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eBook available Published April 2024
‘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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eBook available Published 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

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eBook available Published July 2012
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The Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology

Rapport, N.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Hb
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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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Forthcoming December 2026
The Afterlife of Evictions

The Social Impact of Urban Displacement in Rome

Portelli, S.

Focusing on residents displaced from a self-grown settlement beneath a Roman aqueduct, this book explores the social consequences of forced relocation. Through their experiences, it reveals how communities rebuild social life and exposes the costs of state-led urban redevelopment.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Urban Studies
eBook available Published April 2026
The Afterlives of Tamil Tigers

Fighters’ Memories of War and Survival

Mantovan, G.

Through the testimonies of war, defeat, and survival from veterans of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) now exiled in France, Giacomo Mantovan sheds light on the production of self and subjectivity within a revolutionary and authoritarian organisation, and contributes to debates on compliance, resistance, and political agency under authoritarian regimes.

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

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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: 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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Alterity and Human Evolution

Deep-Time and Multispecies Perspectives on Difference and Variation

Moro Abadía, O. & Porr, M. (eds)

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Archaeology

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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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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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February 2027
The Ambivalence of Protection

Spectacular Security and the European Roma

Baar, H.

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology
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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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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Forthcoming January 2027
Americanizing the French

Assimilation and Resistance in the Twentieth Century

Richard F. Kuisel

Twentieth century American consumer society and mass culture modified how the French defined the good life. Richard Kuisel’s engaging historical survey shows how French Americanization not only inspired emulation, but also anti-Americanism and anti-globalism. France confronted the American model and charted its own way to modernity, reworking American offerings to make them more “French.”

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

Reverse Engineering a Digital Artifact

Aycock, J.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)

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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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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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Andrzej Wajda

History, Politics & Nostalgia In Polish Cinema

Falkowska, J.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

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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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Animal Genocide and its Aftermath

The Tasmanian Tiger and the Newfoundland Wolf

Chare, N.

An exacting assessment of the bounty policies that facilitated the extinction of the Tasmanian Tiger and the Newfoundland Wolf, Animal Genocide and its Aftermath re-evaluates the legal, political, and social definition of animal killing, proposing it constitutes a form of genocide that requires a historical and cultural reckoning.

Subject: Environmental Studies (General) 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: 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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Antarctic Materialities

McCahey, D. & Senatore, M. (Eds.)

Challenging the idea of a pristine, uninhabited continent, Antarctic Materialities shows how materialities create, transform, and connect Antarctic worlds, revealing the region as a historically layered landscape deeply entangled with global histories, politics, and imaginaries.

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

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Anthropological Handbook of Mobility

Salazar, N. (ed)

The Anthropological Handbook of Mobility takes stock of the dispersed body of anthropological work on mobilities, as both an object of study and an analytical lens. From an anthropological point of view, this guide provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to mobility studies for students, scholars, and anyone else wanting to know more about the implications of mobility.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published September 2022
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.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) 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

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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 and Travel Writing, 19th–21st Century

From Proto-Ethnographies to Self-Reflexive Travelogues

Burcea, H. (ed)

From the nineteenth century onward, there have been gaps between travel writing and anthropological sciences, but also commonalities and continuous interactions in the anglophone world. Through a variety of case studies, Anthropology and Travel Writing follows the shift from armchair speculation to sustained fieldwork, from the picturesque to analytic thick description and from colonial typologies to Indigenous counter-readings.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism

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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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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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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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An Anthropology of Global Immunization

Vaccine Politics and Realities in Ethnographic Perspective

Irons, R., Gibbon, S., Cook, J. & Parkhurst, A. (eds)

This edited collection develops a unique anthropological response to the question of global immunization, addressing issues from vaccine hesitancy and conspiracy theories, to local biopolitics. Presented through original research, An Anthropology of Global Immunization explore some of the most pressing vaccine concerns of our time, from HPV to COVID-19, HIV and beyond.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

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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

Garvey, P. & Miller, D. (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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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

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Anti-americanism in Latin America and the Caribbean

McPherson A. (ed)

Subject: History (General)

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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.

Subject: Archaeology Heritage Studies Anthropology (General)

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Archaeogaming as Scholarly Play

The Intersection of Archaeology and Gaming

Rhodes Victor, M. (Eds.)

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) History (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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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

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Published January 2026
Arctic Silk Roads

An Anthropology of the Unbuilt

Magnani, N. & Magnani, M. (Eds.)

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies
eBook available Published January 2019
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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Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Formalization in Ghana

A Decolonial and Legal Pluralist Analysis

Mensah, L.

The historical emergence of centralised mineral resource governance in Ghana can be tied to its failed colonially transplanted legal system. This book offers a reflection of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) formalisation, with a focus on its complex operationalisation in formerly colonized societies, to consider environmental responsibility and accountability in the administration of access to mineral rights.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Colonial History

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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 September 2026
Arts Initiatives by Refugees for Refugees

Forced Displacement, Creativity, and Agency

Gilman, L.

Addressing forced migration as a global challenge, this book draws on multi-sited research to examine the arts and cultural dimensions of refugee contexts. Through narrative-driven accounts, it highlights refugee agency, creativity, and community-building, challenging reductive stereotypes and foregrounding refugees’ contributions to both home and host societies.

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

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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)

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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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eBook available Published November 2019
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)

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eBook available Published October 2023
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

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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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Forthcoming January 2027
Austria-Hungary and the 1867 Dualist System

Politics and Government in the Habsburg Monarchy

Kwan, J. (Eds.)

A new and comprehensive analysis of the 1867 dualist settlement and formation of Austria-Hungary, from conception to implementation. Exploring important events, key figures, and individual case studies, the analysis is underpinned by three themes: regionally-centred perspectives, the mechanics of government, and the emergence of participatory political cultures.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
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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Published July 2025
Austria's Difficult Past

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

Gortat, J.

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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eBook available Published June 2026
Authoritarianism, Displacement and Syrian Family Life

Reckoning with the State

Holst, B.

Authoritarianism, Displacement and Syrian Family Life analyses how Syrians living in refuge in Lebanon and Turkey during the war in Syria continued to reckon with the Syrian State as a direct and indirect force in their lives. Through an ethnographic account of everyday life in Syrian families with a variety of political standpoints, the book demonstrates how the experience of displacement was shaped by ongoing deliberations and provides new perspectives on displacement in a Middle East context.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration 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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Autistic Dreaming

Vibrant Memory, Activism, Environment

Reading, A.

An exacting reassessment of neurodiversity within activist and artistic communities, Autistic Dreaming illuminates how the integration of neurodivergent perspectives within critical memory studies has the opportunity to expand ideas about the relationship between the individual and collective, and reform our method of remembrance.

Subjects: Memory Studies Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

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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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eBook available Published February 2011
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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eBook available Published May 2009
Balkan Departures

Travel Writing from Southeastern Europe

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

Subjects: History (General) Literary Studies

Hb
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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

Hb
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Forthcoming October 2026
Becoming Advocate

On Autism, Parenthood, Care and Online Advocacy

Lo Bosco, M. C.

Tracing the emergence of autism in Portugal, from its early recognition in child psychiatry to the rise of parent-led advocacy and digital activism, this book examines how families confront inadequate services, challenge outdated paradigms and advocate for educational and social reforms.

Subject: Medical Anthropology
eBook available Published September 2013
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

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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) Development Studies

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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

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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
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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eBook available Published May 2017
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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eBook available Published May 2018
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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eBook available Published January 2006
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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eBook available Published January 2025
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)

Hb
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eBook available Published September 2010
Berlin Divided City, 1945-1989

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

Subjects: Urban Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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eBook available Published May 2010
Berlin, Alexanderplatz

Transforming Place in a Unified Germany

Weszkalnys, G.

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General) Geography

Hb
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eBook available Published March 2021
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
eBook available Published April 2026
Between Anthropology and Psychiatry

Littlewood, R. & Dein, S.

Bridging Psychology and Anthropology, this volume critiques dominant models such as psychoanalysis and the biopsychosocial framework. Drawing on cross-cultural case studies –from Hasidic healing to jinn possession, it argues for plural approaches that integrate biological, psychodynamic and sociocultural perspectives to better understand human experience.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Theory and Methodology

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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
eBook available Published May 2017
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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eBook available Published November 2010
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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eBook available Published December 2005
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) 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

Hb
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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

Hb
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eBook available Published May 1998
Between Reform and Revolution

German Socialism and Communism from 1840 to 1990

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

Subject: History (General)

Hb
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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)

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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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eBook available Published May 2010
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

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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
eBook available Published July 2020
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) 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

Hb
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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

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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

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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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Published 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

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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)

Hb
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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

Hb
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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)

Hb
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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)

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Published November 2017
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

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eBook available Published February 2026
Black Lisbon

The Making of Anticolonial Internationalism in Portugal, 1910-1935

Cleminson, R.

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

Hb
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

Paperback available
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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
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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)

Hb
Forthcoming February 2027
Blooming Populism

An Ethnography of Rural Hungary under Viktor Orbán

Szafonova, T.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies
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

Hb
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

Hb
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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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Forthcoming October 2026
Bodies, Gods and Other Imponderables

Cross-Cultural Metalogues

Lloyd, G. & Vilaça, A.

A dialogue between a philosopher and an anthropologist, one a specialist in ancient Greek and Chinese thought, the other in Amazonian Indigenous peoples. Lloyd and Vilaça revise our understanding of ideas about the body and its antitheses, dreams, sickness, gods, and the narratives and myths which are used to untangle these concepts.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
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
Paperback available
Forthcoming November 2026
The Body Swap Film

Moss-Wellington, W. & Wilkins, K. (eds)

An enduring yet underexamined tradition in popular cinema, body swap narratives have captivated audiences across cultures and genres. This volume offers the first study of the ‘body swap’ film, examining notable examples such as the Freaky Friday films alongside comedies, horrors, and hybrid forms shaped by bodily transformation.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
Published January 2014
Bondage

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

Stanziani, A.

Subject: History (General)

Paperback available
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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)

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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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Border Interrogations

Questioning Spanish Frontiers

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

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

Hb
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eBook available Published March 2026
A Border Island on the Crossroads of History

Lampedusa and the Mediterranean

Albera, D.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published November 2025
Border-Straddling Heritages

Containment, Contestation, and Appreciation of Shared Pasts

Mozaffari, A. & Harvey, D. (eds)

In this geographically wide-ranging reassessment of the overlap between borders and heritage, Ali Mozaffari and David C. Harvey interrogate how “hyperglobalization” has simultaneously challenged and intensified notions of sovereignty and nationality, advancing a theory of heritage that recognizes its potential for simultaneously reflecting upon and generating borders.

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

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

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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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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

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Published November 2003
The Bounded Field

Localism and Local Identity in an Italian Alpine Valley

Stacul, J.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Hb
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Boundless Worlds

An Anthropological Approach to Movement

Kirby, P. W. (ed)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Theory and Methodology

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

Heller, H.

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

Hb
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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
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Published April 1999
Braving the Street

The Anthropology of Homelessness

Glasser, I. & Bridgman, R.

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
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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)

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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
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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

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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
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Published September 2012
Bridging Divides

Ethno-Political Leadership among the Russian Sámi

Overland, I. & Berg-Nordlie, M.

Subject: Development Studies

Hb
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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
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
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
Paperback available
eBook available Published August 2025
Bruno Kreisky’s Foreign Policy

A Reassessment

Bischof, G. & Burri, M. (eds)

An enlightening and geographically wide-ranging reappraisal of the life and legacy of the Austrian politician, Bruno Kreisky, this volume seeks to reinstate Kreisky’s centrality to Cold War history and Austria’s postwar recovery, highlighting how profoundly he reshaped the modern, geopolitical landscape.

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

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
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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
eBook available Published 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 contributors 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

Hb
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

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
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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)

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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

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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
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eBook available Published August 2026
Business as Usual

The Germans and Their Law, 1943 to 1948

Lahusen, B.

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

Hb
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)

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eBook available Published 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

Hb
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
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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
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Forthcoming September 2026
Camorra Networks

Populism, Neoliberalism, and the Media Machine of Naples’ Underworld

Giusto, S.

Focusing on the social peripheries of Naples, this book examines how Camorra, one of Europe’s most entrenched and violently coercive criminal organizations, runs music, television, and online media empires that collide with state-regulated cultural industries. It challenges the mainstream understanding of the relationship between media, democracy, and violence in Italy and beyond.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology
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
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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
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eBook available Published 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

Hb
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
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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
Published December 2025
Capturing Commemoration

Reflections on the First World War Centenary in Britain

Noakes, L., Pennell, C., Hanna, E., Hughes, L., Kempshall, C. & Wallis, J.

An exacting study of the activities that marked the First World War Centenary within the UK from 2014 to 2018 that considers how this period shaped national identity and the increasingly collaborative field of public history.

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

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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

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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
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Carneiro

The Concise Evolutionary Essays

Bates Graber, R. (ed)

Robert L. Carneiro is one of the most influential figures in anthropology in the twentieth century who brought cultural evolutionism from its nineteenth century origins. This book aims to contribute to revitalizing Carneiro’s profound theoretical perspective for current and future generations of students and anthropologists.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology

Hb
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
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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
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Published December 2005
The Categorical Impulse

Essays on the Anthropology of Classifying Behavior

Ellen, R.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Hb
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Published January 2001
Categories and Classifications

Maussian Reflections on the Social

Allen, N. J.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Hb
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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
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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
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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
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Cesare Lombroso’s Legacy in Latin America

How His Controversial Popularity as a Criminologist Remains

Sansone, L.

Cesare Lombroso’s Legacy in Latin America: How His Controversial Popularity as a Criminologist Remains argues that the study of ethnography in Latin America should give more attention to the Lombroso school and the academic exchange between relatively marginal national anthropologies, such as the Italian and the various Latin American schools.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology History (General) Sociology

Hb
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
eBook available Published June 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

Hb
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
eBook available Published 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

Hb
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

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
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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
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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 February 2026
Christianity, Colonialism and Indigenous History in French Polynesia

Advance into Past

Misaki, M.

This book illustrates how indigenous Christians perceive social change and how their historical perceptions inform the creation of their own Christianity in an increasingly modernised French Polynesian society.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Colonial History Sociology

Hb
Forthcoming December 2026
Churchill and de Gaulle

Secret Intelligence and the Failure of Franco-British Relations

Hefler, H.

Hefler explores why Britain and France failed to cooperate after WWII. Prime Minister Winston Churchill opposed a lasting alliance with France, pursuing an unofficial campaign in the Middle East and working to discredit de Gaulle as a political force, ultimately sacrificing Franco-British relations and making de Gaulle an ‘enemy of Britain’.

Subjects: History: World War II History: 20th Century to Present
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
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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
Paperback available
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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eBook available Published January 2021
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
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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

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

Paperback available
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
Paperback available
Published August 2006
Civil Society

Berlin Perspectives

Keane, J. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Urban Studies

Hb
Paperback available
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
Paperback available
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

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)

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Collaborators Collaborating

Counterparts in Anthropological Knowledge and International Research Relations

Konrad, M. (ed)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Applied Anthropology

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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 Cultural Studies (General)

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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

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Collective Terms

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

Epstein, B. S.

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General)

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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)

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Published 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

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Published February 2013
The Colours of the Empire

Racialized Representations during Portuguese Colonialism

Matos, P. F. de

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History

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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 Cultural Studies (General)

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Comics in French

The European Bande Dessinée in Context

Grove, L.

Subject: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

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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

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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

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Coming of Age in Times of Uncertainty

Blatterer, H.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Communities of Complicity

Everyday Ethics in Rural China

Steinmüller, H.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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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)

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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

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Published January 2026
Community in a Crowd

Bitcoin and the Quest for Liberty in Tel Aviv

Shapiro, M.

Based on ethnographic research in Tel Aviv, this book examines how Bitcoin enthusiasts use everyday practices to challenge centralised authority, revealing how decentralised technologies foster both sprawling online crowds and close-knit, libertarian communities rooted in techno-utopian ideals.

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology
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Comparative and Transnational History

Central European Approaches and New Perspectives

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

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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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

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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

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Published May 2026
Competition beyond Capitalism

Anthropological Perspectives on an Unruly Dynamic

Hopkinson, L. & Zidaru, T. (Eds.)

Competition is often seen as capitalism’s engine, assigning value and setting people against one another. Yet ethnography shows competition exceeds capitalism: its meanings, aims, and practices are contested and shifting. Rather than enforcing fixed orders, competition produces complex, unexpected effects, enabling new social relations and mediating divergent social worlds globally.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
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

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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

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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

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Published October 2008
Conceiving Kinship

Assisted Conception, Procreation and Family in Southern Europe

Bonaccorso, M. M. E.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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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

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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)

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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

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Published September 2026
Concepts of Culture

New Directions in Conceptual History

Pirholt, M. & Lipkin, M. (eds)

An interdisciplinary approach to conceptual history that broadens the scope of this influential theoretical tradition, with a particular focus on cultural concepts found in art history, comparative literature, cultural studies, and German studies, among others. In doing so, it also contributes to the methodological development in these fields of research.

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

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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)

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Conceptualizing Iranian Anthropology

Past and Present Perspectives

Nadjmabadi, S. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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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

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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)

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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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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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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

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Conflict and Violence in the Lake Chad Basin

Insecurity in Central Africa

Edited by Emmanuel Chauvin, Wouter van Beek, Catherine Baroin, Olivier Langlois and Christian Seignobos

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

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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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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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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

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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)

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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

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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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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.

Subjects: 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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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

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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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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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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)

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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

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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

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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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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)

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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

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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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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

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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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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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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
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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

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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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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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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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Crafting as Worldmaking

Relationality, Language, and Knowledge Sharing

Rizvi, U. & Jackson, S. (eds)

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

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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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Crafting Co-ops in Denmark

Reworking Craftmanship, Construction and Capitalism in a Cooperative Realm

Ebsen, M.

Builders construct certain political sensibilities through their daily work, which come to structure their wider social and political engagement with the encompassing society. Crafting Co-ops in Denmark explores the revival of cooperative craftwork in Denmark, delving into construction sites and political assemblies to reveal the dreams, drives, and desires of a diverse group of builders working in a Copenhagen-based craft co-op.

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

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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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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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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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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

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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

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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

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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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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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Critiquing Neoliberalism

Art and Activism in Post-Recession Dublin

Morningstar, N.

Following the 2008 recession in Ireland, its creative economy reflects broader societal shifts, including rising nationalism. This book explores how young activists and artists, facing precarious housing and labour conditions, engaged in campaigns – particularly for reproductive rights and affordable housing.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Urban Studies

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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)

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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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Forthcoming January 2027
Culinary Chronicles

Oral Histories of Food, Mobility, and Belonging

Cerkleski, M.

This book is a collection of oral histories centred on interviews with elders. It traces various journeys from Italy to Switzerland, Bulgaria to Turkey, and across regions of India, revealing how migration, war, gender roles, and political upheaval shape culinary practices.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition History (General)
eBook available Published February 2012
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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eBook available Published May 2010
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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eBook available Published February 2020
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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eBook available Published July 2009
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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eBook available Published October 2017
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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eBook available Published March 2010
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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eBook available Published June 2009
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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eBook available Published June 2012
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 Money

Double Movements in the Marshall Islands

Berta, O.

The idea of culture has become a creative framework in Marshall Islanders’ quest to realise a community based on communality, meaningful work, and self-reliance. Culturing Money analyses what sort of conceptual and practical work that the dialectics of culture and economy can do for Marshall Islanders in their quest for a meaningful life where self-reliance is the ultimate goal.

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

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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: 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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eBook available Published August 2026
Cyborgs of the Ecocene

What Robots Can Teach Us about Being Human in a Calamitous World

Veling, L.

This book explores the relationship between people, society and nature through the lens of robots and robotics research. It argues that a deeper understanding of the field leads to a greater appreciation for human embodiment and creativity, rather than a belief in imminent machine intelligence.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
eBook available Published December 2015
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

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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: 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

Dr. Robyn S. Lacy

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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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

Hb
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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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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.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present 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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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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Death, Commemoration, and Cultural Meaning

Past and Present

Spinelli, R. & Lacy, R. (Eds.)

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

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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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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)

Hb
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Decentering Anthropology, by Way of Malinowski

Critical Perspectives on Power, Place and Colonialism

Mathur, C. & Zinn, D. L. (eds)

Through reference to one of its most canonical figures: Bronislaw Malinowski, this volume de-centres anthropology seemingly in a paradox. Featuring scholars across various locations, genders and generations, this book neither celebrates nor “cancels” Malinowski. Instead, it offers an eccentric space of reconsideration and a prism for reflecting on power configurations in anthropology today.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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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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Decolonizing African Art History and Heritage

Unveiling Ritual Objects' Power as Spiritual Resilience

Nalukenge, C.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Museum Studies

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Decolonizing Europe

Ethnographies of National and Transnational Projects

Ferraz de Matos, P. & Sansone, L. (eds)

This volume explores how race, colonial legacies, and structural inequality are addressed across diverse European contexts – north, central, eastern and southern – as well as in their entanglements with regions beyond Europe. It offers critical, grounded insights into the possibilities and challenges of decolonial thinking today.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Colonial History

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Forthcoming November 2026
Decolonizing Ourselves

Reflections from a Personal Journey

Colfer, C.

Tracing a life shaped by movement between cultures, this book combines autoethnography and analysis of modern colonialism to examine inequality across contexts. It reflects on personal and structural change, inviting readers to consider their own positions within enduring systems of injustice.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology
eBook available Published March 2021
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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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

Hb
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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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eBook available Published March 2014
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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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

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Published November 2023
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

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Published June 2016
Designing Worlds

National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization

Fallan, K. & Lees-Maffei, G. (eds)

In design history, globalization is deeply intertwined with a long-held bias towards Western, industrialized nations. By reassessing the role of regional and national design histories and challenging the claim that nation states are obsolete in identity construction, Designing Worlds reflects on new national narratives from around the world.

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

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Desires for Reality

Radicalism and Revolution in Western European Film

Halligan, B.

This is a fresh and groundbreaking account of the innovations and provocations of the “cinema of 1968,” and its social and aesthetic contexts. Benjamin Halligan offers a genuinely fresh analysis of films reflecting the cultural upheaval of youth in revolt—cinema that did not merely entertain, but was made the barricades.

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

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Destination London

German-Speaking Emigrés and British Cinema, 1925-1950

Bergfelder, T. & Cargnelli, C. (eds)

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

Hb
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Deterritorialized Youth

Sahrawi and Afghan Refugees at the Margins of the Middle East

Chatty, D. (ed)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies

Hb
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Published January 2009
Developing Skill, Developing Vision

Practices of Locality at the Foot of the Alps

Grasseni, C.

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
Published November 2005
Development-induced Displacement

Problems, Policies and People

de Wet, Chris (ed)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies Theory and Methodology

Hb
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Published September 2015
Developmentality

An Ethnography of the World Bank-Uganda Partnership

Sande Lie, J. H.

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork within the World Bank and a Ugandan ministry, this book critically examines how the new aid architecture recasts aid relations in terms of a partnership.

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)

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The Devil is Disorder

Bodies, Spirits and Misfortune in a Trinidadian Village

Lynch, R.

What role might the Devil have in health and illness? The Devil is Disorder explores constructions of the body, health, illness and wider misfortune in a Trinidadian village where evangelical Christianity is growing in popularity. Based on long-term ethnography, the book takes a nuanced cosmological approach to situate evangelical Christian understandings.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion Sociology

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eBook available Published May 2011
The Devil's Captain

Ernst Jünger in Nazi Paris, 1941-1944

Mitchell, A.

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

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The Devil's Riches

A Modern History of Greed

Poley, J.

A seeming constant in the history of capitalism, greed has nonetheless undergone considerable transformations over the last five hundred years. This multilayered account offers a fresh take on an old topic, showing how evolving ideas about greed became formative elements of the modern experience.

Subject: History (General)

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The Devil's Wheels

Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic

Disko, S.

During the unprecedented modernization of Germany’s Weimar Republic, motorcycle culture instantiated the new link between consumption and identity. Motorcycles became symbols of masculinity and freedom that exposed the problems and allures of mass-consumption and modern values. The Devil’s Wheels analyzes motorcycle culture, and reassesses mechanized life in Weimar Germany.

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

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Published April 2010
Diamonds and War

State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine

De Vries, D.

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

Paperback available
eBook available Published November 2022
The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky

Into Germany at the End of World War II

Lerg, C. A. (ed.)

The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky reproduces and critically examines Melvin J. Lasky’s diary, which expounds intense and insightful notes on German realities following the aftermath of World War Two and the ideological conflicts between the East and West.

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

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Published April 2013
Diaspora Online

Identity Politics and Romanian Migrants

Trandafoiu, R.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies

Hb
Published October 2011
Diasporic Generations

Memory, Politics, and Nation among Cubans in Spain

Berg, M. L.

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

Hb
eBook available Published October 1999
Dictatorship as Experience

Towards a Socio-Cultural History of the GDR

Jarausch, K. (ed)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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eBook available Published September 2021
Dictionary of Authentic American Proverbs

Mieder, W.

Dictionary of American Proverbs offers a comprehensive reference guide for distinctly American proverbs. Featuring a compendium of nearly 1,500 American proverbs spanning the 17th century to present day, this dictionary also includes a scholarly introduction along with a comprehensive bibliography of proverb collections and interpretive scholarship.

Subjects: Literary Studies Heritage Studies Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
Published November 2017
Difference and Sameness as Modes of Integration

Anthropological Perspectives on Ethnicity and Religion

Schlee, G. & Horstmann, A. (eds)

What does it mean to “fit in?” This volume of essays demystifies the discourse on identity, challenging common assumptions about role of similarity in inclusion and exclusion. Armed with intimate knowledge of local social structures, these essays tease out the ways in which ethnicity, religion and nationalism are used for social integration.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Peace and Conflict Studies

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Difference and Sameness in Schools

Perspectives from the European Anthropology of Education

Gilliam, L. & Markom, C. (eds)

Through eleven case studies across Europe, this book looks at the handling of difference and sameness in European schools from an anthropological perspective. It offers insights into the diversity of and within these central institutions and, in a broader sense, European society itself.

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Different from the Others

German and Dutch Discourses of Queer Femininity and Female Desire, 1918–1940

Sturgess, C.

Presenting for the first time a comparative and socio-cultural history of queer femininities in Germany and the Netherlands for an English-speaking audience, Different from the Others highlights this submerged history and engages queer authors and activists from the Netherlands to challenge and redress conceptualizations of queer femininity in the interwar period.

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

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Different Germans, Many Germanies

New Transatlantic Perspectives

Jarausch, K. H., Wenzel, H., & Goihl, K. (eds)

For Anglo-American observers in particular, the legacies of two world wars still powerfully define twentieth-century German history. This volume collects insightful studies from leading scholars that suggest new ways for understanding Germany from a transatlantic perspective, arguing above all for a more nuanced, self-reflective, and holistic German Studies.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published October 2006
A Different Kind of War

The UN Sanctions Regime in Iraq

Sponeck, H.C. von

Subject: Peace and Conflict Studies

Hb
Published August 1996
Different Restorations

Reconstruction and Wiederaufbau in the United States and Germany: 1865-1945-1989

Finzsch, N. & Martschukat, J. (eds)

Subject: History (General)

Hb
eBook available Published April 2012
Differentiating Development

Beyond an Anthropology of Critique

Venkatesan, S. & Yarrow, T. (eds)

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
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Published May 2008
Difficult Folk?

A Political History of Social Anthropology

Mills, D.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology

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January 2027
Difficult Subjects in Anthropology

Ethnography and the Limits of Participant Solidarity

Massoumian, A. & Nightingale, D.

Drawing on research in London and Dublin, this book examines ethnographic encounters that challenge anthropology’s commitments to empathy, dialogue, and collaboration. It develops a framework for understanding the ethical tensions that emerge when researchers study difficult subjects within their own societies.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Sociology
Published September 2021
Digital Archives and Collections

Creating Online Access to Cultural Heritage

Müller, K.

Museums and archives all over the world digitize their collections and provide online access to heritage material. But what factors determine the content, structure and use of these online inventories? This book turns to India and Europe to answer this question. It explains how museums and archives envision, decide and conduct digitization and online dissemination.

Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General)

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Forthcoming October 2026
Digital Flâneurs

An Ethnography of Scrolling, Screen Time, and Inequalities Among Youth in Vienna

Jovicic, S.

This ethnography explores how young people in Vienna inhabit digital time and space amid boredom, unemployment, migration, school pressures and fragmented life trajectories. It reveals how digital devices are entangled with experiences of sociality, waiting, and boredom, offering an alternative to moralizing narratives of “mindless scrolling” and of strolling through digital worlds.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
Published June 2014
Dignity for the Voiceless

Willem Assies's Anthropological Work in Context

Salman, T., Marti i Puig, S., & Haar, G. van der (eds)

“This is a fascinating body of work…I was most impressed by his balance of "hard" political-science analysis and the softer socio-cultural interpretations and by the balance of theory and applied work (scholarship speaking to real world contemporary problems).” · Edward Fischer, Vanderbilt University

Willem Assies explored the messy, often untidy daily lives of people, with their inconsistencies, irrationalities, and passions, but also with their hopes, sense of beauty, solidarity, and quest for dignity. This collection brings together some of Willem Assies’ best, most fascinating, and still highly relevant writings.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies

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eBook available Published October 2019
Disaster Upon Disaster

Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice

Hoffman, S. M. & Barrios, R. E. (eds)

A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies mandated to deal with the concern. Disaster Upon Disaster illuminates the numerous disjunctions between the suppositions, realities, agendas, and executions in the field and advances solutions and the matter of outcomes.

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

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Published April 2003
Discerning Palates of the Past

An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Crop Cultivation and Plant Usage in India

Reddy, S. N.

This book analyzes the agricultural and pastoral infrastructure of the Mature and Late Harappan cultures (ca. 2500-1700 BC) of northwest India. The economic role of drought-resistant millet crops is reconstructed using ethnographic studies of crop processing, palaeoethnobotany, and carbon isotope analysis. New directions are provided for discerning archaeologically how pastoralism and agriculture may be integrated in complex economic systems.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)

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The Discipline of Leisure

Embodying Cultures of 'Recreation'

Coleman, S. & Kohn, T. (eds)

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

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Published January 2007
Disenchantment with Market Economics

East Germans and Western Capitalism

Müller, B.

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
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eBook available Published September 2009
Dismantling the Dream Factory

Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language

Baer, H.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
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Published December 2010
Displacement Beyond Conflict

Challenges for the 21st Century

McDowell, C. & Morrell, G.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies

Hb
eBook available Published February 2025
The Disputed Austro-Hungarian Border

Agendas, Actors, and Practices in Western Hungary/Burgenland after World War I

Grandits, H., Murber, I., & Tyran, K. (eds)

A refreshing re-examination of the history of Austria and Hungary in the wake of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy, The Disputed Austro-Hungarian Border refocuses attention on the contested region of Western Hungary/Burgenland, considering how the process of building state borders shaped the region’s political, cultural, and social dynamics.

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

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Disputed Territories

The Transnational Dynamics of Ethnic Conflict Settlement

Wolff, S.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology

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Disrupted Landscapes

State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania

Dorondel, S.

The fall of the Soviet Union led not only to new regimes of ownership and development but to dramatic changes in the landscape itself. This study focuses on the emblematic case of postsocialist Romania, in which the transition from collectivization to privatization profoundly reshaped the nation’s forests, farmlands, and rivers.

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

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Distributed Objects

Meaning and Mattering after Alfred Gell

Chua, L. & Elliott, M. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Museum Studies Literary Studies

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Published March 2011
Diversity and Dissent

Negotiating Religious Difference in Central Europe, 1500-1800

Louthan, H., Cohen, G. B. & Szabo, F. A. J. (eds)

Subject: History: Medieval/Early Modern

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Divided, But Not Disconnected

German Experiences of the Cold War

Hochscherf, T., Laucht, C. & Plowman, A. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Divining History

Prophetism, Messianism and the Development of the Spirit

Svenungsson, J.

Messianic ideas of impending redemption have inspired and engendered struggles for justice, yet also violent utopian ideologies. This book analyzes the double-edged legacy of Judeo-Christian theologies of history by exploring their impact on subsequent philosophies of history and political ideologies, from Ancient Judaism, through German Romanticism, to contemporary radical thought.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion History (General)

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Do Not Forget Me

Three Jewish Mothers Write to Their Sons from the Thessaloniki Ghetto

Saltiel, L. (ed)

Following the Axis invasion of Greece, the Nazis began persecuting the country’s Jews as they had across occupied Europe, beginning with small indignities and culminating in mass imprisonment and deportations. Among the many Jews confined to the Thessaloniki ghetto during this period were Sarina Saltiel, Mathilde Barouh, and Neama Cazes—three women bound for Auschwitz who spent the weeks before their deportation writing to their sons.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War II Genocide History

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Documenting Socialism

East German Documentary Cinema

Allan, S. & Heiduschke, S. (eds)

More than 30 years after the collapse of the German Democratic Republic, its cinema continues to attract scholarly attention. Documenting Socialism brings a fresh introduction to the field of documentary cinema and the complexities of diversity under socialism in the GDR.

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

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Documenting Transnational Migration

Jordanian Men Working and Studying in Europe, Asia and North America

Antoun, R.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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Doing Conceptual History in Africa

Fleisch, A. & Stephens, R. (eds)

The contributions assembled here focus on the complex role of language in Africa’s historical development. From prehistoric dynamics of wealth and poverty to the conceptual foundations of postcolonial nationalism, each engages with African intellectual history while analyzing the regional and global contexts in which categories like “work” and “land” take shape.

Subject: History (General)

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Published December 2002
The Domain of Constant Excess

Plural Worship at the Munnesvaram Temples in Sri Lanka

Bastin, R.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published March 2014
Domesticating Youth

Youth Bulges and their Socio-political Implications in Tajikistan

Roche, S.

“This is an outstanding study of the ‘youth bulge’ in a remote country of Central Asia…Through her extensive field work, the author acquired a deep personal knowledge of the peculiarity of the country and its culture, for which little is available in the academic literature…This work is important not only for understanding the dynamics of the youth bulge in Tajikistan, but also to better grasp the rationale and multiple dimensions of youth movements in other developing countries of the same geographical area, and in particular the so-called “Arab Spring” revolutions.” · Michel Garenne, Institut Pasteur, Paris

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Don't Need No Thought Control

Western Culture in East Germany and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Horten, G.

Don't Need No Thought Control explores the dynamic interplay between popular demands, intensifying economic crises, and cultural policy decisions during the Erich Honecker era in a comprehensive and comparative analysis.

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

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A Dramatic Reinvention

German Television and Moral Renewal after National Socialism, 1956–1970

Anderson, S.

A Dramatic Revinvention sheds new light on how Germans rebuilt their moral and intellectual world after the Nazi catastrophe. The book argues that television emerged as one of the most important mediums for presenting, discussing, and working through the question of how to re-moralize Germany.

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

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The Dream in Islam

From Qur'anic Tradition to Jihadist Inspiration

Edgar, I. R.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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Dreaming and the Imagination

Theoretical Intersections in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Newsom, M. D. (eds)

Of all the human behaviors anthropologists consider, perhaps the most conceptually challenging are those that cannot by directly observed. This volume draws from rich ethnographic data to offer theoretical and methodological tools for mapping the intersections between two such behaviors: dreaming and imagination.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Sociology

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eBook available Published May 2018
Dreams Made Small

The Education of Papuan Highlanders in Indonesia

Munro, J.

Dreams Made Small offers an in-depth, ethnographic look at journeys of education among young Papuans under Indonesian rule, ultimately revealing how dreams of transformation, equality, and belonging are shaped and reshaped in the face of multiple constraints.

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

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Dreams of Germany

Musical Imaginaries from the Concert Hall to the Dance Floor

Gregor, N. & Irvine, T. (eds)

Why is Germany imagined as the ‘land of music’? How has that image been made over time? Exploring examples that range from Bruckner to the Beatles, from classical song to sex-club dance music, a team of historians and musicologists explores these perennial questions in innovative and exciting ways.

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

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Dreams, Gender, and Artisanal Mining in Papua New Guinea

An Ethnography of Value

Moretti, D.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published November 2021
Dressing Up

Menswear in the Age of Social Media

Bluteau, J. M.

What does men’s fashion say about contemporary masculinity? How do these notions operate in an increasingly digitized world? To answer these questions, author Joshua M. Bluteau combines theoretical analysis with vibrant narrative, exploring men’s fashion in the online world of social media as well as the offline worlds of retail, production, and the catwalk.

Subject: Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

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Published December 2001
Drinking

Anthropological Approaches

Garine, I. & V. de (eds)

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

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Published February 2007
Driving Germany

The Landscape of the German Autobahn, 1930-1970

Zeller, T.

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

Hb
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Published April 2017
Driving Modernity

Technology, Experts, Politics, and Fascist Motorways, 1922-1943

Moraglio, M.

Driving Modernity recounts the history of the first Italian motorway, which—alongside railways and aviation—Italian authorities hoped would spread an ideology of technological nationalism. It explains how Italy ultimately failed to realize its mammoth infrastructural vision, addressing the political and social conditions that made a coherent plan of development impossible.

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

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Published May 2002
Dual Nationality, Social Rights and Federal Citizenship in the U.S. and Europe

The Reinvention of Citizenship

Hansen, R. & Weil, P. (eds)

Subject: History (General)

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Durable Solutions

Challenges with Implementing Global Norms for Internally Displaced Persons in Georgia

Funke, C.

Focusing on Georgia, this book presents a theoretical and empirical study on the implementation of durable solutions for internally displaced persons (IDPs). Building on extensive field research, it describes and explains the considerable problems which Georgia faces in establishing global norms, as well as the ongoing hardship that IDPs experience.

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

Hb
Published November 2001
Durkheim and Foucault

Perspectives on Education and Punishment

Cladis, M. (ed)

Subjects: Educational Studies Sociology

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eBook available Published November 2013
Durkheim in Dialogue

A Centenary Celebration of The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

Hausner, S. L. (ed)

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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Published October 2002
Durkheim Today

Pickering, W. S. F. (ed)

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

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Durkheim, the Durkheimians, and the Arts

Riley, A.T., Pickering, W.S.F., & Watts Miller, W. (eds)

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

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A Durkheimian Quest

Solidarity and the Sacred

Watts Miller, W.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

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Dust Inside

Fighting and Living with Asbestos-Related Disasters in Brazil

Mazzeo, A.

Toxic production, disrupted lives and contaminated bodies. Care for unacknowledged suffering, incurable cancers, and immeasurable losses. This book bears witness to the invisible disasters provoked by the asbestos market worldwide and gives a voice to the communities of survivors who struggle daily in the name of social and environmental justice.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Environmental Studies (General)

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Published December 1992
The Dutch Hunebedden

Megalithic Tombs of the Funnel Beaker Culture

Bakker, J. A.

Hunebedden are the megalithic tombs of the Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture in the Netherlands. Jan Albert Bakker is one of the few archaeologists in Holland to have excavated a Dutch megalithic tomb, and here he not only draws on and presents the knowledge acquired through excavations, but gives also an overview of the history of Dutch megalithic tomb investigations and an abundantly illustrated compendium of data on all the known megalithic tombs in Holland.

Subject: Archaeology

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Published May 2006
The Dutch-Munsee Encounter in America

The Struggle for Sovereignty in the Hudson Valley

Otto, P.

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Colonial History Refugee and Migration Studies

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eBook available Published July 2025
The Duty of Memory

Changing Language in the Era of Memory, 1970 – 2010

Ledoux, S.

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

Hb
Published December 2011
Dynamic Belonging

Contemporary Jewish Collective Identities

Goldberg, H. E., Cohen, S. M., & Kopelowitz, E. (eds)

Subjects: Jewish Studies Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published August 2022
Dynamics of Emigration

Émigré Scholars and the Production of Historical Knowledge in the 20th Century

Berger, S. & Müller, P. (eds)

In the dictatorships of the twentieth century, historians have frequently been exiled from both fascist and communist regimes. This book discusses the experience of exile and asks why some of them were successful in establishing themselves in their new host countries while others failed.

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

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Published October 2005
The Dynamics of German Industry

Germany's Path toward the New Economy and the American Challenge

Abelshauser, W.

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

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eBook available Published October 2022
Dynamics of Identification and Conflict

Anthropological Encounters

Hoehne, M. V., Gabbert, E. C., & Eidson, J. R. (eds)

Dealing with the dynamics of identification and conflict, this book uses theoretical orientations ranging from political ecology to rational choice theory, interpretive approaches, Marxism and multiscalar analysis. Case studies set in Africa, Europe and Central Asia are grouped in three sections devoted to pastoralism, identity and migration.

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

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Published April 2013
Dynamics of Innovation

The Expansion of Technology in Modern Times

Caron, F.

Subject: History (General)

Hb
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Dynamics of Memory and Identity in Contemporary Europe

Langenbacher, E., Niven, B., & Wittlinger, R. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies

Hb
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Dynamics of Political Domination in Africa

An Axel Sommerfelt Collection

Sommerfelt, A., (au) Sommerfelt, T., Jakoubek, M., & Eriksen, T. H. (eds)

Axel Sommerfelt has been an important influence on Norwegian and Scandinavian anthropology, but his contributions are almost unknown. This book brings together some of his critical writings, newly written articles and an interview positions him in the history of ‘North Sea’ social anthropology and shows his continued relevance.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

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The Early Morning Phonecall

Somali Refugees' Remittances

Lindley, A.

As migration from poverty-stricken and conflict-affected countries continues to hit the headlines, this book focuses on an important counter-flow: the money that people send home. This book explores the dynamics, infrastructure, and far-reaching effects of remittances from the perspectives of people in the Somali regions and the diaspora. By ‘following the money’ the author opens a window on the everyday lives of people caught up in processes of conflict, migration, and development. The book demonstrates how, in the interstices of state disruption and globalisation, and in the shadow of violence and political uncertainty, life in the Somali regions goes on, subject to complex transnational forms of social, economic, and political innovation and change.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies

Hb
Published March 2004
An Earth-colored Sea

'Race', Culture and the Politics of Identity in the Post-Colonial Portuguese-Speaking World

Vale de Almeida, M.

Subjects: Colonial History Anthropology (General) Sociology

Hb
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eBook available Published April 2021
East German Film and the Holocaust

Ward, E.

By combining close analyses of five films made between 1947 and 1988 with extensive archival research, this book unravels the complex status of films dealing with Jewish persecution produced in a country that consistently privileged narratives of political persecution above racial victimhood.

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

Hb
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Published October 2010
The East German State and the Catholic Church, 1945-1989

Schaefer, B.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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Eastern Europe Unmapped

Beyond Borders and Peripheries

Kacandes, I. & Komska, Y. (eds)

Arguably more than any other world regions, the area known as Eastern Europe has been defined by its location on the map. Rather than expound on borders and neighbors, Eastern Europe Unmapped raises questions about the meaning and relevance of the area’s non-contiguous, frequently global or extraterritorial, entanglements.

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

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Published January 2001
Echoes of Narcissus

Spaas, L. (ed)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

Hb
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eBook available Published May 2021
Echoes of Surrealism

Challenging Socialist Realism in East German Literature, 1945–1990

Berendse, G.-J.

Echoes of Surrealism surveys areas of surrealist art throughout the entire lifespan of the GDR and explores analyses of the interaction and reciprocal influences of various art forms. Focusing on individual authors, visual artists, film directors and musicians who have taken a surrealist perspective in their work, this study reveals how the surrealist perspective offered an alternative to the rigid government cultural policies by questioning and confronting the status quo.

Subjects: Literary Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Published August 2011
Ecofeminism and Rhetoric

Critical Perspectives on Sex, Technology, and Discourse

Vakoch, D. A. (ed)

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

Hb
eBook available Published December 2015
Ecological Migrants

The Relocation of China's Ewenki Reindeer Herders

Xie, Y.

This ethnography details changing Ewenki ways of life brought China’s recent ecological migration policies, which aim to preserve and restore the badly damaged ecologies of western China. This ethnography examines these policies and their effects on Aoluguya Ewenki hunters, who have been relocated.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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Ecological Nostalgias

Memory, Affect and Creativity in Times of Ecological Upheavals

Angé, O. & Berliner, D. (eds)

Introducing the study of econostalgias through a variety of rich ethnographic cases, this volume argues that a strictly human centered approach does not account for contemporary longings triggered by ecosystem upheavals.

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

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Economic Citizenship

Neoliberal Paradoxes of Empowerment

Sa'ar, A.

Economic Citizenship explores shifting responsibility for the welfare of minority and poor citizens, which has shifted from states to local communities through neoliberalization. This has produced odd discursive blends of justice, solidarity, and wellbeing, and placed the languages of feminist and minority rights side by side with the language of apolitical consumerism.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
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Forthcoming December 2026
Economic Crime and Organisational Deviance

A Study of Relative Convenience

Gottschalk, P. & Hamerton, C.

Focusing on organisational deviance in contemporary business, this book examines the roles of motive, opportunity, and convenience in shaping misconduct. It explores the relationship between deviance, corporate social responsibility, and business legitimacy, showing how organisations navigate competing pressures of reputation, ethical practice, and conformity.

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
Published December 2010
The Economic Diplomacy of Ostpolitik

Origins of NATO's Energy Dilemma

Lippert, W. D.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
eBook available Published June 2009
Economic Persuasions

Gudeman, S. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
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Published June 2026
Economies of Care

Return Migration from South Africa to Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Hansen, S.

Through ethnographic research primarily in Bulawayo,Economies of Care addresses the intersection of kinship, state functions and migration in sustaining livelihoods amidst Zimbabwe's economic and political instability.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Refugee and Migration Studies
Published February 2015
Economy and Ritual

Studies of Postsocialist Transformations

Gudeman, S. & Hann, C. (eds)

Common sense suggests that rituals drain economic wealth and that rational actions are antithetical to rituals. These six ethnographies offer a different vision. Comparative, historical, and contemporary, the studies stretch from Macedonia to Kyrgyzstan, each one illuminating the changes in an area as it emerged from socialism and (re-)entered market society.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published October 2015
Economy for and Against Democracy

Hart, K. (ed)

Contemporary economies, dominated by global finance and political rent-seekers, often inhibit the realization of democracy. This volume features comparative essays and case studies to examine the antagonisms between the economy and democracy and the struggles and visions to make things more equitable.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

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Published December 2010
The Economy in Jewish History

New Perspectives on the Interrelationship between Ethnicity and Economic Life

Reuveni, G. & Wobick-Segev, S. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Jewish Studies

Hb
eBook available Published September 2018
Economy, Crime and Wrong in a Neoliberal Era

Carrier, J. G. (ed)

This volume examines the relationship between corporate and economic wrongdoing and the neoliberal policies and practices that have been influential in Western societies since around 1980, considering whether neoliberalism has affected the likelihood that people and firms will act in ways that many would consider wrong – and even fragmented our very ideas of economic right and wrong.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
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Economy's Tension

The Dialectics of Community and Market

Gudeman, S.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
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Edges of Noir

Extreme Filmmaking in the 1960s

Mirabile, M.

Edges of Noir addresses film studies’ neglect of 1960s experimental noir films that have resisted easy classification against more popularly regarded late noir films and responds to the interpretive dilemmas and anxieties of the time to which the films provided expression.

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

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eBook available Published September 2018
Edges, Fringes, Frontiers

Integral Ecology, Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainability in Guyana

Henfrey, T. B.

Based on an ethnographic account of subsistence forest use by Wapishana people in Guyana and developing an original analytical framework, Edges, Frontiers, Fringes examines the social, cultural and behavioral bases for sustainability and resilience in indigenous resource use.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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eBook available Published September 2022
Edible People

The Historical Consumption of Slaves and Foreigners and the Cannibalistic Trade in Human Flesh

Siefkes, C.

While human cannibalism has attracted considerable notice and controversy, certain aspects of the practice have received scant attention. These include the connection between cannibalism and xenophobia: the capture and consumption of unwanted strangers. Likewise ignored is the connection to slavery: the fact that in some societies slaves and persons captured in slave raids could be, and were, killed and eaten. This book explores these largely forgotten practices and ignored connections.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Colonial History

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Published May 2026
Educating Anthropologists in the Contemporary World

Rethinking Teaching, Learning, and Disciplinary Boundaries

Cañás Bottos, L., Krause-Jensen, J. & Manos, I. (eds)

Covering themes such as multimodal teaching, research-led learning, and disciplinary boundaries, the book offers new insights into the changing role of teaching within anthropology. The volume positions anthropology education as a dynamic space of educational innovation, where institutional constraints, epistemological debates, and pedagogical practice are reflected and actively reshaped.

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)
Published July 2026
Educating Otherwise

Contexts, Interventions and Radical Possibilities of Anthropological Learning

Winkler-Reid, S.

Anthropological education has both possibilities and limitations in its discourse. Across five key themes and a range of formats from short-form essays to ethnographic fiction, Educating Otherwise brings questions of learning and education, and the role that anthropology plays in these, to the fore.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies
Published February 1996
Education for the New Europe

Benner, D. & Lenzen, D. (eds)

Subject: Educational Studies

Hb
Published June 2006
The Education of Nomadic Peoples

Current Issues, Future Perspectives

Dyer, C.

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

Hb
Published December 2011
Education Policy and Equal Opportunity in Japan

Okada, A.

Subjects: Educational Studies History (General) Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published December 2025
Education, Aspiration and Social Mobility

Uncertain Futures for Rural Youth in India

Froerer, P.

Informed by over two decades of anthropological research in Chhattisgarh, this book examines how the marginalized Adivasi (tribal) youth in rural India navigate the contradictory ways in which education represents both a strategy for social mobility and a very tangible risk.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Educational Studies Mobility Studies Sociology

Hb
Published June 2003
Educational Histories of European Social Anthropology

Dracklé, D., Edgar, I. R. & Schippers, T. K. (eds)

Subjects: Educational Studies Theory and Methodology

Hb
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Published October 1997
Educational Studies in Europe

Amsterdam and Berlin Compared

Heyting, F., Koppen, J., Lenzen, D. and Thiel, F. (eds)

Subject: Educational Studies

Hb
Published July 2024
Egalitarian Dynamics

Liminality, and Victor Turner’s Contribution to the Understanding of Socio-historical Process

Kapferer, B. & Gold, M. (eds)

Liminality: the state of being ‘betwixt and between’ is anthropology’s one of most influential concepts. This volume reconsiders Victor Turner’s innovative extension of Arnold Van Gennep’s concept of liminality. Engaging with topical issues across the globe – from neuroscience to open access publishing and refugee experience in Europe, it launches Turner’s fundamental work into the future.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published September 2018
Elite Malay Polygamy

Wives, Wealth and Woes in Malaysia

Zeitzen, M. K.

An ethnography of elite polygamy in urban Malaysia, this volume explores the impact this growing practice has on Malay gender relations, examining the varied and often-conflicted polygamy narratives of elite Malay women, who manage their lives and loves under the “threat” of husbands able to marry another woman without their knowledge or consent.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
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eBook available Published July 2025
Elsdon Best

Holman, J. P. & Delgado Rosa, F.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

Hb
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eBook available Published July 2013
Elusive Promises

Planning in the Contemporary World

Abram, S. & Weszkalnys, G. (eds)

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published November 2018
Embers of Empire

Continuity and Rupture in the Habsburg Successor States after 1918

Miller, P. & Morelon, C. (eds)

The end of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy radically reshaped the political structures and national identity of East-Central Europe. Embers of Empire focuses on this complex and disruptive transition and sheds new light on the efficacity of imperial institutions, as well as the sources for instability in the newly formed nations.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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Published November 2008
Embodied Communities

Dance Traditions and Change in Java

Hughes-Freeland, F.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
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Published July 2008
Embodiments of Power

Building Baroque Cities in Europe

Cohen, G. B. & Szabo, F. A. J. (eds)

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern History: 18th/19th Century Urban Studies

Hb
eBook available Published January 2021
Embodying Borders

A Migrant’s Right to Health, Universal Rights and Local Policies

Ferrero, L., Quagliariello, C., & Vargas, A. C. (eds)

Based on extensive field research, the essays in this volume illuminate the experiences of migrants from their own point of view, providing a critical understanding of the complex social reality in which each experience is grounded.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Medical Anthropology

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eBook available Published February 2024
Embodying Exchange

Materiality, Morality and Global Commodity Chains in Andean Commerce

Müller, J.

Embodying Exchange addresses the infrastructural, legal and moral complexities in contemporary world trade through an ethnographic analysis of the interface of multinational brand manufacturers and popular traders in the Bolivian Andes.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies

Hb
eBook available Published November 2025
Embracing Change in Coastal Sri Lanka

Local Strategies in a Global Context

Stirrat, R. L.

Prioritising processes not structures based on the general premise that change rather than stasis is what characterises society, this book focuses on social change in a coastal village in Sri Lanka where change was the result of people reacting to processes at work in the wider economic and political context and were in no way passive victims to forces out of their control.

Subjects: Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
eBook available Published June 2021
Embracing Landscape

Living with Reindeer and Hunting among Spirits in South Siberia

Küçüküstel, S.

Examining human-animal relations among the reindeer hunting and herding Dukha community in northern Mongolia, this book focuses on concepts such as domestication and wildness from an indigenous perspective. By looking into hunting rituals and herding techniques, the ethnography questions the dynamics between people, domesticated reindeer, and wild animals.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Hb
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Published September 2014
The Emergence of Film Culture

Knowledge Production, Institution Building, and the Fate of the Avant-Garde in Europe, 1919–1945

Hagener, M. (ed)

Between the two world wars, a distinct and vibrant film culture emerged in Europe. Film festivals and schools were established; film theory and history was written that took cinema seriously as an art form; and critical writing that created the film canon flourished. This new European film culture established film as a valid form of social expression, as an art form, and as a political force to be reckoned with.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

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Published March 1996
Emergent Complexity

The Evolution of Intermediate Societies

Arnold, J. E.

Serious interest in the evolution and dynamics of intermediate societies has grown by leaps and bounds during the past decade. The purpose of this volume is to suggest new ways to model the many stimuli and processes by which cultural complexity emerges, emphasizing major organizational changes, not the appearance and disappearance of specific traits.

Subject: Archaeology

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Emerging Technologies and Museums

Mediating Difficult Heritage

Stylianou-Lambert, T., Bounia, A., & Heraclidou, A. (eds)

Emerging technologies in museums have the potential to reveal unheard or silenced stories, challenge preconceptions, encourage emotional responses, introduce the unexpected, and overall provide alternative experiences. By examining varied theoretical approaches and case studies, authors demonstrate how “awkward”, contested, and rarely discussed subjects and stories are treated – or can be potentially treated - in a museum setting with the use of the latest technology.

Subjects: Museum Studies Heritage Studies

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Published March 2002
Emerging Themes and Institutional Responses

Caciagli, M. & Zuckerman, A.S. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published April 2010
Emotions in American History

An International Assessment

Gienow-Hecht, J. C. E. (ed)

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Emotions, Ethics, and Cinematic Experience

New Phenomenological and Cognitivist Perspectives

Sinnerbrink, R. (ed)

Since the early 1990s, phenomenology and cognitivism have become two of the most influential approaches to film theory. Emotions, Ethics, and Cinematic Experience explores how these two approaches might work together to create a philosophy of film that is both descriptively rich and theoretically productive.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Sociology

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Published March 2008
Empathy and Healing

Essays in Medical and Narrative Anthropology

Skultans, V.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

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Empathy and History

Historical Understanding in Re-enactment, Hermeneutics and Education

Retz, T.

The History and Function of Empathy in Historical Studies is the first comprehensive account of empathy’s place in historical scholarship, history pedagogy, and the philosophy of history. It explains how empathy became central to teaching history in schools, and traces its roots in nineteenth-century German historicism.

Subjects: History (General) Educational Studies

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The Emperor's Old Clothes

Constitutional History and the Symbolic Language of the Holy Roman Empire

Stollberg-Rilinger, B.

For many years, scholars struggled to write the history of the constitution and political structure of the Holy Roman Empire. This book argues that this was because the political and social order could not be understood without considering the rituals and symbols that held the Empire together.

Subject: History: Medieval/Early Modern

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Empire and After

Englishness in Postcolonial Perspective

MacPhee, G. & Poddar, P. (eds)

Subjects: Colonial History Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies

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Empire and Eduards Volters

The Ethnography of Lithuanians and Latvians, 1882-1941

Savoniakaitė, V.

Eduards Volters was a linguist, ethnographer, and archeologist with the Russian Imperial Geographical Society, and considered one of the founders of literate Lithuanian and Latvian communities. This study compares various historical and theoretical contexts in anthropology and decolonization to reveal how Volters reconciled his ethnographic work within the political goals of the empire.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Empire of Pictures

Global Media and the 1960s Remaking of American Foreign Policy

Kunkel, S.

The 1960s were a period of global media revolution: communication satellites compressed time and space, television spread around the world, and images circulated through print media in expanding ways. This book examines how U.S. policymakers exploited these changes.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present

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Empire, Colony, Genocide

Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History

Moses, A. D. (ed)

Subjects: Genocide History Colonial History

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Empire, Global Coloniality and African Subjectivity

Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S. J.

The author’s sharply critical perspective reveals how an epistemology of alterity has kept Africa ensnared within colonial matrices of power, serving to justify external interventions in African affairs, including the interference with liberation struggles and disregard for African positions. Evaluating the quality of African responses and available options, the author opens up a new horizon that includes cognitive justice and new humanism.

Subject: Colonial History

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Emplaced Belief

Heritage and Religion Reconsidered

Johnston, J., Gibson, M., Hampson, J. & Whyte, N. (Eds.)

An innovative interdisciplinary volume that explores the conceptual and lived relations between the academic fields of religion and heritage. A wholistic approach is taken to considering emplacement — a broad interrelation of objects, peoples, histories and places — in the analysis of relations between religion and heritage.

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

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Emptiness and Fullness

Ethnographies of Lack and Desire in Contemporary China

Bregnbæk, S. & Bunkenborg, M. (eds)

As critical voices question the quality, authenticity, and value of people, goods, and words in post-Mao China, accusations of emptiness render things open to new investments of meaning, substance, and value. Exploring the production of lack and desire through fine-grained ethnography, this volume examines how diagnoses of emptiness operate in a range of very different domains in contemporary China.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Empty Signs, Historical Imaginaries

The Entangled Nationalization of Names and Naming in a Late Habsburg Borderland

Berecz, Á.

Set in a multiethnic region of the nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire, this thoroughly interdisciplinary study maps out how the competing Romanian, Hungarian and German nationalizing projects reinterpreted various types of proper names as symbols of their national histories, how the related mass constituencies resonated with the new meanings and how names were utilized, manipulated and changed in the process.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

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Enacted Relations

Performing Knowledge in an Australian Indigenous Community

Tamisari, F.

Enacted Relations explores the Yolngu relational ontology and epistemology in the context of everyday practices, ritual ceremonies, bicultural education, vernacular Christianity and the production of popular music.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Enchanted by Cinema

Wilhelm Thiele between Vienna, Berlin, and Hollywood

Horak, J.-C. & Seyfert, A.-B. (eds)

Enchanted by Cinema explores the films of the European music film pioneer William Thiele, as well as his career as an exile in Hollywood. Examining a wide range of the director’s filmography, the contributors address a variety of political, aesthetic and cross-cultural issues.

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

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An Enchantment of Digital Archaeology

Raising the Dead with Agent-Based Models, Archaeogaming and Artificial Intelligence

Graham, S.

The use of computation in archaeology is a kind of magic, a way of heightening the archaeological imagination. Agent-based modelling allows archaeologists to test the ‘just-so’ stories they tell about the past. These models are one end of a spectrum that ends with video games. This volume explores this spectrum in the context of Roman archaeology, addressing the strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities of a formalized approach to computation and archaeogaming.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published July 2009
Encounter, Transformation, and Identity

Peoples of the Western Cameroon Borderlands, 1891-2000

Fowler, I. & Fanso, V. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History

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Published March 2025
Encountering the Global in Early Modern Germany

Microhistories of Mobility, Materiality, and Belonging

Brauner, C., Dürr, R., Hahn, P., Overkamp, A. S., & Siemianowski, S. (eds)

An exacting re-examination of early modern Germany’s entanglement with European colonial projects, Encountering the Global in Early Modern Germany provides a much-needed global perspective on the colonial “cult of connections” that underpinned early modern Germany’s social, religious, and material culture.

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Colonial History Refugee and Migration Studies
Published September 2011
Encounters of Body and Soul in Contemporary Religious Practices

Anthropological Reflections

Fedele, A. & Blanes, R. L. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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Encounters with Emotions

Negotiating Cultural Differences since Early Modernity

Gammerl, B., Nielsen, P., & Pernau, M. (eds)

Spanning Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Encounters with Emotions investigates experiences of face-to-face transcultural encounters from the seventeenth century to the present. The case-studies presented in this volume explore the cultural aspects of nature and the bodily dimensions of nurture in order to trace the historical trajectories that shape our understandings of current cultural boundaries and effects of globalization.

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

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Published June 2014
Encounters with Modernity

The Catholic Church in West Germany, 1945-1975

Ziemann, B.

“This is a fascinating study of the interrelatedness of processes of secularization and the increased adoption of social science methods and theories by the Catholic Church (…). Ziemann has written a case study of an important institution, the Catholic Church, and its attempts to modernize its institution and outlook within a rapidly modernizing society in the postwar Federal Republic. It will be read with great interest by anyone interested in such processes of modernization.” · German History

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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End Game

The 1989 Revolution in East Germany

Kowalczuk, I.-S.

Focusing on major shifts in East Germany leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall, End Game accounts for everyday life from the autumn of 1989 to the first free elections in March of 1990. With an understanding of the events of 1989 as a citizens’ movement as a whole, the volume contextualizes the societal reactions to a nation’s large scale political changes.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published January 2007
The End of the Berlusconi Era?

Amyot, G., & Verzichelli, L. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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The End of the Refugee Cycle?

Refugee Repatriation and Reconstruction

Black, R. & Koser, K. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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Enduring Socialism

Explorations of Revolution and Transformation, Restoration and Continuation

West, H. G. & Raman, P. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published March 2016
Enduring Uncertainty

Deportation, Punishment and Everyday Life

Hasselberg, I.

Focusing on the lived experience of immigration policy and processes, this volume presents a fascinating ethnography of deportation as it is felt and understood by those subjected to it. This book is important for broader understandings of epistemology, border control policy, and human rights.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published January 1998
Enemy Images in American History

Fiebig-von Hase, R. & Lehmkuhl, U. (eds)

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

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Published June 2015
The Enemy on Display

The Second World War in Eastern European Museums

Bogumił, Z., Wawrzyniak, J., Buchen, T., Ganzer, C. & Senina, M.

Eastern European museums represent the traumatic events of World War II, such as the Siege of Leningrad, the Warsaw Uprisings, and the bombardment of Dresden, in ways that cast the enemy in a specific light. This image results from the interweaving of historical representations, cultural stereotypes and beliefs, political discourses, and the dynamics of exhibition narratives. This book presents a useful methodology for examining museum images and provides a critical analysis of the role historical museums play in the contemporary world. As the catastrophes of World War II still exert an enormous influence over the national identities of Russians, Poles, and Germans, museum exhibits can play an important role in this process.

Subjects: Museum Studies History: World War II Memory Studies

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The Engaged Historian

Perspectives on the Intersections of Politics, Activism and the Historical Profession

Berger, S. (ed)

Political action and historical research have been deeply intertwined for nearly as long as the historical profession has existed. In this insightful collection, practicing historians analyze, reflect on, and share their experiences of this complex relationship.

Subjects: History (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology

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Published March 2022
Engaging Environments in Tonga

Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Relations in a Changing World

Perminow, A. A.

On March 11, 2011, a tsunami warning was issued for Tonga in Polynesia. On the low and small island of Kotu, people were unperturbed in the face of pending catastrophe. The book is an ethnography of the relationship between people and their environment based on fieldwork over three decades.

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

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Engaging Evil

A Moral Anthropology

Olsen, W. C. & Csordas, T. J. (eds)

Exploring the anthropology of evil as an empirical human phenomenon, this volume attempts to show the usefulness of treating evil as a descriptive reality where concepts such as violence, criminality, and hatred fall short of capturing the darkest side of human existence.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology Anthropology of Religion

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Engaging the Spirit World

Popular Beliefs and Practices in Modern Southeast Asia

Endres, K. W. & Lauser, A. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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Engaging with Chaucer

Practice, Authority, Reading

Moseley, C.W.R.D. (ed)

This collected volume represents an homage to a toweringly great poet, as well as an acknowledgement of the intellectual excitement, challenges, and pleasure that readers owe to him as even today, his poems have the capacity to change the way we engage with fundamental questions of knowledge, understanding, and beauty.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General)

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Engaging with Strangers

Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands

McDougall, D.

Writing of Ranongga Island, the author tracks engagements with foreigners across many realms of life, describing startling reversals in which strangers become attached to local places, even as kinspeople are estranged. Against stereotypes of rural insularity, she argues that a distinctive cosmopolitan openness to others is evident in the rural Solomons in times of war and peace.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies

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Published December 1998
Engendering Forced Migration

Theory and Practice

Indra, D. (ed)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Development Studies Theory and Methodology

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Published November 2014
Enhancing Democracy

Public Policies and Citizen Participation in Chile

Delamaza, G.

Since the end of the Pinochet regime, Chilean public policy has sought to rebuild democratic governance in the country. This book examines the links between the state and civil society in Chile and the ways social policies have sought to ensure the inclusion of the poor in society and democracy.

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Enlightening Encounters

The Journeys of an Anthropologist

Gudeman, S.

Drawing on his research in five Latin American countries, Steve Gudeman describes his anthropological fieldwork, bringing to life the excitement of gaining an understanding of the practices and ideas of others as well as the frustrations. He weaves into the text some of his findings as well as reflections on his own background that led to better fieldwork but also led him astray.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published September 2019
Entangled Entertainers

Jews and Popular Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna

Hödl, K.

Viennese popular culture at the turn of the twentieth century was shaped jointly by Jews and non-Jews alike, though their relationship was not immune to bouts of anti-Semitism. The case studies in this book provide new findings in understanding what it meant to be Jewish among artists, performers and impresarios at the turn of the twentieth century.

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

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Entangled Reactionaries

Nationalists, Conservatives, and Fascists in the Iberoamerican Atlantic (1900-1960)

Seixas, X. & Sanz Rozalén, V. (Eds.)

Between 1898 and 1939, Spain saw the emergence of political and social identities shaped by the concepts of Hispanidad, catholicism, race, tradition and the Spanish language. This collection explores how such identities were reshaped during Spain’s major political shifts and how they intersected with Latin American discourses.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Entanglements of the Maya Universe

Life, Society, and Cosmos among the K'iche' of Momostenango

Zamora Corona, A.

This book aims to rethink the topic of cosmology in anthropology by analysing the many entanglements of cosmological ideas and the personal and political lives of individuals within the K’ich’e Maya community of Momostenango, Guatemala.

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

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Entertaining German Culture

Contemporary Transnational Television and Film

Ehrig, S., Schaper, B. & Ward, E. (eds)

In an increasingly transnational production of film and television, Entertaining German Culture explores and contextually thematizes a radical shift in the past fifteen years towards a profound appreciation of German cultural and intellectual history in the international mainstream.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History (General)

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Published January 2022
Entrepreneurs of Identity

The Islamic State’s Symbolic Repertoire

Günther, C.

Understanding the Islamic State’s ideologues as ‘entrepreneurs of identity’, this book explores how the group defined categories of social identity and used these categories as tools of communicative and cognitive structuring.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies
Published April 2022
Environing Empire

Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa

Kalb, M.

Between the infamous Benguela Current and the Namib Desert, nature significantly effected the progression of German imperialism and the creation of German Southwest Africa. Environing Empire reveals the environmental infrastructures that defined not only the culture of German colonial entanglements, but the fantasy that drove Lebensraum during the Second Reich.

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

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Environment and Citizenship in Latin America

Natures, Subjects and Struggles

Latta, A. & Wittman, H. (eds)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

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The Environment and Sustainable Development in the New Central Europe

Bochniarz, Z. & Cohen G. (eds)

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

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Published November 2003
The Environment in Jewish Law

Essays and Responsa

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

Subjects: Jewish Studies Environmental Studies (General)

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Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia

Bioregionalism, Permaculture, and Ecovillages

Lockyer, J. & Veteto, J. R. (eds)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

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Environmental Organizations in Modern Germany

Hardy Survivors in the Twentieth Century and Beyond

Markham, W. T.

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

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Envisioning Eden

Mobilizing Imaginaries in Tourism and Beyond

Salazar, N.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

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Published October 2011
Ernst L. Freud, Architect

The Case of the Modern Bourgeois Home

Welter, V. M.

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

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Escape From Hell

The True Story of the Auschwitz Protocol

Wetzler, A.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War II Literary Studies

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Escapees

The History of Jews Who Fled Nazi Deportation Trains in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands

von Fransecky, T.

Hundreds of Jewish men, women and children escaped from deportation trains bound for extermination camps by making a dangerous leap from the moving train. Drawing from extensive interviews and new sources, Tanja Fransecky sheds light on a hitherto neglected chapter of Jewish resistance to the National Socialist extermination policy.

Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies Mobility Studies

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Published November 1999
Essay on Time

A Brief Study of the Representation of Time in Religion and Magic

Hubert, H.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

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Estates and Constitution

The Parliament in Eighteenth-Century Hungary

Szijártó, I. M.

Estates and Constitution provides a rich account of Hungarian politics during the eighteenth century, restoring the Diet to its rightful place as one of the era’s major innovations in government. István M. Szijártó traces the religious, economic, and partisan forces that shaped the Diet, putting its historical significance in international perspective and demonstrating that it played a critical role in the eventual dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

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Ethical Consumption

Social Value and Economic Practice

Carrier, J. G. & Luetchford, P. G. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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Ethical Practice in Participatory Visual Research with Girls

Transnational Approaches

Moletsane, R., Wiebesiek, L.,Treffry-Goatley, A. & Mandrona, A. (eds)

Girls and young women from rural and indigenous communities around the world face some of the most adverse social issues in the world despite the existence of protective laws and treaties. This collected volume explores the potential of participatory visual method (PVM) for girls and young women in these communities.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

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Published May 2003
Ethics and Genetics

A Workbook for Practitioners and Students

Wert, G. de, Meulen, R. ter, Mordacci, R. & Tallacchini, M.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

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Ethics in the Field

Contemporary Challenges

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

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Applied Anthropology

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The Ethics of Knowledge Creation

Transactions, Relations, and Persons

Josephides, L. & Grønseth, A. S. (eds)

This volume focuses on how knowledge is relationally created, how local knowledge can be transmuted into ‘universal knowledge’, and how transactions and consumption of knowledge monitors knowledge. The Ethics of Knowledge Creation examines how these transactions are then situated according to broader contradictions or synergies between ethical, epistemological, and political concerns.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Theory and Methodology

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Published May 2003
The Ethics of New Reproductive Technologies

Cases and Questions

Dooley, D., Dalla-Vorgia, P., Garanis-Papdatos, T., & McCarthy, J.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

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The Ethics of Seeing

Photography and Twentieth-Century German History

Evans, J., Betts P., & Hoffmann, S.-L. (eds)

The Ethics of Seeing brings together an international group of scholars to explore the complex relationship between the visual and the historic in German history. These revealing case studies illustrate photography’s multilayered role as a new form of representation, a means to subjective experience, and a fresh mode of narrating the past.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present

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The Ethics of the New Eugenics

MacKellar, C. & Bechtel, C. (eds)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

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Published January 2001
Ethnic Conflict and Indoctrination

Altruism and Identity in Evolutionary Perspectives

Eibl-Eibesfeldt, I. & Salter, F. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published October 2013
Ethno-Baroque

Materiality, Aesthetics and Conflict in Modern-Day Macedonia

Dimova, R.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

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Published January 2001
Ethnoarchaeology of Andean South America

Contributions to Archaeological Method and Theory

Kuznar, L. A. (ed)

The papers in this volume present detailed studies of highland and lowland pastoralists and horticulturalists in Andean South America, including taphonomy and sacred landscapes. This volume will be of use to anyone who studies human adaptations to highland or arid environments, and to those interested in pastoral societies, as well as Andean South America.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)

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Ethnobotany in the New Europe

People, Health and Wild Plant Resources

Pardo-de-Santayana, M., Pieroni, A. & Puri, R. (eds)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology

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Ethnographers Before Malinowski

Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922

Rosa, F. & Vermeulen, H. F. (eds)

At a time when anthropologists claim new ethnographic experiences, a second chance should be given to older ethnographic texts. Recovering monographs produced c.1870-1922 that dispute canonic models of writing culture, the present volume challenges the assumption that fieldwork carried out within a single context by a single individual, with its corresponding output, the monograph, was a twentieth-century invention.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Colonial History

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An Ethnographic Chiefdom

Epistemic Arrest and Knowledge Production in Czechoslovak Ethnography (1969–1989)

Balaš, N.

