serves as a general introduction to "archaeogaming"; it describes the intersection of archaeology and video games and applies archaeological method and theory into understanding game-spaces as both site and artifact.

Subjects: Archaeology Media Studies Heritage Studies Anthropology (General)

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Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation

Between Text and Practice

Hausmair, B., Jervis, B., Nugent, R., & Williams, E. (eds)

How can we study the impact of rules on the lives of past people using archaeological evidence? To answer this question, Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation presents case studies drawn from across Europe and the United States, exploring the use of archaeological evidence in understanding the relationship between rules, lived experience, and social identity.

Subjects: Archaeology History: Medieval/Early Modern Sociology History (General)

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Published March 2002
The Archaeology of Tribal Societies

Parkinson, W. A. (ed)

Anthropological archaeologists have long attempted to develop models that will let them better understand the evolution of human social organization. This volume explores social organization in tribal - or 'autonomous village' - societies from several different ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and archaeological contexts - from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Period in the Near East to the contemporary Jivaro of Amazonia.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)

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An Archaeology of Unchecked Capitalism

From the American Rust Belt to the Developing World

Shackel, P. A.

By drawing parallels between the past and present – for example, the coal mines of the nineteenth-century northeastern Pennsylvania and the sweatshops of the twenty-first century in Bangladesh – we can have difficult conversations about the past and advance our commitment to address social justice issues.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Archeologies of Confession

Writing the German Reformation, 1517-2017

Johnson, C. L., Luebke, D. M., Plummer, M. E. & Spohnholz, J. (eds)

Can one give voice to those whom history has forgotten? The essays collected here examine the formation of religious identities during the Reformation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Germany through case studies of remembering and forgetting—instances in which patterns and practices of religious plurality were excised from historical memory.

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Memory Studies

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Published June 2008
Archives, Ancestors, Practices

Archaeology in the Light of its History

Schlanger, N. & Nordbladh, J. (eds)

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Heritage Studies

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eBook available Published April 2022
Arctic Abstractive Industry

Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North

Mason, A. (ed)

Examining the processes at work in sites of industrial extraction and ecological vulnerability in the contemporary Arctic, this book looks at the displacements that conceal exploitation, on the one hand, and appropriations of value on the other.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Sustainable Development Goals

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The Arkansas Regulators

Gerstäcker, F.
Adams, C. & Irmscher, C. (eds)

Friedrich Gerstäcker’s The Arkansas Regulators is a rousing tale of frontier adventure, first published in German in 1846, but virtually lost to English readers for well over a century. This long-awaited translation and scholarly edition of the novel offers a startling rewriting of the frontier myth from a European perspective.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

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Published December 2013
The Armenian Genocide

Evidence from the German Foreign Office Archives, 1915-1916

Gust, W. (ed)

The 1915-1916 annihilation of the Armenians was the archetype of modern genocide, in which a state adopts a specific scheme geared to the destruction of an identifiable group of its own citizens. Official German diplomatic documents are of great importance in understanding the genocide, as only Germany had the right to report day-by-day in secret code about the ongoing genocide. The motives, methods, and after-effects of the Armenian Genocide echoed strongly in subsequent cases of state-sponsored genocide. Studying the factors that went into the Armenian Genocide not only gives us an understanding of historical genocide, but also provides us with crucial information for the anticipation and possible prevention of future genocides.

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

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The Art of Fate Calculation

Practicing Divination in Taipei, Beijing, and Kaifeng

Homola, S.

The Art of Fate Calculationexplores how conceptions of fate circulate in Chinese and Taiwanese societies while resisting uniformization and institutionalization. This is not only due to the stigma of “superstition” but also to the internal dynamic of fate calculation practice and learning.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Sociology

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The Art of Resistance

Cultural Protest against the Austrian Far Right in the Early Twenty-First Century

Fiddler, A.

The 1999 Austrian election results produced an uprising against a turn to the political right. The Art of Resistance examines artworks created in responses to the Freedom Party of Austria and analyses the styles and strategies deployed by a large range of artists who clashed against increased normalization of far-right thinking.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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Published October 2005
The Art of the Project

Projects and Experiments in Modern French Culture

Gratton, J. & Sheringham, M. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

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Articulate Necrographies

Comparative Perspectives on the Voices and Silences of the Dead

Panagiotopoulos, A. & Espírito Santo, D. (eds)

Going beyond the frameworks of the anthropology of death, Articulate Necrographies offers a dramatic new way of studying the dead and its interactions with the living. The collection introduces the concept of “necrography” to describe the way death and the dead create their own kinds of biographies in and among the living.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Heritage Studies Literary Studies

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Artifak

Cultural Revival, Tourism, and the Recrafting of History in Vanuatu

DeBlock, H.

Artifak investigates the meaning and value of (art) objects as commodities in Vanuatu, in differing states of transit and transition: in the local place, on the market, and in the museum. It provides an ethnographic account of commoditization in the context of revitalization of culture and the arts in Vanuatu.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Museum Studies

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The Arts in Nazi Germany

Continuity, Conformity, Change

Huener, J. & Nicosia, F. (eds)

Subjects: History: World War II Cultural Studies (General)

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Published January 2002
'Aryanisation' in Hamburg

The Economic Exclusion of Jews and the Confiscation of their Property in Nazi Germany

Bajohr, F.

Subjects: History: World War II Jewish Studies

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eBook available Published May 2024
Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective

Essays on Morality, Achievement and Modernity

Bayly, S.

Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective draws together essays that trace historical and contemporary realities in India and Vietnam about a variety of compelling topics such as the experience of the Indian caste system and the ethical challenges faced by Vietnamese working women.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Theory and Methodology

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Aspirations of Young Adults in Urban Asia

Values, Family, and Identity

Westendorp, M., Remmert, D. & Finis, K. (eds)

Comparing first-person ethnographic accounts of young people living, working, and creating relationships in cities across Asia, this volume explores their contemporary lives, pressures, ideals, and aspirations.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies

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Assembling Financialisation

Local Actors and the Making of Agricultural Investment

Langford, Z.

Farmers, Indigenous organisations, government and private-sector intermediaries from remote Northern Australia often negotiate with private finance capital to gain funds for agricultural development.This book demonstrates that while financialisation is a useful signifier of patterns of global change, it is assembled by a diverse range of often contradictory work.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Sustainable Development Goals

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Published September 2015
Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Third Phase

Global Encounters and Emerging Moral Worlds

Hampshire, K. & Simpson, B. (eds)

The “First Phase” of Assisted Reproductive Technologies followed the first “test-tube baby” birth, when treatments were available only to the wealthy. In the “Second Phase,” these treatments became available to a wider, but still elite, population. This volume explores the “Third Phase,” as ARTs are becoming a standard part of reproductive healthcare.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

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Published August 2009
Assisting Reproduction, Testing Genes

Global Encounters with the New Biotechnologies

Birenbaum-Carmeli, D. & Inhorn, M. C. (eds)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

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Published June 2013
Astonishment and Evocation

The Spell of Culture in Art and Anthropology

Strecker, I. & Verne, M. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Media Studies

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Published May 2014
Asymmetrical Conversations

Contestations, Circumventions, and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries

Naraindas, H., Quack, J., & Sax, W. S. (eds)

“This is a compelling and intellectually satisfying volume that offers important new ethnographic work which, I would argue, revitalizes studies of medical pluralism…an important project by some of the most outstanding and well-known scholars in these areas of study — several of whose names readers will recognize and inspire interest in the volume.” · Murphy Halliburton, City University of New York

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion

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At Home in a Nursing Home

An Ethnography of Movement and Care in Australia

Zhang, A. R. Y.

Focusing on contemporary ideas about how aged care is provided, this book poses the question: How can people who are aged and frail live out the final phase of their lives with dignity? In seeking answers, the author examines what it means to be ‘at home’ in residential care in a novel and compassionate way.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published March 2015
At Home in Postwar France

Modern Mass Housing and the Right to Comfort

Rudolph, N. C.

After World War II, France embarked on a national project of modernization, which included the development of mass housing. At Home in Postwar France reveals how modernizers saw the home as a site for social engineering and nation-building, and identifies the emergence of a “right to comfort” that shaped new expectations for well-being.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Urban Studies

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Published August 2000
At Home in the Hills

Sense of Place in the Scottish Borders

Gray, J. N.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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At Home in the Okavango

White Batswana Narratives of Emplacement and Belonging

Gressier, C.

An ethnography of the lives of white citizens of the Okavango Delta, Botswana, this book examines their relationships with the natural and social environments of the region. In response to the insecurity of their European descent in a postcolonial African state, the white Batswana have developed values and practices that allow them high levels of belonging.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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At Home on the Waves

Human Habitation of the Sea from the Mesolithic to Today

King, T. J. & Robinson, G. (eds)

This collection explores the variety of ways in which people have long made themselves at home at sea, bringing together both ethnographic and archaeological research – much of it with an explicit Ingoldian approach – on a wide range of geographical areas and historical periods.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology Environmental Studies (General)

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At the Edge of the Wall

Public and Private Spheres in Divided Berlin

Hochmuth, H.

The neighboring boroughs of Friedrichschain and Kreuzberg shared a history and identity until their fortunes diverged dramatically following the construction of the Berlin Wall, which placed them within opposing political systems. This revealing account of the two towns during and after the Cold War takes a microhistorical approach to illuminate the broader historical trajectories of East and West Berlin.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Urban Studies

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Published December 2014
Atlantic Automobilism

Emergence and Persistence of the Car, 1895-1940

Mom, G.

Offering a sweeping transatlantic perspective, this book explains the current obsession with automobiles by delving deep into the motives of early car users. It provides a synthesis of our knowledge about the emergence and persistence of the car, using a broad range of material including novels, poems, films, and songs to unearth the desires that shaped our present “car society.”

Subjects: Mobility Studies History: 20th Century to Present Transport Studies

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Atlantic Perspectives

Places, Spirits and Heritage

Balkenhol, M., Blanes, R. L., & Sarró, R. (eds)

Focusing on mobility, religion, and belonging, the volume contributes to transatlantic anthropology and history by bringing together religion, cultural heritage and placemaking in the Atlantic world. The entanglements of religion, cultural heritage and belonging are ethnographically scrutinized to perceive the connections and disconnections of specific places.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies

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The Attempt to Stay

Dam Building, Displacement, and Resistance in the Nile Valley, Sudan

Hänsch, V.

The construction of the Merowe Dam along the Nile in northern Sudan flooded local villages and forced thousands of inhabitants to flee to higher ground. This book follows the Manasir people’s attempts to resist state-run resettlement schemes, preserve their homeland, and try out meaningful ways of life along the emerging reservoir.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies Environmental Studies (General) Sustainable Development Goals

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Audiences of Nazism

Using Media in the Third Reich

Weckel, U.

Innovating against the considerable gap in research surrounding historical media reception within Nazi Germany, Audiences of Nazism finds sources of actual audience responses to critically engage with the Third Reich’s media production legacy.

Subjects: History: World War II Media Studies

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An Australian Indigenous Diaspora

Warlpiri Matriarchs and the Refashioning of Tradition

Burke, P.

This book is a multi-sited ethnography of the migration of a minority of the aboriginal Warlpiri away from their traditional homeland to distant towns and cities. It follows a number of Warlpiri matriarchs into their new locations, exploring how they sustain their independent lives and examining their changing relationship with the traditional culture they represent.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

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Published March 2008
Austria, Germany, and the Cold War

From the Anschluss to the State Treaty, 1938-1955

Steininger, R.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published October 1996
Austrian Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Cross-disciplinary Perspectives

Good, D. F., Grandner, M., & Maynes, M. J. (eds)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General)

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Forthcoming July 2025
Austria's Difficult Past

Memory of National Socialism and the Filmization of Television (1960-1980)

Gortat, J.

A comprehensive analysis of Austro-German historical television films released between 1961 and 1980, Austria’s Difficult Past examines television’s role in reckoning with the legacy of the Nazi regime and in mediating the burden of complicity within Austria’s and Germany’s shared histories.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available Published April 2021
Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters

New Lives of Old Imaginaries

Mageo, J. & Knauft, B. (eds)

Reconsidering issues of representation in the insular Pacific, this volume explores authenticity and authorship in practice as “traveling concepts” that spawn cross-fertilization along the cultural and historical routes they traverse. The chapters are contextualized by a strongly theorized introduction that considers how notions of authenticity and authorship have developed in Western societies too.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies

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Published November 1995
Authority, Identity and the Social History of the Great War

Coetzee, F. & M. (eds)

Subject: History: World War I

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Published June 1998
Autonomy

Life Cycle, Gender, and Status among Himalayan Pastoralists

Rao, A.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

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Avant-garde to New Wave

Czechoslovak Cinema, Surrealism and the Sixties

Owen, J.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

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Back to the Postindustrial Future

An Ethnography of Germany's Fastest-Shrinking City

Ringel, F.

Back to the Postindustrial Future is the first comprehensive ethnography of the future, approaching Hoyerswerda, Germany’s fastest shrinking city, not from the perspective of its past, but persistently from that of its future. Through an extensive ethnography of the city, it allows us to investigate the postindustrial era and the futures it has supposedly lost.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies

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Published July 2002
Bali and Beyond

Case Studies in the Anthropology of Tourism

Yamashita, S.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Development Studies Anthropology (General)

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Balkan Departures

Travel Writing from Southeastern Europe

Bracewell, W. & Drace-Francis, A. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Literary Studies

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Banned in Berlin

Literary Censorship in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918

Stark, G. D.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

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Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andes

Angé, O.

Drawing on ethnographic data from fairs in the Southern Andes involving highland herders and lowland cultivators, Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andesadvances an anthropology of the practice of barter, contributing to a fuller understanding of how social groups create themselves through material circulation.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published April 2018
Basic and Applied Research

The Language of Science Policy in the Twentieth Century

Kaldewey, D. & Schauz, D. (eds)

Basic and Applied Research traces the conceptual history of the distinction between basic and applied research to its origins in nineteenth-century Europe, explores its role in different ideological contexts after World War II, and ultimately provides valuable insights into present-day EU research policy.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Published May 2002
Becoming a Subject

Political Prisoners during the Greek Civil War, 1945-1950

Voglis, P.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Becoming East German

Socialist Structures and Sensibilities after Hitler

Fulbrook, M. & Port, A. I. (eds)

“This is an excellent edited collection. It provides a range of methodological approaches and is right up to date: it introduces a number of new academics onto the scene while also providing some old favourites. The volume significantly adds to our understanding of East Germany and its population. It provides a reassessment of antifascism and memory... Port’s introduction and Fulbrook’s chapter on memory are masterful.” · Mark Fenemore, Manchester Metropolitan University

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Becoming Good Women

Schooling, Aspirations and Imagining the Future Among Female Students in Sri Lanka

Batatota, L. S.

This book illustrates that tuition space acts as an important site for identity formation and placemaking, where students play out their cosmopolitan aspirations whilst acquiring educational capital. It focuses on narratives of female Sinhalese students attending a national school in the Central Province of Sri Lanka.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Educational Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Sustainable Development Goals

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eBook available Published September 2024
Becoming Other

Heterogeneity and Plasticity of the Self

Berliner, D.

Most of us are conscious of having a single and stable self, but the self is more fragmented and plastic than we care to think. David Berliner explores the captivating world of identity through an array of astonishing 'exo-experiences.'

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Literary Studies

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eBook available Published November 2019
Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City

Fahy, J.

Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City centers on a growing multinational community of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) devotees in Mayapur, West Bengal. Paying particular attention to devotees’ failure to consistently live up to ISKCON’s ideals, and the ongoing struggle to realize the utopian vision of an ‘ideal Vedic city’.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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Published December 2001
Bedouin Century

Education and Development among the Negev Tribes in the Twentieth Century

Abu-Rabia, A.

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published June 2013
Bedouin of Mount Sinai

An Anthropological Study of their Political Economy

Marx, E.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
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Being a Sperm Donor

Masculinity, Sexuality, and Biosociality in Denmark

Mohr, S.

Through ethnographic explorations of the everyday lives of Danish sperm donors, Being a Sperm Donor explores how masculinity and sexuality are reconfigured in a time in which the norms and logics of (reproductive) biomedicine have become ordinary, and examines how the latter’s socio-cultural and political dimensions become intertwined with men’s intimate sense of self.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

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Published May 2014
Being a State and States of Being in Highland Georgia

Mühlfried, F.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies Development Studies

Hb
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Being and Becoming

Embodiment and Experience among the Orang Rimba of Sumatra

Elkholy, R.

