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November 2024 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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November 2024 Radcliffe-Brown
Journeys Through Colonial Worlds, 1881-1955
Niehaus, I.
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881-1955) is widely renowned as a founder of modern social anthropology. This biography challenges popular stereotypes of him as a misplaced positivist and colonial conservative. It shows Radcliffe-Brown to be a thoroughly cosmopolitan scholar, a committed fieldworker, and a sharp critic of colonialism.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
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November 2024 The Hidden Minority
Perceptions of Belonging and Otherness in the Finnish – Russian Borderland
Jerman, H.
The Russian minority in Finland is imbued with ’being hidden‘ or ’hiding oneself‘. The book explores informants’ reflections, together with the author, on the mental and physical crossing of national borders. Perceptions of belonging and/or Otherness and lived experience reveal a complex relationship of embodied memory, history, time and a multi-national social space.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
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November 2024 German Migrant Historians in North America
Transatlantic Careers and Scholarship after 1945
Hagemann, K. & Jaraush, K. H. (eds)
The experiences of German born historians who started emigrating to North America in the 1950s has had a unique impact on the practice and project of Central European History. German Migrant Historians in North America intimately reviews these historians’ experiences, career paths, scholarship, motivations and their contribution to Modern German Central European History.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Refugee and Migration Studies
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November 2024 Operation Barbarossa and its Aftermath
New Approaches to a Complex Campaign
Rossoliński-Liebe, G. (ed)
An illuminating re-examination of the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa and its Aftermath refocuses attention on the multiethnic nature of this military campaign, by considering the role played by troops from Slovakia, Romania, Italy, Spain, and others in Hitler’s plans for the Eastern Front and the Holocaust.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War II Genocide History
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November 2024 Silent Dilemmas of Project Managers
Solving the Existential Puzzle
Djolic, M. R.
A fastidious investigation into the nature of self-identity, Silent Dilemmas of Project Managers uses the context of project management to challenge the perceived separation of objective experience from subjective perception, highlighting how these adopted self-notions act as the object of existential anxiety.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Theory and Methodology Media Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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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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December 2024 Sinister and Righteous
Interpreting Left and Right in the Archaeological Record
Augé, C. Riley
This research demonstrates the ubiquitous, but often overlooked, occurrence of material culture meaningfully arranged according to deeply entrenched left and right concepts and is the first to bring together and expand upon these cultural ideologies.
Subjects: Archaeology Cultural Studies (General)
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December 2024 Understanding Business Offenders
A Comparative Analysis of Workplace Deviance, Convenience and Control
Gottschalk, P. & Hamerton, C.
Focusing on understanding business offenders through an exploration of workplace deviance and crime, this book closely examines a number of illustrative contemporary case studies and underpins the analysis of original comparative fieldwork, with an interdisciplinary approach, which informs, develops, and augments the existing literature on white-collar criminology.
Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology
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December 2024 Haunting Futures
Crisis, Migration and Anticipation in Iceland
Pawlak, M.
The 2008 economic collapse in Iceland sent its residents into a destabilising crisis with far-reaching, temporal and affective consequences. Haunting Futures explores how the complex relationships of this unstable past and the anticipatory modes of the ongoing present keep Icelanders and the Polish migrant community in their midst alert to looming futures in crisis.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology History: 20th Century to Present Sustainable Development Goals
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December 2024 The Paris Peace Conference of 1919
The Challenge of a New World Order
Badel, L., Conze, E., & Dröber, A. (eds)
An illuminating and geographically wide-ranging reassessment of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, this volume reconsiders how this watershed treaty gave rise to new dynamics of global power and politics, reshaping the ideas of imperiality and nationality that have continued to shape the geopolitical landscape.
Subjects: History: World War I Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies
$34.95 / £27.95 (epub format)