The Czechoslovak academic discipline called ‘Ethnography and Folklore Studies’ was impacted and influenced by the daily realities of state socialism in 1969–1989. This book examines how state socialist features such as Marxist–Leninist ideology brought about the discipline’s epistemic stalling.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

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The Ethnographic Experiment

A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908

Hviding, E. & Berg, C. (eds)

In 1908 Arthur Maurice Hocart and William Halse Rivers Rivers brought about a turning point in modern anthropology. The two pioneers’ fieldwork in Island Melanesia brought about the development of participant observation as a methodological hallmark of social anthropology. Contributors to this volume—who have all carried out fieldwork in Melanesian locations—situate the scholars’ efforts in the contexts of colonial history, imperialism, the history of ideas and scholarly practice within and beyond anthropology.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History

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Ethnographic Practice in the Present

Melhuus, M., Mitchell, J., & Wulff, H. (Eds.)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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The Ethnographic Self as Resource

Writing Memory and Experience into Ethnography

Collins, P. & Gallinat, A. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Ethnographies of Conservation

Environmentalism and the Distribution of Privilege

Anderson, D. & Berglund, E. (eds)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

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Ethnographies of Deservingness

Unpacking Ideologies of Distribution and Inequality

Tošić, J. & Streinzer, A. (eds)

Claims around 'who deserves what and why' moralise inequality in the current global context of unprecedented wealth and its ever more selective distribution. Ethnographies of Deservingness explores this seeming paradox and the role of moralized assessments of distribution by reconnecting disparate discussions in the anthropology of migration, economic anthropology and political anthropology.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

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Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space

Place-Making in the New Northern Ireland

Komarova, M. & Svašek, M. (eds)

Exploring the complex dynamics of twenty-first century spatial sociality, physical movement and placemaking in Northern Ireland, this volume provides a much-needed multi-dimensional perspective that undermines the dominant image of the region as a conflict-ridden place. The contributions here draw on and further develop theories of space, place, movement, identity and sociality.

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

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Published April 2021
Ethnographies of Power

A Political Anthropology of Energy

Loloum, T., Abram, S., & Ortar, N. (eds)

Energetic infrastructures are crucial to political organization. They shape the contours of states and international bodies, as well as corporations and communities, framing their material existence and their fears and idealisations of the future. Ethnographies of Power brings together ethnographic studies of contemporary entanglements of energy and political power.

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

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Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter

Reflections on Research in and of Corporations

Cefkin, M. (ed)

Subject: Applied Anthropology

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Ethnography in the Raw

Life in a Luzon Village

Moeran, B.

Ethnography in the Raw describes the author’s encounters with a Philippine family into which he has married, his wife’s friends and acquaintances, and their lives in a remote rural village in the rice basin of Luzon, about 130 miles north east of Manila. It is both anthropological fieldwork ‘in the raw,’ and an incisive analysis of contemporary Philippine society and culture.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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The Ethos of History

Time and Responsibility

Helgesson, S. & Svenungsson, J. (eds)

This illuminating collective meditation on historical practice show how “ethos”— evoking a society’s “fundamental character” as well as knowledge and commitment—can serve as a conceptual lodestar for understanding as a narrative, a form of consciousness, and an ethical-political orientation.

Subject: History (General)

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Published December 1994
Europe After Maastricht

American and European Perspectives

Lützeler, P. M. (ed)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published April 2009
Europe At the Seaside

The Economic History of Mass Tourism in the Mediterranean

Segreto, L., Manera, C. & Pohl, M. (eds)

Subject: History (General)

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Europe Facing East in the Age of Ottoman Power

War, Diplomacy, and the Composite State

Tracy, J.

Bringing together his wealth of research on the Habsburg-Ottoman conflict over the kingdom of Hungary, historian James Tracy provides a comprehensive and exacting examination of the implications this battle had for notions of sovereignty, statehood, and civilization.

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Peace and Conflict Studies

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Published January 2001
Europe in 1848

Revolution and Reform

Dowe, D., Haupt, H.-G., Langewiesche, D. & Sperber, J. (eds)

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

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Europe in Crisis

Intellectuals and the European Idea, 1917-1957

Hewitson, M. & D'Auria, M. (eds)

Subject: History (General)

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Published August 2001
Europe in Exile

European Exile Communities in Britain 1940-45

Conway, M. & Gotovitch, J. (eds)

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

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Europe’s Disappearing Waste

Unanticipated Conflicts between Removal and Greening

Sosna, D.

Through ethnographic research conducted among landfill workers and waste pickers, Europe’s Disappearing Waste explores the inner workings of the Czech waste management system that is underpinned by the belief that waste should disappear.

Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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European Anthropologies

Barrera-González, A., Heintz, M. & Horolets, A. (eds)

By assessing the diversity of European intellectual histories within sociocultural anthropology, this volume aims to sketch its intellectual and institutional portrait. It will be a useful reading for the students of anthropology, ethnology, history and philosophy of science, research and science policy makers.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Colonial History

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Published August 2004
European Business, Dictatorship, and Political Risk, 1920-1945

Kobrak, C. & Hansen, P. (eds)

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

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European Foundations of the Welfare State

Kaufmann, F.-X.

Subjects: History (General) Sociology

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European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology

Edwards, J. & Salazar, C. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology

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Published March 1999
European Memories of the Second World War

Peitsch, H., Burdett, C. & Gorrara, C. (eds)

Subjects: History: World War II Memory Studies

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A European Memory?

Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance

Pakier, M. & Stråth, B. (eds)

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

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European Perspectives on Transition

A Comparative and Transnational Approach to the History of a Political and Social Concept

Sánchez León, P. & Cosovschi, A. (eds)

Offering a pioneering conceptual history of transition from a comparative perspective, this volume brings together eight case studies, ranging from the Third Wave of Southern Europe to the regime changes of Central and Eastern Europe, in order to rethink how we approach questions of temporality and transitional discourse.

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

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Published September 2015
European Products

Making and Unmaking Heritage in Cyprus

Welz, G.

Since the Republic of Cyprus joined the European Union in 2004, heritage-making and Europeanization are becoming intertwined in Greek-Cypriot society. The author argues that heritage emerges as an increasingly standardized economic resource — a “European product” — and that heritage policy has become infused with transnational market regulations and neoliberal property regimes.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Museum Studies Heritage Studies

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Published August 2007
The European Puzzle

The Political Structuring of Cultural Identities at a Time of Transition

Demossier, M. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published July 2017
European Regions and Boundaries

A Conceptual History

Mishkova, D. & Trencsényi, B. (eds)

References to regional differences remain central to cultural and political discourse all over the European continent. This collection presents a synoptic view of these regional concepts together with the historical and disciplinary contexts where they had emerged by bringing together prominent European and US scholars from multiple disciplines to explore how regionalization has been conceptualized throughout European history.

Subjects: History (General) Mobility Studies

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Published May 2004
The European Way

European Societies in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Kaelble, H. (ed)

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

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Published December 2018
Europeanization in Sweden

Opportunities and Challenges for Civil Society Organizations

Meeuwisse, A. & Scaramuzzino, R. (eds)

This volume brings together new empirical research into how the process of European integration has played out in Sweden. Europeanization in Sweden not only offers insights into how Europeanization is enacted on the ground, but also addresses the question of whether and how the “Swedish model” can guide European integration.

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published April 2014
Europeanizing Contention

The Protest Against 'Fortress Europe' in France and Germany

Monforte, P.

“This book addresses a timely and under-researched topic…The empirical parts of the book present a large body of new information on social movement organizations in the two countries in a detailed and convincing manner.” • Barbara Laubenthal, University of Konstanz

What are the consequences of European integration on social movements? Who are the “winners” and the “losers” of Europe’s organized civil society? This book explores the Europeanization of contention through an in-depth, comparative analysis of French and German pro-asylum movements since the end of the 1990s.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

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Published June 2002
Europe's New Racism

Causes, Manifestations, and Solutions

Evens Foundation

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology Urban Studies

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The Event of Charlie Hebdo

Imaginaries of Freedom and Control

Zagato, A. (ed)

The January 2015 shooting at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris sparked an enormous discussion among citizens and intellectuals worldwide. By analyzing the effects the attacks have had in various spheres of social life including the political, ideology, collective imaginaries, the media, and education, this collection aims to serve as a contribution and a critical response to that discussion.

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

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Everyday Invisibility

The Lives of African Women in Greece

Zaphiriou-Zarifi, Viki

In the wake of Greece’s 2008 economic collapse, African women in Athens navigated intensified discrimination shaped by the intersecting forces of gender, race and migration status. This book argues that gendered racialization renders these women not only invisible but also hyper-visible in stereotypical ways that heighten their exposure to discrimination and precarity.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Published May 2025
The Everyday Politics of Food Co-ops

Care, Aid and Community in Austerity Britain

Plender, C.

This book analyses how changing national politics impacted the practices of care, aid and community organizing within two London-based food co-ops at a time of rapid welfare withdrawal. It highlights the tensions between more radical and neoliberal imaginaries that played out within them.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
eBook available Published May 2017
Evidence and Meaning

A Theory of Historical Studies

Rüsen, J.

One of the premier historiographers alive today, Jörn Rüsen has made enormous contributions to the methods and theoretical framework of history. In Evidence and Meaning, Rüsen surveys the seismic changes that have shaped the historical profession over the last half-century, while offering a clear, economical account of his theory of history.

Subject: History (General)

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Published September 2011
Evidence, Ethos and Experiment

The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa

Geissler, P. W. & Molyneux, C. (eds)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Development Studies

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Published November 2003
Evidence, History and the Great War

Historians and the Impact of 1914-18

Braybon, G. (ed)

Subject: History: World War I

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Evil Eye in Christian Orthodox Society

A Journey from Envy to Personhood

Souvlakis, N.

Evil eye is a phenomenon observed globally and has to do with the misfortune and calamities that we can cause to someone else out of jealousy of their possessions. The book engages with evil eye beliefs in Corfu and investigates the Christian Orthodox influences on the phenomenon and how it affects individuals’ reactions to it.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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Evil Spirits and Rocket Debris

In Search of Lost Souls in Siberia

Broz, L.

The Altai Republic in southern Siberia is renowned for excavations of frozen mummies. It also hosts fallout zones for the second stages of rockets launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome. Local inhabitants blame ‘evil spirits’ released by archaeological work and toxic fuel from rocket debris for their misfortunes. This book explores the divergent fates of such claims.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Sociology

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Exceptional Experiences

Engaging with Jolting Events in Art and Fieldwork

Rethmann, P. & Wulff, H. (eds)

Looking at encounters that can puncture or jolt us, this volume uses art as a lens through which to register and understand exceptional experiences. The volume also includes the fieldworker’s experience of unexpected events that can lead to key understandings, as well as revelatory moments that happen during artistic creation and while looking at art.

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

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Exchange and Markets in Early Economic Development

Informal Economy in the Three New Guineas

Conroy, J. D.

The idea of an informal economy emerged from, and is a critique of, the ideology of ‘economic development’. It originated from Keith Hart’s recognition of informal economic activity in 1960s Ghana. In the context of four colonialisms – German, British, Australian and Dutch – this book recounts Hart’s effort in 1972 to introduce the informal ‘sector’ into development planning in Papua New Guinea.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies Colonial History

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Exchanging Objects

Nineteenth-Century Museum Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution

Nichols, C. A.

As an historical account of the exchange of “duplicate specimens” between anthropologists at the Smithsonian Institution and museums, collectors, and schools around the world in the late nineteenth century, this book reveals connections between both well-known museums and little-known local institutions, created through the exchange of museum objects. It explores how anthropologists categorized some objects in their collections as “duplicate specimens,” making them potential candidates for exchange.

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

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Exhibiting Europe in Museums

Transnational Networks, Collections, Narratives, and Representations

Kaiser, W., Krankenhagen, S. & Poehls, K.

Museums of history and contemporary culture face many challenges in the modern age, particularly in Europe where processes of Europeanization and globalization require more cross-border cooperation and different ways of telling stories for visitors. Based on research in nearly 100 museums across the Continent and interviews with cultural policy makers and museum curators, it studies the growing transnational activities of state institutions, societal organizations, and people in the museum field such as attempts to Europeanize collection policy and collections as well as different strategies for making narratives more transnational like telling stories of European integration as shared history and discussing both inward and outward migration as a common experience and challenge.

Subjects: Museum Studies Memory Studies

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Published July 2003
Exiles From European Revolutions

Refugees in Mid-Victorian England

Freitag, S. & Muhs, R. (eds)

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

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Published June 2005
Existential Anthropology

Events, Exigencies, and Effects

Jackson, M.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published October 2011
Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema

A Sartrean Perspective

Boulé, J.-P. & MacCaffrey, E. (eds)

Subject: Film and Television Studies

Hb
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Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema

A Beauvoirian Perspective

Boulé, J.-P. & Tidd, U. (eds)

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Published February 2001
Expanding Suburbia

Reviewing Suburban Narratives

Webster, R. (ed)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Urban Studies

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Expeditionary Anthropology

Teamwork, Travel and the ''Science of Man''

Thomas, M. & Harris, A. (eds)

Expeditions played a major role in the development of anthropology, but their significance has been eclipsed by the discipline’s valorization of the lone observer. This rich assessment of cross-cultural research and team-based travel is part of a new historical turn that regards expeditions as cultural formations, and provides new and compelling perspectives on the histories of anthropology and empire.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Travel and Tourism

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Experience and Memory

The Second World War in Europe

Echternkamp, J. & Martens, S. (eds)

Subjects: History: World War II Memory Studies

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eBook available Published May 2018
The Experience of Neoliberal Education

Urciuoli, B. (ed)

The college experience is increasingly positioned to demonstrate its value as a worthwhile return on investment. Specific, definable activities, such as research experience, first-year experience, and experiential learning, are marketed as delivering precise skill sets in the form of an individual educational package.

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published October 2019
Experiencing Archaeology

A Laboratory Manual of Classroom Activities, Demonstrations, and Minilabs for Introductory Archaeology

Homsey-Messer, L., Michaud, T., Lockard Reed, A., & Bobo, V.

This laboratory-style manual compiles a wide variety of uniquely designed, hands-on classroom activities to acquaint advanced high school and introductory college students to the field of archaeology. Ranging in length from five to thirty minutes, activities created by archaeologists are designed to break up traditional classroom lecture, engage students of all learning styles, and easily integrate into large classes and/or short class periods that do not easily accommodate traditional laboratory work.

Subject: Archaeology

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eBook available October 2019
Experiencing Archaeology

A Laboratory Manual of Classroom Activities, Demonstrations, and Minilabs for Introductory Archaeology, Instructor's Edition

Homsey-Messer, L., Michaud, T., Lockard Reed, A., & Bobo, V.

This laboratory-style manual compiles a wide variety of uniquely designed, hands-on classroom activities to acquaint advanced high school and introductory college students to the field of archaeology. This Instructor's Edition provides detailed explanations for activities ranging in length from five to thirty minutes that are designed to break up traditional classroom lecture, and easily integrate into large classes and/or short class periods that do not easily accommodate traditional laboratory work.

Subject: Archaeology
eBook available Published February 2021
Experiencing Materiality

Museum Perspectives

Gamberi, V.

Representing a cutting-edge study on the junction between theoretical anthropology, material culture studies, religious studies and museum anthropology, this study highlights the contradictions of museum practices and, at the same time, the potentialities that contemporary museums could offer for an engaging relationship between visitors and museum artefacts and for rethinking or, better, ‘softening’ specific approaches in material culture studies.

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

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Published November 2007
Experiencing New Worlds

Wassmann, J. & Stockhaus, K. (eds)

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published September 2003
Experiencing Wages

Social and Cultural Aspects of Wage Forms in Europe since 1500

Scholliers, P., & Schwarz, L. (eds)

Subject: History (General)

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Experimental Collaborations

Ethnography through Fieldwork Devices

Estalella, A. & Sánchez Criado, T. (eds)

Grounded in a series of diverse ethnographic projects in Africa, America and Europe, Experimental Collaborations attempts to expand our ethnographic repertoire of fieldwork devices. The titular concept signals a descriptive account of certain forms of ethnographic engagement, and a research and pedagogic program to intervene in current forms of ethnographic practice and learning.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Published July 2004
Expert Knowledge

First World Peoples, Consultancy, and Anthropology

Morris, B. & Bastin, R. (eds)

Subject: Applied Anthropology

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eBook available Published October 2006
Exploitation, Resettlement, Mass Murder

Political and Economic Planning for German Occupation Policy in the Soviet Union, 1940-1941

Kay, A.

Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History

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eBook available Published November 2018
Explorations and Entanglements

Germans in Pacific Worlds from the Early Modern Period to World War I

Berghoff, H., Biess, F., & Strasser, U. (eds)

Explorations and Entanglements reconstructs the German elements in the overlapping cultural circuits and complex oceanic transits of the “Pacific Worlds.” It concentrates on the pre-1914 period and encompasses scientific, cultural, religious and commercial exchanges. It opens a gate to a fascinating and hitherto much neglected arena of transnational encounters.

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

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Explorations in Economic Anthropology

Key Issues and Critical Reflections

Kaneff, D. & Endres, K. W. (eds)

At a time of rising global economic precarity and social inequality, the field of economic anthropology offers solutions through the study of local and contextualized economic practices. This book is made up of an exciting collection of succinct essays authored by leading scholars primarily from the field of economic anthropology.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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Explorations in Psychoanalytic Ethnography

Mimica, J. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

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Exploring Gypsiness

Power, Exchange and Interdependence in a Transylvanian Village

Engebrigtsen, A.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Published April 2008
Exploring Regimes of Discipline

The Dynamics of Restraint

Dyck, N.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Extinct Monsters to Deep Time

Conflict, Compromise, and the Making of Smithsonian's Fossil Halls

Marsh, D. E.

Extinct Monsters to Deep Time is an ethnography that documents the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of the museum in the 21st century.

Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published March 2015
Extraordinary Encounters

Authenticity and the Interview

Smith, K., Staples, J. & Rapport, N. (eds)

The interview creates a context of interaction with a particular authenticity to experience. Contributors explore how the interview is experienced as a particular kind of knowing within which personal, biographic, and social norms are explored and interrogated, providing direction and awareness for future encounters.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Extreme Collecting

Challenging Practices for 21st Century Museums

Were, G. & King, J. C. H. (eds)

Subjects: Museum Studies Archaeology

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Published November 2011
Extreme Heritage Management

The Practices and Policies of Densely Populated Islands

Baldacchino, G. (ed)

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

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Published December 2021
Extremism, Society, and the State

Loperfido, G. (ed)

This collected volume brings together leading anthropologists and cultural analysts to offer a concise look at the narratives, symbolic, and metaphoric fields related to extremism, systemitizing an approach to contemporary extremism by placing these idealogies into historical, political, and geo-systemic contexts.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
Published July 2025
Fabrics of Anthropological Knowledge

Changing Perspectives in Europe and Beyond

Birkalan-Gedik, H. & Dimpflmeier, F. (eds)

Challenging the long-standing anthropological centre-periphery dichotomy and examining the transnational circulations of people, concepts and practices, this volume critiques and brings together a nuanced understanding of how anthropological knowledge is produced and circulated across the globe.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
eBook available Published December 2025
Facing Discrimination

Religion and Agency in Contemporary European Contexts

Lems, J. & Planet Contreras, A. (eds)

Through six micro-level studies from Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands, Facing Discrimination offers insight into the dynamics of religious beliefs and bodily practices among those who are discriminated against. It examines how religion as a source of agency interacts with processes of marginalization.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Political and Economic Anthropology

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Facing the Crisis

Ethnographies of Work in Italian Industrial Capitalism

D'Aloisio, F. & Ghezzi, S. (eds)

Facing the Crisis brings together ethnographic material from anthropological research projects carried out in various Italian industrial locations during the last economic crisis. With its wide number of locations and industries, the volume looks at all corners of the diverse Italian manufacturing system.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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Published March 2013
Factions, Friends and Feasts

Anthropological Perspectives on the Mediterranean

Boissevain, J.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published November 2022
Fairies, Ghosts, and Santa Claus

Tinted Glasses, Fetishes, and the Politics of Seeing

Doerr, N. M.

Investigating the politics of seeing and its effects, this book draws on Slavoj Žižek’s notion of fetish and Walter Benjamin’s notion of the optical unconscious to offer new concepts: “tinted glasses”, through which we see the world; “unit-thinking”, which renders the world as consisting of discrete units; and “coherants”, which help fragmented experiences cohere into something intelligible.

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

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Published October 2004
Fairness and Division of Labor in Market Societies

Comparison of U.S. and German Automotive Industries

Kwon, H.-K.

Subject: History (General)

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eBook available Published August 2024
Faith in War

Religion and the Military in Germany, c.1500-1650

Funke, N. M.

Confession played an important role in the wars that ravaged Europe until around 1650, but the religiosity of the men and women during this period is still underexplored. Faith in War shows that confessional coexistence became a fact of army life as people from all over Europe followed the Christian life in the chaos of war.

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Anthropology of Religion

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Faithfully Urban

Pious Muslims in a German City

Kuppinger, P.

A pious Muslim population lives in the southern German city of Stuttgart, where, even in the face of resentment and discrimination, they create meaningful lives. The author introduces and examines the lives of these individuals and communities, set within a city that accommodates the needs and sensibilities of both Muslims and non-Muslims.

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology of Religion

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Published January 2001
The Faltering Transition

Gilbert, M. & Pasquino, G. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published November 2019
Fame Amid the Ruins

Italian Film Stardom in the Age of Neorealism

Gundle, S.

Italian cinema gave rise to some of the best-known films of the postwar years, and its stars were beloved by both the public and producers. This book explores the many conflicts over stars and stardom that arose during Italian cinema’s postwar rebirth, shedding new light on the close relationship forged between cinema and society.

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

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eBook available Published November 2023
The Familial Occult

Explorations at the Margins of Critical Autoethnography

Coțofană, A. (ed)

The Familial Occult addresses the presence of occult experiences in some scholars' families and how that has affected their epistemological and ontological worlds, as well as their identities as scholars. While much has been written on encountering the occult in fieldwork or becoming an apprentice in an occult practice, little yet has been published in the academic literature about growing up with the occult.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Anthropology of Religion

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Family Beyond Family

The Varieties of Kinship Experience

Shipton, P. & Ito-Adler, J. P. (eds)

Arguably all humans invent or accept forms of family beyond those that are close biological kin. These fictive forms of kinship may vary across diverse cultures and serve different purposes. This book explores a wide variety of such kinship formations, while observing and examining the principles and purposes behind them.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published June 2013
Family Upheaval

Generation, Mobility and Relatedness among Pakistani Migrants in Denmark

Rytter, M.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published May 1996
Fascism and Theatre

Comparative Studies on the Aesthetics and Politics of Performance in Europe, 1925-1945

Berghaus, G. (ed)

Subjects: Performance Studies History: World War II Literary Studies

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eBook available Published May 2017
Fascism without Borders

Transnational Connections and Cooperation between Movements and Regimes in Europe from 1918 to 1945

Bauerkämper, A. & Rossolińki-Liebe, G. (eds)

Despite its reputation for ultra-nationalism, Fascism understood itself as a transnational political movement. Through a series of fascinating case studies, this expansive collection examines fascism’s transational dimension, from the movements inspired by the early example of Fascist Italy to the international antifascist organizations that emerged in subsequent years.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Fascist Europe

From Italian Supremacy to Subservience to the Reich (1932-1943)

Fioravanzo, M.

Examining the unexplored project for a new European order developed by Italian intellectuals, Fascist Europe reconstructs the theoretical debates that shaped relationships between Fascist Italy, the Nazi Reich, and other Axis nations. In doing so it sheds light on how much the order may have prospectively united or divided the Fascist regime and the Nazi Reich in the post-war order.

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

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Fascist Interactions

Proposals for a New Approach to Fascism and Its Era, 1919-1945

Roberts, D. D.

Increasingly, scholars of fascism have called for a new agenda with research beyond Italy and Germany, less preoccupation with classification, and sustained attention to the relationships among different fascist formations. Starting from a critical assessment of these imperatives, this volume charts a path that deemphasizes rigid distinctions while still deploying reasonably rigorous criteria of differentiation.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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A Fatal Balancing Act

The Dilemma of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany, 1939-1945

Meyer, B.

“Beate Meyer has chosen to research a serious subject that is by any standard difficult and painful to confront in an honest way… The book is a careful, detailed study of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany.” · Canadian Journal of History

“[The author] keeps the focus on the individual without ever losing sight of the overall crime. This book…can be considered as an essential contribution to the history of the extermination of the German Jews.” · Bulletin of the Fritz Bauer Institute, Frankfurt

“Beate Meyer succeeds in producing a nearly complete picture of procedures and decisions within the organization. In addition she describes openly but not without empathy the diverse, often narrow perspectives and possibilities of responsible individuals in their respective situation.” · Sehepunkte

Subjects: History: World War II Jewish Studies Genocide History

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Fate Calculation Experts

Diviners Seeking Legitimation in Contemporary China

Li, G.

As the practice of divination, long stigmatized as an immoral superstition, enjoys a revival in contemporary China, Fate Calculation Experts explores the various ways in which diviners attempt to achieve legitimation in a society which identifies strongly with modernity, science, and rationality.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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The Fateful Alliance

German Conservatives and Nazis in 1933: The Machtergreifung in a New Light

Beck, H.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published July 2011
Fatness and the Maternal Body

Women's Experiences of Corporeality and the Shaping of Social Policy

Unnithan-Kumar, M. & Tremayne, S. (eds)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
eBook available Published May 2015
Fault Lines

Earthquakes and Urbanism in Modern Italy

Parrinello, G.

Although earthquakes can have disastrous effects on human lives and environments, they can also significantly influence urban development. This book follows the history of two Italian seismic disasters — the 1908 Messina earthquake and the 1968 earthquake in the Belice Valley, Sicily — exploring plans preceding the destruction and the urbanism that emerged from the ruins.

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

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Fear in Bongoland

Burundi Refugees in Urban Tanzania

Sommers, M.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies Development Studies

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Published January 2002
Federalism Doomed?

European Federalism between Integration and Separation

Heinemann-Grüder, A. (ed)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Feeding Anxieties

The Politics of Children's Food in Poland

Boni, Z.

Focusing on the underlying politics behind children’s food, this book highlights the variety of social relationships, expectations and emotions ingrained in feeding children In Poland. With rich ethnographic accounts, including research with children, the book demonstrates how families, schools, the food industry and state agencies shape and experience feeding anxieties.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Sociology

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The Feeling of the Fall

An Ethnographic Writing Experiment between the Belize Barrier Reef and the Edges of Toronto, Ontario

Taccone, I.

As an inquiry into engagements with forces of loss and threat, this work explores experimental ways to write about climate crisis in anthropology. From Belize to Ontario and back, this ambitious piece of ethnographic writing set during a time “beyond ruin” in a fictional, ecotourist community in the year 2040.

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

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Feelings Materialized

Emotions, Bodies, and Things in Germany, 1500–1950

Hillard, D., Lempa, H., & Spinney, R. (eds)

Examining the material aspects of emotion, this volume encompasses technology, photography, aesthetics, and a variety of other historical themes in an innovative application of emotion studies. Feelings Materialized brings together an interdisciplinary group of Germanists to unveil the emotions embedded in the world of things and bodies.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century History: Medieval/Early Modern Literary Studies

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Published May 2015
Fellow Tribesmen

The Image of Native Americans, National Identity, and Nazi Ideology in Germany

Usbeck, F.

Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Germans exhibited a widespread cultural passion for tales and representations of Native Americans. Pervasive and adaptable, imagery of Native Americans was appropriated by Nazi propaganda and merged with exceptionalist notions of German tribalism, oxymoronically promoting the Nazis' racial ideology.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

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Fertility, Conjuncture, Difference

Anthropological Approaches to the Heterogeneity of Modern Fertility Declines

Kreager, P. & Bochow, A. (eds)

In the last forty years anthropologists have made major contributions to understanding the heterogeneity of reproductive trends and processes underlying them. Fertility transition, rather than the story of the triumphant spread of Western birth control rationality, family forms, and modern technology to the whole world, reveals a diversity of reproductive means and ends continuing before, during, and after transition.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Fetishes and Monuments

Afro-Brazilian Art and Culture in the 20^th Century

Sansi, R.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Museum Studies Anthropology (General)

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Field Manual for the Archaeology of Ritual, Religion, and Magic

Augé , C. R.

By bringing together in one place specific objects, materials, and features indicating ritual, religious, or magical belief used by people around the world and through time, this tool will assist archaeologists in identifying evidence of belief-related behaviors and broadening their understanding of how those behaviors may also be seen through less obvious evidential lines.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology of Religion

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Fierce Medicines, Fragile Socialities

Grounding Global HIV Treatment in Tanzania

Mattes, D.

Looking at Tanga, a city on the Tanzanian Swahili coast, Dominik Mattes examines the implementation of antiretroviral HIV-treatment (ART) in the area, exploring the manifold infrastructural and social fragilities of treatment provision in public HIV clinics as well as patients’ multi-layered struggles of coming to terms with ART in their everyday lives.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Development Studies

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Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America

Binford, L., Gill, L., & Striffler, S. (eds)

Informed by Eric Wolf’s Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, published in 1969, this book examines selected peasant struggles in seven Latin American countries during the last fifty years and suggests the continuing relevance of Wolf’s approach.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

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Fig Trees and Humans

Ficus Ecology and Mutualisms across Cultures

Aumeeruddy-Thomas, Y.

Fig Trees and Humans examines the interactions between the biology and ecology of the genus Ficus and how humans use and think of Ficus species across the tropics and in the Mediterranean region.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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Published July 2015
Figuration Work

Student Participation, Democracy and University Reform in a Global Knowledge Economy

Nielsen, G. B.

What should the role of students be in shaping their education, their university, and the wider society? This book seeks to answer these questions following recent international educational reforms. Using Denmark as the prism, the author reflects on and questions the kinds of future citizens who will emerge from current reforms.

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published August 2015
Figurations of the Future

Forms and Temporalities of Left Radical Politics in Northern Europe

Krøijer, S.

Built around key events, this book explores politics among left radical activists in Northern Europe. The author recasts theoretical concerns about politics and aesthetics, drawing on anthropological literature from Scandinavia and the Amazon to establish analogies between perceptions of the body, autonomy, forests and capitalism.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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The Figure of the Politician in Modern and Contemporary Europe

Ihalainen, P., Lopez, R., Palonen, K., & te Velde, H. (eds)

In this geographically wide-ranging assessment of the figure of the politician in modern and contemporary Europe, Pasi Ihalainen, Rosario López, Kari Palonen, and Henk te Velde re-examine the trajectory of terms like ‘politician’ and ‘statesman’, in order to spotlight how profoundly the concept of representative democracy is shifting.

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

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Final Sale in Berlin

The Destruction of Jewish Commercial Activity, 1930-1945

Kreutzmüller, C.

Reconstructing the fate of more than 8,000 companies, this book offers the first comprehensive analysis of Jewish economic activity and its destruction in Nazi Berlin

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

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Published November 2009
The 'Final Solution' in Riga

Exploitation and Annihilation, 1941-1944

Angrick, A., Klein, P. & Brandon R.

Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History Jewish Studies

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Published August 2020
Financialization

Relational Approaches

Hann, C. & Kalb, D. (eds)

Beginning with an original historical vision of financialization in human history, this volume then continues with a rich set of contemporary ethnographic case studies from Europe, Asia and Africa. Authors explore how finance influences social and economic structures in different environments.

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

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Published April 2007
Finding Europe

Discourses on Margins, Communities, Images

Molho, A. & Ramada Curto, D. (eds)

Subject: History: Medieval/Early Modern

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Finding Home in Europe

Chronicles of Global Migrants

Pérez Murcia, L. E. & Bonfanti, S. (eds)

Bringing together the voices of nine individuals from an archive of over 200 in-depth interviews with transnational migrants and refugees across five European countries, Finding Home in Europe critically engages with how home is experienced by those who move.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Theory and Methodology

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Forthcoming December 2026
Finding Respectability

The Lived Experiences of Middle Class Divorced Women in Nairobi

Kiereri, N.

Examining divorce in contemporary Kenya, this book explores how the end of marriage reshapes women’s social status and respectability in a context where marriage remains central to female adulthood, sexuality, and motherhood. Drawing on in-depth interviews, ethnographic research in Nairobi, and digital ethnography of Kenyan social media, it examines how divorced women navigate stigma, shifting identities, and moral expectations

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available Published May 2020
Finding Ways Through Eurospace

West African Movers Re-viewing Europe from the Inside

Schapendonk, J.

Studying the im/mobility trajectories of West Africans in the EU, this book presents a new approach to West African migrants in Europe. Based on a trajectory ethnography, this book discusses how African migrants are confronted with rigid mobility regimes, but also how they manage to transgress and circumvent them.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published May 2007
Fire in the Dark

Telling Gypsiness in North East England

Buckler, S.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Sociology Anthropology (General)

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Fire on the Island

Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu

Bratrud, T.

In 2014, the island of Ahamb in Vanuatu became the scene of a startling Christian revival movement led by thirty children with ‘spiritual vision’. Based on twenty months of ethnographic fieldwork on Ahamb between 2010 and 2017, this book investigates how upheavals like the Ahamb revival can emerge to address and sometimes resolve social problems.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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Published December 2008
Fishers and Scientists in Modern Turkey

The Management of Natural Resources, Knowledge and Identity on the Eastern Black Sea Coast

Knudsen, S.

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

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Fixing Motorcycles in Post-Repair Societies

Technology, Aesthetics and Gender

Jderu, G.

Taking motorcycling in Romania as an ethnographic entry point, this book documents how bikers handle the inevitable moment of malfunction and breakdown. Using both mobile and sedentary research methods, the book describes the joys and troubles experienced by amateur mechanics, professional mechanics and untechnical male and females when fixing bikes.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Published March 2015
Flexible Capitalism

Exchange and Ambiguity at Work

Kjaerulff, J. (ed)

Introducing anthropological exchange theory to a wider readership, this volume explores sociality in work environments marked by the kind of structural changes that have come to define contemporary “flexible” capitalism. It makes a novel contribution to a trans-disciplinary scholarship on contemporary economic practice, and to the anthropological literature on work and on exchange.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Flexible Firm

The Design of Culture at Bang & Olufsen

Krause-Jensen, J.

Subject: Applied Anthropology

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Published December 2003
Flight of Fantasy

New Perspectives on Inner Emigration in German Literature 1933-1945

Donahue N.H. & Kirchner D. (eds)

Subjects: Literary Studies History: World War II

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Floating Economies

The Cultural Ecology of the Dal Lake in Kashmir, India

Casimir, M. J.

In the Himalayas of the Indian part of Kashmir three communities depend on the ecology of the Dal lake: market gardeners, houseboat owners and fishers. Floating Economies describes for the first time the complex intermeshing economy, social structure and ecology of the area against the background of history and the present volatile socio-political situation.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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Published June 2010
Folk Healing and Health Care Practices in Britain and Ireland

Stethoscopes, Wands and Crystals

Moore, R. & McClean, S. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology

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Forthcoming January 2027
Following the Path of the Martyrs

Death and Revolution in the Kurdish Freedom Movement

Rudi, A.

Providing a novel, ground-up perspective on the Kurdish Freedom Movement’s revolutionary struggle, this book explores supporters’ political commitments and practices in Turkish, Iraqi, and Syrian Kurdistan as well as in the German diaspora.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies
Published December 1999
Folsom Lithic Technology

Explorations in Structure and Variation

Amick, D. S. (ed)

This book offers a series of studies focused on the analysis of stone tool technology of the Folsom Culture. The analyses presented here use comparative methods to identify patterns of lithic assemblage structure and variation that provide insights into the organization of Folsom technology and lifeways, considering multiple aspects of Folsom technology.

Subject: Archaeology

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Food and Families in the Making

Knowledge Reproduction and Political Economy of Cooking in Morocco

Graf, K.

Food and Families in the Making looks at knowledge reproduction about how we know cooking and its role in the making of everyday family life. It also examines a political economy of cooking that situates Marrakchi women’s lived experience in the broader context of persisting poverty and food insecurity in Morocco.

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

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Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century

Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

Collinson, P., Young, I., Antal, L., & Macbeth, H. (eds)

Sustainability is one of the great problems facing food production today. Using cross-disciplinary perspectives from international scholars working in social, cultural and biological anthropology, ecology and environmental biology, this volume brings many new perspectives to the problems we face.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

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Published May 1996
Food and the Status Quest

An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Wiessner, P. & Schiefenhövel, W. (eds)

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

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Published October 2025
Food Beyond Terroir

Tasting Place and Placing Taste in Global Perspective

Colquhoun, A. & Graf, K. (eds)

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published May 2022
Food Connections

Production, Exchange and Consumption in West African Migration

Abranches, M.

Food Connections follows the movement of food from its production sites in West Africa to its final spaces of consumption in Europe. It is an ethnographic study of economic and social life amongst a close-knit community of food producers, traders andconsumers and a wide range of small intermediaries that operate in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

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Food Culture

Anthropology, Linguistics and Food Studies

Chrzan, J. & Brett, J. (eds)

This volume offers a comprehensive guide to methods used in the sociocultural, linguistic and historical research of food use. This volume is unique in offering food-related research methods from multiple academic disciplines, and includes methods that bridge disciplines to provide a thorough review of best practices.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition

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Published September 2000
Food for Health, Food for Wealth

Ethnic and Gender Identities in British Iranian Communities

Harbottle, L.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

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Food Health

Nutrition, Technology, and Public Health

Chrzan, J. & Brett, J. (eds)

This volume provides in-depth analysis and comprehensive review of methods necessary to design, plan, implement and analyze public health programming related to food and nutrition using anthropological best practices.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition

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Food in Zones of Conflict

Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

Collinson, P. and Macbeth, H. (eds)

Controlling food and access to food can be used as a weapon. This is an especially significant issue in zones of conflict, because conflict impinges on the production and the distribution of food causing increased competition for food, land and resources. These themes unite the chapters of Food in Zones of Conflict, but since the topic is multidisciplinary, this volume appeals specialists in any field.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

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Published November 1997
Food Preferences and Taste

Continuity and Change

Macbeth, H.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

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Food Research

Nutritional Anthropology and Archaeological Methods

Chrzan, J. & Brett, J. (eds)

Biocultural and archaeological research on food, past and present, often relies on very specific, precise, methods for data collection and analysis. These are presented here in a broad-based review.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition Archaeology

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Food, Culture and Society in India

Social, Political, Economic and Cultural Perspectives

Patgiri, R. & Lalli, G. (Eds.)

Bringing together empirical research from across India, this volume examines how food intersects with identity, migration, livelihood and media. It offers interdisciplinary insights into the cultural, political and social dimensions of food in contemporary Indian life.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Sociology Anthropology (General)

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Foodscapes, Foodfields, and Identities in the YucatÁn

Ayora-Diaz, S. I.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

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Foodways and Empathy

Relatedness in a Ramu River Society, Papua New Guinea

Poser, A. von

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

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Football Nation

The Playing Fields of German Culture, History, and Society

Dawson, R., Heinsohn, B., Knabe, O., & McDougall, A. (eds)

Germany’s football culture has a historically rich background full of transnational entanglements, German identity formation, and fan cultures. Football Nation constructs new insights surrounding the multifaceted landscapes of German historical and contemporary football debates as it investigates football’s role in discourses on culture, history, and politics.

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

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Published June 2017
Footprints in Paradise

Ecotourism, Local Knowledge, and Nature Therapies in Okinawa

Murray, A. E.

In Okinawa, ecotourism promises to provide employment for a dwindling population of rural youth while preserving the natural environment and bolstering regional pride. Footprints in Paradise explores how sense of place in Okinawa is transformed as language, landscapes, and wildlife are reconstituted as treasured and vulnerable resources.

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

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'For Their Own Good'

Civilian Evacuations in Germany and France, 1939-1945

Torrie, J. S.

The early twentieth-century advent of aerial bombing made successful evacuations essential to any war effort, but ordinary people resented them deeply. Based on extensive archival research in Germany and France, this is the first broad, comparative study of civilian evacuations in Germany and France during World War II

Subject: History: World War II

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The Force of Comparison

A New Perspective on Modern European History and the Contemporary World

Steinmetz, W. (ed)

Drawing on a range of multidisciplinary perspectives, this volume investigates the concepts and practices of comparison from the early modern period to the present. Each contribution demonstrates how comparison has helped to drive the seemingly irresistible dynamism of the modern world, with a particular focus on what comparison looks like “in action.”

Subject: History (General)

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Forced Labor for Siemens in the Women’s Concentration Camp Ravensbrück

Reports from Contemporary Witnesses

International Friends Association of the Ravensbrück Memorial (Eds)

In 1942-1945, Siemens & Halske AG maintained an armaments factory adjacent to the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp, where up to 2,300 female prisoners were deployed in forced labor. This volume contains the testimonies of Ravensbrück survivors, shedding light on the system of forced labor in the context of the concentration camp

Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies History: World War II

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Published April 2008
A Foreign Affair

Billy Wilder's American Films

Gemünden, G.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

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Published October 2023
Foreigners in Their Own Country

Identity and Rejection in France

Martin, L. M.

Paying close attention to how people speak about themselves and their acceptance and rejection by others, this book provides an intimate account of the challenges faced by the millions of people in France—and throughout Western Europe—who fully participate in the life of their country but are often not seen as belonging there.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

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The Forest People without a Forest

Development Paradoxes, Belonging and Participation of the Baka in East Cameroon

Lueong, G. M.

The Forest People without a Forest explores how the Baka, who live in Eastern Cameroon, assert forms of belonging in order to participate in development interventions, and how community life is shaped and reshaped through these interventions. These interventions raise paradoxes of belonging for the Baka, and are often targeted toward competing and contradictory goals.

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

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Forging Architectural Tradition

National Narratives, Monument Preservation and Architectural Work in the Nineteenth Century

Damjanović, D. & Łupienko, Al. (eds)

During the nineteenth century, a change developed in the way architectural objects from the distant past were viewed by contemporaries. Architectural heritage often was (and still is) an important element of nation building. Authors address the process of building national myths around certain architectural objects. National narratives are questioned, as is the position architectural heritage played in the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries.

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

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Forthcoming January 2027
Forging Heritage in the Nation-State

The Political Production of Oblivion

Herzfeld, M.

Nation-states use heritage to project cultural unity and commemorate nationally significant events. In appearing to commemorate, however, heritage often obliterates the memory of how national identity was forged. Drawing on extensive ethnographic material, Michael Herzfeld connects the idea of heritage back to the social practices associated with inheritance.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Anthropology (General) History (General)
Published April 2010
Forging Political Identity

Silk and Metal Workers in Lyon, France 1900-1939

Mann, K.

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

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Published November 1996
Forging the Collective Memory

Government and International Historians through Two World Wars

Wilson, K. (ed)

Subjects: History: World War I History: World War II Memory Studies

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The Forgotten Majority

German Merchants in London, Naturalization, and Global Trade 1660-1815

Schulte Beerbühl, M.

The “forgotten majority” of German merchants in London between the end of the Hanseatic League and the end of the Napoleonic Wars became the largest mercantile Christian immigrant group in the eighteenth century. Using previously neglected and little used evidence, this book assesses the causes of their migration, the establishment of their businesses in the capital, and the global reach of the enterprises.

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

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Former Neighbors, Future Allies?

German Studies and Ethnography in Dialogue

Weber, A. D. (ed)

Former Neighbors, Future Allies is a key bridge into the research and perspectives needed to nurture ethnography’s growing role in German studies. This volume creates a space for dialogue between North American Germanists and ethnographers in and of the German-speaking world, enriching both fields in the process.

Subjects: History (General) Anthropology (General)

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Fortune and the Cursed

The Sliding Scale of Time in Mongolian Divination

Swancutt, K.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion

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Foucault's Orient

The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan

Lazreg, M.

Using interviews with scholars from Tunisia and Japan, this book examines the manner in which Foucault experienced and explained his encounters with non-Western cultures, unraveling the anthropological implications of his unwavering commitment to cultural difference. It also traces the philosophical-theoretical sources of his conception of difference, and uncovers the contradictions of his dismissal of empirical anthropology to know human beings.

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

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Published October 2004
Foundations of National Identity

From Catalonia to Europe

Llobera, J.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Four-Color Communism

Comic Books and Contested Power in the German Democratic Republic

Eedy, S.

As with all other forms of popular culture, comics in East Germany were tightly controlled by the state. Comics were employed as extensions of the regime’s educational system, delivering state ideology to develop the socialist personality among youth. The East German children who avidly read these comics, however, found their own meanings and projected their own desires in them.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published December 2005
Fracturing Resemblances

Identity and Mimetic Conflict in Melanesia and the West

Harrison, S.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published February 2024
Fragile Futures

Ambiguities of Care in Burkina Faso

Samuelsen, H.

Caring for small children and the family in Burkina Faso is hard work. Although the health infrastructure in Burkina Faso is weak and many citizens feel neglected by the state, Fragile Futures shows that the state continues to play an important role in people’s engagements and hopes for a better future.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology Development Studies

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Fragmented Fatherland

Immigration and Cold War Conflict in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1980

Clarkson, A.

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

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A Fragmented Landscape

Abortion Governance and Protest Logics in Europe

De Zordo, S., Mishtal, J., & Anton. J. (eds)

Since 1945, European states’ social policy landscapes have proven remarkably varied, especially when it comes to contentious issues such as abortion, which is governed by a wide range of policy regimes. This volume provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary survey of the struggles over abortion rights in Europe from the immediate postwar era to the present era.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology History: 20th Century to Present

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Framing Africa

Portrayals of a Continent in Contemporary Mainstream Cinema

Eltringham, N. (ed)

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Anthropology (General) History (General)

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Framing the Fifties

Cinema in a Divided Germany

Davidson, J. & Hake, S. (eds)

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

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Published January 2015
France After 2012

Goodliffe, G. & Brizzi, R. (eds)

In May 2012, French voters rejected the liberalizing policies of Nicolas Sarkozy and elected his opponent, the Socialist François Hollande, president. This book analyzes the context and results of the French 2012 presidential and parliamentary elections and sets out the principal challenges facing the new administration and government in their wake.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published June 1995
France and America in the Revolutionary Era

The Life of Jacques-Donatien Leray de Chaumont, 1725-1803

Schaeper, T. J.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

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France and the Construction of Europe, 1944-2007

The Geopolitical Imperative

Sutton, M.

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

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France and the German Question, 1945–1990

Bozo, F. & Wenkel, C. (eds)

This book revisits France’s attitude towards the German question as it existed and evolved during the post-World War Two and the Cold War eras in order to shed light on previously neglected aspect of the history of the Cold War, of Germany, and of Europe in the second half of the twentieth century.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published November 2000
France At War in the Twentieth Century

Propaganda, Myth, and Metaphor

Holman, V. & Kelly, D. (eds)

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

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France in the Age of Organization

Factory, Home and Nation from the 1920s to Vichy

Clarke, J.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Published May 2005
France in the Era of Fascism

Essays on the French Authoritarian Right

Jenkins, B. (ed)

Subject: History: World War II

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eBook available Published August 2016
The France of the Little-Middles

A Suburban Housing Development in Greater Paris

Cartier, M., Coutant, I., Masclet, O., & Siblot, Y.

The France of the Little-Middles explores the strained reception of the migrants in The Poplars, a housing development in suburban Paris that dates back to the mid-20th centrury. The authors examine tensions within the complex less as a product of racism and xenophobia than of anxiety about social class and the loss of a sense of community that reigned before.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Urban Studies

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eBook available Published January 2022
France, Germany, and Nuclear Deterrence

Quarrels and Convergences during the Cold War and Beyond

Badalassi, N. & Gloriant, F. (eds)

France, Germany, and the Nuclear Deterrence employs a multi-archival approach to the legacy of World War II and the bipolar division of Europe. The volume longitudinally covers the post-war, Cold War and post-Cold War eras and leads into the present day to focus on the history of Franco-German strategic and nuclear relations within an evolving Euro-Atlantic security architecture.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published April 2015
The Franco-Mauritian Elite

Power and Anxiety in the Face of Change

Salverda, T.

Mauritian Independence in 1968 marked the end of the heyday of the island’s Franco-Mauritian elite, who are now is faced with a more diverse power constellation. This book focuses on the power of these white elites still lingering on in postcolonial realities, and addresses how this group aims to prolong its position over time.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies

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Françoise Héritier

Gaillard, G.

A great intellectual figure, Françoise Héritier succeeded Claude Lévi-Strauss as the Chair of Anthropology at the Collège de France in 1982. She was both an Africanist, author of magnificent works on the Samo population, the scientific progenitor of kinship studies, the creator of a theoretical base to feminist thought and an activist for many causes.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Francophone Migrations, French Islam and Wellbeing

The Soninké Foyer in Paris

Accoroni, D.

Addressing several issues of significance in the fields of Anthropology of Migration, Politics of Healthcare, Religious and Francophone Studies, this book pursues an unprecedented line of research by bringing to the fore the geopolitical dimension of francophonie, understood as a political construct, as much as a cultural, artistic and a linguistic space, with French as common language.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology of Religion

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Franz Baermann Steiner

A Stranger in the World

Adler, J. & Fardon, R.

Franz Baermann Steiner (1909-52) provided the vital link between the intellectual culture of central Europe and the Oxford Institute of Anthropology in its post-Second World War years.

This book demonstrates his quiet influence within anthropology, which has extended from Mary Douglas to David Graeber, and how his remarkable poetry reflected profoundly on the slavery and murder of the Shoah.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Literary Studies

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Published October 2005
Free Will, Consciousness and Self

Anthropological Perspectives on Psychology

Bertelsen, P.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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The French Defeat of 1940

Reassessments

Blatt, J. (ed)

Subject: History: World War II

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Published December 2004
The French Exception

Godin, E. & Chafer, T. (eds)

Subject: History (General)

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French Film in Britain

Sex, Art and Cinephilia

Mazdon, L. & Wheatley, C.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

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French Foreign Policy since 1945

An Introduction

Bozo, F.

This compact and engaging history recounts France’s efforts to reconcile its proud history and global ambitions with a realistic appraisal of its capabilities following World War II. It provides insightful analysis of decolonization, the Cold War, and European unification, always attentive to the challenges posed by an increasingly multipolar, interconnected world.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published June 2004
French Intellectuals Against the Left

The Antitotalitarian Moment of the 1970s

Christofferson, M. S.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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The French Right Between the Wars

Political and Intellectual Movements from Conservatism to Fascism

Kalman, S. & Kennedy, S. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published November 2012
The French Road Movie

Space, Mobility, Identity

Archer, N.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Transport Studies

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Published January 2003
French Women in Politics: Writing Power

Paternal Legitimization and Maternal Legacies

Ramsay, R. L.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology

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Friendly Enemies

Britain and the GDR, 1949-1990

Berger, S. & LaPorte, N.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Friendship and Exchange Along the North Coast of New Guinea

Welsch, R. L.

This book explores how more than 100 communities who speak nearly fifty languages from five unrelated language phyla interact by developing persistent relations known as “hereditary friendship.” These relations provide everyone along the coast with fish, sago, and earthenware pots as well as many other useful commodities that resulted in peace and harmony.

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

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Friendship without Borders

Women's Stories of Power, Politics, and Everyday Life across East and West Germany

Leask, P.

Drawing on a set of interviews and a thousand letters written over fifty years, Friendship, Power, and Everyday Life considers how a group of women, self-defined as non-political, experienced, accepted, rejected, or countered the exercise of power across twentieth-century regimes in Germany.

Subjects: History (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Published May 2014
Friendship, Descent and Alliance in Africa

Anthropological Perspectives

Guichard, M., Grätz, T., & Diallo, Y. (eds)

Friendship, descent and alliance are basic forms of relatedness that have received unequal attention in social anthropology. Offering new insights into the ways in which friendship is conceptualized and realized in various sub-Saharan African settings, the contributions to this volume depart from the recent tendency to study friendship in isolation from kinship. In drawing attention to the complexity of the interactions between these two kinds of social relationships, the book suggests that analyses of friendship in Western societies would also benefit from research that explores more systematically friendship in conjunction with kinship.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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The Frightful Stage

Political Censorship of the Theater in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Goldstein, R. J. (ed)

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

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From Antiquities to Heritage

Transformations of Cultural Memory

Eriksen, A.

What does it mean when runic stones or medieval churches are transformed from antiquities to monuments to heritage sites? This book argues that the transformations concern more than words alone: They reflect fundamental changes in the way we experience the past, and the way historical objects are assigned meaning and value in the present.

Subjects: Museum Studies Memory Studies Heritage Studies

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Published May 2013
From Berlusconi to Monti

Bosco, A. & McDonnell, D. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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From Bullies to Officers and Gentlemen

How Notions of Professionalism and Civility Transformed the Ghana Armed Forces

Agyekum, H. A.

Based on unprecedented access to the Ghanaian military barracks and inspired by the recent resurgence of coups in West Africa, the book assesses why and how the Ghana Armed Forces were transformed from an organisation that actively orchestrated coups into an institution that accepts the authority of the democratically elected civilian government.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Applied Anthropology

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Published December 1996
From Caligari to California

Eric Pommer's Life in the International Film Wars

Hardt, U.

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

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Published August 2001
From Chains to Bonds

The Slave Trade Revisited

Diène, D. (ed)

Subject: Colonial History

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Published November 2017
From Clans to Co-ops

Confiscated Mafia Land in Sicily

Rakopoulos, T.

From Clans to Co-ops explores the social, political, and economic relations that enable the constitution of cooperatives through antimafia transformation of landholdings. The volume is the first monograph on Sicily’s rural antimafia movement, contributing to the anthropology and sociology of cooperatives, as well as to broader debates about small-scale democratic institutions, food movements and agrarian activism.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Food & Nutrition

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From Craftsmen to Capitalists

German Artisans from the Third Reich to the Federal Republic, 1939-1953

McKitrick, F. L.

As Hitler consolidated power, German artisans emerged as an important Nazi constituency, drawn by the party’s rejection of both capitalism and Bolshevism. Yet, after 1945, they became one of the pillars of postwar stability. This volume gives the first account of this astonishing transformation, exploring how tradesmen helped to realize German democratization and recovery.

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

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From Eastern Bloc to European Union

Comparative Processes of Transformation since 1990

Heydemann, G. & Vodička, K. (eds)

This volume assembles detailed, empirically grounded studies of eleven former Soviet states and current EU members. Each chapter analyzes the political, economic, and social transformation processes that have taken place in a given nation, identifying structural similarities and assessing outcomes compared to one another as well as the rest of Europe.

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

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Published April 2013
From Fidelity to History

Film Adaptations as Cultural Events in the Twentieth Century

Scholz, A.-M.

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

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From Hard Rock to Heavy Metal

Metal Tool Production and Use by Indigenous Hunter-Gatherers of North America

Bebber, M. R. & Wolff, C. B. (eds)

In North America metal use by hunter-gatherer populations began as early as 9,000 years ago and continued into modern times. The regional and cultural diversity of research in this volume contributes to how we conceptualize hunter-gatherer innovation, technological proficiency, and complex decision-making in the past.

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

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From Legacies to Futures

The Lifeworlds of Older Adults in Europe

Seidel, K., Prendergast, D., & Saris, A. J.

Through ninety-four ethnographic case studies of community dwelling older adults in Europe before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, this book highlights the importance of agency, friction between self-perceptions on age and outside impositions and the need to deconstruct old age as a homogenizing category of belonging.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology Sociology

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From Missionaries to Main Street

The Story of One Sgaw Karen Family in the United States

Gilhooly, D.

The Htoo family, who are Sgaw Karen and originally from Burma, resettled in the United States refugee resettlement program in 2007. This book chronicles their life in their new country. The book provides historical and cultural information on the Sgaw Karen people against the backdrop of the Htoo family’s path from Burma to Thailand.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published January 1997
From Peace to War

Germany, Soviet Russia, and the World, 1939-1941

Wegner, B.

Subject: History: World War II

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Published September 1998
From Recovery to Catastrophe

Municipal Stabilization and Political Crisis

Lieberman, B.

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

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Published January 2015
From Self-fulfilment to Survival of the Fittest

Work in European Cinema from the 1960s to the Present

Mazierska, E.

Contrary to the assumption that Western and Eastern European economies and cinemas were very different from each other, they actually had much in common. After the Second World War both the East and the West adopted a mixed system, containing elements of both socialism and capitalism, and from the 1980s on the whole of Europe, albeit at an uneven speed, followed the neoliberal agenda. This book examines how the economic systems of the East and West impacted labor by focusing on the representation of work in European cinema.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

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From Storeroom to Stage

Romanian Attire and the Politics of Folklore

Urdea, A.

Tracing in reverse the journey of a collection of Romanian folk objects from a museum in London back to the villages where they were made, From Storeroom to Stage explores the role that material culture plays in the production of value and meaning.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Museum Studies Heritage Studies

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Published August 2006
From Tax Populism to Ethnic Nationalism

Radical Right-wing Populism in Sweden

Rydgren, J.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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From the Bonn to the Berlin Republic

Germany at the Twentieth Anniversary of Unification

Anderson, J. & Langenbacher, E. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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From Triads to Pentads

Modelling Myth and Kinship in the Work of N.J. Allen

Allen, N. J. (au) & Parkin, R. (ed)

N.J. (‘Nick’) Allen had an extensive academic career, which for the most part was spent in Oxford. He passed away in 2020. This edited volume brings together a selection of his anthropological papers. It follows key areas of his research in which his contributions were novel, innovative, stimulating and plausible.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

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From Village Commons to Public Goods

Graduated Provision in Urbanizing China

Trémon, A.-C.

Illuminating the complex processes of China’s uneven urbanization through the lens of the transition from village commons to public goods, this book is set in three urbanized villages in Shenzhen, Chengdu, and Xi’an, which have experienced similar demographic explosions and dramatic changes to their landscapes, the livelihoods of its inhabitants, and the power structures governing their residents.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies Sociology

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Published March 2015
From Virtue to Vice

Negotiating Anorexia

O' Connor, R. A. & Esterik, P. van

The recovered hold the key to overcoming anorexia. This volume weaves together sufferers’ stories to reveal two accidental afflictions: misdirected development and an activity disorder. Also, as the recovered know anorexia from the inside, they can offer solutions to help other sufferers recover.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

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From Weimar to Hitler

Studies in the Dissolution of the Weimar Republic and the Establishment of the Third Reich, 1932-1934

Beck, H. & Jones, L. E. (eds)

From Weimar to Hitler examines the crisis of Weimar democracy, the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship, and the Nazi consolidation of power, drawing from multiple perspectives to discover whether the transition from Weimar to Hitler was historically predetermined or the product of human miscalculation and intent.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published April 1999
From World War to Waldheim

Culture and Politics in Austria and the United States

Good, D. & Wodak, R. (eds)

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

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Published November 2024
Frontier Ethnographies

Deconstructing Research Experiences in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Choudhury, N. & Schmeding, A. (eds)

Frontier Ethnographies explores the ethnographic edges of contemporary anthropological inquiry in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Through examining moments of insecurity, vulnerability, doubt, fear, failure, and daydreaming, the volume reflects on the researchers’ experiences and challenges of doing field research in frontier settings.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published July 2026
Frontiers of Appropriation

Spanish High-Speed Rail and Capitalist Environment-Making

Buier, N.

For more than thirty years, AVE (Alta Velocidad Española, or Spanish HSR) has been an instrument for transforming the public railway company, reshaping labor relations and advancing a model of regional development; yet Spain remains a car-dominated society. Frontiers of Appropriation delves into the history of Europe’s most-advanced high-speed rail system to assess the transformations it has brought about.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Transport Studies
eBook available Published June 2018
Frontiers of Civil Society

Government and Hegemony in Serbia

Mikuš, M.

Frontiers of Civil Society is a historical anthropological analysis of the roles of ‘civil society’ in Serbia’s postsocialist and postauthoritarian transformation, focusing mainly on a set of interventions through which various civil society forces supported neoliberalization and transnational integration as part of a hegemonic project of social transformation after the rule of Slobodan Milošević.

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

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Published February 2009
Frustrated Aspirations for Change

Donovan, M. & Onofri, P. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Funerals in Africa

Explorations of a Social Phenomenon

Jindra, M. & Noret, J. (eds)

This volume brings together scholars who have conducted research on funerary events across sub-Saharan Africa. The contributions offer an in-depth understanding of the broad changes and underlying causes in African societies over the years, such as changes in religious beliefs, social structure, urbanization, and technological changes and health.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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The Future of Indigenous Museums

Perspectives from the Southwest Pacific

Stanley, N. (ed)

Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General)

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The Future of Memory

Crownshaw, R., Kilby, J. & Rowland, A. (eds)

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

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Forthcoming January 2027
The Future of Song-Dance in Peru

The Sonic Heritages of Amazonian Peoples

Kummels, I.

Focusing on the Asháninka and Nomatsigenga peoples of the Peruvian Amazon, this book examines the restitution of archived sonic legacies and the revitalization of ancestral song-dances. It shows how Indigenous communities mobilize cultural heritage in struggles for autonomy, territory, and decolonial futures.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Performance Studies Cultural Studies (General)
Published September 2004
The Future of Values

21st-Century Talks

Bindé, J.

Subject: Heritage Studies

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Published April 1996
Futurism and Politics

Between Anarchist Rebellion and Fascist Reaction, 1909-1944

Berghaus, G.

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

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Published June 2013
The Gaddi Beyond Pastoralism

Making Place in the Indian Himalayas

Wagner, A.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published August 2009
Gardening the World

Agency, Identity and the Ownership of Water

Strang, V.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies

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Published October 1994
The Gate to Perfection

The Idea of Peace in Jewish Thought

Homolka, W. & Friedlander, A.

Subjects: Jewish Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published October 2025
Gendarmes, Bureaucrats, and Jews

A Documentary History of the Destruction of Hungary’s Jews, Spring-Summer 1944

Schulmann, J. F., Rich, D. A., & Molnár, J. (eds)

An illuminating chronicle of the concentration, ghettoization, and deportation of Hungarian Jews in 1944-1945, Gendarmes, Bureaucrats, and Jews presents, for the first time in English, the key primary sources from the period, documenting how this genocidal program was facilitated by both the Nazi regime and the Hungarian state.

Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History History: World War II

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Published February 1998
Gender and Germanness

Cultural Productions of Nation

Herminghouse, P. & Mueller, M. (eds)

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

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Published April 2014
Gender History in a Transnational Perspective

Networks, Biographies, Gender Orders

Janz, O. & Schönpflug, D. (eds)

“This collection of essays addresses important topics in the history of European feminisms. It goes beyond national histories to examine transnational contacts, comparisons, and transfers… The essays are by an interesting collection of authors, some already very well known in the field, and others promising junior scholars.” · Ann Taylor Allen, University of Louisville

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General)

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Gender History of German Jews

A Short Introduction

Schüler-Springorum, S.

Gender History of German Jews is a concise overview of German-Jewish gender agency and change against the “dawn of modernity” across both men and women who dealt with histories of status change, discrimination, persecution, and deportation.

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

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eBook available Published October 2017
Gender in Georgia

Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation, and History in the South Caucasus

Barkaia, M. & Waterston, A. (eds)

As Georgia seeks to reinvent itself in the post-Soviet period, Georgian women are maneuvering to adjust to the new economic, social and political order. Gender in Georgia brings together an international group of feminist scholars to explore the socio-political conditions that have shaped gender dynamics in Georgia from the late 19th century to the present.

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

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Gender in Germany and Beyond

Exploring the Legacy of Jean Quataert

Evans, J. V. & Rose, S. E. (eds)

Jean Quataert’s former students, colleagues, and collaborators come together in Gender in Germany and Beyond to not only celebrate Quataert’s shaping of the field of modern German, Women’s and transnational history, but also to expand on that scholarship, setting a precedent for the future of the field.

Subjects: History (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Published November 2000
Gender Issues in Jewish Law

Essays and Responsa

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

Subjects: Jewish Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

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eBook available Published September 2008
Gender Politics in the Expanding European Union

Mobilization, Inclusion, Exclusion

Roth, S. (ed)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology

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Gender, Power, and Non-Governance

Is Female to Male as NGO Is to State?

Timmer, A. D. & Wirtz, E. (eds)

Using Sherry Ortner’s analogy of Female/Nature, Male/Culture, this volume interrogates the gendered aspects of governance by exploring the NGO/State relationship. By examining how NGOs/States perform gendered roles and actions and the gendered divisions of labor involved in different types of institutional engagement, this volume attends to the ways in which gender and governance constitute flexible, relational, and contingent systems of power.

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

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eBook available Published August 2017
Gender, Violence, Refugees

Buckley-Zistel, S. & Krause, U. (eds)

Providing nuanced accounts of how the social identities of men and women, the context of displacement and the experience or manifestation of violence interact, this collection offers conceptual analyses and in-depth case studies to illustrate how gender relations are affected by displacement, encampment and return.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Published December 2011
Gendered Money

Financial Organization in Women's Movements, 1880-1933

Jonsson, P. & Neunsinger, S.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General)

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Gendering Modern German History

Rewriting Historiography

Hagemann, K. & Quataert, J. H. (eds)

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

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eBook available Published April 2019
Gendering Post-1945 German History

Entanglements

Hagemann, K., & Harsch, D., & Brühöfner, F. (eds)

Gendering Post-1945 German History: Entanglements offers new and critical insight into the state of the research on post-war German history from a gender perspective. Using the concept of “entanglement,” this volume investigates the ways in which East and West German gender relations were socially and politically intertwined.

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

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General de Gaulle's Cold War

Challenging American Hegemony, 1963-68

Martin, G. J.

“While there is a lot of information for readers to take in, the subject is inherently complex, spanning different aspects of French foreign policy and the politics of other countries and institutions. In spite of this complexity, Martin displays a good grasp of the material. The book is the product of archival research in England, France, and the United States, as well as engagement with published collections and the relevant secondary literature on the topic. Martin has thus covered most of his bases.” · H-France Review

“[The book] is extremely well researched, well written, and Martin accomplishes his stated objective: namely, to provide a more balanced account of de Gaulle that goes beyond views of him as either a visionary, or an irresponsible and anti-American nationalist…Martin’s analysis makes a unique contribution in that it examines the linkages between the General's economic, political and security policy in order to understand how the three came together to shape his overall policy toward the US.” · Erin Mahan, Chief Historian, Office of the Secretary of Defense

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Genocide and Settler Society

Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History

Moses, A. D. (ed)

Subjects: Genocide History Colonial History

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Genocide in the Ottoman Empire

Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, 1913-1923

Shirinian, G. N. (ed)

From 1913 to 1923, the Ottoman Empire deported or killed staggering numbers of non-Turkish, non-Muslim citizens in an attempt to preserve “Turkey for the Turks,” setting a modern precedent for how a regime can commit genocide while largely escaping accountability. This definitive volume is the first to comprehensively examine the genocides of the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks in comparative fashion.

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

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Published June 2015
Genocide on Settler Frontiers

When Hunter-Gatherers and Commercial Stock Farmers Clash

Adhikari, M. (ed)

European colonial conquest included many instances of indigenous peoples being exterminated. Cases where invading commercial stock farmers clashed with hunter-gatherers were particularly destructive, often resulting in a degree of dispossession and slaughter that destroyed the ability of these societies to reproduce themselves.

Subjects: Genocide History Colonial History

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eBook available Published October 2022
Gentrifications

Views from Europe

Chabrol, M., Collet, A., Giroud, M., Launay, L., Rousseau, M., Minassian, H. ter

Using a thorough analysis of the diversity of the forms, places and actors of gentrification in an attempt to isolate the ‘DNA’ of gentrification, the book addresses the place of social groups in cities, their competition over the appropriation of space, the infrastructure unequally offered to them by economic and political actors and the stakes of everyday social relationships.

Subjects: Urban Studies Sociology Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published January 2026
Georgian Women on the Move

Migration to Greece in Times of Crisis

Zmiejewski, W.

Shedding light on the invisible lives of Georgian women who migrated to Thessaloniki from the mid-1900s onward, Georgian Women on the Move reveals the challenges and turning points that emerge from the convergence of these different life worlds.

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

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eBook available Published June 2019
German Division as Shared Experience

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Postwar Everyday

Carter, E., Palmowski, J., & Schreiter, K. (eds)

German Division as Shared Experience shows the extent to which the story of East and West Germany was one of mutual entanglement after 1945. By subsuming political considerations into the historical domain of the social and cultural, each of the innovative studies presented here analyzes moments of connection at the level of lived experience across the East-West divide.

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

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Published February 2004
The German Economy During the Nineteenth Century

Pierenkemper, T. & Tilly, R.

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

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eBook available Published September 2025
German Elementary Education from 1890 to 1945

Lessons about Religion, Home, and Fatherland

Kennedy, K.

Analyzing the correlation between the educational system and ideas about religion, community, and nationhood, German Elementary Education from 1890 to 1945 highlights how an investment in children’s moral and national education united the Wilhelmine, Weimar, and Nazi eras, providing a vital lens for charting the continuities and changes within German society.

Subjects: History: World War I History: World War II Genocide History

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A German General and the Armenian Genocide

Otto Liman von Sanders Between Honor and State

Mirak-Weissbach, M.

An enlightening reassessment of the German General, Otto Liman von Sanders’ life, this book uses original archival materials to present a more nuanced insight into Liman von Sanders’ role in the Armenian genocide, in order to explore wider ethical questions concerning the nature of morality and justice in military conflict.

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

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German History 1789-1871

From the Holy Roman Empire to the Bismarckian Reich

Brose, E.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

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Forthcoming December 2026
German Identity and Transnational Nazism in Southwest Africa, 1918-1948

Citizens of the Enemy

Goodfellow, S.

Samuel Huston Goodfellow examines the spread of Nazism from Germany to Southwest Africa, where former colonists sought to preserve German culture and reclaim influence. When the South African administration interned Germans at the start of the war, competing priorities between local and homeland Germans divided support for Hitler.

Subjects: History: World War II Colonial History
Published October 2008
German Literature in a New Century

Trends, Traditions, Transitions, Transformations

Gerstenberger, K. & Herminghouse, P. (eds)

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

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eBook available Published 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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Published June 2001
German Minorities in Europe

Ethnic Identity and Cultural Belonging

Wolff, S. (ed)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

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Published October 2003
German Public Policy and Federalism

Current Debates on Political, Legal, and Social Issues

Gunlicks, A. B. (ed)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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German Railroads, Jewish Souls

The Reichsbahn, Bureaucracy, and the Final Solution

Browning, C. R., Hayes, P. & Hilberg, R.

This book centers around preeminent Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg’s landmark study of Nazi railways and their roles within the Jewish genocide. Supplemented with additional writings from Hilberg, primary source materials, and a comprehensive historical survey from leading scholars Christopher Browning and Peter Hayes, this is a rich and accessible introduction to a topic in Holocaust history that remains understudied even today.

Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History Transport Studies

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The German Right in the Weimar Republic

Studies in the History of German Conservatism, Nationalism, and Antisemitism

Jones, L. E. (ed)

“The individual chapters range in quality from good to excellent....[and offer] a judicious mix of work from prominent academics and younger scholars. The weighing up of continuities and discontinuities between the Right and Nazism is well considered and offers refreshingly new insights into the history of inter-war Germany.” · Conan Fischer, University of St. Andrews

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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German Rule, African Subjects

State Aspirations and the Reality of Power in Colonial Namibia

Zimmerer, J.

This classic study, now available for the first time in English, explains how German colonial ambitions foundered in present-day Namibia. As it shows, the highly rationalized planning of Wilhelmine authorities could not accommodate the practical, lived realities of both colonizer and colonized.