In a unique methodological contribution, Ramsey Elkholy adopts a set of body-centered approaches that reflect and capture the day-to-day, moment-to-moment ways in which the hunters and gatherers of Orang Rimba, Sumatra, engage with the world.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published January 2019
Being Bedouin Around Petra

Life at a World Heritage Site in the Twenty-First Century

Bille, M.

Being Bedouin Around Petra explores the relationships between the UNESCO protection conferred on Petra, Jordan, and the traditions and lives of the semi-nomadic Bedouin who inhabit the surrounding area. It explores what it means to be Bedouin when tourism, heritage protection, national discourse, and other forces lay competing claims to the past.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Heritage Studies

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Being Godless

Ethnographies of Atheism and Non-Religion

Blanes, R. L. & Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (eds)

Drawing on ethnographic inquiry and the anthropological literature on doubt and atheism, this volume explores people's reluctance to pursue religion. The contributors capture the experiences of godless people and examine their perspectives on the role of religion in their personal and public lives. In doing so, the volume contributes to a critical understanding of the processes of disengagement from religion and reveals the challenges and paradoxes that godless people face.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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Being Human, Being Migrant

Senses of Self and Well-Being

Grønseth, A. S. (ed)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
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Being-Here

Placemaking in a World of Movement

Lems, A.

By exploring the lifeworlds of two middle-aged Somalis living in Melbourne, Australia, Being-Here sheds light on the existential dynamics of being-in-place. It discusses the interrelated meanings of emplacement and displacement as experienced in people’s everyday lives, and examines the figure of the refugee as a metaphor for societal alienation and estrangement.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies

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Published May 2010
Béla Balázs: Early Film Theory

Visible Man and The Spirit of Film

Balázs, B.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

Hb
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A Belle Epoque?

Women and Feminism in French Society and Culture 1890-1914

Holmes, D. & Tarr, C. (eds)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century

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Published September 2014
Belonging in Oceania

Movement, Place-Making and Multiple Identifications

Hermann, E., Kempf, W. & Meijl, T. van (eds)

Belonging can be understood by considering the intersections of movement, place-making and cultural identifications. The contributions present ethnographic case studies of such intersections in Oceania. Investigated are ongoing formations of place, self and community in connection with travelling, as well as with internal and international migration.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Mobility Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Belonging in Unhomely Homelands

Internal Displacement and Gendered Nationalism among Kosovo Serbs

Grujić, M.

Belonging in Unhomely Lands takes a feminist approach to examine the intricate dynamics of gender, national affiliation and belonging in the context of internal displacement and territorial disputes faced by Kosovo Serbs since the ethnic conflict and tensions two decades ago.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
Published April 2012
The Benefit of the Gift

Social Organization and Expanding Networks of Interaction in the Western Great Lakes Archaic

Hill, M. A.

Archaeological data from the Late Archaic (4000-2000 years ago) in the Western Great Lakes are analyzed to understand the production and movement of copper and lithic exchange materials. Also considered in this volume are access to and benefits from exchange networks, as well as social changes accompanying the development of extensive, continental scale, exchange systems of interaction in this period.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)

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Berlin Divided City, 1945-1989

Broadbent, P. & Hake, S. (eds)

Subjects: Urban Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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Berlin, Alexanderplatz

Transforming Place in a Unified Germany

Weszkalnys, G.

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General) Geography

Hb
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The Best We Share

Nation, Culture and World-Making in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena

Brumann, C.

As the most ambitious study of the World Heritage arena so far, this volume dissects the inner workings of a prominent global body, demonstrating the power of ethnography in the highly formalised and diplomatic context of a multilateral organisation.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Museum Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Bestsellers of the Third Reich

Readers, Writers and the Politics of Literature

Adam, C.

Christian Adam examines how books came into being under the Nazis, how they became bestsellers—sometimes against the will of the rulers—and which books were actually read. He writes the history of the bestsellers in the darkest epoch of the German past, thus opening a new perspective on the mentality of the Germans between 1933 and 1945.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Literary Studies

Hb
Published December 2016
Between Blood and Gold

The Debates over Compensation for Slavery in the Americas

Beauvois, F.

Lost among current debates over slavery reparations is the fact that such payments were once widespread—except the “victims” were not slaves, but slaveholders deprived of their labor. This landmark study analyzes the debates over compensation within France and Great Britain, establishing a compelling analysis of the Atlantic slave trade’s aftermath.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History (General) Colonial History

Hb
Published May 2006
Between Bombs and Good Intentions

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Italo-Ethiopian war, 1935-1936

Baudendistel, R.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

Hb
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Between Empire and Continent

British Foreign Policy before the First World War

Rose, A.

Historians have commonly interpreted Britain’s attempts to break through older alliances of European states before World War I as a reaction to aggressive German foreign policy. This groundbreaking political history demonstrates that British strategy instead arose from the complex interplay of national, continental and imperial considerations.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I

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Between Left and Right

The 2009 Bundestag Elections and the Transformation of the German Party System

Langenbacher, E. (ed)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Between Marx and Coca-Cola

Youth Cultures in Changing European Societies, 1960-1980

Schildt, A. & Siegfried, D. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies Sociology

Hb
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Between Mass Death and Individual Loss

The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany

Confino, A., Betts, P. & Schumann, D. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

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Between Prague Spring and French May

Opposition and Revolt in Europe, 1960-1980

Klimke, M., Pekelder, J. & Scharloth, J. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Between Reform and Revolution

German Socialism and Communism from 1840 to 1990

Barclay, D. & Weitz, E. (ed)

Subject: History (General)

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Published July 2011
Between the Avant-garde and the Everyday

Subversive Politics in Europe from 1957 to the Present

Brown, T. & Anton, L. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
eBook available Published September 2023
Between the Forest and the Road

The Waorani Struggle for Living Well in the Ecuadorian Oil Circuit

Bravo Díaz, A.

During the past two decades Ecuadorians have engaged in a national debate around Buen Vivir (living well). This ethnography discusses one of the ways in which people experience well-being or aspire to live well in Ecuadorian Amazonia. Waponi Kewemonipa (living well) is a Waorani notion that embraces ideas of good conviviality, health and certain ecological relations.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Environmental Studies (General) Sustainable Development Goals

Hb
Published December 2007
Between Tradition and Modernity

Aby Warburg and the Public Purposes of Art in Hamburg

Russell, M. A.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
Published November 2005
Between Two Worlds

The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933

Prawer, S. S.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Jewish Studies

Hb
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Published November 2004
Between Utopia and Disillusionment

A Narrative of the Political Transformation in Eastern Europe

Vogt, H.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
eBook available Published October 2013
Between Yesterday and Tomorrow

German Visions of Europe, 1926-1950

Bailey, C.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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Beyond Writing Culture

Current Intersections of Epistemologies and Representational Practices

Zenker, O. & Kumoll, K. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Hb
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Published September 1997
Beyond 1989

Re-reading German literature since 1945

Bullivant, K. (ed)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Literary Studies

Hb
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Published July 2014
Beyond Alterity

German Encounters with Modern East Asia

Shen, Q. & Rosenstock, M. (eds)

This collection of essays examines German-language cultural production pertaining to modern China and Japan, and explicitly challenges orientalist notions by proposing a conception of East and West not as opposites, but as complementary elements of global culture, thereby urging a move beyond national paradigms in cultural studies. Essays focus on the mid-century German-Japanese alliance, Chinese-German Leftist collaborations, global capitalism, travel, identity, and cultural hybridity. The authors include historians and scholars of film and literature, and employ a wide array of approaches from postcolonial, globalization, media, and gender studies. The collection sheds new light on a complex and ambivalentset of international relationships, while also testifying to the potential of Asian German Studies.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Published May 1999
Beyond Caligari

The Films of Robert Wiene

Jung, U. & Schatzberg, W.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

Hb
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Published October 2011
Beyond Conversion and Syncretism

Indigenous Encounters with Missionary Christianity, 1800-2000

Lindenfeld, D. & Richardson, M. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Colonial History

Hb
Published November 2024
Beyond Ethics and Pragmatism

Evocative Moments in Doing Ethnography

Shokeid, M.

Based on several long-term fieldwork projects in Israel and the U.S., this book brings together a repertoire of subjective and professional experiences of an anthropologist who attended various theoretical and methodological tutoring settings.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

Hb
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Beyond Filial Piety

Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies

Shea, J., Moore, K., & Zhang, H. (eds)

This volume explores emerging cultural meanings and social responses to population aging in contemporary East Asian societies. Drawing on ethnographic, demographic, policy, archival, and media data, the authors trace both common patterns and diverging trends across China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, and Korea.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Beyond Habermas

Democracy, Knowledge, and the Public Sphere

Emden, C. J. & Midgely, D. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Media Studies Literary Studies

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Beyond 'Hellenes' and 'Barbarians'

Asymmetrical Concepts in European Discourse

Postoutenko, K. (ed)

Surveying a variety of significant asymmetrical conceptualizations, Beyond 'Hellenes' and 'Barbarians' extends our current breadth of understanding of how ascriptive terms such as ‘civilization’ vs. ‘barbarity,’ or ‘order’ vs. ‘chaos’ functioned and continue to function in political, scientific, and fictional discourses.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century History: Medieval/Early Modern

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Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion

Jewish Experiences of the First World War in Central Europe

Crouthamel, J., Geheran, M., Grady, T., & Köhne, J. B. (eds)

Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion recaptures the multifariousness of Central European Jewish life through the experiences of both soldiers and civilians during World War I. This collection explores rare sources and employs novel interdisciplinary methods to illuminate four interconnected themes: minorities and the meaning of military service, Jewish-Gentile relations, the cultural legacy of the war, and memory politics.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present

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Beyond Pain

The Anthropology of Body Suspensions

Manfredi, F.

Through thirteen years of fieldwork, an experimental practice-based methodology, and a new theoretical approach to harmonize online and offline data, Beyond Pain provides a wholly unique ethnographical exploration of the misunderstood world of body suspensions.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Hb
Published April 2011
Beyond Pleasure

Cultures of Modern Asceticism

Peeters, E., van Molle, L. & Wils, K. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published February 2020
Beyond Posthumanism

The German Humanist Tradition and the Future of the Humanities

Mathäs, A.

Against the background of debates about a revival of humanist values, this volume seeks to recast the question of the viability of the humanities by analyzing their long-disputed premises in German literature and philosophy. It emphasizes the importance of the humanities’ original mission of establishing a universal ethics by contextualizing disciplinary knowledge and making human experiences, bodily sensations, and emotions comprehensible through literary imagination.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Educational Studies

Hb
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Published July 2008
Beyond Prison

The Fight to Reform Prison Systems around the World

Othmani, A.

Subjects: History (General) Sociology

Hb
Published February 2003
Beyond Rationalism

Rethinking Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery

Kapferer, B.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Published March 2019
Beyond the Border

Young Minorities in the Danish-German Borderlands, 1955-1971

Wung-Sung, T. H.

Beyond the Border reconstructs the experiences of minority youths living in the Danish-German borderlands from the 1950s to the 1970s. Drawing on a remarkable variety of archival and oral sources, author Tobias Haimin Wung-Sung provides a rich and fine-grained analysis that encompasses political issues from the NATO alliance and European integration to everyday life and popular culture.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Hb
Published October 2015
Beyond the Divide

Entangled Histories of Cold War Europe

Mikkonen, S. & Koivunen, P. (eds)

Cold War history has emphasized the division of Europe into two warring camps with separate ideologies and little in common. This volume presents an alternative perspective by suggesting that there were transnational networks bridging the gap and connecting like-minded people on both sides of the divide.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Forthcoming April 2025
Beyond the Euromissile Crisis

Global Histories of Anti-Nuclear Activism in the Cold War

Brunet, L.-A. & Karamouzi, E. (eds)

An illuminating re-examination of the Euromissile Crisis of the 1980s, Beyond the Euromissile Crisis broadens our understanding of anti-nuclear activism, highlighting its status as a global phenomenon with implications that extend beyond Europe and the 1987 INF treaty.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology
Published February 2015
Beyond the Lens of Conservation

Malagasy and Swiss Imaginations of One Another

Keller, E.

This ethnography examines how the cooperation between a national park in Madagascar and a Swiss zoo is perceived by ordinary people at either end. One view focuses on power and history, the other on morality and progress. Nature conservation therefore widens the gap between people in the North and South.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published August 2014
Beyond the Looking Glass

Narcissism and Female Stardom in Studio-Era Hollywood

Salzberg, A.

Exploring the fan’s desire for a material connection to the performer – as well as the star’s own dialogue between their embodied experience and their ideal self on the screen – Beyond the Looking Glass traces on- and off-screen representations of narcissistic femininity in classical Hollywood through studies of stars like Greta Garbo, Ava Gardner, and Marilyn Monroe.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

Hb
Published August 2023
Beyond the Social Contract

An Anthropology of Tax

Makovicky, N. & Smith, R. (eds)

Tax and taxation are conventionally understood as the embodiment of social contract. This ground-breaking collection of essays challenges this truism, examining what tax might tell us about the limits of social-contract thinking.

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology

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Beyond the Veil

Reflexive Studies of Death and Dying

Thamann, A. & Christodoulaki, K. M. (eds)

Looking at the cultural responses to death and dying, this collection explores the emotional aspects that death provokes in humans, whether it is disgust, fear, awe, sadness, anger, or even joy. More broadly, this collection suggests a new paradigm in the study of death and dying.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion

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Beyond Wild and Tame

Soiot Encounters in a Sentient Landscape

Oehler, A. C.

Responding to recent scholarship, this book examines animal domestication and offers a Soiot approach to animals and landscapes, which transcends the wild-tame dichotomy. It is an ethnography intended to help us reinvent our relations with the earth in unpredictable times.

Subject: Environmental Studies (General)

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Big Capital in an Unequal World

The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan

Armytage, R.

Following the hidden lives of the global “1%”, this book examines the networks, social practices, marriages, and machinations of the elite in Pakistan. In doing so, it reveals the daily, even mundane, ways in which elites contribute to and shape the inequality that characterises the modern world.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

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Bigger Fish to Fry

A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples

Sutton, D. E.

What defines cooking as cooking, and why does cooking matter to the understanding of society, cultural change and everyday life? This book explores these questions by proposing a new theory of the meaning of cooking as a willingness to put oneself and one’s meals at risk on a daily basis, with examples from the author's fieldwork in Greece.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Published September 2008
Biography Between Structure and Agency

Central European Lives in International Historiography

Berghahn, V. R. & Lässig, S. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
Published October 2016
Biomedical Entanglements

Conceptions of Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Society

Herbst, F. A.

Biomedical Entanglements is an ethnographic study of the Giri people of Papua New Guinea, focusing on the indigenous population’s interaction with modern medicine. The study bridges medical anthropology and global health, exploring how the ‘biomedical’ is imbued with social meaning and how biomedicine affects Giri ways of life.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology

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eBook available Published March 2009
Biopolitics, Militarism, and Development

Eritrea in the Twenty-First Century

O'Kane, D. & Hepner, T. R. (eds)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Development Studies Anthropology (General)

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Birds of Passage

Hunting and Conservation in Malta

Falzon, M.-A.

Drawing on years of ethnographic fieldwork in Malta, this book traces the complex interactions between hunters, birds and the landscapes they inhabit, as well as the dynamics and politics of bird conservation. Birds of Passage looks at the practice and meaning of hunting in a specific context, and raises broader questions about human-wildlife interactions and the uncertain outcomes of conservation.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Sustainable Development Goals

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Bishkek Boys

Neighbourhood Youth and Urban Change in Kyrgyzstan’s Capital

Schröder, P.

In this pioneering ethnographic study of identity, author Philipp Schröder explores integration and urban change in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek. Bishkek Boys offers unique insights into how post-Socialist economic liberalization, rural-urban migration and (state) ethnic nationalism have reshaped social relations among the boys who come of age in this Central Asian urban environment.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Refugee and Migration Studies Urban Studies

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Published August 2013
Bittersweet Europe

Albanian and Georgian Discourses on Europe, 1878-2008

Brisku, A.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Published November 2000
Black Lambs and Grey Falcons

Women Travelling in the Balkans

Allcock, J. & Young, A.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Gender Studies and Sexuality

Pb
Published June 2024
Black Schoolgirls in Space

Stories of Black Girlhoods Gathered on Educational Terrain

Ohito, E. O. & Mock Muñoz de Luna, L.