Subjects: Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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eBook available Published January 2005
German Scholars and Ethnic Cleansing, 1919-1945

Haar, I. & Fahlbusch, M. (eds)

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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Published March 2004
German Security Policy in the 21st Century

Problems, Partners and Perspectives

Mey, H.

Subject: Peace and Conflict Studies

Hb
Published October 1999
The German Skills Machine

Sustaining Comparative Advantage in a Global Economy

Culpepper, P. & Finegold, D. (eds)

Subject: History (General)

Hb
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Published February 2013
The German Student Movement and the Literary Imagination

Transnational Memories of Protest and Dissent

Rinner, S.

Subjects: Literary Studies History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published August 2016
German Television

Historical and Theoretical Perspectives

Powell, L. & Shandley, Robert R. (eds)

Long overlooked by scholars and critics, the history and aesthetics of German television have only recently begun to attract serious, sustained attention, and then largely within Germany. This ambitious volume collects penetrating essays on the distinctive theories, practices, and social-historical contexts that defined television in Germany.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies

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Published January 2001
The German-American Encounter

Conflict and Cooperation between Two Cultures, 1800-2000

Trommler, F. & Shore, E. (eds)

Subject: History (General)

Hb
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German–Jewish Studies

Next Generations

Wallach, K. & Elyada. A. (eds)

Applying current and evolving interdisciplinary scholarship to bring an original and comprehensive assessment of why German-Jewish studies as a field is vital to further our understanding of antisemitism, racism, and coloniality, German-Jewish Studies: Next Generations grounds the field’s necessity to the future of scholarship in the twenty-first century.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Jewish Studies

Hb
Published August 2015
Germans Against Nazism

Nonconformity, Opposition and Resistance in the Third Reich: Essays in Honour of Peter Hoffmann

Nicosia, F. R. & Stokes, L. D. (eds)

Rather than being accepted by all of German society, the Nazi regime was resisted in both passive and active forms. This volume examines opposition to National Socialism by Germans during the Third Reich in its broadest sense.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Pb
Published November 2015
The Germans and the Holocaust

Popular Responses to the Persecution and Murder of the Jews

Schrafstetter, S. & Steinweis, A. E. (eds)

For decades, historians have debated how and to what extent the Holocaust penetrated the German national consciousness between 1933 and 1945. This compact volume brings together six historical investigations into the subject from leading scholars, employing newly accessible and previously underexploited evidence.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Jewish Studies Genocide History

Hb
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Published March 2006
Germans No More

Accounts of Jewish Everyday Life, 1933-1938

Limberg, M. & Rübsaat, H. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Jewish Studies

Hb
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Published October 2001
Germany and America

Essays in Honor of Gerald R. Kleinfeld

Friedrich, W.-U. (ed)

Subject: History (General)

Hb
eBook available Published July 2013
Germany and the Black Diaspora

Points of Contact, 1250-1914

Honeck, M., Klimke, M., & Kuhlmann, A. (eds)

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History

Hb
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Germany and the Confessional Divide

Religious Tensions and Political Culture, 1871-1989

Ruff, M. E. & Großbölting, T. (eds)

Germany confessional identities developed against cultural, religious, and political tensions in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Unpacking the conflicted religious history, this collection focuses on defining traumatic events, tracing their origins across division between Catholics and Protestants, hinderance of German unification, and transforming religious identities, allegiances, and practices

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

Hb
eBook available Published December 2018
Germany and the Middle East

From Kaiser Wilhelm II to Angela Merkel

Steininger, R.

For more than a hundred years, persistent conflict in the Middle East has led global superpowers like Germany to become involved. Germany and the Middle East encounters in detail how the nation came to accept its historical responsibility towards newer states in the Middle East, and how major developments of the twentieth century shaped its approach to the region.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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Published April 2015
Germany and 'The West'

The History of a Modern Concept

Bavaj, R. & Steber, M. (eds)

In the nineteenth century “the West” became associated with notions of progress, liberty, civilization, and modernity. Examining the shifting meanings, political uses, and transnational circulations of the idea of “the West” sheds new light on German intellectual history from the post-Napoleonic era to the Cold War.

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

Hb
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Published October 2019
Germany On Their Minds

German Jewish Refugees in the United States and Their Relationships with Germany, 1938–1988

Schenderlein, A. C.

Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s, the United States granted asylum to approximately ninety thousand German Jews fleeing the horrors of the Third Reich. Author Anne C. Schenderlein gives a fascinating account of these entangled histories on both sides of the Atlantic and demonstrates the remarkable extent to which German Jewish refugees helped shape the course of West German democratization.

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

Paperback available
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Germany’s Struggle for Modernity

Society, Economy, Culture, and Politics, 1789-1918

Kocka, J.

In this history of Germany from 1780 to 1918, Jürgen Kocka re-examines the seismic changes that took place within society, economy, culture, and politics. Innovatively resituating these developments within a wider, European context, this book provides fresh insights into the emergence of classical modernity within the nineteenth century.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I

Hb
Published October 1999
Germany's Difficult Passage to Modernity

Breakdown, Breakup, Breakthrough

Lankowski, C. (ed)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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Published January 1995
Germany's New Politics

Parties and Issues in the 1990s

Conradt, D., Kleinfeld, G. R., Romoser, G. K. & Søe, C. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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The Gift of European Thought and the Cost of Living

Argyrou, V.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
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The Girl in the Pandemic

Transnational Perspectives

Mitchell, C. & Smith, A. (eds)

The early and critical stages of the pandemic presented exacerbated risks to the lives of girls and young women. The Girl in the Pandemic takes a diverse range of scholars across the world, particularly from the Global South, to document and contribute to a large narrative of what a post-pandemic future may bring for girls and young women.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Development Studies Sociology

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The Girl in the Text

Smith, A. (ed)

How are girls represented in written and graphic texts, and how do these representations inform our understanding of girlhood? In this volume, contributors examine the girl in the text in order to explore a range of perspectives on girlhood across borders and in relation to their positionality.

Subjects: Literary Studies Sociology Anthropology (General)

Hb
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Published December 2003
Girl Making

A Cross-Cultural Ethnography on the Processes of Growing Up Female

Bloustien, G.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

Hb
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Published January 2016
Girlhood and the Politics of Place

Mitchell, C. & Rentschler, C. (eds)

Examining context-specific conditions in which girls live, learn, work, play, and organize deepens the understanding of place-making practices of girls and young women worldwide. This book offers a comprehensive reading on how girlhood scholars construct and deploy research frameworks that directly engage girls in the research process.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

Paperback available
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Girls in Global Development

Figurations of Gendered Power

Switzer, H., Desai, K., & Bent, E. (eds)

Slating new directions in conversations surrounding gender, development, human rights, investment, and equality, Girls in Global Development theorizes the intersection of girlhood and global development through the novel concept of “Girls in Development” or GID.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Development Studies Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published January 2025
Girls Take Action

Activism Networks by, for, and with Girls and Young Women

Vanner, C. (ed)

An illuminating examination of activism networks run for, by, and with girls and young women globally, Girls Take Action highlights the myriad ways girls and young women are exercising their agency in the face of injustice, considering especially the role collaboration plays in creating a more transnational understanding of girlhood.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published March 2026
The Give and Take of Wind

History, Struggle and Renewable Energy in the Mediterranean

Cappello, E.

This book addresses the industrial crises, environmental issues, and local attitudes toward energy transitions through case studies in Sardinia and San Pietro. By approaching European transitional politics from an ethnographic perspective, this study focuses on the practices, frameworks and alternative strategies of those who resist the EU Green Deal.

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

Hb
eBook available Published January 2023
Glimpses of Hope

The Rise of Industrial Labor at the Urban Margins of Nepal

Hoffmann, M.

Over the last decade, Nepal has witnessed significant urban growth and an expanding urban middle class. Glimpses of Hope tells the story of the people who enable some of the middle class consumer practices in urban Nepal. The book focuses on workers in modern food-processing, water-bottling, house building, and sand-mining industries and explores how workers see such forms of work, where union organization can help, and how work opportunities emerge along lines of gender and ethnicity.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published October 2018
The Global Age-Friendly Community Movement

A Critical Appraisal

Stafford, P. B. (ed)

This book provides an introduction to the global phenomenon of the age-friendly community movement, through an extensive collection of international case studies by researchers and practitioners. It explores current tensions in the movement and offers a wide-ranging set of recommendations for advancing age-friendly community development.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

Hb
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Published June 2007
Global Ambitions and Local Identities

An Israeli-American High-Tech Merger

Ailon, G.

This study of a successful Israeli high-tech company's merger with an American competitor offers an important contribution to a better understanding of the social and personal ramifications of mergers. Based upon in-depth fieldwork, the book explores the reality behind the statistics, balance sheets, and managerial prescriptions that are the focus of most studies of international mergers and acquisitions.

Subject: Applied Anthropology

Hb
eBook available Published October 2017
Global Exchanges

Scholarships and Transnational Circulations in the Modern World

Tournès, L. & Scott-Smith, G. (eds)

Exchanges between different cultures and institutions of learning have taken place for centuries, yet formal exchange programs did not exist until the 20th century. The essays in Global Exchanges examine the most important scholarship programs, exploring the essential contributions of organized exchange.

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

Hb
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Global Fluids

The Cultural Politics of Reproductive Waste and Value

Kroløkke, C.

Embedded in feminist communication, sociological, and anthropological scholarship, Global Fluids examines the ways in which women’s body products (such as urine, eggs, and placentas) become valuable ingredients in the fertility and cosmetics industries, and develops cultural politics of reusability and extensibility to discuss the moral limits of their global distribution.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

Hb
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A Global History of Right-wing Terrorism

Hof, T.

Spanning from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, Hof traces the global evolution of right-wing terrorism across time and continents. Through vivid case studies set in diverse historical and social contexts, he reveals how terrorist movements have transformed, adapted, and connected through transnational networks.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

Hb
Published September 2007
The Global Idea of ‘The Commons’

Nonini, D. M. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
eBook available Published June 2018
The Global Life of Austerity

Comparing Beyond Europe

Rakopoulos, T. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Pb
eBook available Published July 2024
The Global Life of Mines

Mining and Post-Mining in Comparative Perspective

Pusceddu, A. M. & Zerilli, F. M. (eds)

The Global Life of Mines provides a comprehensive framework examining the spatial and temporal relationships between mining and postmining as interrelated and coexisting features within the global minescape.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Development Studies

Hb
Published June 2001
Global Migrants, Global Refugees

Problems and Solutions

Zolberg, A. & Benda, P. (eds)

Subject: Refugee and Migration Studies

Hb
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eBook available Published August 2024
The Global Pontificate of Pius XII

War and Genocide, Reconstruction and Change, 1939-1958

Unger-Alvi, S. & Valbousquet, N. (eds)

Following Vatican archives opening up access to materials on the pontificate of Pius XII (1939-1958), the contributors to this volume were amongst the first to access these long-awaited records. They have analyzed them here to present a nuanced and revitalized approach to religious, modern post-war historiography.

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present Anthropology of Religion

Hb
eBook available Published March 2018
Global Sustainability and Communities of Practice

Maida, C. A. & Beck, S, (eds)

Using case-based and theoretical chapters that examine rural and urban communities of practice, this volume illustrates how participatory researchers and students as well as policy and community leaders find ways to engage with the broader public when it comes to global sustainability research and practice. Collaboration between experts and the public is vital for effective community engagement aimed at improving the lives of the most vulnerable in society, whether at the local or global level.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Hb
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Published July 2004
Globalization

Some Critical Issues

Chun, A. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
eBook available Published December 2002
Globalization in Southeast Asia

Local, National, and Transnational Perspectives

Yamashita, S. & Eades, J.S. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies

Hb
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Globalized Fatherhood

Inhorn, M. C., Chavkin, W. & Navarro, J.-A. (eds)

Looking through a twenty-first century lens, anthropologists, sociologists, and cultural geographers consider fatherhood from Peru to India to Vietnam. The volume highlights the globally emergent, transnationally inflected transformations in fathering, fatherhood, and family life, suggesting that men throughout the world are responding to globalization as fathers in creative and unprecedented ways.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
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Globalizing Automobilism

Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900–1980

Mom, G.

Why has “car society” proven so durable, even in the face of mounting environmental and economic crises? In this follow-up to his magisterial Atlantic Automobilism, Gijs Mom traces the global spread of the automobile in the postwar era and investigates why adopting more sustainable forms of mobility has proven so difficult.

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

Hb
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eBook available Published May 2026
God in the Machine

The Ganesh Yourself Experiment

Grimaud, E.

A teleoperated robot roaming in the streets of Mumbai enables anyone to put oneself in the place of the Hindu god Ganesha and have a conversation. God in the Machine explores the Ganesh Yourself experiment, a fascinating exercise in anthropology that leads to a radical deconstruction of religion, politics, and technology.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology Sociology

Hb
Published May 2008
God-botherers and Other True-believers

Gandhi, Hitler, and the Religious Right

Bailey, F. G.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

Hb
eBook available Published August 2017
A Goddess in Motion

Visual Creativity in the Cult of María Lionza

Canals, R.

Shedding light on the role of visual creativity in religion, Canals explores the current practice of the cult of María Lionza, one of the most important and yet unexplored religious practices in Venezuela.

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

Hb
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eBook available Published April 2010
Godless Intellectuals?

The Intellectual Pursuit of the Sacred Reinvented

Riley, A. T.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology of Religion

Hb
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Published December 2006
God's Eugenicist

Alexis Carrel and the Sociobiology of Decline

Reggiani, A

Subject: History (General)

Hb
eBook available Published May 2007
Going First Class?

New Approaches to Privileged Travel and Movement

Amit, V. (ed)

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Mobility Studies Refugee and Migration Studies

Hb
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eBook available Published September 2020
Going Forward by Looking Back

Archaeological Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, and Collapse

Riede, F. & Sheets, P. (eds)

Catastrophes are on the rise due to climate change, as is their toll in terms of lives and livelihoods as world populations rise and people locate into hazardous places. This book catalogues a wide and diverse range of case studies of such disasters and human responses. This heritage of past disasters serves as inspiration for building culturally sensitive adaptions to present and future calamities, to mitigate their impacts, and facilitate recoveries.

Subjects: Archaeology Applied Anthropology Environmental Studies (General)

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Published February 2019
Going to Pentecost

An Experimental Approach to Studies in Pentecostalism

Eriksen, A. Blanes, R. L., MacCarthy, M.

Co-authored by three anthropologists with long–term expertise studying Pentecostalism in Africa and Melanesia, and in recognition of the increasingly non-territorial nature of religion in the contemporary world, Going to Pentecost offers an experimental approach to the study of global religious movements, and Pentecostalism in particular.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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Published March 2013
The Golden Chain

Family, Civil Society and the State

Nautz, J., Ginsborg, P., & Nijhuis, T. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published November 2021
Good Enough Mothers

Practicing Nurture and Motherhood in Chiapas, Mexico

López, JM

Motherhood in Mexico is profoundly shaped by the legacy of colonialism. This ethnography situates motherhood in a critical global health analysis of maternal health inequalities and interventions in the southeast state of Chiapas.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published May 2017
The Good Holiday

Development, Tourism and the Politics of Benevolence in Mozambique

Baptista, J. A.

Drawing on ethnographic research in the village of Canhane, host to the first community tourism project in Mozambique, this volume explores the influence of development and tourism in relation to ethics, and non-state governance in contemporary life.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Travel and Tourism

Hb
Published January 2010
Governing Fear

Baldini, G. & Cento Bull, A. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Pb
Published August 2024
Governing Migration Through Paperwork

Legitimation Practices, Exclusive Inclusion and Differentiation

Andreetta, S. & Borrelli, L. M. (eds)

Based on ethnographic studies in various geographical and bureaucratic contexts, this collection shows how civil servants produce statehood, restrict migrants’ movements and engage with migrants’ strategies to make themselves legible. It contributes to the study of the state as documentary practice and highlights the role of paperwork as powerful practice of migration control.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
Published December 2016
Governing Under Constraint

Carbone, M. & Piattoni, S. (eds)

In 2015, Matteo Renzi’s government continued to elicit contrasting reactions while dealing with both internal and external constraints. Although the success of the 2015 Universal Exposition in Milan helped to bolster the image of the country, Italy continued to play a marginal role in key international areas, such as migration, European austerity policies, and the fight against terrorism.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Pb
eBook available Published May 2017
Grace after Genocide

Cambodians in the United States

Mortland, C. A.

Grace after Genocide is the first comprehensive ethnography of Cambodian refugees, charting their struggle to transition from agrarian life to survival in post-industrial America, while still maintaining their Cambodian identities. The ethnography details how America’s mid-twentieth century involvement in Southeast Asia has had enormous consequences on Khmer refugees and their children.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

Hb
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Published December 2004
Grammars of Identity / Alterity

A Structural Approach

Baumann, G. & Gingrich, A. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Hb
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Published August 2011
Grassroots Memorials

The Politics of Memorializing Traumatic Death

Margry, P. J. & Sánchez-Carretero, C. (eds)

Subjects: Heritage Studies Peace and Conflict Studies Urban Studies Memory Studies

Hb
Published July 2005
Gray Zones

Ambiguity and Compromise in the Holocaust and its Aftermath

Petropolous, J. & Roth, J. (eds)

Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies

Hb
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Published May 2022
Grazing Communities

Pastoralism on the Move and Biocultural Heritage Frictions

Bindi, L. (ed)

The present critical discourse on sustainable and responsible development implies a change of practices, a huge socio-economic transformation, and the return of new shepherds and herders in different European regions. This book is an occasion to reconsider grazing communities’ frictions in the new global heritage scenario.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Development Studies

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Published October 2011
Great Expectations

Imagination and Anticipation in Tourism

Skinner, J. & Theodossopoulos, D. (eds)

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

Hb
Published November 1998
The Great Immigration

Russian Jews in Israel

Siegel, D.

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

Hb
Published December 2017
The Great Reform That Never Was

Chiaramonte, A. & Wilson, A. (eds)

In Italy, 2016 was meant to be the year of the “great reform,” a constitutional revision that would have concluded the never-ending transition from “First” to “Second” Republic, a long process involving several transformations in the electoral system and party system since the 1990s. It did not turn out this way.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Pb
Published February 2015
The Great Reimagining

Public Art, Urban Space, and the Symbolic Landscapes of a 'New' Northern Ireland

Hocking, B. T.

Offering a detailed ethnographic account of Northern Ireland’s post-conflict visual transformation, this book examines the official effort to produce new civic images against a backdrop of ongoing political and social struggle.

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
eBook available Published October 2003
The Great Tradition and Its Legacy

The Evolution of Dramatic and Musical Theater in Austria and Central Europe

Cherlin, M., Filipowicz, H. & Rudolph, R. L. (eds)

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Performance Studies Literary Studies

Hb
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Published September 2000
The Great Train Race

Railways and the Franco-German Rivalry, 1815-1914

Mitchell, A.

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

Hb
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Published January 2015
The Greater German Reich and the Jews

Nazi Persecution Policies in the Annexed Territories 1935-1945

Gruner, W. & Osterloh, J. (eds)

Between 1935 and 1940, the Nazis incorporated large portions of Europe into the German Reich. The contributors to this volume analyze the evolving anti-Jewish policies in the annexed territories and their impact on the Jewish population, as well as the attitudes and actions of non-Jews, Germans, and indigenous populations.

Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History

Hb
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eBook available Published April 2017
The Greek Exodus from Egypt

Diaspora Politics and Emigration, 1937-1962

Dalachanis, A.

This painstakingly researched book explains how Egypt’s once-robust Greek population dwindled to virtually nothing, beginning with the abolition of foreigners’ privileges in 1937 and culminating in the nationalist revolution of 1952. It reconstructs the delicate sociopolitical circumstances that Greeks had to navigate during this period, tracing the complex causes of demographic decline.

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

Hb
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eBook available Published September 2021
The Greek Military Dictatorship

Revisiting a Troubled Past, 1967–1974

Anastasakis, O. & Lagos, K. (eds)

From 1967 to 1974, the military junta ruling Greece attempted a dramatic reshaping of the nation, implementing ideas and policies that, for better or for worse, left an indelible mark on both domestic affairs and international relations. Bringing together leading scholars from a range of disciplines, The Greek Military Dictatorship provides a fresh and nuanced reassessment of this era.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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eBook available Published March 2026
The Greek War of Independence

Impact, Perceptions, and Transformation Within and Beyond the Empire

Moiras, L., Christofis, N., & Lamprou, A., (Eds.)

The Greek Revolution of 1821 reshaped the Eastern Mediterranean and reverberated across the globe. Moving beyond traditional nationalist historiography, this study draws on recent transnational and Ottoman-centered scholarship to examine how diaspora networks, European Philhellenes, and great power rivalries transformed a regional revolt into an international cause.

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

Hb
Published April 2013
Greek Whisky

The Localization of a Global Commodity

Bampilis, T.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

Hb
Published June 2006
Green Encounters

Shaping and Contesting Environmentalism in Rural Costa Rica

Vivanco, L. A.

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

Hb
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eBook available Published March 2025
Groundwater Politics

Advanced Extractivism and Slow Resistance

Babidge, S.

The expanding mining industry in the Indigenous Atacameño-Likanantay territories in the hyper-arid Salar de Atacama in Chile are linked to the ecological harm to groundwater. The book addresses recent socioeconomic and political conditions it calls ‘advanced extractivism’ and asks how both ecological harm and mining economies are sustained.

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

Hb
Published March 2003
Group Identities on French and British Television

Scriven, M. & Roberts, E. (eds)

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

Hb
Published August 2013
Growing Artefacts, Displaying Relationships

Yams, Art and Technology amongst the Nyamikum Abelam of Papua New Guinea

Coupaye, L.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Heritage Studies

Hb
eBook available Published June 2011
Growing Up in Central Australia

New Anthropological Studies of Aboriginal Childhood and Adolescence

Eickelkamp, U. (ed)

This volume presents recent and original studies of life experiences outside the institutional settings of childcare and education, of those growing up in contemporary Central Australia or with strong links to the region.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published October 2017
Growing Up in Transit

The Politics of Belonging at an International School

Tanu, D.

Tanu offers the first ethnographic study of young people who experience high levels of international mobility while growing up, either moving across national borders or by attending international schools with trans-national student bodies.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Educational Studies

Hb
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eBook available Published January 2023
The Guardians of Concepts

Political Languages of Conservatism in Britain and West Germany, 1945-1980

Steber, M.

Since 1945, German and British intellectuals and politicians have struggled to define the term “conservative” throughout its complicated history. The Guardians of Concepts rigorously uncovers the changes in the idea of conservatism and its national and transnational political language history.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
eBook available Published October 2021
Guido Goldman

Transatlantic Bridge Builder

Klingst, M.

Guido Goldman was one of the most distinguished protagonists of the reintegration of Germany into the international community after the defeat of Nazism in 1945. This biography looks at his remarkable life from his establishment of the German Marshall Fund to establishing the Center for European Studies at Harvard University.

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

Hb
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Gulag Memories

The Rediscovery and Commemoration of Russia's Repressive Past

Bogumił, Z.

Gulag Memories explores the impact of the Gulag on collective memory as it applies to the language of commemoration in Russia, focusing on four regions particularly affected by the Gulag: Solovetsky Islands, the Komi Republic, the Perm region, and Kolyma.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies

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eBook available Published May 2019
Gustav Stresemann

The Crossover Artist

Pohl, K. H.

Gustav Stresemann has become a steadfast icon and key figure in understanding contemporary German and European history. Renowned historian Karl Heinrich Pohl draws on new archival material and extensive research to supplement our previous knowledge of Stresmann’s life and work.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present History (General)

Hb
Published November 2015
Gypsy Economy

Romani Livelihoods and Notions of Worth in the 21st Century

Brazzabeni, M., Ivone Cunha, M., & Fotta, M. (eds)

Roma and Gypsy economic arrangements are complexly related to social position. Authors ethnographically studied these complexities, exploring how, despite — or perhaps because of — their unstable and ambiguous position within the market economy, Roma and Gypsy communities continuously re-create more or less viable economic strategies.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Forthcoming December 2026
Habitable Air

Pollution and Inequality in the Time of Climate Change

Chance, K. (Eds.)

This book examines how struggles over air connect to urban inequality, political division, and climate change. Focusing on communities on the margins of energy hubs, it explores the social and health effects of pollution, and shows how long-standing conflicts over industrial toxicity are being reshaped by the growing role of climate science.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Urban Studies
eBook available Published May 2025
Habsburg Civil Servants

Between Civil Society and the State

Maxwell, A. & Ličen, D. (eds)

An innovative exploration of the lives of Habsburg civil servants from the nineteenth century onwards, this volume spotlights the role they played in maintaining the Habsburg Empire’s rule over geographically disparate domains. In doing so, Habsburg Civil Servants illuminates how this social group both constituted and challenged state power.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century History: World War I

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Published November 2025
Habsburg Natures

Imperial Governance and Environment in Central Europe, 1850-1918

Daheur, J. & Lučić, I. (eds)

An exacting analysis of the correlation between the environment and power, Habsburg Natures explores how the natural world fundamentally shaped the political and economic landscape within the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1850 to 1918.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)
eBook available Published September 2010
The Hadrami Diaspora

Community-Building on the Indian Ocean Rim

Manger, L.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published May 2017
Hairy Hippies and Bloody Butchers

The Greenpeace Anti-Whaling Campaign in Norway

Riese, J.

This book provides an inside look at Greenpeace’s decades-long campaign against the Norwegian whaling industry. Combining historical narrative with sophisticated systems-theory analysis, it examines the organization’s failure to end Norwegian whaling, providing valuable lessons for other protest movements.

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

Hb
eBook available Published June 2025
Hammerstein’s Daughters

An Aristocratic Family Caught Between Tradition and Resistance

Paasche, G.

An enlightening chronicle of General Kurt von Hammerstein’s daughters, Marie Louise, Maria Therese, and Helga, and their attempts to thwart Hitler’s regime, this book provides an unrivalled insight into an overlooked history of tradition, resistance, adaptation, and rebellion in Nazi Germany.

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

Hb
eBook available Published December 2007
Hannah Arendt and the Uses of History

Imperialism, Nation, Race, and Genocide

King, R. H. & Stone, D. (eds)

Subjects: Genocide History Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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Published April 1998
Haunted by History

Myths in International Relations

Buffet, C. & Heuser, B. (eds)

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

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eBook available Published 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

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eBook available Published March 2025
Haunting Ruins

Ethnographies of Ruination and Decay

Gamberi, V. & Calzana, C. (eds)

Ruins, rubble and decaying material can foster a more layered theory of time, change and memory. The seven ethnographic case studies in Haunting Ruins trace human engagements with the temporal forces of ruins, which can trace the past and transform the present.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology

Hb
eBook available Published April 2016
Having and Belonging

Homes and Museums in Israel

Jaffe-Schagen, J.

This book draws striking connections between the supposedly divergent spheres of home and museum, which both house objects and generate social narratives. Through fascinating explorations of the museums and domestic spaces of eight Israeli communities, it gives a powerful account of museums’ role in state formation, proposing a new approach for societies in conflict.

Subjects: Museum Studies Heritage Studies Refugee and Migration Studies

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eBook available Published August 2019
Hazardous Chemicals

Agents of Risk and Change, 1800-2000

Homburg, E. & Vaupel, E. (eds)

Covering a host of both notorious and little-known substances, the chapters in this collection investigate the emergence of specific toxic, pathogenic, carcinogenic, and ecologically harmful chemicals as well as the scientific, cultural and legislative responses they have prompted over the past two hundred years.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published March 2018
Heading for the Scene of the Crash

The Cultural Analysis of America

Drummond, L.

Refashioning cultural analysis into a hard-edged tool for the study of American society and culture, Lee Drummond explores the 9/11 terrorist attacks, abortion, sports doping, and the Jonestown massacre-suicides, providing the basis for a new theory of culture grounded in the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
Published September 2011
Headlines of Nation, Subtexts of Class

Working Class Populism and the Return of the Repressed in Neoliberal Europe

Kalb, D. & Halmai, G. (eds)

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
eBook available Published March 2024
Healing and Harm

Essays in Honor of Mary Lindemann

Heinsen-Roach, E., Lazer, S., Marschke, B., Poley, J., & Riches, D. (eds)

Professor Mary Lindemann’s career inspired several generations of researchers in early modern German history and culture. In Healing and Harm, scholars at the height of the field speak to key continuations of subjects stemming from the marked breakpoints across Lindemann’s wide body of work.

Subject: History: Medieval/Early Modern

Hb
Forthcoming October 2026
The Healing Machi

An Ethnography of Mapuche Medicine Efficacies

Barros, A.

This book is an ethnography on Mapuche ritual healing transformations from the perspective of the phenomenology of the body. It explores how people identify a Mapuche shaman, or a “real Machi”, a person who can both see illness and misfortune through divinatory techniques, and experience ritual trance to make ‘spirits from the past’ present.

Subject: Medical Anthropology
Published February 2015
Healing Roots

Anthropology in Life and Medicine

Laplante, J.

Laplante follows umhlonyane — one of the oldest and best-documented indigenous medicines in South Africa. The volume follows the plant anthropologically on its trails and trials of becoming a biopharmaceutical — from the “open air” to controlled environments — learning from the plant itself, and from the people who use it with hopes in healing.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Hb
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Published September 2016
Health and Difference

Rendering Human Variation in Colonial Engagements

Widmer, A. & Lipphardt, V. (eds)

In this volume, contributors follow physicians, demographers, nutrition experts, physical anthropologists, colonial agents, military officials and missionaries in colonies all over the globe, with specific attention to how they tried to sort out pressing health problems of populations they perceived to be diverse.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Colonial History

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eBook available Published November 2008
Health, Risk, and Adversity

Panter-Brick, C. & Fuentes, A. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Hb
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eBook available Published August 2018
Healthcare in Motion

Immobilities in Health Service Delivery and Access

Vindrola-Padros, C., Johnson G. A., & Pfister, A. E. (eds)

Healthcare in Motion explores the dynamic interrelationship between mobility and healthcare, drawing on case studies from across the world and examining the day-to-day practices of patients and professionals. It considers how the need for health services engenders particular (im)mobility forms, and how mobility is experienced and imagined when it is required for healthcare.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Medical Anthropology

Hb
Published November 2006
Heart of Lightness

The Life Story of an Anthropologist

Turner, E.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
Published July 1996
The Hegemonic Male

Masculinity in a Portuguese Town

Vale de Almeida, M.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published September 2020
Heirs of the Bamboo

Identity and Ambivalence among the Eurasian Macanese

Gaspar, M. C.

Heirs of the Bamboo is about the Macanese who left Macao and now live in Portugal and looks at their interactions with their counterparts in Macao and elsewhere in the diaspora, using the Internet.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

Hb
eBook available Published May 2023
Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe

The Social Life of Asia Minor Refugees in Piraeus

Hirschon, R.

Since its first publication in 1989, this classic study has remained in demand. The third edition of Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe includes updated material with a new Preface, Epilogue, and map of the study area.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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eBook available Published November 2020
The Helmand Baluch

A Native Ethnography of the People of Southwest Afghanistan

Amiri, G. R.

The late Ghulam Rahman Amiri accompanied a joint Aghan-US archaeological mission to the Sistan region of southwest Afghanistan in the 1970s and published the ethnography in Farsi in Kabul in 1987. This volume, the first English translation, describes the cultural, political, and economic systems of the Baluch people living in the lower Helmand River Valley of Afghanistan.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology

Hb
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Published February 2015
Helmut Kohl's Quest for Normality

His Representation of the German Nation and Himself

Wicke, C.

During his political career, Helmut Kohl used his own life story to promote a normalization of German nationalism and to overcome the stigma of the Nazi period. In the context of the cold war and the memory of the fascist past, he was able to exploit the combination of his religious, generational, regional, and educational (PhD in History) experiences by connecting nationalist ideas to particular biographical narratives.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
Published July 2008
Helsinki 1975 and the Transformation of Europe

Bange, O. & Niedhart, G. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
eBook available Published April 2021
The Herero Genocide

War, Emotion, and Extreme Violence in Colonial Namibia

Häussler, M.

Drawing on previously inaccessible and overlooked archival sources, The Herero Genocide undertakes a groundbreaking investigation into the war between colonizer and colonized in what was formerly German South West Africa and is today the nation of Namibia. The result is an indispensable account of a genocide that has been neglected for too long.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History

Hb
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Published October 2016
The Heritage Arena

Reinventing Cheese in the Italian Alps

Grasseni, C.

The Heritage Arena describes the ways in which cheese has been reinvented as a form of cultural heritage through the negotiation and competition of many actors, including cheese-makers, merchants, and Slow Food activists.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition

Hb
eBook available Published November 2019
Heritage Movements in Asia

Cultural Heritage Activism, Politics, and Identity

Mozaffari, A. & Jones, T. (eds)

This volume is unique in that it is dedicated to approaching the analysis of heritage through the concepts of social movements. Adapting the latest developments in the field of social movements, the chapters examine the formation, use and contestation of heritage by various official, non-official and activist players and the spaces where such ongoing negotiations and contestation take place.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Museum Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published October 2021
Heritage under Socialism

Preservation in Eastern and Central Europe, 1945–1991

Gantner, E. B., Geering, C., & Vickers, P. (ed)

Heritage under Socialism enriches the conceptual, methodological and empirical scope of heritage studies. Its transnational approach highlights the socialist world’s diverse interpretations of heritage and its trajectories in post-socialist preservation practices, thus providing new perspectives on the way heritage has been shaped in the recent past.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Heritage Studies Memory Studies

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eBook available Published July 2022
Heritage, Gentrification and Resistance in the Neoliberal City

Hammami, F., Jewesbury, D., & Valli, C. (eds)

What happens when versions of the past become silenced, suppressed or privileged due to urban restructuring? In this volume, the authors explore a variety of attempts to interrupt and interrogate urban restructuring, and to imagine alternative forms of urban organization, produced by diverse coalitions of resisting groups and individuals. Armed with historical narratives, oral histories, objects, physical built environment, memorials and intangible aspects of heritage that include traditions, local knowledge, experiences and memories, authors challenge the ‘devaluation’ of their neighbourhoods in official heritage and development narratives.

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

Hb
Published November 2013
The Hidden History of Crime, Corruption, and States

Bridenthal, R. (ed)

Subject: History (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published 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

Hb
eBook available Published December 2008
Hierarchy

Persistence and Transformation in Social Formations

Rio, K. & Smedal, O. H. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Hb
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eBook available Published August 2018
Hierarchy and Value

Comparative Perspectives on Moral Order

Hickel, J. & Haynes, N. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Hb
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eBook available Published January 2014
Hindi Is Our Ground, English Is Our Sky

Education, Language, and Social Class in Contemporary India

LaDousa, C.

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
Published June 2007
Historical Concepts Between Eastern and Western Europe

Hildermeier, M. (ed)

Subject: History (General)

Hb
eBook available Published June 2010
Historical Memory in Africa

Dealing with the Past, Reaching for the Future in an Intercultural Context

Diawara, M., Lategan, B., & Rüsen, J. (eds)

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

Hb
Paperback available
Published September 2003
The Historical Practice of Diversity

Transcultural Interactions from the Early Modern Mediterranean to the Postcolonial World

Hoerder, D., Harzig, C. & Shubert, A. (eds)

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Cultural Studies (General) Colonial History

Hb
eBook available Published September 2022
Historical Reenactment

New Ways of Experiencing History

Carretero, M., Wagoner, B., & Perez-Manjarrez, E. (eds)

The increasing number of historical reenactments, along with their growing popularity, are catching both attention in popular culture and in multiple academic disciplines. Historical Reenactment takes a transdisciplinary and global approach to define and theorize reenactments as an embedded cultural and material phenomenon.

Subjects: Memory Studies Performance Studies

Hb
eBook available Published November 2020
Histories of a Radical Book

E. P. Thompson and The Making of the English Working Class

Burton, A. & Fortado, S. (eds)

This collected volume explores the complex impact of E.P. Thompson’s monumental book, The Making of the English Working Class, both as an intellectual project and material object, relating it to the social and cultural history of the book form itself—an enduring artifact of English history.

Subject: Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
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Published July 2010
Histories of the Aftermath

The Legacies of the Second World War in Europe

Biess, F. & Moeller, R. G. (eds)

Subject: History: World War II

Hb
Published January 2005
History

Narration, Interpretation, Orientation

Rüsen, J.

Subject: History (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published June 2018
History and Belonging

Representations of the Past in Contemporary European Politics

Berger, S. & Tekin, C. (eds)

One of the EU’s primary strategies in European unification has been to construct a common representation of European history, yet the question remains: is there an uncontested history of Europe? History and Belonging addresses this question along with many others related to the EU’s post-national identity policies.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published May 2025
History and Historiography in Greece

Recent Trends

Christofis, N. (ed)

A comprehensive and temporally wide-ranging reassessment, History and Historiography in Greece examines how historical scholarship in Greece is evolving by reviewing the ideas, methods, and schools of history shaping the field, how this juxtaposes with international trends, and whether Greek historiographical traditions are developing at the same pace as global trends.

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

Hb
Published May 1995
History and Modernity in Latin America

Barloewen, C. von

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
eBook available Published January 2012
History in the Plural

An Introduction to the Work of Reinhart Koselleck

Olsen, N.

Subject: History (General)

Hb
Paperback available
Published April 2015
The History of Labour Intermediation

Institutions and Finding Employment in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Wadauer, S., Buchner, T., & Mejstrik, A. (eds)

Searching for a job has been an everyday affair in both modern and past societies, and employment a concern for both individuals and institutions. The case studies in this volume investigate job search and placement practices in European countries, Australia, and India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
eBook available Published November 2007
A History of Oxford Anthropology

Rivière, P. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology History (General)

Hb
Paperback available
Published December 2003
The History of the Armenian Genocide

Ethnic Conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus

Dadrian, V. N.

Subject: Genocide History

Pb
eBook available Published December 2025
A History of the I.G. Farben Trial

Armament, Exploitation, Auschwitz

Lindner, S.

In this exacting examination of the history of the I.G. Farben trial, Stephan H. Lindner charts the build up and aftermath of this watershed event, in order to highlight its implications for understanding the complexities of corporate social responsibility and of putting the military-industrial complex on trial.

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

Hb
eBook available Published June 2006
History of the Low Countries

Blom, J. C. H. & Lamberts, E. (eds)

Subject: History (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published January 2014
The History of the Stasi

East Germany's Secret Police, 1945-1990

Gieseke, J.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published March 2023
The History of Thyssen

Family, Industry and Culture in the 20th Century

Schulz, G. & Szöllösi-Janze, M.

The History of Thyssenprovides a summary of a research project funded by the Thyssen Foundations. It is both an explanation of how the project was conceptualized and executed and a detailed case study of a family and business during the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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

Hb
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eBook available Published September 2018
A History Shared and Divided

East and West Germany since the 1970s

Bösch, F. (ed)

Divided History uniquely explores how East and West Germany responded to the new challenges and crises of the 1970s, and reunification. Topics range from political, labor, and business issues to migration and environmental issues, showing how the two German states remained inextricably connected in the 1970s and 1980s.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
a July 2012
Hitler's Volksgemeinschaft and the Dynamics of Racial Exclusion

Violence against Jews in Provincial Germany, 1919–1939

Wildt, M.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History

Paperback available
Published June 2003
Hitler's Dancers

German Modern Dance and the Third Reich

Karina, L & Kant, M.

Subjects: Performance Studies History: World War II Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published August 2012
Hitler's Plans for Global Domination

Nazi Architecture and Ultimate War Aims

Thies, J.

Subject: History: World War II

Hb
Paperback available
Published October 2010
Hitler's Slaves

Life Stories of Forced Labourers in Nazi-Occupied Europe

Plato, A., Leh, A. & Thonfeld, C. (eds)

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

Hb
Published December 2008
Hitler's War in the East, 1941-1945. (3rd Edition)

A Critical Assessment

Müller, R.-D. & Ueberschär, G.R.

Subject: History: World War II

Pb
Published June 2007
Holding Worlds Together

Ethnographies of Knowing and Belonging

Lien, M. E. & Melhuus, M. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Hb
eBook available Published November 2007
Holistic Anthropology

Emergence and Convergence

Parkin, D. & Ulijaszek, S. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology of Religion

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published August 2012
The Holocaust and Historical Methodology

Stone, D. (ed)

Subjects: Genocide History History: World War II

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published September 2019
The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia

Czech Initiatives, German Policies, Jewish Responses

Gruner, W.

After the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Czech and German authorities adopted radicalized anti-Jewish policies, including depriving Jews of their property, hauling them into forced labor, and deporting them to concentration camps. In this pioneering study, Wolf Gruner demonstrates that these proceedings were not only controlled by Berlin, but also driven forward by the Czech government and local authorities.

Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History

Hb
Paperback available
Published March 2005
Holocaust Monuments and National Memory

France and Germany since 1989

Carrier, P.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History Heritage Studies

Hb
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Published December 2011
Holocaust Survivors

Resettlement, Memories, Identities

Ofer, D., Ouzan, F. S., & Baumel-Schwartz, J. D. (eds)

Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies Memory Studies

Hb
eBook available Published October 2010
The Holy Roman Empire, Reconsidered

Coy, J.P., Marschke, B., & Sabean, D.W. (eds)

Subject: History: Medieval/Early Modern

Hb
Paperback available
Published May 2013
Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema

Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity

Fritsche, M.

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

Hb
eBook available Published November 2020
Homo Itinerans

Towards a Global Ethnography of Afghanistan

Monsutti, A.

This book builds on more than two decades of ethnographic itinerancy in some twenty countries, bringing the readers from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran to Europe, North America and Australia. It describes the everyday life and transnational circulations of Afghan refugees and expatriates.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

Hb
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eBook available Published October 2016
Honour and Violence

Gender, Power and Law in Southern Pakistan

Shah, N.

This volume explores the implication of modern law in the seemingly ancient cultural practice of karo kari, which allows male family members to take the lives of female relatives accused of adultery. Drawing connections between local contests over marriage and resources, Nafisa Shah unearths deep historical processes and power relations at work in Upper Sindh, Pakistan.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
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eBook available Published September 2021
Hope and Insufficiency

Capacity Building in Ethnographic Comparison

Douglas-Jones, R. & Shaffner, J. (eds)

Hope and Insufficiency seeks to question the histories, assumptions, intentions, and enactments that has led to the ubiquity of capacity building as an anthropological concept, thereby developing a much-needed critical purchase on its persuasive power.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published March 2024
The Horse in My Blood

Multispecies Kinship in the Altai and Saian Mountains

Peemot, V. S.

Building upon Indigenous research epistemologies, Victoria Peemot engages with the study of how the human-horse relationships interact with each other, experience injustices and develop resilience strategies as multispecies unions.

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

Hb
eBook available Published May 2022
Hotbeds of Licentiousness

The British Glamour Film and the Permissive Society

Halligan, B.

By focusing on a series of colorful filmmakers whose work, while omnipresent during the 1970s, now remains critically ignored, Hotbeds of Licentiousness explores pornography as a lens through which to view radical changes in British society.

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

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published September 2017
House of the Waterlily

A Novel of the Ancient Maya World

Carmean, K.

House of the Waterlily is a historical novel set in the world of the Late Classic Period Maya of the Southern Lowlands. Through the story of Lady Winik, a young Maya noble girl, the reader is immersed in the everyday world of the Maya

Subjects: Archaeology Literary Studies Memory Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
Published July 2006
Household Archaeology on the Northwest Coast

Sobel, E. A., Gahr, D. A. T., & Ames, K. A. (eds)

Since the late 1970s, household archaeology has become a key theoretical and methodological framework for research on the development of permanent social inequality and complexity, as well as for understanding the social, political and economic organization of chiefdoms and states. This volume is the cumulative result of more than a decade of research focusing on household archaeology as a means to gain understanding of the evolution of social complexity, regardless of underlying economy.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published January 2024
Houses Transformed

Anthropological Perspectives on Changing Practices of Dwelling and Building

Alderman, J. & Stolz, R. (eds)

Houses Transformed explores the intersection of house biographies and social change, the politics of housing design, the social fabrication of aspirational houses, the domestication of concrete and the intersection of materiality and ontology, and the rhetoric of the vernacular.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Development Studies

Hb
Published May 2015
Housing and Belonging in Latin America

Klaufus, C. & Ouweneel, A. (eds)

The intricacies of living in contemporary Latin American cities include cases of both empowerment and restriction. This volume captures the paradoxical histories and experiences of urban life in Latin America, offering new empirical and theoretical insights to scholars.

Subjects: Urban Studies Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published September 2008
How Enemies Are Made

Towards a Theory of Ethnic and Religious Conflict

Schlee, G.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

Paperback available
eBook available Published September 2021
How is a Man Supposed to be a Man?

Male Childlessness – a Life Course Disrupted

Hadley, R. A.

The global trend of declining fertility rates and an increasingly ageing population has serious implications for individuals and institutions alike. Childless men are mostly excluded from ageing, social science and reproduction scholarship and almost completely absent from most national statistics. This book examines the lived experiences of a hidden and disenfranchised population: men who wanted to be fathers.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published July 2021
How Kinship Systems Change

On the Dialectics of Practice and Classification

Parkin, R.

Using some of his landmark publications on kinship, along with a new introduction, chapter and conclusion, Robert Parkin discusses here the changes in kinship terminologies and marriage practices, as well as the dialectics between them.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published March 2019
How Materials Matter

Design, Innovation and Materiality in the Pacific

Were, G.

Explores how design and innovation shape people’s lives in the Pacific. Focusing on plant materials from the region, it reveals ways in which a variety of people – from craftswomen and scientists to architects and politicians – work with materials to transform worlds.

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

Hb
Paperback available
Published December 1993
Human Adaptation at Grasshopper Pueblo, Arizona

Social and Ecological Perspectives

Ezzo, J. A.

A detailed study of the bone chemistry of individuals buried at the 14th century Grasshopper Pueblo site is presented in this volume. This is a data-rich study which provides much information for social and economic reconstructions of prehistoric Pueblo adaptation to their environment.

Subject: Archaeology

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Human Diet and Nutrition in Biocultural Perspective

Past Meets Present

Moffat, T. & Prowse, T. (eds)

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Archaeology

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A Human Garden

French Policy and the Transatlantic Legacies of Eugenic Experimentation

Rosental, P.-A.

A Human Garden explains the longevity of the Ungemach Gardens, an experimental eugenic city that survived on the outskirts of Strasbourg from the 1920s to the 1980s. He reveals the inheritance of eugenics, examining ways in which eugenics have come to influence social, health, and educational policymaking in the post-war era.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Published June 2001
Human Nature and the French Revolution

From the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic Code

Martin, X.

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

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Human Nature as Capacity

Transcending Discourse and Classification

Rapport, N. (ed.)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Human Origins

Contributions from Social Anthropology

Power, C., Finnegan, M. & Callan, H. (eds)

Social anthropologists have been conspicuously absent from debates about the origins of modern humans. Human Origins explores why that is, and how social anthropology can shed light on early kinship and economic relations, gender politics, ritual, cosmology, ethnobiology, medicine, and the evolution of language.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Published December 2012
Human Rights Without Democracy?

Reconciling Freedom with Equality

Haller, G.

Subject: History (General)

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Humanism Revisited

An Anthropological Perspective

Pinxten, R.

As heirs of a ‘heteronomic’ tradition, we are still stuck in Eurocentrism (often racism), and now even threaten to ruin nature by destroying biodiversity and causing the climate to warm up dangerously. Applied through an anthropological perspective, this book calls for a NEED-humanism: Not-Eurocentric, Ecological and (economically) Durable approach that can help explore inclusion and pluralism.

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

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Humanitarian Shame and Redemption

Norwegian Citizens Helping Refugees in Greece

Mogstad, H.

Following the 2015 ‘refugee crisis,’ many different actors emerged to contest or mitigate the EU’s border policies. This book explores the birth and trajectory of a Norwegian volunteer organisation “A Drop in the Ocean“, established by a mother of five with no prior experience in humanitarian work.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

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Humanitarianism and Media

1900 to the Present

Paulmann, J. (ed)

Humanitarianism & Media brings together scholars from a variety of backgrounds to offer an unprecedented exploration of the history behind humanitarian efforts and the media, spanning from the late nineteenth century to the present day.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published January 1997
Humanity's Soldier

France and International Security, 1919-2001

Chuter, D.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Humboldt Revisited

The Impact of the German University on American Higher Education

Brandser, G. C.

Humboldt Revisited offers a fresh perspective on the contemporary discourse surrounding reform of European universities. Drawing from a rich selection of historical sources, this volume challenges the conventional historical narratives on the Humboldt University, providing new insight into the American reception of the German ideas.

Subjects: Educational Studies History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Humour, Comedy and Laughter

Obscenities, Paradoxes, Insights and the Renewal of Life

Sciama, L.D. (ed)

Anthropological writings on humour are not numerous, but they do contain insight into the social processes that underlie joking and laughter. This volume examines the cognitive, social, and moral aspects of humour and its potential to bring about a sense of mutual understanding, even among different and possibly hostile people.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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The Hunted

The Holocaust through the Experiences of Twenty European Jews

Welch, S.

A ground-level history of the Holocaust, told through the voices of twenty European Jews. Drawing from diaries and memoirs, it reveals a multiplicity of experiences across countries, classes, and religious backgrounds. Each chapter traces a single year in the protagonists’ lives, placing personal decisions within the context shifting Nazi policies.

Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History History: World War II

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Published April 2000
Hunters and Gatherers in the Modern World

Conflict, Resistance, and Self-Determination

Biesele, M., Hitchcock, R. & Schweitzer, P. (eds)

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

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Published December 2010
Hunters in the Barrens

The Naskapi on the Edge of the White Man's World

Henriksen, G.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness

An Ethnography of the Degraded in Postsocialist Poland

Rakowski, T.

Practitioners of Powerlessness gives a dramatic account of life after the socio-economic transformations of the 1990s in Poland, which left many people impoverished and unemployed.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Hunters, Predators and Prey

Inuit Perceptions of Animals

Laugrand, F. & Oosten, J.

Inuit hunting traditions are rich in perceptions, practices and stories relating to animals and human beings. Laugrand and Oosten examine the roles of animals from the small and non-social, such as the raven, to those considered fellow hunters, the bear and the dog. “Prey par excellence,” or caribou, seals, and the whale, are discussed in conjunction with the renewal of whale hunting.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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Published January 2001
Hunting the Gatherers

Ethnographic Collectors, Agents, and Agency in Melanesia 1870s-1930s

O'Hanlon, M. & Welsch, R. (eds)

Subjects: Museum Studies Theory and Methodology Colonial History Heritage Studies

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Published October 2008
I Dreamed the Animals

Kaniuekutat: The Life of an Innu Hunter

Henriksen, G.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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Ibn Khaldun

Rosen, L.

Ibn Khaldun’s theory of history, economics, and group cohesion has influenced thinkers far beyond his North African homeland. His holistic approach foreshadowed modern social science, blending direct observation with cultural interpretation. A vital precursor to contemporary anthropology, his insights on solidarity, religion, and society remain relevant today.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Ice and Snow in the Cold War

Histories of Extreme Climatic Environments

Herzberg, J., Kehrt, C., & Torma, F. (eds)

This fascinating volume demonstrates that regions such as Alaska, the polar landscapes, and the cold areas of the Soviet periphery were of no small importance during the Cold War. Through histories of these extremely cold environments, this volume makes a novel intervention in Cold War historiography, one whose global and transnational approach undermines the simple opposition of “East” and “West.”

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

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Iconicity of the Uto-Aztecans

Snake Anthropomorphy in the Great Basin, the American Southwest and Mesoamerica

Mukhopadhyay, T. P. & Garfinkel, A. P.

The attempt to study a snake simulacrum thus constitutes the basic objective of this volume. A long, all-embracing iconicity of snakes and related snake motifs are evident in different cultural expressions ranging from rock art templates to other cultural artifacts like basketry, pottery, temple architecture and sculptural motifs.

Subject: Archaeology

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Published February 2007
Identifying with Freedom

Indonesia after Suharto

Day, T (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Published December 2002
Identities

Time, Difference and Boundaries

Friese, H. (ed)

Subjects: History (General) Literary Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Identities and Place

Changing Labels and Intersectional Communities of LGBTQ and Two-Spirit People in the United States

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

With a focus on historic sites, this volume explores the recent history of non- heteronormative Americans from the early twentieth century onward and the places associated with these communities. Authors explore how queer identities are connected with specific places: places where people gather, socialize, protest, mourn, and celebrate. Each chapter is accompanied by prompts and activities that invite readers to think critically and immerse themselves in the subject matter while working collaboratively with others.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies

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Published March 2007
Identity and Networks

Fashioning Gender and Ethnicity across Cultures

Bryceson, D., Okely, J., & Webber, J. (eds)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Theory and Methodology Sociology

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Identity Matters

Ethnic and Sectarian Conflict

Peacock, J. M., Thornton, P. M., and Inman, P. B. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Peace and Conflict Studies

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Published January 2012
Identity Politics and the New Genetics

Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging

Schramm, K., Skinner, D., & Rottenburg, R. (eds)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

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Published August 1997
Identity, Gender and Poverty

New Perspectives on Caste and Tribe in Rajasthan

Unnithan-Kumar, M.

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

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If Cars Could Walk

Postsocialist Streets in Transformation

Duijzings, G. & Tuvikene, T. (eds)

Addressing the transformation of street life in postsocialist cities against the backdrop of the explosive rise of car-mobility in the last 25 years, If Cars Could Walk consists of ethnographic case studies documenting changes in these cities as former socialist modes of mobility are replaced by a culture of privately owned cars.

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

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If Everyone Returned, The Island Would Sink

Urbanisation and Migration in Vanuatu

Petrou, K.

Focusing on the small island of Paama, Vanuatu, and the capital, Port Vila, this book presents a rare and recent study of the ongoing significance of urbanization and internal migration in the Global South.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Refugee and Migration Studies

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Published August 2001
Ignaz Maybaum

A Reader

Lange, N. de (ed)

Subject: Jewish Studies

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Illness and Enlightenment

Exploring Tibetan Perspectives on Madness in Text and Everyday Life

Deane, S.

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the Tibetan region of Amdo in northwest China, Illness and Enlightenment examines Tibetan medical and religious texts, to explore the multi-faceted concept of nyoné through key Tibetan concepts of wind, heart, and mind, as well as human-spirit relationships.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion

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Published November 2003
Illness and Irony

On the Ambiguity of Suffering in Culture

Lambek, M. & Antze, P. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

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The Image that Never Ends

A Journey through Visual Anthropology

Canals, R.

This book explores the relationship between images and anthropology, offering a deeper understanding of how visual culture shapes our world. It addresses how anthropology can help us reflect on the role of images in daily life and reconsiders classic anthropological themes—ritual, kinship, and power—through the lens of contemporary visuality.

Subjects: Anthropology (General)

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Images from Paradise

The Visual Communication of the European Union's Federalist Utopia

Salgó, E.

Drawing upon the disciplines of politics, anthropology, psychoanalysis, aesthetics and cinema studies, Salgó presents a new way of looking at the “art of European unification” and to highlight the mythical sources of the federalist project.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published December 2004
Images of Power

Iconography, Culture and the State in Latin America

Andermann, J. & Rowe, W. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General)

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Images of Power and the Power of Images

Control, Ownership, and Public Space

Kapferer, J. (ed)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

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The Imaginary Revolution

Parisian Students and Workers in 1968

Seidman, M.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe

Representations, Transfers and Exchanges

Šístek, F. (ed)

As a Slavic-speaking religious and ethnic “Other” living just a stone’s throw from the symbolic heart of the continent, the Muslim peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina have long occupied a liminal space in the European imagination. This volume assembles contributions from historians, anthropologists, political scientists, and literary scholars to examine the political, social, and discursive dimensions of Bosnian Muslims’ encounter with the West.

Subjects: History (General) Anthropology of Religion

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Imagining the Post-Apartheid State

An Ethnographic Account of Namibia

Friedman, J. T.

In northwest Namibia, people’s political imagination offers a powerful insight into the post-apartheid state. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork, this book focuses on the former South African apartheid regime and the present democratic government; it compares the perceptions and practices of state and customary forms of judicial administration, reflects upon the historical trajectory of a chieftaincy dispute in relation to the rooting of state power and examines everyday forms of belonging in the independent Namibian State.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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The Imbalance of Power

Leadership, Masculinity and Wealth in the Amazon

Brightman, M

The Imbalance of Power demonstrates that the indigenous societies of the Guiana region of Amazonia do not fit conventional characterizations of ‘simple’ political units with ‘egalitarian’ political ideologies and ‘harmonious’ relationships with nature.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Immigrant Industry

Building Postwar Australia

Pieris, A., Lozanovska, M., Dellios, A., Saniga, A., & Beynon, D.

After the end of the Second World War, major federally funded industries in Australia depended on the employment of large numbers of refugees displaced by the war. This book aims to bring to the foreground post-war industry and immigration to comprehensively document a uniquely Australian shaping of the built environment.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published February 1999
Immigrants and Bureaucrats

Ethiopians in an Israeli Absorption Center

Hertzog, E.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published December 1997
Immigration Admissions

The Search for Workable Policies in Germany and the United States

Hailbronner, K., Martin, D. A., & Motomura, H. (eds)

Subject: Refugee and Migration Studies

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Published March 1998
Immigration Controls

The Search for Workable Policies in Germany and the United States

Hailbronner, K., Martin, D. A. & Motomura, H. (eds)

Subject: Refugee and Migration Studies

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Immigration Policy in the Federal Republic of Germany

Negotiating Membership and Remaking the Nation

Klusmeyer, D. & Papademetriou, D.

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

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The Impact of Electricity

Development, Desires and Dilemmas

Winther, T.

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)

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Imperial Culture and Colonial Projects

The Portuguese-Speaking World from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries

Curto, D. R.

In a series of illuminating case studies, Curto follows the history and perception of major Portuguese colonial initiatives while integrating the complex perspectives of participating agents to show how the empire’s life and culture were richly inflected by the operations of imperial expansion.

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Colonial History

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Published January 2005
Imperial Germany 1871-1918

Economy, Society, Culture and Politics

Berghahn, V. R.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

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Imperial Germany Revisited

Continuing Debates and New Perspectives

Müller, S. O. & Torp, C. (eds)

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

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Published May 2015
Imperial Projections

Screening the German Colonies

Fuhrmann, W.

Scandals and economic stagnation in the colonies demanded a new and positive image of their value for Germany. By promoting business and establishing a new genre within the fast growing film industry, films of the colonies triggered patriotic feelings but also addressed the audience as travelers, explorers, wildlife protectionists, and participants in unique cultural events.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Colonial History

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Published December 2008
Impotent Warriors

Perspectives on Gulf War Syndrome, Vulnerability and Masculinity

Kilshaw, S.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

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An Improbable War?

The Outbreak of World War I and European Political Culture before 1914

Afflerbach, H., & Stevenson, D. (eds)

Subject: History: World War I

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In Fading Light

The Films of the Amber Collective

Leggott, J.

The Amber Film collective has been part of the British and European documentary scene since the late 1960s. Situating the work within wider social, political and historical contexts, In Fading Light interrogates how their critically acclaimed body of work—which includes documentaries, feature films, television films, and other experimental and campaigning projects—relates to other filmmakers in Britain and Europe.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Published April 2001
In God's Name

Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century

Bartov, O. & Mack, P. (eds)

Subject: Genocide History

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In Memory of Times to Come

Ironies of History in Southeastern Papua New Guinea

Demian, M.

Drawing on twenty years of research, this book examines the historical perspective of a Pacific people who saw “globalization” come and go. It asks the question: What does it mean to claim that global connections are in the past rather than the present or the future?

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

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In Pursuit of Belonging

Forging an Ethical Life in European-Turkish Spaces

Rottmann, S, B.

The story of one remarkable woman, Leyla, a mother, who has struggled against pain and shame to live a life that makes her proud and which also inspires others. Using her story, In Pursuit of Belonging enhances our understanding of key issues in the anthropology of ethics and migration.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

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In Search of European Liberalisms

Concepts, Languages, Ideologies

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

This comprehensive study takes a fresh look at the diverse understandings and interpretations of the concept of liberalism in Europe during the last several centuries, encompassing not just the familiar movements, doctrines, and political parties that fall under the heading of “liberal” but also the intertwined historical currents of thought behind them.

Subject: History (General)

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In Search of Legitimacy

How Outsiders Become Part of the Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Tradition

Griffith, L. M.

Every year, young adults from Western nations travel to Brazil to train in the dance/martial art of capoeira. This ethnography uses the concept of apprenticeship pilgrimage—studying with a local master at a historical point of origin—to explore how non-Brazilians learn their art and claim legitimacy within capoeira communities.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published August 2006
In Search of Salt

Changes in Beti (Cameroon) Society, 1880-1960

Quinn, F.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History

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In Search of Worldviews

What Anthropology Can Tell Us about the Middle East

Rugh, A.

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

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In the Absence of the Gift

New Forms of Value and Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Community

Rasmussen, A. E.

Nearly half the people born on the remote Mbuke Islands become teachers, businessmen, or bureaucrats in urban centers, while those who stay at home ask migrant relatives “What about me?” This detailed ethnography sheds light on remittance motivations and documents how terms like “community” can be useful in places otherwise permeated by kinship.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Sociology

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In the Best Interests of the Child

Loss and Suffering in Adoption Proceedings

Mass, M.

Based on her experience as an expert witness in court proceedings on adoption in Israel, and through four representative case studies, Mass examines the view that emphasizes the lifelong loss inflicted on the child by compulsory ‘closed’ adoption, contrasting it with the need to ‘free the child for adoption’ when parents are assessed as incapable.

Subject: Sociology

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In the Event

Toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments

Meinert, L. & Kapferer, B. (eds)

Based on ethnographic studies from around the world, varying from rituals and meetings over protests and conflicts to natural disasters and management, this volume unfolds how to analyze generative moments through events that hold the key to understanding larger social situations.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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In the Meantime

Toward an Anthropology of the Possible

Masquelier, A. & Durham, D. (eds)

The “meantime” represents the gap between what is past and the unknown future. When considered as waiting, the meantime is defined as a period of suspension to be endured. By contrast, the contributors of this volume understand it as a space of “the possible” where calculation coexists with uncertainty, promises with disappointment, and imminence with deferral.

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

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Published January 2001
In the Mind's Eye

Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Evolution of Human Cognition

Nowell, A. (ed)

This volume brings together the disciplines of palaeontology, psychology, anatomy, and primatology. Together, they address a number of issues, including the evolution of sex differences in spatial cognition, the role of archaeology in the cognitive sciences, the relationships between brain size, cranial reorganization and hominid cognition, and the role of language and information processing in human evolution.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)

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In the Name of the Great Work

Stalin's Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its Impact in Eastern Europe

Olšáková, D. (ed)

Following Stalin’s lead, the newly communist states of Eastern Europe pursued a total “transformation of nature” in the 1940s and 1950s intended to improve agricultural outputs. This richly detailed volume follows the history of such projects in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, exploring their varied, but largely disastrous, consequences.

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

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In the Shadow of Auschwitz

German Massacres against Polish Civilians, 1939–1945

Brewing, D.

An in-depth analysis of German massacres in Poland over the whole period of German occupation during the Second World War, this innovative study recounts the widely forgotten ethnic Polish civilian victims. Using both German and Polish sources, In the Shadow of Auschwitz uncovers for the first time the depredations that were inflicted on Polish society under Nazi rule.

Subjects: Genocide History History: World War II

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In the Shadow of the Great War

Physical Violence in East-Central Europe, 1917–1923

Böhler, J., Konrád, O., Kučera, R. (eds)

Whether victorious or not, Central European states faced fundamental challenges after the First World War as they struggled to contain ongoing violence and forge peaceful societies. This collection explores the various forms of violence these nations confronted during this period, which effectively transformed the region into a laboratory for state-building.

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

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Forthcoming December 2026
In the Tracks of Marxist Anthropology

Re-reading Eric Wolf's Europe and the People without History

Kalb, D. & Steur, L. (Eds.)

Revisiting Eric Wolf’s Europe and the People Without History, this volume examines the enduring relevance of his relational, processual, and multi-scalar approach to interconnected societies. Bringing together international scholars, it reassesses Wolf’s insights from the perspective of the twenty-first century and its accelerating forms of global capitalism, politics, and social change.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Theory and Methodology
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In-Betweenness in Greater Khartoum

Spaces, Temporalities, and Identities from Separation to Revolution

Franck, A., Casciarri, B., & Salim El-Hassan, I. (eds)

Drawing from original fieldwork in Khartoum and empirical data, In-Betweenness in Greater Khartoum uses in-between spaces as a lens to analyze how political events, in particular the 2011 independence of South Sudan, works along with other processes such as globalization and eco-nomic neo-liberalization to impact communities across the region.

Subjects: Urban Studies Peace and Conflict Studies

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Incarceration and Regime Change

European Prisons during and after the Second World War

De Vito, C. G., Futselaar, R., & Grevers, H. (eds)

During the “long” Second World War, military mobilization, social disorder, and political changes swelled the ranks of the imprisoned and broadened the carceral reach of the state. This volume brings together theoretically sophisticated, empirically rich studies of key transitional moments that transformed European prisons during and after the war.

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

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Inclusion, Transformation, and Humility in North American Archaeology

Essays and Other “Great Stuff” Inspired by Kent G. Lightfoot

Mallios, S., Gonzalez, S. L., Grone, M., Hull, K. L., Nelson, P., & Siliman, S. W. (eds)

In a dynamic near half-century career of insight, engagement, and instruction, Kent G. Lightfoot transformed North American archaeology through his innovative ideas, robust collaborations, thoughtful field projects, and mentoring of numerous students. Authors emphasize the multifarious ways Lightfoot impacted—and continues to impact—approaches to archaeological inquiry, anthropological engagement, indigenous issues, and professionalism.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)

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Published October 2007
Inclusionary Rhetoric/Exclusionary Practices

Left-wing Politics and Migrants in Italy

Però, D.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published October 2022
Inconceivable Iran

To Reproduce or Not to Reproduce?

Tremayne, S.

This book offers a much-needed analysis of shifting reproductive policies and practices in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a society that is usually represented as either “revolutionary” or “oppressive.” Instead, Tremayne reflects on more than four decades of research to argue that changing reproductive behaviors on the part of ordinary Iranians must always be viewed against the backdrop of core cultural values and traditions.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

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Indeterminacy

Waste, Value, and the Imagination

Alexander, C. & Sanchez, A. (eds)

What happens to people, places, and things that do not fit the progressive, ordering narratives of capitalism and modernity? This volume explores the indeterminacy left behind by conventional understandings of progress and shows how totalizing forward movement may be resisted by fragments, open-endedness, and the possibility of going nowhere at all.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Indigeneity and the Sacred

Indigenous Revival and the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites in the Americas

Sarmiento, F. & Hitchner, S. (eds)

This important contribution presents current research in the political ecology of indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation of sacred natural sites in the Americas. The book explores how struggles for land, rights, and political power are embedded within physical landscapes, and how indigenous identity is reformed as globalizing forces simultaneously threaten and promote the notion of indigeneity.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies

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Indigeneity on the Move

Varying Manifestations of a Contested Concept

Gerharz, E., Uddin, N., & Chakkarath, P. (eds)

“Indigeneity” has become a prominent yet contested concept in national and international politics, as well as within the social sciences. This edited volume draws from authors representing different disciplines and perspectives, aiming to convey a theoretical and empirical overview of indigeneity in order to investigate the concept’s scientific and political potential.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

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Indigenist Mobilization

Confronting Electoral Communism and Precarious Livelihoods in Post-Reform Kerala

Steur, L.

Indigenist Mobilization explores the history of the dynamics between the Communist party in Kerala and indigenist activists, and the subtle ways in which global capitalist restructuring leads to a resonance of indigenist visions in the changed the everyday working lives and future aspirations of subaltern groups in Kerala.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published October 2025
Indigenous Experiences with Collaborative Governance

Moving Toward Equitable Partnerships

Companion, M. & Rivera, J. D. (eds)

This volume highlights the importance of authentic Indigenous inclusion in governance processes at national and subnational levels worldwide. Through case studies and best-practice models, it examines the opportunities and barriers Indigenous peoples face in collaborative governance. In doing so, it offers recommendations for practice and policy that promote social equity.

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology Applied Anthropology
eBook available Published October 2015
Indigenous Medicine Among the Bedouin in the Middle East

Abu-Rabia, A.

Modern medicine has penetrated Bedouin tribes, but when serious illnesses strike, even educated people turn to traditional medicine for a remedy. Based on interviews with healers, clients, and other active participants in treatments, this book will contribute to renewed thinking about a synthesis between traditional and modern medicine — to their reciprocal enrichment.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Hb
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eBook available Published August 2011
Indigenous Peoples and Demography

The Complex Relation between Identity and Statistics

Axelsson, P. & Sköld, P. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published October 2008
Indigenous Peoples, Civil Society, and the Neo-liberal State in Latin America

Fischer, E. F. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

Pb
Published March 2022
Indigenous Resurgence

Decolonialization and Movements for Environmental Justice

Dhillon, J.

Indigenous peoples around the world are standing up and speaking out against global capitalism to protect the land, water, and air. By placing Indigenous politics, histories, and ontologies at the center of our social movements for environmental justice, Indigenous Resurgence positions environmental justice within historical, social, political, and economic contexts.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology Colonial History

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Published September 1997
Indigenous Rights and Development

Self-Determination in an Amazonian Community

Gray, A.

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
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Published May 2009
Indispensable Eyesores

An Anthropology of Undesired Buildings

Hoorn, M. v der

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

Hb
eBook available Published November 2023
Individually Ourselves

Personhood, Ethics, and Everyday Life in School

Winkler-Reid, S.

Individually Ourselves addresses the process of identity and community building through an examination of individuality and group dynamics during a formative juncture of life (based on ethnographic fieldwork in a London high school).

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies Sociology

Hb
Published October 1998
Indoctrinability, Ideology and Warfare

Evolutionary Perspectives

Eibl-Eibesfeldt, I. & Salter, F.K. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
eBook available Published March 2019
The Indoctrination of the Wehrmacht

Nazi Ideology and the War Crimes of the German Military

Sait, B.

Far from the image of an apolitical, “clean” Wehrmacht that persists in popular memory, German soldiers regularly cooperated with organizations like the SS in the abuse and murder of countless individuals. This in-depth study reveals that military indoctrination was but one piece of the larger effort at the socialization of young men during the Nazi era.

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

Hb
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Published June 1999
Industrial Culture and Bourgeois Society in Modern Germany

Kocka, J.

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

Hb
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Published March 2018
Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism

Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject

Hann, C. & Parry, J. (eds)

Bringing together ethnographic case studies of industrial labor from different parts of the world, Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism explores the increasing casualization of workforces and the weakening power of organized labor. By exploring this relationship, these essays question the claim that neoliberal ideology has become the new ‘commonsense’ of our times.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Paperback available
eBook available Published June 2026
The Inequity of Caribbean Spaces and Designed Places

Race, Class and Gender

Bethell-Bennett, I. & Minnis, J. (Eds.)

Through interconnected perspectives on environment, gender inequality, identity and Caribbean spatial re-colonisation influences on social, cultural and environmental landscapes, The Inequity of Caribbean Spaces and Designed Places: Race, Class and Gender examines socio-spatial (in)justices beyond physical and geographical boundaries that Caribbean societies face.

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

Hb
eBook available Published March 2025
Ingmar Bergman Out of Focus

Film Cultures and International Reception

Van Belle, J., Arenos, F. R., & Peirano, M. P. (eds)

An exacting re-examination of Ingmar Bergman’s cultural heritage, Ingmar Bergman Out Of Focus digs into the perceived “familiarity” of Bergman’s films by analyzing how the Swedish director’s film aesthetics simultaneously shaped modern culture and were themselves reshaped by contemporary cultural debates.

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

Hb
eBook available Published October 2025
Inhabiting Silence

An Anthropologist in the Cloister

Sbardella, F.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published July 2023
Innovation and Implementation

Critical Reflections on New Approaches to Historic Mortuary Data Collection, Analysis, and Dissemination

Mytum, H. & Veit, R. (eds)

Providing a comprehensive set of guidance to assist researchers wishing to carry out, curate and disseminate field research at a historic burial ground, chapters offer up to date methods for surface and subsurface survey and for the recording and archiving of burial monument data. Also included is the archaeological potential of pet cemeteries and other pet memorials.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology (General)

Hb
Forthcoming November 2026
Inplacement

Global Outbreaks and the Anthropology of Isolation

Hoffman, S. & García-Acosta, V. (eds)

Bringing together international theoretical and ethnographic perspectives, this volume examines individuals within socio-cultural contexts shaped by global crises. Drawing on Covid-19 lockdown experiences, it considers in-placement, situates epidemics within the risk field, and questions whether established anthropological approaches remain adequate.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
eBook available Published August 2023
Inside Party Headquarters

Organizational Culture and Practice of Rule in the Socialist Unity Party of Germany

Bergien, R.

As one of the first overviews of a central apparatus of a communist state party, Inside Party Headquarters focuses on the “inner life” of the party and its employees, and examines the changing relations of party and state over the course of four decades.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Published July 1996
Insiders and Outsiders

Paradise and Reality in Mallorca

Waldren, J.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
Published January 2024
Insidious Capital

Frontlines of Value at the End of a Global Cycle

Kalb, D. (ed)

In a global perspective of fast transforming social spaces that moves from East to West, Insidious Capital explores the struggles around the exploitation and valuation of labor, environmental politics, expansion of the ground rent, new hierarchies, the contradictions of higher education, the off-shoring of ‘immaterial’ labor, the illiberal right, and the mobilizations against it.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

Paperback available
eBook available Published January 2020
Institutionalised Dreams

The Art of Managing Foreign Aid

Drążkiewicz, E.

How do states become donors? Why do individuals decide to share their wealth with others through foreign aid? Using examples from Poland, Elżbieta Drążkiewicz demonstrates how the concept of foreign aid requires the establishment of a specific moral economy which links national ideologies and local cultures of charitable giving with broader ideas about the global political economy.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

Hb
eBook available Published April 2023
Integrating Strangers

Sherbro Identity and The Politics of Reciprocity along the Sierra Leonean Coast

Ménard, A.

Drawing on an ethnography of Sherbro coastal communities in Sierra Leone, this book analyses the politics and practice of identity through the lens of the reciprocal relations that exist between socio-ethnic groups. Anaïs Ménard examines the implications of the social arrangement that binds landlords and strangers in a frontier region, the Freetown Peninsula, characterized by high degrees of individual mobility and social interactions.

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

Paperback available
eBook available Published May 2014
Intellectuals and (Counter-) Politics

Essays in Historical Realism

Smith, G.

“A cutting edge discussion between anthropology and the disciplines of history and geography, all through the lens of the politics of intellectual work. A paradigm of sensitive ethnographic work fused with broadly social/political theory, this book will pull in a lot of people looking to find their way out of a certain rabbit hole of recent academia.” · Neil Smith, Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Gavin Smith suggests a research agenda designed to maximize the political leverage of ordinary people faced with ever more remote states and technologies that make capitalism increasingly rapacious. He tackles the political conundrums of our times and asks what roles intellectuals might play therein.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
Paperback available
Published February 2004
International Adventures

German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s

Bergfelder, T.

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

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published December 2016
International Organizations and Environmental Protection

Conservation and Globalization in the Twentieth Century

Kaiser, W. & Meyer, J.-H. (eds)

Environmental issues transcend national boundaries, and thus they have been a particular focus for international organizations for over a century. This volume is the first to comprehensively explore the environmental activities of regional bodies, professional communities, the United Nations, NGOs, and other international organizations during the twentieth century.

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

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published August 2021
International Organizations Revisited

Agency and Pathology in a Multipolar World

Dijkzeul, D. & Salomons, D. (eds)

Thoroughly revised and based on current management research, this follow-up to Rethinking International Organizations provides a wealth of both empirical and theoretical insights to the management of the United Nations and international NGOs, along with practical recommendations for how these organizations can function more effectively.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Published May 2007
Intersected Identities

Strategies of Visualisation in 19th and 20th Century Mexican Culture

Segre, E.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
eBook available Published April 2024
Intimate Histories

African Americans and Germany since 1933

Klopprogge, N.

Intimate Histories investigates the role and conceptualizations of intimacy between African American and German relations between 1933 through 1990. Reviewing issues surrounding anti-miscegenation laws, casual sexual encounters, and unique friendships, this book traces how intimacy became an important site of transnational racial history.

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

Hb
eBook available Published May 2018
Intimate Mobilities

Sexual Economies, Marriage and Migration in a Disparate World

Groes, C. & Fernandez, N. T. (eds)

This book explores how various types of migration that are often seen as distinct phenomena – such as marriage migration, romance tourism and sex work migration – are in fact variations of cross-border mobilities that evolve around experiences and constructions of “intimacy”, and are facilitated by and deeply entwined with issues of power, gender and sexuality.

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

Hb
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Published May 2006
An Introduction to Two Theories of Social Anthropology

Descent Groups and Marriage Alliance

Dumont, L.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Hb
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Published November 2004
The Inverted Mirror

Mythologizing the Enemy in France and Germany, 1898-1914

Nolan, M. E.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published November 2022
Invested Narratives

German Responses to Economic Crisis

Twark, J. (ed)

Narratives of how nations survive, restructure or even fail during economic crisis not only inform future responses to crisis but also strengthen national theoretical, empirical, and analytical financial discourse. Invested Narratives brings together an interdisciplinary set of scholars to address the history of German responses to crisis over the past 200 years.

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

Hb
eBook available Published December 2025
Investigating Online Heritage Crime

New Directions, New Technologies, Emerging Markets

Huffer, D. & Handby, E. (Eds.)

Considering the correlation between new digital technologies and the growth of the online trafficking landscape, Investigating Online Heritage Crime conducts an investigative deep-dive into how these relatively under-researched "sites" of heritage crime operate and how they function within the wider social media ecosystem of platforms like Facebook and Instagram.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Archaeology

Hb
eBook available Published June 2012
Investigating Srebrenica

Institutions, Facts, Responsibilities

Delpla, I., Bougarel, X., & Fournel, J.-F. (eds)

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published November 2020
Invisible Faces and Hidden Stories

Narratives of Vulnerable Populations and Their Caregivers

Obeng, C. S. & Obeng, S. G. (eds)

Dealing with narratives of vulnerable populations, this book looks at how they deal with dimensions of their social life, especially in regards to health. It reflects the socio-political ecologies like public hostility and stereotyping, neglect of their unique health needs, their courage to overcome adversity, and the love of family and healthcare providers in mitigating their problems.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Applied Anthropology Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published June 2019
Invisible Founders

How Two Centuries of African American Families Transformed a Plantation into a College

Rainville, L.

Literal and metaphorical excavations at Sweet Briar College reveal how African American labor enabled the transformation of Sweet Briar Plantation into a private women’s college in 1906. Despite being built and maintained by African American families, the college did not integrate its student body for sixty years after it opened. Invisible Founders challenges our ideas of what a college “founder” is, restoring African American narratives to their deserved and central place in the story of a single institution.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Educational Studies Heritage Studies

Hb
Paperback available
Published February 2024
Invisible Labours

The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England

Middlemiss, A. L.

Invisible Labours traces women’s experiences of miscarriage and termination for foetal anomaly in the second trimester before legal viability and shows how such events are positioned as less ‘real’ or significant when the foetal being does not, or will not, survive. It describes the reproductive politics of this specific category of pregnancy loss in England.

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

Paperback available
Published October 2003
An Invitation to Anthropology

The Structure, Evolution and Cultural Identity of Human Societies

Llobera, J.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published October 2019
Inward Looking

The Impact of Migration on Romanipe from the Romani Perspective

Marinov, A. G.

Inward Looking seeks to understand the relationship between Romani identity, performance and migration. Particularly, it studies the idea of ‘Romanipe’ under the prism of the personal accounts of Romani migrants. The findings are based on qualitative data gathered from Romani migrants from three towns in Bulgaria.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

Hb
eBook available Published April 2013
Irish/ness Is All Around Us

Language Revivalism and the Culture of Ethnic Identity in Northern Ireland

Zenker, O.

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

Hb
Paperback available
Published December 1996
The Iron Gates Mesolithic

Radovanovic, I.

The Mesolithic sites in the Iron Gates Gorge of the Danube River, between Yugoslavia and Romania are reviewed in this volume. The author offers fundamental re-analyses and interpretations of stratigraphies, relative and absolute chronologies, architecture and settlement organization, the placement and styles of altars and sculptural elements, the chipped and polished stone industries, the bone and antler artifacts, the mortuary practices, ecology, and social organization of this remarkable archaeological culture.

Subject: Archaeology

Hb
Paperback available
Published June 2008
Iron in the Soul

Displacement, Livelihood and Health in Cyprus

Loizos, P.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published August 2021
Iron Landscapes

National Space and the Railways in Interwar Czechoslovakia

Jeschke, F.

Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the newly formed country of Czechoslovakia built an ambitious national rail network out of what remained of the obsolete Habsburg system. Drawing on evidence ranging from government documents to newsreels to train timetables, Iron Landscapes gives a nuanced account of how planners and authorities knitted together the young nation-state and articulated a Czechoslovak cosmopolitanism.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Transport Studies

Hb
Published March 1998
Iron-making Societies

Early Industrial Development in Sweden and Russia, 1600-1900

Agren, M. (ed)

Subject: History (General)

Hb
eBook available Published July 2012
Islam and Assisted Reproductive Technologies

Sunni and Shia Perspectives

Inhorn, M. C. & Tremayne, S. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published June 2009
Islam and New Kinship

Reproductive Technology and the Shariah in Lebanon

Clarke, M.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published January 2018
Island Historical Ecology

Socionatural Landscapes of the Eastern and Southern Caribbean

Siegel, P. (ed)

Island Historical Ecology addresses Caribbean island ecologies from the perspective of social and cultural intervention, focusing on selected islands between Venezuela and Puerto Rico. This volume goes on to compare these ecologies with well-documented patterns in the Mediterranean and Pacific islands, placing the Caribbean into a larger context of island historical ecology.

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

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published February 2025
The Island of the Pope

Catholics in the Aegean Archipelago between Empire and Nation-State, 1770-1830

Kousouris, D.

This illuminating re-examination of Syros’s transition into a major commercial hub following the Greek War of Independence revises the conventional understanding of the island’s demographic history, highlighting how, rather than withdraw, the native Catholic community adjusted and integrated into the new Greek nation-state.

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

Hb
Published December 1993
Islands in the Interior

The Dynamics of Prehistoric Adaptations Within the Arid Zone of Australia

Veth, P. M.

In this book, Veth develops a model of settlement and subsistence in the Western Desert of Australia, drawing on his own archaeological investigations, as well as ethnographic and environmental data. Building on this model, he concludes with a plausible reconstruction of the colonization of the harsh, arid interior of this continent.

Subject: Archaeology

Hb
Paperback available
Published October 2000
Israel and the Daughters of the Shoah

Reoccupying the Territories of Silence

Lentin, R.

Subjects: Genocide History Gender Studies and Sexuality Jewish Studies

Hb
Paperback available
Published November 1997
Israel and the Diaspora in Jewish Law

Essays and Responsa

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

Subject: Jewish Studies

Pb
eBook available Published September 2021
Israel-Palestine

Lands and Peoples

Bartov, O. (ed)

The conflict between Israel and Palestine has raised a plethora of unanswered questions, generated seemingly unreconcilable narratives, and profoundly transformed the land’s physical and political geography. This volume seeks to provide a deeper understanding of the links between the region that is now known as Israel and Palestine and its peoples—both those that live there as well as those who relate to it as a mental, mythical, or religious landscape.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published March 2012
Israeli Identities

Jews and Arabs Facing the Self and the Other

Auron, Y.

Subjects: Jewish Studies Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
Published June 2003
Issues in Medical Research Ethics

Boomgaarden, J. & Louhiala, P & Wiesing, U.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Hb
eBook available Published July 2024
Istanbul at the Threshold of Nation State

Allied Occupation, National Resistance, and Political Conflict, 1918-1923

Ülker, E.

In 1920s and 30s Turkey, the rise of Christian exclusionary movements and policies were backed by nationalist labor and merchant federations. An Imperial Capital at the Threshold of Nation State traces these formations in political dissent and coalition to the faction split of Turkish national movement in the middle of 1922.

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

Hb
eBook available Published November 2019
It Happens Among People

Resonances and Extensions of the Work of Fredrik Barth

Wu, K. & Weller, R. P. (eds)

Written by eleven leading anthropologists from around the world, this volume extends the insights of Fredrik Barth, one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century, to push even further at the frontiers of anthropology.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
Published January 2008
Italian Neofascism

The Strategy of Tension and the Politics of Nonreconciliation

Bull, A. Cento

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
Published February 2004
Italy Between Europeanization and Domestic Politics

Fabbrini, S. & Sala, V. Della (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Published May 2000
The Jacobin Clubs in the French Revolution, 1793-1795

Kennedy, M. L.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

Hb
eBook available Published January 2020
Jaguars of the Dawn

Spirit Mediumship in the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer

Pierini, E.

Drawing upon over a decade of extensive fieldwork in temples of the Vale do Amanhecer in Brazil and Europe, this ethnography explores how mediums understand their experiences and how they learn to establish relationships with their spirit guides.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Medical Anthropology Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
Forthcoming October 2026
Jane Ellen Harrison

Stroup, R.

Jane Ellen Harrison transformed the study of Greek religion with her discovery of a religious system predating that of the Olympic gods and goddesses familiar to the modern world. This book introduces her work and ideas, which have influenced and profoundly shaped scholarship, primarily in the classics, throughout the last century.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

Paperback available
Published November 1995
Japan and Germany in the Modern World

Martin, B.

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

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published November 2013
Japanese Tourism

Spaces, Places and Structures

Funck, C. & Cooper, M.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
Published November 2010
Je T’Aime... Moi Non Plus

Franco-British Cinematic Relations

Mazdon, L. & Wheatley, C. (eds)

Subject: Film and Television Studies

Hb
eBook available Published March 2010
Jerzy Skolimowski

The Cinema of a Nonconformist

Mazierska, E

Subject: Film and Television Studies

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published January 2015
Jesus Reclaimed

Jewish Perspectives on the Nazarene

Homolka, W.

After centuries of persecution, oppression, forced migrations, and exclusion in the name of Christ, the development of a Jewish “Quest for the Historical Jesus” might seem unexpected. This book gives an overview and analysis of the various Jewish perspectives on the Nazarene throughout the centuries.

Subject: Jewish Studies

Hb
Paperback available
Forthcoming December 2026
Jewish Cultures of Rest and Recreation

Encounters in Spa Towns and Resorts

Korbel, S. & Miller, M. (Eds.)

From Marienbad in today’s Czech Republic to the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York, spas and summer resorts have long been part of modern Jewish life. Jewish Cultures of Rest and Recreation visits these vibrant centers of Jewish social life, where visitors mingled and flirted with locals and fellow travelers, enjoyed leisure activities, and spent time with (or without) family.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present
Published November 1995
Jewish Explorations of Sexuality

Magonet, J. (ed)

Subjects: Jewish Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
Paperback available
Published September 2014
Jewish Histories of the Holocaust

New Transnational Approaches

Goda, N. J. W. (ed)

For many years, histories of the Holocaust focused on its perpetrators, and only recently have more scholars begun to consider in detail the experiences of victims and survivors, as well as the documents they left behind. This volume contains new research from internationally established scholars. It provides an introduction to and overview of Jewish narratives of the Holocaust.

Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies

Hb
Paperback available
Published October 1995
Jewish Identity in Modern Times

Leo Baeck and German Protestantism

Homolka, W.

Subject: Jewish Studies

Hb
eBook available Published August 2025
Jewish Inclusion in Ethnic Studies Education

Issues, Obstacles, and Excuses

Rubin, D. I.

A clarifying re-examination of the issues affecting ethnic studies education in K-12 schools, this book explores how the program’s disregard for the lives of American Jews correlates with the increase in antisemitism with the U.S. Consequently, it advances a renewed framework for thinking about the Jewish experience in contemporary American education.

Subjects: Jewish Studies Educational Studies Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published July 2010
Jewish Life in Nazi Germany

Dilemmas and Responses

Nicosia, F. & Scrase, D. (eds)

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War II Genocide History

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published April 2026
The Jewish Maghreb

North African Experiences in Greater Paris since 1981

Everett, S.

From commercial networks in Paris to Algerian pilgrimage journeys, The Jewish Maghreb reveals communal North African Jewish navigation of plural sediments of self and history. The heuristic ‘maghrebinicité,’ works to illuminate ongoing negotiations of memory, citizenship, and cultural transmission in postcolonial France, offering fresh insights into diaspora, return, and the persistence of transnational connections.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Jewish Studies Urban Studies

Hb
Published September 2014
Jewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust

Grodin, M. A. (ed)

Based on archival materials and featuring memoirs of Holocaust survivors, this volume offers a rich array of both tragic and inspiring studies of the sanctification of life as practiced by Jewish medical professionals. More than simply a medical story, these histories represent the finest exemplification of a humanist moral imperative during a dark hour of recent history.

Subjects: Genocide History History: World War II

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published April 2026
Jewish Refugees in Shanghai

Experiences, Memories, Interviews, Histories

Hochstadt, S.

Between 1933-1942, around 20,000 refugees fled to Shanghai to escape Nazi-occupied Europe, most of them Jewish. Here they spent a decade preserving their culture and enduring Japanese occupation. Hochstadt, whose Viennese grandparents were among those who fled, compiles hundreds of sources and interviews to tell their story.

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

Hb
Published May 1998
Jewish Religious Law

A Progressive Perspective

Rayner, J. D.

Subject: Jewish Studies

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published March 2021
Jewish Self-Hate

Lessing, T.

This new edition makes Theodor Lessing’s seminal work Der Jüdische Selbsthaß accessible to English readers for the first time, supplemented with explanatory footnotes by translator Peter Appelbaum and illustrative essays by historian Sander L. Gilman and German scholar Paul Reitter.

Subject: Jewish Studies

Hb
Paperback available
Published March 1998
A Jewish Understanding of the World

Rayner, J. D.

Subject: Jewish Studies

Hb
Paperback available
Published March 2001
The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800

Bernardini, P. & Fiering, N. (eds)

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: Medieval/Early Modern Colonial History Refugee and Migration Studies

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published November 2023
John F. Kennedy’s Hidden Diary, Europe 1937

The Travel Journals of JFK and Kirk LeMoyne Billings

Kennedy, J. F., LeMoyne Billings, K., & Lubrich, O.

Presenting the 1937 diaries of John F. Kennedy's tour of Europe alongside the "Scrapbook" of his travel companion, Lem Billings, John F. Kennedy’s Hidden Diary, Europe 1937 offers insights into Kennedy's early experiences on a continent under the shadow of Nazism.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published May 2019
José Antonio Primo de Rivera

The Reality and Myth of a Spanish Fascist Leader

Thomàs, J. M.

A leading figure in the Spanish Civil War, José Antonio Primo de Rivera was elevated to martyr status following his death and the victory of the Falangists. In this long-awaited translation, Joan Maria Thomàs cuts through the mythos surrounding Primo de Rivera’s life to give a measured, exhaustively researched study of his personality, beliefs, and political activity.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Published February 2003
The Journalism of Milena Jesenská

A Critical Voice in Interwar Central Europe

Hayes, K. (ed)

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

Hb
eBook available Published August 2013
The Journey of G. Mastorna

The Film Fellini Didn't Make

Fellini, F.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published August 2012
Journey Through America

Koeppen, W.

Subjects: Literary Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
eBook available Published June 2012
Journeys Into Madness

Mapping Mental Illness in the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Blackshaw, G. & Wieber, S. (eds)

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

Hb
Published November 2007
Journeys Through Fascism

Italian Travel-Writing between the Wars

Burdett, C.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published November 2010
The Ju/’hoan San of Nyae Nyae and Namibian Independence

Development, Democracy, and Indigenous Voices in Southern Africa

Biesele, M. & Hitchcock, R. K.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
Published July 2013
Judging 'Privileged' Jews

Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the 'Grey Zone'

Brown, A.

Subjects: Genocide History History (General) Jewish Studies

Paperback available
Published December 2011
Judgment At Istanbul

The Armenian Genocide Trials

Dadrian, V. N. & Akçam, T.

Subject: Genocide History

Hb
Published December 2012
Karl Marx

An Intellectual Biography

Hosfeld, R.

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

Hb
Published October 2001
Keys to the 21st Century

Bindé, J. (ed)

Subject: Heritage Studies

Hb
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Keywords of Mobility

Critical Engagements

Salazar, N. B. & Jayaram, K. (eds)

Scholars from various disciplines have used key concepts to grasp mobilities, but as of yet, a working vocabulary of these has yet to be fully developed. This edited volume presents contributions that critically analyze mobility-related keywords: capital, cosmopolitanism, freedom, gender, immobility, infrastructure, motility, and regime.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism

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eBook available Published November 2025
Keywords of the Balkan Route

The European Irregularized Migration Regime at the Periphery

Hameršak, M., Pleše, I., & Škokić, T. (eds)

Focusing on the Balkan Route, this volume examines the criminalization of migration and emerging vocabularies of border control and resistance. Through keywords like Autonomy, Route, and Solidarity, contributors from Croatia, Slovenia, and Serbia offer ethnographic and interdisciplinary insights into restricted mobility, border violence, and migrant-led struggles.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
eBook available Published April 2023
Kharkov/Kharkiv

A Borderland Capital

Kravchenko, V.

Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city located on the Ukrainian-Russian historical borderland, has often been overlooked given its historic role. Kharkov/Kharkov for the first time uncovers the city’s long history, from the 17th century to today, and its process of becoming a borderland and undergoing regional reconfiguration, modernization and development of national mythologies.

Subjects: History (General) Urban Studies

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Published July 2010
Kin, Gene, Community

Reproductive Technologies among Jewish Israelis

Birenbaum-Carmeli, D. & Carmeli, Y.S. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Hb
Published July 1996
Kingdom on Mount Cameroon

Studies in the History of the Cameroon Coast 1500-1970

Ardener, E.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History

Hb
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Published March 2011
The Kings and the Pawns

Collaboration in Byelorussia during World War II

Rein, L.

Subject: History: World War II

Hb
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Published August 2006
The Kinning of Foreigners

Transnational Adoption in a Global Perspective

Howell, S.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies Sociology

Hb
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eBook available Published March 2009
Kinship and Beyond

The Genealogical Model Reconsidered

Bamford, S. & Leach, J. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Hb
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eBook available Published October 2007
Kinship in Europe

Approaches to Long-Term Development (1300-1900)

Sabean, D. W., Teuscher, S., & Mathieu, J. (eds)

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Anthropology (General) History: 18th/19th Century

Hb
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Published December 2014
Kinship, Community, and Self

Essays in Honor of David Warren Sabean

Coy, J., Marschke, B., Poley, J., & Verhoeven, C. (eds)

David Warren Sabean was a pioneer in the historical-anthropological study of kinship, community, and selfhood in early modern and modern Europe. The significance of Sabean’s scholarship is reflected in original research contributed by former students and essays written by his contemporaries, demonstrating Sabean’s impact on the discipline of history.

Subjects: History (General) Anthropology (General)

Hb
Published May 2008
Knowing How to Know

Fieldwork and the Ethnographic Present

Halstead, N., Hirsch, E., & Okely, J. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Hb
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Forthcoming December 2026
Koya Connections

An Ethnography of Family Life and Adivasi Identity in Southeast India

Herzmark, T.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available Published January 2010
Kristeva in Focus

From Theory to Film Analysis

Goodnow, K.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
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Kubrick's Mitteleuropa

The Central European Imaginary in the Films of Stanley Kubrick

Abrams, N. & Szaniiawski, J. (eds)

Stanley Kubrick was arguably one of the most influential American directors of the post-World War II era, and his Central European Jewish heritage, though often overlooked, greatly influenced his oeuvre. Kubrick's Mitteleuropa explores this as well as providing important commentary on the reception of his films in countries across Eastern Europe.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published September 2017
Laborers and Enslaved Workers

Experiences in Common in the Making of Rio de Janeiro's Working Class, 1850-1920

Badaró Mattos, M.

In the nineteenth century, Rio de Janeiro was not only home to the largest population of enslaved laborers in the Americas, but it was also the site of an incipient working-class consciousness across seemingly distinct social categories. This volume analyzes the diverse labor arrangements and associative life of Rio’s working class, from which emerged the strategies that workers free and unfree pursued against oppression.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
eBook available Published May 2017
Labour, Unions and Politics under the North Star

The Nordic Countries, 1700-2000

Hilson, M., Neunsinger, S., & Vyff, I. (eds)

Notwithstanding Nordic countries’ reputation for strong labour movements, the fortunes of organized labour have varied widely throughout the region and across different historical periods. Together, the essays collected here explore themes such as work, unions, politics and migration in the Nordic states from the early modern period to the twenty-first century.

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
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Land and the Mortgage

History, Culture, Belonging

Rodima-Taylor, D. & Shipton, P. (eds)

The mortgaging of land is not just economic and legal but also social and cultural. Here, anthropologists, historians, and economists explore origins, variations, and meanings of the land mortgage, and the risks to homes and livelihoods.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

Hb
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The Land Is Dying

Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya

Geissler, P. W. & Prince, R. J.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion

Hb
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Published January 2021
Lands of the Future

Anthropological Perspectives on Pastoralism, Land Deals and Tropes of Modernity in Eastern Africa

Gabbert, E. C., Gebresenbet, F., Galaty, J. G., & Schlee, G. (eds)

Rangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people who have lived there for centuries, outside commercial interests have displaced indigenous dwellers from pastoral territories. This volume presents case studies from Eastern Africa.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Mobility Studies

Paperback available
eBook available Published February 2010
Landscape Ethnoecology

Concepts of Biotic and Physical Space

Johnson, L. M. & Hunn, E. S. (eds)

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

Hb
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eBook available Published April 2009
Landscape, Process and Power

Re-evaluating Traditional Environmental Knowledge

Heckler, S. (ed)

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

Hb
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eBook available Published September 2012
Landscapes Beyond Land

Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives

Árnason, A., Ellison, N., Vergunst, J. & Whitehouse, A. (eds)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Hb
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Published April 2011
Landscapes of Relations and Belonging

Body, Place and Politics in Wogeo, Papua New Guinea

Anderson, A.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
Published November 2015
Language and Identity Politics

A Cross-Atlantic Perspective

Späti, C. (ed)

In a multicultural world, the relationship between language and identity remains a often fraught subject, as evidenced by new legislation and heated public debates in many societies. This volume traces the contours of these complex phenomena, examining the interaction of language, identity, and political activity across Europe and North America.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General)

Hb
eBook available Published July 2025
Language and Political Subjectivity

Stancemaking, Power and Politics in Chile and Venezuela

Makihara, M. & Rodríguez, J. L.

Language and Political Subjectivity offers an innovative approach to stancemaking as a rhetorical semiotic process that produces truth, beliefs, and certainties about social realities and relations. It considers how Indigenous and diasporic communities, with their political subjectivities, expand over significant sociohistorical changes, debates, and struggles in the transformation of Chilean democracy and Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution.

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
Published April 2000
The Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800

Gray, E. & Fiering, N. (eds)

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Colonial History Cultural Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

Hb
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Published May 2006
Languages of Civil Society

Wagner, P. (ed)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
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Published December 2016
Languid Bodies, Grounded Stances

The Curving Pathway of Neoclassical Odissi Dance

Sikand, N.

Odissi dance has transformed over the centuries from an Indian temple ritual to a transnational genre performed—and consumed—throughout the world. Building on ethnographic research in multiple locations, this book reveals the complexity of odissi as it is practiced today, at the intersection of identity, nationalism, tradition, and neoliberal economics.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
Published March 1997
The Last Shaman

Change in an Amazonian Community

Gray, A.

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

Hb
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eBook available Published August 2021
Latin America and Refugee Protection

Regimes, Logics, and Challenges

Jubilut, L. L., Vera Espinoza, M., & Mezzanotti, G. (eds)

Looking at refugee protection in Latin America, this landmark edited collection assesses what the region has achieved in recent years. The book analyses Latin America’s main documents in refugee protection, evaluates the particular aspects of different regimes, and reviews their emergence, development and effect, to develop understanding of refugee protection in the region.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
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eBook available Published October 2010
Latin America Facing China

South-South Relations beyond the Washington Consensus

Fernández Jilberto, A. E. & Hogenboom, B. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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Launching the Grand Coalition

The 2005 Bundestag Election and the Future of German Politics

Langenbacher, E. (ed.)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Pb
eBook available Published March 2013
The Law in Nazi Germany

Ideology, Opportunism, and the Perversion of Justice

Steinweis, A. E. & Rachlin, R. D. (eds)

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

Hb
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eBook available Published December 2018
Law, History, and Justice

Debating German State Crimes in the Long Twentieth Century

Weinke, A.

Law, History, and Justice investigates the changing nature of international humanitarian law and explores the entanglements between historical experience, historiography, and law and (moral) politics by focusing on the effects of international law violations during the First World War, the National Socialist mass crimes, the Holocaust, as well as the systematic wrongdoings of the GDR.

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

Hb
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Published August 2006
Le Malaise Creole

Ethnic Identity in Mauritius

Boswell, R.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
Published July 2009
Learning Democracy

Education Reform in West Germany, 1945-1965

Puaca, B. M.

Subjects: Educational Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
eBook available Published June 2012
Learning From the Children

Childhood, Culture and Identity in a Changing World

Waldren, J. & Kaminski, I.-M. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Mobility Studies

Hb
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Published December 2007
Learning on the Shop Floor

Historical Perspectives on Apprenticeship

Munck, B. de, Kaplan, S. L. & Soly, H. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published October 2007
Learning Religion

Anthropological Approaches

Berliner, D. & Sarró, R. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology Sociology

Hb
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Published February 2014
Learning Senegalese Sabar

Dancers and Embodiment in New York and Dakar

Bizas, E.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
Published March 2015
Learning Under Neoliberalism

Ethnographies of Governance in Higher Education

Hyatt, S. B., Shear, B. W., & Wright, S. (eds)

As part of the neoliberal trends toward public-private partnerships, universities all over the world have forged more intimate relationships with corporate interests and more closely resemble for-profit corporations in both structure and practice. The contributors to this volume use ethnographic methods to investigate the multi-faceted impacts of neoliberal restructuring, while reporting on their own pedagogical responses, at universities in the United States, Europe, and New Zealand.

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published October 2016
Leaving Footprints in the Taiga

Luck, Spirits and Ambivalence among the Siberian Orochen Reindeer Herders and Hunters

Brandišauskas, D.

Donatas Brandišauskas probes the strategies that Orochen reindeer herders of southeastern Siberia have developed to navigate dramatic environmental and social changes that have unfolded in post-Soviet Siberia.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published September 2013
The Legacies of a Hawaiian Generation

From Territorial Subject to American Citizen

Schachter, J.

“Schachter has produced a powerful and moving account of Native Hawaiian elders who have now passed physically but continue to live on in spirit in the prose that she has assembled from the writings gifted to her. This work represents the best that anthropology has to offer Indigenous peoples seeking to remain Native in a decidedly anti-Native world—a document that gives voice to the truths they know and which connects generations in a lineage of discourse.” · Ty Tengan, University of Hawaii

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

Hb
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eBook available Published August 2011
The Legacies of Two World Wars

European Societies in the Twentieth Century

Kettenacker, L. & Riotte, T. (eds)

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

Hb
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Published December 2016
Legacies of Violence

Rendering the Unspeakable Past in Modern Australia

Mason, R. (ed)

Whether in the form of warfare, forced migration, or social prejudice, Australia’s sense of nationhood was born from experiences of violence. Legacies of Violence probes this brutal legacy through case studies that range from the colonial frontier to modern domestic spaces, exploring empathy, isolation, and Australians’ imagined place in the world.

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

Hb
eBook available Published October 2013
The Legacy of Liberal Judaism

Ernst Cassirer and Hannah Arendt's Hidden Conversation

Curthoys, N.

“This is an important fresh look at modern intellectual history at the interface of philosophy and Jewish thought. It has a persuasive line of argument and illuminating discussions of the subject. It adds a crucial strand to the weave of modern intellectual history and argues that, unless close attention is paid to the dimension of Jewish thought in this project, this history remains misunderstood.” · Willi Goetschel, University of Toronto

Subjects: Jewish Studies History (General)

Hb
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The Legacy of Serbia's Great War

Politics and Remembrance

Tomić, A.

In an expertly researched, original case study on the memory of the traumatic retreat of the Serbian army in 1915, The Legacy of Serbia’s Great War cuts past contemporary canonization of the retreat and links narratives of the past to political choices in the present.

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

Hb
Published July 2015
Legal Dissonance

The Interaction of Criminal Law and Customary Law in Papua New Guinea

Larcom, S.

Papua New Guinea’s two most powerful legal orders — customary law and state criminal law — undermine each other in criminal matters. This phenomenon, called legal dissonance, can lead to an activity being advanced by one legal order and punished by the other, leading to injustice and each legal order’s diminished ability to deter wrongdoing.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Hb
eBook available Published May 2021
Legal Entanglements

Law, Rights and the Battle for Legitimacy in Divided Germany, 1945-1989

Gehrig, S.

Drawing on wide-ranging archival research and recently declassified documents, Legal Entanglements follows the politicians, intellectuals, and other historical actors on both sides of the Berlin Wall who helped their nation to navigate volatile and uncertain legal circumstances.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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eBook available Published December 2011
Legends of People, Myths of State

Violence, Intolerance, and Political Culture in Sri Lanka and Australia

Kapferer, B.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

Pb
Published December 2006
Lela in Bali

History through Ceremony in Cameroon

Fardon, R.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Performance Studies Colonial History

Hb
eBook available Published August 2025
Lessons from Kalahari Ju/’hoan Culture

Democracy, Childrearing, Education, and Community

Heckler, M.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
Published June 2018
Lessons in Perception

The Avant-Garde Filmmaker as Practical Psychologist

Taberham, P.

Narrative comprehension, memory, hallucination, and dreaming have long been objects of fascination for cognitive psychologists, as well as inspiration for experimental filmmakers. Lessons in Perception brings together film theory and psychological research by exploring how experimental filmmakers expand the viewer’s range of aesthetic sensitivities, and the creative possibilities uncharted by commercial cinema.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Sociology

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eBook available Published July 2025
Lessons of History

Learning from Catastrophe and Crisis in Twentieth-Century Europe

Karlsson, K.-G. & Karlsson, M. (eds)

Focusing on how cataclysmic events within primarily Central and Eastern Europe have been transmitted across borders and generations, this volume interrogates how the theory of historical lessons has evolved, ultimately providing a useful framework for comprehending contemporary conflicts and issues.

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

Hb
eBook available Published May 2017
Let Them Not Return

Sayfo – The Genocide Against the Assyrian, Syriac, and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire

Gaunt, D., Atto, N., & Barthoma, S. O. (eds)

While the Armenian genocide is today widely recognized, the broader context of Ottoman violence against minority groups—including the indigenous, largely Christian Assyrians—are less well known. This volume is the first scholarly edited collection focused on the Assyrian genocide, or “sayfo.”

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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eBook available Published July 2019
Lewis Henry Morgan's Comparisons

Reassessing Terminology, Anarchy and Worldview in Indigenous Societies of America, Australia and Highland Middle India

Pfeffer, G.

Georg Pfeffer re-examines the work of Lewis Henry Morgan on relationship terminologies, societal forms, and ideas of property and the relationship between these three domains. He concludes that reciprocal affinal relations determine most ‘classificatory’ terminologies and regulate many non-state societies, their property notions, and their rituals.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
Published September 2008
Liberal Imperialism in Germany

Expansionism and Nationalism, 1848-1884

Fitzpatrick, M. P.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

Hb
eBook available Published September 2016
Life as a Hunt

Thresholds of Identities and Illusions on an African Landscape

Marks, S. A.

The landscape of Zambia’s central Luangwa Valley has been crafted over centuries by the Valley Bisa who live there. Stuart Marks explores an emergent dissonance with the inconvenient conventions and myths of conservationists, administrators and philanthropists who seek to intervene in Africa’s environmental and wildlife crises on new terms and with technical means.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Hb
Paperback available
Published April 2025
Life as a Migrant Muslim Woman in Sectarian Northern Ireland

An Exploration of Gender, Visibility, Movement and Placemaking

Lubit, A. J.

The lives of migrant Muslim women in divided, post-conflict Northern Ireland, both before and after the pandemic, are full of diverse stories and experiences of belonging. This book explores how women strive to belong and create a home despite pervasive hatred, sexism and racism.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Refugee and Migration Studies
Published April 2010
The Life of Property

House, Family and Inheritance in Béarn, South-West France

Jenkins, T.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology History (General) Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published January 2023
Life with Durham Cathedral

A Laboratory of Community, Experience and Building

Calvert, A. J.

An ethnographic account of daily life in Durham Cathedral, this book examines the processes of negotiation and change between a community and their cathedral.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

Hb
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eBook available Published April 2021
Liminal Moves

Traveling along Places, Meanings, and Times

Cangià, F.

Liminal Moves explores the (im)mobilities of three groups of people - street monkey performers in Japan, adolescents writing about migrants in Italy, and men accompanying their partners in Switzerland for work. The book explores how, for these ‘travelers’, the interplay of mobility and immobility creates a ‘liminal hotspot’, a condition of suspension and ambivalence between places, meanings and times.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published June 2024
Limits of Life

Reflections on Life, Death, and the Body in the Age of Technoscience

Mogseth, M. E. & Nilsen, F. H. (eds)

Through a multidisciplinary approach, Limits of Life explores how the limitations and perceived finality of life and death are reconstituted through engagements with modern technology.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published November 2007
The Limits of Loyalty

Imperial Symbolism, Popular Allegiances, and State Patriotism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy

Cole, L. & Unowsky, D. (eds)

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published August 2006
The Limits of Meaning

Case Studies in the Anthropology of Christianity

Engelke, M. & Tomlinson, M. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

Hb
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Published November 1996
The Link with Nature and Divine Meditations in Asia

Formoso, B. (ed)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion

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Published December 1999
The Lion and the Eagle

German-Spanish Relations Over the Centuries: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Kent, C., Wolber, T. & Hewitt, C. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
eBook available Published May 2011
Liquid Bread

Beer and Brewing in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Schiefenhövel, W. and Macbeth, H. (eds)

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
Published March 2001
Literature, the 'Volk' & the Revolution in Mid-19th Century Germany

Perraudin, M.

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

Hb
eBook available Published February 2026
Lives in Fragments

Self-Narrative Sources and Biographical Approaches to the Armenian Genocide

Yetkin, E., Maksudyan, N. & Çelik, A. (Eds.)

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Published July 2024
Lives in Limbo

Syrian Youth in Turkey

Bryant, R., Abdulla, A., Nimer, M., & Üstübici, A.

Lives in Limbo gives voice to the dreams of Syrian youth who have little hope of returning to their devastated homeland and explains why this generation’s future will shape how the region will develop. It explores how refugee youth create futures from the liminality of exile.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published June 2011
The Lives of Chinese Objects

Buddhism, Imperialism and Display

Tythacott, L.

Subjects: Museum Studies History (General) Archaeology

Hb
eBook available Published September 2015
The Living Ancestors

Shamanism, Cosmos and Cultural Change among the Yanomami of the Upper Orinoco

Jokic, Z.

This ethnography focuses on Yanomami shamanism, especially in the context of cultural change. The author interweaves ethnographic material with theoretical components of a holographic principle, or the “part is equal to the whole.” This book fills a gap in the study of Yanomami people and enriches understanding of this ancient phenomenon.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Published August 2017
Living Before Dying

Imagining and Remembering Home

Davies, J.

This in-depth description of life in a nursing/care home, told in a year of daily conversations with patients and staff, highlights the daily care of frail or ill residents of extreme old age, emphasising interaction with care assistants and the different behaviours of men and women.

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

Hb
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Published April 2015
Living Kinship in the Pacific

Toren, C. & Pauwels, S. (eds)

Focusing on transformation and continuity over time in Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa, among others, contributors assert that kinship is a lived and living dimension of contemporary human lives. The ethnographic case studies add to the understanding of kinship as — according to Unaisi Nabobo-Baba — “knowledge that counts.”

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published August 2021
Living Like a Girl

Agency, Social Vulnerability and Welfare Measures in Europe and Beyond

Vogel, M. & Arnell, L. (eds)

With a particular focus on girls who have experienced interventions by social services, the contributions in Living Like a Girl expand our understanding of contemporary European girlhood by demonstrating how social problems are managed in different cultural contexts, political and social systems.

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

Hb
Published October 2022
Living on a Time Bomb

Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community

Schöneich, S.

Providing a holistic understanding of extensive oil extraction in rural Mexico, this book focuses on a campesino community, where oil extraction is deeply inscribed into the daily lives of the community members. The book shows how oil shapes the space where it is extracted in every aspect and produces multiple uncertainties.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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eBook available Published July 2016
Living on Thin Ice

The Gwich'in Natives of Alaska

Dinero, S. C.

Using quantitative and qualitative data gathered since the turn of the millennium, this volume offers an interdisciplinary evaluation of social and economic changes amongst the Gwich’in Natives of Alaska.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Urban Studies

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eBook available Published February 2018
A Living Past

Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America

Soluri, J., Leal, C., & Pádua, J. A. (eds)

Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is no longer in its infancy. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past gives a transnational and thematically diverse survey of historical developments since the nineteenth century.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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Published June 2014
Living Translation

Language and the Search for Resonance in U.S. Chinese Medicine

Pritzker, S. E.

Integrating theoretical perspectives with carefully grounded ethnographic analyses of everyday interaction and experience, Living Translation examines the worlds of international translators as well as U.S. teachers and students of Chinese medicine, focusing on the transformations that occur as participants engage in a “search for resonance” with foreign terms and concepts. Based on a close examination of heated international debates as well as specific texts, classroom discussions, and interviews with publishers, authors, teachers, and students, Sonya Pritzker demonstrates the “living translation” of Chinese medicine as a process unfolding through interaction, inscription, embodied experience, and clinical practice. By documenting the stream of conversations that together constitute this process, the book thus traces the translation of Chinese medicine from text to practice with an eye towards the social, political, historical, moral, and even personal dimensions involved in the transnational production of knowledge about health, illness, and the body.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Hb
eBook available Published July 2018
Living Under Austerity

Greek Society in Crisis

Doxiadis, E. & Placas, A. (eds)

Since its sovereign debt crisis in 2009, Greece has been living under austerity. This volume explores the effects of austerity policies on politics, health care, education, media, and other areas, and examines the crisis as the context for changing attitudes in Greek society regarding immigration, crime, minorities, consumption and more.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
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eBook available Published January 2016
Lobbying Hitler

Industrial Associations between Democracy and Dictatorship

Bera, M.

From 1933-45, Nazi Germany undertook massive industrial integration, submitting an entire economic sector to direct state oversight. This innovative study explores how German professionals navigated this complex landscape through the divergent careers of business managers in two of the era’s most important trade organizations.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published December 2006
Local Science Vs Global Science

Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge in International Development

Sillitoe, P. (ed)

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

Hb
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Published August 2011
Localizing the Internet

An Anthropological Account

Postill, J.

Subjects: Anthropology (General)

Hb
Published December 2006
Locating Memory

Photographic Acts

Kuhn, A. & McAllister, K. (eds)

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

Hb
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Published September 2005
The Logic of Environmentalism

Anthropology, Ecology and Postcoloniality

Argyrou, V.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
Published December 2007
London Eyes

Reflections in Text and Image

Cunningham, G. & Barber, S. (eds)

Subjects: Literary Studies Film and Television Studies

Hb
Published December 2015
The Long Aftermath

Cultural Legacies of Europe at War, 1936-2016

Bragança, M. & Tame, P. (eds)

The hostilities in Europe from 1936 to 1945 have exerted enormous influence over the cultural life of Europe. Bringing together over twenty leading scholars across disciplines, this interdisciplinary volume investigates the intertwining dynamics of Europeans’ individual and collective memories and the ways in which they have shaped cultural forms.

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

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published November 2020
The Long Journey

Exploring Travel and Travel Writing

Di Bella, M. P. & Yothers, B. (eds)

Travel writing has, for centuries, comprised an essential historical record and wide-ranging literary form, reflecting the rich diversity of travel as a social and cultural practice, metaphorical process, and driver of globalization.

Subjects: Literary Studies Mobility Studies Cultural Studies (General) Travel and Tourism

Hb
Paperback available
Published September 2025
A Long Journey Home

Losing and Remaking Home following Conflict and Displacement

Pérez Murcia, L. E.

A Long Journey Home examines the experiences of those whose sense of home has been disrupted by decades of conflict and violence. It highlights the profound feelings of loss and the enduring struggle of living without a home – an experience that can last for years or even decades.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published February 2023
The Long Shore

Archaeologies and Social Histories of Californias Maritime Cultural Landscapes

Meniketti, M. (ed)

Authors investigate the multifaceted character of maritime landscapes and maritime oriented communities in California’s equally diverse cultural landscape; viewed through an archaeological lens, and emphasizing social behavior and community as material culture in order to reveal intersections and commonalities.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published November 2010
The Long Way Home

The Meaning and Values of Repatriation

Turnbull, P. & Pickering, M. (eds)

Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies

Pb
Forthcoming November 2026
Losing and Finding Prussia in the Twentieth Century

German History and the Legacy of a Vanished Kingdom

Mustafa, S. A.

Mustafa examines the changing role of Prussia in the lives of German people, from the founding of the empire in 1871 to the present. He explores the decline of Prussia's power within the Reich and its crisis during the Weimar Republic, and its return to the public consciousness in the twenty-first century.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century
eBook available Published October 2016
Losing Heaven

Religion in Germany since 1945

Großbölting, T.

The religious landscape of modern Germany is one that would scarcely be recognizable to earlier generations. This groundbreaking survey of German postwar religious life depicts a profoundly changed society that has almost entirely shed its Christian character despite a booming market for syncretistic, individualistic forms of “popular religion.”

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Anthropology of Religion

Hb
Published January 1999
Losing Place

Refugee Populations and Rural Transformations in East Africa

Bascom, J. B.

Subject: Refugee and Migration Studies

Hb
Paperback available
Published July 2012
Lost Objects Of Desire

The Performances of Jeremy Irons

Nicholls, M.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

Hb
Published December 2010
Lost to the State

Family Discontinuity, Social Orphanhood and Residential Care in the Russian Far East

Khlinovskaya Rockhill, E.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Hb
Published March 2003
Louis Dumont and Hierarchical Opposition

Parkin, R.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published September 2023
Love, Loyalty and Deceit

Rosemary Firth, a Life in the Shadow of Two Eminent Men

Firth, H. & Brown, L.

How much do we really know about our parents’ lives? What secrets lie in plain sight? This is the true story of hidden love within a small circle of some of the most acclaimed anthropologists of the 20th century.

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

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published June 2012
A Lover's Quarrel with the Past

Romance, Representation, Reading

Ghosh, R.

Subject: History (General)

Hb
eBook available Published August 2018
Lullabies and Battle Cries

Music, Identity and Emotion among Republican Parading Bands in Northern Ireland

Rollins, J.

Lullabies and Battle Cries examines the relationship between music, emotion, memory, and identity in Northern Irish republican parading bands, exploring how rebel parade music provides a foundational idiom of national and republican expression, acting as a critical medium for shaping new political identities.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
eBook available Published November 2025
Lurking Cold War

Life Through Historical Communion

Pipyrou, S.

Lasting traces of the Cold War continue to shape the social landscape in Italy and Greece. Lurking Cold War critiques the connections between global categories and individual experiences, foregrounding Cold War resonances through materiality, imagination, speculation, and affect – in literature, bureaucracy, and the family.

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

Hb
eBook available Published April 2019
Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents

The Making and Unmaking of Racial Exceptionalism

Anderson, W., Roque, R., & Ventura Santos, R. (eds)

The Portuguese-speaking Global South, especially Brazil, often envisions itself as exceptional in its racial conceptions and politics. Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents reassesses Gilberto Freyre’s influential claims that Portuguese colonialism produced what came to be called “racial democracy,” and explores racialization beyond the common trope of “race-mixing.”

Subjects: Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published July 2024
Machine-Created Culture

Essays on the Archaeology of Digital Things and Places

Reinhard, A.

Machine-Created Culture offers archaeologists of any level new ways of interpreting electronic and digital artifacts, sites, and landscapes. Playfully told through the misadventures of a reluctant digital archaeologist, this book gently leads readers into emerging topics including quantum archaeology, entropy, psychogeography, complexity science, and more.

Subject: Archaeology

Hb
eBook available Published July 2017
Mad Mädchen

Feminism and Generational Conflict in Recent German Literature and Film

McCarthy, M.

The last two decades have been frequently discordant for German feminism, as a new cohort of activists has come of age and challenged many of the movement’s strategic and philosophical orthodoxies. This book offers an incisive cultural analysis of these trans-generational debates, identifying characteristic features of their representation in German literature, film, and media.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Film and Television Studies Literary Studies

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published July 2016
Made In Egypt

Gendered Identity and Aspiration on the Globalised Shop Floor

Chakravarti, L. Z.

This ground-breaking ethnography of an export-orientated factory in Egypt examines the dynamic relationships between the emergent Mubarak-bizniz (business) elites, who are caught in an intensely competitive globalized supply chain, and the local realities of the daily lives of their young, educated, and mixed-gender labor force.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
Published March 2009
Made in Sheffield

An Ethnography of Industrial Work and Politics

Mollona, M.

Subjects: Urban Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
eBook available Published September 2023
Madness, Bureaucracy and Gender in Mumbai, India

Narratives from a Psychiatric Hospital

Strauss, A.

Regional mental hospitals in India are perceived as colonial artefacts in need of reformation. In the last two decades, there has been discussion around the maltreatment of patients, corruption and poor quality of mental health treatment in these institutions. This ethnography scrutinizes bureaucracy of these asylum-like institutions in the context of national change and the global mental health movement.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
eBook available Published April 2019
Magical House Protection

The Archaeology of Counter-Witchcraft

Hoggard, B.

Belief in magic and particularly the power of witchcraft was a deep and enduring presence in popular culture; people created and concealed many objects to protect themselves from harmful magic. Detailed are the principal forms of magical house protection in Britain and beyond from the fourteenth century to the present day.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology of Religion

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published January 2023
A Magpie’s Tale

Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on the Kazakh of Western Mongolia

Portisch, A. O.

Telling the story of the author's time living with a Kazakh family in a small village in western Mongolia, this book contextualizes the family’s personal stories within the broader history of the region.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Refugee and Migration Studies

Hb
eBook available Published October 2015
Making Ubumwe

Power, State and Camps in Rwanda's Unity-Building Project

Purdeková, A.

Since the end of the Rwandan genocide, the new political elite has been challenged with building a unified nation. The book investigates this project of civic education, the explosion of neo-traditional institutions and activities, and the uses of camps and retreats that come together to shape the “ideal” Rwandan citizen.

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

Hb
Paperback available
Published January 2015
Making a Difference?

Social Assessment Policy and Praxis and its Emergence in China

Price, S. & Robinson, K. (eds)

This collection of essays locates recent Chinese experience with development in a historical and comparative perspective. Contributors − social scientists employed by international development banks, national government agencies, and sub-contracting groups – use real-life experience to examine development policies from a practitioner’s perspective.

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
eBook available Published March 2024
The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class

Everyday Politics and Moral Economy in a Post-Soviet City

Gorbach, D.

The industrial workers of Ukraine have a contradictory and complex political lifeworld. Based on three years of fieldwork in the city of Kryvyi Rih, this book focuses on the everyday politics and moral economy that constitute the working-class and structures its relations with other social groups.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Urban Studies

Hb
eBook available Published May 2022
Making Better Lives

Hope, Freedom and Home-Making among People Sleeping Rough in Paris

Lenhard, J.

In this ethnographic study, Johannes Lenhard observes the daily practices, routines and techniques of people who are sleeping rough on the streets of Paris. The book focusses on their survival practises, their short-term desires and hopes, how they earn money through begging, how they choose the best place to sleep at night and what role drugs and alcohol play in their lives.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Urban Studies

Hb
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Published June 2019
Making Bodies Kosher

The Politics of Reproduction among Haredi Jews in England

Kasstan, B.

Analyses the ways in which Haredi Jews negotiate healthcare services using theoretical perspectives in political philosophy. This is the first archival and ethnographic study of Haredi Jews in the UK, and will allow readers to understand how reproductive care issues affect this growing minority population.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Jewish Studies Anthropology of Religion

Paperback available
Published February 2023
Making Multiple Babies

Anticipatory Regimes of Assisted Reproduction

Wu, C.-L.

Human beings have been producing more twins, triplets, and quadruplets than ever before, due to the expansion of medically assisted conception. This book analyzes the anticipatory regimes of making multiple babies. With archival documents, participant observation, in-depth interviews, and registry data, this book traces the global and local governance of the assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) used to tackle multiple pregnancy since the 1970s.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

Paperback available
eBook available Published September 2017
Making Nordic Historiography

Connections, Tensions and Methodology, 1850-1970

Haapala, P., Jalava, M., & Larsson, S. (eds)

Is there a “Nordic history”? If so, what are its origins, its scope, and its defining features? In this definitive volume, scholars from all five Nordic nations tackle a notoriously problematic historical concept. Each contribution takes a deliberately transnational approach while grounding itself in careful research, yielding rich, nuanced perspectives on shifting and contested historical terrain.

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

Hb
Published October 2004
The Making of Anthropology in East and Southeast Asia

Yamashita, S., Bosco, J., & Eades, J.S. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Hb
Paperback available
Published February 2026
The Making of Modern Eating

How the German Middle Class Forged the Way We Eat, 1780-1910

Kreklau, C.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Food & Nutrition
eBook available Published November 2016
The Making of the Greek Genocide

Contested Memories of the Ottoman Greek Catastrophe

Sjöberg, E.

After World War I, over one million Ottoman Greeks were expelled from Turkey, resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths. This study analyzes the fight for international recognition of the Greek genocide narrative, showing how its memory developed as a cultural trauma with both nationalist and cosmopolitan dimensions.

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published June 2012
The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama

Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa

Pype, K.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
Paperback available
Forthcoming October 2026
The Making of Turkish Contemporary History

Voices Intertwined

Pekesen, B. (Eds.)

Bringing together diverse disciplinary perspectives, The Making of Turkish Contemporary History explores the complexities of historiography by focusing on often-overlooked decades of the post-1950s. Engaging and thought-provoking, this is essential reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of knowledge production, contested historical truths, and the political stakes of writing contemporary history.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Anthropology (General) Sociology
Published January 2007
Making Peace with the Earth

What Future for the Human Species and the Planet

Bindé, J. (ed)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies

Pb
eBook available Published April 2021
Making Scenes

Global Perspectives on Scenes in Rock Art

Davidson, I. & Nowell, A. (eds)

In this unique volume examining the nature of scenes in rock art, researchers examine what defines a scene, what are the necessary elements of a scene, and what can the evolutionary history tell us about storytelling, sequential memory and cognitive evolution among ancient and living cultures?

Subject: Archaeology

Hb
Published July 2022
Making Things Happen

Community Participation and Disaster Reconstruction in Pakistan

Murphy Thomas, J.

Making Things Happen is about the sociocultural side of post-disaster infrastructure reconstruction, drawing on one project, the Pakistan Earthquake Reconstruction and Recovery Project (PERRP). As disasters are increasing in number and intensity so too will be the need for reconstruction, for which PERRP has lessons to offer.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Development Studies

Paperback available
eBook available Published October 2016
The Man from the Third Row

Hasse Ekman, Swedish Cinema and the Long Shadow of Ingmar Bergman

Gustafsson, F.

Once one of the leading lights of Swedish cinema, director Hasse Ekman is today virtually unknown outside of Sweden, eclipsed by the iconic Ingmar Bergman. This first-ever English-language book on the subject provides an engaging, comprehensive survey of Ekman’s career, combining explorations of historical context with insightful analyses of styles and themes.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published November 2018
The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls

The Adventures of Eugène Boban

MacLaren Walsh, J. & Topping, B.

Detailed are the travels, self-education, and archaeological explorations of Eugène Boban, an expert in the field of pre-Columbian studies and explores the circumstances that allowed him to sell fakes to museums that would remain undetected for over a century.

Subjects: Museum Studies Archaeology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published January 2020
Management and Morality

An Ethnographic Exploration of Management Consultancy Seminars

Henningsen, E.

Drawing on extended ethnographic studies of management consultancies in the Oslo region of Norway, this book seeks to find a richer understanding of their role in contemporary work life and the attraction their practices exert on people. The author shows that management consultancy is an arena of meaning that should be analysed as a ‘cultural space’.

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

Hb
eBook available Published May 2019
Management by Seclusion

A Critique of World Bank Promises to End Global Poverty

Cochrane, G.

Assessing the World Bank’s attempts to combat global poverty over the past 50 years, anthropologist and former World Bank Advisor Glynn Cochrane argues that instead of the Bank’s prevailing strategy of “management by seclusion,” poverty alleviation requires personal engagement with the poorest by helpers with hands-on local and cultural skills.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies

Hb
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eBook available Published July 2017
Managing Ambiguity

How Clientelism, Citizenship, and Power Shape Personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Brković, Č.

Why do people turn to personal connections to get things done? Challenging widespread views of favors as means of survival in transitioning contexts, this volume demonstrates that these contemporary globalized forms of flexible governance are not contradictory to one another, but often mutually constitutive.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published February 2018
Managing Northern Europe's Forests

Histories from the Age of Improvement to the Age of Ecology

Oosthoek, K. J. & Hölzl, R. (eds)

Eleven chapters, organized regionally, explore the origins of state forestry policy in Northern Europe from the early modern period to the present. Topics include fundamental policy aims, the functioning and organisations of forestry, forest management, wood supply, regulations, forest statistics, wood depletion, growing stock, forest conservation, and landscape protection.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: Medieval/Early Modern History: 18th/19th Century

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published March 2026
Managing Pandemics in Early Modern Germany

Hess, P. (Eds.)

Subject: History: Medieval/Early Modern

Hb
Published December 2001
Managing Reproductive Life

Cross-Cultural Themes in Fertility and Sexuality

Tremayne, S. (ed)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
Paperback available
Published September 2022
Managing Sacralities

Competing and Converging Claims of Religious Heritage

Hemel, E. van den, Salemink, O., & Stengs, I. (eds)

What happens when religious sites, objects and practices become cultural heritage? Case studies from Denmark, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and the United Kingdom present an analysis of the paradoxes and challenges that arise when religious sites are transformed into heritage.

Subjects: Heritage Studies History (General) Anthropology of Religion

Paperback available
eBook available Published March 2014
Managing the Unknown

Essays on Environmental Ignorance

Uekötter, F. & Lübken, U. (eds)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History (General)

Hb
Paperback available
Published November 2010
Managing Uncertainty

Giuliani, M. & Jones, E. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Pb
Published September 2006
The Manchester School

Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology

Evens, T. M. S. & Handelman, D. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published November 2007
The Manual of Ethnography

Mauss, M.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

Hb
Paperback available
Published April 2013
Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine

The Creation of an Industry and the Moral Economy of Tibetanness

Saxer, M.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Hb
Published December 2006
The Many Faces of Clio

Cross-cultural Approaches to Historiography
Essays in Honor of Georg G. Iggers

Wang, Q. E. & Fillafer, F. (eds)

Subject: History (General)

Hb
Published April 2004
The Many Faces of Germany

McCarthy, J. A., Grûnzweig, W. & Koebner, T. (eds)

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

Hb
eBook available Published April 2011
Mapping Difference

The Many Faces of Women in Contemporary Ukraine

Rubchak, M. J. (ed)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
Published December 1998
Marcel Mauss

A Centenary Tribute

James, W. & Allen, N. J. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published July 2021
Margaret Mead

Shankman, P.

Tracing Mead’s career as an ethnographer, as the early voice of public anthropology, and as a public figure, this elegantly written biography links the professional and personal sides of her career. This short volume is an ideal starting point for anyone wanting to learn about, arguably, the most famous anthropologist of the twentieth century.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published June 2012
Marginal At the Center

The Life Story of a Public Sociologist

Kimmerling, B.

Subjects: Sociology Jewish Studies

Pb
eBook available Published August 2026
Maritime Archaeology with Compassionate Community Connection

Craig, J. & Mok, J. (Eds.)

Contemporary public discourses about archaeology are routinely characterized by scientific and historical narratives that leave the water blank. This book weaves together voices from across the Asia Pacific region, revealing maritime archaeology as a labour of love rooted in connection, compassion and community.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies

Hb
Published February 2025
Market and Monastery

Capitalism in Manangi Trade Diaspora

Ratanapruck, P.

In this enlightening ethnography of the Manangi, a Buddhist trading community from northern Nepal, Prista Ratanapruck highlights the way social institutions have boosted Manangi trade opportunities. Examining how capital production and accumulation interacts with the Manangi’s pursuit of social and spiritual aspirations, Market and Monastery illuminates an intriguing form of capitalism.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies Anthropology (General)
Published June 2019
Market Frictions

Trade and Urbanization at the Vietnam-China Border

Endres, K. W.

Based on ethnographic research conducted during several years, Market Frictions examines the tensions and frictions that emerge from the interaction of global market forces, urban planning policies, and small-scale trading activities in the Vietnamese border city of Lào Cai.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available Published May 2019
Marketing Hope

Get-Rich-Quick Schemes in Siberia

Schiffauer, L.

Looks at how get-rich-quick schemes manifest themselves in a Siberian town. By focusing on the social dynamics of these popular economies, Leonie Schiffauer provides insights into how capitalist logic is learned and negotiated, and how it affects local realities in a post-Soviet environment.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published July 2009
Markets and Civil Society

The European Experience in Comparative Perspective

Perez-Diaz, V. (ed)

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published May 2015
Marking Evil

Holocaust Memory in the Global Age

Goldberg, A. & Hazan, H. (eds)

Talking about the Holocaust has provided an international language for ethics, victimization, political claims, and constructions of collective identity. This volume addresses manifestations of Holocaust-engendered global discourse by critically examining their function and inherent dilemmas, and the ways in which Holocaust related matters still instigate public debate and academic deliberation.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History Memory Studies

Hb
Paperback available
Published November 1999
Marriage and Its Obstacles in Jewish Law

Essays and Responsa

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

Subjects: Jewish Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

Pb
eBook available Published January 2023
The Marseille Mosaic

A Mediterranean City at the Crossroads of Cultures

Ingram, M. & Kleppinger, K. (eds)

Moving across disciplines, The Marseille Mosaic integrates a diverse range of sources and methods to reveal France’s second city in the national imagination as a critical site for postcolonial memory and urban transformation as they crucially interact with debates in contemporary French society.

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

Hb
Published July 2015
Marxism and Film Activism

Screening Alternative Worlds

Mazierska, E. & Kristensen, L. (eds)

Subject: Film and Television Studies

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published June 2017
Mary Douglas

Understanding Social Thought and Conflict

6, P. & Richards, P.

This valuable book introduces Mary Douglas’s theories, and outlines the ways in which her work is of continuing importance for the future of the social sciences. The authors effectively demonstrate how Douglas laid out the agenda for revitalizing social science by reworking Durkheim’s legacy for today, and reviews the growing body of research across the social sciences which has used, tested or developed her approach.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published September 2023
Mary Douglas

Richards, P. & 6, P.

This handy, concise biography covers the life of Mary Douglas, one of the most important anthropologists of the second half of the 20th century. It offers an introduction to how her distinctive approach developed across a long and productive career and how it applies to current pressing issues of social conflict and planetary survival.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

Hb
Paperback available
Published April 2011
The Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany

Sutton, K.

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

Hb
Paperback available
Published November 2008
Masculinities in Polish, Czech and Slovak Cinema

Black Peters and Men of Marble

Mazierska, E.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
Paperback available
Published July 2015
Masks and Staffs

Identity Politics in the Cameroon Grassfields

Pelican, Michaela

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
Published November 2014
Mass Communication In Israel

Nationalism, Globalization, and Segmentation

Soffer, O.

Mass communication has long been recognized as an important contributor to national identity and nation building. This book examines the relationship between media and nationalism in Israel, arguing that, in comparison to other countries, the Israeli case is unique.

Subject:

Hb
Published August 1999
The Massacre in History

Levene, M. & Roberts, P. (eds)

Subject: Genocide History

Hb
Paperback available
Published September 1998
Mastering Soldiers

Conflict, Emotions, and the Enemy in an Israeli Army Unit

Ben-Ari, E.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
Paperback available
Published March 2010
Materialising Exile

Material Culture and Embodied Experience among Karenni Refugees in Thailand

Dudley, S.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
Forthcoming October 2026
Materializing Migrants’ Emotions

An Ethnography of Displacement Through Objects Among Syrians in Turkey

Gündüz, S.

By tracing the stories and emotions that emerge through the objects with which migrants associate, this book offers a deep ethnographic account of the social and cultural life of Syrian migrants in Turkey, mapping the emotional landscape of displacement.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies
eBook available Published April 2012
Maternalism Reconsidered

Motherhood, Welfare and Social Policy in the Twentieth Century

Klein, M. van der, Plant, R. J., Sanders, Nichole, & Weintrob L. R. (eds)

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

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published July 2021
Matsutake Worlds

Faier, L. & Hathaway, M. J. (eds)

Matsutake Worlds explores matsutake mushrooms through the lens of multispecies encounters, to explore the mushroom’s success on the world stage. This success cannot be accounted for by any one cultural or economic process—rather, the matsutake has flourished due to many different processes, culminating in the culinary institution we know today.

Subjects: Sociology Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
Published September 2012
A Matter of Belief

Christian Conversion and Healing in North-East India

Joshi, V.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

Hb
eBook available Published January 2025
Matter Out of Place

Anthropological Explorations of Bodies, Dirt and Morality

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

This collection draws on classic anthropological ideas of pollution to explore bodies, dirt, and place, moral inversion and reinforcement, and disgust and taboo. The book is an invitation to consider the continued relevance of Douglas’ conceptualisation of pollution and dirt as ‘matter out of place’ in relation to contemporary circumstances.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published May 2021
Mattering the Invisible

Technologies, Bodies, and the Realm of the Spectral

Espírito Santo, D. & Hunter, J. (eds)

Exploring how technological apparatuses “capture” invisible worlds, this book looks at how spirits, UFOs, discarnate entities, spectral energies, atmospheric forces and particles are mattered into existence by human minds. The book uses contemporary case studies where the realm of the invisible arises through technological engagement, and where the paranormal intertwines with modern technology.

Subjects: Anthropology (General)

Hb
eBook available Published December 2015
Matters of Testimony

Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz

Chare, N. & Williams, D.

In 1944, a number of Sonderkommando—“special squads” of Jewish prisoners who kept the gas chambers running smoothly—buried on the grounds of Auschwitz a series of remarkable eyewitness accounts. This study reconstructs their history and textual content, revealing literary works that raise troubling questions about the nature of testimony.

Subjects: Genocide History History: World War II Jewish Studies

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published March 2024
Max Gluckman

Macmillan, H.

This handy, concise biography describes the life and intellectual contribution of Max Gluckman (1911-75) who was one the most significant social anthropologists of the twentieth century.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

Hb
Paperback available
Published May 2011
Max Liebermann and International Modernism

An Artist's Career from Empire to Third Reich

Deshmukh, M., Forster-Hahn, F. & Gaehtgens, B. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
eBook available Published August 2006
Meaning and Representation in History

Rüsen, J. (ed)

Subject: History (General)

Hb
Paperback available
Published July 2009
Meaningful Inconsistencies

Bicultural Nationhood, the Free Market, and Schooling in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Doerr, N. M.

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
eBook available Published December 2020
The Meanings of a Disaster

Chernobyl and Its Afterlives in Britain and France

Kalmbach, K.

Focusing on the cases of Great Britain and France, this innovative study explores the discourses and narratives that arose in the wake of the incident among both state and nonstate actors. It gives a thorough account of the strategies that shaped Western European responses to the disaster as well as nuclear policy up to the present day.

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

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Published December 2006
The Meanings of Magic

From the Bible to Buffalo Bill

Wygant, A. (ed)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

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Media and Nation Building

How the Iban became Malaysian

Postill, J.

Subjects: Anthropology (General)

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Media and Revolt

Strategies and Performances from the 1960s to the Present

Fahlenbrach, K., Sivertsen, E. & Werenskjold, R. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Media Practices and Changing African Socialities

Non-media-centric Perspectives

Helle-Valle, J. & Strom-Mathiesen, A. (eds)

Deriving from innovative new work by six researchers, this book questions what the new media's role is in contemporary Africa. The focus is on media-related practices, which require engagement with different perspectives and concerns while situating these in a wider analytical context.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies

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Published October 2015
Media, Anthropology and Public Engagement

Pink, S. & Abram, S. (eds)

Contemporary anthropologists’ engagement with social and digital media simultaneously offers opportunities to disseminate work in new ways, while challenging scholars to move into unfamiliar collaborative domains and expose their research to new forms of scrutiny. This volume’s contributors question whether, through these new practices, a fresh public anthropology is emerging.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology

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Mediated Lives

Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan

Twigt, M.

Using the example of Iraqi refugees in Jordan's capital of Amman, this book describes how information and communication technologies (ICTs) play out in the everyday experiences of urban refugees, geographically located in the Global South, and shows how interactions between online and offline spaces are key for making sense of the humanitarian regime, for carving out a sense of home and for sustaining hope.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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Mediating Europe

New Media, Mass Communications, and the European Public Sphere

Harrison, J. & Wessels, B. (eds)

Subjects: Sociology

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Published May 2007
Medical Identities

Healing, Well Being and Personhood

Maynard, K. (ed)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

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Medicinal Rule

A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa

Stroeken, K.

Based on ethnography-driven regional comparison and a critical re-examination of classic monographs on some forty cultural groups, this volume makes the arresting claim that across equatorial Africa, the model of rule has been medicine – and not (as Europeans have long assumed) the colonizer’s despotic administrator, the missionary’s divine king, or Vansina’s big man.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History

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Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany

Origins, Practices, Legacies

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

Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History

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Medicine Between Science and Religion

Explorations on Tibetan Grounds

Adams, V., Schrempf, M. & Craig, S. R. (ed)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion

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Medieval Intersections

Gender and Status in Europe in the Middle Ages

Weikert, K. & Woodacre, E. (eds)

With contributions on topics ranging from medieval gynecology to clerical masculinity, this interdisciplinary collection highlights the various ways “status” can be interpreted relative to gender, and what these two interlocked concepts can reveal about the construction of gendered identities in the Middle Ages.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: Medieval/Early Modern

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Melanesian Mainstream

Stringband Music and Identity in Vanuatu

Ellerich, S. T.

Based in extensive ethnographic research, Melanesian Mainstream provides a detailed representation of the roots, context, evolution, and impact of stringband music in the Melanesian Republic of Vanuatu.

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

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Melanesian Odysseys

Negotiating the Self, Narrative, and Modernity

Josephides, L.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Published December 2002
Memoirs of a Mbororo

The Life of Ndudi Umaru: Fulani Nomad of Cameroon

Bocquene, H.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Memory Studies Literary Studies

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Memorializing the GDR

Monuments and Memory after 1989

Saunders, A.

Since unification, eastern Germany has witnessed a rapidly changing memorial landscape. Memorializing the GDR provides the first in-depth study of this key topic, investigating the individuals and groups involved in the creation or destruction of memorials while addressing the subject’s complex aesthetic, political, and historical dimensions.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Urban Studies Heritage Studies

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Published August 2002
Memory and Amnesia

The Role of the Spanish Civil War in the Transition to Democracy

Aguilar, P.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies

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Published November 2015
Memory and Change in Europe

Eastern Perspectives

Pakier, M. & Wawrzyniak, J. (eds)

In studies of a common European past, there is a significant lack of scholarship on the former Eastern Bloc countries. This volume offers a reflection on memory in an Eastern European historical context, one that can be measured against and applied to historical experience in other parts of Europe.

Subjects: History (General) Sociology Memory Studies

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Memory Unbound

Tracing the Dynamics of Memory Studies

Bond, L., Craps, S., & Vermeulen, P. (eds)

Increasingly, scholars understand memory to be a fluid, dynamic process, rather than a reified object. Embodying this elastic approach, this state-of-the-field collection systematically explores the transcultural, transgenerational, transmedial, and transdisciplinary dimensions of memory—four key concepts that have sometimes been studied in isolation but never in such an integrated manner.