Black Schoolgirls in Space is a theoretical turn that advances the growing interest in transnational girlhoods by focusing on the Black girls as actors and agents in the construction of not only girlhood but also the educational worlds in which girlhoods are contained.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Development Studies Sociology
eBook available Published August 2014
Blood and Fire

Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor

Kasmir, S. & Carbonella, A. (eds)

Six historical ethnographies stemming from fieldwork around the world offer a comparative perspective on the uneven consequences of and reactions to the anthropology of labor. The contributors’ vivid accounts show in how dispossession was lived by local working classes illustrates the defeat and unmaking of particular working classes.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Blood and Kinship

Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present

Johnson, C. H., Jussen, B., Sabean, D. W., & Teuscher, S. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Anthropology (General)

Hb
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Published August 2007
Blood and Oranges

Immigrant Labor and European Markets in Rural Greece

Lawrence, C. M.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sociology

hb
Published November 2014
Bloom and Bust

Urban Landscapes in the East since German Reunification

Cliver, G. & Smith-Prei, C. (eds)

More than two decades of deconstruction, renovation, and reconstruction have left the urban environments in the former German Democratic Republic completely transformed. This volume considers the changing urban landscapes in the former East create the cultural landscape of modern unified Germany.

Subjects: Urban Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published August 2020
Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure

Remembering Ghosts on the Margins of History

Surface-Evans, S., Garrison, A. E. & Supernant, K. (eds)

What happens when we blur time and allow ourselves to haunt or to become haunted by the ghosts of the past? The authors draw on archaeological, historical, and ethnographic data to imagine timescapes that transcend our temporality. This volume demonstrates the value of conceiving of ghosts not just as metaphors, but for making the past more concrete and allowing the negative specters of enduring historical legacies, such as colonialism and capitalism, to be exorcised.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Memory Studies Heritage Studies

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Boaters of London

Alternative Living on the Water

Bowles, B. O. L.

London and the Southeast of England is home to many people living along rivers and canals. Boaters of London delves into the process of becoming a ‘boater’ and the political impact of the travelling population on the state. It examines an alternative style of living and the potential of a life spent afloat.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Urban Studies

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eBook available Published February 2015
Bodies in Pain

Emotion and the Cinema of Darren Aronofsky

Laine, T.

The films of Darren Aronofsky invite emotional engagement by means of affective resonance between the film and the spectator’s lived body. Bodies in Pain analyses how Aronofsky’s films engage the spectator in an affective form of viewing that involves all the senses, ultimately engendering a process of (self) reflection through their emotional dynamics.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

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Published May 2005
Bodies of Evidence

Burial, Memory and the Recovery of Missing Persons in Cyprus

Sant Cassia, P.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies

Hb
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Published November 2009
The Body in Asia

Turner, B. & Yangwen, Z. (Eds.)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology of Religion

Hb
eBook available Published August 2013
The Body in Balance

Humoral Medicines in Practice

Horden, P. & Hsu, E. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Hb
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Published April 2006
The Body of the Queen

Gender and Rule in the Courtly World, 1500-2000

Schulte R. (ed)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
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Published January 2014
Bondage

Labor and Rights in Eurasia from the Sixteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries

Stanziani, A.

Subject: History (General)

Paperback available
eBook available Published April 2017
Border Aesthetics

Concepts and Intersections

Schimanski, J. & Wolfe, S. F. (eds)

The field of border studies has analyzed the legal, geographical, and historical aspects of borders extensively, but such studies have hardly exhausted their conceptual fertility. Organized around six key ideas—ecology, imaginary, in/visibility, palimpsest, sovereignty and waiting—the interlocking essays collected here provide theoretical starting points for an aesthetic understanding of borders.

Subjects: Literary Studies Mobility Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published October 2013
Border Encounters

Asymmetry and Proximity at Europe's Frontiers

Lauth Bacas, J. & Kavanagh, W. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies

Hb
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eBook available Published May 2008
Border Interrogations

Questioning Spanish Frontiers

Sampedro, B. & Doubleday, S. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies History (General)

hb
Published June 2020
Borders across Healthcare

Moral Economies of Healthcare and Migration in Europe

Sahraoui, N. (ed)

Borders across Healthcare explores contemporary moral economies of the healthcare-migration nexus through a scalar and relational perspective. The volume documents the many ways in which borders come to disrupt healthcare settings and illuminates how judgements of a health-related deservingness become increasingly important, producing hierarchies that undermine a universal right to healthcare.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Mobility Studies Sociology Sustainable Development Goals

Paperback available
eBook available Published September 2022
Borders in East and West

Transnational and Comparative Perspectives

Berger, S. & Hashimoto, N. (eds)

The different ways of understanding borders, through culture, politics, or even religion, is transforming and requires multi-disciplinary approaches the complexity of interactions and tensions that may arise. Borders in East and West focuses on the relationships between Europe and East Asia through comparative case studies to challenge discourses and build new perspectives.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History

Hb
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Published February 2014
Borders of Belonging

Experiencing History, War and Nation at a Danish Heritage Site

Daugbjerg, M.

This book explores how such struggles unfold in practice at a highly symbolic battlefield site in the Danish/German borderland. Comprised of an ethnography of two profoundly different institutions – a conventional museum and an experience-based heritage center – it analyses the ways in which staff and visitors interfere with, relate to, and literally “make sense” of the war heritage and its national connotations. Borders of Belonging offers a comparative, in-depth analysis of the practices and negotiations through which history is made and manifested at two houses devoted to the interpretation of one event: the decisive battle of the 1864 war in which Otto von Bismarck, on his way to uniting the new German Empire, led the Prussian army to victory over the Danish.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Travel and Tourism Museum Studies Memory Studies

Hb
eBook available Published November 2019
Born a Slave, Died a Pioneer

Nathan Harrison and the Historical Archaeology of Legend

Mallios, S.

Few people in the history of the United States embody ideals of the American Dream more than Nathan Harrison. His is a story with prominent themes of overcoming staggering obstacles, forging something-from-nothing, and evincing gritty perseverance. This book uses spectacular recent discoveries from the Nathan Harrison cabin site to offer new insights and perspectives into this most American biography.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies History (General) Anthropology (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published August 2015
Boro, L'Île d'Amour

The Films of Walerian Borowczyk

Kuc, K., Mikurda, K., & Oleszczyk, O. (eds)

There has been a revival of interest in the work of Polish film director Walerian Borowczyk, a label-defying auteur and “escape artist” if there ever was one. This volume, markedly experimental in character, allows scholars to gain insight into previously unnoticed aspects of Borowczyk’s complex and ambiguous oeuvre.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

Hb
Paperback available
Published November 2003
The Bounded Field

Localism and Local Identity in an Italian Alpine Valley

Stacul, J.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published December 2008
Boundless Worlds

An Anthropological Approach to Movement

Kirby, P. W. (ed)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Theory and Methodology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published November 2019
Bourdieu and Social Space

Mobilities, Trajectories, Emplacements

Reed-Danahay, D.

French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu’s relevance for studies of spatiality and mobility has received less attention than other aspects of his work. Here, Deborah Reed-Danahay argues that the concept of social space, central to Bourdieu’s ideas, addresses the structured inequalities that prevail in spatial choices and practices.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Mobility Studies Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
Published May 2006
The Bourgeois Revolution in France 1789-1815

Heller, H.

Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century

Hb
Paperback available
Published September 1999
The Brave New World of European Labor

European Trade Unions at the Millennium

Martin, A. & Ross, G. (eds)

Subject: History (General)

Hb
Paperback available
Published April 1999
Braving the Street

The Anthropology of Homelessness

Glasser, I. & Bridgman, R.

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published November 2019
Brazilian Steel Town

Machines, Land, Money and Commoning in the Making of the Working Class

Mollona, M.

Volta Redonda is a Brazilian steel town founded in the 1940s by dictator Getúlio Vargas on an ex-coffee valley as a powerful symbol of Brazilian modernization. Brazilian Steel-Town tells the story of the people tied to this ailing giant – of their fears, hopes, and everyday struggles.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Urban Studies Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published May 2019
The Brazilian Truth Commission

Local, National and Global Perspectives

Schneider, N. (ed)

Bringing together leading scholars, practitioners, and human rights activists, this groundbreaking volume provides the first systematic analysis of the 2012–2014 Brazilian National Truth Commission. It explores the emergence, functioning, and outcome of the Commission, and offers a more general and critical reassessment of truth commissions from a variety of perspectives.

Subject: Peace and Conflict Studies

Hb
Published March 2015
Bread from the Lion's Mouth

Artisans Struggling for a Livelihood in Ottoman Cities

Faroqhi, S. (ed)

The newly awakened interest in the lives of craftspeople in Turkey is highlighted in this collection, which uses archival documents to follow Ottoman artisans from the late 15th century to the beginning of the 20th. The authors examine historical changes in the lives of artisans, focusing on the craft organizations (or guilds) that underwent substantial changes over the centuries.

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
eBook available Published May 2015
Breaking Boundaries

Varieties of Liminality

Horvath, A., Thomassen, B., & Wydra, H. (eds)

Liminality has the potential to be a leading paradigm for understanding transformation in a globalizing world. This book explores the methodological range and applicability of the concept to a variety of concrete social and political problems.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published December 2016
Breaking Rocks

Music, Ideology and Economic Collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa

Trapido, J.

Based on fieldwork in Kinshasa and Paris, Breaking Rocks examines patronage payments within Congolese popular music. This book offers insights into both the ideologies of power and value in central Africa’s troubled post-colonial political economy, and the economic flows that make up the hidden side of the globalization.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
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Published June 2005
Breast Feeding and Sexuality

Behaviour, Beliefs and Taboos among the Gogo Mothers in Tanzania

Mabilia, M.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published January 2024
Breathing Hearts

Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany

Selim, N.

Sufism is known as the mystical dimension of Islam. Nasima Selim explores this definition to find out what it means to ‘breathe well’ along the Sufi path in the context of anti-Muslim racism. Breathing Hearts is the first book-length ethnographic account of Sufi practices and politics in Berlin.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Refugee and Migration Studies
eBook available Published July 2017
The Bressonians

French Cinema and the Culture of Authorship

Morari, C.

With his meticulous approach to craft, formal innovations, and intensely personal style, Robert Bresson was in many ways the prototypical auteur. This strikingly original study of Bresson and his cinematic afterlives his influence in the work of French filmmakers such as Pialat, Eustache, and Rohmer—directors united by the “problem” of authorial style they inherited from Bresson.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published October 2022
Brewing Socialism

Coffee, East Germans, and Twentieth-Century Globalization

Kloiber, A.

Taking an uncommonly focused lens against the deep and active role coffee had in connecting East Germans to a global market, Brewing Socialism uncovers the significance of East German efforts to democratize coffee and how that focus on material cultural informed the everyday life of the Social Unity Party’s conceptualization of a modern social utopia.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
Published September 2012
Bridging Divides

Ethno-Political Leadership among the Russian Sámi

Overland, I. & Berg-Nordlie, M.

Subject: Development Studies

Hb
Paperback available
Published March 2009
Bringing Culture to the Masses

Control, Compromise and Participation in the GDR

Richthofen, E. von

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
eBook available Published August 2023
Broken Glass, Broken Class

Transformations of Work in Bulgaria

Kofti, D.

Based on a long-term study of the everyday postsocialist politics of labour in the wider context of intense socio-economic transformation in Bulgaria, this book tells the story of the flexibilization of production, the precaritization of work, shifting managerial practices, and ways in which people with different employment statuses live and work together.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
Published March 2008
'Brothers' or Others?

Propriety and Gender for Muslim Arab Sudanese in Egypt

Fábos, A. H.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

hb
eBook available Published July 2012
Building a European Identity

France, the United States, and the Oil Shock, 1973-74

Gfeller, A. E.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
Published May 2006
Building on Water

Venice, Holland and the Construction of the European Landscape in Early Modern Times

Ciriacono, S.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: Medieval/Early Modern Urban Studies

Hb
Forthcoming April 2025
Building Social Worlds

Thinking forwards with Esther Newcomb Goody

Bodenhorn, B., Fenitman, A., & Goody, M. (eds)

This collection draws on ethnography across Africa, Europe, Oceania and the Americas, and uses Goody’s ideas to expand their understanding of the nature of relationships, communication, intimacy, resistance and resilience with a particular focus on rich ethnographies of childhood and learning.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available Published May 2022
Bulldozer Capitalism

Accumulation, Ruination, and Dispossession in Northeastern Turkey

Evren, E.

Set in the resource frontier of northeastern Turkey, Bulldozer Capitalism studies the rise and decline of an anti-dam/anti-displacement campaign and the political responses to other extractive projects that it helped to shape in its aftermath.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Sustainable Development Goals

Hb
eBook available Published April 2023
The Burden of German History

A Transatlantic Life

Jarausch, K. H.

The Burden of Germany History is Konrad H Jarausch’s much anticipated transatlantic autobiography set against the development and transformation of German studies over the past half-century. Using his life story, Jarausch’s concurrent life in the US and Germany brings us a self-critical historiography of a twentieth-century Germany that was wrestling with the responsibility for war and genocide.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History History: World War II

Hb
eBook available Published May 2020
Bureaucracy, Work and Violence

The Reich Ministry of Labour in Nazi Germany, 1933–1945

Nützenadel, A. (ed)

In Bureaucracy, Work and Violence, the Reich Ministry of Labor is for the first time systematically illuminated as the bureaucratic arm responsible for the implementation of the National Socialist work doctrine. Historians reveal through pioneering research that the classical administrative apparatuses were far more involved in the Nazi regime and its crimes than has long been suspected.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published April 2018
Burgundy

The Global Story of Terroir

Demossier, M.

Drawing on more than twenty years of fieldwork, this book explores the professional, social and cultural world of Burgundy wines and demystifies the terroir ideology to provide a unique long-term ethnographic analysis of what lies behind the concept in Burgundy, raising important questions about the future of quality wine in a global era.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
Paperback available
Published August 2015
Bush Bound

Young Men and Rural Permanence in Migrant West Africa

Gaibazzi, P.

Many young men in a Gambian village, although eager to travel for money and experience, settle as farmers, family heads, businessmen, civic activists or, alternatively, as employed, demoted youth. This ethnography focuses on these “stayers,” who enable others to migrate while preserving the values and traditions of rural, sedentary life.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

Paperback available
Published March 2004
Business and Industry in Nazi Germany

Nicosia, F.R. & Huener, J. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History

Hb
Paperback available
Published October 2024
Calibrated Engagement

Chronicles of Local Politics in the Heartland of Myanmar

Huard, S.

For decades, the heartland of Myanmar has been configured as a pacified space under military surveillance. A closer look reveals how politics is enacted at distance with the state. Calibrated Engagement weaves together ethnography and history to chronicle the transformation of rural politics in Anya, the dry lands of central Myanmar.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies
eBook available Published January 2023
Calling on the Community

Understanding Participation in the Heritage Sector, an Interactive Governance Perspective

Rodenberg, J., Wagenaar, P., & Burgers, G.-J. (eds)

There is a call in Heritage Studies to democratize heritage practices and place local communities at the forefront; heritage plays an important role in identity formation, and therefore in social inclusion and exclusion. This series of studies contributes to a better understanding of public participation in the heritage sector by applying Public Administration theory on collaborative governance.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
Forthcoming August 2025
Cambodian Journeys

Stories of Refugees Surviving the Khmer Rouge

Mamula, S. & Sutton, E.

This book tells the survival stories of seven Cambodians who endured the Khmer Rouge Genocide, their escape to Thailand, and their difficult resettlement in the United States. It is a collection of first-person oral histories, supplemented by images of documents and photographs, highlighting journeys of resilience, survival, and adaptation while profoundly traumatized.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies
Published December 2001
Cameroon's Tycoon

Max Esser's Expedition and its Consequences

Chilver, E. M. & Röschenthaler, U. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published September 2021
The Camino de Santiago

Curating the Pilgrimage as Heritage and Tourism

Murray, M.

Pilgrimage, as a global activity linked to the sacred, speaks to the special significance of persons, places and events. This book relates these sentiments to the curatorship of the Camino de Santiago that comprises a lattice of European pilgrimage itineraries converging at Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

Hb
eBook available Published May 2020
Can Academics Change the World?

An Israeli Anthropologist's Testimony on the Rise and Fall of a Protest Movement on Campus

Shokeid, M.

Moshe Shokeid narrates his experiences as a member of AD KAN (NO MORE), a protest movement of Israeli academics at Tel Aviv University, who fought against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, founded during the first Palestinian intifada/uprising (1987-1993).

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Jewish Studies Anthropology (General) Educational Studies

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published May 2020
The Candle and the Guillotine

Revolution and Justice in Lyon, 1789–93

Johnson, J. P.

Using Lyon as a lens for understanding the politics of revolutionary France, this book reveals the widespread enthusiasm for judicial change in Lyon at the time of the Revolution, as well as the conflicts that ensued between elected magistrates in the face of radical democratization.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

Hb
Forthcoming June 2025
Capitalism and Catastrophe

A Critical Disaster Studies Manifesto

Swamy, R.