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

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Men Under Fire

Motivation, Morale, and Masculinity among Czech Soldiers in the Great War, 1914–1918

Hutečka, J.

In historical writing on World War I, Czech-speaking soldiers serving in the Austro-Hungarian military are primarily studied as Czechs, rarely as soldiers, and never as men. Men under Fire provides a groundbreaking analysis of this oft-overlooked cohort, drawing on a wealth of soldiers’ private writings to explore experiences of exhaustion, sex, loyalty, authority, and combat itself.

Subjects: History: World War I Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Published November 2006
The Men We Loved

Male Friendship and Nationalism in Israeli Culture

Kaplan, D.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)

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The Men with the Movie Camera

The Poetics of Visual Style in Soviet Avant-Garde Cinema of the 1920s

Cavendish, P.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

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Merchant Kings

Corporate Governmentality in the Dutch Colonial Empire, 1815–1870

Schrauwers, A.

Merchant Kings offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the rapid industrialization of the Netherlands and its colonial holdings in Java during the nineteenth century. By placing colony and metropole into a single analytical frame, it offers a bracing new approach to understanding the development of modern corporations within the context of empire.

Subjects: Colonial History History: 18th/19th Century Political and Economic Anthropology

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The Merkel Republic

An Appraisal

Langenbacher, E. (ed)

Bringing together German politics experts from both sides of the Atlantic, this volume addresses the campaign, results, and consequences of the 2013 Bundestag election. Chapters delve into a diverse array of themes, including immigrant-origin and women candidates, the fate of the small parties, and the prospects for the SPD, as well as more general structural trends like the Europeanization and cosmopolitanization of German politics.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Messy Europe

Crisis, Race, and Nation-State in a Postcolonial World

Loftsdóttir, K., Smith, A. L., & Hipfl, B. (eds)

Messy Europe links theoretical insights to current discussions of crisis – economic and otherwise – showing how these shape the creation of subjectivities and identities. The chapters theorize “Europe” as a contested and fluid construction, and, by focusing on particular case studies, analyze how specific understandings of self and others occur in the crisis context.

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

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Published January 2014
Metallic Modern

Everyday Machines in Colonial Sri Lanka

Wickramasinghe, N.

Subjects: Colonial History Cultural Studies (General) Development Studies

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Metaphors of Spain

Representations of Spanish National Identity in the Twentieth Century

Moreno-Luzón, J. & Núñez Seixas, X. M. (eds)

Despite the undeniably political character of the history of Spanish nationalism, a cultural approach can also provide essential insights into the subject. Metaphors of Spain brings together leading historians to examine Spanish nationalism through its diverse and complementary cultural artifacts, from “formal” representations such as the flag to music, bullfighting, and other more diffuse examples.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Metaphors of Spain

Representations of Spanish National Identity in the Twentieth Century

Moreno-Luzón, J. & Seixas, X. (Eds.)

The history of twentieth-century Spanish nationalism is a complex one, placing a set of famously distinctive regional identities against a backdrop of religious conflict, separatist tensions, and the autocratic rule of Francisco Franco. Metaphors of Spain brings together leading historians to examine Spanish nationalism through its diverse and complementary cultural artifacts.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available Published May 2017
Methodologies of Mobility

Ethnography and Experiment

Elliot, A., Norum, R., & Salazar, N. B. (eds)

Research into mobility is an exciting challenge for the social sciences that raises novel socio-cultural, ethical, and methodological questions. Speaking beyond disciplinary boundaries to the challenges of engaging with a world on the move, Methodologies of Mobility traces innovative strategies for designing, applying and reflecting on methodologies of mobility.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies Theory and Methodology

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Michael Haneke's Cinema

The Ethic of the Image

Wheatley, C.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

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Microhistories of Memory

Remediating the Holocaust by Bullets in Postwar West Germany

Saryusz-Wolska, M.

Microhistories of Memory takes the culturally significant West German novel, radio play, and television series Through the Night (originally Am grünen Strand der Spree, 1955-1960), depicting the mass shootings of Jews in the occupied Soviet Union during World War II, and provides an in-depth look into work’s circulation, reception, production, and popularity in the public sphere.

Subjects: Memory Studies Film and Television Studies

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Microhistories of the Holocaust

Zalc, C. & Bruttmann, T. (eds)

Increasingly, recent historical scholarship has demonstrated a willingness to study the Holocaust at scales as focused as a single neighborhood or family. This volume brings together scholars to reflect on the ongoing microhistorical turn in Holocaust studies, assessing its historiographical pitfalls as well as the distinctive opportunities it affords researchers.

Subjects: Genocide History History: World War II Jewish Studies

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The Middle-Income Trap in Central and Eastern Europe

Causes, Consequences and Strategies in Post-Communist Countries

Kouli, Y. & Müller, U. (eds)

Reviewing the story of prosperity in Central and Eastern Europe up to current debates, The Middle-Income Trap in Central and Eastern Europe examines the reality of the diminishing marginal utility of further international investments alongside the pitfalls of higher national innovation.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published August 1997
Migrants, Refugees, and Foreign Policy

U.S. and German Policies Toward Countries of Origin

Münz, R. & Weiner, M. (eds)

Subject: Refugee and Migration Studies

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Migration and Health

Challenging the Borders of Belonging, Care, and Policy

El-Shaarawi, N. & Larchanché, S. (eds)

Despite the centrality of migration in our contemporary world, scholarship on mobility and health frequently separates migrants according to legal status, country of origin, destination, or health concern. Yet people on the move and health systems face challenges and opportunities that transcend these boundaries, including border fortification, neoliberal agendas, and climate change. This volume challenges these epistemic borders.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

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Migration and Welfare Austerity

Mobilizing Kinship for Care, Welfare and Development in Kyrgyzstan

Ismailbekova, A.

Migration is destructive to the nuclear family and wider village life, but it provides an opportunity for lineages to be mobilized for collective social action that is both local and translocal. This book aims to share experiences of people in Alma, a village in Kyrgyzstan, and how they created a ‘moral economy of migration’ that became territorialised as kinship was de-territorialised.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

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Published December 2025
Migration as Anchorage

Ethnography of a Palestinian Family in London

Obeid, M.

A Palestinian family, stranded in London during Israel’s 2008 war on Gaza, opens a café and adapts to uncertainty. This ethnography follows their efforts to recreate home, introducing the concept of ‘anchoring’ to explore migration, home and place, highlighting the fluidity, temporariness and serendipity of these experiences.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies
eBook available Published May 2016
Migration by Boat

Discourses of Trauma, Exclusion and Survival

Mannik, L. (ed)

Exploring various contemporary case studies and historic cultural renditions of boat migrations undertaken by asylum seekers and refugees, this book shows that boats not only move people and cultural capital between places, but also fuel cultural fantasies, dreams of adventure and hope, along with fears of invasion and terrorism.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology Transport Studies

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Published January 2003
Migration Control in the North-atlantic World

The Evolution of State Practices in Europe and the United States from the French Revolution to the Inter-War Period

Fahrmeir, A., Faron, O. & Weil, P. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Archaeology

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Migration in the Making of the Gulf Space

Social, Political, and Cultural Dimensions

Bouzas, A. M. & Casini, L. (eds)

Combining visual and literary analyses and original ethnographic studies as part of a more general political reflection, Migration in the Making of Gulf Space examines the role of migrants and non-citizens in the processes of settling in the Arab States of the Gulf region.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published August 1997
Migration Past, Migration Future

Germany and the United States

Bade, K. J. & Weiner, M. (eds)

Subject: Refugee and Migration Studies

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Published November 2007
Migration Without Borders

Essays on the Free Movement of People

Pécoud, A. & Guchteneire, P. de (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Mobility Studies Development Studies

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Published September 2011
The Migration-Displacement Nexus

Patterns, Processes, and Policies

Koser, K. & Martin, S. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies

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Published November 2010
Migration, Development, and Transnationalization

A Critical Stance

Glick Schiller, N. & Faist, T. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Theory and Methodology Sociology

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eBook available Published January 2026
Migration, Dictatorship, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe

Siegfried von Vegesack and Werner Bergengruen

Housden, M.

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

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Published July 2024
Migration, Dislocation and Movement on Screen

Trandafoiu, R. (ed)

Examining the way contemporary screen industries capture and reflect migration, movement and displacement, Migration, Dislocation and Movement on Screen offers case studies on screen media representations that engage with important emergences of transnational and cosmopolitan imaginaries.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Refugee and Migration Studies History: 20th Century to Present
Published November 2016
Migration, Memory, and Diversity

Germany from 1945 to the Present

Wilhelm, C. (ed)

German attitudes toward migrants have been profoundly shaped by the legacies of the Second World War. This volume explores the history of migration and diversity in Germany from 1945 onward, showing how conceptions of “otherness” developed while memories of Nazism were still fresh, and identifying the continuities and transformations they have exhibited up until today.

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

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Migration, Settlement and Belonging in Europe, 1500–1930s

Comparative Perspectives

King, S. & Winter, A. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies History (General)

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Migrations in the German Lands, 1500-2000

Coy, J., Poley, J., & Schunka, A. (eds)

The essays collected here reconstruct the experiences of vagrants, laborers, religious exiles, refugees, and other migrants during the last five hundred years of German history. These diverse contributions identify important commonalities between eras and contextualize Germany within broader migration histories.

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

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Militant Around the Clock?

Left-Wing Youth Politics, Leisure, and Sexuality in Post-Dictatorship Greece, 1974-1981

Papadogiannis, N.

During the 1970s left-wing youth militancy in Greece intensified, especially after the collapse of the military dictatorship in 1974. This book is the first study of the impact of that political activism on the leisure pursuits and sexual behavior of Greek youth.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Militant Lactivism?

Attachment Parenting and Intensive Motherhood in the UK and France

Faircloth, C.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Military Politics

New Perspectives

Crosbie, T. (ed)

Bringing together new research by leading scholars, this volume rethinks the role played by militaries in politics. The volume introduces new theories of military politics, arguing against the inherited theories and practices of civil-military relations, and presents rich new data on senior officership and on the intersection of military politics and military operations.

Subjects: Sociology Peace and Conflict Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters

Making Likenesses in Time, Trade, and Ritual Reconfigurations

Mageo, J. & Hermann†, E. (eds)

How do images circulating in Pacific cultures and exchanged between them and their many visitors transform meanings for all involved? This fascinating collection explores how through mimesis, wayfarers and locales alike borrow images from one another to expand their cultural repertoire of meanings or borrow images from their own past to validate their identities.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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The Mind of the Nation

Völkerpsychologie in Germany, 1851-1955

Klautke, E.

“This is a very careful and meticulous study of the history of a forgotten science, namely Völkerpsychologie, a scholarly attempt to study the psychological structure of nations. We can now understand not just its complex origins reaching back to the German intellectual history of the early 19th century, but also the intellectual intricacies in the works of its main protagonists.” · Uffa Jensen, Max Planck Institute for Human Development

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

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Published February 2006
Miners and the State in the Ottoman Empire

The Zonguldak Coalfield, 1822-1920

Quataert, D.

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

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Minority Discourses in Germany since 1990

Gezen, E., Layne, P., & Skolnik, J. (eds)

Minorities and Minority Discourse in Germany since 1990 opens the question of why ethnic minorities in Germany are often discussed in isolation. Whereas most studies examine Black Germans, Jews in Germany, or Turkish Germans on their own terms vis-à-vis the majority German society, this volume takes on unique and comparative perspectives on an increasingly complex German society.

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

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The Mirage of China

Anti-Humanism, Narcissism, and Corporeality of the Contemporary World

Liu, X.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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The Mirror of the Medieval

An Anthropology of the Western Historical Imagination

Fazioli, K. P.

The Middle Ages have always held a uniquely important place in the Western imagination. This book gives an eye-opening account of the ways various political and intellectual projects have appropriated the medieval past for their own ends, grounded in an analysis of contemporary struggles over power and identity in the Eastern Alps.

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Theory and Methodology Archaeology

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Mirrors of Passing

Unlocking the Mysteries of Death, Materiality, and Time

Seebach, S. & Willerslev, R. (eds)

Mirrors of Passing explores the relationship between death, materiality, and temporality, drawing from the fields of archaeology, cultural anthropology, political science, and media studies to explore fundamental questions about the relationship between death and our perception of time.

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

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Published January 1998
Mitteleuropa

Between Europe and Germany

Katzenstein, P. (ed)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published October 2009
Mitterrand, the End of the Cold War, and German Unification

Bozo, F.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Mixed Harvest

Stories from the Human Past

Swigart, R.

After millennia of wandering the earth with little impact, a universal, if inadvertent transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and pastoralism was complete within a period of a few thousand years. Mixed Harvest tells the story of the Sedentary Divide, the most significant event since modern humans emerged.

Subjects: Archaeology Literary Studies Memory Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published August 2014
Mixed Matches

Transgressive Unions in Germany from the Reformation to the Enlightenment

Luebke, D. M. & Lindemann, M. (eds)

Taking as a point of departure Martin Luther’s redefinition of marriage, the contributors to this volume spin out the multiple ways that the Reformers’ attempts to simplify and clarify marriage affected education, philosophy, literature, high politics, diplomacy, and law. Ranging from the Reformation, through the ages of confessionalization, to the Enlightenment, Mixed Matches addresses the historical complexity of the socio-cultural institution of marriage.

Subject: History: Medieval/Early Modern

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Published December 1994
Mobile Farmers

An Ethnoarchaeological Approach to Settlement Organization Among the Raramuri of Northwestern Mexico

Graham, M.

This ethnoarchaeological study of the settlements of the Rarámuri focuses primarily on their mobility strategy. This group presents a case where the common equation of agriculturalists = sedentary, and hunter-gatherers = mobile is broken. The Rarámuri are agriculturalists with a pattern of mobility between two or more settlements during the course of any year.

Subject: Archaeology

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Mobile Pastoralist Households

Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives

Houle, J.-L. (ed)

Mobile pastoralist activities occur at different scales across the landscape, including local, regional, and supra-regional scales. This research brings together the work of archaeologists currently engaged in mobile pastoralist household research in different regions of the world to highlight the importance of household studies and the utility of both archaeological and ethnoarchaeological approaches in understanding mobile pastoralist household formation, continuity, and adaptation to environmental, social, economic, and political change.

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

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Published July 2019
Mobile Urbanity

Somali Presence in Urban East Africa

Carrier, N. & Scharrer, T. (eds)

Demystifying Somali residence and mobility in urban East Africa, this volume shows its historical depth, and explores the social, cultural and political underpinnings of Somali-led urban transformation. In so doing, it offers a vivid case study of the transformative power of (forced) migration on urban centres, and the intertwining of urbanity and mobility.

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

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Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia

Contemporary Ethnoecological Perspectives

Alexiades, M. N. (ed)

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

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The Mobility of Memory

Migrations and Diasporas across European Borders

Passerini, L., Trakilović, M., & Proglio, G. (eds)

During five years of field research in Italy and the Netherlands, the “Bodies Across Borders: Oral and Visual Memory in Europe and Beyond” (BABE) team examined the connection between mobility and memory in Europe. This volume, the outcome of that project, engages with the tensions between roots and routes, history and memory, minds and bodies, macrostructures and micro stories, and control and resistance.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology Memory Studies

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Published October 2012
Modalities of Change

The Interface of Tradition and Modernity in East Asia

Wilkerson, J. & Parkin, R. (eds)

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published March 2023
Modeling the Past

Archaeology, History, and Dynamic Networks

Terrell, J., Golitko, M., Dawson, H., and Kissel, M.

Using this handbook, researchers learn to develop historical and archaeological research questions anchored in dynamic network analysis (DYRA). Undergraduate and graduate students, as well as professional historians and archaeologists can consult on issues that range from hypothesis-driven research to critiquing dominant historical narratives, especially those that have tended ignore the diversity of the archaeological record.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology (General)

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Published October 1998
Models and Mirrors

Towards an Anthropology of Public Events

Handelman, D.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published December 2001
Modern Babylon?

Prostituting Children in Thailand

Montgomery, H.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

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eBook available Published July 2007
Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies

Local Ecological Knowledge in Island Southeast Asia

Ellen, R. (ed)

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

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eBook available Published October 2017
Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective

Meng, M. & Seipp, A. R. (eds)

Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective celebrates the extraordinary life and scholarly career of Konrad H. Jarausch, whose monumental work as a teacher, mentor, and builder of scholarly institutions, helped to inspire conversations about everything from the rise of Nazism to the history of the two Germanys.

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

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eBook available Published July 2020
Modern Lusts

Ernest Borneman: Jazz Critic, Filmmaker, Sexologist

Siegfried, D.

Detlef Siegfried’s long-awaited English translation chronicles Ernest Borneman’s journey from his days as a young Jewish Communist in Berlin to his ventures in England and Canada, and ultimately, to his endeavors as the most prominent sexologist spearheading the sexual revolution in West Germany and Austria in the twentieth century.

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

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The Modernist Imagination

Intellectual History and Critical Theory

Breckman, W., Gordon, P. E., Moses, A. D., Moyn, S. & Neaman, E. (eds)

Subject: History (General)

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Published August 2006
Modernity and Secession

The Social Sciences and the Political Discourse of the lega nord in Italy

Huysseune, M.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Peace and Conflict Studies

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eBook available Published August 2020
Modernity and the Unmaking of Men

Schubert, V.

Responding to the renewed emphasis on the significance of village studies, this book focuses on aging bachelorhood as a site of intolerable angst when faced with rural depopulation and social precarity. Based on ongoing ethnographic fieldwork in contemporary Macedonian society, the book explores the intersections between modernity, kinship and gender.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Published March 2006
Modernizing Bavaria

The Politics of Franz Josef Strauss and the CSU, 1949-1969

Milosch, M.

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

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eBook available Published October 2020
Moebius Anthropology

Essays on the Forming of Form

Handelman, D., Shapiro, M. (ed), & Feldman, J. (ed)

Don Handelman’s groundbreaking work in anthropology is showcased in this collection of his most powerful essays. The book looks at the intellectual and spiritual roots of Handelman’s initiation into anthropology; his work on ritual and on “bureaucratic logic”; analyses of cosmology; and innovative essays on Anthropology and Deleuzian thinking.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology of Religion

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Momentous Mobilities

Anthropological Musings on the Meanings of Travel

Salazar, N. B.

Grounded in an eclectic process of data collection, analysis of secondary sources and personal reflection, and drawing on a multi-sited and multi-method research design, Momentous Mobilities disentangles the meanings attached to temporary travels and stays abroad and offers empirical evidence as well as novel theoretical arguments to develop an anthropology of mobility.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism

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Monetising the Dividual Self

The Emergence of the Lifestyle Blog and Influencers in Malaysia

Hopkins, J.

Combining theoretical discussions with shorter case studies, this book offers an anthropological exploration of the emergence in Malaysia of lifestyle bloggers. It tracks the transformation of personal blogs, which attracted readers with spontaneous, authentic accounts of everyday life, into lifestyle blogs that generate income through advertising and foreground consumerist lifestyles.

Subjects: Anthropology (General)

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Money at the Margins

Global Perspectives on Technology, Financial Inclusion, and Design

Maurer, B., Musaraj, S., & Small, I. V. (eds)

Mobile money, e-commerce, cash cards, retail credit cards, and more — as new monetary technologies become increasingly available, the global South has embraced these mediums as a simple solution to the issue of financial inclusion. Money at the Margins is a groundbreaking exploration of the uses and socio-cultural impact of new forms of money and financial services.

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

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Money Counts

Revisiting Economic Calculation

Schmidt, M. & Ross, S. (eds)

Traditionally viewed as an abstraction, the quantative nature of money is essential in evaluating the relationship between monetary systems and society. Money Counts moves beyond abstraction, exploring the conceptual diversity and everyday enactment of money’s quantity.

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Money Games

Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town

Pickles, A. J.

Since the Colonial era, gambling has come to dominate nighttime activity in Papua New Guinea. This richly detailed ethnography intersects with theories of money, value, play, money, exchange, informal economy, materiality, social change, leadership, and the anthropology of Melanesia.

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

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Money in a Human Economy

Hart, K. (eds)

Contributors to this volume attempt to think about money as a category of thought, offer theories on luxury and sex in capitalist development, and follow the evolution of money today from the role of the global South in shaping its future, to cross-border investment in China, to Bitcoin as politics. Money in a Human Economy offers multiple perspectives on capital’s central role in the formation of world society, as well as in the shaping of its current discontents.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Money in the German-speaking Lands

Lindemann, M. & Poley, J. (eds)

Germany’s leading role in EU economic policy following the 2008 financial crisis is in a sense only the latest step in a long history of attempts at political unification through economic integration. This volume follows this trajectory in German-speaking lands from the late Renaissance until the close of the twentieth century.

Subject: History (General)

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Published December 1994
Montaigne Amongst the Moderns

Receptions of the Essays

Marchi, D.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

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Published October 2002
Montesquieu

His Contribution to the Establishment of Political Science

Durkheim, E.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

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The Monumental Nation

Magyar Nationalism and Symbolic Politics in Fin-de-siècle Hungary

Varga, B.

In a quixotic episode in nineteenth-century Hungary’s attempts to spread nationalist sentiments, monuments were erected near small towns commemorating the medieval conquest of the Carpathian Basin—the supposed origin of the Hungarian nation. This study recounts the troubled history of this plan, which provoked resistance and even hostility among provincial Hungarians.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

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Moral Anthropology

A Critique

Kapferer, B. & Gold, M. (eds)

A development in anthropological theory, characterized as the 'moral turn', is gaining popularity and should be carefully considered. In examining the context, arguments, and discourse that surrounds this trend, this volume aims to reconceptualise the discipline of anthropology in a radically critical way.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Published October 2021
Moral Economy at Work

Ethnographic Investigations in Eurasia

Yalçın-Heckmann, L. (ed)

The idea of a moral economy has been explored and assessed in numerous disciplines. The anthropological studies in this volume provide a new perspective to this idea by showing how the relations of workers, employees and employers, and of firms, families and households are interwoven with local notions of moralities.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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Moral Engines

Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life

Mattingly, C., Dyring, R., Louw, M., & Schwarz Wentzer, T. (eds)

What fundamentally drives human beings to strive for moral perfection? Is it care of the self? Is it care for others? Is it inextricably wedded to politics? Moral Engines includes some of the foremost voices in the anthropology of morality, representing a unique interdisciplinary conversation between anthropologists and philosophers about the moral engines of ethical life.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Moral Power

The Magic of Witchcraft

Stroeken, K.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion

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The Moral Work of Anthropology

Ethnographic Studies of Anthropologists at Work

Mogensen, H. & Hansen, B. G. (eds)

Looking at anthropologists at work, this book investigates what kind of morality they perform in their occupations and the impact of this morality. The book includes ethnographic studies of anthropologists at work in four professional arenas: health care, business, management and interdisciplinary research.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Applied Anthropology

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Published June 2014
Morality and Economic Growth in Rural West Africa

Indigenous Accumulation in Hausaland

Clough, P.

Based on fieldwork conducted in two national economic cycles in Nigeria - the petroleum-boom prosperity (in 1977-1979), and the macro-economic decline (in 1985, 1996 and 1998) - this book unveils a new paradigm of economic change in the West African savannah, demonstrating how rural accumulation in a polygynous society actually limits the extent of inequality while at the same time promoting technical change. A uniquely African non-capitalist trajectory of accumulation subordinates the acquisition of capital to the expansion of polygynous families, clientage networks, and circles of trading friends. The whole trajectory is driven by an indigenous ethics of personal responsibility. This model disputes the validity of both Marxian theories of capitalist transformation in Africa and the New Institutional Economics.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Morality, Crisis and Capitalism

Anthropology for Troubled Times

Baldacchino, J.-P. & Mitchell, J. P. (eds)

With the growing numbers of displaced populations and the rise in the politics of fear and hate, we are facing challenges to our very ‘species-being’. Papers in the volume include ethnographic studies on the ‘refugee crisis’, the ‘financial crisis’ and the ‘rule of law’ crisis in the Mediterranean as well as the crisis of violence and hunger in South America.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies

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Morality, Hope and Grief

Anthropologies of AIDS in Africa

Dilger, H. & Luig, L. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology

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Published January 2001
Morals of Legitimacy

Between Agency and the System

Pardo, I. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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A More Democratic Community

The Place of Democracy in the History of European Integration

Lorenzini, S. & Tulli, U. (eds)

By addressing the “place” of democracy in the history of European integration, this book bridges the political history of postwar Europe with the history of European integration. It shows that European integration and the democratic stability of Western Europe were deeply connected, albeit in contradictory and non-linear ways.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published February 2004
More Than a Music Box

Radio Cultures and Communities in a Multi-Media World

Crisell, A. (ed)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General)

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More than Mere Spectacle

Coronations and Inaugurations in the Habsburg Monarchy during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Van Gelder, K.

More than Mere Spectacle brings together new research on the numerous coronations and inaugurations in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Habsburg Monarchy, examining why so many of them still took place, what political, legal, social, and cultural significance they bore, and how they adapted to actual circumstances. It takes the flexibility of their format as the key to understanding their lasting relevance.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

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Mortuary Dialogues

Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities

Lipset, D. & Silverman, E. K. (eds)

Mortuary Dialogues presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Through its set of rich ethnographies, the book examines how funerals and death rituals give rise to discourse and debate about sustaining moral persons and community amid modernity, and its enormous transformations.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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Published September 2025
Mountainscapes

Pathways and Mobilities in the Alps and Beyond

Cretton, V. & Boscoboinik, A. (eds)

Innovatively bringing together scholars from geography, sociology, history, and more, Mountainscapes re-examines the dynamics of mountain mobilities and the impact of tourism, migration and pastoralism on mountain communities. Ranging from the Swiss Alps to the Chilean Andes, this volume illuminates how the processes of place-making specifically manifest within our ever-changing mountain regions.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Mobility Studies Sociology
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Moving Frames

Photographs in German Cinema

Collenberg-González, C. & Sheehan, M. P. (eds)

Through an intermedial approach combining studies on cinema and photography, Moving Frames addresses precise historical moments uniquely in a German context. Across films both in and outside the canon, this volume tackles those specific historical moments experienced in media forms to gauge the cultural, political, and transnational trends in humanity’s desire for agency and how that agency is represented.

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

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Moving Nature

Towards a Scandinavian Anthropocene

Bjærke, M., Hastrup, F. & Kverndokk, K. (Eds.)

Moving Nature explores the Anthropocene in Scandinavia through the movement of organisms, substances and ideologies, from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. Case Studies explore alien species, resource extraction, the production of animal museum specimens, changing livestock regimes, eighteenth-century weed control, and the clearing of Argentinian rainforest by Swedish migrants.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General)
Published September 2016
Moving Places

Relations, Return and Belonging

Gregorič Bon, N. & Repič, J. (eds)

Centering on “moving places” – places with locations that are not fixed, but relative – this book draws together contributions from Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa, exploring practices and experiences of movement, non-movement, and place-making.

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

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Moving Subjects, Moving Objects

Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions

Svašek, M. (ed)

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

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Published December 2006
Mozart

The First Biography

Niemetschek, F.

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

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a December 2011
Much Ado About Nothing?

Gualmini, E. & Pasotti, E. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available Published May 2010
Multicultural Dialogue

Dilemmas, Paradoxes, Conflicts

Gressgård, R.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

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Published December 1998
Multiculturalism in Transit

A German-American Exchange

Milich, K. & Peck, J. (eds)

Subject: Cultural Studies (General)

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Published March 2008
Multiculturalism in the New Japan

Crossing the Boundaries Within

Graburn, N., Ertl, J. & Tierney, R. K. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Published April 2015
Multidimensional Change in Sudan (1989–2011)

Reshaping Livelihoods, Conflicts and Identities

Casciarri, B., Assal, M.A.M. & Ireton, F. (eds)

Based on original fieldwork collected in Sudan from 2006 to 2011, contributors’ look at “access to resources” from various disciplinary approaches — socio-anthropology, geography, politics, history, linguistic. The book analyzes major transformations, from the 1980s to South Sudan’s independence in 2011, which affected the country in the framework of “globalization.”

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies

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Published December 2005
Multiple Medical Realities

Patients and Healers in Biomedical, Alternative and Traditional Medicine

Johannessen, H. & Lázár, I. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology

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Multiple Moralities and Religions in Post-Soviet Russia

Zigon, J. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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Multiple Nature-Cultures, Diverse Anthropologies

Bruun Jensen, C. & Morita, A. (eds)

Over time, the role of nature in anthropology has evolved from being a mere backdrop for social and cultural diversity to being viewed as an integral part of the ontological entanglement of human and nonhuman agents. This transformation of the role of nature offers important insight into the relationships between diverse anthropological traditions.

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

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The Museum of Mankind

Man and Boy in the British Museum Ethnography Department

Burt, B.

The Museum of Mankind was an innovative and popular showcase for minority cultures from around the non-Western world from 1970 to 1997, as the devolved Ethnography Department of the British Museum. This memoir of over forty years’ service with the Department is a critical appreciation of its achievements in the various roles of a national museum, of the personalities of its staff and of the issues raised in the representation of exotic cultures.

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

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Museum Times

Changing Histories in South Africa

Witz, L.

Museums flourished in post-apartheid South Africa. In older museums, there were renovations on the go, and at least fifty new museums opened. Most sought to depict violence and suffering under apartheid and the growth of resistance. These unlikely journeys are tracked as museums became a primary setting for contesting histories. The author demonstrates how an institution concerned with the conservation of the past is simultaneously a site for changing history.

Subjects: Museum Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Museum Websites and Social Media

Issues of Participation, Sustainability, Trust and Diversity

Sánchez Laws, A. L.

Online activities present a unique challenge for museums as they harness the potential of digital technology for sustainable development, trust building, and representations of diversity. This volume provides insight into the issues behind designing and implementing web pages and social media to serve the broadest range of museum stakeholders.

Subjects: Museum Studies

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Museum, Place, Architecture and Narrative

Nordic Maritime Museums’ Portrayals of Shipping, Seafarers and Maritime Communities

Bünz, A.

A characteristic trait of the maritime museums is that they are often located in a contemporary and/or historical environment from which the collections and narratives originate. This volume unravels the kinds of worlds and realities the Nordic maritime museums stage, which identities and national myths they depict, and how they make use of both the surrounding maritime environments and the architectural properties of the museum buildings.

Subjects: Museum Studies Archaeology Cultural Studies (General)

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Published March 2008
Museums, the Media and Refugees

Stories of Crisis, Control and Compassion

Goodnow, K, Lohman, J. & Marfleet, P. (eds)

Subjects: Museum Studies Refugee and Migration Studies

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Music and International History in the Twentieth Century

Gienow-Hecht, J. C. E. (ed)

Bringing together scholars from the fields of musicology and international history, this book investigates the significance of music to foreign relations, and how it affected the interaction of nations since the late 19th century.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Performance Studies

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Published December 2005
Music and Manipulation

On the Social Uses and Social Control of Music

Brown, S. & Volgsten, U. (eds)

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

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Forthcoming October 2026
Music and Nineteenth-Century Liberalism in the Ibero-American Atlantic Space

Hernández Mateos, A., Silva, J., & Cymbron, L. (Eds.)

Liberalism in the 19th Century, rooted in philosophy and expressed through economic and political systems, shaped the Western world in complex and often contradictory ways. The influence of liberalism on music in Portugal, Spain, and Latin America is explored, regions where liberalism evolved amid conflicts that left deep cultural marks.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available Published June 2023
Music and Postwar Transitions in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Fléchet, A., Guerpin, M., Gumplowicz, P. & Kelly, B. L. (eds)

Music and Postwar Transitions takes a groundbreaking and much anticipated dive into the concept of postwar transitions and how these affect and are affected by the world of music. Leading scholars in the field explore new approaches to create a novel understanding of music and postwar periods.

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

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Mussolini's Dream Factory

Film Stardom in Fascist Italy

Gundle, S.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Performance Studies

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Muted Memories

Heritage-Making, Bagamoyo, and the East African Caravan Trade

Lindström, J.

This book examines the centrality of the East African Caravan Trade to Bagamoyo, a Tanzanian port town on the Indian Ocean, and explores the way that this history was silenced when Bagamoyo was instead branded as a slave route town in 2006 in an attempt to qualify it for the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Development Studies

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Published April 2012
Myth and Modernity

Barlach's Drawings on the Nibelungen

Paret, P. & Thieme, H.

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

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eBook available Published June 2017
The Myth of Self-Reliance

Economic Lives Inside a Liberian Refugee Camp

Omata, N.

The Myth of Self-Reliance provides valuable insights into refugees’ experiences of repatriation to Liberia after protracted exile and their responses to the ending of refugee status for remaining refugees in Ghana.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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Mythology and Symbolism of Eurasia and Indigenous Americas

Manifestations in Artifacts and Rituals

Oleszkiewicz-Peralba, M.

There is a continuity of a cohesive system of symbols and patterns from the Paleolithic and the Neolithic that survives in present-day imagery. The understanding of commonalities underlying these seemingly distant cultures demonstrates that, despite appearances, there is more that unites us than that divides us.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)

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Published September 1996
Mythology, Spirituality, and History

Gray, A.

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

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Published May 2005
Nameless Relations

Anonymity, Melanesia and Reproductive Gift Exchange between British Ova Donors and Recipients

Konrad, M.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany

Plummer, M. E. & Harrington, J. F. (eds)

This volume offers a coherent and interdisciplinary approach to a wide variety of early modern subjects centered on onomastics, the study of names. Leading scholars in the field seek to explore the dynamics and impact of this naming (or renaming) process in a variety of contexts: social, artistic, literary, theological, and scientific.

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Cultural Studies (General)

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Published November 2006
Names and Nunavut

Culture and Identity in the Inuit Homeland

Alia, V.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published August 2017
The Nanking Atrocity, 1937-1938

Complicating the Picture

Wakabayashi, B. T. (ed)

First published in 2007, The Nanking Atrocity remains an essential resource for understanding the massacre. This second edition includes an extensive new introduction reflecting on the historiographical developments of the last decade, making this even more relevant as we approach the 80th anniversary of the Nanking massacre.

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

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Published September 2015
Narrating the City

Histories, Space and the Everyday

Fischer-Nebmaier, W., Berg, M. P., & Christou, A. (eds)

With a focus on new research, this book explores the history of non-elite populations in cities from Caracas to Vienna, and Paris to Belgrade. Contributors’ research both asks classical socio-historical questions and takes narration seriously, engaging with novels, films, local history accounts, petitions to municipal authorities, and interviews with alternative cinema activists.

Subjects: Urban Studies History (General) Sociology

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Narrating the Future in Siberia

Childhood, Adolescence and Autobiography among the Eveny

Ulturgasheva, O.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published October 2008
Narrating the Nation

Representations in History, Media and the Arts

Berger, S., Eriksonas, L. & Mycock, A. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Literary Studies Film and Television Studies

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Published April 2014
Narrating Victimhood

Gender, Religion and the Making of Place in Post-War Croatia

Schäuble, M.

Based on fieldwork in rural Dalmatia in the Croatian-Bosnian border region, this book provides a unique account of the politics of ambiguous Europeanness from the perspective of those living at Europe's margins. Narrating Victimhood examines the continuing contestations over truth, history & memory that have helped shape this region.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Published June 2005
Narration, Identity, and Historical Consciousness

Straub, J. (ed)

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

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eBook available Published June 2016
Narratives in Motion

Journalism and Modernist Events in 1920s Portugal

Trindade, L.

A fascinating study of newspapers in 1920s Portugal, Narratives in Motion explores how the new “modernist reportage” embodied the spirit of its era while mediating some of its most spectacular episodes. In the process, it shows how that journalism epitomized a distinctively modern entanglement of narrative and event.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present

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Narratives in the Making

Writing the East German Past in the Democratic Present

Gallinat, A.

This ethnography studies two very different institutions in one eastern German state taking divergent approaches to the past. While government organizations reliably depict the GDR as a dictatorship, one major regional newspaper focuses on the experiences and concerns of its readers—“memory work” that inevitably shapes citizenship and democracy.

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

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Published June 2008
A Narrow Bridge to Life

Jewish Forced Labor and Survival in the Gross-Rosen Camp System, 1940-1945

Gutterman, B

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War II

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eBook available Published August 2018
Nation Branding in Modern History

Viktorin, C., Gienow-Hecht, J. C. E., Estner, A., & Will, M. K. (eds)

Branding in Modern History draws from a variety of international case studies, ranging from Austria and Switzerland to Chile, the US, China, Spain, Suriname, and Poland to investigate the nexus between cultural marketing, self-representation and political power by looking at current nation branding campaigns as well as its historical predecessors.

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

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Published April 2005
The Nation, Europe, and the World

Textbooks and Curricula in Transition

Schissler, H. & Soysal, Y.N. (eds)

Subjects: Educational Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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National Policy, Global Memory

The Commemoration of the “Righteous” from Jerusalem to Paris, 1942-2007

Gensburger, S.

Starting in the late 1990s, European governments began developing national incarnations of the “Righteous among Nations,” the most prominent of which was the “Righteous of France,” honoring those who protected Jews during the Vichy regime. This book uses this instance of appropriation to illuminate debates over memory and nationhood.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History Memory Studies

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Published January 2000
National Socialist Extermination Policies

Contemporary German Perspectives and Controversies

Herbert, U. (ed)

Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History Jewish Studies

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eBook available Published March 2022
Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined

A European History of Concepts Beyond the Nation State

Ihalainen, P. & Holmila, A. (eds)

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

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Nationalism and the Cinema in France

Political Mythologies and Film Events, 1945-1995

Frey, H.

What are the nuances, insider codes, and hidden history of the alignment between cinema and nationalism? Hugo Frey suggests that the concepts of the ‘political myth’ and ‘the film event’ are the essential theoretical reference points for unlocking film history. Nationalism and the Cinema in France offers new arguments regarding those connections in the French case.

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

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eBook available Published December 2019
Nationalism Revisited

Austrian Social Closure from Romanticism to the Digital Age

Karner, C.

Focused on the German-speaking parts of the former Habsburg Empire, this book offers a series of analyses of the interplay of nationalism’s discursive and institutional facets. Christian Karner develops a distinctive, longue durée perspective on Austrian nationalism, which traces nationalist politics from the late eighteenth century to today’s digital age.

Subjects: History (General) Sociology

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Published May 2006
Nationalism's Bloody Terrain

Racism, Class Inequality, and the Politics of Recognition

Baca, G.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology Sociology

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Published December 2013
Natufian Foragers in the Levant

Terminal Pleistocene Social Changes in Western Asia

Bar-Yosef, O. & Calla, F. R.

This large volume presents virtually all aspects of the Epipalaeolithic Natufian culture in a series of chapters that cover recent results of field work, analyses of materials and sites, and synthetic or interpretive overviews of various aspects of this important prehistoric culture.

Subject: Archaeology

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Published October 2004
Nature in German History

Mauch, C. (ed)

Subjects: History (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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Published November 2004
Nature Knowledge

Ethnoscience, Cognition, and Utility

Sanga, G. & Ortalli, G. (eds)

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

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eBook available Published July 2016
The Nature of German Imperialism

Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in Colonial East Africa

Gissibl, B.

This is the first book-length study analyzing the origins of Tanzania’s wildlife conservation under German colonial rule. It examines the shift of wildlife policies from exploitation to preservation. By situating East Africa’s conservation in a global context, The Nature of German Imperialism shows how colonial policy helped to shape international conservationist efforts.

Subjects: Colonial History Environmental Studies (General)

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Published April 2005
The Nature of Sociology

Mauss, M.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Sociology Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published May 2008
Nature of the Miracle Years

Conservation in West Germany, 1945-1975

Chaney, S.

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

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Nature Wars

Essays Around a Contested Concept

Ellen, R.

Made up of 10 of Roy Ellen’s finest articles along with a new introduction linking them together, this book looks back at his ideas about nature before taking the arguments forward. Many of the chapters focus on research the author has conducted amongst the Nuaulu people of eastern Indonesia.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

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Published November 2014
Navigating Colonial Orders

Norwegian Entrepreneurship in Africa and Oceania

Kjerland, K. A. & Bertelsen, B. E. (eds)

Norwegians in colonial Africa and Oceania had varying aspirations and adapted in different ways to changing social, political and geographical circumstances in foreign, colonial settings. This collection reveals narratives of the colonial era that are often ignored or obscured by the national histories of former colonial powers.

Subject: Colonial History

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Navigating Miscarriage

Social, Medical and Conceptual Perspectives

Kilshaw, S. & Borg, K. (eds)

This collected volume explores miscarriage in diverse historical and cultural settings with contributions from anthropologists, historians and medical professionals. The book considers meanings attached to miscarriage and how religious, cultural, medical and legal forces impact the way miscarriage is experienced and perceived.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

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Published May 2006
Navigating Terrains of War

Youth and Soldiering in Guinea-Bissau

Vigh, H.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published June 2013
The Nazi Genocide of the Roma

Reassessment and Commemoration

Weiss-Wendt, A. (ed)

Subjects: Genocide History History: World War II

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Published September 2011
Nazi Labour Camps in Paris

Austerlitz, Lévitan, Bassano, July 1943-August 1944

Dreyfus, J.-M. & Gensburger, S.

Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History

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Nazi Paris

The History of an Occupation, 1940-1944

Mitchell, A.

Subject: History: World War II

Hb
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Published June 1999
Nazism in Central Germany

The Brownshirts in 'Red' Saxony

Szejnmann, C.-C.

Subject: History: World War II

Hb
eBook available Published January 2018
Nazism, the Holocaust, and the Middle East

Arab and Turkish Responses

Nicosia, F. R. & Ergene, B. A. (eds)

How was Nazism received in the Middle East? By focusing on Arab and Turkish reactions to Nazi anti-Semitism and persecution of the Jews in Germany and Europe, this collection offers a fresh perspective on institutional and popular attitudes towards Jewish communities throughout the Middle East during the 1930s and 1940s.

Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies

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Nearly the New World

The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933–1945

Newman, J.

In the years leading up to the Second World War, increasingly desperate European Jews looked to far-flung destinations such as the Barbados, Trinidad, and Jamaica in search of refuge. Nearly the New World tells the remarkable story of Jewish refugees who overcame persecution and sought safety in the West Indies from the 1930s through the end of World War II

Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History History: World War II Refugee and Migration Studies

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Negotiating Identity in Scandinavia

Women, Migration, and the Diaspora

Akman, H. (ed)

“The anthology provides careful analysis based on rich empirical material that illuminates the complexity of the region (and of the migration processes that have occurred in the last thirty years) represented and acted upon as the Nordic…[Its] strength lies in its ability to pose central research questions at the crossroad between the making of the ‘Nordic’ and the original ways through which diasporic communities create gendered forms of belonging that transcend the nation-state. This ability to move between the local and the global through original and reflexive methodologies locates the anthology’s work within a broader international scholarship.” · Diana Mulinari, Center for Gender Studies, University of Lund

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

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Published January 2009
Negotiating Risk

British Pakistani Experiences of Genetics

Shaw, A.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

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eBook available Published March 2019
Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire

Transnational Approaches

Habermas, R. (ed)

Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire sheds light on the multitude of worldviews, belief systems, and rituals that defined the borders between the secular and the religious in the German imperial era.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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Published August 2006
Neo-nationalism in Europe and Beyond

Perspectives from Social Anthropology

Gingrich, A. & Banks, M. (eds)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

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The Neoliberal Landscape and the Rise of Islamist Capital in Turkey

Balkan, N., Balkan, E. & Öncü, A. (eds)

By providing a long-term historical perspective on Turkey's economy and its relationship to Islamism, this volume explores how Islamism as a political ideology has been utilized by the conservative bourgeoisie in Turkey, and elsewhere, to establish hegemony over labor.

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology

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Neoliberalizing Diversity in Liberal Arts College Life

Urciuoli, B.

Far from being synonymous with race or other forms of social difference, diversity is a construct frequently contrasting with the reality of students’ lives. Neoliberalizing Diversity in Liberal Arts College Life focuses on how neoliberal diversity operates at one liberal arts college, exploring the relationship between higher education and neoliberalism.

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Networks of Nazi Persecution

Bureaucracy, Business and the Organization of the Holocaust

Feldman, G. & Seibel, W. (eds)

Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History

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Neubau Atmospheres

East German Cultural Remediations of Modernist Architecture

Ehrig, S.

An incisive analysis of East German cinematic, literary, and architectural case studies from the 1960s to the 1980s, Neubau Atmospheres examines the creative role the urban, built environment played in mediating the emotional and social experience of its residents, highlighting how this engagement constituted a cultural genre in its own right.

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

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Published October 2025
Neutrality’s Empire

Swedish Colonialism in the Industrial Age

Högselius, P., Nilsson, D., & Vikström, H.

Subjects: Colonial History History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available Published March 2022
A New African Elite

Place in the Making of a Bridge Generation

Pellow, D.

Focusing on a sub-set of the Dagomba of northern Ghana, this book looks at the first generation to go through secondary school in the north. This book charts their path into elite status and argues that this generation uses the tools gained through education and social connections to influence politics back home.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies Development Studies

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Published January 2001
The New Age in Glastonbury

The Construction of Religious Movements

Prince, R. & Riches, D.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published July 2024
New Anthropologies of Italy

Politics, History and Culture

Heywood, P. (ed)

This book heralds an exciting new frontier by bringing together some of the leading ethnographers of Italy and placing together their contributions into the broader realm of anthropological history, culture and new perspectives in Europe.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published August 2024
The New Australian Military Sociology

Antipodean perspectives

West, B. & Carter, C. (eds)

In exploring the insights that the Australian case has for theorising civil-military relations, the book serves as a model for other country case studies. This antipodean contribution to the field includes analysis of the changing demographics, new domestic and international responsibilities, Industry-Defence cooperation, women in the armed forces and contemporary veteran wellbeing.

Subjects: Sociology Peace and Conflict Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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New Austrian Film

Dassanowsky, R. von & Speck, O. C. (eds)

Subject: Film and Television Studies

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Published October 2010
New Dangerous Liaisons

Discourses on Europe and Love in the Twentieth Century

Passerini, L., Ellena, L., & Geppert, A. (eds)

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

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eBook available Published January 2008
The New Face of Political Cinema

Commitment in French Film since 1995

O'Shaughnessy, M.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

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Published November 2015
New Hong Kong Cinema

Transitions to Becoming Chinese in 21st-Century East Asia

Cheung, R.

The trajectory of Hong Kong films had been drastically affected long before the city’s official sovereignty transfer from the British to the Chinese in 1997. The author introduces the “Cinema of Transitions,” using examples from the 1980s to the present, to study New Hong Kong Cinema and on- and off-screen life against this background.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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New Imaginaries

Youthful Reinvention of Ukraine's Cultural Paradigm

Rubchak, M.J. (ed)

Contributors to this volume infuse their work with Western elements, although vestiges of Soviet-style ideas, research methodology and writing linger. This, as a result, is a paradigm articulating “New Imaginaries” — neither Soviet nor Western — offering a fresh portrait of Ukrainian society seen through a new generation of feminist scholars.

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

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Published December 2004
A New Look At Thai Aids

Perspectives from the Margin

Fordham, G.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Development Studies

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The New Media Nation

Indigenous Peoples and Global Communication

Alia, V

Subjects: Anthropology (General)

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New Perspectives on Moral Change

Anthropologists and Philosophers Engage with Transformations of Life Worlds

Eriksen, C. & Hämäläinen, N. (eds)

The world we live in is constantly changing. Climate change, transforming gender conceptions, emerging issues of food consumption, novel forms of family life and technological developments are altering central areas of our forms of life. This raises questions of how to cope with and understand the moral changes implicit in such alterations. This anthology is the first to address moral change as such.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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Published October 2007
New Regionalism and Asylum Seekers

Challenges Ahead

Kneebone, S. & Rawlings-Sanaei, F. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published July 2016
New Uses of Bourdieu in Film and Media Studies

Austin, G. (ed)

French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s work has been extremely influential, but has only intermittently been used to study cinema and new media. With topics ranging from photography to mobile technology, this collection demonstrates the enormous relevance that Bourdieu holds for the field of media studies.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Sociology

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News as Culture

Journalistic Practices and the Remaking of Indian Leadership Traditions

Rao, U.

Subjects: Anthropology (General)

Hb
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NGOs and Lifeworlds in Africa

Transdisciplinary Perspectives

Kalfelis, M. C. & Knodel, K. (eds)

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become ubiquitous in the development sector in Africa and attracting more academic attention. However, the fact that NGOs are an integral part of the everyday lives of men and women on the continent has been overlooked thus far. By taking a radical empirical stance, this book studies NGOs as a vital part of the lifeworlds of Africans.

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)

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Nighttime Breastfeeding

An American Cultural Dilemma

Tomori, C.

In this updated edition, the author describes shifting medical guidance that increasingly supports breastfeeding yet remains largely separated from infant sleep guidance. The volume also provides a path towards more equitable approaches to nighttime infant care grounded in reproductive justice.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Published March 2015
Nimby Is Beautiful

Cases of Local Activism and Environmental Innovation around the World

Hager, C. & Haddad, M. A. (eds)

NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) protests are often criticized as parochial and short-lived, generating no lasting influence on broader processes related to environmental politics. This volume offers a different perspective. Drawing on cases from around the globe, it demonstrates that NIMBY protests, although always arising from a local concern in a particular community, often result in broader political, social, and technological change.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Sociology

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Published April 2008
The Nomads of Mykonos

Performing Liminalities in a 'Queer' Space

Bousiou, P.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published November 2018
Non-Humans in Amerindian South America

Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals and Songs

Rivera Andía, J. J. (ed)

Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies, and presenting ethnographies of non-human entities emerging in ritual, oral tradition, cosmology, shamanism and music, this book offers new insights into the indigenous constitutions of humanity, personhood, and environment characteristic of the South American highlands and lowlands.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Nordic Paths to Modernity

Árnason, J. P. & Wittrock, B. (eds)

Subjects: Development Studies History (General) Sociology

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Nordic War Stories

World War II as History, Fiction, Media, and Memory

Stecher-Hansen, M. (ed)

Nordic War Stories explores the commonalities and divergences among the five Nordic countries, examining formal and informal national historiographies alongside representations of the second world war in canonical literary works, memoirs, and films. Together, they comprise a valuable companion that challenges the myth of Scandinavian homogeneity while demonstrating the powerful influence that the war continues to exert on national self-conceptions.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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The Northern Ireland Conflict on the Margins of History

Protestant Memory on the Border

Funston, K. & McGrattan, C.

In thisexacting re-examination of paramilitary violence upon border Protestants within Northern Ireland, The Northern Ireland Conflict on the Margins of History illuminates the understudied impact the Troubles had upon the Protestant community’s physical, economic, and cultural presence within the border counties.

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

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Not Born a Refugee Woman

Contesting Identities, Rethinking Practices

Hajdukowksi-Ahmed, M., Khanlou, N. & Moussa, H. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Not Even Past

How the United States Ends Wars

Fitzgerald, D., Ryan, D., & Thompson, J. M. (eds)

This volume brings together international experts on American history and foreign affairs to assess the cumulative impact of the United States’ efforts to end wars. It offers essential perspectives on both the Cold War and post-9/11 eras and demonstrates just how high the stakes are as the US confronts the possibility of war without end.

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

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Not the Troubles

Alternative Narratives from Belfast

Lane, K.

Not the Troubles shifts the academic focus from the perception of Belfast as a divided society and reveals alternative narratives of city life. Using storytelling as a leitmotif, it explores the epistemological validity of engaging with strangers in a range of settings, such as street corners, a hairdresser’s, a storytelling evening and considers how creative writers represent life in Belfast.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Nothing New in Europe?

Israelis Look at Antisemitism Today

Haviv-Horiner, A.

Anti-Semitism’s recent rise in Europe and Germany has manifested in verbal hostility and attacks. Through fifteen interviews with Jewish Israelis and contextual essays, Nothing New in Europe? provides an opportunity to reflect on current anti-Semitic discourse under a more educated and objective light.

Subject: Sociology

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Nothing Without Tourism

Local Dependency, Time and Nativism in the Swiss Alps

Leitenberg, D.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Travel and Tourism

Hb
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Nourishing Life

Foodways and Humanity in an African Town

Huhn, A.

In this accessible ethnography of a small town in northern Mozambique, everyday cultural knowledge and behaviors about food, cooking, and eating reveal the deeply human pursuit of a nourishing life. This emerges less through the consumption of specific nutrients than it does in the affective experience of alimentation in contexts that support vitality, compassion, and generative relations.

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

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Nourishing the Nation

Food as National Identity in Catalonia

Johannes, V.

Provides an ethnographic account of the everyday experience of national identity in Catalonia, using an essential, everyday object of consumption: food. As a crucial element of Catalan cultural life, a focus on food provides unique insight into the lived realities of Catalan nationalism, and how Catalans experience and express their national identity today.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

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The Nuclear Crisis

The Arms Race, Cold War Anxiety, and the German Peace Movement of the 1980s

Becker-Schaum, C., Gassert, P., Mausbach, W., Klimke, M., and Zepp, M. (eds)

In 1983, more than one million Germans joined to protest NATO’s deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe. This volume survey of the “Euromissiles” crisis as experienced by its various protagonists in Germany, including NATO’s strategic maneuvering and the contours of the German protest movement.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Published December 2006
Nursing Stories

Life and Death in a German Hospice

Eschenbruch, N.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology

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Nurturing the Other

First Contacts and the Making of Christian Bodies in Amazonia

Grotti, V.

Combining archival research, oral history and long-term ethnography, this book studies relations between Amerindians and outsiders such as American missionaries through a series of contact expeditions that led to the 'pacification' of three native Amazonian groups in Suriname and French Guiana.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Anthropology of Religion

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Published February 2015
Objects and Imagination

Perspectives on Materialization and Meaning

Fuglerud, Ø. & Wainwright, L. (eds)

Despite the wide interest in material culture, art, and aesthetics, few studies have considered them in light of the importance of the social imagination - the complex ways we conceptualize our social surroundings. This collection engages the “material turn” in the arts, humanities, and social sciences through a range of original contributions on creativity in diverse global and contemporary social settings.

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

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Obstetric Violence and Systemic Disparities

Can Obstetrics Be Humanized and Decolonized?

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

The final volume in this landmark 3-volume series on The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians looks at the challenges, and even violence, that obstetricians face across the world. This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to understand the diverse challenges that obstetricians must overcome.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Obstetricians Speak

On Training, Practice, Fear, and Transformation

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

For the first time ever in a social science work, obstetricians tell their own stories of training, practice, fear, and transformation. This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to understand the ideologies and motives of individual obstetricians.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Occupation in the East

The Daily Lives of German Occupiers in Warsaw and Minsk, 1939-1944

Lehnstaedt, S.

Following their occupation by the Third Reich, Warsaw and Minsk became home to tens of thousands of Germans. This study provides a nuanced portrait of their lives, as they acclimated to the daily routines of life in the East while helping to lay the groundwork for systematic mass murder.

Subject: History: World War II

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Occupied Istanbul

Urban Politics, Culture and Society, 1918-1923

Cora, Y., MacArthur-Seal, D. & Tongo, G. (eds)

British, French, and Italian forces arrived in Istanbul in 1918, marking the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War. An almost five-year-long occupation of the city followed, a period largely ignored in history writing and marginalised in Anatolia-centric narratives of the Turkish War of Independence. By bringing this tumultuous period back into focus, this book makes a significant contribution to First World War studies, research on European imperialism, and the modern history of Istanbul, Turkey, and the Middle East.

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

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Published February 2003
Oceanic Socialities and Cultural Forms

Ethnographies of Experience

Hoëm, I. & Roalkvam, S. (eds)

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published October 2023
Of Hoarding and Housekeeping

Material Kinship and Domestic Space in Anthropological Perspective

Newell, S. (ed)

Of Hoarding and Housekeeping provides an anthropological, global, and comparative angle to the understanding of hoarding and decluttering. Focusing on the house, with careful attention to material flows in and out, this book examines practices of accumulation, storage, decluttering, and waste as practices of kinship and the objects themselves as material kin.

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

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Of Jaguars and Butterflies

Metalogues on Issues in Anthropology and Philosophy

Lloyd, G. & Vilaça, A.

Jointly authored by an anthropologist and a philosopher, this book investigates some of the most puzzling ideas and practices reported in modern ethnography and ancient philosophy concerning topics such as humans, animals, persons, spirits, agency, selfhood, consciousness, nature, life, death, disease and health.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Of Life and Health

The Language of Art and Religion in an African Medical System

Tengan, A. B.

An anthropological study of the health system of the Dagara people of northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso, Of Life and Health develops a cultural and epistemological lexicon of Dagara life by examining its religious, ritual, and artistic expressions, and gives a holistic account of the Dagara knowledge system.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Medical Anthropology

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Published September 2012
Ogata-Mura

Sowing Dissent and Reclaiming Identity in a Japanese Farming Village

Wood, D. C.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

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Published June 2015
Oikos and Market

Explorations in Self-Sufficiency after Socialism

Gudeman, S. & Hann, C. (eds)

This volume’s six comparative investigations of postsocialist communities illuminate the universal significance of Aristotle’s vision of the oikos, an economy based on the order of the house. These postsocialist configurations show that economies depend on macro institutions of markets and states, and also on the micro institutions of families, communities, and house economies.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Oil and Sovereignty

Petro-Knowledge and Energy Policy in the United States and Western Europe in the 1970s

Graf, R.

Oil and Sovereignty explores the national and international strategies formulated to deal with the first oil crises in 1973-1974, as steadily increasing prices and reduced production raised the specter of an uncertain future for many.

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

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Published August 2005
Oligarchs and Oligopolies

New Formations of Global Power

Kapferer, B. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Published September 1999
Olympic Games as Performance and Public Event

The Case of the XVII Winter Olympic Games in Norway

Klausen, A. (ed)

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published September 2020
On Mediation

Historical, Legal, Anthropological and International Perspectives

Härter, K., Hillemanns, C. & Schlee, G. (eds)

Exploring mediation and related practices of conflict regulation, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach that includes historical, legal, anthropological and international perspectives. The book observes historical and current relations between mediation and the criminal justice system and provides anthropological perspectives and case studies to explore mediation and arbitration in international arenas.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Applied Anthropology
Published October 2007
On Perpetual Peace

A Timely Assessment

Senghaas, D.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Development Studies

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On Prayer

Text and Commentary

Mauss, M.

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

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Published April 2017
On Retaliation

Towards an Interdisciplinary Understanding of a Basic Human Condition

Turner, B. & Schlee, G. (eds)

Retaliatory logics are associated with all types of social and political organization. Deriving a concept of retaliation from the overall notion of reciprocity, contributors to this volume touch upon the interaction between retaliation and violence, the state’s monopoly on legitimate punishment, socio-political frameworks, religious interpretations, and economic processes.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies

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On the Death of Jews

Photographs and History

Fresco, N.

In this trenchant meditation on photographs from an atrocity in Latvia during the Holocaust, Nadine Fresco argues for the vital importance of photographs—and nontraditional sources more broadly—for understanding the Holocaust. She confronts charged questions around guilt and testimony while teasing out the subtle implications of camera angles, photo sequencing, and body language, helping us to see anew the perspectives of victims, perpetrators, and others who witnessed the brutality of the Holocaust.

Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies

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On the Edges of Whiteness

Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War

Lingelbach, J.

From 1942 to 1950, nearly twenty thousand Poles found refuge from the horrors of World War II in camps within Britain’s African colonies, including Uganda, Tanganyika, and Kenya. On the Edges of Whiteness tells their improbable story, tracing the manifold, complex relationships that developed among refugees, their British administrators, and their African neighbors.

Subjects: History: World War II Refugee and Migration Studies Colonial History

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On the Geopragmatics of Anthropological Identification

Chun, A.

An audacious critique of the issues that have plagued culturalization in anthropological thought and writing. Allen Chun argues that disciplinary knowledge has always been embedded in changing contexts of sociopolitical practice and that neglect of its underlying politics gives different meaning to anthropology’s objective fallacy.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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Published March 2008
On the Margins of Religion

Pine, F. & Pina-Cabral, J. de (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology

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On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise

Affect, Tourism, Belize

Little, K.

On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise is a collection of seven stories about local lives in the fictional village of Wallaceville. They turn rogue in the face of runaway forces that take the form and figure of a Belize beast-time, which can appear as a comic mishap, social ruin, tragic excess, or wild guesses.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Literary Studies

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Published October 2005
On the Order of Chaos

Social Anthropology and the Science of Chaos

Mosko, M. S. & Damon, F. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

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Forthcoming November 2026
On the Origin of Tourist Experiences

A Historical, Phenomenological Perspective on Travel Stories

Drawing on four millennia of travel narratives, this book examines the enduring fascination with travel from philosophical, historical, and anthropological perspectives. It argues that, despite its contested impacts, tourism reflects a persistent human impulse rooted in the long history of journeys beyond everyday life.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Travel and Tourism
eBook available Published April 2014
On the Path to Genocide

Armenia and Rwanda Reexamined

Mayersen, D.

“This is an excellent book. The combination of theory and context works well…The prose is sharp and the author has set up the problem in a logical way that is easy to follow. It also benefits from an interdisciplinary approach. Her grasp of detail is superior to many theorists…It reads very fluently, the author is clearly a gifted prose writer. The thread of argument runs through the book in a compelling way…The conclusion is full of intriguing ties to other case studies and the author summarizes her argument well.” · Cathie Carmichael, University of East Anglia

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

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On Violence in History

Dwyer, P. & Micale, M. S. (eds)

Is global violence on the decline? Steven Pinker’s highly-publicized argument that human violence across the world has been dramatically abating continues to influence discourse among academics and the general public alike.

Subjects: History (General) Sociology

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Published July 2023
Once Upon a Time is Now

A Kalahari Memoir

Biesele, M.

Fifty years after her first fieldwork with Ju/'hoan San hunter-gatherers, anthropologist Megan Biesele has written this exceptional memoir based on personal journals she wrote at the time.

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

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Published June 2024
One Hundred Years of Argonauts

Malinowski, Ethnography and Economic Anthropology

Hann, C. & James, D. (eds)

Malinowski’s pioneering work remains critical for anthropology in a postcolonial age. This volume uses ethnographic studies from around the world to contextualize the work politically and intellectually, examining its gestation and influence from multiple perspectives.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

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One More for the Road

A Director’s Notes on Exile, Family, and Film

Grlić, R.

One More for the Road recounts the life and career of Croatian filmmaker Rajko Grlić in the form of a film dictionary, tying cinematic terms to anecdotes spanning Grlić’s life. With a scholarly introduction by Aida Vidan, these personal stories combine to provide insight into the socialist film industries and south Slavic film.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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One Sound, Two Worlds

The Blues in a Divided Germany, 1945-1990

Rauhut, M.

Through extensive archival research and conversations with renowned publicists, musicians and insiders, author Michael Rauhut examines more than fifty texts to give an in-depth overview of the historical development of blues music in East and West Germany during the postwar period.

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

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The Online World of Surrogacy

Berend, Z.

Zsuzsa Berend presents a methodologically innovative ethnography of the surrogacy support website in the United States. The Online World of Surrogacy documents collective meaning-making practices that unfold online, and explores their practical, emotional, and moral implications.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology

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Published February 2022
Opening Up the University

Teaching and Learning with Refugees

Cantat, C., Cook, I., & Rajaram, P. K. (eds)

Including contributions from educators, administrators, practitioners, and students, Opening Up the University addresses specific points relating to the access and success of refugees in higher education. This expansive collected volume aims to inspire and question those who are considering creating their own interventions, suggesting concrete avenues for further action within existing academic structures.

Subjects: Educational Studies Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

Paperback available
eBook available Published 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

Hb
Forthcoming November 2026
Opposing Ostpolitik

Franz Josef Strauss' Grand Design for Europe

Schmelter, L. P.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
Published April 2010
Optimizing the German Workforce

Labor Administration from Bismarck to the Economic Miracle

Meskill, D.

Subject: History (General)

Paperback available
eBook available Published February 2008
Order and Disorder

Anthropological Perspectives

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Peace and Conflict Studies

Hb
Paperback available
Published August 2003
An Ordinary Country

Issues in the Transition from Apartheid to Democracy in South Africa

Alexander, N.

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

Hb
eBook available Published June 2012
Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes

An Anthropology of Everyday Religion

Schielke, S. & Debevec, L. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published June 2017
Organic Cinema

Film, Architecture, and the Work of Béla Tarr

Botz-Bornstein, T.

What might the “organic” mean in the context of film studies? This innovative volume locates one instance of organicity in the work of Béla Tarr, the renowned Hungarian filmmaker “slow cinema” pioneer. It analyzes Tarr’s long take and other signature techniques, establishes links between the seemingly remote spheres of film and architecture.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
Paperback available
Published October 1999
Orientpolitik, Value, and Civilization

Adler, J. & Fardon, R. (eds) (Steiner, F.)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology

Hb
Paperback available
Published December 1995
The Origins of Complex Societies in Late Prehistoric Iberia

Lillios, K. T.

A series of papers by a wide range of authors from different countries and backgrounds focuses firmly on the question of the origin and development of social complexity, from the Neolithic through the Bronze Age, in Iberia writ large. A wide range of specific topics is covered with this specific focus, from results of field projects, laboratory analyses, and theoretical overviews.

Subject: Archaeology

Hb
Paperback available
Forthcoming November 2026
The Origins of Cultural Customs

From Superstitions to Holiday Events

Forrest, J.

Examining the origins of a wide variety of cultural conventions, including calendar customs, folklore, annual holidays, and ethnic identity, this work uses a critical lens to common perceptions and misconceptions.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available Published February 2023
The Origins of German Self-Cultivation

Bildung and the Future of the Humanities

Ham, J., Kinzel, U., & Pan, D. T.-c. (eds)

Informing current debate about the future of the humanities, this volume focuses discussions on the Bildung’s original German context using a multi-disciplinary perspective root out the interesting ways that Bildung continues to shape our understanding of self-formation.

Subjects: History (General) Educational Studies

Hb
Paperback available
Forthcoming September 2026
The Origins of Prejudice

Dangerous Opinions and Beliefs

Anderson, E., Coures, K., Guerrón Montero, C., Schendel-Vyvoda, T. L., Schwörer, T. & Terrell, J. E.

The Origins of Prejudice is a short and unconventional book that shows you step-by-step both how and why all of us who are human often rely uncritically on what we believe to be true about the people, things, and events shaping our lives outside the hidden world of our bony skull. This book aims to show how we can learn from our possibly unintentional acts and self-serving misdeeds to live together in supportive, less conflicted ways.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
Published June 1997
Osthandel and Ostpolitik

German Foreign Trade Policies in Eastern Europe from Bismarck to Adenauer

Spaulding, R. M.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
eBook available Published July 2022
Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline

Lewis, B.

Re-evaluating the evolution Oswald Spengler’s political activities and his work, Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline explains the outcome of Spengler’s meta-historical considerations on world history and the practical demands of Realpolitik. This volume takes a novel approach to one of the most important thinkers of the Weimar Republic and his contributions to the complex discourse of German national renewal.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published November 2023
Other Borders

History, Mobility and Migration of Rudari Families between Romania and Italy

Tosi Cambini, S.

Other Borders is a deeply thorough, multi-site ethnographic research volume that brings forward the rudari lingurari family’s social and economic cultural organization and the mobilities developed in their migratory paths.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Cultural Studies (General) Theory and Methodology

Hb
eBook available Published March 2008
Other People's Anthropologies

Ethnographic Practice on the Margins

Boškovic, A. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published February 2023
Other Worlds, Other Bodies

Embodied Epistemologies and Ethnographies of Healing

Pierini, E., Groisman, A., & Espírito Santo, D. (eds)

This book proposes a sensory ethnography of healing with a focus on ethnographic knowing as embedded in an embodied epistemology of healing. Epistemological embodiment signals that personal scholarly experience of the “unknown”—be it in the form of trance, or as the embodiment of an “other”—shapes the concepts of healing, body, trance, self, and matter by which ethnographers craft out analysis.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published April 2016
Our Common Denominator

Human Universals Revisited

Antweiler, C.

Against the backdrop of a discipline focused on difference, Christoph Antweiler reasserts the importance of cross-cultural commonalities -- phenomena that occur regularly in all known human societies -- for anthropological research and for life and co-existence beyond the academy.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published June 2020
Ours Once More

Folklore, Ideology, and the Making of Modern Greece

Herzfeld, M.

When this work – one that contributes to both the history and anthropology fields – first appeared in 1982, it was hailed as a landmark study of the role of folklore in nation-building. In this expanded edition, a new introduction by the author and a foreword by Sharon Macdonald document its importance for current debates about Greece’s often contested place in the complex politics of the European Union.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published October 2008
Out of Albania

From Crisis Migration to Social Inclusion in Italy

King, R. & Mai, N.

Subject: Refugee and Migration Studies

Hb
Paperback available
Published April 2011
Out of Place

Madness in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea

Goddard, M.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Hb
Published June 2010
Out of the Study and Into the Field

Ethnographic Theory and Practice in French Anthropology

Parkin, R.& de Sales, A. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology History (General)

Hb
Published March 1999
An Outline of European History From 1789 to 1989

Romano, S.

Subject: History (General)

Hb
eBook available Published January 2026
Outside Looking In

The World Universalizes the Holocaust

Goda, N. J. W. & Kissi, E. (Eds.)

Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
eBook available Published October 2021
Outsiders

Memories of Migration to and from North Korea

Bell, M.

In this timely and insightful new book, Markus Bell presents the case study of Korean-Japanese – “Zainichi” – who have escaped North Korea in the years following the end of the Cold War. Through building alliances and long-distance relationships, Zainichi returnees resist forced integration and push back against life-threatening political purges to forge new ways of belonging.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published May 2016
Ownership and Nurture

Studies in Native Amazonian Property Relations

Brightman, M., Fausto, C. & Grotti, V. (eds)

Through ethnography of the Amazonia region, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for debates about the classic anthropological theme of property. This volume demonstrates that property relations are of central importance in Amazonia despite portrayals of the region as the antithesis of Western, property-based, civilization.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published September 2022
Pacific Automobilism

Adventure, Status and the Carnival of Mobility, 1970–2015

Mom, G.

In this expansive volume, historian Gijs Mom explores how contemporary mobility has been impacted by social, political, and economic forces on a global scale, as in light of local mobility cultures, the car as an ‘adventure machine’ seems to lose cultural influence in favor of the car’s status character.

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

Hb
Published July 2014
Pacific Futures

Projects, Politics and Interests

Rollason, W. (ed)

Pacific Futures asks how our understanding of social life in the Pacific would be different if we approached it from the perspective of the futures which Pacific people dream of, predict or struggle to achieve, not the reproduction of cultural tradition. From Christianity to gambling, marriage to cargo cult, military coups to reflections on childhood fishing trips, the contributors to this volume show how Pacific people are actively shaping their lives with the future in mind.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies

Hb
eBook available Published November 2018
Pacific Realities

Changing Perspectives on Resilience and Resistance

Dousset, L. & Nayral, M. (eds)

In the context of dramatic changes and processes of “glocalization” across the Pacific region, and avoiding conventional “local-global” dichotomies, this volume explores the new and multifaceted forms of resistance and resilience through which communities attempt to regain their original social, political, and economic status and structure after disruption or displacement.

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

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published October 2022
Pacific Spaces

Translations and Transmutations

Engels-Schwarzpaul, A.-C., Lopesi, L., & Refiti, A. L. (eds)

Delving into Pacific spaces from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and interpretations, this book looks at how the anthropological and architectural can be connected.

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

Hb
eBook available Published June 2020
Pacing Mobilities

Timing, Intensity, Tempo and Duration of Human Movements

Amit, V. & Salazar, N. B. (eds)

Turning the attention to the temporal as well as the more familiar spatial dimensions of mobility, this volume looks at the means of mobility in twenty-first century movement. Through a focus on pacing and pace, this volume looks at how people are moving rather than the more usual focus in mobility studies on where they are heading.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
eBook available Published February 2013
Palimpsestic Memory

The Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film

SIlverman, M

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Genocide History Colonial History

Hb
Paperback available
Published May 2011
Panamanian Museums and Historical Memory

Sánchez Laws, A. L.