This book argues that disasters are intimately linked to historical processes that foster contemporary unequal relationships, and should therefore include both those commonly associated with nature as well as those we consider facets of history and social conflict, such as war and destitution.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Development Studies
eBook available Published April 2013
Capricious Borders

Minority, Population, and Counter-Conduct Between Greece and Turkey

Demetriou, O.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published October 2020
Captives, Colonists and Craftspeople

Material Culture and Institutional Power in Malta, 1600–1900

Palmer, R.

This innovative study draws on both archival evidence and archeological research to compare Malta’s experience under the regimes of the Knights of St. John from 1530 to 1798 and afterward as a maritime outpost of the British Empire in terms of such topics as slavery, the control of resources, and globalization.

Subjects: Colonial History Archaeology

Hb
eBook available Published May 2018
Capturing Quicksilver

The Position, Power, and Plasticity of Chinese Medicine in Singapore

Smith, A. A.

Capturing Quicksilver considers the use, promotion, and legislation of Chinese medicine in Singapore in relation to government policies favoring international investment, urban redevelopment, healthcare regulation, “multiracial” nationalism, and the management of history and heritage. Theoretically and methodologically developed within medical anthropology, it explores embodied experience and individual and group creativity vis-à-vis state agendas.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology (General)

Hb
eBook available Published May 2018
Care across Distance

Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration

Hromadžić, A. & Palmberger, M. (eds)

With a broad geographical scope, Care across Distance explores the multiple ways in which care across regional and national borders materializes from and contributes to changes in political economy; family and intergenerational relations; religion and spirituality; ethics and responsibility; and personhood and subjectivity.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies

Hb
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Published August 2024
Care in a Time of Humanitarianism

Stories of Refuge, Aid, and Repair in the Global South

Osanloo, A. & deBergh Robinson, C. (eds)

Care in a Time of Humanitarianism presents complex histories of forced migration and humanitarianism in an accessible way. It adopts a comparative approach to highlight the diverse cultural and religious traditions of care that are adopted across the Global South for the “distant others”.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

Paperback available
eBook available Published November 2011
Caring for the 'Holy Land'

Filipina Domestic Workers in Israel

Liebelt, C.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
eBook available Published August 2018
Carnage and Care on the Eastern Front

The War Diaries of Bernhard Bardach, 1914-1918

Bardach, B.

Care and Carnage on the Eastern Front documents the day-to-day life of a doctor serving on the Eastern Front between 1914-1918. Bardach’s meticulous records offer a personal glimpse into the critical first weeks of fighting as well as the ultimate collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Army.

Subjects: History: World War I Jewish Studies

Hb
Paperback available
Forthcoming February 2025
Carneiro

The Concise Evolutionary Essays

Bates Graber, R. (ed)

No one has done as much as Robert L. Carneiro to bring cultural evolutionism from its nineteenth-century origins into the twenty-first century. This volume promises to contribute to revitalizing this durable, profoundly illuminating theoretical perspective for current and future generations of students and anthropologists.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology
eBook available Published October 2021
Carnivalizing Reconciliation

Contemporary Australian and Canadian Literature and Film beyond the Victim Paradigm

Teichler, H.

This book analyzes, within the realms of national literature and film, recent Australian and Canadian attempts to reconcile with Indigenous populations in the wake of forced child removal. As Hanna Teichler demonstrates, their systematic emphasis on the subjectivity of the victim is carnivalesque, temporarily overturning discursive hierarchies.

Subjects: Memory Studies Literary Studies Film and Television Studies

Hb
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Published October 1994
Cars

Analysis, History, Cases

Williams, K., Haslam, C., Johal, S. & Williams, J.

Subject: History (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published September 2018
Cash Transfers in Context

An Anthropological Perspective

Olivier de Sardan, J.-P. & Piccoli, E. (eds)

Cash transfer programs have become the preferred channel for delivering emergency aid or tackling poverty in low-and middle-income countries. This book sheds light on their unpredicted consequences worldwide, detailing how they are used by actors to pursue their own strategies and how local populations relate to the external norms they impose.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
Paperback available
Published December 2005
The Categorical Impulse

Essays on the Anthropology of Classifying Behavior

Ellen, R.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Hb
Paperback available
Published January 2001
Categories and Classifications

Maussian Reflections on the Social

Allen, N. J.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published March 2019
Categories in Context

Gender and Work in France and Germany, 1900–Present

Berrebi-Hoffmann, I., Giraud, O., Renard, L., & Wobbe, T. (eds)

Despite the wealth of empirical research into the interrelationships of gender and labor available, little is known about the forms of classification and categorization shaping these social phenomena. Categories in Context enriches our understanding of how cognitive categories such as status, law, and rights have been produced, comprehended, appropriated, and eventually transformed in France and Germany.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General) Sociology

Hb
Published December 2004
Categories of Self

Louis Dumont's Theory of the Individual

Celtel, A.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published September 2021
Cattle Poetics

How Aesthetics Shapes Politics in Mursiland, Ethiopia

Eczet, J.-B.

Loving cows, then killing them. The relation with cattle in Mursi country is shaped by the dichotomy between the value given to it during life and the death imposed upon it. This book investigates the link between the nurturing and killing of cattle, and its accompanying aesthetics, with Mursi society itself.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Development Studies

Hb
Published December 2001
Celebrating Ethnicity and Nation

American Festive Culture from the Revolution to the Early 20th Century

Heideking, J., Fabre, G. & Dreisbach, K. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
Published December 2005
Celebrating Transgression

Method and Politics in Anthropological Studies of Cultures
A book in Honour of Klaus Peter Koepping

Rao, U. & Hutnyk, J. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology

Hb
eBook available Published January 2024
Centennial Fever

Transnational Hispanic Commemorations and Spanish Nationalism

Moreno-Luzón, J.

Hispanic commemorations that shaped the major elements of Spanish identity at the beginning of the 20th century, and their persistence to the present day, from the “discovery” of America to the publication of Don Quixote of la Mancha, are truly global and transnational events that have created a cultural community on which Spanish nationalism has become dependent.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
Published May 2008
The Center-Left's Poisoned Victory

Briquet, J.-L., & Mastropaolo, A. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Pb
Published May 2006
Centering the Margin

Agency and Narrative in Southeast Asian Borderlands

Horstmann, A. & Wadley, R. L. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

Hb
Paperback available
Published November 2012
Central America in the New Millennium

Living Transition and Reimagining Democracy

Burrell, J. L. & Moodie, E. (eds)

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Hb
Published May 2009
Central European Crossroads

Social Democracy and National Revolution in Bratislava (Pressburg), 1867-1921

Duin, P. C. van

Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century

Hb
eBook available Published December 2010
Centralizing Fieldwork

Critical Perspectives from Primatology, Biological and Social Anthropology

MacClancy, J. & Fuentes, A. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published October 2011
The Challenge of Epistemology

Anthropological Perspectives

Toren, C. & Pina-Cabral, J. de (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published December 1998
The Challenge of Globalization for Germany's Social Democracy

A Policy Agenda for the 21st Century

Dettke, D. (ed)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Published September 2014
The Challenges of Globalization

Economy and Politics in Germany, 1860-1914

Torp, C.

In the mid nineteenth century a process began that appears, from a present-day perspective, to have been the first wave of economic globalization. Within a few decades global economic integration reached a level that equaled, and in some respects surpassed, that of the present day. This book describes the interpenetration of the German economy with an emerging global economy before the First World War, while also demonstrating the huge challenge posed by globalization to the society and politics of the German Empire.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

Hb
Published May 2002
Challenging Ethnic Citizenship

German and Israeli Perspectives on Immigration

Levy, D. & Weiss, Y.(eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies

Hb
Paperback available
Published April 2000
Challenging Modernity

Dada between Modern and Postmodern

Pegrum, M. A.

Subject: Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
Forthcoming May 2025
Challenging Norms

Family Planning as a Reflection of Social Change in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe

Hein-Kircher, H., Hiemer, E.-M., & Nešťáková, D. (eds)

An enlightening and geographically wide-ranging re-examination of family planning in twentieth-century Eastern Europe, Challenging Norms interrogates the correlation between social attitudes to family planning and social, economic, and political modernization. In doing so, this volume highlights how these changes provide invaluable insights into ever-evolving societal norms and values.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology History: 20th Century to Present
Published March 1999
The Chameleon State

Global Culture and Policy Shifts in Britain and Germany, 1914-1933

Liu, T-L.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Published February 2010
Changes in Museum Practice

New Media, Refugees and Participation

Skartveit & Goodnow, K. (eds)

Subjects: Museum Studies Refugee and Migration Studies

Pb
eBook available Published October 2018
Changes in the Air

Hurricanes in New Orleans from 1718 to the Present

Rohland, E.

Changes in the Air looks at New Orleans and its changing cultural responses to hurricanes over three centuries, carefully exploring the complex interplay of sociopolitical, economic, legal, and cultural factors in the development or stagnation of adaptive practices.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History (General) Urban Studies

Hb
Paperback available
Published December 2007
Changing Cultural Tastes

Writers and the Popular in Modern Germany

Waine, A.

Subjects: Literary Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Published October 2008
The Changing Faces of Citizenship

Integration and Mobilization among Ethnic Minorities in Germany

Mushaben, J. M.

Subject: Refugee and Migration Studies

Hb
eBook available Published October 2009
Changing Identifications and Alliances in North-east Africa

Volume I: Ethiopia and Kenya

Schlee, G. & Watson, E. E. (eds)

Forms of group identity play a prominent role in everyday lives and politics in northeast Africa. Case studies from Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya illustrate the way that identities are formed and change over time, and how local, national, and international politics are interwoven. Specific attention is paid to the impact of modern weaponry, new technologies, religious conversion, food and land shortages, international borders, civil war, and displacement on group identities.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published November 2009
Changing Identifications and Alliances in North-east Africa

Volume II: Sudan, Uganda, and the Ethiopia-Sudan Borderlands

Schlee, G. & Watson, E. E. (eds)

Drawing on the expertise of anthropologists, historians and geographers, these volumes provide a significant account of a society profoundly shaped by identity politics and contribute to a better understanding of the nature of conflict and war, and forms of alliance and peacemaking, thus providing a comprehensive portrait of this troubled region.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published January 2019
The Changing Meanings of the Welfare State

Histories of a Key Concept in the Nordic Countries

Edling, N. (ed)

The Nordic concept of “the welfare state” is a well-worn analytical idea that has yet to receive much exploration beyond its postwar emergence. This volume chronicles “the welfare state” from its historical origins to its interpretations, values, and challenges over time in Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
Paperback available
Published July 2012
Changing Perceptions of the Public Sphere

Emden, C. J. & Midgley, D. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
eBook available Published May 2006
Changing Properties of Property

Benda-Beckmann, K. von, Benda-Beckmann, F. von & Wiber, M. (eds)

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
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Published October 2005
Changing Sex and Bending Gender

Shaw, A. & Ardener, S. (eds)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Theory and Methodology

Hb
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eBook available Published March 2010
Changing the World, Changing Oneself

Political Protest and Collective Identities in West Germany and the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s

Davis, B., Mausbach, W., Klimke, M. & MacDougall, C. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Hb
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Published August 2012
Charismatic Leadership and Social Movements

The Revolutionary Power of Ordinary Men and Women

Stutje, J. W. (ed)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published September 2022
The Chernobyl Effect

Antinuclear Protests and the Molding of Polish Democracy, 1986–1990

Szulecki, K., Waluszko, J., & Borewicz, T.

Empirically rich, The Chernobyl Effect shows how the Chernobyl catastrophe sparked a new kind of protest against the communist authorities of Poland. Drawing on samizdat, archival sources, and open-ended interviews with participants the authors show how a qualitatively new phenomenon was created on the opposition scene and challenge the dominant narrative of the Cold War’s end.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Published March 2014
Chiasmus and Culture

Wiseman, B. & Paul, A. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

Hb
eBook available Published May 2023
Chicanery

Senior Academic Appointments in Antipodean Anthropology, 1920–1960

Gray, G., Munro, D. & Winter, C.

Academic appointments can bring forth unexpected and unforeseen contests and tensions, cause humiliation and embarrassment for unsuccessful applicants and reveal unexpected allies and enemies. Chicanery deals with how the founding Chairs at Sydney, the Australian National University, Auckland and Western Australia dealt with this process.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History: 20th Century to Present Theory and Methodology

Hb
Published July 2001
Child Abuse on the Internet

Breaking the Silence

Arnaldo, C.A., in association with UNESCO

Subject: Sociology

Hb
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eBook available Published September 2009
Childbirth, Midwifery and Concepts of Time

McCourt, C. (ed)

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Hb
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eBook available Published June 2004
Children and Youth on the Front Line

Ethnography, Armed Conflict and Displacement

Boyden, J. & Berry, J. de (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published November 2023
Children are Everywhere

Conspicuous Reproduction and Childlessness in Reunified Berlin

Joshi, M.

This book explores everyday experiences of parenting and childlessness of ‘ethnic’ Germans in Berlin, who came of age around the fall of the Berlin Wall, and brings them into conversation with theories on parenting, waithood, non-biological intimacies, and masculinities.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
Forthcoming May 2025
Children Dancing in Bali

Practice, Performance, and Power

McIntosh, J.

An illuminating ethnographic study of Balinese dance traditions, Children Dancing in Bali examines how children navigate the nexus of power, practice, and performance through the medium of Balinese culture, in order to negotiate fluctuations in their identity and society.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies
eBook available Published April 2017
Children in the Holocaust and its Aftermath

Historical and Psychological Studies of the Kestenberg Archive

Kangisser Cohen, S., Fogelman, E., & Ofer, D. (eds)

The testimonies of individuals who survived the Holocaust as children pose distinct challenges for researchers, requiring them to often follow simultaneous, disparate narratives. This interdisciplinary volume brings together historians, psychologists, and other scholars to explore child survivors’ accounts, with a central focus on the Kestenberg Holocaust Child Survivor Archive’s over 1,500 testimonies.

Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies

Hb
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eBook available Published March 2020
The Children of Gregoria

Dogme Ethnography of a Mexican Family

Kristensen, R. & Adeath Villamil, C.

The Children of Gregoria portrays a struggling Mexico, told through the story of the Rosales family. This book highlights their voices and allows them to tell their own stories in an accessible, literary manner without prejudice, persecution or judgment.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Media Studies

Hb
Published March 2005
Children of Palestine

Experiencing Forced Migration in the Middle East

Chatty, D. & Hundt, G. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published October 2017
Children of the Camp

The Lives of Somali Youth Raised in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya

Grayson, C.-L.

This original study carefully considers how young people perceive their living environment and how growing up in exile structures their view of the past and their country of origin, and the future and its possibilities.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published November 2013
Children of the Dictatorship

Student Resistance, Cultural Politics and the 'Long 1960s' in Greece

Kornetis, K.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Hb
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eBook available Published March 2011
Children, Families, and States

Time Policies of Childcare, Preschool, and Primary Education in Europe

Hagemann, K., Jarausch, K. H. & Allemann-Ghionda, C. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Educational Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published March 2010
China in Oceania

Reshaping the Pacific?

Wesley-Smith, T. & Porter, E. (eds)

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology

Pb
eBook available Published July 2022
Chinese Medicine in East Africa

An Intimacy with Strangers

Hsu, E.

Based on fieldwork conducted between 2001-2008 in urban East Africa, this book explores who the patients, practitioners and paraprofessionals doing Chinese medicine were in this early period of renewed China-Africa relations.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published March 2016
Choreographies of Landscape

Signs of Performance in Yosemite National Park

Ness, S. A.

This original and cross-disciplinary book studies the experiences of Yosemite park visitors in order to understand human connection with and within natural landscapes. It grounds a sophisticated semiotic analysis in the lived experiences of parkgoers, assembling a collective account that will be of interest in disciplines ranging from performance studies to cultural geography.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Hb
Published November 2012
Christian Politics in Oceania

Tomlinson, M. & McDougall, D. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

Hb
eBook available Published October 2023
Cinema and the Environment in Eastern Europe

From Communism to Capitalism

Shpolberg, M. & Brasiskis, L. (eds)

Cinema and the Environment in Eastern Europe traces from the 1970s through the post 1989 period how documentaries and filmmakers began to articulate alternative, aesthetically and ideologically provocative visions of the relationship between human and natural worlds.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
Published May 2014
Cinema At the Edges

New Encounters with Julio Medem, Bigas Luna and José Luis Guerín

Loxham, A.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

Hb
Published December 2015
Cinema in Service of the State

Perspectives on Film Culture in the GDR and Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960

Karl, L. & Skopal, P. (eds)

Despite being two key sites for filmmaking in the Soviet bloc, the national cinemas of Czechoslovakia and East Germany have received comparatively little attention from scholars. This volume comprehensively explores these film cultures using a “stereoscopic” approach that traces their similarities and divergences to form a multifaceted, richly contextualized portrait.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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eBook available Published July 2012
Cinema of Choice

Optional Thinking and Narrative Movies

Ben Shaul, N.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

Hb
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eBook available Published October 2019
Cinema of Collaboration

DEFA Coproductions and International Exchange in Cold War Europe

Ivanova, M.

Almost from their very inception, European cinemas frequently undertook collaborative ventures in an attempt to cultivate a transnational “Film-Europe.” And despite the significant obstacles that the East/West divide presented to achieving that ideal, in the postwar era it was DEFA, the state cinema of the newly created East Germany, that emerged as one of the primary sites where these practices persisted.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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Cinemas of Boyhood

Masculinity, Sexuality, Nationality

Shary, T. (eds)

Drawing from political sociology, pop psychology, and film studies, Cinemas of Boyhood features an eclectic range of films from British and Indian cinemas to silent Hollywood and the new Hollywood of the 1980s, culminating in a comprehensive overview of the diverse concerns surrounding representations of boyhood in film.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published September 2021
The Cinematic Language of Theo Angelopoulos

Karalis, V.

The Cinematic Language of Theo Angelopoulos offers a detailed study and critical discussion of the acclaimed filmmaker’s cinematic aesthetics as they developed over his career, exploring different styles through which Greek and European history, identity, and loss have been visually articulated throughout his oeuvre.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
eBook available Published April 2024
Cinematically Transmitted Disease

Eugenics and Film in Weimar and Nazi Germany

Hales, B.

The roots of German National Socialist policies have strong connections to Weimar era circulation of medical hygiene propaganda films that conveyed strong connections between scientific legitimacy between racial superiority, genetically spread “incurable” diseases, and the degradation of the German national population.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: World War II Media Studies

Hb
Published August 2000
Citizens and Aliens

Foreigners and the Law in Britain and German States 1789-1870

Fahrmeir, A.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Refugee and Migration Studies

Hb
Published April 2023
Citizens into Dishonored Felons

Felony Disenfranchisement, Honor, and Rehabilitation in Germany, 1806-1933

de Groot, T.

Throughout the long nineteenth century felony disenfranchisement affected the moral fabric of German society and coincided with a history of honor in German legal thought. Citizens into Dishonored Felons uses uncommonly extensive archival materials to address the emotional and symbolic impact of punishment as both an enforcement of societal hierarchies and a platform for reform.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available Published August 2016
'City of the Future'

Built Space, Modernity and Urban Change in Astana

Laszczkowski, M.

The long-awaited comprehensive account of the rise of Astana, the capital city of Kazakhstan, this book argues for an understanding of space as inextricably material-and-imaginary, and unceasingly dynamic – allowing for a plurality of incompatible pasts and futures materialized in spatial form.

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General) Geography

Hb
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Published March 2004
Civil Enculturation

Nation-State, School and Ethnic Difference in The Netherlands, Britain, Germany, and France

Schiffauer, W. , Baumann, G., Kastoryano, R. & Vertovec, S, (eds)

Subject: Educational Studies

Hb
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Published August 2006
Civil Society

Berlin Perspectives

Keane, J. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Urban Studies

Hb
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eBook available Published October 2008
Civil Society and Gender Justice

Historical and Comparative Perspectives

Hagemann, K., Michel, S. & Budde, G. (eds)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published May 2013
Civil Society in the Age of Monitory Democracy

Trägårdh, L., Witoszek, N., & Taylor, B. (eds)

Subject: History (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published June 2017
Civil Society Revisited

Lessons from Poland

Jacobsson, K. & Korolczuk, E. (eds)

In contrast to a social scientific literature that characterizes Polish civil society as weak and passive, this volume focuses on forms of collective action that researchers too often ignore due to their theoretical and methodological blind spots. It constitutes a powerful critique of a model of civil society that is ‘made from above’ by elites, media, and public institutions.

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published July 2019
Civil–Military Entanglements

Anthropological Perspectives

Sørensen, B. R. & Ben-Ari, E. (eds)

Military-civilian encounters are multiple and diverse in our times. This volume traces out the ripples, reverberations and resonations of civil-military entanglements which allow for an understanding of the roles war, violence and the military play in shaping contemporary societies and the everyday life of its citizens.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Applied Anthropology

Hb
eBook available Published September 2011
Civilizations Beyond Earth

Extraterrestrial Life and Society

Vakoch, D. A. & Harrison, A. A. (eds)

“For years sections of the SETI [Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence] community have bemoaned the fact that the social sciences are often sidelined in favour of the hard sciences when it comes to SETI discussion. Civilizations Beyond Earth starts to redress the balance, edited skillfully by Douglas Vakoch, the only sociologist on staff at the SETI Institute in California, and Albert Harrison, a psychologist from the University of California.” • Astronomy

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Archaeology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published November 2012
Civilizing Nature

National Parks in Global Historical Perspective

Gissibl B., Höhler, S. & Kupper, P. (eds)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History (General) Heritage Studies

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published October 2019
Claiming Homes

Confronting Domicide in Rural China

Bruckermann, C.

Explores how ‘care’, defined as ‘work done on behalf of others’, allows villagers to forge belonging and stake claims over the locality, its values, and each other, in defiance of the social exclusion projected by China’s politics of place and localization of class.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Hb
Published April 2006
Claims to Memory

Beyond Slavery and Emancipation in the French Caribbean

Reinhardt C.

Subjects: Colonial History Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies

Hb
Paperback available
Published June 2002
Class and Other Identities

Gender, Religion, and Ethnicity in the Writing of European Labour History

Voss, L. Heerma van & Linden, M. van der (eds)

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published July 2010
Class, Contention, and a World in Motion

Lem, W. & Gardiner Barber, P. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Mobility Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
Published December 2014
Clausewitz in His Time

Essays in the Cultural and Intellectual History of Thinking about War

Paret, P.

Anything but a detached theorist, Clausewitz was as fully engaged in the intellectual and cultural currents of his time as in its political and military conflicts. The essays in this volume follow his career in a complex military society, together with that of other students of war, both friends and rivals, providing a broad perspective that leads to significant documents so far unknown or ignored.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

Hb
eBook available Published June 2023
Cognition, Risk, and Responsibility in Obstetrics

Anthropological Analyses and Critiques of Obstetricians’ Practices

Davis-Floyd, R. & Premkumar, A. (eds)

Volume 2 in this landmark 3-volume series on The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians looks at cognition, risk, and responsibility in obstetrics. This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to understand obstetricians' differing ideologies and motives for practicing as they do.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
Paperback available
Published May 2000
Cold Fusion

Aspects of the German Cultural Presence in Russia

Barabtarlo, G. (ed)

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

Hb
eBook available Published March 2012
Cold War Cultures

Perspectives on Eastern and Western European Societies

Vowinckel, A., Payk, M. M., & Lindenberger, T. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
Published July 2009
Colette's Republic

Work, Gender, and Popular Culture in France, 1870-1914

Tilburg, P. A.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published October 2021
Collaborative Happiness

Building the Good Life in Urban Cohousing Communities

Kingfisher, C.

Collaborative Happiness looks at two urban cohousing communities: Kankanmori, in Tokyo; and Quayside Village, in Vancouver. In expanding beyond mainstream approaches to happiness focused exclusively on the individual, Quayside Village and Kankanmori provide an alternative model for how to understand and practice the good life in an increasingly urbanized world marked by crisis of both social and environmental sustainability.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Urban Studies Sociology Sustainable Development Goals

Hb
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eBook available Published April 2017
Collaborative Intimacies in Music and Dance

Anthropologies of Sound and Movement

Chrysagis, E. & Karampampas, P. (eds)

Across varied domains, music and dance both emerge from and give rise to intimate collaboration. This theoretically rich collection takes an ethnographic approach to understanding the collaborative dimension of sound and movement in everyday life, drawing on genres and practices in contexts as diverse as Japanese shakuhachi playing, Peruvian huayno, and the Greek goth scene.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published May 2012
Collaborators Collaborating

Counterparts in Anthropological Knowledge and International Research Relations

Konrad, M. (ed)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Applied Anthropology

Hb
eBook available Published April 2022
Collecting Educational Media

Making, Storing and Accessing Knowledge

Hertling, A. & Carrier, P. (eds)

Over the last two centuries, collectors from around the world have historicized, politicized, and digitized media in the pursuit of knowledge and education. This collected volume explores how collections of educational media influence the ways in which people learn in both the present and future.

Subjects: Educational Studies Media Studies Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
eBook available Published November 2020
Collective and State Violence in Turkey

The Construction of a National Identity from Empire to Nation-State

Astourian, S. & Kévorkian, R. (eds)

Collective and State Violence in Turkey provides a wide range of case studies and historiographical reflections on the alarming recurrence of violence in Turkish history, as atrocities against varied ethnic-religious groups from the nineteenth century to today have propelled the nation’s very sense of itself.

Subjects: History (General) Genocide History Peace and Conflict Studies

Hb
eBook available Published March 2011
Collective Terms

Race, Culture, and Community in a State-Planned City in France

Epstein, B. S.

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
Published May 2013
Colonial Collecting and Display

Encounters with Material Culture from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Wintle, C.

Subjects: Museum Studies History (General) Anthropology (General)

Hb
Forthcoming February 2025
Colonial Intervention and Destabilization of African Identities

Contours of Trusteeship and Organized Infantilism in Sub-Saharan Africa

Mfum-Mensah, O.

Colonial Intervention and Destabilization of African Identities takes an interdisciplinary approach to examine how external forces and African elite impose trusteeship practices on Africans to construct and consolidate hierarchical power relations in African societies that infantilize Africans and dispossess them off their resources.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Development Studies
eBook available Published February 2020
Colonial Seeds in African Soil

A Critical History of Forest Conservation in Sierra Leone

Munro, P.

Drawing upon the fields of environmental history and political ecology, Colonial Seeds in African Soil unravels the complex forest conservation history of Sierra Leone during the 20th century. It grounds a broader trans-national history of Empire Forestry with a case study focused on Sierra Leone, examining how colonial ideas shaped forest conservation in West Africa.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Published February 2013
The Colours of the Empire

Racialized Representations during Portuguese Colonialism

Matos, P. F. de

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History

Hb
eBook available Published July 2019
Comical Modernity

Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth Century Vienna

Hakkarainen, H.

Comical Modernity looks at the years between 1857–1890, a period of dramatic urban renewal within Vienna during which the city’s rapidly changing face was a popular topic in publications. This book shows how humor provided access to understanding modernity in an era of radical change, thus broadening our understanding of the cultural history of nineteenth-century Vienna.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Media Studies Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
eBook available Published July 2010
Comics in French

The European Bande Dessinée in Context

Grove, L.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies Literary Studies

Hb
Paperback available
Published June 2002
Coming Home to Germany?

The Integration of Ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe in the Federal Republic since 1945

Rock, D. & Wolff, S. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
Published May 2016
Coming of Age

Constructing and Controlling Youth in Munich, 1942-1973

Kalb, M.

In the years following World War II, Munich society became obsessed with the hypothetical threat that youths posed to postwar stability. This fascinating study shows that constructs like the rowdy young male and the sexually deviant girl served as proxies for the anxieties of adult society, while allowing authorities to expand social control.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Paperback available
eBook available Published December 2007
Coming of Age in Times of Uncertainty

Blatterer, H.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published January 2021
Commerce as Politics

The Two Centuries of Struggle for Basotho Economic Independence

Maliehe, S. M.

This is the first comprehensive economic history of the Basotho people of Southern Africa and spans from the 1820s to the present day. The book documents what the Basotho have done on their own account, focusing on their systematic exclusion from trade and their political efforts to insert themselves into their country’s commerce.

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Colonial History

Hb
Published March 2000
Common Destiny

A Comparative History of the Dutch, French, and German Social Democratic Parties, 1945-1969

Orlow, D.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published June 2022
Communication

A House Seen from Everywhere

Klyukanov, I. E.

Focusing on the scientific study of communication, this book is a systematic examination. To that end, the natural, social, cultural, and rational scientific perspectives on communication are presented and then brought together in one unifying framework of the semiotic square, showing how all four views are interconnected.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published January 2018
Communist Parties Revisited

Sociocultural Approaches to Party Rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991

Bergien, R. & Gieseke, J. (eds)

Drawing from perspectives from within the everyday life of basic organizations and the practices of the party apparatuses, Communist Parties Revisited sheds light on the inner workings the Eastern Bloc, and the effects of state socialist policy on a micro historical level.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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eBook available Published June 2020
Communities and Place

A Thematic Approach to the Histories of LGBTQ Communities in the United States

Crawford-Lackey, K. & Springate, M. E. (eds)

Framing the emergence of queer enclaves in reference to place, this volume explores the physical and symbolic spaces of LGBTQ Americans. Authors provide an overview of the concept of “place” and its role in informing identity formation and community building. The book also includes interactive project prompts, providing opportunities to practically apply topics and theories discussed in the chapters.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies

Hb
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eBook available Published March 2013
Communities of Complicity

Everyday Ethics in Rural China

Steinmüller, H.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Hb
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Published November 1996
Communities of Faith

Sectarianism, Identity, and Social Change on a Danish Island

Buckser, A.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

Hb
Published August 2018
Communities, Landscapes, and Interaction in Neolithic Greece

Sarris, A., Kalogiropoulou, E., Kalayci, T., & Karimali, E. (eds)

This volume provides a synthetic overview of recent developments in the study of Neolithic Greece, and reconsiders the dynamics of human-environment interactions while recording the growing diversity in layers of social organization. It fills an essential lacuna in contemporary literature and enhances our understanding of the Neolithic communities in the Greek Peninsula.

Subject: Archaeology

Hb
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eBook available Published March 2010
Comparative and Transnational History

Central European Approaches and New Perspectives

Haupt, H. & Kocka, J. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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eBook available Published September 2017
Compensation in Practice

The Foundation 'Remembrance, Responsibility and Future' and the Legacy of Forced Labour during the Third Reich

Goschler, C. (ed)

The German Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” is one of the largest transitional justice initiatives in history. This volume provides an unparalleled look at its creation, operations, and future prospects, bringing together the work of historians who were granted unrestricted access to its records, and offering nuanced, clear-eyed analysis of its successes and missteps.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War II

Hb
eBook available Published October 2018
Competing Power

Landscapes of Migration, Violence and the State

Halstead, N.

Drawing from ethnographic material based on long-term research in Guyana, Competing Power shows how the local is occupied and re-occupied by various powerful and powerless people and entities (“big ones” and “small ones”), and how it becomes the site of intense power negotiations in relation to external ideas of empowerment.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

Hb
eBook available Published December 2023
Compliance

Cultures and Networks of Accommodation

Rollason, W. & Hirsch, E. (eds)

Exploring compliance from an anthropological perspective, this book offers a varied selection of chapters covering taxation, corporate governance, medicine, development, carbon offsetting, irregular migration and the building trade, compliance emerges as more than the opposite of resistance.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Sustainable Development Goals

Hb
Published February 2020
Comrades in Arms

Military Masculinities in East German Culture

Smith, T.

Without question, the East German National People’s Army sought to exemplify traditional masculine ideals of stoicism, sacrifice, and physical courage. Yet depictions of the military in East German film and literature were far more nuanced and ambivalent. Comrades in Arms shows how cultural works have portrayed violence, vulnerability, military theatricality, and a range of masculinities.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality History: 20th Century to Present

Paperback available
Published December 2015
Comrades of Color

East Germany in the Cold War World

Slobodian, Q. (ed)

The political culture of the German Democratic Republic strongly emphasized solidarity with the non-white world, from contributions to relief efforts in Vietnam to public memorials for Ho Chi Minh and Martin Luther King, Jr. Through a series of illuminating historical investigations, this volume traces the contours of East German internationalism.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
Published October 2008
Conceiving Kinship

Assisted Conception, Procreation and Family in Southern Europe

Bonaccorso, M. M. E.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
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eBook available Published April 2019
Concentrationary Art

Jean Cayrol, the Lazarean and the Everyday in Post-war Film, Literature, Music and the Visual Arts

Pollock, G. & Silverman, M. (eds)

The seminal work of Jean Cayrol has experienced a revival in the French-speaking world since his death in 2005. Concentrationary Art represents the first translation into English of Cayrol’s two essays on concentrationary art, as well as the first book-length study of his theory.