Subjects: Museum Studies Memory Studies

Pb
eBook available Published July 2003
Papua New Guinea's Last Place

Experiences of Constraint in a Postcolonial Prison

Reed, A.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published December 2025
The Paradox of Difference

Moving Beyond Border Crossing, Translanguaging, and Unit Thinking

Doerr, N.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Refugee and Migration Studies

Hb
Published January 2000
Paradoxes of Civil Society

New Perspectives on Modern German and British History

Trentmann, F. (ed)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published November 2021
The Paradoxical Republic

Austria 1945–2020

Rathkolb, O.

Written by one of the nation’s leading historians, this account of postwar Austria explores the tensions that have defined it for over seven decades. This newly revised edition also addresses the major developments since 2005, including a resurgent far right, economic instability, and the potential fracturing of the European Union.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published January 2018
Parallel Lives Revisited

Mediterranean Guest Workers and their Families at Work and in the Neighbourhood, 1960-1980

Bock, J. De

In 2001, the term ‘parallel lives’ was coined in the UK to describe the relationship between immigrants and white Britons. Yet segregation among postwar immigrants was not new. Parallel Lives Revisited explores the lives of immigrants from six Mediterranean countries in the Belgian city of Ghent, concentrating on their experiences at the workplace and neighbourhood.

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

Hb
Published April 2016
Parenthood between Generations

Transforming Reproductive Cultures

Pooley, S. & Qureshi, K. (eds)

Parenthood between Generations problematizes linear narratives about the emergence of ‘parenting’ as a dominant ideology. The chapters situate the cross-cutting power of the life-course in specific global historical contexts, so as to examine how reproductive cultures are influenced by demographic change, new technologies, migration and diaspora. Studies of working-class, minority and non-heterosexual families, illegitimacy and adoption shed light on of the diverse ways in which nature, biology, kinship and gender have been understood.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

Paperback available
eBook available Published 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

Hb
eBook available Published January 2016
Parliament and Parliamentarism

A Comparative History of a European Concept

Ihalainen, P., Ilie, C., & Palonen, K. (eds)

This tightly organized collection locates the essence of European parliamentarism in four key aspects—deliberation, representation, responsibility, and sovereignty—and explores the ways in which they have been contested, reshaped, and implemented in various states and regions, including familiar western European formations alongside those from central, eastern, and southern Europe.

Subject: History (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published January 2018
The Partial Revolution

Labour, Social Movements and the Invisible Hand of Mao in Western Nepal

Hoffmann, M.

Located in the far-western Tarai region of Nepal, Kailali has been the site of dynamic social and political change in recent history. The Partial Revolution examines Kailali in the aftermath of Nepal’s Maoist insurgency, focusing primarily on the end of Kailali’s feudal system of bonded labor.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies Peace and Conflict Studies

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published October 2017
The Participants

The Men of the Wannsee Conference

Jasch, H.-C., & Kreutzmüller, C. (eds)

Although the Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942 is today understood as a signal episode in the history of the Holocaust, many of its attendees remain relatively unknown to nonspecialists. Combining accessible prose with scholarly rigor, The Participants presents fascinating profiles of the all-too-human men who implemented some of the most inhuman acts in modern history.

Subjects: Genocide History History: World War II

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published May 2025
Participating in the Global Enterprise

Anthropological Research at Automobili Lamborghini

D'Aloisio, F.

Viewed through an anthropological lens, Automobili Lamborghini, the renowned Italian factory of super cars, presents a compelling case study. As an ethnography spanning three years, the book focuses on the different perspectives of the managers and the workers and the effects of the organization on their lives. It highlights the increasing value of Automobili Lamborghini for the VW Group globally.

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
Published June 1998
Partners in Production?

Women, Farm, and Family in Ireland

O'Hara, P.

Subjects: History (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published March 2019
Party Responses to Social Movements

Challenges and Opportunities

Piccio, D. R.

Focusing on Italy and the Netherlands since the 1970s, Party Responses to Social Movements demonstrates how political parties have incorporated the demands of social movements to a surprising extent, even as both have grappled with fundamental and inevitable tension between their respective roles and aims.

Subjects: Sociology Peace and Conflict Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
Published February 2002
Party, Society, Government

Republican Democracy in France

Hanley, D.

Subject: History (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published April 2025
Passing Misery

The Journal of a Forced Laborer in the Third Reich

Pasquiers, J. L. M. (au) & Thompson, R.L. (ed)

An illuminating translation of the journal of Jean Louis Mary Pasquiers, a former teacher and forced laborer, Passing Misery documents Pasquiers’ life within war-torn Europe, in unwilling service to the Nazi regime. In doing so, this book offers an unrivalled insight into the reality of collaboration and culpability during war.

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

Hb
February 2027
The Past and Present of Mirrors

Reflections on Their Purpose as Objects

Gallaga Murrieta, E., Đurđević, G. & Thomas, E. (Eds.)

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
Published July 2013
Pastoralism in Africa

Past, Present and Future

Bollig, M., Schnegg, M., & Wotzka, H.-P. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Hb
Published April 2014
The Path to the Berlin Wall

Critical Stages in the History of Divided Germany

WIlke, M.

The long path to the Berlin Wall began in 1945, when Joseph Stalin instructed the Communist Party to take power in the Soviet occupation zone while the three Western Allies secured their areas of influence. When Germany was split into separate states in 1949, Berlin remained divided into four sectors, with West Berlin surrounded by the GDR but lingering as a captivating showcase for Western values and goods. Following a failed Soviet attempt to expel the allies from West Berlin with a blockade in 1948–49, a second crisis ensued from 1958–61, during which the Soviet Union demanded once and for all the withdrawal of the Western powers and the transition of West Berlin to a “Free City.” Ultimately Nikita Khrushchev decided to close the border in hopes of halting the overwhelming exodus of East Germans to the West.

Tracing this path from a German perspective, Manfred Wilke draws on recently published conversations between Khrushchev and Walter Ulbricht, head of the East German state, in order to reconstruct the coordination process between these two leaders and the events that led to building the Berlin Wall.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Published August 1998
Paths to Inclusion

The Integration of Migrants in the United States and Germany

Schuck, P. & Münz, R. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies

Hb
Paperback available
Published July 2005
Pathways to Heaven

Contesting Mainline and Fundamentalist Christianity in Papua New Guinea

Jebens, H.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published January 2017
The Patient Multiple

An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision-Making in Bhutan

Taee, J.

In Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailments. The Patient Multiple delves into the context of patients’ daily lives and decision-making processes, showing how these unique mountain cultures are finding paths to health among a changing and multifaceted medical topography.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published August 2016
Patient-Centred IVF

Bioethics and Care in a Dutch Clinic

Gerrits, T.

This book places the patient-centred practices of a single clinic in a national context where ARTs are highly regulated (‘Dutch IVF’) and examines how this form of medicine co-shapes the experiences, views and decisions of the women and men using these technologies.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Hb
Published August 2012
Patients and Agents

Mental Illness, Modernity and Islam in Sylhet, Bangladesh

Callan, A.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Gender Studies and Sexuality Medical Anthropology

Hb
Published May 2011
Patrons of Women

Literacy Projects and Gender Development in Rural Nepal

Hertzog, E.

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

Paperback available
Published October 2000
Patterns of Provocation

Police and Public Disorder

Bessel, R. & Emsley, C. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published July 2019
PC Worlds

Political Correctness and Rising Elites at the End of Hegemony

Friedman, J.

This provocative work offers an anthropological analysis of the phenomenon of political correctness, both as a general phenomenon of communication, in which associations in space and time take precedence over the content of what is communicated, and as specific critical historical conjunctures in which new elites attempt to redefine social reality.

Subjects: Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published July 2019
Peace at All Costs

Catholic Intellectuals, Journalists, and Media in Postwar Polish–German Reconciliation

Frieberg, A. E.

Peace at All Costs reconsiders postwar Polish-German relations as an interdisciplinary case study of reconciliation and follows an influential network of non-state peace activists, major players in print and audiovisual media, as they attempted to establish dialogue in the 1950s and 1960s.

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

Hb
Paperback available
Published January 2003
Peace At Last?

The Impact of the Good Friday Agreement on Northern Ireland

Neuheiser, J. & Wolff, S. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published November 2017
Peaceful Selves

Personhood, Nationhood, and the Post-Conflict Moment in Rwanda

Eramian, L.

Twenty years after the 1994 genocide, Rwandans are still troubled by what made the violence possible and how they can know it will not recur. This study uncovers how Rwandan visions of peace and modern nationhood concern not only political reform or economic development, but also transformations in the self.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published June 2026
Pedagogies of Value

Marketing Foreign Goods in China

Badaró, M.

Pedagogies of Value explores how China is reshaping global hierarchies of worth. This book investigates how value is taught, contested, and transformed in everyday encounters and reveals how foreign intermediary attempts to ‘educate’ Chinese consumers only confronts shifting power dynamics that challenge Western authority.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

Hb
Published December 2002
The Peirce Seminar Papers

Volume V: Essays in Semiotic Analysis

Shapiro, M. (ed)

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

Hb
Published January 1995
The Peirce Seminar Papers

Volume II: An Annual of Semiotic Analysis

Shapiro, M. (ed)

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

Hb
eBook available Published October 2014
People, Money and Power in the Economic Crisis

Perspectives from the Global South

Hart, K. & Sharp, J. (eds)

The Cold War was fought between “state socialism” and “the free market.” That fluctuating relationship between public power and private money continues today, unfolding in new and unforeseen ways during the economic crisis. Nine case studies -- from Southern Africa, South Asia, Brazil, and Atlantic Africa – examine economic life from the perspective of ordinary people in places that are normally marginal to global discourse, covering a range of class positions from the bottom to the top of society.

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

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published November 2022
Pepsi and the Pill

Motherhood, Politics and Film in Britain and France, 1958–1969

Oliver-Powell, M.

With the reintroduction of many important debates surrounding reproductive rights, migration and nationalism, Pepsi and the Pill brings to the fore examples and critical historical and media analysis of British and French films in the popular culture and political discourses of 1960s Western Europe.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
eBook available Published August 2019
Perestroika and the Party

National and Transnational Perspectives on European Communist Parties in the Era of Soviet Reform

Di Palma, F. (ed)

While studies of the impact of Gorbachev-era reforms have overwhelmingly focused on the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc nations, this ambitious collection assesses their historical trajectories on both sides of the Iron Curtain. It moves beyond domestic politics and narrowly defined foreign relations to examine the reforms’ collective impact.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published June 2023
Performing Memory

Corporeality, Visuality, and Mobility after 1968

Passerini, L. & Reinisch, D. (eds)

Through a post-1968 perspective on Europe, Performing Memory newly approaches the performative dimensions of memory within the historical cluster of visuality, corporeality and mobility. In a series of focused case studies from emerging and leading scholars, this volume enlarges the focus of memory across the histories of dance, theatre, the media, cinema, and other forms of artistic and political performances.

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

Hb
eBook available Published September 2012
Performing Place, Practising Memories

Aboriginal Australians, Hippies and the State

Henry, R.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
Published September 2024
Performing State Boundaries

Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China

Lammer, C.

Polarizing images of China’s authoritarian, socialist or culturalist otherness limit state analyses but produce political effects. In an ecological village in Sichuan, potential supporters saw citizen participation as Western liberalism, Maoism or traditional rural culture. This book shows how contrasting judgments emerged from diverse repertoires through which multiple boundaries between state and non-state were performed.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
Published October 2013
Peripheral Vision

Politics, Technology, and Surveillance

Frois, C.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Hb
Published March 2021
Peripheries at the Centre

Borderland Schooling in Interwar Europe

Venken, M.

Peripheries at the Centre reveals how Prussia, and later the German Empire, used educational policy to promote national identity along its geographical margins. It shows how policymakers sought to cultivate ideal German students who, it was hoped, would help to usher in a new, peaceful era in European history while reinforcing their status as German citizens.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Educational Studies

Paperback available
eBook available Published April 2020
Permeable Borders

History, Theory, Policy, and Practice in the United States

Otto, P. & Berthier-Foglar, S. (eds)

This boldly interdisciplinary volume explores the ways that historical and contemporary actors in the U.S. have crossed such borders—whether national, cultural, ethnic, racial, or conceptual. These essays suggest new ways to understand borders while encouraging connection and exchange, even as social and political forces continue to try to draw lines around and between people.

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

Hb
Published November 2002
Persecution and Resistance of Jehovah's Witnesses During the Nazi-Regime

Hesse, H. (ed)

Subjects: Genocide History Anthropology of Religion

Hb
eBook available Published October 2017
The Persistence of Race

Continuity and Change in Germany from the Wilhelmine Empire to National Socialism

Day, L. & Haag, O. (eds)

In histories of the Third Reich, race is a ubiquitous topic, but German society produced a much more complex variety of racial representations over the first part of the twentieth century. This volume explores the hateful depictions of the Nazi era alongside Wilhelmine images of indigenous peoples, revealing race as on object of fascination for Germans across several eras.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published March 2019
Persistently Postwar

Media and the Politics of Memory in Japan

Guarné, B., Lozano-Méndez, A., & Martinez, D. P. (eds)

Persistently Postwar approaches the topics of social memory and political discourse through an exploration of Japan’s post-war mass media. Diverse disciplinary backgrounds and contrasting perspectives offer a nuanced dialogue in which the functions of mass media are explored as more than a simple ideological tool.

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

Hb
Paperback available
Published August 2009
Person and Place

Ideas, Ideals and Practice of Sociality on Vanua Lava, Vanuatu

Hess, S. C.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Hb
eBook available Published March 2021
Perspectives in Motion

Engaging the Visual in Dance and Music

Stepputat, K & Diettrich, B. (eds)

Through a diverse range of case studies from Oceania, Asia, and Europe, and interdisciplinary approaches, Perspectives in Motion explores visual approaches to performance in global cultural contexts, offering new critical and ethnographic frameworks for understanding and experiencing practices of music and dance across the globe.

Subjects: Performance Studies Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published July 2021
Peter Lilienthal

A Cinema of Exile and Resistance

Sandberg, C.

Peter Lilienthal is the first comprehensive study of Lilienthal’s life and career, highlighting the distinctively cross-cultural and transnational dimensions of his oeuvre, and exploring his role as an early exemplar of a more vibrant and inclusive European film culture.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

Hb
eBook available Published February 2012
Peter Lorre: Face Maker

Constructing Stardom and Performance in Hollywood and Europe

Thomas, S.

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

Hb
Paperback available
Published November 2007
Picturing Pity

Pitfalls and Pleasures in Cross-Cultural Communication.
Image and Word in a North Cameroon Mission

Gullestad, M.

Subjects: Colonial History Anthropology (General)

Hb
eBook available Published June 2026
Pierre Fatumbi Verger

From Detached Look to Knowledge through Initiation

Souty, J.

With biographical undertones, Pierre Verger: From Detached Look to Knowledge through Initiation is an anthropological essay that offers a singular and nuanced reflection on the originality and scope of Pierre Verger’s experience as a photographer in search of otherness in the black cultures of Africa and Brazil and the transatlantic world of the Orisha Vodun deities.

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

Hb
Published October 2002
Pilgrim Voices

Narrative and Authorship in Christian Pilgrimage

Coleman, S. & Elsner, J. (eds)

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published July 2018
Pilgrimage and Political Economy

Translating the Sacred

Coleman, S. & Eade, J. (eds)

Pilgrimage has always had a tendency to follow – and sometimes create – trade routes. This volume explores how wider factors behind transnational and global mobility have impacted on pilgrimage activity across the world, and examines the ways in which pilgrimage relates to migration, diaspora, and political cooperation or conflict across nation-states.

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

Hb
Published September 2007
Pious Pursuits

German Moravians in the Atlantic World

Gillespie, M., & Beachy, R. (eds)

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

Hb
eBook available Published February 2013
Places of Pain

Forced Displacement, Popular Memory and Trans-local Identities in Bosnian War-torn Communities

Halilovich, H.

This compelling and intimate description of places of pain and (be)longing that were lost during the 1992–95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as of survivors’ places of resettlement in Australia, Europe and North America, serves as a powerful illustration of the complex interplay between place, memory and identity.

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

Hb
Paperback available
Published June 2000
Placing London

From Imperial Capital to Global City

Eade, J.

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published July 2019
Planning for the Planet

Environmental Expertise and the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 1960–1980

Schleper, S.

In the 1960s and 1970s, rapidly growing environmental awareness and concern not only led to widespread calls for new policies, but also created unprecedented demand for ecological expertise by the likes of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. This book explores how conservation experts confronted new challenges tied to rival scientific approaches, Cold War politics, decolonization, and more.

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

Hb
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eBook available Published April 2019
Planning Labour

Time and the Foundations of Industrial Socialism in Romania

Cucu, A.-S.

Planning Labour explores the early socialist industrialization and the implementation of central economic planning in Romania between 1945 and 1955. Centered on the city of Cluj, an ethnically mixed city in the northwestern part of Romania, this volume examines the deeply contradictory process required for achieving socialist accumulation.

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

Hb
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Published September 2010
The Plans That Failed

An Economic History of the GDR

Steiner, A.

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

Hb
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Published June 2023
Planting Seeds of Knowledge

Agriculture and Education in Rural Societies in the Twentieth Century

Hartmann, H. & Tischler, J. (eds)

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, agricultural practices and rural livelihoods were challenged by changes such as commercialization, intensified global trade, and rapid urbanization. Planting Seeds of Knowledge studies the relationship between these agricultural changes and knowledge-making through a transnational lens.

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

Paperback available
eBook available Published September 2010
Plants, Health and Healing

On the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology

Hsu, E. & Harris, S. (eds)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Environmental Studies (General)

Hb
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Published July 2011
Playing Different Games

The Paradox of Anywaa and Nuer Identification Strategies in the Gambella Region, Ethiopia

Feyissa, D.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
Published September 2008
Playing Politics with History

The Bundestag Inquiries into East Germany

Beattie, A. H.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
eBook available Published October 2024
Playing the Hand We Are Dealt

The Counterpoint of Fate and Freewill in Literature and Life

Jackson, M.

The relationship between literature and life can be construed as a counterpoint of fate and freewill. Rather than equating fate to the ‘hand we are dealt’ which is reducible to the social or familial environments into which we are born, this book explores the idea of fate through the books that shape our lives and under whose influence we write.

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

Hb
Published March 2019
Playing the Marginality Game

Identity Politics in West Africa

Schroven, A.

In Guinea, situated in the background of central government struggles, rural elites, through the use of identity politics, employ history and contemporary political reforms to maintain their privileges and perpetuate a generation-old local social contract that bridges ethnic and religious divides.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Development Studies
eBook available Published September 2012
Playing with Languages

Children and Change in a Caribbean Village

Paugh, A. L.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies Sociology

Hb
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eBook available Published October 2019
Playing with the Past

Exploring Values in Heritage Practice

Clark, K.

Heritage is all around us, not just in monuments and museums, but in places that matter, the countryside and in collections and stories. It touches all of us. How do we decide what to preserve? And how do we make the case for heritage when there are so many other priorities? Playing with the Past is designed to make the case for heritage. It is the first ever action-learning book about heritage.

Subjects: Museum Studies Heritage Studies Archaeology

Hb
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Published April 2007
The Pleasure of a Surplus Income

Part-Time Work, Gender Politics, and Social Change in West Germany, 1955-1969

Oertzen, C. von

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

Hb
Published February 2002
Plural Identities - Singular Narratives

The Case of Northern Ireland

Nic Craith, M.

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

Hb
Paperback available
Published January 2001
Poems in Steel

National Socialism and the Politics of Inventing from Weimar to Bonn

Gispen, K.

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

Hb
Paperback available
Published October 1996
A Poet Or Nothing At All

The Tübingen and Basel Years of Herman Hesse

Helt, R. C.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published August 2026
Poetics of Animation

Medium, Context and Aesthetics

Taberham, P.

The first account of studio animation written from an historical-poetic perspective. Examining how animated films are created and experienced, Poetics of Animation brings together the study of visual style, performance, storytelling, and sound within their industrial and technological contexts, and offers an original contribution to animation studies.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

Hb
Published October 2013
Points of Passage

Jewish Migrants from Eastern Europe in Scandinavia, Germany, and Britain 1880-1914

Brinkmann, T. (ed)

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

Hb
eBook available Published June 2017
Poland Daily

Economy, Work, Consumption and Social Class in Polish Cinema

Mazierska, E.

Polish cinema has inescapably been shaped by the nation’s succession of different economic and ideological regimes over the last century. This volume is the first to analyze the entirety of the nation’s film history—from independence in 1918 to today—through the lenses of political economy and social class.

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

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published January 2024
Poland under German Occupation, 1939-1945

New Perspectives

Huener, J. & Löw, A. (eds)

Poland under German Occupation, 1939-1945 explores questions of Polish-Jewish life that are rarely discussed and new methodological directions to advance debates on the complicity of Polish citizens during the mass murder of Jews under the nation’s Nazi occupation.

Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History Jewish Studies

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published January 2023
Polarized Pasts

Heritage and Belonging in Times of Political Polarization

Niklasson, E. (ed)

When questions of belonging enter the forefront of political debates, so too does heritage. From different ends at the political spectrum, people invoke the past to validate their stance on immigration, equality and security. Together, the texts pave the way for a better understanding of the role of the heritage in society.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Cultural Studies (General) Archaeology

Hb
Published March 1997
The Policing of Politics in the Twentieth Century

Historical Perspectives

Mazower, M. (ed)

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

Hb
Published February 2002
Policy Concertation and Social Partnership in Western Europe

Lessons for the Twenty-first Century

Berger, S. & Compston, H. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published September 2013
A Policy Travelogue

Tracing Welfare Reform in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Canada

Kingfisher, C.

“This is a groundbreaking book…that represents a sophisticated assemblage of ideas to frame and drive the analysis of data gleaned through long-term engagement with each site…Using the well-delineated concepts of travel, assemblage, and translation, [Kingfisher] explains the contradictory ways in which policy discourse is produced and through which traveling ideas ‘touch down’ in varied places and times and are selectively taken up by people in varied systems of social relations and grounded experiences.” · Judith Goode, Temple University

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published April 2011
Policy Worlds

Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power

Shore, C., Wright S., & Però, D.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Applied Anthropology Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published October 2018
Polish Cinema

A History

Haltof, M.

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Marek Haltof’s seminal survey takes stock of dramatic shifts in Polish society and to provide an essential account of the nation’s cinema from the nineteenth century to today. It covers such renowned figures as Kieślowski and Wajda along with vastly expanded coverage of documentaries, animation, and television.

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

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published January 2012
Polish Film and the Holocaust

Politics and Memory

Haltof, M.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Genocide History

Hb
Paperback available
Forthcoming February 2027
Polish Playwriting

New Narratives from 2004 to 2014

Oxley, N.

After Poland joined the EU in 2004, a new wave of playwriting emerged in response to changing social realities. Natasha Oxley investigates twelve plays by four key playwrights, which were written during the first decade of Polish EU membership, revealing a prominence of non-naturalistic approaches and the importance of humour.

Subjects: Performance Studies History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available Published April 2025
Political and Legal History of German Jews

A Short Introduction

Jensen, U.

An insightful reassessment of the political and legal history of German Jews, this book innovatively resituates German Jews as active and engaged political agents, who were invested in engaging with, resisting, and shaping policy, from the early modern period to the present day.

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

Hb
eBook available Published August 2026
Political Crisis in Central Europe in the Interwar Period and Today

Temporality, Semantics, and Logic of Crises in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Romania

Schulze Wessel, M. (ed)

Examines the crisis and failure of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe during the interwar period, from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. Linking contemporary concerns about democratic fragility with historical analysis, the contributions explore political culture, constitutional traditions, religion, violence, and crisis discourse in Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Published August 2001
Political Demography, Demographic Engineering

Weiner, M, & Teitelbaum, M.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published January 2015
The Political Economy of Border Drawing

Arranging Legality in European Labor Migration Policies

Paul, R.

The conditions for non-EU migrant workers to gain legal entry to Britain, France, and Germany are at the same time similar and quite different. To explain this variation this book compares the fine-grained legal categories for migrant workers in each country, and examines the interaction of economic, social, and cultural rationales in determining migrant legality.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies

Hb
Paperback available
Published April 1998
The Political Economy of German Unification

Lange, T. & Shackleton, J. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
eBook available Published July 2009
The Political Economy of Germany under Chancellors Kohl and Schröder

Decline of the German Model?

Leaman, J.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Published October 2015
Political Fellini

Journey to the End of Italy

Minuz, A.

Federico Fellini is often considered a disengaged filmmaker, more interested in self-referential dreams and grotesquerie than contemporary politics. This book challenges that myth.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

Hb
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Published April 1996
The Political Films of Andrzej Wajda

Dialogism in Man of Marble, Man of Iron, and Danton

Falkowska, J.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

Hb
eBook available Published February 2024
Political Friendship

Liberal Notables, Networks, and the Pursuit of the German Nation State, 1848-1866

Weaver, M.

Political Friendship demonstrates the central role of the German liberal elite’s interpersonal relationships in the uncertain path to unification and 19th century Germany political culture.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

Paperback available
eBook available Published February 2021
Political Graffiti in Critical Times

The Aesthetics of Street Politics

Campos, R., Pavoni, A., & Zaimakis, Y. (eds)

With a particular eye to the demographic, ecological, and economic crises of today, this volume provides a wide-ranging exploration of urban space and visual protest during periods of social and political upheaval. Assembling case studies that cover topics such as gentrification in Cyprus and the convulsions of post-independence East Timor, it reveals the ways in which street artists challenge existing social orders and reimagine urban landscapes.

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

Hb
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eBook available Published May 2019
Political Networks and Social Movements

Bolivian State–Society Relations under Evo Morales, 2006–2016

Valdivia Rivera, S.

Political Networks and Social Movements examines the relationship between the State and social movements under the administration of current Bolivian president Evo Morales. Author Soledad Valdivia Rivera analyzes how this linkage has come to transform the essence of the Bolivian political process as we know it.

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology History (General)

Hb
eBook available Published June 2008
Political Theory and Australian Multiculturalism

Levey, G. B. (ed)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
Paperback available
Published March 2009
Political Violence in the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933

Fight for the Streets and Fear of Civil War

Schumann, D.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
Published July 1995
Politics and Government in Germany, 1944-1994

Basic Documents

Schweitzer, C-C., Karsten, D., Spencer, R., Taylor Cole, R., Kommers, D. P., & Nicholls, A. J. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published June 2026
The Politics of Appointment

The Czech Minister and the Transformation of Habsburg Administration

Klečacký, M.

A unique study on the relationship between state administration and politics, examining how the office of the Czech Landsmannminister became the primary vehicle for the politicization of the Habsburg state.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
eBook available Published October 2018
The Politics of Authenticity

Countercultures and Radical Movements across the Iron Curtain, 1968-1989

Häberlen, J. C., Keck-Szajbel, M., & Mahoney, K. (eds)

The Politics of Authentic Subjectivity explores how the politics of authenticity manifested itself among Italian leftists, East German lesbian activists, and punks on both sides of the Iron Curtain. This volume shows not only how authenticity came to define a variety of social contexts, but also how it helped to lay the groundwork for the neoliberalism of a subsequent era.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
Published March 1996
The Politics of Cultural Performance

Parkin, D., Caplan, L. & Fisher, H. (eds)

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

Hb
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Published July 2002
The Politics of Education

Teachers and School Reform in Weimar Germany

Lamberti, M.

Subjects: Educational Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published June 2012
The Politics of Education Reform in the Middle East

Self and Other in Textbooks and Curricula

Alayan, S., Rohde, A., & Dhouib, S. (eds)

Subjects: Educational Studies Sociology

Hb
Published March 2006
The Politics of Egalitarianism

Theory and Practice

Solway, J. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Medical Anthropology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published July 2010
The Politics of European Citizenship

Deepening Contradictions in Social Rights and Migration Policy

Hansen, P. & Hager, S. B.

Subject: Refugee and Migration Studies

Hb
Paperback available
Published March 2008
The Politics of German Defence and Security

Policy Leadership and Military Reform in the post-Cold War Era

Dyson, T.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
eBook available Published July 2010
Politics of Innocence

Hutu Identity, Conflict and Camp Life

Turner, S.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies Development Studies

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published December 2022
The Politics of Making Kinship

Historical and Anthropological Perspectives

Alber, E. (ed)

Leading us beyond current narratives on the decline of kinship which assume kinship’s existence since the dawn of civilization, The Politics of Making Kinship interrogates kinship’s geneses, constructions, elaborations, implementations, and enforcing agents across a long view of European history, and demonstrates how kinship is woven through modern societies.

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

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published December 2020
The Politics of Personal Information

Surveillance, Privacy, and Power in West Germany

Frohman, L.

This book gives a definitive account of the politics of personal information in West Germany during the 1970s and 1980s, highlighting the growing role of personal information as a tool for social governance.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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eBook available Published June 2024
The Politics of Relations

How Self-Government, Infrastructures, and Care Transform the State in Serbia

Thiemann, A.

Rethinking the contributions of the Manchester School of Social Anthropology for political ethnography, the Politics of Relations elaborates its relational approach to the state along four interlaced axes of research – embeddedness, boundary work, modalities and strategic selectivity – that enable thick comparisons across spatio-temporal scales of power.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published January 2019
Politics of Scale

New Directions in Critical Heritage Studies

Lähdesmäki, T., Thomas, S., & Zhu, Y. (eds)

Politics of Scale offers a global, multi- and interdisciplinary point of view to the scaled nature of heritage, and provides a theoretical discussion on scale as a social construct and a method in Critical Heritage Studies.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Museum Studies

Hb
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eBook available Published November 2020
Politics of the Dunes

Poetry, Architecture, and Coloniality at the Open City

Woods, M.

Politics of the Dunes explores the ways in which the Open City’s architectural and urban practice is devoted to keeping open the utopian possibility for multiplicity, pluralism, and democratization in the face of authoritarianism, a powerful mode of postcolonial environmental urbanism that can inform architectural practices today.

Subjects: Urban Studies Sociology History (General)

Hb
Published August 2008
Politics of Time

Dynamics of Identity in Post-Communist Poland

Koczanowicz, L.

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
Published September 2014
The Polynesian Iconoclasm

Religious Revolution and the Seasonality of Power

Sissons, J.

Seeking an answer to why the event occurred the way that it did,The Polynesian Iconoclasm explores the ten years in the early nineteenth century during which inhabitants of Tahiti, Hawaii and fifteen related societies destroyed or desecrated their temples and god-images. In the aftermath, hundreds of architecturally innovative churches were constructed, and oppressive laws and courts were introduced — and rebelled against.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

Hb
eBook available Published December 2010
Popular Historiographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Cultural Meanings, Social Practices

Paletschek, S. (ed)

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
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Published December 2005
Population, Reproduction and Fertility in Melanesia

Ulijaszek, S.J. (ed)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
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eBook available Published February 2025
Populism in Central and Eastern Europe

Krakovsky, R.

Providing a forensic analysis of the populist phenomenon that is sweeping across Central and Eastern Europe, Populism in Central and Eastern Europe re-examines the origins of this current political situation by tracing its historical development within this region of Europe, ultimately illuminating fresh strategies for addressing these longstanding political issues.

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

Hb
Published December 2003
The Populist Challenge

Political Protest and Ethno-Nationalist Mobilization in France

Rydgren, J.

Subject: Peace and Conflict Studies

Hb
Paperback available
Published June 2007
Portraits of Hope

Armenians in the Contemporary World

Voss, Huberta von (ed)

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

Hb
Published July 2007
Possessing the World

Taking the Measurements of Colonisation from the 18th to the 20th Century

Etemad, B.

Subjects: Colonial History History: Medieval/Early Modern Refugee and Migration Studies

Hb
eBook available Published June 2010
Post-communist Nostalgia

Todorova, M. & Gille, Z. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published November 2025
Post-Contact Archaeology of Michigan and the Upper Great Lakes Region

Surface-Evans, S. L. & Jackson, M. M. (eds)

In this comprehensive reassessment of post-contact archaeology in the Upper Great Lakes region, Sarah L. Surface-Evans and Misty M. Jackson highlight the diversity and breadth of the area’s archaeological sites and the innovative findings they offer. In doing so, they highlight archaeology’s implications for transforming our understanding of present-day, social justice.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies History: 18th/19th Century

Hb
eBook available Published August 2012
Post-cosmopolitan Cities

Explorations of Urban Coexistence

Humphrey, C. & Skvirskaja, V. (eds)

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

Hb
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Published March 2016
Post-Ottoman Coexistence

Sharing Space in the Shadow of Conflict

Bryant, R. (ed)

Scholars often refer to the “peaceful coexistence” of various religious and ethnic groups under the Ottoman Empire before ethnonationalist conflicts dissolved that shared space and created legacies of division. Post-Ottoman Coexistence interrogates this “coexistence” and asks what practices enabled centuries of cooperation and sharing, as well as how and when such sharing was disrupted

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology

Paperback available
eBook available Published April 2019
Post-Ottoman Topologies

The Presence of the Past in the Era of the Nation-State

Argenti, N. (ed)

With contributions from several of the Balkan countries that once were united under the aegis of the Ottoman Empire, this latest volume proposes new theoretical approaches to the experience and transmission of the past through time.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Memory Studies

Hb
Paperback available
Published March 1997
Post-war Women's Writing in German

Feminist Critical Approaches

Weedon, C. (ed)

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

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published May 2012
Postcolonial Migrants and Identity Politics

Europe, Russia, Japan and the United States in Comparison

Bosma, U., Lucassen, J. & Oostindie, G. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

Hb
Published July 2007
Postcoloniality

The French Dimension

Majumdar, M. A.

Subject: Colonial History

Paperback available
Published July 1998
Postmodernism in the Cinema

Degli-Esposti, C. (ed)

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published March 2006
Postsocialism

Politics and Emotions in Central and Eastern Europe

Svasek M. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published September 2009
Postsocialist Europe

Anthropological Perspectives from Home

Kurti, L. & Skalník, P. (Eds.)

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published May 2013
Postwall German Cinema

History, Film History and Cinephilia

Frey, M.

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

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published March 2020
Postwar Soldiers

Historical Controversies and West German Democratization, 1945–1955

Echternkamp, J.

In Postwar Soldiers, Jörg Echternkamp analyzes three themes in the early history of West Germany: interpretations of the war during its conclusion and the occupation period; military veteran communities’ self-perceptions; and the public rehabilitation of the image of the German soldier.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published July 2024
The Potential for Anthropology and Urban Community Engagement

Lessons Learned from Twenty-Five Years in Milwaukee

Lackey, J. F. & Petrie, R.

Going beyond traditional relationships between practicing anthropologists and urban communities, this develops the foundations to extend the current scope of applied anthropology to grassroots research and lasting community programs using two partnering Milwaukee organizations as examples.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Urban Studies

Hb
eBook available Published December 2016
Poverty and Welfare in Modern German History

Raphael, L. (ed)

This comprehensive volume demonstrates that the question of how to care for the poor has had significant implications for German history throughout the modern era. Here, eight leading historians provide essential case studies and syntheses of current research into German welfare, from the Holy Roman Empire to the present day.

Subjects: History (General) Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published October 2023
Poverty Archaeology

Architecture, Material Culture and the Workhouse under the New Poor Law

Newman, C. & Fennelly, K.

The Poor Laws in the United Kingdom left a built and material legacy of over two centuries of legislative provision for the poor and infirm. Workhouses represent the first centralized, state-organized system for welfare. This volume forms a social archaeology of the lived experience of poverty and health in the nineteenth century.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
Published March 1999
Poverty in Transition and Transition in Poverty

Recent Developments in Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Georgia, Russia, and Mongolia

Atal, Y. (ed)

Subjects: Development Studies Sociology

Hb
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Published June 2014
Power and Architecture

The Construction of Capitals and the Politics of Space

Minkenberg, M. (ed)

“…a fascinating topic for architects, urban designers and urban master planners…the interaction of political power, political-philosophical ideas about the state, and built form...The contributors are clearly experts on their topics, and no single author could ever have handled the [subject matter] with this combination of breadth and depth.” · Sir Peter Hall, University College London

Subjects: Urban Studies History (General)

Hb
Published March 2011
Power and Magic in Italy

Hauschild, T.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

Hb
eBook available Published May 2009
Power and Society in the GDR, 1961-1979

The 'Normalisation of Rule'?

Fulbrook, M. (ed)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published September 2017
Power in Practice

The Pragmatic Anthropology of Afro-Brazilian Capoeira

González Varela, S.

Considering the concept of power in capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian ritual art form, Varela describes ethnographically the importance that capoeira leaders (mestres) have in the social configuration of a style called Angola in Bahia, Brazil.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Performance Studies

Hb
eBook available Published October 2014
The Power of Death

Contemporary Reflections on Death in Western Society

Blanco, M.-J. & Vidal, R. (eds)

The social and cultural changes of the last century have transformed death from an everyday fact to something hidden from view. Shifting between the practical and the theoretical, the professional and the intimate, the real and the fictitious, this collection of essays explores the continued power of death over our lives.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Sociology Literary Studies

Hb
Paperback available
Published January 2007
The Power of Entrepreneurs

Politics and Economy in Contemporary Spain

Cabrera, M. & del Rey, F.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published May 2009
The Power of Law in a Transnational World

Anthropological Enquiries

Benda-Beckmann, F. von, Benda-Beckmann, K. von & Griffiths, A. (eds)

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
Published May 2007
The Power of Perspective

Social Ontology and Agency on Ambrym Island, Vanuatu

Rio, K, M.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Hb
eBook available Published December 2021
The Power of Scripture

Political Biblicism in the Early Stuart Monarchy between Representation and Subversion

Pečar, A.

The development of political rhetoric during the Reformation period through to the outbreak of the English Civil War was based on more varied sources than just the political language of civic humanism and republicanism. The Power of Scripture uncovers how biblical scripture directly shaped a national religious politics, forming a lasting impression on the socio-political structural development of Stuart England.

Subject: History: Medieval/Early Modern

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Published December 1994
The Power of the Story

Fiction and Political Change

Hanne, M.

Subjects: Literary Studies History (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published April 2023
The Power of the Story

Writing Disasters in Haiti and the Circum-Caribbean

Joos, V., Munro, M. & Ribó, J. (eds)

A cross-disciplinary volume that combines and puts into dialogue perspectives on disasters, this book includes contributions from anthropology, history, cultural studies, sociology, and literary studies. Offering a rich and diverse set of arguments and analyses on the ever-relevant theme of catastrophe in the circum-Caribbean, it will encourage debate and collaboration between scholars working on disasters from a range of disciplinary perspectives.

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

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Published September 2000
Power Shift in Germany

The 1998 Election and the End of the Kohl Era

Conradt, D. P., Kleinfeld G. R. & Søe, C. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published January 2014
Powerless Science?

Science and Politics in a Toxic World

Boudia, S. & Jas, N. (eds)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Medical Anthropology

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Published June 2001
Powers of Good and Evil

Social Transformation and Popular Belief

Clough, P. & Mitchell, J. (eds)

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

Hb
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eBook available Published May 2024
Practical Archaeogaming

Reinhard, A.

As a sequel to Archaeogaming: an Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games, the author focuses on the practical and applied side of the discipline, collecting recent digital fieldwork together in one place for the first time to share new methods in treating interactive digital built environments as sites for archaeological investigation.

Subject: Archaeology Anthropology (General)

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The Practice of War

Production, Reproduction and Communication of Armed Violence

Rao, A., Bollig, M. & Böck, M. (eds)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published February 2026
Practice Theory and the Biosocial

Microbes, Matter and Milieu

Shove, E., Blue, S. & Kelly, M.

From urban infrastructures to the medieval plague and from antibiotic resistance to epigenetics, this book develops an account of how previous and present arrangements make some futures more likely than others. By demonstrating the relevance of social and practice theories, this study considers questions about how bacteria, viruses, microscopic materials and societies develop in tandem.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Medical Anthropology Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published May 2026
Practices of Care in an Italian Eating Disorder Clinic

Rethinking Food, Family and Ethics

Sciolli, G.

The relational complexities between food and kinship are highlighted in eating disorders. This book is an ethnographic account of a public treatment centre for eating disorders in Italy, examining how food and family emerge aligned in the production and treatment of these conditions.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Food & Nutrition Sociology

Hb
Published February 2008
Practicing Public Diplomacy

A Cold War Odyssey

Richmond, Y.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Published April 2011
Practicing the Faith

The Ritual Life of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christians

Lindhardt, M. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

Hb
Published December 2004
A Precarious Victory

Schroeder and the German Elections of 2002

Conradt, D., Kleinfeld, G. R. & Søe, C. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published March 2022
The Precarity of Masculinity

Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon

Kovač, U.

This book follows young Cameroonian men who aspire to migrate abroad and play football for a living while analyzing masculinities in West Africa. The book argues that the athletic aspirations of young Cameroonians and their propensity to consult with Pentecostal Men of God offer new insights about the nature of social mobility in the neoliberal age.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
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Published September 2008
Precious Pills

Medicine and Social Change among Tibetan Refugees in India

Prost, A.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies

Hb
eBook available Published July 2013
Pregnancy in Practice

Expectation and Experience in the Contemporary US

Han, S.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Hb
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Preservation and Place

Historic Preservation by and of LGBTQ Communities in the United States

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

Historically significant archaeological sites affiliated with two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer history in the United States are examined in this unique volume. The importance of the preservation process in documenting and interpreting the lives and experiences of queer Americans is emphasized. The book features chapters on archaeology and interpretation, as well as several case studies focusing on queer preservation projects.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies

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Published November 2000
Preserving Order Amid Chaos

The Survival of Schools in Uganda, 1971-1986

Paige, J.

Subjects: Educational Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Published October 2020
Preventing Dementia?

Critical Perspectives on a New Paradigm of Preparing for Old Age

Leibing, A. & Schicktanz, S. (eds)

The conceptualization of dementia has changed dramatically in recent years with the claim that, through early detection and by controlling several risk factors, a prevention of dementia is possible. Although encouraging and providing hope against this feared condition, this claim is open to scrutiny. This volume looks at how this new conceptualization ignores many of the factors which influence a dementia sufferers’ prognosis.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

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Published August 2006
The Price of Exclusion

Ethnicity, National Identity, and the Decline of German Liberalism, 1898-1933

Kurlander, E.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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Privileges of Birth

Constellations of Care, Myth, and Race in South Africa

Rogerson, J. J. M.

Focussing ethnographically on private sector maternity care in South Africa, Privileges of birth attends to the ways healthcare and childbirth are shaped by South Africa’s racialised history. Examining the ethics of care in midwife-attended birth, the author offers a unique account of birthing care in the context of elite care services.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Hb
eBook available Published November 2018
Probing the Limits of Categorization

The Bystander in Holocaust History

Morina, C. & Thijs, K. (eds)

This volume discusses a number of case studies addressing the history of bystanding during and after the Nazi era. Combining historiographical, conceptual and empirical contributions, Probing the Limits of Categorization explores the roles and experiences of individuals caught up in the dynamics of state-sponsored genocidal violence.

Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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Published October 1999
The Problem of Context

Perspectives from Social Anthropology and Elsewhere

Dilley, R. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Hb
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Published December 2007
The Problem of Money

African Agency & Western Medicine in Northern Ghana

Bierlich, B. M.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Development Studies

Hb
Published August 2012
Problems of Conception

Issues of Law, Biotechnology, Individuals and Kinship

Melhuus, M.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Medical Anthropology

Hb
Published January 2000
Productive Men and Reproductive Women

The Agrarian Household and the Emergence of Separate Spheres during the German Enlightenment

Gray, M.

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

Hb
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Published August 2007
Professional Identities

Policy and Practice in Business and Bureaucracy

Ardener, S. & Moore, F. (eds)

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
eBook available Published May 2022
Profiles of Anthropological Praxis

An International Casebook

Redding, T. M. & Cheney, C. C. (eds)

The book Profiles of Anthropological Praxis is something of a sequel to Anthropological Praxis: Translating Knowledge into Action, published in 1987 (Westview Press). As a casebook of anthropological projects, the new version shares a fascinating breadth of award-winning projects undertaken by applied anthropologists to address the needs of an array of stakeholders and situations.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Theory and Methodology

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Published December 2004
Property and Equality

Volume II: Encapsulation, Commercialization, Discrimination

Widlok, T. & Tadesse, W.G. (eds)

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Hb
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Published December 2004
Property and Equality

Volume I: Ritualization, Sharing, Egalitarianism

Widlok, T. & Tadesse, W.G. (eds)

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Published November 2014
Property in East Central Europe

Notions, Institutions, and Practices of Landownership in the Twentieth Century

Siegrist, H. & Müller, D. (eds)

The national appropriation of property in the interwar period and the communist era represent an onerous legacy for the postcommunist (re)construction of a liberal-individualist property regime. However, as the scholars in the this collection show, after the demise of communism in Eastern Europe property is again a major factor in shaping individual identity and in providing the political order and culture with a foundational institution.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published December 2025
Prophetic Histories

Time, Theology, and Theocracy in Solomon Islands

Timmer, J.

On Malaita in Solomon Islands, an evangelical Israelite-inspired movement centers on a distinctive time-consciousness that reads the historical past and present as prophetic signs of an imminent future. This book examines how these ‘prophetic histories’ interweave biblical narrative, theological reflection, local accounts, kastom practice, spiritual journeys and Old-Testament political theory.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Development Studies

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Published May 2014
A Prophetic Trajectory

Ideologies of Place, Time and Belonging in an Angolan Religious Movement

Blanes, R. L.

“Blanes’ multi-sited ethnographic-cum-historical study of a prominent Christian prophetic church of Angolan origin is an excellent piece of scholarship, and makes a unique contribution to the literature on Christianity in Africa and on African Christianity in Europe. More than other scholars in the emerging anthropology of Christianity, Blanes gives detailed attention to the interlocking of temporal and spatial dimensions in the context of diasporic religion and religious self-identification.” · Thomas Kirsch, University of Konstanz

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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Protest Beyond Borders

Contentious Politics in Europe since 1945

Kouki, H. & Romanos, E. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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Protest Cultures

A Companion

Fahlenbrach, K., Klimke, M., & Scharloth, J. (eds)

Protest is a ubiquitous and richly varied cultural domain whose symbolic content is regularly deployed by media and advertisers, among others. Yet within social movement scholarship, culture has been comparatively neglected. This definitive research companion dramatically expands the analytical perspective on subject by covering a remarkable array of protest cultures.

Subjects: Sociology History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published December 2015
Protest in Hitler's “National Community”

Popular Unrest and the Nazi Response

Stoltzfus, N. & Maier-Katkin, B. (eds)

That Hitler’s Gestapo harshly suppressed any signs of opposition inside the Third Reich is a common misperception. This book presents studies of public dissent that examine circumstances under which “racial” Germans were motivated to protest, as well as the conditions determining the regime’s response.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Protest, Youth and Precariousness

The Unfinished Fight against Austerity in Portugal

Carmo, R. M. & Vasconcelos Simões, J. A. (eds)

After over a decade of austerity in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, what lies next for European societies? This edited collection brings together sociologists, social movement specialists, political scientists, and other scholars to look specifically at how Portuguese youth have navigated this politically and economically difficult period.

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology History (General)

Hb
Published December 2014
Protests, Land Rights, and Riots

Postcolonial Struggles in Australia in the 1980s

Morris, B.

The 1970s saw the Aboriginal people of Australia struggle for recognition of their postcolonial rights. Rural communities, where large Aboriginal populations lived, were provoked as a consequence of social fragmentation, unparalleled unemployment, and other major economic and political changes. The ensuing riots, protests, and law-and-order campaigns in New South Wales captured the tense relations that existed between indigenous people, the police, and the criminal justice system.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published April 2000
The Psychosocial Wellness of Refugees

Issues in Qualitative and Quantitative Research

Ahearn, F. (ed)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology

Hb
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Published July 2015
Public Anthropology in a Borderless World

Beck, S. & Maida, C. A. (eds)

Today anthropologists carry out the discipline’s original purpose of understanding and advocating for cultural integrity of societies across the globe. Public anthropology, likewise, is an important genre of anthropology with the goal of actively engaging with people to make changes to improve the modern human condition.

Subject: Applied Anthropology

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Public Engagement and Education

Developing and Fostering Stewardship for an Archaeological Future

Erdman, K. M. (ed)

Public Engagement and Education shares effective approaches for engaging and educating learners of all ages about archaeology and how one can encourage them to become stewards of the past. Offered are applied examples that are not bound to specific geographies or cultures, but rather, are approaches that can be implemented almost anywhere.

Subjects: Archaeology Educational Studies

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Published April 2001
Public Law in Germany, 1800-1914

Stolleis, M.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

Hb
eBook available Published November 2022
Punching Back

Gender, Religion and Belonging in Women-Only Kickboxing

Rana, J.

In the Netherlands, girls and young women are increasingly active in women-only kickboxing. The general assumption, in the Netherlands and in western Europe more broadly, is that women’s sport is a form of secular, feminist empowerment. Muslim women’s participation would then exemplify the incongruence of Islam with the modern, secular nation-state. Punching Back provides a detailed ethnographic study that contests this view.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Punks and Skins United

Identity, Class and the Economics of an Eastern German Subculture

Venstel, A.

Germany has one of the most lively and well-developed punk scenes in the world. However, punk in this country is not just a style-based music community. This book provides an anthropological examination of how punk reflects the larger changes and contradictions in post-reunification Germany.

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

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eBook available Published July 2023
Pure Food

Theoretical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Collinson, P. & Macbeth, H. (eds)

Food purity and nutrition has inter-disciplinary roots in anthropological, ethnological, evolutionary, psychological and applied perspectives. Pure Food presents the theoretical and cross-cultural aspects of adopting food purity. It demonstrates variations and similarities in diverse cultural beliefs, behaviours and practices in different societies that define the pure food mindset.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published November 2021
The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work

Craftwork in Twenty-First Century England

Marchand, T. H. J.

Against the backdrop of an alienating, technologizing and ever-accelerating world of material production, this book tells an intimate story: one about a community of woodworkers training at an historic institution in London’s East End during the present ‘renaissance of craftsmanship’.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Hb
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eBook available Published December 2008
Pursuits of Happiness

Well-Being in Anthropological Perspective

Mathews, G. & Izquierdo, C. (eds)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

Hb
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eBook available Published August 2022
Puzzling Stories

The Aesthetic Appeal of Cognitive Challenge in Film, Television and Literature

Willemsen, S. & Kiss, M. (eds)

Many films and novels defy our ability to make sense of the plot. Puzzling Stories offers the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and trans-medial approach to the question of cognitive challenge in narrative art, bringing together psychological, philosophical, formal-historical, and empirical perspectives from leading scholars across these fields.

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

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eBook available Published February 2025
Queer and Trans Life

Anthropological Futures

Posocco, S., Gonzalez-Polledo, E.J., Aaberg, L., & Altay, T. (eds)

Against a background marked by endless ordinary crises, widespread precarity, and disrupting critical events, Queer and Trans Life charts queer investments in futurity. It presents emerging queer and trans anthropological research in and about European contexts.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
February 2027
Queer in Azerbaijan

Violence, Survival and the Politics of Resistance

Zamanov, R.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
Published March 1996
The Quest for Economic Empire

Berghahn, V. R. (ed)

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

Hb
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Published November 1996
A Question of Priorities

Democratic Reform and Economic Recovery in Postwar Germany

Boehling, R.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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Published January 2005
Quo Vadis?

Guarnieri, C. & Newell, J. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
eBook available Published May 2024
Quotas

The “Jewish Question” and Higher Education in Central Europe, 1880-1945

Miller, M. L. & Szapor, J. (eds)

Quotas focuses on the ideologies and practices of quota regimes in Central and Eastern Europe from the late nineteenth century throughout the 20th century, covering their origins development, and impact particularly on limiting access to higher education.

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

Hb
Published January 1993
Rabbinic - Lay Relations in Jewish Law

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

Subject: Jewish Studies

Pb
eBook available Published March 2019
Raccomandazione

Clientelism and Connections in Italy

Zinn, D. L.

Based on ethnographic research in southern Italy, this book examines the concept of raccomandazione, the omnipresent social practice of using connections to get things done. Viewing the practice from both emic and etic perspectives, it builds on and extends past scholarship to consider the nature of patronage in a contemporary society and its relationship to corruption.

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

Hb
Published June 2004
Race in France

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Difference

Chapman, H. & Frader, L.L. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Hb
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eBook available Published May 2013
Race, Color, Identity

Rethinking Discourses about 'Jews' in the Twenty-First Century

Sicher, E. (ed)

Subjects: Jewish Studies Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Hb
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Published December 2007
Race, Ethnicity, and Nation

Perspectives from Kinship and Genetics

Wade, P. (ed)

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Hb
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Published December 2005
Racism in Metropolitan Areas

Pinxten, R. & Preckler, E. (eds)

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

Hb
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eBook available Published April 2011
Racism in the Modern World

Historical Perspectives on Cultural Transfer and Adaptation

Berg, M. & Wendt, S. (eds)

Subject: History (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published 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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Published November 2003
Radical Ethnic Movements in Contemporary Europe

Daftary, F. & Troebst, S. (eds)

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

Hb
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Published September 2009
The Radical Right in Switzerland

Continuity and Change, 1945-2000

Skenderovic, D.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
eBook available Published October 2024
Rag Fair

A Different Migration History of London’s East End, 1780-1850

Münch, O.

Drawing on approaches across migration history, economic history, economic anthropology, and the sociology of movements, Rag Fair uncovers the social mechanisms behind the world-famous market’s role as an intercultural contact zone where Jewish and Irish migrants mingled, entered client relationships, and forged political alliances.

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

Hb
eBook available Published September 2010
Raising Citizens in the 'Century of the Child'

The United States and German Central Europe in Comparative Perspective

Schumann, D. (ed)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Educational Studies

Hb
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eBook available Published March 2019
Rampart Nations

Bulwark Myths of East European Multiconfessional Societies in the Age of Nationalism

Berezhnaya, L. & Hein-Kircher, H. (eds)

Rampart Nations delves deeper into the bulwark (antemurale) myth and uncovers the stories that have helped to spread it within Eastern Europe. Through perspectives that range from Eastern European art history to theology, with a concentration on the nexus of political, social, and religious history, this volume explores historical narratives that have shaped contemporary Eastern European national identities.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published April 2016
Rationed Life

Science, Everyday Life, and Working-Class Politics in the Bohemian Lands, 1914–1918

Kučera, R.

Hundreds of thousands of workers toiled in Bohemian factories over the course of World War I, and their lives were inescapably shaped by the conflict. This study reconstructs their collective experience through explorations of food, labor, gender, and protest to assemble a fascinating case study in twentieth century social history.

Subjects: History: World War I Sociology

Hb
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Forthcoming January 2027
Raven Country

Essays on Indigenous Kamchatka

King, A., Koester, D. & Bobaljik, J. (Eds.)

Subject: Anthropology (General)
Published August 2002
Re-examining Progressive Halakhah

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

Subject: Jewish Studies

Pb
eBook available Published September 2016
Re-Imagining DEFA

East German Cinema in its National and Transnational Contexts

Allan, S. & Heiduschke, S. (eds)

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, interest in East German cinema has exploded, inspiring innumerable festivals, books, and exhibits. In this stimulating collection, leading international experts assess this vibrant landscape and plot an ambitious course for future research that considers other cinematic traditions, genre works, and DEFA’s post-unification “afterlife.”

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

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eBook available Published February 2015
Re-orienting Cuisine

East Asian Foodways in the Twenty-First Century

Kim, K. O. (ed)

Foods are changed by those who produce and supply them, and also by those who consume them. The contributors of this volume have expanded the discussion of food to include its social and cultural meanings and functions, thereby using it as a way to explain a culture and its changes.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition

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Published February 2004
Re-presenting the Shoah for the 21st Century

Lentin, R. (ed)

Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies Memory Studies

Hb
eBook available Published August 2025
Re-Turns, Entanglements and Collaborations

Anthropological Experimentations

Tošić, J., Strasser, S., & Lems, A. (eds)

This collection marks the EASA Book Series’ 50th volume to celebrate collaborative forms of knowledge production in anthropology. It is organized around eight key themes and concepts that have marked anthropological debates in Europe over the past 20 years.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

Hb
Published June 2008
(Re)constructing Armenia in Lebanon and Syria

Ethno-Cultural Diversity and the State in the Aftermath of a Refugee Crisis

Migliorino, N.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
Published December 2005
Reading Germany

Literature and Consumer Culture in Germany before 1933

Reuveni, G.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

Hb
Forthcoming September 2026
Reading Hitler’s Victims

Refugee Memoirs of Nazi Persecution for British Readers during Appeasement and War

Pilsworth, E.

The first study on the translation, publication and marketing of literary memoirs, by both Jewish and non-Jewish victims of Nazi persecution, for British readers during the years of Nazi rule. It reveals how German and Austrian Christians, rather than Jewish victims, came to represent ‘what Britain was fighting for’.

Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies History: World War II
eBook available Published November 2025
Reading War, Making Memory

Remembering the Bosnian War across Europe

Sindbæk Andersen, T., Ortner, J., & Borčak, F. W.

A clarifying analysis of how authors from Bosnia-Herzegovina translate and transmit the memory of the Bosnian War into their fiction, Reading War, Making Memory spotlights a vital new framework for understanding the impact of conflict upon diasporic literature from the region of the former Yugoslavia: “mnemonic migration.”

Subjects: Memory Studies Literary Studies Heritage Studies

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eBook available Published August 2012
Reassessing the Nuremberg Military Tribunals

Transitional Justice, Trial Narratives, and Historiography

Priemel, K. C. & Stiller, A. (eds)

Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History

Hb
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Forthcoming November 2026
Rebel Valley

Territorio, Infrastructure and Resistance in Alpine Italy

Laszczkowski, M.

Focusing on the No TAV movement in Italy’s Valsusa, this book examines long-term resistance to infrastructure development. Drawing on anthropology, political theory, and geography, it situates territorial struggles across Europe and argues for territorio as a basis for alternative political futures.

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology
Published December 2002
Rebellious Families

Household Strategies and Collective Action in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Kok, J. (ed)

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

Hb
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Published August 2008
Rebirth of a Culture

Jewish Identity and Jewish Writing in Germany and Austria today

Herzog, H. H., Herzog, T. & Lapp, B. (eds)

Subjects: Jewish Studies Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

Hb
eBook available Published August 2004
Rebordering the Mediterranean

Boundaries and Citizenship in Southern Europe

Suárez-Navaz, L.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Refugee and Migration Studies

Hb
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eBook available Published September 2000
Recalling the Belgian Congo

Conversations and Introspection

Dembour, M.-B.

Subjects: Colonial History Anthropology (General) Sociology

Hb
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Published November 2003
Recasting West German Elites

Higher Civil Servants, Business Leaders, and Physicians in Hesse between Nazism and Democracy, 1945-1955

Hayse, M.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
eBook available Published April 2015
Reclaiming the Forest

The Ewenki Reindeer Herders of Aoluguya

Kolås, Å. & Xie, Y. (eds)

The reindeer herders of Aoluguya, China, are a group of former hunters who today see themselves as “keepers of reindeer.” To some, their future seems troubled, but this volume’s literary and academic contributions instead focus on the present, as the Ewenki attempt to reclaim their forest lifestyle and develop new forest livelihoods.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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eBook available Published December 2020
Recognizing the Past in the Present

New Studies on Medicine before, during, and after the Holocaust

Hildebrandt, S., Offer, M., & Grodin, M. A. (eds)

This interdisciplinary collection assembles a chain of documentation on the critical role of medicine in realizing the policies of Hitler’s regime. It traces the historical legacies of National Socialist medicine from their roots in the racial theories of the 1920s, through their manifestation in the Nazi period, and on to legacies and continuities from the postwar years to the present.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History Jewish Studies

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Published December 2001
Recollections of France

Memories, Identities and Heritage in Contemporary France

Blowen, S., Demossier, M. & Picard, J. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Heritage Studies Memory Studies

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eBook available Published June 2018
Reconceiving Muslim Men

Love and Marriage, Family and Care in Precarious Times

Inhorn, M. C. & Naguib, N. (eds)

Through anthropological accounts of Muslim men’s everyday lives in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and diasporic settings, Reconceiving Muslim Men explores the creative ways in which Muslim men care for and nurture their families and communities. By focusing on reproduction, love, and care, this volume showcases Muslim men’s humanity.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

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Published August 2009
Reconceiving the Second Sex

Men, Masculinity, and Reproduction

Inhorn, M. C., Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, T., Goldberg, H. & Cour Mosegaard, M. la (eds)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Reconciliation Road

Willy Brandt, Ostpolitik and the Quest for European Peace

Schoenborn, B.

Based on extensive research in Brandt’s personal archives, additional studies in international archives, and interviews with contemporary witnesses, this book traces Brandt’s nearly lifelong efforts towards the full reintegration of a united Germany into the community of European countries.

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

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Published December 1998
Reconstructing Education

East German Schools after Unification

Pritchard, R. M. O.

Subjects: Educational Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published July 2024
Reconstructing Homes

Affective Materiality and Atmospheres of Belonging

Koskinen-Koivisto, E., Korjonen-Kuusipuro, K., Čeginskas, V. L. A., Kajander, A., & De Nardi, H. (eds)

Reconstructing Homes takes on a multidisciplinary approach of sensory ethnography, visual methods, and autoethnography methodologies to explore affective engagements with materiality in the context of home and the idea of belonging.

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

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eBook available Published October 2013
Reconstructing Obesity

The Meaning of Measures and the Measure of Meanings

McCullough, M. & Hardin, J. (eds)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Food & Nutrition

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Published November 2011
Reconstructing the House of Culture

Community, Self, and the Makings of Culture in Russia and Beyond

Donahoe, B. & Habeck, J. O. (eds)

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

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eBook available Published February 2026
Reconstruction of the Pakhtun Code of Life in a Changing Pakistan

Khan, A.

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

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Published October 2015
Recovered Territory

A German-Polish Conflict over Land and Culture, 1919-1989

Polak-Springer, P.

From 1919 to 1989, the German-Polish borderland, one of Central Europe’s important industrial regions, was at the center of a conflict between Germany and Poland. In their interaction with — and mutual influence on — one another, both nations developed a transnational culture, giving the borderland a “Polish” / “German” face.

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

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Red America

Greek Communists in the United States, 1920-1950

Karpozilos, K.

Socialism, Communism, and Anarchism were integral components of 19th and 20th century immigrant life. Red America explores the relationship between the immigrant experience in the United States and political radicalism, especially as it relates to the lesser explored Greek American experience in the 20th century.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Forthcoming November 2026
Red Ghosts

Anticommunism in Argentina from 1900 to Milei

Bohoslavsky, E. & Franco, M.

A historical account of Argentine anticommunism from 1900 to the present. From Peronism to the last military dictatorship, this is an in-depth analysis of Argentina’s most pivotal political processes over the past 120 years. It reveals the persistent and often underestimated role of anticommunism in shaping national political culture.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available Published May 2017
Redescribing Relations

Strathernian Conversations on Ethnography, Knowledge and Politics

Lebner, A. (ed)

Marilyn Strathern is among the most creative and celebrated contemporary anthropologists, and her work draws interest from across the humanities and social sciences. With a comprehensive introduction and a newly translated interview, Redescribing Relations brings some of Strathern’s most committed and renowned readers into conversations in her honour.

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

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Reflecting on Reflexivity

The Human Condition as an Ontological Surprise

Evens, T. M. S., Handelman, D. & Roberts, C. (eds)

Reflexivity is fundamental to human social life. This volume analyzes reflexivity on two analytical planes. On one is the role reflexivity plays in human life and the study of it. The other plane is anthropo-philosophical, which maintains that reflexivity definitively distinguishes the being and becoming of the human.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Published April 1999
Refugee Policy in Sudan 1967-1984

Karadawi, A.

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

Hb
Published December 2024
Refugee Protection in Southeast Asia

Between Humanitarianism and Sovereignty

Kneebone, S., Mariñas, R., Missbach, A. & Walden, M. (eds)

With contributions from scholars within and outside the region, this book promotes new thinking on protection of refugees and on resolving tensions between states, actors and institutions involved in humanitarian action in Southeast Asia, particularly Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available Published August 2018
Refugee Resettlement

Power, Politics, and Humanitarian Governance

Garnier, A., Jubilut, L. L., & Sandvik, K. B.

The first of its kind, this volume explores refugee resettlement as a form of humanitarian governance; it offers a detailed understanding of resettlement practices, from the selection of refugees to their long-term integration in resettling states, and highlights the relevance of a lifespan approach to resettlement analysis.

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

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Refugees and the Transformation of Societies

Agency, Policies, Ethics and Politics

Essed, P., Frerks, G. & Schrijvers, J. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies Peace and Conflict Studies

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eBook available Published January 2010
Refugees From Nazi Germany and the Liberal European States

Caestecker, F. & Moore, B. (eds)

Subjects: History: World War II Refugee and Migration Studies

Hb
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Published February 2022
Refugees on the Move

Crisis and Response in Turkey and Europe

Balkan, E. & Kutlu Tonak, Z. (eds)

Refugees on the Move highlights and explores the profound complexities of the current refugee issue by focusing specifically on Syrian refugees in Turkey and other European countries and responses from the host countries involved. The book examines the causes of the movement of refugee populations, and host governments’ attempts to manage and overcome the so-called “refugee crisis”.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Refugees Welcome?

Difference and Diversity in a Changing Germany

Bock, J.-J. & Macdonald, S. (eds)

Combining in-depth anthropological studies with more long-term analyses, this volume examines the responses to and implications of the arrival in 2015 and 2016 of over one million asylum seekers and refugees in Germany – widely seen as the most major and contested social change in the country since reunification.

Subjects: Sociology Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published March 1997
Regime Changes

Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Regulation in Europe from the 1930s to the 1990s

Forsyth, D. & Notermans, T. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Published October 2015
Regimes of Ignorance

Anthropological Perspectives on the Production and Reproduction of Non-Knowledge

Dilley, R. & Kirsch, T. G. (eds)

Non-knowledge should not be simply regarded as the opposite of knowledge, but as complementary to it: each derives its character and meaning from the other and from their interaction. This volume’s ethnographic analyses provide a theoretical frame through which to consider the production and reproduction of ignorance, non-knowledge, and secrecy.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Regimes of Responsibility in Africa

Genealogies, Rationalities and Conflicts

Rubbers, B. & Jedlowski, A. (eds)

How have African moral worlds changed since the 1990s? Regimes of Responsibility in Africa analyses the transformations that discourses and practices of responsibility have undergone in Africa. The work enters into a dialogue with the emerging corpus of studies in the field of ethics, providing to it a set of analytical perspectives that can help further enlarge its theoretical and geographical scope.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

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Published July 2010
Region-building

Vol. I: The Global Proliferation of Regional Integration

Kuehnhardt, L.

Subject: Development Studies

Hb
Published July 2010
Region-building

Vol. II: Regional Integration in the World: Documents

Kuehnhardt, L. (ed.)

Subject: Development Studies

Hb
Published June 2001
Relative Points of View

Linguistic Representations of Culture

Stroinska, M. (ed)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

Hb
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Published October 2004
Religion and Nation

Iranian Local and Transnational Networks in Britain

Spellman, K.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published February 2021
Religion and Pride

Hindus in Search of Recognition in La Réunion

Lang, N.

Through the examination of religious practices and public performance, the author offers a compelling study of how the Hindu community in the French territory of La Réunion assert pride in their religion as a means of gaining recognition as a religious minority.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published January 2015
Religion and Science as Forms of Life

Anthropological Insights into Reason and Unreason

Salazar, C. & Bestard, J. (eds)

The relationships between science and religion are about to enter a new phase in our contemporary world. This volume analyzes the relationships between religion and science as forms of life: ways of engaging human experience that originate in particular social and cultural formations.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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Published October 1999
Religion in English Everyday Life

An Ethnographic Approach

Jenkins, T.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published January 2011
Religion, Politics, and Globalization

Anthropological Approaches

Lindquist, G. & Handelman, D. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published April 2024
Religious Plurality at Princely Courts

Dynasty, Politics, and Confession in Central Europe, ca. 1555-1860

Marschke, B., Riches, D., Schunka, A., & Smart, S. (eds)

Examining previously neglected intersections and transformations in early modern European monarchical legitimization, Religious Plurality at Princely Courts works across multiple lenses of European studies to explore the effects of bi-confessional or multi-confessional intra-Christian settings at princely courts on dynastic, representative/symbolic, diplomatic, artistic, and theological levels.

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published May 2024
Religious Sensibilities in Pursuit of Sexual Well-Being

African Diasporic Communities in the Netherlands

Bakuri, A. Z.

Through detailed ethnographic analysis, this book shows how religious sensibilities inform the health practices, issues of sexuality and well-being of the Ghanian-Dutch and Somali-Dutch communities residing in the Randstad area of the Netherlands.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Published September 2016
Reluctant Intimacies

Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands

Świtek, B.

Based on seventeen months of ethnographic research among Indonesian eldercare workers in Japan, this book is the first ethnography to research Indonesian care workers’ relationships with the cared-for elderly, their Japanese colleagues and their employers.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

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Published April 2009
The Reluctant Revolutionary

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Collision with Prusso-German History

Moses, J. A.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published February 2017
Reluctant Skeptic

Siegfried Kracauer and the Crises of Weimar Culture

Craver, H. T.

Best remembered for investigations of film and other media, journalist and critic Siegfried Kracauer offered a seismographic reading of the Weimar-era confrontation between religion and secular modernity. This discerning study analyzes and contextualizes Kracauer’s early output, showing how he identified the quasi-theological roots of the era’s cultural ferment.

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

Hb
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eBook available Published October 2005
Remaking France

Americanization, Public Diplomacy, and the Marshall Plan

McKenzie, B.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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Published October 2009
Remaking Home

Reconstructing Life, Place and Identity in Rome and Amsterdam

Korac, M.

Subject: Refugee and Migration Studies

Hb
eBook available Published April 2021
Remaking the Human

Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair, Reshaping, and Replacement

Jarrín, A. & Pussetti, C. (eds)

The technological capacity to transform biology - repairing, reshaping and replacing body parts, chemicals and functions – is now a part of our lives. This collection focuses on why people find these practices so seductive, and provides ethnographic insights into people’s motives and aspirations as they embrace or reject enhancement technologies, which are closely entangled with negotiations over gender, class, age, nationality and ethnicity.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

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Published March 2006
Remapping Knowledge

Intercultural Studies for a Global Age

Spariosu, Mihai I.

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Published October 2001
Remembering a Vanished World

A Jewish Childhood in Interwar Poland

Hamerow, T.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies

Hb
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Published November 2003
Remembering and Forgetting Nazism

Education, National Identity, and the Victim Myth in Postwar Austria

Utgaard, P.

Subjects: Educational Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Published February 2004
Remembering Karelia

A Family's Story of Displacement during and after the Finnish Wars

Armstrong, K.

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

Hb
eBook available Published February 2026
Remembering Resistance

A Jewish Memoir from Nazi-Occupied Budapest, 1944-45

Eger, A., Frojimovics, K. & Kovács , É. (Eds.)

Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History History: World War II

Hb
eBook available Published December 2009
Remembering Violence

Anthropological Perspectives on Intergenerational Transmission

Argenti, N. & Schramm, K. (Eds.)

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

Hb
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Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough

Ethnographic Responses

Martínez, F. & Laviolette, P. (eds)

We are all repairers. Exploring some of the ways in which repair practices and perceptions of brokenness vary culturally Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough argues that repair is an attempt to extend the life of things as well as an answer to failures, gaps, wrongdoings and leftovers.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Heritage Studies

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Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants

Returning to the Jewish Past in Spain and Portugal

Kandiyoti, D. & Benmayor, R. (eds)

In 2015, both Portugal and Spain passed laws enabling descendants of Sephardi Jews to obtain citizenship, an historic offer of reconciliation. Drawing from scholarly and first-person essays, Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants analyzes the memory and afterlives of those who were wronged, and how reconciliatory rights impact the lives of those affected.

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

Hb
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Representations of “Japanese Nature”

A Historical Overview

Ohnuki-Tierney, E.

“Nature” as a concept and word is extremely elusive, yet it is commonly taken for granted that “the pristine nature” is “out there.” This book explores the factors that have naturalized the idea of nature as pristine into our psyche, and as something that has a spatial, visual, and temporal dimension for “seasons”.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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Representing 21st-Century Migration in Europe

Performing Borders, Identities and Texts

González Ortega, N. & Martínez García, A. B. (eds)

The 21st century has witnessed some of the largest human migrations in history. Europe in particular has seen a major influx of refugees, redefining notions of borders and national identity. This interdisciplinary volume offers innovative interpretations of contemporary migration to Europe, engaging with the ongoing debate on forced mobility.