Subjects: Literary Studies Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies

Hb
eBook available Published January 2012
Concentrationary Cinema

Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais's Night and Fog

Pollock, G. & Silverman, M. (eds)

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Genocide History Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published August 2016
Conceptions

Infertility and Procreative Technologies in India

Bharadwaj, A.

The book examines the causes and consequences of infertility and the rapid proliferation of new reproductive technologies in ‘modern India’. The book emerges from an ethnographic inquiry that explains how assisted conception, as a means of bypassing infertility, is being accommodated, understood and used in India today.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Hb
eBook available Published June 2017
Conceptual History in the European Space

Steinmetz, W., Freeden, M., & Fernández-Sebastián, J. (eds)

Bringing together leading scholars from across Europe, this volume represents a landmark intervention in the historiography of concepts. With clarifying overviews of such contested theoretical terrain as translatability, spatiality, and center-periphery dynamics, it also provides valuable insights into the current era of disenchantment with the European project.

Subject: History (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published January 2010
Conceptualizing Iranian Anthropology

Past and Present Perspectives

Nadjmabadi, S. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Hb
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Published December 1999
Conceptualizing Religion

Immanent Anthropologists, Transcendent Natives, and Unbounded Categories

Saler, B.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology

Pb
eBook available Published December 2018
Conceptualizing the World

An Exploration across Disciplines

Jordheim, H. & Sandmo, E. (eds)

This innovative and interdisciplinary volume explores the central paradox of globalization and illuminates historical moments that range from antiquity to the era of Google Earth through contributions that trace the emergence of the world in multitudinous representations, practices, and human experiences.

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
Published September 2009
The Concise Cinegraph

Encyclopaedia of German Cinema

Bock, H.-M. & Bergfelder, T. (eds.)

Subject: Film and Television Studies

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eBook available Published June 2019
The Configuration of the Spanish Public Sphere

From the Enlightenment to the Indignados

Jiménez Torres, D. & Villamediana González, L. (eds)

This volume brings together leading scholars in Spanish and Latin American studies to explore the concept of the Spanish “public sphere” and its relation to society and political power over time. It offers a long-term, panoramic view—spanning from the Enlightenment to current developments in the EU—on one of the most urgent issues for contemporary European societies.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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eBook available Published February 2022
Configuring Contagion

Ethnographies of Biosocial Epidemics

Meinert, L. & Seeberg, J. (eds)

Expanding our understanding of contagion further than typical notions of infection and pandemics, this book widens the field to include biosocial epidemics. The chapters propose varied and detailed answers to questions about the epidemic and contagious potential of specific infections and non-infectious conditions.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology Sustainable Development Goals

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Forthcoming August 2025
Conflict and Violence in the Lake Chad Basin

Insecurity in Central Africa

Chavin, E., Langlois, O., Seignobos, C., & Baroin, C. (eds)

This volume analyses conflicts in the Lake Chad Basin based on insights into local dynamics and the lived world of the people themselves.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology
Published July 2007
Conflict, Catastrophe and Continuity

Essays on Modern German History

Biess, F., Roseman, M. & Schissler, H. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published May 2017
Conflict, Domination, and Violence

Episodes in Mexican Social History

Illades, C.

This wide-ranging, briskly narrated volume from acclaimed Mexican historian Carlos Illades guides the reader through key episodes in Mexican social history, from rebellions under Porfirio Díaz to the recent emergence of neo-anarchist movements. Taken together, they comprise a mosaic history of power and resistance, with ordinary people confronting the forces of domination and transforming Mexican society.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Peace and Conflict Studies

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Conflicted Memories

Europeanizing Contemporary Histories

Jarausch, K. H. & Lindenberger, T. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies

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eBook available Published December 2005
Conjuring Hope

Healing and Magic in Contemporary Russia

Lindquist, G.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion

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Published March 2014
Connecting Histories of Education

Transnational and Cross-Cultural Exchanges in (Post)Colonial Education

Bagchi, B., Fuchs, E. & Rousmaniere, K. (eds)

The history of education in the modern world is a history of transnational and cross-cultural influence. This collection explores those influences in (post) colonial and indigenous education across different geographical contexts. The authors emphasize how local actors constructed their own adaptation of colonialism, identity, and autonomy, creating a multi-centric and entangled history of modern education. In both formal as well as informal aspects, they demonstrate that transnational and cross-cultural exchanges in education have been characterized by appropriation, re-contextualization, and hybridization, thereby rejecting traditional notions of colonial education as an export of pre-existing metropolitan educational systems.

Subjects: Colonial History Educational Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Published October 2002
Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples

Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development

Chatty, D. & Colchester, M. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Sustainable Development Goals

Hb
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Forthcoming May 2025
Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples

Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development

Chatty, D. & Colchester, M. (eds)

The second edition of this remarkable book updates the immense advances in policy and soft international law with regards to the rights of mobile indigenous peoples in conservation.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Sustainable Development Goals

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eBook available Published June 2020
Conservation’s Roots

Managing for Sustainability in Preindustrial Europe, 1100–1800

Dowling, A. P. & Keyser, R. (eds)

Conservation’s Roots illuminates the diversity of practices in premodern environmental history across Europe from the Middle Ages to the brink of modernity. It emphasizes that the ways in which we currently understand “conservation” in the West, which is generally presumed to be a modern invention, are deeply rooted in the environmental practices and regulation of medieval and early modern Europe.

Subjects: History (General) Environmental Studies (General) Sustainable Development Goals

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Published May 1996
Conservative Radicalism

A Sociology of Conservative Party Youth Structures and Libertarianism 1970-1992

Evans, T.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published October 2004
The 'Conservative Revolutionaries'

The Protestant and Catholic Churches in Germany after Radical Political Change in the 1990s

Thériault, B.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
eBook available Published August 2016
Constitutional Courts in Comparison

The US Supreme Court and the German Federal Constitutional Court

Rogowski, R. & Gawron T. (eds)

The side-by-side comparison between the U.S. Supreme Court and the German Federal Constitutional Court provides a novel socio-legal approach in studying constitutional litigation, focusing on conditions of mobilisation, decision-making and implementation.

Subject: Sociology

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Published January 2011
Constitutionalism and Transitional Justice in South Africa

Lollini, A.

Subject: History (General)

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eBook available Published July 2010
Constructing Charisma

Celebrity, Fame, and Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Berenson, E. & Giloi, E. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century

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eBook available Published September 2019
Constructing Industrial Pasts

Heritage, Historical Culture and Identity in Regions Undergoing Structural Economic Transformation

Berger, S. (ed)

The contributions in this volume demonstrate that even as forms of industrial heritage provide anchors of identity for local populations, their meanings remain deeply contested, as both radical and conservative varieties of nostalgia intermingle with critical approaches as well as straightforward apologias for a past that was often full of pain, exploitation and struggle.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Heritage Studies

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Published November 2004
Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe

Judson, P. & Rozenblit, M. (eds)

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published August 2021
Constructing Risk

Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment

Bender, S. O.

Reviewing current policies and practices, the book assesses the financial, economic and physical risk of building in hazardous areas, and looks at how societies are trying to create a more resilient built environment in spite of the dangers.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Sustainable Development Goals

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eBook available Published December 2007
Consuming the Inedible

Neglected Dimensions of Food Choice

MacClancy, J., Henry, C. Jeya & Macbeth, H. (eds)

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published December 2018
Contemplating Historical Consciousness

Notes from the Field

Clark, A. & Peck, C. L. (eds)

Contemplating Historical Consciousness draws on three decades of applied research to tease out what has been learned from the field. Leading scholars from around the world reflect on their practice as historians, ethnographers, social scientists and demographers in order to explore the possibilities and limitations of research into historical consciousness.

Subjects: History (General) Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published August 2021
Contemporary Megaprojects

Organization, Vision, and Resistance in the 21st Century

Schindler, S., Fadaere, S., Brockington, D. (eds)

Contemporary “megaprojects” have evolved from the centralized, modernist projects undertaken in the past. With case studies ranging from mega-plantations in Southeast Asia to sports events, Contemporary Megaprojects explores the increasing ambition and pervasiveness of these projects, as well as their significant impact on both society and the environment.

Subjects: Development Studies Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sustainable Development Goals

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Published June 2015
Contemporary Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Europe

Colonialist and Nationalist Impulses

Rountree, K. (ed)

Though all Pagan and Native Faith movements valorize human relationships with nature and embrace polytheistic cosmologies, practitioners’ beliefs, practices, goals and agendas are diverse. Contributors to this volume draw on ethnographic cases within Europe to explore the interplay of nationalism and transnationalism within these recently emerging and diverse groups.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Published August 2010
Contemporary Religiosities

Emergent Socialities and the Post-Nation-State

Kapferer, B., Telle, K. & Eriksen, A. (Eds.)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published March 2024
Contested Femininities

Representations of Modern Women in the German Illustrated Press, 1920-1960

Lynn, J.

Contested Femininities for the first time contributes a long-view study of constructions of the Neue or Moderne Frau (New or Modern Woman) in the illustrated press providing an incredible scope of inquiry spanning the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, post-war occupation, and a divided German.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality Media Studies

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eBook available Published February 2022
Contested Holdings

Museum Collections in Political, Epistemic and Artistic Processes of Return

Bodenstein, F., Otoiu, D., & Troelenberg, E.-M. (eds)

Covering a range of case studies and a global geography, authors aim to historicize and bring depth to contemporary debates in relation to both the return of material culture and human remains. Defined as contested holdings, differing museum collections ranging from fine arts to physical anthropology provide connections between the treatment and conceptualization of collections that generally occupy separate realms in the museum world.

Subjects: Museum Studies Archaeology Cultural Studies (General)

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Published June 2011
Contested Mediterranean Spaces

Ethnographic Essays in Honour of Charles Tilly

Kousis, M., Selwyn, T. & Clark, D. (Eds)

Subjects: Urban Studies Sociology Anthropology (General)

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Published January 2010
Contested Nationalism

Serb Elite Rivalry in Croatia and Bosnia in the 1990s

Caspersen, N.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published September 2017
Contesting Deregulation

Debates, Practices and Developments in the West since the 1970s

Andresen, K. and Müller, S. (eds)

Across thirteen case studies, this volume investigates the 1970s/80s “deregulatory moment” from a variety of historical perspectives, including transnational, comparative, pan-European, and national approaches. Collectively, they challenge an interpretive framework that treats individual decades in isolation and ignores broader trends that extend to the end of the Second World War.

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published April 2023
Contesting Moralities

Roma Identities, State and Kinship

Sarafian, I.

Roma identities have often been presented in literature as collectively constructed and in opposition to those who are not Roma. Contesting Moralities challenges these preconceptions about Roma identification by disentangling the binaries between Roma and nonRoma, state and non-state, public and private. This book explores topics resonating in contemporary Romani studies that are in need of further exploration through individual perspectives.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General)

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Published September 2016
Contextualizing Disaster

Button, G. V. & Schuller, M. (eds)

Contextualizing Disaster argues that, while disasters are increasingly represented by the media as unique, exceptional, newsworthy events, it is a mistake to think of disasters as isolated or discrete occurrences.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology

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Published March 2007
Continental Britons

German-Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany

Berghahn, M.

Subjects: Jewish Studies Refugee and Migration Studies History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published February 2023
Continental Encampment

Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East and Europe

Knudsen, A. J. & Berg, K. G. (eds)

During the past decade, Syria’s displacement crisis has made the Middle East one of the world’s foremost refugee-hosting regions. The volume explores responses to mass migration and traces the genealogy of humanitarian containment from the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of the first refugee camps to the present-day displacement ‘crises’ and the re-bordering of Europe.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies

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eBook available Published May 2022
Continental Transfers

Cultural and Political Exchange among Spain, Italy and Argentina, 1914-1945

Fuentes Codera, M. & Dogliani, P. (eds)

The cultural and political connections between Spain, Italy and Argentina developed complex transnational transfers over the course of two World Wars. Bringing together scholars from all three nations, Continental Transfers configures a multidirectional approach to the nations’ reciprocal exchange using new theoretical ground to understand the development links to the construction of national and supranational identities, such as Latinism and Hispanism.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I History: World War II

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eBook available Published January 2018
Contrarian Anthropology

The Unwritten Rules of Academia

Nader, L.

Analyzing the workings of boundary maintenance in the areas of anthropology, energy, gender, and law, Nader contrasts dominant trends in academia with work that pushes the boundaries of acceptable methods and theories. Although the selections illustrate the history of one anthropologist’s work over half a century, the wider intent is to label a field as contrarian to reveal unwritten rules that sometimes hinder transformative thinking.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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Published January 2007
Conversations on the Beach

Fishermen's Knowledge, Metaphor and Environmental Change in South India

Hoeppe, G.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

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Published November 2009
Conversion After Socialism

Disruptions, Modernisms and Technologies of Faith in the Former Soviet Union

Pelkmans, M. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

Hb
eBook available Published May 2012
Conversion and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Germany

Luebke, D. M., Poley, J., Ryan, D. C., & Sabean, D. W. (eds)

Subject: History: Medieval/Early Modern

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Published 1994
Conversion to Judaism in Jewish Law

Essays and Responsa

Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)

Subject: Jewish Studies

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Published February 2022
Cooling Down

Local Responses to Global Climate Change

Hoffman, S. M., Eriksen, T. H., & Mendes, P. (eds)

Climate change is a slowly advancing crisis sweeping over the planet and affecting different habitats in strikingly diverse ways. While nations have signed treaties and implemented policies, most actual climate change assessments, adaptations, and countermeasures take place at the local level. This book portrays the diversity of explanations and remedies as expressed at the community level.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Urban Studies Sustainable Development Goals

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eBook available Published August 2017
Cooperation and Empire

Local Realities of Global Processes

Bührer, T., Eichmann, F., Förster, S. & Stuchtey, B. (eds)

The contributions to this volume revisit Ronald E. Robinson’s theory of colonial collaboration in a range of historical contexts by melding it with theoretical perspectives derived from postcolonial studies and transnational history. Its case studies range globally over the course of four centuries, exploring the varied, complex interactions between imperial and local actors.

Subjects: Colonial History History (General)

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Published December 2007
Coping with Distances

Producing Nordic Atlantic Societies

Baerenholdt, J. O.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Travel and Tourism

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eBook available Published October 2006
Coping with the Nazi Past

West German Debates on Nazism and Generational Conflict, 1955-1975

Gassert, P. & Steinweis, A. E. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published July 1996
Coping with Tourists

European Reactions to Mass Tourism

Boissevain, J. (ed)

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Development Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published May 2023
Coproducing Europe

An Ethnography of Film Markets, Creativity and Identity

Sideri, E.

By focusing on regional film markets in Thessasloniki, Sarajevo, and Tbilisi, Coproduction Europe uses comparative ethnography to look beyond the economic nature of film coproductions to explore their role in Europeanisation, memories of the Cold War, and preconstructed political agendas.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

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Published July 2004
Corporate Scandal

Global Corporatism against Society

Gledhill, J. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Applied Anthropology

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Published May 2023
Corporate Social Responsibility and the Paradoxes of State Capitalism

Ethnographies of Norwegian Energy and Extraction Businesses Abroad

Knudsen, S. (ed)

Through a series of case studies in diverse regions of the world, this book explores how transnational Norwegian energy and extractive industries handle corporate social responsibility (CSR) when operating abroad.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology Sustainable Development Goals

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eBook available Published December 2024
Correcting the Record

Essays on the History of American Anthropology

Lewis, H. S.

The critique of twentieth-century American anthropology often portrays anthropologists of the past as servants of colonialism who “extracted” information from indigenous peoples and published works causing them harm. This volume presents powerful refutations of these damaging myths.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Colonial History

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eBook available Published November 2021
Cosmic Coherence

A Cognitive Anthropology Through Chinese Divination

Matthews, W.

Humans are unique in their ability to create systematic accounts of the world – theories based on guiding cosmological principles. This book is about the role of cognition in creating cosmologies, and explores this through the ethnography and history of Yijing divination in China.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published January 2023
Cosmopolitan Refugees

Somali Migrant Women in Nairobi and Johannesburg

Ripero-Muñiz, N.

Exploring the dynamics of identity formation processes in diasporic spaces, this book analyses how gender, cultural and religious practices are renegotiated in a situation of displacement. The author presents the comparative case study of Somali migrant women in Nairobi and Johannesburg: two cosmopolitan urban hubs in the global South.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

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a April 2012
Cosmos and Colonialism

Alexander von Humboldt in Cultural Criticism

Clark, R. & Lubrich, O. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
eBook available Published June 2016
Cosmos, Gods and Madmen

Frameworks in the Anthropologies of Medicine

Littlewood, R. & Lynch, R. (eds)

The social anthropology of sickness and health has always been concerned with religious cosmologies. The chapters cover a range of ethnographic areas and examine notions of personhood, agency, uncertainty and control among other questions. In so doing, the contributors seek to contextualise understandings within wider cultural understandings found in these areas, linking these concepts to the wider social fabric.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion

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Published November 1994
The Council on Foreign Relations and American Policy in the Early Cold War

Wala, M

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
eBook available Published June 2024
Courage and Compassion

A Jewish Boyhood in German-Occupied Greece

Molho, T.

Tony Molho tells a dramatic story of survival under the most adverse conditions during the Holocaust. A historian himself now telling his own story, Molho writes an autobiographical text that speaks of a Jewish childhood in Greece during World War II and the Axis Occupation.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War II Genocide History

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eBook available Published January 2015
Cousin Marriages

Between Tradition, Genetic Risk and Cultural Change

Shaw, A. & Raz, A. (eds)

Juxtaposing contributions from geneticists and anthropologists, this volume provides a contemporary overview of cousin marriage, presenting a reflective, interdisciplinary analysis of the social and ethical issues raised by both the discourse of risk in cousin marriage, as well as existing and potential interventions to promote “healthy consanguinity.”

Subject: Medical Anthropology

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eBook available Published June 2022
The Cracked Art World

Conflict, Austerity, and Community Arts in Northern Ireland

Rush, K.

This book presents a nuanced view of Northern Ireland, a place at once deeply mired in its past and seeking to forge a new future for itself as a ‘post-post-conflict’ place within the context of a changing United Kingdom, a disintegrating Europe, and a globalized world.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published October 2021
Crafting Chinese Memories

The Art and Materiality of Storytelling

Swancutt, K. (ed)

Through an interdisciplinary conversation with contributors from social anthropology, religious studies, film studies, literary studies, cultural studies, and history, Crafting Chinese Memories is the first volume to address how works of art shape memories, and offers new ways of conceptualising storytelling, memory-making, art, and materiality. It explores the memories of artists, filmmakers, novelists, storytellers, and persons who come to terms with their own histories even as they reveal the social memories of watershed events in modern China.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Memory Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published April 2012
Crafting 'The Indian'

Knowledge, Desire, and Play in Indianist Reenactment

Kalshoven, P. T.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Museum Studies

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Published June 2013
Creating a Nation with Cloth

Women, Wealth, and Tradition in the Tongan Diaspora

Addo, P.-A.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published November 2016
Creating a New Public University and Reviving Democracy

Action Research in Higher Education

Levin, M. & Greenwood, D. J.

Morten Levin and Davydd Greenwood analyze the wreckage created by neoliberal academic administrators and policymakers, before going on to propose Action Research processes that can transform public universities back into institutions that promote academic freedom, integrity, and democracy.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies Sociology

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Published April 2001
Creating Our Common Future

Educating for Unity in Diversity

Campbell, J. (ed)

Subjects: Educational Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Published October 2003
Creating the Other

Ethnic Conflict & Nationalism in Habsburg Central Europe

Wingfield, N.M. (ed)

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

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Published July 2014
Creating Wilderness

A Transnational History of the Swiss National Park

Kupper, P.

The history of the Swiss National Park, from its creation in the years before the Great War to the present, is told for the first time in this book. The Swiss park became the prime example of a “scientific national park,” thereby influencing the course of national parks worldwide. Creating Wilderness consequently situates the park’s fascinating history within a transnational conservation framework.

“This is environmental history of the first order, ranging widely across geographical scales and historical periods to trace the changing discourses and manifestations of the national park model.” · Andrew Denning, Western Washington University

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)

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eBook available Published June 2023
Creation and Creativity in Indigenous Lowland South America

Anthropological Perspectives

Halbmayer, E. & Goletz, A. (eds)

Investigating local Indigenous processes of creation and creativity, this book uses ethnographic and comparative anthropological perspectives to enquire about creative transformative practices in lowland South America.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Published November 2004
The Creation of the Modern German Army

General Walther Reinhardt and the Weimar Republic, 1914-1930

Mulligan, W.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published July 2003
Creative Land

Place and Procreation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea

Leach, J.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Creativity in Transition

Politics and Aesthetics of Cultural Production Across the Globe

Svašek, M. & Meyer, B. (eds)

Exploring creative practices in various settings, the book calls attention to the spread of modernist discourses of creativity, from the colonial era to the current obsession with ‘innovation’ in neo-liberal capitalist cultural politics, but also to the less visible practices of copying, recycling and reproduction that occur as part and parcel of creative improvisation.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Credit and Debt in an Unequal Society

Establishing a Consumer Credit Market in South Africa

Schraten, J.

Investigates the political reasons for South Africa adopting an allegedly self-regulating market despite its disastrous effects and identifies the colonialist ideas of property rights as a mainstay of the existing social order.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published March 2014
Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia

Knörr, J.

Contributing to identity formation in ethnically and religiously diverse postcolonial societies, this book examines the role played by creole identity in Indonesia, and in particular its capital, Jakarta. While, on the one hand, it facilitates transethnic integration and promotes a specifically postcolonial sense of common nationhood due to its heterogeneous origins, creole groups of people are often perceived ambivalently in the wake of colonialism and its demise, on the other. In this book, Jacqueline Knörr analyzes the social, historical, and political contexts of creoleness both at the grassroots and the State level, showing how different sections of society engage with creole identity in order to promote collective identification transcending ethnic and religious boundaries, as well as for reasons of self-interest and ideological projects.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History

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eBook available Published April 2018
A Creole Nation

National Integration in Guinea-Bissau

Kohl, C.

Despite high degrees of cultural and ethnic diversity as well as prevailing political instability, Guinea-Bissau’s population has developed a strong sense of national belonging. By examining contemporary and historical perspectives, A Creole Nation explores how creole identity, culture, and political leaders have influenced postcolonial nation-building processes in Guinea-Bissau.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published May 2014
Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany

Wetzell, R. F. (ed)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Published October 1999
Crime and Punishment in Jewish Law

Essays and Responsa

Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)

Subject: Jewish Studies

Pb
Published April 2009
Crime Stories

Criminalistic Fantasy and the Culture of Crisis in Weimar Germany

Herzog, T.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Literary Studies Film and Television Studies Sociology

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Published January 2007
Crime, Jews and News

Vienna 1890-1914

Vyleta, D.M.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 18th/19th Century Media Studies

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eBook available Published December 2008
Crises in European Integration

Challenges and Responses, 1945-2005

Kuehnhardt, L. (ed)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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Published February 2002
Crisis and Renewal in France, 1918-1962

Mouré, K. & Alexander, M. S. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published January 2005
The Crisis of the German Left

The PDS, Stalinism and the Global Economy

Thompson, P.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published April 2009
Crisis of the State

War and Social Upheaval

Kapferer, B. & Bertelsen, B. E. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published May 2005
Critical Junctions

Anthropology and History beyond the Cultural Turn

Kalb, D. & Tak, H. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published September 2022
Critical Public Archaeology

Confronting Social Challenges in the 21st Century

Westmont, V. C. (ed)

Critical approaches to public archaeology have been in use since the 1980s, however only recently have archaeologists begun using critical theory in conjunction with public archaeology to challenge dominant narratives of the past. This volume brings together current work on the theory and practice of critical public archaeology from Europe and the United States to illustrate the ways that implementing critical approaches can introduce new understandings of the past and reveal new insights on the present.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) History (General)

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Published June 2001
Critical Theory

Current State and Future Prospects

Hohendahl, P.-U. & Fisher, J. (eds)

Subject: Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published July 2019
Critique of Identity Thinking

Jackson, M.

Michael Jackson’s response to our beleaguered age is to ask what forms of speech and action are called for in ‘dark times’. He argues that experiences that fall outside the concepts and categories we habitually deploy in rendering life manageable and intelligible have both critical and redemptive power.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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Published October 2001
Crossing Boundaries

The Exclusion and Inclusion of Minorities in Germany and America

Jones, L. (ed)

Subjects: History (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

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Published December 2005
Crossing European Boundaries

Beyond Conventional Geographical Categories

Stacul, J., Moutsou, C., & Kopnina, H. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published June 2019
Crossing Histories and Ethnographies

Following Colonial Historicities in Timor-Leste

Roque, R. & Traube, E. G. (eds)

Brings together different generations of Timor-Leste scholars into dialogue to reconsider a diversity of such critical topics as the incorporation of strangers, the meanings of colonial documents, the value of sacred heirlooms, or the remembering (and forgetting) of colonial violence.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Sociology

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Published May 2003
Crossing the Aegean

An Appraisal of the 1923 Compulsory Population Exchange between Greece and Turkey

Hirschon, R. (ed)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Crossroads of Heritage and Religion

Legacy and Sustainability of World Heritage Site Moravian Christiansfeld

Damsholt, T., Melchior, M. R., Petterson, C., & Reeh, T., (eds)

Looking at the crossroads between heritage and religion through the case study of Moravian Christiansfeld, designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in July 2015, this anthology reaches back to the eighteenth century when the church settlement was founded, examines its legacy within Danish culture and modern society, and brings this history into the present and the ongoing heritagization processes.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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Crown, Church and Constitution

Popular Conservatism in England, 1815-1867

Neuheiser, J.

Much scholarship on nineteenth-century English workers has been devoted to their radical politics, neglecting the patriotism, royalism, and xenophobia that countless Victorian men and women embraced. This study of “conservatism from below” explores the working-class devotion to Britain’s monarchical, religious, and legal institutions in the defense of traditional English culture.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

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Crude Domination

An Anthropology of Oil

Behrends, A., Reyna, S. P. & Schlee, G. (eds)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published March 2024
Crypto Crowds

Singularities and Multiplicities on the Blockchain

Shapiro, M. (ed)

Discussing the notions around social dynamics, Crypto Crowds explores how crowd and community formations manifest empirically in cryptocurrency sociality online. Pioneering in its approach to the increasing digitalization and datafication of everyday life, the volume encourages scholars explore further how ‘decentralized’ and ‘trustless’ technologies take part in the construction of postmodern crowds.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
Published July 2023
Cryptopolitics

Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media

Bernal, V., Pype, K., & Rodima-Taylor, D. (eds)

Focusing on African societies, Crypolitics brings together empirically grounded studies of digital media to draw out the significance of hidden information, double meanings, and the constant processes of encoding and decoding messages in negotiations of power relations.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Media Studies
eBook available Published November 2018
The CSCE and the End of the Cold War

Diplomacy, Societies and Human Rights, 1972-1990

Badalassi, N. & Snyder, S. B. (eds)

Since its inception over forty years ago, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe has been met with political and historical controversies. While it’s known today as a significant contributor to the end of the Cold War, The CSCE and the End of the Cold War revisits some of the most fascinating questions in Cold War historiography.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

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The Cult and Science of Public Health

A Sociological Investigation

Dew, K.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Medical Anthropology

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Published January 2004
Cultivating Arctic Landscapes

Knowing and Managing Animals in the Circumpolar North

Anderson, D. G. & Nuttall, M. (eds)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

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Cultural Borders of Europe

Narratives, Concepts and Practices in the Present and the Past

Andrén, M., Lindkvist, T., Söhrman, I. & Vajta, K. (eds)

The cultural borders of Europe are today more visible than ever, creating uncertainty for liberal democratic traditions, and questions of legitimacy, political representation, and the legal bases for citizenship. This book provides a wide-ranging exploration of these lines of demarcation in a variety of European regions and historical eras.

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Published December 2007
Cultural Diversity and the Empowerment of Minorities

Perspectives from Israel and Germany

Al-Haj, M. & Mielke, R. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Educational Studies Sociology

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Cultural Diversity in Russian Cities

The Urban Landscape in the post-Soviet Era

Gdaniec, C. (ed)

Subjects: Urban Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Published December 2002
Cultural Encounters

European Travel Writing in the 1930s

Burdett, C. & Duncan, D. (eds)

Subjects: Literary Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Published November 2014
The Cultural Politics of Reproduction

Migration, Health and Family Making

Unnithan-Kumar, M. & Khanna, S. K. (eds)

Charting the experiences of migrant communities, the volume examines the relationship between movement, reproduction, and health. Informed by research in Europe, Britain, South and East Asia, Canada and Northern America, the chapters examine how healthcare experiences of migrants are embedded in their own worldviews and influenced by wider state systems.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Cultural Resource Management

A Collaborative Primer for Archaeologists

King, T. F. (ed)

Stressing the interdisciplinary, public-policy oriented character of Cultural Resource Management (CRM), which is not merely “applied archaeology,” this short, relatively uncomplicated introduction is aimed at emerging archaeologists.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies

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Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin

Bauer, K. & Hosek, J. R. (eds)

Transformed by the Wall's opening in 1989 and the concomitant shift in global relations of power, Berlin continues to shape historical and contemporary images of Germanness. This interdisciplinary anthology explores Berlin's unique cultural topographies in literature, film, architecture, urban planning, and city marketing.

Subjects: Urban Studies Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

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Published December 2002
Culture and Crisis

The Case of Germany and Sweden

Witoszek, N. & Trägårdh, L. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

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Published May 2003
Culture and International History

Gienow-Hecht, J. C. E. & Schumacher, F. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Published June 2004
Culture and Politics

Identity and Conflict in a Multicultural World

Pinxten, R. & Verstraete, G. & Longman, C. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Culture and Rhetoric

Strecker, I. & Tyler, S. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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Published April 2008
Culture and the Changing Environment

Uncertainty, Cognition, and Risk Management in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Casimir, M. J. (ed)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Theory and Methodology

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Culture Change and Ex-Change

Syncretism and Anti-Syncretism in Bena, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea

Knapp, R.

Analyzing perceived and performed cultural change by members of the Bena Bena language group in Papua New Guinea, Knapp offers a new understanding by conjoining traditional anthropological models as well as recent pursuits such as collaborative, reflexive and reverse anthropology.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Published June 2024
Culture Figures

A Rhetorical Reading of Anthropology

Mokrzan, M.

Employing ‘rhetorical reading,' Culture Figures dissects descriptive ethnography and theoretical texts, spanning classical monographs to recent texts representing various approaches in cultural anthropology. The book demonstrates how processes of using tropes and modes of persuasion underlie the creation of meanings or misunderstandings in cultural anthropology.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

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Published December 2012
Culture in Dark Times

Nazi Fascism, Inner Emigration, and Exile

Hermand, J.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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Published December 2002
The Culture of German Environmentalism

Anxieties, Visions, Realities

Goodbody, A.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Culture Wars

Context, Models and Anthropologists' Accounts

James, D. Plaice, E. & Toren C. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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Culture, Catastrophe, and Rhetoric

The Texture of Political Action

Hariman, R. & Cintron, R. (eds)

By emphasizing the texture of political action, this volume explores political culture, especially the catastrophic dimension of the global social order emerging in the twenty-first century. An array of case studies provide an account of how change is experienced, negotiated, and resisted in specific settings that define a society’s capacity for political action.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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Published January 2001
Culture, Creation, and Procreation

Concepts of Kinship in South Asian Practice

Böck, M. & Rao, A. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life

Carrithers, M. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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Published March 2014
Culture, Suicide, and the Human Condition

Honkasalo, M.-L. & Tuominen, M. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published December 2007
Cultures of Abortion in Weimar Germany

Usborne, C.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality Medical Anthropology

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Cultures of Colour

Visual, Material, Textual

Horrocks, C. (ed)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Sociology

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Published April 2004
Cultures of Exile

Images of Displacement

Everett, W. & Wagstaff, P. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Film and Television Studies

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Published February 2006
Cultures of Technology and the Quest for Innovation

Nowotny, H. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Culturing the Body

Past Perspectives on Identity and Sociality

Collins, B. & Nowell, A. (eds)

The human body is both the site of lived experiences and a means of communicating those experiences to a diverse audience. Hominins have been culturing their bodies, that is adding social and cultural meaning through the use pigments and objects, for over 100,000 years. There is archaeological evidence for practices of adornment of the body by late Pleistocene and early Holocene hominins, including personal ornaments, clothing, hairstyles, body painting, and tattoos. These studies contribute to a novel and growing body of evidence for diversity of cultural expression in the past, something that is a hallmark of human cultures today.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)

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Curating Live Arts

Critical Perspectives, Essays, and Conversations on Theory and Practice

Davida, D., Pronovost, M., Hudom, V., & Gabriels, J. (eds)

Situated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation has grown in recent years to become a vibrant interdisciplinary project. Curating Live Arts brings together innovative essays from international theorist-practitioners to pose vital questions, propose future visions, and survey the landscape of this rapidly evolving discipline.