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

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Repressed, Remitted, Rejected

German Reparations Debts to Poland and Greece

Roth, K. H. & Rübner, H.

Greece and Poland have recently reignited debates on minimally settled reparations demands resulting from suffering under the terror of Nazi occupation during the Second World War. Using an international law perspective, this expansive volume reconstructs the German occupation of Poland and Greece and confronts German aversions to reparations debt.

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

Hb
eBook available Published February 2009
Reproducing Class

Education, Neoliberalism, and the Rise of the New Middle Class in Istanbul

Rutz, H. J. & Balkan, E. M.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

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Published October 2004
Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State

Cultural Transformations in Childbearing

Unnithan-Kumar, M. (ed)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
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eBook available Published October 2007
Reproductive Disruptions

Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium

Inhorn, M. C. (ed)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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eBook available Published May 2016
Rescuing the Vulnerable

Poverty, Welfare and Social Ties in Modern Europe

Althammer, B., Raphael, L., & Stazic-Wendt, T. (eds)

Covering numerous European nations, this volume explores social ties, poverty, and how their relationship informed the strategies of governments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through studies of neglected children, the homeless, and the unemployed, it provides a comparative perspective on the perceptions, representations, and experiences of poverty and welfare.

Subjects: History (General) Sociology

Hb
Published February 2004
Researching Food Habits

Methods and Problems

Macbeth, H. & MacClancy, J. (eds)

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Theory and Methodology

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Published February 2023
Resettled Iraqi Refugees in the United States

War, Refuge, Belonging, Participation, and Protest

Keyel, J.

The American war against Iraq has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and displaced millions of people. Between 2003 and 2017, more than 172,000 Iraqis resettled in the United States. This book explores the experiences of fifteen of them and presents insights into the core experience of life as a refugee from war.

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

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eBook available Published April 2020
Resettlers and Survivors

Bukovina and the Politics of Belonging in West Germany and Israel, 1945–1989

Fisher, G.

Resettlers and Survivors focuses on two groups of Bukovinians—ethnic Germans and German-speaking Jews—who navigated dramatically changed political and social circumstances in 1945. This study gives a nuanced account of how they dealt with the difficult legacies of World War II, while exploring Bukovina’s significance for them as both a geographical location and a “place of memory.”

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

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Published April 2007
Resistance and the State

Nepalese Experiences

Gellner, D.

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
eBook available Published July 2004
Resistance in an Amazonian Community

Huaorani Organizing against the Global Economy

Ziegler-Otero, L.

Subjects: Development Studies Sociology

Hb
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eBook available Published June 2020
Resisting Persecution

Jews and Their Petitions during the Holocaust

Pegelow Kaplan, T. & Gruner, W. (eds)

This volume offers the first extensive analysis of entreaties from persecuted Jews in the Nazi era, demonstrating their largely unappreciated value as a historical source and as an attempt to reclaim agency in increasingly desperate political circumstances.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Jewish Studies Genocide History

Hb
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Published November 2023
Resisting Radicalisation?

Understanding Young People's Journeys through Radicalising Milieus

Pilkington, H. (ed)

Offering a critical perspective on the concept of radicalisation, this volume views it from the perspective of social actors who engage in radicalising milieus but have not crossed the threshold into violent extremism. The volume brings together contributions based on extensive empirical research conducted as part of a cross-European study of young people's engagement in ‘extreme right’ and ‘Islamist’ milieus.

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Resituating Crisis

Silencing and Voicing Crisis in Everyday Life

Andersen, D. J. & Aubry, L. (eds)

Crisis is not just a situation twisting normality but can become constitutive of normality itself. In exploring transformative and constructive elements to being in crisis, it resituates crisis in everyday life to foster critical and nuanced examination of discourses on and experiences of it.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Mobility Studies

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eBook available Published September 2025
The Resonance of Joseph Conrad in Contemporary Culture

Adamowicz-Pośpiech, A. (ed)

Innovatively bringing together scholars of various nationalities and communities, The Resonance of Joseph Conrad in Contemporary Culture seeks to provide a holistic assessment of the afterlife of Conrad’s work, highlighting how his approach to questions of moral ambiguity and colonialism influence the cultural output of a modern, globalized world.

Subject: Literary Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published May 2015
The Respectable Career of Fritz K.

The Making and Remaking of a Provincial Nazi Leader

Berghoff, H. & Rauh, C.

Entrepreneur and Nazi functionary Fritz Kiehn lived through almost 100 years of German history, from the Bismarck era to the late Bonn Republic. Kiehn's biography provides a key to understanding the political upheavals of the 20th century, especially the workings of the corrupt Nazi system as well as the "coming to terms" with National Socialism in the Federal Republic.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published December 2008
Responsible History

Baets, A. De

Subject: History (General)

Hb
Published June 2024
Rest in Plastic

Death, Time and Synthetic Materials in a Ghanaian Ewe Community

Bredenbröker, I.

Rest in Plastic gives an insight into local entanglements of death, synthetic materials and power in Ewe community. It shows how different materials and things that come to shape power relations, exist in a delicate balance between state and local governance, kin and outsiders, death and life, the invisible and the visible, movement and containment.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Anthropology of Religion

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Published April 2007
Restitution and Memory

Material Restoration in Europe

Diner, D. & Wunberg, G. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies

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eBook available Published September 2025
Rethinking a Radical Reputation

An Athens Neighbourhood between Media Hype and Social Experience

Kenti-Kranidioti, M.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Urban Studies

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eBook available Published March 2019
Rethinking and Unthinking Development

Perspectives on Inequality and Poverty in South Africa and Zimbabwe

Mpofu, B. & Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S. J. (eds)

Through theoretical contributions and case studies focusing on South Africa and Zimbabwe, this volume attempts to rethink (and unthink) development discourses and practices in southern Africa. The authors explore the ways in which legacies of colonialism impact development, as well as other factors such as regional politics, corruption, and socio-economic and cultural barriers.

Subjects: Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published June 2016
Rethinking Antifascism

History, Memory and Politics, 1922 to the Present

García, H., Yusta, M., Tabet, X., & Climaco, C. (eds)

Rethinking Antifascism surveys recent research on the anti-fascist movement between 1922 and 1945. It first challenges the revisionist view of anti-fascism as a tool of Stalinism, then discusses the post-War memories and political uses of anti-fascism. These essays historicize anti-fascism as a transnational movement that shaped contemporary democracies.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies

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eBook available Published June 2021
Rethinking Atlantic Empire

Christopher Schmidt-Nowara’s Histories of Nineteenth-Century Spain and the Antilles

Eastman, S. & Jacobsen, S. (eds)

In recent years, the historiography of nineteenth-century Spain has been invigorated by interdisciplinary engagement with scholars working on topics such as empire, slavery, and race, exemplified by the work of Christopher Schmidt-Nowara. Rethinking Atlantic Empire places Schmidt-Nowara’s work within the context of the broader field, reflecting on his contributions and charting potential new directions in research.

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

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Rethinking Holocaust Justice

Essays across Disciplines

Goda, N. J. W. (ed)

In the past two decades, the subject of post-Holocaust justice has experienced a surge of interest among historians and legal scholars. Rethinking Holocaust Justice offers a multifaceted approach to post-Holocaust justice, bringing together leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to explore the complexity of these issues.

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present Jewish Studies

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Rethinking Internal Displacement

Geo-political Games, Fragile States and the Relief Industry

Laker, F.

To tackle the vast numbers of internally displaced people, a UN regime has emerged that seeks to replicate the long-established regime of refugee protection by applying international law and humanitarian assistance to citizens within their own borders. This book looks at the origins, structure and impact of this new UN regime and whether it is fit for purpose.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies

Hb
Published December 2002
Rethinking International Organizations

Pathology and Promise

Dijkzeul, D. & Beigbeder, Y. (ed)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published November 2020
Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema

Hales, B. & Weinstein, V. (eds)

The film industry in the Weimar Republic was a major site for German-Jewish experience that provided a sphere for Jewish "outsiders" to shape mainstream culture. The essays in Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema offer new historical, theoretical, and methodological approaches to the significant involvement of Jewish people in Weimar cinema.

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

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Published July 2007
Rethinking Migration

New Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

Portes, A. & DeWind, J. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Theory and Methodology Development Studies Sociology

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eBook available Published July 2022
Rethinking Social Movements after '68

Selves and Solidarities in West Germany and Beyond

Davis, B., Brühöfener, F., & Milder, S. (eds)

With a focus on West Germany and Europe, Social Movements after ’68 bridges the 1970s and 1980s as a vital period of European political development and social change. Looking past the known ruptures and changes in the history of European social movements, this volume brings together interconnected social movements including environmental, women’s and gay rights movements.

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

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Rethinking the Age of Emancipation

Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Gender, Family, and Religion in Italy and Germany, 1800–1918

Baumeister, M., Lenhard, P., & Nattermann, R. (eds)

Rethinking the Age of Emancipation aims at a critical reassessment of the development of the two “late” nations, Italy and Germany, from a new and transnational perspective. Essays by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars examine the discursive relationships among nationalism, war, and emancipation as well as the ambiguous roles of historical protagonists with competing loyalties.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Jewish Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

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Rethinking the Cinematic Cold War

The Struggle for Hearts and Minds Goes Global

Pisu, S., Pitassio, F., & Zinni, M. (eds)

An exacting reassessment of the relationship between culture and ideology within the Cold War period, Rethinking the Cinematic Cold War highlights the role that politics played in informing policies as well as cultural products and appetites, across geopolitical boundaries.

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

Hb
eBook available Published March 2026
Rethinking the Historiography of the Soviet Bloc

The Totalitarianism Paradigm and Institutional Practices under Communism

Ungureanu, M. (Ed.)

Addressing polarized narratives of authoritarian control and societal resistance, this volume reconsiders the totalitarianism paradigm in the study of the Soviet Bloc. Historians, philosophers, and literary scholars explore both its enduring explanatory power and its conceptual limits, drawing on insights from social epistemology and the history of social sciences.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
eBook available Published December 2009
Rethinking the Informal City

Critical Perspectives from Latin America

Hernández, F., Kellett, P. and Allen, L.K. (Eds.)

Subject: Urban Studies

Hb
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Published October 2001
Rethinking Vienna 1900

Beller, S. (ed)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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Published September 2005
The Retreat of the Social

The Rise and Rise of Reductionism

Kapferer, B. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published January 2003
The Return of Berlusconi

Bellucci, P. & Bull, M. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Published March 2009
The Return of Jazz

Joachim-Ernst Berendt and West German Cultural Change

Wright Hurley, A.

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

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Published 1999
The Return of Politics

Hine, D. & Vassallo, S. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Pb
Published August 2022
The Return of Polyandry

Kinship and Marriage in Central Tibet

Fjeld, H. E.

This book describes the surprising increase in polyandry in Panam valley during the 1980s. It explores married lives in polyandrous houses and develops a theory of a flexible kinship of potentiality through the lens of a farming village in Tibet Autonomous Region.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

Paperback available
eBook available Published December 2017
Returning Life

Language, Life Force and History in Kilimanjaro

Myhre, K. C.

Returning Life explores how language and action affect life force. Diverse sources demonstrate how this phenomenon extends to coffee cash-cropping, Catholic Christianity, and colonial and post-colonial rule, featuring cognate languages throughout the area.

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

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published October 2020
Revealing the Invisible Mine

Social Complexities of an Undeveloped Mining Project

Skrzypek, E. E.

The Frieda River area in Papua New Guinea is home to one of the biggest undeveloped gold and copper deposits in the Pacific. This book offers an account of local stakeholder strategies as they unfolded at Frieda over forty years and provides a strong and novel commentary on sustainability and social accountability of the mining industry operating in indigenous territories.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
eBook available Published December 2025
A Revelatory Pandemic

Crisis, Agency, and COVID in Latin America

Barrios, R. & García-Acosta, V. (eds)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

Hb
Published May 2000
A Reversal of Fortunes?

Women, Work, and Change in East Germany

Alsop, R.

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

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published July 2024
Reversible America

Cowboys, Clowns, and Bullfighters

Saumade, F. & Maudet, J.-B.

Reversible America negotiates the spectacle of Rodeo, cattle ranching, and bullfighting as it has manifested in California through cross border convergences of Iberian bullfighting, Native American hunting methods, and ethics in human and non-human relationships.

Subjects: Performance Studies History: 18th/19th Century Anthropology (General)

Hb
eBook available Published April 2020
Revisiting Austria

Tourism, Space, and National Identity, 1945 to the Present

Graml, G.

Revisiting Austria draws on a rich selection of films, marketing materials, literature, and first-person accounts to explore the ways in which tourism has shaped both international and domestic perceptions of Austrian identity even as it has failed to confront the nation’s often violent and troubled history.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published June 2018
The Revolt of the Provinces

Anti-Gypsyism and Right-Wing Politics in Hungary

Szombati, K.

The first in-depth ethnographic monograph on the New Right in Central and Eastern Europe, The Revolt of the Provinces explores the making of right-wing hegemony in Hungary over the last decade, focusing on interaction between social antagonisms emerging on the local level and struggles waged within the political public sphere.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
Published April 2005
Revolution and Counterrevolution

Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal Factory

Murphy, K.

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

Hb
eBook available Published April 2016
The Revolution before the Revolution

Late Authoritarianism and Student Protest in Portugal

Accornero, G.

Portugal’s 1974 “Carnation Revolution” was in many ways the culmination of a much longer history of resistance originating in universities and other sectors of society. Combining careful research with insights from social movement theory, this book traces these convulsions in Portuguese society over the course of the “long 1960s.”

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
Published August 2014
A Revolution of Perception?

Consequences and Echoes of 1968

Gilcher-Holtey, I. (ed)

Exploring the effects the protest movement of 1968 had on the political, social, and symbolic order of the societies they called into question, this volume focuses on the consequences and echoes of 1968 from different perspectives, including history, sociology, and linguistics.

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

Hb
Published October 2000
Reynard the Fox

Cultural Metamorphoses and Social Engagement in the Beast Epic from the Middle Ages to the Present

Varty, K. (ed)

Subjects: Literary Studies History (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published February 2021
Rhetoric and Social Relations

Dialectics of Bonding and Contestation

Abbink, J. & LaTosky, S. (eds)

Rhetoric and Social Relations addresses the use and embeddedness of rhetoric in social life and social interaction. It explores the constitutive role of rhetoric in socio-cultural relations, where discursive persuasion is so important, and contains both theoretical chapters as well as fascinating examples of the ambiguities and effects of rhetoric used (un)consciously in social praxis.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Hb
Published May 2011
The Rhetorical Emergence of Culture

Meyer, C. & Girke, F. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published April 2020
Rhetorical Minds

Meditations on the Cognitive Science of Persuasion

Oakley, T.

As a meditation on the nature of human thought and action, this book starts with the proposition that human thinking is inherently and irreducibly social, and that the long rhetorical tradition in the West has been a neglected source for thinking about cognition.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published February 2010
Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite

Schaeper, T. & Schaeper, K.

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

Pb
eBook available Published July 2015
The Rhythm of Eternity

The German Youth Movement and the Experience of the Past, 1900-1933

Adriaansen, R.-J.

The Weimar era in Germany is often characterized as a time of significant change. Such periods of rupture transform the way people envision the past, present, and future. This book traces the conceptions of time and history during the German youth movement of the early 20th century.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published April 2023
The Rich and the Poor in Modern Europe, 1890-2020

A Historian’s Response to Recent Debates among Economists

Kaelble, H.

While it is easy to accept that modern capitalism is the perpetrator of sociality inequality’s growth today, The Rich and the Poor reconsiders the constructs and facts that led to dramatic rises and crashes in the twentieth century European economic history.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
eBook available Published June 2025
The Riddle of Intelligence

It’s Not What You Think

Terrell, J., Anderson, E., Bandama, F., Ghosh, A., & Leenen-Young, M.

There is little agreement today on what it takes to be intelligent. Yet this word is widely believed to be about something real, mostly biological, and important. Looked at closely, it turns out this word belongs more in the realm of traditional folklore than modern science.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published February 2023
The Right to Memory

History, Media, Law, and Ethics

Tirosh, N. & Reading, A. (eds)

The Right to Memory looks beyond everyday memory and commemoration practices, focusing instead on how memory relates to human rights and socio-legal constructs in order to legitimize and protect groups and individuals.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies

Hb
Paperback available
Published April 2005
Rights in Exile

Janus-Faced Humanitarianism

Verdirame, G. & Harrell-Bond, B.

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

Hb
Paperback available
Published March 1999
The Rise and Demise of German Statism

Loyalty and Political Membership

Kvistad, G.

Subject: History (General)

Hb
eBook available Published September 2025
The Rise and Fall of Community Studies

An Introduction to the Anthropology of Europe

Parkin, R.

This book provides a partial retrospective on the field of anthropology of Europe, offering a rich collection of ethnographic summaries from across the continent. It will be of interest to students and academics seeking a survey of this branch of anthropology, whether for private study or university courses.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

Hb
eBook available Published December 2013
The Rise of Market Society in England, 1066-1800

Eisenberg, C.

Subjects: History (General) History: Medieval/Early Modern History: 18th/19th Century

Hb
Paperback available
Published November 1996
The Rise of National Socialism and the Working Classes in Weimar Germany

Fischer, C. (ed)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
eBook available Published January 2021
Risk on the Table

Food Production, Health, and the Environment

Creager, A. N. H. & Gaudilière, J.-P. (eds)

From the proliferation of synthetic additives to the threat posed by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the chapters in Risk on the Table zero in on key historical cases in North America and Europe that illuminate the history of food safety, highlighting the powerful tension that exists between policymakers’ decisions and cultural notions of “pure” food.

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

Hb
Paperback available
Published August 2022
Risky Futures

Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North

Ulturgasheva, O. & Bodenhorn, B. (eds)

Examining the intersections between environmental conditions and geopolitical tensions, this book brings together a unique combination of authors who are local practitioners and international researchers, and considers the situations of environmental calamity and socio-economic risks faced by small populations.

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

Paperback available
Published July 2002
Risky Transactions

Trust, Kinship and Ethnicity

Salter, F. K. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published August 2018
The Rite of Urban Passage

The Spatial Ritualization of Iranian Urban Transformation

Masoudi, R.

Focusing on the spatial dynamics of Muharram processions in the Iranian city, this book offers an alternative approach to understanding the process of urban transformation, and puts forward a spatial genealogy of Muharram rituals that provides a platform for developing a fresh spatial approach to ritual studies.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies Anthropology of Religion

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published September 2022
Ritual

What It Is, How It Works, and Why

Davis-Floyd, R. & Laughlin, C. D.

Designed for both academic and lay audiences, this book identifies the characteristics of ritual and, via multiple examples, details how ritual works on the human body and brain to produce its often profound effects. These include enhancing courage, effecting healing, and generating group cohesion by enacting cultural—or individual—beliefs and values. It also shows what happens when ritual fails.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Anthropology of Religion

Hb
Paperback available
Published January 2005
Ritual in Its Own Right

Exploring the Dynamics of Transformation

Handelman, D. & Lindquist, G. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published March 2015
Ritual Retellings

Luangan Healing Performances through Practice

Herrmans, I.

The book is an ethnography of belian, a lively tradition of shamanistic curing rituals performed by the Luangans of Indonesian Borneo. This volume demonstrates the importance of understanding rituals as emergent within their specific historical and social settings, and highlights the irreducibility of lived reality to epistemological certainty.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion

Hb
Published November 2024
Ritual, Rapture and Rebellion

The Making of Market, Mercy and Meaning Amongst the Gitanos of El Rastro

Brodersen, M. B.

This book is an anthropological account of a group of middle and upper-class Gitanos and their ways of creating a ‘society within society’ based upon distinct cultural, moral and ideological values, notions and practices.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

Paperback available
Published November 2014
Rivers, Memory, And Nation-building

A History of the Volga and Mississippi Rivers

Zeisler-Vralsted, D.

Rivers figure prominently in a nation’s historical memory, and the Volga and Mississippi have special importance in Russian and American cultures. Despite being forced into submission for modern-day hydrological regimes, the Volga and Mississippi Rivers persist in the collective memory and continue to offer solace, recreation, and sustenance. Through their histories we derive a more nuanced view of human interaction with the environment.

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

Hb
eBook available Published January 2003
The Road to War

France and Vietnam 1944-1947

Shipway, M.

Subject: Colonial History

Pb
Published August 1995
Roads to the Palace

Jewish Texts and Teaching

Rosenak, M.

Subjects: Jewish Studies Educational Studies

Hb
Published May 2007
Robbery and Restitution

The Conflict over Jewish Property in Europe

Dean, M., Goschler, C. & Ther, P. (eds)

Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History

Hb
Paperback available
Published April 2005
Rock of Contention

Free French and Americans at War in New Caledonia, 1940-1945

Munholland, K.

Subjects: History: World War II Colonial History

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published August 2018
Roma Activism

Reimagining Power and Knowledge

Beck, S. & Ivasiuc, A. (eds)

Exploring contemporary debates and developments and gathering together contributors from activism, academia, and the worlds of policy and development, this volume argues for taking up reflexivity as practice in in Roma-related research and forms of activism, and advocates a necessary renewal of research sites, methods, and epistemologies.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published February 2020
The Roma and Their Struggle for Identity in Contemporary Europe

Baar, H. van & Kóczé, A. (eds)

Thirty years after the collapse of Communism, and at a time of radically diverse kinds of identity politics, including anti-migrant, anti-Roma, anti-Muslim and anti-establishment movements, this book analyses how Roma identity is expressed in contemporary Europe.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
Paperback available
Forthcoming November 2026
Roman Polanski after The Pianist

The Man and His Films

Jamrozik, Ż. & Mazierska, E.

Roman Polanski after The Pianist examines Polanski’s later films as a distinct and coherent phase in his career. Situating these works within changing industrial, cultural, and political conditions, the book shows how Polanski’s late cinema rethinks genre, sound, work, domestic space and historical memory.

Subject: Film and Television Studies
eBook available Published January 2017
The Romance of Crossing Borders

Studying and Volunteering Abroad

Doerr, N. M. & Davis Taïeb, H. (eds)

What draws people to study abroad or volunteer in far-off communities? This volume explores what draws students to study or volunteer abroad. In doing so, the book sheds light on how affect is managed by educators and mobilized by students and volunteers themselves, and how these structures of feeling related to broader social and economic forces.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism Educational Studies

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published July 2023
Romani Chronicles of COVID-19

Testimonies of Harm and Resilience

Blasco, P. G. y & Fotta, M. (eds)

A ground-breaking volume that gathers the testimonies of NGO workers, street vendors, activists, scholars, health professionals, and creative writers to chronicle the devastating impact of COVID-19 on Romani communities globally.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Medical Anthropology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published August 2006
The Romani Movement

Minority Politics and Ethnic Mobilization in Contemporary Central Europe

Vermeersch, P.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
Published June 2013
Routes Into the Abyss

Coping with Crises in the 1930s

Konrad, H. & Maderthaner, W. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
eBook available Published July 2017
Ruptures in the Everyday

Views of Modern Germany from the Ground

Bergerson, A. S. & Schmieding, L.

Throughout the twentieth century, Germans underwent constant disruptions in their lives, and many struggled to integrate their experiences into coherent narratives. Ruptures in the Everyday brings together twenty-six interdisciplinary researchers in an innovative, collectively authored work of scholarship that investigates Alltag—everyday life—through such fragmentary experiences.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
Published March 2000
Rural Property and Economy in Post-communist Albania

Lemel. H. W. (ed)

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

Hb
Published May 2011
Russia Before The 'Radiant Future'

Essays in Modern History, Culture, and Society

Confino, M.

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
eBook available Published August 2021
The Russian Cold

Histories of Ice, Frost, and Snow

Herzberg, J., Renner, A., & Schierle, I. (eds)

Cold has long been a fixture of Russian identity both within and beyond the nation, even as the ongoing effects of climate change complicate its meaning and cultural salience. The Russian Cold assembles fascinating new contributions from a variety of scholarly traditions, offering new perspectives on how to understand this mainstay of Russian culture and history.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)

Hb
Paperback available
Published July 2001
Russian Culture

Mead, M. & Gorer, G.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published June 2024
Russian Historiography from 1880 to 1905

Pavel N. Miliukov and the Moscow School

Bohn, T. M.

Russian Historiography from 1880 to 1905 develops and intervenes the historic record of Pavel Miliukov (1859-1943), the late leader of the Constitutional Democrats and foreign minister of the Provisional Government, who drove the Moscow School’s paradigm shift from political and legal history to social and economic history.

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

Hb
Published November 2000
Russian Literature and Its Demons

Davidson, P. (ed)

Subject: Literary Studies

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published December 2015
Russian Postmodernism

New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture

Epstein, M., Genis, A. A., & Vladiv-Glover-, S. M.

The end of the Cold War has enabled Russia to take part in the global rise and crystallization of postmodernism. This volume investigates the manifestations of this crucial trend in Russian fiction, poetry, art, and spirituality, demonstrating how Russian postmodernism is its own unique entity.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

Pb
eBook available Published July 2014
Sacral Kingship Between Disenchantment and Re-enchantment

The French and English Monarchies 1587-1688

Asch, R. G.

“This is an excellent book. It is intellectually outstanding in that it sustains an argument in comparative history throughout its whole length. The research is very impressive. The comparison is fruitful and appropriate. The book is capable of changing the field through its argument. It is thoroughly well-grounded and therefore convincing…Conceptually and methodologically this book is tightly organized and clearly the fruit of enormous reflection in these areas. It is a fine example of rigorous comparative methodology applied to a complex and evolving field.” · Peter R. Campbell, Institut d'études culturelles, Guyancourt, nr. Paris

Subject: History: Medieval/Early Modern

Hb
eBook available Published February 2018
Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces

Religious Pluralism in the Post-Soviet Caucasus

Darieva, T., Mühlfried, F., & Tuite, K. (eds)

Though long-associated with violence, the Caucasus is a region rich with spirituality. Based on fresh ethnographies and studies of sacred sites in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia, Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces discusses vanishing and emerging sacred places in the multi-ethnic and multi-religious post-Soviet Caucasus.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
Published January 2006
Sacred Speakers

Language and Culture among the ultra-Orthodox in Israel

Baumel, S.

Subjects: Jewish Studies Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
eBook available Published January 2016
Sacrifice and Rebirth

The Legacy of the Last Habsburg War

Cornwall, M. & Newman, J. P. (eds)

When Austria-Hungary broke up at the end of the First World War, six “successor states” tried to make sense of the last Habsburg war while preparing for life in a new Europe. This book is the first of its kind to analyze how the Great War was interpreted, commemorated, or forgotten across all the ex-Habsburg territories.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published September 2019
A Sad Fiasco

Colonial Concentration Camps in Southern Africa, 1900–1908

Kreienbaum, J.

Comparative studies on concentration camps have tended to neglect the African colonial experience at the turn of the twentieth century. A Sad Fiasco delves deeper into the daily lives led in the colonial concentration camps in southern Africa and the motives behind the mass extinction of thousands of internees.

Subjects: Genocide History Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published February 2012
Saltwater Sociality

A Melanesian Island Ethnography

Schneider, K.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Hb
Published March 2013
Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Beyond

Transnational Media During and After Socialism

Kind-Kovács, F. & Labov, J. (eds)

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

Hb
Paperback available
Published June 2004
Sartre Against Stalinism

Birchall, I. H.

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

Hb
Paperback available
Published December 2005
Sartre Today

A Centenary Celebration

Hoven, A. van den & Leak, A.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
Published December 2004
Sartre, Self-formation and Masculinities

Boulé, J.-P.

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

Hb
Paperback available
Published September 2008
Scandinavian Museums and Cultural Diversity

Goodnow, K. & Akman, H. (eds)

Subject: Museum Studies

Pb
eBook available Published June 2024
The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880

Török, B. Z.

The science of Statistik (statistics) by the Habsburg state in the long 19th century was adapted to the political growth of imperial power. The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880 connects the disciplinary history of German sciences of the state to the integration of territories into the Habsburg state’s evolution.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

Hb
eBook available Published August 2024
Science on Screen and Paper

Media Cultures and Knowledge Production in Cold War Europe

Ivanova, M. & Scholz, J. (eds)

Scientific discovery and discourse were central in the making of Cold War. Spanning various media, Science on Screen and Paper seeks to embrace the medial differences during the Cold War period through intersectional themes and strategies for the representation of science’s central role.

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

Hb
Published December 2004
Science, Magic and Religion

The Ritual Processes of Museum Magic

Bouquet, M. & Porto, N. (eds)

Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published November 2013
Science, Seti, and Mathematics

DeVito, C. L.

Mathematics is as much a part of our humanity as music and art. And it is our mathematics that might be understandable, even familiar, to a distant race and might provide the basis for mutual communication. This book discusses, in a conversational way, the role of mathematics in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The author explores the science behind that search, its history, and the many questions associated with it, including those regarding the nature of language and the philosophical/psychological motivation behind this search.

Subjects: Archaeology Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
Paperback available
Forthcoming November 2026
Scientific Internationalism in Cold War Central and Eastern Europe

The Age of Reciprocity

Surman, J. & Pavlíček, T. (Eds.)

An exploration of international science collaborations during the Cold War, with a focus on cooperative exchanges between Czechoslovakia and Poland in the 1960s and 70s. It provides a nuanced understanding of socialist hierarchies and the knowledge transfers during the era, challenging the perception that socialist scholars acted solely according to rigid, reciprocal plans.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available Published April 2012
The Scope of Anthropology

Maurice Godelier’s Work in Context

Dousset, L. & Tcherkézoff, S. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published September 2018
Screened Encounters

The Leipzig Documentary Film Festival, 1955-1990

Moine, C.

Established in 1955, the Leipzig Film Festival’s location in the GDR deeply implicated it in the cultural and political competition between East and West Germany. Screened Encounters offers a comprehensive study of the festival’s history, as well as its influence on international relations during the Cold War.

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

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published February 2019
Screening Art

Modernist Aesthetics and the Socialist Imaginary in East German Cinema

Allan, S.

Screening Art represents the first full-length study of films about art and artists produced by the state-owned Eastern German film studio DEFA. It investigates the essential role that these “art films” played in the development of new paradigms of socialist art in post-war Europe.

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

Hb
Paperback available
Published November 2013
Screening Nature

Cinema beyond the Human

Pick, A. & Narraway, G. (eds)

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)

Paperback available
eBook available Published January 2009
Screening Nostalgia

Populuxe Props and Technicolor Aesthetics in Contemporary American Film

Sprengler, C.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published May 2011
Screening the East

Heimat, Memory and Nostalgia in German Film since 1989

Hodgin, N.

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

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published December 2020
The Sea Commands

Community and Perception of the Environment in a Portuguese Fishing Village

Mendes, P.

Azenha do Mar is a fishing community on the southwest coast of Portugal. It came into existence around forty years ago, as an outcome of the abandonment of work in the fields and of propitious ecological conditions. This book looks at the migration processes since the founding of the community and how they relate to the social inequalities towards property and labour which prevail today.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Hb
eBook available Published February 2023
A Sea of Transience

Poetics, Politics and Aesthetics along the Black Sea Coast

Khalvashi, T. & Demant Frederiksen, M. (eds)

Transience is found in every meeting, encounter and form of coexistence between people and things that exist and live by, or move across or along, the Black Sea. With particular attention to poetics, politics and aesthetics, this volume focuses on the scales of transient moments and histories, and enables readers to see and sense the many forms of transience that occur in a given landscape, sea or space.

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

Hb
Paperback available
Published May 2002
A Sealed and Secret Kinship

The Culture of Policies and Practices in American Adoption

Modell, J.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Medical Anthropology Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published September 2020
Search After Method

Sensing, Moving, and Imagining in Anthropological Fieldwork

Laplante, J., Gandsman, A., & Scobie, W. (eds)

Reigniting a tradition of learning by experience, Search After Method is a plea for more lively forms of anthropology. The chapters relate the contributor’s first experiences of working in the field and use their experiences to link their work to the discipline of Anthropology, along with other broader fieldwork questions.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Hb
Paperback available
Published August 1997
The Search for Normality

National Identity and Historical Consciousness in Germany Since 1800

Berger, S.

Subject: History (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published May 2018
Searching for a Better Life

Growing Up in the Slums of Bangkok

Mahony, S.

This book offers an ethnographic account of young people growing up in the slums of Bangkok, exploring their struggles to get by in conditions of severe structural constraint and the outcomes and side effects of their endeavours; in doing so, it offers an antidote to neoliberal assumptions about personal responsibility.

Subject: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published November 2010
Searching for a Cultural Diplomacy

Gienow-Hecht, J. C. E. & Donfried, M. C. (eds)

Subject: History (General)

Hb
Paperback available
Published August 2026
Searching for the Dao of Medicine

Landscapes of Thoughtful Practice in Late Imperial China

Scheid, V.

Exploring late imperial China, this book examines how medical virtuosity was cultivated within vibrant intellectual networks linking physicians and scholars. It shows how medicine intersected with poetry, meditation and empirical inquiry, reshaping both clinical practice and broader social and philosophical thought.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Cultural Studies (General)
Published January 2004
The Second Berlusconi Government

Blondel, J. (ed)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Published December 2015
The Second Generation

Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians
With a Biobibliographic Guide

Daum, A. W., Lehmann, H., & Sheehan, J. J. (eds)

Of the thousands of young people who fled Nazi Germany before World War II, a remarkable number became trained historians. By placing autobiographical testimonies alongside historical and professional analysis, this richly varied collection comprises the first sustained effort to illuminate the role these men and women played in modern historiography.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
Published June 2001
Secret Spaces, Forbidden Places

Rethinking Culture

Lloyd, F. & O'Brien, C. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

Hb
Paperback available
Published November 2010
Security and Development

McNeish, J.-A. & Sande Lie, J. H. (eds)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published December 2017
Seekers and Things

Spiritual Movements and Aesthetic Difference in Kinshasa

Lambertz, P.

Focusing on the intricate presence of a new Japanese religion (Sekai Kyûseikyô) in the densely populated and primarily Christian environment of Kinshasa (DR Congo), this ethnographic study offers a practitioner-orientated perspective to create a localised picture of religious globalization.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Refugee and Migration Studies

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eBook available Published March 2022
Self in the World

Connecting Life's Extremes

Hart, K.

The eminent anthropologist Keith Hart reflects on a life of learning, sharing and remembering to offer readers the means of connecting life’s extremes – individual and society, local and global, personal and impersonal dimensions of existence and explores what it is that makes us fully human.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Selfhood and Recognition

Melanesian and Western Accounts of Relationality

Galuschek, A. C.

The disciplines of philosophy and cultural anthropology have one thing in common: human behavior. Yet surprisingly, dialogue between the two fields has remained largely silent until now. Selfhood and Recognition combines philosophical and cultural anthropological accounts of the perception of individual action, exploring the processes through which a person recognizes the self and the other.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Selfishness and Selflessness

New Approaches to Understanding Morality

Layne, L. L. (ed)

We are said to be suffering a narcissism epidemic when the need for collective action seems more pressing than ever. Selfishness and selflessness address the ‘proper’ and ‘improper’ relationship between one’s self and others. The work they do during periods of social instability and cultural change is probed in this original, interdisciplinary collection.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

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Published August 2007
Selling the Economic Miracle

Economic Reconstruction and Politics in West Germany, 1949-1957

Spicka, M. E.

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

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Sense and Essence

Heritage and the Cultural Production of the Real

Meyer, B. & van de Port, M. (eds)

Contrary to popular perceptions, cultural heritage is not given, but constantly in the making, subject to dynamic processes of (re)inventing culture within particular social formations and via particular forms of mediation. Through the heuristic concepts of the "politics of authentication" and "aesthetics of persuasion," this volume explores the centrality of this tension to heritage formation worldwide.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Museum Studies

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Sensitive Pasts

Questioning Heritage in Education

Boxtel, C. van, Grever, M., & Klein, S. (eds)

Heritage studies necessarily must deal with strong emotions and political commitments. In this, it poses particular challenges for teachers and their students. Guided by a shared focus on these “sensitive pasts,” the contributors to this volume draw on new theoretical and empirical research to provide valuable insights into heritage pedagogy.

Subjects: History (General) Educational Studies Heritage Studies

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Sensitive Subjects

The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary German and Austrian Cinema

Mukhida, L.

Sensitive Subjects examines how contemporary German-language cinema may be read as seeking to produce greater political sensitivity in audiences through its form—that is, by employing medium-specific devices such as lighting, sound, editing and mise-en-scène in ways that prompt a more critical stance towards the societies it depicts.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies

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Published November 2022
Sentient Ecologies

Xenophobic Imaginaries of Landscape

Coțofană, A. & Kuran, H. (eds)

Employing methodological perspectives from the fields of political geography, environmental studies, anthropology, and their cognate disciplines, this volume explores alternative logics of sentient landscapes as racist, xenophobic, and right-wing.

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

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Published July 1996
A Sentimental Economy

Commodity and Community in Rural Ireland

Salazar, C.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published May 2023
Servants of Culture

Paternalism, Policing, and Identity Politics in Vienna, 1700-1914

Natarajan, A.

Using a wide range of material including legal, criminal, literary, and political sources, Servants of Culture brings forward the previously neglected history of a mass migration of women from the Habsburg Empire’s countryside to work as servants for bourgeois households, inns and hotels during the second half of the 19th century. At the time, socio-political players claimed to want to improve the living and working conditions of these migrants but as Natarajan demonstrates these efforts resulted in an increase in surveillance and a restriction of freedoms for women and servants in Viennese history.

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

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The Servants of Empire

Sponsored German Women’s Colonization in Southwest Africa, 1896-1945

ODonnell, K. M.

In the late 1890s through the 1940s, Germany enacted race-based population policies in Southwest Africa which instrumentalized German women as colonists. The Servants of Empire engages the history of these colonial operatives, mostly comprised of poor, white women, as they became an unsettling force in colonial settlements and contributed to the rise of the German embrace of genocide, National Socialism, and apartheid.

Subjects: Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published March 2023
Set to See Us Fail

Debating Inequalities in the Child Welfare System of New York

Castellano, V.

Examining the interaction between families and professionals in the child welfare system of New York, this book focuses on how inequalities are reproduced, measured, managed, and contested. The book describes how state institutions and neoliberal governance intersect police the groups which are most represented in the child welfare system, including low income, female-headed families living in racialized neighborhoods.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published December 1993
Settlement, Economy, and Cultural Change at the End of the European Iron Age

Excavations at Kelheim in Bavaria, 1987-1992

Wells, P. S.

This volume presents preliminary results of excavation at the Late Iron Age oppidum settlement of Kelheim. The volume addresses some major questions about late prehistoric Europe from the perspective of these excavations and the analytical results. It presents investigations into ritual behavior in the Kelheim region and uses this theme to argue for strong continuity of tradition from prehistoric times into the Middle Ages.

Subject: Archaeology

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Published November 2010
Settling for Less

The Planned Resettlement of Israel's Negev Bedouin

Dinero, S. C.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies

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Published March 2015
Sex and Control

Venereal Disease, Colonial Physicians, and Indigenous Agency in German Colonialism, 1884-1914

Walther, D. J.

In responding to the perceived threat posed by venereal diseases in Germany’s colonies, doctors took a biopolitical approach that employed medical and bourgeois discourses of modernization, health, productivity, and morality. Their goal was to change the behavior of targeted groups, or at least to isolate infected individuals from the healthy population. However, the Africans, Pacific Islanders, and Asians they administered to were not passive recipients of these strategies.

Subjects: Colonial History

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Published May 2005
Sex and the Empire That Is No More

Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion

Matory, J. L.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published May 2025
Sex, Risk, and Society

When Is Sex Dangerous?

Pollock, S. H.

When is sex abnormal and when is it dangerous? A multi-disciplinary approach that includes sociology, anthropology, history, and philosophy provides an understanding of how cultural norms have shifted over time and the implications of these shifts.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Published December 2007
Sex, Thugs & Rock 'n' Roll

Teenage Rebels in Cold-War East Germany

Fenemore, M.

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

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Sexscapes of Pleasure

Women, Sexuality and the Whore Stigma in Italy

Zambelli, E.

Drawing from ethnographic research, this book brings together the narratives of Italian and migrant women pole dancing for leisure, women pole and lap dancing for work, as well as women selling sex. By tracing commonalities in women’s processes of subjectivation and othering across the non/sex working women divide, the book foregrounds the intersecting structures of oppression under which women negotiate selfhood.

Subjects: Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

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Sexual Knowledge

Feeling, Fact, and Social Reform in Vienna, 1900-1934

McEwen, B.

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

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Published February 1996
Sexual Politics and the European Union

The New Feminist Challenge

Elman, R. A.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published November 2022
Sexual Self-Fashioning

Iranian Dutch Narratives of Sexuality and Belonging

Roodsaz, R.

Focusing on premarital sex, homosexuality, and cohabitation outside marriage, this book provides an ethnographic account of sexuality among the Iranian Dutch. It argues that by embracing, rejecting, and questioning modernity in stories about sexuality, the Iranian Dutch actively engage in processes of self-fashioning.

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

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Published February 1996
Sexual Subordination and State Intervention

Comparing Sweden and the United States

Elman, R. A.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)

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Published November 2004
Sexuality and German Fascism

Herzog, D. (ed)

Subjects: History: World War II Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
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Published December 2007
Shades of Indignation

Political Scandals in France, Past and Present

Jankowski, P.

Subject: History (General)

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Shadowlands

Memory and History in Post-Soviet Estonia

Wulf, M.

The Baltic state of Estonia has been profoundly shaped by the conflicts and shifting political fortunes of the last century. This innovative study traces the interaction of historical memory and national identity in a sweeping analysis that foregrounds the country’s intellectuals, who until recently could not openly grapple with their nation’s complex, difficult past.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies

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Shakespeare & His Religious Afterlives

Cerezo, M. (Eds.)

Exploring Shakespeare’s religious afterlives, this volume examines translations, adaptations, and performances across Sweden, Spain, and the United States. Bringing together literary, theatrical, and religious perspectives, it highlights how Shakespeare’s works continue to shape religious interpretation, cultural meaning, and lived experience across diverse historical and social contexts.

Subject: Literary Studies

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Shakespeare and Biography

Scheil, K. & Holderness, G. (eds)

From Shakespeare’s religion to his wife to his competitors in the world of early modern theatre, biographers have approached the question of the Bard’s life from numerous angles. Shakespeare & Biography offers a fresh look at the biographical questions connected with the famous playwright’s life, through essays and reflections written by prominent international scholars and biographers.

Subjects: Literary Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Shakespeare and Commemoration

Calvo, C. & Hoenselaars, T. (eds)

Memory and commemoration play a vital role not only in the work of Shakespeare, but also in the process that has made him a world author. As the contributors of this collection demonstrate, the phenomenon of commemoration has no single approach, as it occurs on many levels, has a long history, and is highly unpredictable in its manifestations.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Performance Studies Literary Studies Memory Studies

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Shakespeare and Creative Criticism

Conkie, R. & Maisano, S. (eds)

What kinds of critical insights are made possible only or especially via creative strategies? This volume examines how creative modes of writing might facilitate or inform new ways to critically engage with Shakespeare.

Subjects: Literary Studies Performance Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Shakespeare and His Biographical Afterlives

Franssen, P. & Edmondson, P. (eds)

New Shakespeare biographies are published every year, though very little new documentary evidence has come to light. Inevitably speculative, these biographies straddle the line between fact and fiction. Shakespeare and His Biographical Afterlives explores the relationship between fiction and non-fiction within Shakespeare’s biography.

Subject: Literary Studies

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Shakespeare and Money

Holderness, G. (ed)

Though better known for his literary merits, Shakespeare made money, wrote about money and enabled money-making by countless others in his name. With chapters by leading scholars on the economic, financial and commercial ramifications of his work, this multifaceted volume connects the Bard to both early modern and contemporary economic conditions, revealing Shakespeare to have been a serious economist in his own right.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

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Shakespeare and Social Engagement

Mackenzie, R. & Shaughnessy, R. (eds)

Shakespeare’s roots in applied and participatory performance practices have been recently explored within a wide variety of educational, theatrical and community settings. Shakespeare and Social Engagement explores these settings, as well as audiences who have largely been excluded from existing accounts of Shakespeare’s performance history.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

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Shakespeare and Stratford

Scheil, K. (ed)

As the site of literary pilgrimage since the eighteenth century, the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the topic of hundreds of imaginary portrayals, Stratford is ripe for analysis, both in terms of its factual existence and its fictional afterlife.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Travel and Tourism Literary Studies

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Shakespeare and the Arab World

Hennessey, K. & Litvin, M. (eds)

Offering a variety of perspectives on the history and role of Arab Shakespeare translation, production, adaptation and criticism, this volume explores both international and locally focused Arab/ic appropriations of Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

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Shakespeare and the Ethics of War

Gray, P. (ed)

How does Shakespeare represent war? This volume reviews scholarship to date on the question and introduces new perspectives, looking at contemporary conflict through the lens of the past.

Subjects: Literary Studies Cultural Studies (General) Peace and Conflict Studies

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Shakespeare and the First Hamlet

Bourus, T. (ed)

The first edition of Hamlet – often called ‘Q1’, shorthand for ‘first quarto’ – was published in 1603. The essays in this collected volume explore the ways in which we might approach Q1’s Hamlet, from performance to book history, from Shakespeare’s relationships with this contemporaries to the shape of his whole career.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

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Shakespeare and the Modern Novel

Holderness, G. (ed)

As the Shakespearean novel and long prose narrative form undergo a renaissance today, distinguished Shakespeare critics demonstrate that the diversity and flexibility of interactions between Shakespeare and the modern novel are very much alive.

Subject: Literary Studies

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Shakespeare's Counternarrative Against Death 

Immortal Longings in His Plays and Poetry

Widdicombe, T.

Examining Shakespeare’s persistent counternarrative to mortality, this book explores the strategies through which his plays and poetry challenge death’s permanence. While engaging with existing scholarship on text and performance, it calls for renewed attention to Shakespearean meaning and the enduring significance of his work.

Subject: Literary Studies
eBook available Published December 2020
Shamanism

Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of Spirits and Healing

Jakobsen, M.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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Published February 2002
The Shaping of Environmental Policy in France

Szarka, J.

Drawing on an extensive range of political, legal and sociological materials, the author presents and evaluates environmental policy-making in France at a time when environmental problems are growing in complexity and gravity.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Sociology

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Shaping Taxpayers

Values in Action at the Swedish Tax Agency

Björklund Larsen, L.

How do you make taxpayers comply? This ethnography is a vivid account of one of the most esteemed Swedish bureaucracies – the Swedish Tax Agency. Shaping Taxpayers focuses on how fiscal strategies and relationships, as well as diverse knowledge claims – legal, economic, cultural – compete to shape taxpayer behaviour.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published October 1996
Shaping the Novel

Receptions of the Essais

Mitchell, C. T. & Côté, P. R.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

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Published December 2014
Shaping the Transnational Sphere

Experts, Networks and Issues from the 1840s to the 1930s

Rodogno, D., Struck, B. & Vogel, J. (eds)

In the second half of the nineteenth century a new kind of social and cultural actor came to the fore: the expert. During this period complex processes of modernization, industrialization, urbanization, and nation-building gained pace, particularly in Western Europe and North America. These processes created new forms of specialized expertise that grew in demand and became indispensible in fields like sanitation, incarceration, urban planning, and education.

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

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eBook available Published May 2024
Shaping Tomorrow's World

A Twentieth-Century History of West German, Cold War, and Global Futures Studies

Seefried, E.

Shaping Tomorrow’s World is an award-winning volume that documents the history of futures studies using extensive archival material and rich analysis of the debates surrounding the limits of fields growth.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Hb
Published September 2025
Shared Country, Different Stories

An Anthropologist's Journey

Trigger, D.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available Published July 2012
Sharing the Sacra

The Politics and Pragmatics of Intercommunal Relations around Holy Places

Bowman, G. (ed)

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

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Published September 2000
Shedding Light on the Darkness

A Guide to Teaching the Holocaust

Lauckner, N. & Jokiniemi, M.

Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies

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eBook available Published June 2024
Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary German Politics and Policy

Langenbacher, E. (ed)

Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary German Politics and Policy presents the recent transformations across the European continent and the paradigm shifts in security and defense policy to investigate and predict the future of the altered state of German and European politics.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Sibling Relations and the Transformations of European Kinship, 1300-1900

Johnson, C. H. & Sabean, D. W. (eds)

“In all cases, the research is solid, not drawing from a single source, such as a series of letters, but including a broad range of historical evidence. The analyses themselves are nicely nuanced and all connect with the main theoretical issues of the field, providing a lively discussion and indicating new directions for research. Scholars from many fields focusing on family and kinship, as well as general readers with an interest in family relations, will enjoy and find stimulation in this volume.” · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Subjects: History (General) Sociology

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Published March 2000
Sight and Sound Entwined

Studies of the New Russian Poetry

Janecek, G.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

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Published December 2005
Silence

The Currency Of Power

Achino-Loeb, M.-L. (ed)

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

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Published February 2014
Silence, Screen, and Spectacle

Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information

Freeman, L. A., Nienass, B., & Daniell, R. (eds)

This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgotten pasts we strain to hear. Employing social and cultural analysis, the essays within examine mnemonic technologies both new and old, and cover subjects as diverse as U.S. internment camps for Japanese Americans in WWII, the Canadian Indian Residential School system, Israeli memorial videos, and the desaparecidos in Argentina. Through these cases, the contributors argue for a re-interpretation of Guy Debord’s notion of the spectacle as a conceptual apparatus through which to examine the contemporary landscape of social memory, arguing that the concept of spectacle might be developed in an age seen as dissatisfied with the present, nervous about the future, and obsessed with the past.

Subjects: Memory Studies Sociology Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published October 2017
Silenced Communities

Legacies of Militarization and Militarism in a Rural Guatemalan Town

Esparza, M.

Silenced Communities offers an ethnographic account of the failed demilitarization of the rural militia in the town of Santo Tomás Chichicastenango following the Guatemalan Civil War. Author Marcia Esparza explores how legacies of grassroots militarization affect indigenous communities exploited by the internal colonialism prevalent in Latin American societies.

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

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eBook available Published August 2023
Silences and Divided Memories

The Exodus and its Legacy in Post-War Istrian Society

Virloget, K. H.

Dealing with the difficult, silenced past of the so called "Istrian exodus" after the Second World War, this book shifts the usual focus from migrants to those who stayed behind and to the new immigrants who came to the “emptied” towns.

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

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eBook available Published 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 Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published July 2000
The Silk Roads

Highways of Culture and Commerce

Elisseeff, V.

Subject: History (General)

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Published December 2001
Simulated Dreams

Zionist Dreams for Israeli Youth

Hazan, H.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published December 2017
Singing Ideas

Performance, Politics and Oral Poetry

Ní Shíocháin, T.

The songs of the beloved Irish poet Máire Bhuí Ní Laeire (Yellow Mary O’Leary) explore themes of colonial subjection, oppression and injustice, representing an integral contribution to the development of anti-colonial thought in Ireland. Singing Ideas explores the significance of her work, and the immense power of her chosen medium.

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

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Published October 2007
A Single Communal Faith?

The German Right from Conservatism to National Socialism

Rohkrämer, T.

Subject: History (General)

Hb
eBook available Published May 2026
Single Mother by Choice

A Story of Politics and Parenting in Twenty-first Century Middle America

Layne, L.

Single Mother by Choice chronicles the journey of Ann, a 41-year-old woman throughout her intensive mothering of three donor-conceived children from infancy to tween years. This analysis of one family’s life illuminates the complexities of twenty-first, middle-class American motherhood, whether single or not, and the synergies between 2^nd wave feminism and neoliberalism.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

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eBook available Published 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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Published September 1998
Sinti and Roma

Gypsies in German-speaking Society and Literature

Tebbutt, S. (ed)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Sociology Literary Studies

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eBook available Published May 2017
Sisters in Arms

Militant Feminisms in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1968

Karcher, K.

Drawing on a wealth of new source material, Sisters in Arms gives a bracing account of how radical feminism was enacted by key German leftist organizations, such as the infamous Red Army Faction and June 2 Movement. These groups often diverged ideologically and tactically, but all demonstrated the potency of militant feminism within postwar protest movements.

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

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Sites of Modernity—Places of Risk

Risk and Security in Germany since the 1970s

Geyer, M. H. (ed)

Institutions with long traditions of calculating risk such as insurance firms, policing authorities, and prisons are at the center of debates surrounding the fields of security, risk, and emergencies. Starting with the 1970s, Sites of Modernity—Places of Risk innovates against these sprawling and changing debates and shows how attempts to manage and assess risk have shaped modernity.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Published January 2007
Skilled Visions

Between Apprenticeship and Standards

Grasseni, C. (ed)

Subject: Applied Anthropology

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eBook available Published June 2013
Slavery and Antislavery in Spain's Atlantic Empire

Fradera, J. M. & Schmidt-Nowara, C. (eds)

Subjects: Colonial History History (General)

Hb
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Forthcoming November 2026
Sliding Worlds

Reflections on the Taipei Dance Circle

Chen, Y.-C.

Famous for its ‘Modern Dance on Baby Oil’, the Taipei Dance Circle (1984–2019) changed how we think about movements. This book captures a rare behind-the-scenes look in dance ethnography at the group's final experimental years (2014-2017) after losing their founder, Shaw-Lu Liu.

Subjects: Performance Studies Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published November 2008
Slipping Away

Banana Politics and Fair Trade in the Eastern Caribbean

Moberg, M.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies

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Small Adults or Big Kids?

Exploring Archaeological and Bioarcheological Approaches to Adolescence

Avery, C. & Thacher, D. (eds)

This book explores the meaning of adolescence, a critical period of the life course, through the analysis of material culture, historical documents, skeletal remains, isotope analysis, and other lines of evidence. By considering the implications for archaeologists and biological anthropologists, this book investigates the lived experiences of adolescents in the past to further our understanding of past societies.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology Sociology

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eBook available Published April 2012
Small Town and Village in Bavaria

The Passing of a Way of Life

Merkl, P. H.

Subject: History (General)

Hb
eBook available Published August 2024
Smoke and Mirrors

The Yenidze Cigarette Factory, Dresden

Nielsen, D.

Providing the first comprehensive account of the Yenidze Tobacco factory in Dresden, designed by the architect Martin Hammitzsch for the flamboyant Dresden tobacco personality Hugo Zietz, this unique addition to Dresden’s skyline was a formative addition to the development of the modernist aesthetic

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

Hb
Published August 2025
Social Anthropology in the Arab World

The Fragmented History of an Uncomfortable Discipline

Alajmi, A., Cantini, D., Maffi, I., & Melliti, I. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available Published March 2009
Social Bodies

Lambert, H. & McDonald, M. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology

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Published August 2015
Social Bonds as Freedom

Revisiting the Dichotomy of the Universal and the Particular

Dumouchel, P. & Gotoh, R. (eds)

Central to discussions of multiculturalism and minority rights in modern liberal societies is the idea that the particular demands of minority groups contradict the requirements of equality, anonymity, and universality for citizenship and belonging. The contributors to this volume question the significance of this dichotomy between the universal and the particular.

Subject: Sociology

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Published November 2003
The Social Construction of Diversity

Recasting the Master Narrative of Industrial Nations

Harzig, C. & Juteau, D. (eds)

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

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Published December 2001
Social Democracy and Monetary Union

Notermans, T. (ed)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
eBook available Published October 2018
Social DNA

Rethinking Our Evolutionary Past

Martin, M. K.

Social DNA presents a new synthesis of ideas on human social origins based upon the evolution of behavioral plasticity and the process of multilevel selection. What set our ancestors off on a separate evolutionary trajectory – what made them human – was the ability to flex their reproductive and social strategies in response to changing environmental conditions.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology

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Published January 2013
A Social History of Europe, 1945-2000

Recovery and Transformation after Two World Wars

Kaelble, H.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published May 2024
Social History of German Jews

A Short Introduction

Rürup, M.

Social History of German Jews traces the social history of modern German Jews from the end of the 18th century up to the aftermath of World War II, and focusses on the ascent of German Jews into the middle and upper-middle classes through both adversity and manifold forms of Jewish self-assertion.

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

Hb
Published January 2008
A Social History of Spanish Labour

New Perspectives on Class, Politics, and Gender

Piqueras, J., & Sanz Rozalén, V. (eds)

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

Hb
Published January 2001
Social Identities and Political Cultures in Italy

Catholic, Communist, and 'Leghist' Communities between Civicness and Localism

Cento Bull, A.

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

Hb
eBook available Published November 2019
Social Im/mobilities in Africa

Ethnographic Approaches

Noret, J. (ed)

Grounded in both theory and ethnography, this volume insists on taking social positionality seriously when accounting for Africa’s current age of polarizing wealth. To this end, the notion of social im/mobilities emphasizes the complexities of current changes, taking us beyond the prism of a unidimensional social ladder, for social moves cannot always be apprehended through the binaries of ‘gains’ and ‘losses’.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

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The Social Life of Achievement

Long, N. J. & Moore, H. L. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published August 2013
The Social Life of Water

Wagner J. R. (ed)

“This book fills an important niche on water related issues in anthropology by focusing on social and cultural manifestations of water management, use, and conflict… The organization is appropriate and effective.” · Benedict J. Colombi, American Indian Studies Program, University of Arizona

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

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Published January 2005
Social Limits to Learning

Essays on the Archeology of Domination, Resistance, and Experience

Mergner, G.

Subjects: Educational Studies Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

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Social Movement Studies in Europe

The State of the Art

Fillieule, O. & Accornero, G. (eds)

This landmark volume is the first to comprehensively examine the field of social movement studies in a specifically European context. Combining comparative studies of significant issues and movements with focused national studies, this is a bold and uncommonly unified survey that will be essential for scholars and students of European social movements.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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The Social Origins of Thought

Durkheim, Mauss, and the Category Project

Schick, Johannes F. M.

The Social Origins of Thought explores the Durkheim School’s ambitious critique of philosophical interpretations of the genesis and constitution of the categories of thought. With contributions from philosophy, sociology, anthropology, media studies, and sinology, this volume illustrates the interdisciplinarity and intellectual rigor of the “category project”.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

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Published December 2011
Social Policy in the Smaller European Union States

Cohen, G. B., Ansell, B. W., Cox, R. H. & Gingrich, J. (eds)

Subject: History (General)

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Social Quality Theory

A New Perspective on Social Development

Herrmann, P. & Lin, K. (eds)

Tracing the expansion of social quality theory and presenting its different aspects, this volume assesses societal progress and makes proposals that are relevant for policy making. Its rich diversity of approaches and cross-national comparisons reveal the increasingly important role of social quality theory for informing political debates on development and sustainability.

Subjects: Sociology Development Studies

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Published February 1995
The Social Responsibility of the Historian

Bédarida, F. (ed)

Subject: History (General)

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Published June 2009
Social Security in Religious Networks

Anthropological Perspectives on New Risks and Ambivalences

Leutloff-Grandits, C., Peleikis, A. & Thelen, T. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Refugee and Migration Studies

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The Social Survey in Global Perspective, 1900-2020s

Greenhalgh, C., Corbould, C. & Anderson, W. (eds)

Tracing the evolution of social surveys to explore their worldwide impact across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Exploring the double-sided legacy of social surveying, as an engine of both progressive reform and state surveillance, this book reasses the empirical practices that continue to determine how we understand our world.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Social Torture

The Case of Northern Uganda, 1986-2006

Dolan, C.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

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Socialist Escapes

Breaking Away from Ideology and Everyday Routine in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989

Giustino, C. M., Plum, C. J., & Vari, A. (eds)

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

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Sociality

New Directions

Long, N. J. & Moore, H. L. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Published February 2006
The Society of the Cincinnati

Conspiracy and Distrust in Early America

Hünemörder, M.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

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Sofia Coppola

The Politics of Visual Pleasure

Backman Rogers, A.

Sofia Coppola: The Politics of Visual Pleasure interprets Coppola’s oeuvre to date from a resolutely feminist and philosophical perspective. Using the work of a range of feminist theorists, Backman Rogers situates Coppola’s work as a critique of postfeminist lifestyles that offer the viewer a feminist and feminine philosophy through beguilement, mood and surface.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)

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Soho on Screen

Cinematic Spaces of Bohemia and Cosmopolitanism, 1948-1963

Young, J.

Soho on Screenprovides the first history of London’s commercial and cultural center, Soho, in British cinema. It highlights forgotten British films, filmmakers, and stars in detail and introduces thoroughly researched studies that highlight not only the cultural importance of Soho as a locus for cinema but also the impact of gentrification on the cultural and social development of Soho today.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies

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Soldiering Under Occupation

Processes of Numbing among Israeli Soldiers in the Al-Aqsa Intifada

Grassiani, E.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)

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Sometime Kin

Layers of Memory, Boundaries of Ethnography

Wallman, S.

Sometime Kin is the portrait of an Alpine settlement - its history, economy and culture - and its unusual resistance to outsiders and modernisation. Against this we see it embrace the ethnographer’s four small children. Sandra Wallman’s account reveals the distortion to ordinary life caused by the intrusion of the anthropologist and the effect of informants observing her.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

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The Soul of the Nation

Catholicism and Nationalization in Modern Spain

Alonso, G. & Hernández Burgos, C. (eds)

Religion and politics have historically clashed in modern Spain, particularly following the crisis of 1808 when the Catholica Monarchy put the role of the Church at the heart of political cultural Debates. The Soul of the Nation seeks to unravel this complex and oppositional history between Catholic values and modern political regimes.

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

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Published November 2004
Sound Matters

Essays on the Acoustics of German Culture

Alter, N. & Koepnick, L. (eds)

Subject: Cultural Studies (General)

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The Sound of Silence

Indigenous Perspectives on the Historical Archaeology of Colonialism

Äikäs, T. & Salmi, A.-K. (eds)

Colonial encounters between indigenous peoples and European state powers are overarching themes in the historical archaeology of the modern era, and postcolonial historical archaeology has repeatedly emphasized the complex two-way nature of colonial encounters. The volume examines common trajectories in indigenous colonial histories, and explores new ways to understand cultural contact, hybridization and power relations between indigenous peoples and colonial powers from the indigenous point of view.

Subjects: Archaeology Colonial History Memory Studies Anthropology (General)

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Sounds German

Popular Music in Postwar Germany at the Crossroads of the National and Transnational

Fulk, K. A. (ed)

Sounds German surveys the sociopolitical impact of music on German national identity, gender and sexuality, and transnational cultural production and consumption, expanding on the ways in which sounds, technologies, media practices, and exchanges of popular music provide a unique glimpse into the cultural dynamics of postwar Germany.

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

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Sounds of Modern History

Auditory Cultures in 19th- and 20th-Century Europe

Morat, D. (ed)

Since the late 19th century, there has been a paradigmatic shift in auditory cultures and practices in European societies. This change was brought about by modern phenomena such as urbanization, industrialization and mechanization, the rise of modern sciences, and of course the emergence of new sound recording and transmission media. This book contributes to our understanding of modern European history through the lens of sound by examining diverse subjects such as performed and recorded music, auditory technologies like the telephone and stethoscope, and the ambient noise of the city.

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

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Published January 2006
The Sounds of Silence

Nineteenth-Century Portugal and the Abolition of the Slave Trade

Marques, J

Subjects: Colonial History Refugee and Migration Studies

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Soup, Love, and a Helping Hand

Social Relations and Support in Guangzhou, China

Fleischer, F.

Despite growing affluence, a large number of urban Chinese have problems making ends meet. Based on ethnographic research in Guangzhou, China, Soup, Love and a Helping Hand examines different modes and ideologies of help/support, as well as reciprocity, relatedness (kinship), and changing state-society relations in contemporary China.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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South Africa's Dreams

Ethnologists and Apartheid in Namibia

Gordon, R. J.

In the early sixties, many South African anthropologists supported ‘Grand Apartheid’ in Namibia. South Africa’s colonial policies in the country served as a testing ground for many key features of its repressive infrastructure, and strategies for countering anti-apartheid resistance. The book also analyses how the knowledge used to justify and implement apartheid was created.

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

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The Southeast Asia Connection

Trade and Polities in the Eurasian World Economy, 500 BC–AD 500

Chew, S. C.

Over world history, Southeast Asia’s contribution to the world economy (during the late prehistoric and early historic periods) has not been given much attention. This book attempts to recalibrate these interactions of Southeast Asia with other parts of the world economy, and gives the region its due instead of treating it as little more than a region of peripheral entrepôts.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Sovereign Forces

Everyday Challenges to Environmental Governance in Latin America

McNeish, J.-A.

Sovereignty is a significant force regarding the ownership, use, protection and management of natural resources. By placing an emphasis on the complex intertwined relationship between natural resources and diverse claims to resource sovereignty, this book reveals the backstory of contemporary resource contestations in Latin America and their positioning within a more extensive history of extraction in the region.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies

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Space and Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History

Lässig, S. & Rürup, M. (eds)

This wide-ranging volume revisits both literal and metaphorical spaces in modern German history, working from an expansive concept of “the spatial” to examine the ways in which Jewishness has been attributed to them, and what the implications have been in different eras and social contexts.

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

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Published March 2020
Space, Place and Identity

Wodaabe of Niger in the 21st Century

Köhler, F.

Known as highly mobile cattle nomads, the Wodaabe in Niger are today increasingly engaged in a transformation process towards a more diversified livelihood based primarily on agro-pastoralism and urban work migration. This book examines recent transformations in spatial patterns, notably in the context of urban migration and in processes of sedentarization in rural proto-villages.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Urban Studies Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies
eBook available Published May 2020
Spaces of Solidarity

Karen Activism in the Thailand-Burma Borderlands

Sharples, R.

Exploring notions of activism and space as narrated by Karen displaced persons and refugees in the Thai-Burma borderlands, this book looks beyond refugees as passive victims or a ‘humanitarian case’. Instead, the book examines the active engagement the Karen have with their persecution and displacement, and their subsequent emplacement in the borderlands.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Spaghetti with Ajvar

The Translocal Everyday Lives of Muslims in North Macedonia and Italy

Karolina Bielenin-Lenczowska

Examining the economic migration of Macedonian-speaking Muslims from North Macedonia to Italy, this ethnography explores shifting everyday lives across transnational contexts. Focusing on gender and generational dynamics, it captures a moment in the lives of the Torbeši shaped by mobility, cultural exchange, and change.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
Published September 1999
Spain in International Context, 1936-1959

Leitz, C. & Dunthorn, D. (eds)

Subject: History (General)

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Spanish Comics

Historical and Cultural Perspectives

Magnussen, A. (ed)

Spanish Comics offers an overview on contemporary scholarship on Spanish comics, focusing on a wide range of comics dating from early comics history in 1875-1939; the Francoist dictatorship, 1939-1975; the Political Transition, 1970-1985; and Democratic Spain from the early 1980s, and themes of memory, gender, regional identities, and history.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General)

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Spanish Laughter

Humor and Its Sense in Modern Spain

Calvo Maturana, A. (ed)

Exploring various forms of humor in Modern Spain since their entry into the eighteenth-century public sphere, Spanish Laughter takes on the comforting, transgressive, conservative, rebellious, and other dynamic forms of humor as they have changed and contributed to the building of Spain’s cultural framework and historiographical panorama.

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

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Spanish Lessons

Cinema and Television in Contemporary Spain

Smith, P. J.

Spanish film and television represent a remarkably influential and vibrant cultural industry, as well as a fertile site of innovation in the production of “transmedia” works that bridge narrative forms. Spanish Lessons provides an engaging exploration of the nation’s visual culture in an era of collapsing genre boundaries, accelerating technological change, and political-economic tumult.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies

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Published March 1993
Spatial Boundaries and Social Dynamics

Case Studies from Food-Producing Societies

Holl, A. & Levey, T. E. (eds)

The papers in this volume examine the sociocultural, socioeconomic and environmental factors that condition spatial patterning of human behavior in food-producing (both agricultural and pastoral) societies. The spatially patterned material manifestations of that behavior are considered in the light of archaeological and ethnographical examples. Archaeological and ethnographic data sources are drawn primarily from Africa, as well as the ancient Near East.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)

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The Spectral Within

Fascism, New Towns and their Contemporary Lives

Miltiadis, E.

Through the analytical lens of hunting, this book examines the efforts of Latina’s inhabitants to see their city as a meaningful social space, as they navigate the city’s multiple histories and the absent presence of the contested past.

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

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Forthcoming September 2026
The Spirit of Affect

Song-Dance Encounters in Matrilineal Congo

Plancke, C.

In rural Punu communities, song and dance are shaped through ritual encounters between humans and spirit beings. This ethnography explores how performance creates connection and participation in the water spirit world, offering a matrifocal perspective that rethinks affect and embodied life.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published July 2023
The Spirit of Matter

Modernity, Religion, and the Power of Objects

Pels, P.

A range of meaningful objects—exhibits of human remains or live people, fetishes, objects in a Catholic Museum, exotic photographs, commodities, and computers—demonstrate a subordinate modern consciousness about powerful objects and their “life”. The Spirit of Matter discusses these objects that move people emotionally but whose existence is often denied by modern wishful thinking of “mind over matter”.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Archaeology Museum Studies

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Published June 2003
The Spirit of the Berlin Republic

Dettke, D. (ed)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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The Spirit of the Laws

The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide

Akçam, T. & Kurt, U

Pertinent to contemporary demands for reparations from Turkey is the relationship between law and property in connection with the Armenian Genocide. This book examines the confiscation of Armenian properties during the genocide and subsequent attempts to retain seized Armenian wealth.

Subjects: Genocide History History: World War I

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Spirits and Letters

Reading, Writing and Charisma in African Christianity

Kirsch, T. G.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Colonial History Educational Studies

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Staging Citizenship

Roma, Performance and Belonging in EU Romania

Szeman, I.

Staging Citizenship explores a wide range of Roma performances and representations—from live music and cultural performances to Gypsy soaps and reality TV shows, demonstrating how disenfranchised urban Roma claim cultural citizenship and belonging in music, dance, activism and everyday encounters.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Performance Studies

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Forthcoming December 2026
Standing Tall

Filmmaking and the Wars of Milcho Manchevski

Neofotistos, V.

Focusing on filmmaker Milcho Manchevski, this ethnography examines the pursuit of artistic freedom amid political, social, and commercial pressures. Through an insider’s perspective, it explores the challenges of filmmaking across Macedonia, Hollywood, and the wider political economy of cultural production.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published February 2008
Stardom in Postwar France

Gaffney, J. & Holmes, D. (eds)

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

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Starry Nights

Critical Structural Realism in Anthropology

Reyna, S. P.

Starry Nights formulates something of an un-canon: it critiques postmodernism while devising its own strategy for conducting research. It envisions a 'big tent' anthropology that is vast in scope, addressing social, cultural and biological domains by developing a scientific realism for analyzing different fields, a structure for unifying them, and a critical attitude for improving them.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Stars and Stardom in Brazilian Cinema

Bergfelder, T., Shaw, L. & Vieira, J. L. (eds)

The richness of Brazilian stardom extends well beyond the ubiquitous Carmen Miranda, and among the studies assembled in this volume are fascinating explorations of figures alongside interrogations of the inner workings of the star system in Brazil, from the pioneering efforts of silent-era actresses to the recent advent of the non-professional movie star.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies

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Published April 2007
Starstruck

Cosmic Visions in Science, Religion, and Folklore

Harrison, A. A.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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State and Civil Society in Northern Europe

The Swedish Model Reconsidered

Trägårdh, L. (ed)

Subject: Sociology

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State and Minorities in Communist East Germany

Dennis, M. & LaPorte, N.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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The State and the Arts

Articulating Power and Subversion

Kapferer, J.