Subjects: Performance Studies Museum Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Published February 2004
Current Policies and Practices in European Social Anthropology Education

Dracklé, D. and Edgar, I. R. (eds)

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Educational Studies

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Cutting and Connecting

'Afrinesian' Perspectives on Networks, Relationality, and Exchange

Myhre, K. C. (ed)

Cutting and Connecting rethinks anthropology’s comparative endeavor by calling in a conceptual debt that theoretical innovations from Melanesian anthropology owe to network analysis originally developed in African contexts. The contributors adopt and employ concepts from recent anthropological studies of Melanesia to analyze contemporary life on the African continent.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Cutting Cosmos

Masculinity and Spectacular Events among the Bugkalot

Mikkelsen, H. H.

Exploring the notion of masculinity among the Bugkalot, Cutting Cosmos is not only an experimental, anthropological study of the paradoxes around which Bugkalot society revolves, but also a reflection on anthropological theory and writing.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

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Published March 2013
Cyberidentities At War

The Moluccan Conflict on the Internet

Bräuchler, B.

Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies

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Published April 2019
Cyborg Mind

What Brain–Computer and Mind–Cyberspace Interfaces Mean for Cyberneuroethics

MacKellar, C.

An inter-disciplinary examination of the ethical challenges arisings from direct interfaces between the human brain and computer systems as well as between the mind and cyberspace. This volume is the first extensive study in cyberneuroethics, a subject matter which is certain to have a significant impact in the 21st century and beyond.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

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Cycling and Recycling

Histories of Sustainable Practices

Oldenziel, R. & Trischler, H. (eds)

In recent years, activists and policymakers have increasingly turned to mobilizing older technologies in their pursuit of sustainability, and waste recycling and bicycles both exemplify this development. This series of fascinating case studies traces the twin histories of biking and recycling, providing valuable context for today’s policy challenges.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History (General) Transport Studies Sustainable Development Goals

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Cyprus and its Conflicts

Representations, Materialities, and Cultures

Doudaki, V. & Carpentier, N. (eds)

Cyprus is an island of enduring political, military and, more recently, economic conflict. In this edited volume, Cyprus serves as a geographical, cultural and political point of reference to study how conflict is mediated, represented, reconstructed, experienced, and transformed, offering broader insight into the ways in which the culture of conflict impacts identity.

Subjects: Media Studies Peace and Conflict Studies

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Czechs, Germans, Jews?

National Identity and the Jews of Bohemia

Capkova, K.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History (General)

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Daily Life in the Abyss

Genocide Diaries, 1915-1918

Tachjian, V.

Although research into the Armenian Genocide has grown tremendously in recent years, surprisingly little is known about the actual experiences of the genocide’s victims. Daily Life in the Abyss illuminates this aspect through the intertwined stories of two Armenian families who endured forced relocation and deprivation in and around modern-day Syria.

Subjects: Genocide History History: World War I

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Daisy Wheel, Hexfoil, Hexafoil, Rosette

Protective Marks in Gravestone Art

Lacy, R. S.

Hexfoils have a history of use for personal protection and were carved both intentionally or graffitied into church pews and walls, bed frames, doors, and gravestones. This research sheds light on the use of this historic symbol to protect the bodies and souls of the deceased, across several thousand years and multiple countries.

Subjects: Archaeology Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Published November 2013
Dance Circles

Movement, Morality and Self-fashioning in Urban Senegal

Neveu Kringelbach, H.

A historically informed ethnography of creativity, agency, and the fashioning of selves through the different life stages in urban Senegal, this book explores the significance of multiple engagement with dance in a context of economic uncertainty and rising concerns over morality in the public space.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)

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The Dance of Nurture

Negotiating Infant Feeding

Van Esterik, P. & O'Connor, R. A.

Breastfeeding and child feeding at the center of nurturing practices, yet the work of nurture has escaped the scrutiny of medical and social scientists. The Dance of Nurture integrates ethnography, biology and the political economy of infant feeding to detail the efforts to improve infant feeding practices globally by UN agencies and advocacy groups concerned with solving global nutrition and health problems.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Published December 2008
Dances with Spiders

Crisis, Celebrity and Celebration in Southern Italy

Lüdtke, K.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Performance Studies

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Dancing At the Crossroads

Memory and Mobility in Ireland

Wulff, H.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies

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eBook available Published October 2012
Dancing Cultures

Globalization, Tourism and Identity in the Anthropology of Dance

Neveu Kringelbach, H. & Skinner, J. (eds)

Subjects: Performance Studies Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

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The Dark Side of Nation-States

Ethnic Cleansing in Modern Europe

Ther, P.

“Philipp Ther's newest contribution to the burgeoning literature on ethnic cleansing, forced deportation, and population transfer in the Twentieth Century is admirable in a number of ways. [It] is a genuinely comprehensive treatment of one of the most central problems of modern European history.” · Norman Naimark, H-Soz-u-Kult

“A groundbreaking study…based on an impressive amount of facts and balances… This analytically dense, well-written book is highly recommended for a broad audience.” · Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Subjects: Genocide History History (General)

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Published December 2011
Dark Traces of the Past

Psychoanalysis and Historical Thinking

Straub, J. & Rüsen, J. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published June 2012
Dark Trophies

Hunting and the Enemy Body in Modern War

Harrison, S.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General) History (General)

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Published December 2004
Day of the Dead

When Two Worlds Meet in Oaxaca

Haley, S. & Fukuda, C.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published October 2023
De-Commemoration

Removing Statues and Renaming Places

Gensburger, S. & Wüstenberg, J. (eds)

In the wake of recent protests against police violence and racism, calls to dismantle problematic memorials have reverberated around the globe. This is not a new phenomenon, however, nor is it limited to the Anglo-Saxon world. De-Commemoration focuses on the concept of de-commemoration as it relates to remembrance.

Subjects: Memory Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Published August 2016
Deadly Contradictions

The New American Empire and Global Warring

Reyna, S. P.

As US imperialism continues to dictate foreign policy, Deadly Contradictions is a compelling account of the American empire. Stephen P. Reyna argues that contemporary forms of violence exercised by American elites in the colonies, client state, and regions of interest have deferred imperial problems, but not without raising their own set of deadly contradictions.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published 1995
Death and Euthanasia in Jewish Law

Essays and Responsa

Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)

Subject: Jewish Studies

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Published September 2013
Death in East Germany, 1945-1990

Schulz, F. R.

“Felix Robin Schulz’s insightful and thoroughly researched book makes a significant contribution to the growing scholarship on the history of East Germany. It is, to my knowledge, the most comprehensive study of sepulchral culture in the GDR. Schulz is to be strongly commended for his extensive archival research in Berlin and in a number of city archives. He also visited numerous sites personally, which lends him a further layer of authority over his subject matter and allows him to make observations on how quickly certain spatial elements of socialist sepulchral culture are disappearing.” · Heléna Tóth, Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Munich

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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The Death in their Eyes

What Perpetrator Images Perpetrate

Sánchez-Biosca, V.

Perpetrator images — those that embody the point of view of the perpetrators or their accomplices during acts of violence — from Abu Ghraib, the Auschwitz Album, and of illegal prisoners captured during the fiercest dictatorships, are analyzed under a new methodology in The Death in their Eyes to account not only for the visible aspect of the image but to see what is concealed behind or beyond the frame limits.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies Sociology

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The Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots

Custom and Conflict in East New Britain

Martin, K.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies

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Death of the Father

An Anthropology of the End in Political Authority

Borneman, J. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies

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eBook available Published May 2017
Death of the Public University?

Uncertain Futures for Higher Education in the Knowledge Economy

Wright, S. & Shore, C. (eds)

Continuous government reforms to make universities ‘world class’, entrepreneurial and drivers of the knowledge economy, are transforming the traditional mission and meaning of the public university and its ability to act as ‘critic and conscience’ of society. This collection explores the new landscapes of higher education emerging across Europe and Australasia.

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published November 2016
Death, Materiality and Mediation

An Ethnography of Remembrance in Ireland

Graham, B.

Barbara Graham analyzes a diverse range of objects associated with death and remembrance in Ireland. In doing so, she explores the materially mediated interactions between the living and the dead, revealing the physical, cognitive, emotional, and spiritual roles of the dead in contemporary Irish communities.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Published December 2012
Debating Authenticity

Concepts of Modernity in Anthropological Perspective

Fillitz, T. & Saris, A. J. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Published December 2007
Decentering America

Gienow-Hecht, J. C. E. (ed)

Subject: History (General)

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eBook available Published October 2018
The Decisionist Imagination

Sovereignty, Social Science and Democracy in the 20th Century

Bessner, D. & Guilhot, N. (eds)

The Decisionist Imagination explores the relationship between the key concept of “decisionism,” as it emerged from 1920s political theory, and the postwar development of formal decision theory when sovereign decision-making became an object of scientific inquiry in a new cultural, institutional, and international landscape.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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The Decolonial Mandela

Peace, Justice and the Politics of Life

Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S.

This concise, forcefully argued volume lays out a groundbreaking interpretation of the “Mandela phenomenon.” Contrary to a neoliberal social model that privileges adversarial criminal justice and a rationalistic approach to warmaking, Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni elevates transformative political justice and a pluriversal vision of society as key features of Nelson Mandela’s legacy.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Deconstructing Dolls

Girlhoods and the Meanings of Play

Forman-Brunell, M. (ed)

Deconstructing Dolls explores the role of dolls in girlhood and young womanhood, seeking to understand the historical and contemporary significance of dolls particularly as they relate social meanings in the lives of girls.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)

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Published August 1999
DEFA

East German Cinema 1946-1992

Allan, S. & Sandford, J. (eds)

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published November 2021
Defeating Impunity

Attempts at International Justice in Europe since 1914

Rovetta, O. & Lagrou, P. (eds)

Over the course of the long and violent twentieth century, only a minority of the perpetrators of international crimes ever stood trial. In analyzing and documenting the challenge addressing that status of international justice and its realization, this collection uses an international perspective to take the reader through both little known and prominent trials.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History

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Published December 2002
Defiance and Compliance

Negotiating Gender in Low-Income Cairo

El-Kholy, H.A.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published August 2022
Defining and Measuring Diversity in Archaeology

Another Step Toward an Evolutionary Synthesis of Culture

Eren, M. I. & Buchanan, B. (eds)

Calculating the diversity of biological or cultural classes is a fundamental way of describing, analyzing, and understanding the world around us. Featuring studies of archaeological diversity ranging from the data-driven to the theoretical, from the Paleolithic to the Historic periods, authors illustrate the range of data sets to which diversity measures can be applied, as well as offer new methods to examine archaeological diversity.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Deleuzian Intersections

Science, Technology, Anthropology

Jensen, C. B. & Rödje, K. (Eds.)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Published June 2021
Delta Life

Exploring Dynamic Environments where Rivers Meet the Sea

Krause, F. & Harris, M. (eds)

Proposing a series of innovative steps towards better understanding human lives at the interstices of water and land, this volume includes eight ethnographies from deltas around the world. The book presents ‘delta life’ with intimate descriptions of the predicaments, imaginations and activities of delta inhabitants.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published October 1998
Democracy in Europe

Legitimising Politics in a Non-State Polity

Abromeit, H.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Democracy in Modern Europe

A Conceptual History

Kurunmäki, J., Nevers, J., & te Velde, H. (eds)

As one of the most influential ideas in modern European history, democracy has reshaped not only the landscape of government, but also fundamental social and political thought on a global level. Democracy in Modern Europe covers the history of democracy in modern Europe.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

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Democracy Struggles

NGOs and the Politics of Aid in Serbia

Vetta, T.

This book explores the “associational revolution” in post-socialist, post-conflict Serbia. It traces the boom of local NGOs since the 1990s in the context of the global political economy of Aid, neoliberal state restructuring, and shifting post-Cold War hegemonies, and unpacks the various forms of dispossession and inequality entailed in the democracy-promotion project.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Democracy's Paradox

Populism and its Contemporary Crisis

Kapferer, B. & Theodossopoulos, D. (eds)

Does populism indicate a radical crisis in Western democratic political systems? Is it a revolt by those who feel they have too little voice in the affairs of state or are otherwise marginalized or oppressed? Or are populist movements part of the democratic process?

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published October 2017
Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia

Transitioning to an Alternative World System

Baer, H. A.

As global economic and population growth continues to skyrocket, increasingly strained resources have ignited the search for an alternative to capitalism. Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia outlines the urgent need to reevaluate the current system, and replace it with one capable of mobilizing people globally to prevent on-going human socio-economic, environmental degradation, and anthropogenic climate change.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

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Published August 2001
Demography and National Security

Weiner, M. & Stanton Russell, S. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies

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The Demons of Modernity

Ingmar Bergman and European Cinema

Orr, J.

"On the evidence of this brilliantly allusive study of Ingmar Bergman, John Orr, had it not been for his premature passing, would have become one of the world's most influential of film analysts. Even beneath the shadow of the plethora of books on Bergman, Orr's approach is distinctive… He emphasizes the maestro's courageous leap into Modernism in the early 1960's, and the profound influence he exerted on his contemporaries. It is a pleasure to read Orr's elegant prose, which eschews the obtuse terminology of semiotics in favor of a lucid, almost passionate approach to the material. Bergman, one feels, would have enjoyed this book." · Peter Cowie, author of Ingmar Bergman, A Critical Biography.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

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Published May 2007
Demonstrating Reconciliation

State and Society in West German Foreign Policy toward Israel, 1952-1965

Hindenburg, H. von

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published January 2025
Desert Entanglements

The Making of the Badiya by Sahrawi Refugees of Western Sahara

Volpato, G.

The Sahrawi refugees in southwestern Algeria have struggled from exile for fifty years to reconfigure the animated desert they call badiya. They recovered camel husbandry and access to part of the former rangeland, and wove it back as seasonal nomadism. Desert Entanglements analyzes this process as an act of place-making premised on refugees’ agency.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Sustainable Development Goals

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Designing Knowledge Economies for Disaster Resilience

Case Studies from the African Diaspora

Waldron-Moore, P. (ed)

Acknowledging that low economic development and high climate costs do not equitably coexist, this collected volume interrogates the challenge for disaster-prone territories to determine supplemental strategies for restructuring and redesigning their environment.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies Sustainable Development Goals

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Emmanuel Levinas and Anthropological Science

Rapport, N.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

‘You Don’t Know’

Precarious Methods and Life in a Workers' Hostel

Nielsen, J. A. E.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Anyone

The Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology

Rapport, N.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel

Ottoman Jews at the Dawn of the Tanzimat Era

Borovaya, O.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Jewish Studies

The 1926/27 Soviet Polar Census Expeditions

Anderson, D. G. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General)

200 Years of Peace

New Perspectives on Modern Swedish Foreign Policy

Biltekin, N., Müller, L., & Petersson, M. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

24 Bars to Kill

Hip Hop, Aspiration, and Japan's Social Margins

Armstrong, A. B.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

The Abolitions of Slavery

From the L. F. Sonthonax to Victor Schoelcher, 1793, 1794, 1848

Dorigny, M. (ed)

Subjects: Colonial History History: 18th/19th Century

Abortion in Asia

Local Dilemmas, Global Politics

Whittaker, A. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology

Abortion in Post-revolutionary Tunisia

Politics, Medicine and Morality

Maffi, I.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology

About the Hearth

Perspectives on the Home, Hearth and Household in the Circumpolar North

Anderson, D. G., Wishart, R. P., & Vaté, V. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology Museum Studies Heritage Studies

Above the Death Pits, Beneath the Flag

Youth Voyages to Poland and the Performance of Israeli National Identity

Feldman, J.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Jewish Studies Memory Studies Travel and Tourism

The Absent Jews

Kurt Forstreuter and the Historiography of Medieval Prussia

Hess, C.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: Medieval/Early Modern

Academic Anthropology and the Museum

Back to the Future

Bouquet, M. (ed)

Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

An Academic Skating on Thin Ice

Worsley, P.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies

The Case of France and Belgium

Merchant, J. (ed)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

Achieving Procreation

Childlessness and IVF in Turkey

Demircioğlu Göknar, M.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Adoption, Emotion, and Identity

An Ethnopsychological Perspective on Kinship and Person in a Micronesian Society

Rauchholz, M.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

Advancing Refugee Protection in South Africa

Handmaker, J., Hunt, L. A. de la, & Klaaren, J. (eds)

Subject: Refugee and Migration Studies

Adventures in Aidland

The Anthropology of Professionals in International Development

Mosse, D. (ed)

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Development Studies

Toward a Sociology of the Shoah
Selected Essays