Subjects: Urban Studies Sociology Cultural Studies (General)

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The State and the Grassroots

Immigrant Transnational Organizations in Four Continents

Portes, A. & Fernández-Kelly, P. (eds)

Whereas most of the literature on migration focuses on individuals and their families, this book studies the organizations created by immigrants to protect themselves in their receiving states. Comparing eighteen of these grassroots organizations formed across the world, researchers focus on the internal structure and activities of these organizations as they relate to developmental initiatives.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies

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The State and the Social

State Formation in Botswana and its Precolonial and Colonial Genealogies

Gulbrandsen, Ø

Botswana has been portrayed as a major case of exception in Africa—as an oasis of peace and harmony with an enduring parliamentary democracy, blessed with remarkable diamond-driven economic growth. Whereas the “failure” of other states on the continent is often attributed to the prevalence of indigenous political ideas and structures, the author argues that Botswana’s apparent success is not the result of Western ideas and practices of government having replaced indigenous ideas and structures. Rather, the postcolonial state of Botswana is best understood as a unique, complex formation, one that arose dialectically through the meeting of European ideas and practices with the symbolism and hierarchies of authority, rooted in the cosmologies of indigenous polities, and both have become integral to the formation of a strong state with a stable government.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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State Collapse and Reconstruction in the Periphery

Political Economy, Ethnicity and Development in Yugoslavia, Serbia and Kosovo

Sörensen, J. S.

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology

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State Intimacies

Sterilization, Care and Reproductive Chronicity in Rural North India

Fiks, E.

State Intimacies examines the mundane workings, ambiguity, and fragilities of care in post-colonial rural North India. The experience of reproductive chronicity is grounded in women’s everyday realities and experiences in sterilization camps and other healthcare settings in rural Rajasthan.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Published December 2011
A State of Peace in Europe

West Germany and the CSCE, 1966-1975

Hakkarainen, P.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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The State Otherwise

Green Space, Citizenship and Advocating for the Public in Beirut

Stefanelli, A.

The State Otherwise examines the difficult predicament of Beirut’s public green spaces from the vantage point of the civic campaign to reopen Horsh al Sanawbar, the city’s largest public park. It asks questions about the nature of privatisation of public property, civic society’s potential to mobilise individuals and the role of public authorities in promoting the public good.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Environmental Studies (General)

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State Practices and Zionist Images

Shaping Economic Development in Arab Towns in Israel

Wesley, D.A.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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The State We're In

Reflecting on Democracy's Troubles

Cook, J., Long, N. J., & Moore, H. L. (eds)

What makes people lose faith in democratic statecraft? The question seems an urgent one. In the first decades of the twenty-first century, citizens across the world have grown increasingly disillusioned with what was once a cherished ideal. The State We’re In is a must-read for all political theorists, scholars of democracy, and readers concerned for the future of the democratic ideal.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published October 2004
State, Sovereignty, War

Civil Violence in Emerging Global Realities

Kapferer, B. (ed)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published November 2017
Stategraphy

Toward a Relational Anthropology of the State

Thelen, T., Vetters, L., & Benda-Beckmann, K. von (eds)

By exploring interactions and negotiations of local actors in different institutional settings, the contributors explore state transformations in relation to social security in a variety of locations spanning from Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans to the United Kingdom and France. Fusing grounded empirical studies with rigorous theorizing, the volume provides new perspectives to broader related debates in social research and political analysis.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published June 2020
States of Imitation

Mimetic Governmentality and Colonial Rule

Ladwig, P. & Roque, R. (eds)

Drawing on historical ethnographic studies of colonialism in Asia and Africa, States of Imitation examines how the colonial state attempted to administer, control, and integrate its indigenous subjects through mimetic governmentality, as well the ways indigenous states adopted these imitative practices to establish reciprocal ties with, or to resist the presence of, the colonial state.

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Staying at Home

Identities, Memories and Social Networks of Kazakhstani Germans

Sanders, R.

This book explores the interplay of those memories, social networks and state policies which play a role in the ‘construction’ of a Kazakhstani German identity. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Kazakhstan, Rita Sanders shows that social capital, including the power to influence identities, plays a key role in Kazakhstani German attitudes

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published November 2014
Still Waiting for the Transformation

Fusaro, C. & Kreppel, A. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published December 1996
Stone Tools and Mobility in the Illinois Valley

From Hunter-Gatherer Camps to Agricultural Villages

Odell, G. H.

A detailed comparative analysis of standardized lithic data from 10 Illinois Valley components spanning 7500 years from the Early Archaic through the Mississippian is presented in this volume. The results provide significant information on prehistoric mobility and technological organization in mid-continental North America, revealing clearly for the first time a number of significant behavioral trends.

Subject: Archaeology

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Stories between Tears and Laughter

Popular Czech Cinema and Film Critics

Vojvoda, R.

Stories between Tears and Laughter strikes new ground in the history of Czech cinema focusing on the historically underrepresented post-socialist era following the 1960s to reveal the discourse of cultural value through which popular Czech films were being evaluated.

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

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Stories from an Ancient Land

Perspectives on Wa History and Culture

Fiskesjö, M.

The Wa people have a rich civilization of their own and a deep history in the mountains of Southeast Asia. This book introduces aspects of Wa culture, including their approach to the world’s troubles, and the lessons others might learn from it.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Stories Make the World

Reflections on Storytelling and the Art of the Documentary

Most, S.

Today, at a time when we are seeking to orient ourselves within a flood of raw information and conflicting narratives, an understanding of storytelling is of vital importance for making sense of the world. In this book, award-winning screenwriter Stephen Most offers a captivating, refreshingly heartfelt exploration of how documentary film and other forms of storytelling remain so essential today.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Literary Studies

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Published January 2006
A Stranger in Paris

Germany's Role in Republican France, 1870-1940

Mitchell, A.

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

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Published August 2007
Strangers Either Way

The Lives of Croatian Refugees in their New Home

Capo Žmegač, J.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published June 2008
The Strassmanns

Science, Politics and Migration in Turbulent Times (1793-1993)

Strassmann, W. P.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History (General)

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eBook available Published October 2017
Straying from the Straight Path

How Senses of Failure Invigorate Lived Religion

Beekers, D. & Kloos, D. (eds)

Responding to the need for comparative approaches in the face of the increasingly separated fields of the anthropology of Islam and Christianity, Straying from the Straight Path gives full attention to moral failure as a constitutive and potentially energizing force in the religious lives of both Muslims and Christians in different parts of the world.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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Street Vending in the Neoliberal City

A Global Perspective on the Practices and Policies of a Marginalized Economy

Graaff, K. & Ha, N. (eds)

From a multifaceted, global, and transnational perspective, the volume examines street vending and urban policies around the globe, comparing practices in the Global South to that in the Northern hemisphere. Essays show that though street vending activities vary depending on site-specific regulations, this urban practice also reveals global ties and developments.

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

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Published July 2015
Strike Action and Nation Building

Labor Unrest in Palestine/Israel, 1899-1951

De Vries, D.

Strike-action has long been a notable phenomenon in Israeli society, despite forces that have weakened its recurrence, such as the Arab-Jewish conflict, the decline of organized labor, and the increase of precarious workers. This book unravels the trajectory of the strikes in the first half of the twentieth century as a rich source for the social-historical analysis of an otherwise nation-oriented and highly politicized history.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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eBook available Published May 2020
Structures of Protection?

Rethinking Refugee Shelter

Scott-Smith, T. & Breeze, M. E. (eds)

Questioning what shelter is and how we can define it, this volume brings together twenty-three essays on different forms of refugee shelter, with a view to widening public understanding about the lives of forced migrants and developing theoretical understanding of this oft-neglected facet of the refugee experience.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published October 2000
The Struggle for a Democratic Austria

Bruno Kreisky on Peace and Social Justice

Berg, M. P. (ed)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published March 2021
The Struggle for the Past

How We Construct Social Memories

Jelin, E.

Organized around Argentine “memory wars” since the 1970s, The Struggle for the Past undertakes an innovative exploration of memory’s dynamic social character. In addition to its analysis of how human rights movements have inflected public memory and democratization in Argentina, it also gives an illuminating account of the emergence and development of Memory Studies as a field.

Subjects: Memory Studies Peace and Conflict Studies

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Published October 2008
Struggles for Home

Violence, Hope and the Movement of People

Jansen, S. & Löfving, S. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published May 2008
Struggling for Recognition

The Alevi Movement in Germany and in Transnational Space

Sökefeld, M.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
Published July 2000
The Study of Culture At a Distance

Mead, M. & Métraux, R. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
Paperback available
Published December 2003
Studying Contemporary Western Society

Method and Theory

Mead, M.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published September 2024
Subject Lessons

Life Histories as Reciprocal Empowerment

Forrest, J.

Life histories are a class of oral data distinct from memoirs, autobiography, and conventional history in multiple ways.Subject Lessons examines the use of and value in using one’s life history as research within the social sciences.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

Hb
eBook available Published October 2023
The Subject of Sovereignty

Relationality and the Pivot Past Liberalism

Feldman, G.

Exploring the themes of nature, race, and the divine, this book identifies the more realistic alternative in the “relational subject”: a subject that is inseparable from the global field of relations through which it emerges and yet distinct from that field because it lives a life that no one else ever has.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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Published March 2014
Subjective Realist Cinema

From Expressionism to Inception

Campora, M.

“…identifies and defines a distinct group of films within contemporary complex narrative films, partly tracing historical antecedents, using a useful taxonomy for contemporary complex narrative films.” · Nitzan Ben Shaul, Tel Aviv University

Subjective Realist Cinema looks at the fragmented narratives and multiple realities of a wide range of films that depict subjective experience and employ “subjective realist” narration, including recent examples such as Mulholland Drive, Memento, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The author proposes that an understanding of the narrative structures of these films, particularly their use of mixed and multiple realities, enhances viewers’ enjoyment and comprehension of such films, and that such comprehension offers a key to understanding contemporary filmmaking.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

Hb
eBook available Published October 2024
Subjectivity at Latin America's Urban Margins

Kopper, M. & Richmond, M. A. (eds)

Subjectivity at Latin America's Urban Margins investigates how margins are actively produced, upheld, and challenged through the process of subject-making and margin-drawing by a multiplicity of actors affecting Latin American cities today.

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

Hb
eBook available Published November 2017
Subjects, Citizens, and Others

Administering Ethnic Heterogeneity in the British and Habsburg Empires, 1867-1918

Gammerl, B.

Exploring racism, migration, and citizenship, Subjects, Citizens and Others offers a pioneering analysis of how the British and the Austro-Hungarian Empire governed their ethnically diverse populations. Author Benno Gammerl rejects common assumptions about ethnic exclusivity in Eastern and Western Europe, analyzing the legal and political conditions that help to foster ethnic heterogeneity.

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

Hb
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Published September 2019
Submerged on the Surface

The Not-So-Hidden Jews of Nazi Berlin, 1941–1945

Lutjens Jr., R. N.

Between 1941 and 1945, some 6,500 Berlin Jews, in fear for their lives, made the choice to flee their impending deportations and live submerged in Nazi Germany. This book sheds light on the daily life of those who hid and on the city that was both the source of their persecution and the site of their survival.

Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History

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Published January 2001
Subsistence-Settlement Systems and Intersite Variability in the Moroiso Phase of the Early Jomon Period of Japan

Habu, J.

This book examines the settlement patterns and intersite variability in lithic assemblages of Early Jomon (ca. 5000 BP) hunter-gatherers in Japan. The results of this study suggest that the Early Jomon people were not sedentary, as previously assumed, but instead moved their residential basis seasonally. The implications of this result are discussed in the context of the development of hunter-gatherer cultural complexity in general and the course of Japanese prehistory in particular.

Subject: Archaeology

Hb
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Published July 2009
Substantial Justice

An Anthropology of Village Courts in Papua New Guinea

Goddard, M.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published September 2009
Substitute Parents

Biological and Social Perspectives on Alloparenting in Human Societies

Bentley, G. & Mace, R. (eds)

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published October 2008
Suffering and Evil

The Durkheimian Legacy

Pickering, W. S. F. & Rosati, M. (eds)

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

Hb
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eBook available Published October 2007
Sugarlandia Revisited

Sugar and Colonialism in Asia and the Americas, 1800-1940

Bosma, U., Giusti-Cordero, J, & Knight, G.K. (eds)

Subject: Colonial History

Hb
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eBook available Published May 2013
Supercinema

Film-Philosophy for the Digital Age

Brown, W.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

Hb
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Published August 2009
Supervision and Authority in Industry

Western European Experiences, 1830-1939

Eeckhout, P. Van den (ed)

Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Published October 2009
The Surplus Woman

Unmarried in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918

Dollard, C. L.

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

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Published April 2007
Sustainability and Communities of Place

Maida, C. (ed)

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

Hb
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Forthcoming February 2027
Sustainability and Sustainment

An Ethnography of Urban Intervention in Ecuador

Rumé, S.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Urban Studies
eBook available Published August 2014
Sustainable Development

An Appraisal from the Gulf Region

Sillitoe, P. (ed)

With growing evidence of unsustainable use of the world’s resources, such as hydrocarbon reserves, and related environmental pollution, as in alarming climate change predictions, sustainable development is arguably the prominent issue of the 21st century. Bringing together university faculty and government personnel from the Gulf, Europe, and North America this volume gives a wide ranging introduction focusing on the arid Gulf region and beyond, where the challenges of sustainable development are starkly evident.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies

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Paperback available
eBook available Published January 2020
Sustaining Indigenous Songs

Contemporary Warlpiri Ceremonial Life in Central Australia

Curran, G.

Set against a discussion of the contemporary vitality of Aboriginal musical traditions in Australia and embedded in the historical background of this region, Curran lays out the features of Warlpiri songs and ceremonies, and centers on a focal case study of the Warlpiri Kurdiji ceremony to illustrate the modes in which core cultural themes are being passed on through song to future generations.

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

Hb
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Published November 2016
Sustaining Russia's Arctic Cities

Resource Politics, Migration, and Climate Change

Orttung, R. (ed)

Urban areas in Arctic Russia are experiencing unprecedented social and ecological change. This collection outlines the key challenges that city managers will face in navigating this shifting political, economic, social, and environmental terrain.

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

Hb
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Published June 2016
Sweden after Nazism

Politics and Culture in the Wake of the Second World War

Östling, J.

World War II—and particularly the specter of Nazism—changed Swedish society profoundly. This definitive study follows Swedish culture from its affinity for Germany to a framing of Nazism as a discredited, distinctively German phenomenon rooted in militarism and Romanticism.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available Published August 2002
Swedish Ventures in Cameroon, 1883-1923

Trade and Travel, People and Politics

Ardener, S. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Travel and Tourism

Hb
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Published February 2003
Switzerland: National Socialism and the Second World War

Final Report of the Independent Commission of Experts

Independent Commission of Experts

Subject: History: World War II

Hb
Published December 2001
Symbiosis and Ambivalence

Poles and Jews in a Small Galician Town

Lehmann, R.

Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History

Hb
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Published October 1999
Taboo, Truth and Religion

Adler, J. & Fardon, R. (eds) (Steiner, F.)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology of Religion

Hb
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Published May 1996
Taboos in German Literature

Jackson, D. (ed)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

Hb
eBook available Published October 2024
Tactical Citizenships

Encounters with Everyday State in the Republic of Cyprus

Kouros, T.

Tactical Citizenships is a testament to the tenacity and resourcefulness of marginalized individuals in directing their relations with the state. It explores the troubled relationship between a state and its citizens across four different kinds of social spaces in Limassol, Cyprus.

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published January 2015
Tailoring Truth

Politicizing the Past and Negotiating Memory in East Germany, 1945-1990

Olsen, J. B.

By looking at state-sponsored memory projects, such as memorials, commemorations, and historical museums, this book reveals that the East German communist regime obsessively monitored and attempted to control public representations of the past to legitimize its rule.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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eBook available Published May 2018
Taking on Technocracy

Nuclear Power in Germany, 1945 to the Present

Augustine, D. L.

Taking on Technocracy addresses changing attitudes towards nuclear energy in the age of global warming. The German decision to abandon nuclear power is placed in a historical context, including popularization of science, new social movements, media, policing, gender, and the history of emotions.

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

Hb
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eBook available Published December 2022
Taking Our Water for the City

The Archaeology of New York City’s Watershed Communities

Beisaw, A. M.

Tap water enables the development of cities in locations with insufficient natural resources to support such populations. This archaeological examination of the New York City watershed reveals the cultural costs of urban water systems. Urban water systems do more than reroute water from one place to another. At best, they redefine communities. At worst, they erase them.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
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eBook available Published September 2008
Taking Sides

Ethics, Politics, and Fieldwork in Anthropology

Armbruster, H. & Lærke, A. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Hb
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eBook available Published August 2014
Talking Stones

The Politics of Memorialization in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland

Viggiani, E.

Using the memorialization of the Troubles in contemporary Northern Ireland as a case study, this book investigates how non-state, often proscribed, organizations have filled a societal vacuum in the creation of public memorials. In particular, these groups have sifted through the past to propose “official” collective narratives of national identification, historical legitimation, and moral justifications for violence.

Subjects: Memory Studies Heritage Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
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Published August 1996
A Tamil Asylum Diaspora

Sri Lankan Migration, Settlement and Politics in Switzerland

McDowell, C.

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

Hb
Published July 2022
Tangled Mobilities

Places, Affects, and Personhood across Social Spheres in Asian Migration

Fresnoza-Flot, A. & Liu-Farrer, G. (eds)

Increasingly, scholarly works are approaching the challenges of peoples’ spatial movements across state frontiers as tied to various forms of mobilities that people experience. Using a plural and comparative lens with case studies, Tangled Mobilities brings fresh insight to the wider social phenomenon of mobility and the way places, affects, and personhood are shaped by and connected to it.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

Paperback available
Published August 2006
Tarzan Was an Eco-tourist

...and Other Tales in the Anthropology of Adventure

Vivanco, L. & Gordon, R. (eds)

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

Hb
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eBook available Published March 2021
A Taste for Oppression

A Political Ethnography of Everyday Life in Belarus

Hervouet, R.

Belarus has emerged from communism in a unique manner. The author, who has lived in Belarus for several years, highlights several mechanisms of tyranny, beyond the regime’s ability to control and repress, which should not be underestimated. The book sheds light on the reasons why part of the population supports Alexander Lukashenko and takes a fresh look at the functioning of what has been called 'the last dictatorship in Europe'.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Hb
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Published June 2013
Tax Justice and the Political Economy of Global Capitalism, 1945 to the Present

Leaman, J. & Waris, A. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
eBook available Published December 2019
Teaching Modernization

Spanish and Latin American Educational Reform in the Cold War

Martín García, Ó. J. & Gómez-Escalonilla, L. D. (eds)

Amid the Cold War and global student protests, transnational forces significantly shaped the modernization of educational systems in Spain and Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s. Each study sheds new light on the transnational circulation of modernization discourses, practices, and ideology within the sphere of education.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Educational Studies

Hb
Published March 2006
Techniques, Technology and Civilization

Mauss, M.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

Hb
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eBook available Published April 2026
Techno-Cultural Rivalry

Transatlantic Competition between the United States and Germany, 1890-1930

Trommler, F.

During the first decades of the twentieth century, the United States and Germany were perceived as rivals. Focusing on the 1880s-1930s, this study provides explanations for how the American approach to technology and culture differed from that of the Germans, and how these differences produced various expressions of transatlantic modernity.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Published December 2013
Technocrats in Office

Virgilio, A. di & Radaelli, C. M. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Pb
Published June 2010
Technologized Images, Technologized Bodies

Edwards, J., Harvey, P. & Wade, P. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Hb
eBook available Published June 2022
Technology and the Common Good

The Unity and Division of a Democratic Society

Batteau, A. W.

Building on the work of Elinor Ostrom (Governing the Commons) the author examines how the different shared goods of a democratic society are shaped by technology and demonstrates how club goods, common pool resources, and public goods are supported, enhanced, and disrupted by technology.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Hb
Published April 1999
Television Broadcasting in Contemporary France and Britain

Scriven, M. & Lecomte, M. (eds)

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Sociology

Hb
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Published July 2015
Television's Moment

Sitcom Audiences and the Sixties Cultural Revolution

Hodenberg, C. von

Television was one of the forces shaping the cultural revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, when a blockbuster TV series could reach up to a third of a country’s population. This book explores television’s impact on social change by comparing three sitcoms and their audiences.

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

Hb
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Published December 2007
Telling Children About the Past

An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Galanidou, N. & Dommasnes, L. H. (eds)

This book brings together archeologists, historians, psychologists, and educators from different countries and academic traditions to address the many ways that we tell children about the (distant) past. The contributors both examine the ways in which children come to grips with the past and critically assess the many ways in which contemporary societies and an increasing number of commercial agents construct and use the past.

Subjects: Archaeology Educational Studies Heritage Studies

Pb
Published August 2023
Temple Tracks

Labour, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia

Sinha, V.

The notions of labour, mobility and piety have a complex and intertwined relationship. Using ethnographic methods and a historical perspective, Temple Tracks critically outlines the interlink of railway construction in colonial and post-colonial Asia, as well as the anthropology of infrastructure and transnational mobilities with religion.

Subjects: Transport Studies Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology of Religion
eBook available Published December 2012
Territorial Revisionism and the Allies of Germany in the Second World War

Goals, Expectations, Practices

Cattaruzza, M., Dyroff, S. & Langewiesche, D. (eds)

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

Hb
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eBook available Published August 2021
Territory, State and Nation

The Geopolitics of Rudolf Kjellén

Björk, R. & Lundén, T. (eds)

Rudolf Kjellén, regularly referred to as “the father of geopolitics”, developed in the first decade of the twentieth century an analytical model for calculating the capabilities of great-power states and promoting their interests in the international arena. Territory, State and Nation explores his century-long international scholarly impact, his analytical model, and his analyses of contemporary history.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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eBook available Published June 2010
Terror From the Sky

The Bombing of German Cities in World War II

Primoratz, I. (ed)

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

Hb
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Published February 2023
Terrorism and the Pandemic

Weaponizing of COVID-19

Gunaratna, R. & Pethö-Kiss, K.

The global pandemic has offered extraordinary opportunities for extremists and terrorists to mobilize themselves and revive as more powerful actors in the security landscape. But could these threat groups actually capitalize on the coronavirus crisis and advance their malevolent agendas? This book provides, for the first time, a true picture of novel trends since the pandemic outbreak.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology of Religion

Paperback available
eBook available Published June 2026
Terrorism in Question

Decolonizing Anthropology and the Study of Islam

Ahmad, I.

Terrorism in Question crafts a political anthropology of post-9/11 “new terrorism” by investigating who needs the category of terrorists and offering a global framework to understand anthropology, Islam and terrorism. Marshalling fieldwork, participant observation and encounters with terrorists, this book aims to exemplify knowledge decolonized.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology of Religion Peace and Conflict Studies

Hb
eBook available Published September 2019
Testimonies of Resistance

Representations of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando

Chare, N. & Williams, D. (eds)

As eyewitnesses to and unwilling abettors of the murder of their fellow Jews, the Sonderkommando comprise one of the most fascinating and troubling topics within Holocaust history. This interdisciplinary collection assembles careful investigations into how the Sonderkommando have been represented—both by themselves and by others—during and since the Holocaust.

Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History Jewish Studies

Hb
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eBook available Published October 2025
Textual Heritage

Locating Textual Practices Across Heritage and the Humanities

Gerlini, E. & Giolai, A. (eds)

Focusing on the afterlives of textual traditions, primarily within East Asia, Textual Heritage highlights how textual practices offer a lens for understanding questions of canonization, embodiment, and circulation. In doing so, this volume advances a theory of “humanistic heritage studies” that mediates the overlap between literary and heritage studies.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Literary Studies Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
eBook available Published July 2021
Textures of Belonging

Senses, Objects and Spaces of Romanian Roma

Racleş, A.

The longstanding European conception that Roma and non-Roma are separated by unambiguous socio-cultural distinctions has led to the construction of Roma as "non-belonging others." Challenging this conception, Textures of Belonging explores how Roma negotiate and feel belonging on the everyday level.

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

Hb
Published June 2015
Thai in Vitro

Gender, Culture and Assisted Reproduction

Whittaker, A.

In Thailand, infertility remains a source of stigma for couples using assisted reproductive technologies in the quest for a child. This ethnographic account of public and private clinics explores this experience of infertility and the pursuit of assisted reproductive technologies by Thai couples.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
eBook available Published August 2023
That Sinking Feeling

On the Emotional Experience of Inferiority in Germany's Neoliberal Education System

Wellgraf, S.

Focusing on the emotions and affective states of students from poor migrant families, That Sinking Feeling presents a uniquely multi-layered ethnography on this under-represented area in the social and cultural sciences.

Subjects: Educational Studies Sociology Anthropology (General)

Hb
Published October 2004
Theater and Political Process

Staging Identities in Tokelau and New Zealand

Hoëm, I.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
Published October 2001
Theatre and War 1933-1945

Performance in Extremis

Balfour, M.

Subjects: Performance Studies History: World War II Literary Studies

Hb
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eBook available Published April 2012
Theatres Of Violence

Massacre, Mass Killing and Atrocity throughout History

Dwyer, P. & Ryan, L. (eds)

Subject: Genocide History

Hb
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Published October 2001
Themes in French Culture

A Preface to a Study of French Community

Mead, M. & Metraux, R.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published April 2017
Theoretical Scholarship and Applied Practice

Pink, S., Fors, V., & O'Dell, T. (eds)

Academics across the globe are being urged by universities and research councils to do research that impacts the world beyond academia. The contributions to this collection advance our understanding of the ethics, values, opportunities and challenges that emerge in making of engaged and interdisciplinary scholarship.

Subject: Applied Anthropology

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eBook available Published April 2020
Theorising Media and Conflict

Budka, P. & Bräuchler, B. (eds)

Theorising Media and Conflict brings together anthropologists as well as media and communication scholars to collectively address the elusive and complex relationship between media and conflict. Practitioners, policymakers, students and scholars who wish to understand the lived realities and dynamics of contemporary conflicts will find this book invaluable.

Subjects: Anthropology (General)

Hb
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Published November 2010
Theorising Media and Practice

Bräuchler, B. & Postill, J. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology

Hb
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Forthcoming September 2026
Theorising Media and Time

Temporalities, Media Practices and Politics of Time in a Digital Era

Bräuchler, B. & Grønlykke Mollerup, N. (Eds.)

Digital media perpetuates every aspect of our lives, including our temporal perceptions. This book brings advances in the anthropological thinking about time into conversation with theorisations of media to develop an understanding of how media and time affect each other while keeping human experiences at the heart of the conversation.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
Published June 2023
Theorizing Entrepreneurship for the Future

Stories from Global Frontiers

Beuving, J.

Presenting a new interpretation of entrepreneurial behaviour, this book focuses on how entrepreneurs consider the future. The study theorizes entrepreneurial behaviour as ‘future-work’: the social practices, language and rituals through which entrepreneurs neutralize or smoothen future unknowns.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

Paperback available
eBook available Published May 2022
Theorizing Relations in Indigenous South America

González Gálvez, M., Di Giminiani, P., & Bacchiddu, G. (eds)

Whether invented, discovered, implicit, or directly addressed, relations remain the main focus of most anthropological inquiries. These relations, once conceptualized in ethnographic fieldwork as self-evident connections between discrete social units, have been increasingly explored through local ontological theories. This collected volume explores how ethnographies of indigenous South America have helped to inspire this analytic shift.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published September 2023
These Were People Once

The Online Trade in Human Remains and Why It Matters

Huffer, D. & Graham, S.

People buy and sell human remains online. Most of this trade these days is over social media. In a study of this ‘bone trade’, how it works, and why it matters, the authors review and use a variety of methods drawn from the digital humanities to analyze the sheer volume of social media posts in search of answers to questions regarding this online bone trade.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
Published September 2013
Things Fall Apart?

The Political Ecology of Forest Governance in Southern Nigeria

Hellermann, P. von

Through an in-depth historical and ethnographic study of forestry in Edo State, this book challenges the routine linking of political and ecological crisis narratives. It shows that the roots of many of today’s problems lie in scientific forest management itself, rather than its recent abandonment, and moreover that many “illegal” local practices improve rather than reduce biodiversity and forest cover. The book therefore challenges preconceptions about contemporary Nigeria and highlights the need to re-evaluate current understandings of what constitutes “good governance” in tropical forestry.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Hb
eBook available Published April 2023
Things of the House

Material Culture and Migration from Post-Colonial Mozambique to Portugal

Rosales, M. V.

Focusing on the life stories of a group of European and Catholic Brahmin Goan families of the colonial elite who left Mozambique after their independence in 1975, the book shows how material culture interferes with structuring dimensions of migratory experiences, in the management of family ties and networks of belonging, as well as in the social dynamics of positioning, hierarchy and distinction.

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

Hb
Published October 2022
Thinking Europe

A History of the European Idea since 1800

Andrén, M.

This title assesses the idea of Europe through its intellectual history. Exploring the concept of integration and the relationship between this and arguments for division and borders it reveals their interplay in the composition of the contemporary European identity.

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

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eBook available Published July 2023
Thinking Russia's History Environmentally

Evtuhov, C., Lajus, J., & Moon, D. (eds)

Thinking Russia’s History Environmentallybrings together an international set of scholars to showcase the contribution that the study of Russian environments makes to the global environmental field. It challenges the stereotypes of Russian history, highlighting lesser-known features of the nation’s environments…

Subjects: History (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Hb
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Published February 2015
Thinking Through Sociality

An Anthropological Interrogation of Key Concepts

Amit, V. (ed)

Thinking Through Sociality combines a review of older, classical theories of sociality with more recent theoretical innovations across a wide range of topics. Contributors focus on key concepts of sociality — disjuncture, field, social space, sociability, organizations and network — and how these can be used to think through ethnographic situations.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Hb
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Published July 2005
Thinking Utopia

Steps into Other Worlds

Rüsen, J., Fehr, M. & Rieger, T. W. (eds)

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

Hb
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eBook available Published November 2012
The Third World in the Global 1960s

Christiansen, S. & Scarlett, Z. (eds)

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

Hb
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eBook available Published September 2024
This Horrible Uncertainty

A German Woman Writes War, 1939-1948

Quinn, E.

Through her diary and other personal effects, Vera Conrad story contextualizes women’s roles and a story of personal pain shared by millions of German women who grappled with accommodating the political expectations and norms of Nazi society.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Published January 2023
This Land Is Not For Sale

Trust and Transitions in Northern Uganda

Meinert, L. & Reynolds Whyte, S. (eds)

As violent conflict has declined in northern Uganda, tensions and mistrust concerning land have increased. Residents try to deal with acquisitions by investors and exclusions from forests and wildlife reserves. Using extended case studies, collaborating researchers analyze the principles and practices that shape access to land. Contributors examine the multiplicity of land claims, the nature of transactions, and the management of conflicts.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies Sociology

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Published April 2022
Thrift and Its Paradoxes

From Domestic to Political Economy

Alexander, C. & Sosna, D. (eds)

Through a wide range of ethnographic contexts this book explores how practices and moralities of thrift are intertwined with austerity, debt, welfare, and patronage across various social and temporal scales and are constantly re-negotiated at the nexus of socio-economic, religious, and kinship ideals and praxis.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
eBook available Published January 2025
Through the Water and the Storm

Maritime Averages and Seaborne Trade in Early Modern Genoa, 1590-1700

Iodice, A.

Drawing on quantitative, socio-economic and legal methodologies, this book examines the features of Mediterranean seaborne trade through the maritime Average procedures drafted or sent to Genoa, a small but wealthy Italian maritime republic, between 1590 and 1700.

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Travel and Tourism

Hb
Published December 2002
Tibetans in Nepal

The Dynamics of International Assistance among a Community in Exile

Frechette, A.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies

Hb
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eBook available Published July 2020
Tides of Empire

Religion, Development, and Environment in Cambodia

Work, C.

Set at the forested edge of Cambodia’s frontier, this book shares stories and insights from migrants, loggers, and soldiers carving homesteads into a new village. The stories included in this book show the fluid boundaries of social, economic and political classifications in the area, and that the inhabitants’ poverty or wealth reveal the legacy of imperial power.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Anthropology of Religion

Hb
eBook available Published June 2020
Timber, Sail, and Rail

An Archaeology of Industry, Immigration, and the Loma Prieta Mill

Meniketti, M.

While taking a critical look at the labor and social issues related to timber, the story of labor, immigration, and development around the San Francisco Bay region is told through the lens of an archaeological case study of a major player of the timber industry between 1885 and 1920. Timber, Sail, and Rail recounts the mill operations and broadly examines its intersections with other industries, such as shipping, brick manufacture, rail companies, lime production, and other lesser enterprises.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Transport Studies

Hb
Published January 2008
Time and History

The Variety of Cultures

Rüsen, J. (ed)

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

Hb
eBook available Published November 2015
Time and the Field

Dalsgaard, S. & Nielsen, M. (eds)

Despite numerous conceptual facelifts, definitions and demarcations of ‘the field’ have remained fundamentally anchored in tropes of spatiality with the association between field and fieldworker characterized by distances in space. This collection serves a fresh invitation to a temporally oriented ethnography by radically rethinking the notion of the field in terms of time rather than space.

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

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eBook available Published June 2020
Time Work

Studies of Temporal Agency

Flaherty, M. G., Meinert, L., & Dalsgård, A. L. (eds)

Examining how people alter or customize various dimensions of their temporal experience, this volume discovers how we resist external sources of temporal constraint or structure. These ethnographic studies are international in scope and look at many different countries and continents.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Sociology Anthropology (General)

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Published February 2022
Times of History, Times of Nature

Temporalization and the Limits of Modern Knowledge

Ekstrom, A. & Bergwik, S. (eds)

Times of History, Times of Nature engages with this historical shift in temporal sensibilities through a combination of detailed case studies and synthesizing efforts. Focusing on the history of knowledge, media theory, and environmental humanities, this volume explores the rich and nuanced notions of time and temporality that have emerged in response to climate change.

Subjects: History (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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To See a Moose

The History of Polish Sex Education

Kościańska, A.

Guiding the reader through the development of sex education in Poland, Agnieszka Kościańska looks at how it has changed from the 19th century to the present day. The book also identifies the women and men who changed the way sex was written about in the country, and how they established the field of Polish sexology.

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

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eBook available Published June 2015
To the Bomb and Back

Finnish War Children Tell Their World War II Stories

Saffle, S. (ed)

Between 1939 and 1945 some 80,000 Finnish children were sent to Sweden, Denmark, and elsewhere, ostensibly to protect them from danger while their nation’s soldiers fought superior Soviet and German forces. This is the first English-language account of Finland’s war children and their experiences, told through the survivors’ own words.

Subjects: History: World War II Memory Studies

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Published April 1996
Tolerance Between Intolerance and the Intolerable

Ricoeur, P. (ed)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published February 2024
Too Jewish or Not Jewish Enough

Ritual Objects and Avant-Garde Art at the Jewish Museum of New York

Abt, J.

This volume explores the origins of the Jewish Museum of New York and its evolution from collecting and displaying Jewish ritual objects, to Jewish art, to exhibiting avant-garde art devoid of Jewish content, created by non-Jews. Established within a rabbinic seminary, the museum’s formation and development reflect changes in Jewish society over the twentieth century as it grappled with choices between religion and secularism, particularism and universalism, and ethnic pride and assimilation.

Subjects: Museum Studies Jewish Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published August 2015
Topographies of Suffering

Buchenwald, Babi Yar, Lidice

Rapson, J.

Examining the Holocaust in literature, landscape and memory, this book examines three sites of murder by the Nazis: Buchenwald, Germany; Babi Yar, Ukraine; and Lidice, Czech Republic. Balancing scrutiny with the way their violent histories are remembered globally, these sites emerge as dynamic transcultural landscapes in which difficult pasts can be comprehended in the present.

Subjects: Genocide History Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published December 2025
Torn is the Curtain

Early Film Cultures in Istanbul

Balan, C.

Re-examining film’s potential as both an artistic and ideological discipline, Torn is the Curtain interrogates the relationship between early film cultures within Istanbul and ever-changing ideas of social transformation, highlighting how emergent ideas of post-colonialism, Orientalism, and feminism impacted Turkish spectatorship culture.

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

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eBook available Published April 2020
Total Atheism

Secular Activism and the Politics of Difference in South India

Binder, S.

Exploring lived atheism in the South Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, this book offers a unique insight into India’s rapidly transforming multi-religious society and develops an alternative to Eurocentric accounts of secularity and critically revisits central themes of South Asianist scholarship from the hitherto marginalized vantage point of radically secular and explicitly irreligious atheists in India.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published July 2016
The Total Work of Art

Foundations, Articulations, Inspirations

Imhoof, D., Menninger, M. E., & Steinhoff, A. J. (eds)

In this wide-ranging volume’s twelve compact essays, scholars from across the disciplines trace Gesamtkunstwerk—the ideal of the “total work of art”—from its foundations in the early nineteenth century to its manifold articulations and reimaginings in the twentieth century and beyond.

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

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eBook available Published May 2002
Tourism

Between Place and Performance

Coleman, S. & Crang, M. (eds)

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Theory and Methodology

Hb
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Published January 2016
Tourism and Informal Encounters in Cuba

Simoni, V.

Based on a detailed ethnography, this book explores tourism in Cuba, drawing attention to challenges that tourists and local people face in establishing meaningful connections with each other. Comparing a wide array of these experiences, the author uses tourism to offer a new understanding of how relationships across difference and inequality are imagined and understood.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism

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eBook available Published June 2014
Tourism Imaginaries

Anthropological Approaches

Salazar, N. B. & Graburn, N. H. H. (eds)

As a nexus of social practices through which individuals and groups establish places and peoples as credible objects of tourism, “tourism imaginaries” have yet to be fully explored. Presenting innovative conceptual approaches, this volume advances ethnographic research methods and critical scholarship regarding tourism and the imaginaries that drive it.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

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Tourism, Magic and Modernity

Cultivating the Human Garden

Picard, D.

“...an excellent and engaging commentary on the tourism industry, postcolonial societies and environmental governance. Its strength lies in the nuance and intricacy of its portrayals of social life and the way that it opens up a difficult yet much needed theoretical space in which to contemplate issues such as how we should investigate tourist subjectivity, how collective imaginaries are formed and sustained, and how dynamics of affect and desire constitute tourism as a social practice. Its readability and the vividness of characterisations in Picard’s accounts of his ethnographic observations will make the book an accessible and appealing text to students of tourism studies and social anthropology, and to these fields it makes a notable contribution.” · Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

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Published January 1995
Toward a Global Civil Society

Walzer, M. (ed)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
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Published June 2005
Toward a Global Community of Historians

The International Historical Congresses and the International Committee of Historical Sciences, 1898-2000

Erdmann, K.

Subject: History (General)

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Published January 2001
Toward a Social History of Knowledge

Collected Essays

Ringer, F.

Subjects: Educational Studies History (General)

Hb
eBook available Published July 2013
Toward Engaged Anthropology

Beck, S. & Maida, C. A. (ed)

Subject: Applied Anthropology

Pb
eBook available Published February 2025
Towards a British Natyam

Creating a British Classical Indian Dance Tradition

Gorringe, M.

An illuminating investigation into the ‘professionalization’ of classical Indian dance forms in Britain, Towards a British Natyam critically analyzes the cultural, social, and political frameworks that make a ‘profession’ within the arts possible, highlighting the transformational power of classical Indian dance within society to decenter white supremacy and recenter pluriversality.

Subjects: Performance Studies Heritage Studies Sociology

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eBook available Published August 2022
Towards a Collaborative Memory

German Memory Work in a Transnational Context

Jones, S.

For the first time, this volume creates a sustained study that positions together transnational memory and relational sociology to consider the memory of the GDR. Towards a Collaborative Memory advances the field of transnational memory studies and develops new theoretical approaches that re-evaluate our understanding of actor-driven European memory.

Subjects: Memory Studies Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published October 2025
Towards an Anthropology of Psychology

Ethnographic Studies of Psychological Healthcare

Bruun, M. K. & Hutten, R. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology

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Published January 1998
Towards Emancipation

German Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century

Diethe, C.

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

Hb
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eBook available Published August 2021
Tracing Slavery

The Politics of Atlantic Memory in The Netherlands

Balkenhol, M.

Looking at the ways in which the memory of slavery affects present-day relations in Amsterdam, this ethnographic account reveals a paradox: while there is growing official attention to the country’s slavery past (monuments, festivals, ritual occasions), many interlocutors showed little interest in the topic. This book follows the issue of slavery in everyday realities and offers a fine-grained ethnography of how people refer to this past.

Subjects: Memory Studies Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies

Hb
Published January 2001
Trade Unions, Immigration, and Immigrants in Europe, 1960-1993

A Comparative Study of the Actions of Trade Unions in Seven West European Countries

Penninx, R. & Roosblad, J. (eds)

Subject: History (General)

Hb
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Published December 2005
Traditions of East Asian Travel

Fogel, J.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published July 2009
The Train Journey

Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust

Gigliotti, S.

Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History Memory Studies Transport Studies

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Published November 2004
Transactions and Creations

Property Debates and The Stimulus of Melanesia

Hirsch, E. & Strathern, M. (eds)

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Published February 2016
Transactions with the World

Ecocriticism and the Environmental Sensibility of New Hollywood

O'Brien, A.

One of the less explored dimensions of the “New Hollywood” canon of the 1960s and 1970s has been its profound environmental sensibility. This engaging study examines how a number of factors made the era such a vividly “grounded” cinematic moment.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Environmental Studies (General)

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Published December 1999
Transactions, Transgressions, Transformation

American Culture in Western Europe and Japan

Fehrenbach, H. & Poiger, U. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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a April 2012
Transatlantic Echoes

Alexander von Humboldt in World Literature

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

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
Published October 2015
Transatlantic Parallaxes

Toward Reciprocal Anthropology

Raulin, A. & Rogers, S. C. (eds)

Now that we live in a world that seems increasingly familiar, putatively marked by a spreading sameness, anthropology must re-envision itself. This volume, the product of a novel encounter of American anthropologists of France and French anthropologists of the United States, explores the possibilities of that path through an experiment in the reciprocal production of knowledge.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Published March 2013
The Transatlantic World of Higher Education

Americans at German Universities, 1776-1914

Werner, A.

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

Hb
eBook available Published July 2017
Transborder Media Spaces

Ayuujk Videomaking between Mexico and the US

Kummels, I.

Transborder Media Spaces offers a new perspective on how various media forms have been appropriated by Mexican indigenous people in the light of transnational migration and ethnopolitical movements. Within new media spaces, the Ayuujk people carve out their own visions of development, modernity, gender, and indigeneity in the twenty-first century.

Subjects: Anthropology (General)

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Published October 2021
Transcending the Nostalgic

Landscapes of Postindustrial Europe beyond Representation

Jaramillo, G. S. & Tomann, J. (eds)

This collection explores the affective and “more-than-representational” dimensions of post-industrial landscapes, analyzing narratives, practices, social formations, and other phenomena. Focusing on case studies from across Europe, it examines both the objective and the subjective aspects of societies that produce fewer things and employ fewer workers.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Heritage Studies

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Transcultural Montage

Suhr, C. & Willerslev, R. (eds)

“This is an ambitious and ground-breaking volume which takes a thoroughly interdisciplinary perspective on what the editors have branded as ‘transcultural montage.’ ...The total effect is a mesmerising and in many ways insightful comparative endeavour that will do much to consolidate montage as a theme that goes to the heart of contemporary social theory.” · Martin Holbraad, University College London

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Film and Television Studies Museum Studies

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Published October 1999
Transformation of the German Political Party System

Institutional Crisis or Democratic Renewal

Allen, C. S. (ed)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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Published October 2008
Transformations and Crises

The Left and the Nation in Denmark and Sweden, 1956-1980

Jørgensen, T. E.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Forthcoming January 2027
Transformations of Hierarchies in Western Ethiopia

Negotiating Mao Identity and Ethnicity in Everyday Life

Küspert-Rakotondrainy, S.

Examining the historical and political transformations of the Mao social identity in Western Ethiopia, the book challenges the assumption that ethnicity determines social position. It shows how local hierarchies shape the meaning and impact of social identities.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Development Studies
eBook available Published October 2021
Transforming Author Museums

From Sites of Pilgrimage to Cultural Hubs

Spring, U., Schimanski, J., & Aarbakke, T. (eds)

Literary museums today must respond to new challenges; the traditional image of the author’s home museum as a sacred place of literary pilgrimage centered around a national hero has been questioned, and literary museums have begun to develop new strategies. The book addresses how literary museums have changed since the form was established, what challenges they face today and how we might imagine them in the future.

Subjects: Museum Studies Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

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eBook available Published December 2018
Transforming Study Abroad

A Handbook

Doerr, N. M.

Written for study abroad practitioners, this book approaches key study abroad concepts – such as “culture”, “native speaker”, and “immersion” – from a number of theoretical perspectives, and considers study abroad not as an encounter with cultural others, but as an occasion to analyze constructions of “differences” in daily life.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Educational Studies Mobility Studies

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eBook available Published February 2009
Transgressive Sex

Subversion and Control in Erotic Encounters

Donnan, H. & Magowan, F. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Hb
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eBook available Published April 2013
Transitions and Transformations

Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course

Lynch, C. & Danely, J. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Hb
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Published September 2023
Translocal Care across Kosovo’s Borders

Reconfiguring Kinship along Gender and Generational Lines

Leutloff-Grandits, C.

By tracing long-distant family relations with a special focus on cross-border marriages, this study looks at the reconfiguration of care relations, gender and generational roles among kin-members of Kosovo, who now live in different European states.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
Published September 2010
The Transnational Condition

Protest Dynamics in an Entangled Europe

Teune, S. (ed)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Published February 2010
Transnational Families, Migration and Gender

Moroccan and Filipino Women in Bologna and Barcelona

Zontini, E.

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

Hb
Published May 2006
Transnational Nomads

How Somalis Cope with Refugee Life in the Dadaab Camps of Kenya

Horst, C.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published October 2021
Transnational Railway Cultures

Trains in Music, Literature, Film, and Visual Art

Fraser, B. & Spalding, S. (eds)

Spanning five continents and a diverse range of contexts, this collection offers an unprecedentedly broad survey of global representations of trains. From experimental novels to Hollywood blockbusters, the works studied here chart fascinating routes across a remarkably varied cultural landscape.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
Published November 2016
Transnational Struggles for Recognition

New Perspectives on Civil Society since the 20th Century

Gosewinkel, D. & Rucht, D. (eds)

“Recognition” is a critical concept for social movements, and while its theoretical and empirical dimensions have usually been studied separately, this collection focuses on both against a transnational backdrop. With special emphasis on the efforts of women’s and Jewish organizations in 20th-century Europe, it demonstrates exemplary historical-analytical approaches to the subject.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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eBook available Published April 2025
Transnationalities of Migrant Moral Economies in a Transforming World

Čiubrinskas, V. & Glick Schiller, N. (eds)

An enlightening reassessment of migrant moral economies, Transnationalities of Migrant Moral Economies in a Transforming World examines the transformative potential of transnational mobility to create social networks capable of resisting authoritarianism and of rethinking reciprocity in a rapidly changing world.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

Hb
Published August 2011
Transregional and Transnational Families in Europe and Beyond

Experiences Since the Middle Ages

Johnson, C. H., Sabean, D. W., Teuscher, S. & Trivellato, F. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

Hb
eBook available Published February 2015
Trapped in the Gap

Doing Good in Indigenous Australia

Kowal, E.

Trapped in the Gap explores what happens when a group of state-supported, intelligent and well-meaning people attempt to help without harming. This group of “white anti-racists” find themselves trapped by endless ambiguities, contradictions, and double binds, a microcosm of the broader dilemmas of postcolonial societies.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies

Hb
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eBook available Published September 2021
Traumatic Pasts in Asia

History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present

Micale, M. S. & Pols, H. (eds)

Traumatic Pasts in Asia extends Euro-American paradigms of traumatic experience to new sites of world-historical suffering and, in the process, explores how these new terrains of investigation inform and enrich earlier understandings.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies Medical Anthropology

Hb
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eBook available Published July 2017
Travel and Representation

Lean, G., Staiff, R., & Waterton, E. (eds)

Exploring and re-examining the various convergences between literature, art, photography, television, cinema and travel, this collection offers a careful appreciation of the entanglement of travel and its representations, emphasizing a reconsideration of the intersections between travelers, fields of representation, imagination, emotions and corporeal experiences in the past, the present and future.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Travel and Tourism Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

Hb
eBook available Published December 2007
Traveling Cultures and Plants

The Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacy of Human Migrations

Pieroni, A. & Vandebroek, I. (eds)

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

Hb
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eBook available Published February 2025
Traveling Models and Practical Norms

The Misadventures of Social Engineering in Africa and Beyond

Olivier de Sardan, J.-P.

Traveling Models and Practical Norms examines how different modes of governance that deliver services of general interest experience significant gaps between explicit rules of the game and implicit practices, between planned actions and daily routines.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies

Hb
eBook available Published September 2018
Travelling towards Home

Mobilities and Homemaking

Frost, N. & Selwyn, T. (eds)

This collection brings ethnographic insight into the ever more topical question of homemaking, exploring a diverse range of socio-political contexts worldwide (from Jewish returnees from Israel to Ukraine to young gay South Asians in London) and provoking new understandings of the material and symbolic process of making oneself “at home.”

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies

Hb
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eBook available Published June 2018
Travelling with the Argonauts

Informal Networks Seen without a Vertical Lens

Irek, M.

Travelling with the Argonauts offers a new perspective in the research of the social space, reflecting on how best to investigate amorphous social phenomena, such as informal networks. Breaking with much current theory, it considers informality not as marginal or substandard, but as life itself, as the real experience of ordinary people.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Mobility Studies

Hb
Published October 2016
Trees, Knots, and Outriggers

Environmental Knowledge in the Northeast Kula Ring

Damon, F. H.

Trees, Knots and Outriggers (Kaynen Muyuw) is the culmination of twenty-five years of work by Frederick H. Damon and his attention to cultural adaptations to the environment in Melanesia.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published May 2024
The Trial of a Nazi Doctor

Franz Lucas as Defendant, Opportunist, and Deceiver

Wisely, A.

The Trial of a Nazi Doctor documents the career, crimes, and prosecution of Franz Bernhard Lucas (1911-1994), an SS camp doctor who tried to deflect his participation in the Nazi’s genocidal projects and juxtaposes them with a wide range of testimonials from witnesses including former camp inmates and Holocaust survivors.

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Published September 2013
Trieglaff

Balancing Church and Politics in a Pomeranian World, 1807-1948

Thadden, R. von

“The story [the author] tells is rich and fascinating…[He] traces very effectively the economic evolution of Junker agriculture across the generations…I learned a lot from the book.” · Jonathan Steinberg, author of Bismarck. A Life

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

Hb
Published December 1995
The Triumph of Propaganda

Film and National Socialism 1933-1945

Hoffmann, H.

Subjects: History: World War II Film and Television Studies

Hb
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eBook available Published March 2025
Tropical Nature

Colonial and Post-Colonial Conservation in Africa and Asia

Blanc, G., Guérin, M., & Quenet, G. (eds)

An insightful and wide-ranging study of the colonial history of conservation projects, Tropical Nature seeks to provide a much-needed history of the Global South from its own perspective. In doing so, this volume collection spotlights a “small-scale global history” that deciphers the relations binding human societies to the non-human world.

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

Hb
eBook available Published May 2016
Tropics of Vienna

Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire

Bach, U. E.

Though not a conventional colonial power, the Austrian Empire had a metropole-periphery structure that shaped its cultural and intellectual life. This book illuminates colonial utopian writing in the work of Roth, Herzl, and others, revealing a shared longing for alternative social and spatial configurations.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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eBook available Published January 2022
Tropological Thought and Action

Essays on the Poetics of Imagination

Živković, M., Pelkey, J. & Fernandez, J. W. (eds)

From twilight in the Himalayas to dream worlds in the Serbian state, this book provides a unique collection of anthropological and cross-cultural inquiry into the power of rhetorical tropes and their relevance to the formation and analysis of social thought and action through a series of ethnographic essays offering in-depth studies of the human imagination at work and play around the world.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Hb
Published March 2003
Troubles with Turtles

Cultural Understandings of the Environment on a Greek Island

Theodossopoulos, D.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published January 2016
Trust Us

Reproducing the Nation and the Scandinavian Nationalist Populist Parties

Hellström, A.

In order to affect domestic politics, Scandinavian populist parties must cross the threshold to the national parliament while earning the nation’s trust. While the Progress Party in Norway and the Danish People’s Party have, the Sweden Democrats has not. The fissures in public opinion lead to a polarized public debate that raises the question of national identity, of what we are.

Subjects: Sociology History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
eBook available Published April 2016
Trusting and its Tribulations

Interdisciplinary Engagements with Intimacy, Sociality and Trust

Broch-Due, V. & Ystanes, M. (eds)

Despite its immense significance and ubiquity in our everyday lives, the complex workings of trust are poorly understood and theorized. This volume explores trust and mistrust amidst locally situated scenes of sociality and intimacy.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Hb
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eBook available Published February 2012
Tuff City

Urban Change and Contested Space in Central Naples

Dines, N.

Subjects: Urban Studies Sociology Anthropology (General)

Hb
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Published May 1996
Turkish Culture in German Society

Horrocks, D. & Kolinsky, E. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published October 2012
Turkish German Cinema in the New Millennium

Sites, Sounds, and Screens

Hake, S. & Mennel, B. (eds)

Subject: Film and Television Studies

Hb
Paperback available
Published May 2011
Turks in Europe

From Guest Worker to Transnational Citizen

Abadan-Unat, N.†

Subject: Refugee and Migration Studies

Hb
Published May 2006
Turning the Kaleidoscope

Perspectives on European Jewry

Lustig, S. & Leveson, I. (eds)

Subjects: Jewish Studies Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published November 2009
Turning the Tune

Traditional Music, Tourism, and Social Change in an Irish Village

Kaul, A.

Subjects: Performance Studies Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published July 2019
Twilight of the Merkel Era

Power and Politics in Germany after the 2017 Bundestag Election

Langenbacher, E. (ed)

Elections always have consequences, but the 2017 Bundestag election in Germany proved particularly consequential. With political upheaval across the globe—notably in Britain and the USA—it was vital to European and global order that Germany remain stable.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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eBook available Published May 2021
A Twisted Style

The Culture of Dreadlocks in “Western” Societies

Jerrentrup, M. T.

In "western" cultures, some people have chosen a dreadlock hairstyle, despite many in mainstream society looking at it in a negative light. Based on interviews and close observations in social media, the book offers insights into the culture(s) surrounding dreadlocks and ultimately interprets the phenomenon as a postmodern form of individuality.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Hb
Published July 2024
Two Against the Tide

The shared career and lost legacy of Brenda and Charles Seligman

Lazarsfeld-Jensen, A.

When Charles Seligman invited his wife, Brenda, to share his tent in 1907, he sanctioned a professional place for female fieldworkers in anthropology. Two Against the Tide explores how as wealthy Anglo-Jews, Charles and Brenda Seligman built a shared career through secret benevolence and silent endurance of hardship.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

Hb
Published January 1996
Two Armies and One Fatherland

The End of the Nationale Volksarmee

Schönbohm, J.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
eBook available Published October 2006
Two Lives in Uncertain Times

Facing the Challenges of the 20th Century as Scholars and Citizens

Iggers, W., & Iggers, G.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
Published January 2013
Two Sides of One River

Nationalism and Ethnography in Galicia and Portugal

Medeiros, A.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Hb
eBook available Published February 2020
A U-Turn to the Future

Sustainable Urban Mobility since 1850

Emanuel, M., Schipper. F., & Oldenziel, R. (eds)

Unsustainable practices since the Industrial Revolution still impact our everyday lives. This book looks at how we can achieve sustainable urban mobility now and in the future by tapping into our knowledge of the historical trajectories leading up to the features of modern mobility in cities today.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Transport Studies Urban Studies

Hb
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Published November 2014
U.S. Foreign Policy and the Other

Cullinane, M. P. & Ryan, D. (eds)

John Quincy Adams warned Americans not to search abroad for monsters to destroy, yet such figures have frequently habituated the discourses of U.S. foreign policy. This collection of essays focuses on counter-identities in American consciousness to explain how foreign policies and the discourse surrounding them develop.

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
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Published November 2015
Ultimate Ambiguities

Investigating Death and Liminality

Berger, P. & Kroesen, J. (eds)

Although dying can be seen as the paradigm of liminality, because periods of transition are often associated with death, many volumes on death in the social sciences do not specifically address liminality. This book investigates these “ultimate ambiguities” as crucial periods of creativity, change, and emergent aspects of social and religious life.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

Hb
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Published June 2021
Un-Settling Middle Eastern Refugees

Regimes of Exclusion and Inclusion in the Middle East, Europe, and North America

Inhorn, M. C. & Volk, L. (eds)

Since the Iraq war, the Middle East has been in continuous upheaval, resulting in the displacement of millions of people. Arriving from Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, and Syria in other parts of the world, the refugees show remarkable resilience and creativity amidst profound adversity. Through careful ethnography, this book vividly illustrates how refugees navigate regimes of exclusion, including cumbersome bureaucracies, financial insecurities, medical challenges, vilifying stereotypes, and threats of violence and bears witness to their struggles.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published December 2024
(Un)Settling Place

Diverse and Divergent Place-Making of People on the Move

Winters, N., Drotbohm, H., & Guevara González, Y. (eds)

An illuminating ethnographic study of placemaking, (Un)Settling Place examines the nature of places that are remote, peripheral, and “along-the-way” of migrant journeys, highlighting the key role they play in the shaping of people’s mobilities and identities.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Mobility Studies Anthropology (General)
Published June 2000
Under Siege

Portraits of Civilian Life in France During World War I

Young, R. (ed)

Subject: History: World War I

Hb
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eBook available Published August 2020
Under the Sign of the Cross

The People’s Salvation Cathedral and the Church-Building Industry in Postsocialist Romania

Tateo, G.

Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book investigates the construction of the world’s highest Orthodox cathedral in Bucharest, Romania. Through the notion of re-consecration, the book brings together sociological and anthropological scholarship on eastern Christianity, secularization, postsocialist urban change and nationalism in a vivid account of societal transformation.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Urban Studies

Hb
eBook available Published 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

Hb
eBook available Published May 2017
Understanding Conflicts about Wildlife

A Biosocial Approach

Hill, C. M., Webber, A. D. & Priston, N. E. C. (eds)

Conflicts about wildlife are usually portrayed as resulting from the negative impacts of wildlife on human livelihoods or property. However, deeper analysis reveals that these conflicts are often better understood as people-people conflicts. Understanding Conflicts About Wildlife unites academics and practitioners to consider the political and social dimensions of ‘human-wildlife conflicts’.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published August 2013
Understanding Cultural Transmission in Anthropology

A Critical Synthesis

Ellen, R., Lycett, S. J., & Johns, S. E. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Archaeology

Hb
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Published September 1996
Understanding Impoverishment

The Consequences of Development-Induced Displacement

McDowell, C. (ed)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies Theory and Methodology

Hb
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Published March 2014
Understanding Multiculturalism

The Habsburg Central European Experience

Feichtinger, J. & Cohen, G. B. (eds)

The essays in this collection offer a nuanced analysis of the multifaceted cultural experience of Central Europe under the late Habsburg monarchy and beyond. The authors examine how culturally coded social spaces can be described and understood historically without adopting categories formerly employed to justify the definition and separation of groups into nations, ethnicities, or homogeneous cultures. As we consider the issues of multiculturalism today, this volume offers new approaches to understanding multiculturalism in Central Europe freed of the effects of politically exploited concepts of social spaces.

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

Hb
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Published December 1997
An Understanding of Judaism

Rayner, J. D.

Subject: Jewish Studies

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published June 2025
Understanding Social Images

Essays on Visual Methods and Teaching Anthropology

Banks, M.
Zeitlyn, D. & El Khachab, C. (eds)

Marcus Banks was one of the scholars who changed the way visual anthropology and visual methods were regarded in social and cultural anthropology. This collection of Banks’ essays considers the role of collaboration in the making of ethnographic films and makes the case for slow research.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Hb
eBook available Published October 2017
Unearthing the Past to Forge the Future

Colin Mackenzie, the Early Colonial State, and the Comprehensive Survey of India

Wolffhardt, T.

During the 1800s, the East India Company consolidated its rule in India. In desperate need of knowledge about this territory and its population, the company appointed Colin Mackenzie as the first Surveyor General of India. Unearthing the Past to Forge the Future explores the life and career of Mackenzie, and his massive survey of India.

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

Hb
Published September 2024
Unexpected Encounters

Migrants and Tourists in the Mediterranean

Vietti, F.

Exploring different dimensions of the intersection of migration and tourism in the Mediterranean, this book is the result of extensive ethnographic research carried out over a decade in the Mediterranean region. It shows how migration and tourism play complementary roles in boosting the global dynamics of cultural, social, economic and political transformation in the Mediterranean.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism
Published July 2014
Unforgotten

Love and the Culture of Dementia Care in India

Brijnath, B.

Though the number of people living with dementia in India will rise with increased life expectancy, little is known about how people in India cope with dementia. Unforgotten offers a rich ethnographic account of how middle-class families in urban India care for their relatives with dementia—illuminating idioms on dementia and aging, the experience of care-giving, and the social and cultural barriers in accessing support.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Hb
Published November 2023
The UNHCR and the Afghan Crisis

The Making of the International Refugee Regime

Scalettaris, G.

Today the UNHCR is present in more than 130 countries and takes care of some 90 million people. This book looks at how it is deployed and who its agents are. By taking the reader through the offices in charge of the Afghan refugee crisis during the 2000s, in Geneva and in Kabul, the book shows the internal functioning of this international organization.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies
Published March 2004
United and Divided

Germany since 1990

Dennis M. & Kolinsky, E. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
eBook available Published July 2013
United Germany

Debating Processes and Prospects

Jarausch, K. H. (ed)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published November 2009
United in Discontent

Local Responses to Cosmopolitanism and Globalization

Theodossopoulos, D. & Kirtsoglou, E. (eds)

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
Published August 1994
Uniting Germany

Documents and Debates

Jarausch, K. & Gransow, V.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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Published January 1995
Universities in the Twenty-first Century

Muller, S. (ed)

Subject: Educational Studies

Hb
Published November 2000
Universities Remembering Europe

Nations, Culture and Higher Education

Crawley, F., Smeyers, P. & Standish, P. (eds)

Subject: Educational Studies

Hb
eBook available Published January 2021
Unlocking the Love-Lock

The History and Heritage of a Contemporary Custom

Houlbrook, C.

A padlock is a mundane object, designed to fulfil a specific – and secular – purpose. A contemporary custom has given padlocks new significance155. This custom is ‘love-locking’, where padlocks are engraved with names and attached to bridges in declaration of romantic commitment. This book explores the worldwide popularity of the love-lock as a ritual token of love and commitment by considering its history, symbolism, and heritage.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Archaeology Museum Studies Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published March 2025
Unraveling Management

Its Institutions, Practices and Beliefs

Carrier, J. G. (ed)

Management is everywhere. Schools teach it and professional organisations counsel about it. Books and articles are written for managers and about them. Management is usually understood in terms of styles of management, management policies and successful management but few tend to think about management in an abstract sense. This book addresses this gap.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Applied Anthropology Sociology

Hb
Published May 2011
Unruly Hills

A Political Ecology of India's Northeast

Karlsson, B. G.

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

Hb
eBook available Published October 2010
Unsafe Motherhood

Mayan Maternal Mortality and Subjectivity in Post-War Guatemala

Berry, N.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published July 2026
The Unsettled Clock

The Persistence of Time Pluralism

Birth, K.

The history of timekeeping is complex and ever progressing. The Unsettled Clock: The Persistence of Time Pluralism explores time pluralism by documenting historical cases and examining its persistence in present time, offering a political and historical analysis of how timekeeping has been shaped, challenged, and manipulated.

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

Hb
Published February 2005
Unsilencing the Past

Track-Two Diplomacy and Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation

Phillips, D.L.

Subject: Peace and Conflict Studies

Hb
eBook available Published August 2022
Unusual Death and Memorialization

Burial, Space, and Memory in the Post-Medieval North

Kallio-Seppa, T., Lipkin, S., Väre, T., Moilanen, U. & Tranberg, A. (eds)

Most cultures and societies have their own customs and traditions of treating their dead. In the past, some deceased received a burial that deviated from tradition. The reasons for unusual burial could result from reasons such as outbreaks of epidemics or wars, or from premature births, distinctive social status, or disability. The case studies introduce varied views on ‘otherness’ that are visible in burial customs and memorialization.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Memory Studies

Hb
eBook available Published October 2009
Unveiling the Whale

Discourses on Whales and Whaling

Kalland, A.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published June 2013
Up Close and Personal

On Peripheral Perspectives and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge

Shore, C. & Trnka, S. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Hb
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eBook available Published August 2014
Up, Down, and Sideways

Anthropologists Trace the Pathways of Power

Stryker, R. & González, R. (eds)

Up, Down, and Sidewaysis a collection of essays by ten anthropologists who use a “vertical slice” approach to critically analyze the relationship between undemocratic and sometimes authoritarian uses and abuses of power today and the survival of the human species. It is atimely examination of modern institutions ranging from the nuclear family to transnational corporations within such countries as Russia, Mexico, South Korea, Peru, Indonesia, Guatemala, and the U.S.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Applied Anthropology

Hb
Paperback available
Published February 2016
The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective

Knörr, J. & Kohl, C. (eds)

For centuries, Africa’s Upper Guinea Coast region has been the site of regional and global interactions, with societies from different parts of the world engaging in economic trade, cultural exchange, and conflict. This book examines how such encounters have continued into the present day, identifying the disruptions and continuities in social phenomena that have resulted.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) History (General) Colonial History

Paperback available
Forthcoming September 2026
Urban Biopolitics

Lives and Spaces in Baltic and Eastern Europe

Makarychev, A.

Comparing Estonia and Ukraine, this book explores urban governance through the lens of biopolitics. It examines how geopolitical pressures shape the management of urban populations, revealing how cities become key sites where lifestyle, security, and political calculation intersect.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Urban Studies
Published March 2024
Urban Displacement

Syria's Refugees in the Middle East

Knudsen, A. J. & Tobin, S. A. (eds)

Syria’s massive displacement (2012–present) is one of the largest, most complex and intractable humanitarian emergencies today. Urban Displacement examines multiple dimensions of this crisis from political and socioeconomic predicaments to questions of social belonging, the complexity of the international, regional and national responses and how they affect urban spaces.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

Paperback available
eBook available Published March 2018
Urban Dreams

Transformations of Family Life in Burkina Faso

Roth, C.
de Jong, W., Perlik, M., Steuer, N., & Znoj, H. (eds)

This collection of Claudia Roth's work closely documents the livelihood strategies of members of various neighbourhoods in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. This collection focuses on notions of “the African family” as a solidary network, changing marriage and kinship relations, and increasingly precarious social status of young women and men.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Urban Studies

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published January 2022
An Urban Future for Sápmi?

Indigenous Urbanization in the Nordic States and Russia

Berg-Nordlie, M., Dankertsen, A, & Winsvold, M. (eds)

Presenting the political and cultural processes that occur within the indigenous Sámi people of North Europe as they undergo urbanization, this book examines how they have retained their sense of history and culture in this new setting. The book is written by a team of researchers, mostly Sámi, from all the countries covered in the book.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published September 2023
Urban Natures

Living the More-than-Human City

Edwards, F., PEttersen, I. N. & Popartan, L. (eds)

Urban Natures explores the diversity, abundance, and impact of the conventional and future framings of urban natures. Recognizing a green resurgence in cities is underway, this volume applies a critical approach to examine urban greening histories, politics, discourses and ecologies

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Hb
eBook available Published August 2010
Urban Pollution

Cultural Meanings, Social Practices

Dürr, E. & Jaffe, R. (eds)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Urban Studies Development Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published April 2012
Urban Residence

Housing and Social Transformations in Globalizing Ecuador

Klaufus, C.

Subjects: Urban Studies Applied Anthropology Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published June 2020
Urban Sustainability in the Arctic

Measuring Progress in Circumpolar Cities

Orttung, R. W.

Urban Sustainability in the Arctic advances our understanding of cities in the far north by applying elements of the international standard for urban sustainability (ISO 37120) to numerous Arctic cities. In delivering rich material about northern cities in Alaska, Canada, and Russia, the book examines how well the ISO 37120 measures sustainability and how well it applies in northern conditions.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology Urban Studies

Hb
Published March 2015
Urban Violence in the Middle East

Changing Cityscapes in the Transition from Empire to Nation State

Freitag, U., Fuccaro, N., Ghrawi, C., & Lafi, N., (eds)

This volume explores the phenomenon of urban violence in order to unveil general developments and historical specificities in a variety of Middle Eastern contexts. The case studies counter notions of a violent Middle East to foster a new understanding of violent behavior in this region.

Subjects: Urban Studies History (General)

Hb
Paperback available
Published May 2026
Urbanizing the Future

A New City Project in Agrarian South India

Upadhya, C.

Tracing the rise, abandonment and revival of Amaravati, the new capital of Andhra Pradesh, Urbanizing the Future delves into the ambitions plan to build a brand-new city in an agrarian landscape. Combining political economy and history with long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this book offers a compelling critique of planned urbanization as a contested and uneven process in contemporary India.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies Development Studies
Published January 2025
Value and Worthlessness

The Rise of the Populist Right and Other Disruptions in the Anthropology of Capitalism

Kalb, D.

Advocating for an interdisciplinary Marxist anthropology of the present, this book uses historical and global anthropology to engage with history, theory, unevenness, and comparison, while using “global ethnography” and “hidden histories” as the keys to social discovery.

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available Published September 2019
The Vampire

Origins of a European Myth

Bohn, T. M.

Drawing on a wealth of heretofore neglected sources from multiple languages, this book gives a fascinating account of how vampires—whose various incarnations originally developed within the folk traditions of societies throughout the world—came to be inextricably tied to Eastern Europe in the popular imagination.

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

Hb
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Published May 2014
Vanished History

The Holocaust in Czech and Slovak Historical Culture

Sniegon, T.

“This book opens up important issues not dealt with extensively in the historiography so far. Unlike with some other post-Communist countries, and Poland in particular, there hasn't been that much interest in the topic of commemoration and historicisation of the Holocaust in post-Communist Czechoslovakia…The author should be praised for the critical distance with which he approaches the historical cultures in both parts of former Czechoslovakia and its actors.” · Michal Frankl, Jewish Museum in Prague

Subjects: Genocide History History: World War II Jewish Studies

Hb
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Published September 2024
Vanquished and Victorious

World War One Veterans in Austria and Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938

Šmidrkal, V., Cole, L., Leidinger, H., Kučera, R., Walleczek-Fritz, J., & Šustrová, R.

Innovatively providing a comparative investigation of Austria and Czechoslovakia as key ‘successor states’ of the Habsburg Empire, Vanquished and Victorious reviews the considerable gaps in our understanding of the role veterans played.

Subjects: History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present
Published February 2014
Variations on Uzbek Identity

Strategic Choices, Cognitive Schemas and Political Constraints in Identification Processes

Finke, P.

“…a meticulous study of ethnic groups faring in different regions of contemporary Uzbekistan. Nowadays, when there are so many unjustifiable restrictions imposed by the Karimov regime for foreign students who are eager to study Uzbek society, this book is a lucky example of a scholar who managed, in spite all restrictions, to conduct and complete substantial fieldwork research in four regions of Uzbekistan.” · Alisher Ilkhamov, Independent Scholar

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published August 2014
Vehicles

Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination

Lipset, D. & Handler, R. (eds)

On-the-ground vehicles offer themselves as rich metaphors for the moral imagination, for thinking about ethical dimensions of the social. Vehicles presents a collection of ethnographic essays on the metaphoric significance of vehicles in different cultures, from canoes in Papua New Guinea to cars in contemporary China, Japan, and Eastern Europe. Vehicles not only “carry people around,” but also “carry” how they relate to culture, politics and history.

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

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published February 2020
Velvet Retro

Postsocialist Nostalgia and the Politics of Heroism in Czech Popular Culture

Pehe, V.

This innovative study develops the concept of “retro” to describe the nuanced and ironic depiction of the past as seen in Czech popular culture. It locates a distinctively retro aesthetic in Czech literature, film, and other cultural forms, enriching our understanding of not only the nation’s memory culture, but also the ways in which popular culture can structure collective memory.

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

Hb
Paperback available
Published June 2003
A Venetian Island

Environment, History and Change in Burano

Sciama, L. D.

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

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published September 2021
Vertiginous Life

An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen

Knight, D. M.

Through individual stories from crisis Greece, this book explores the everyday effects of vertigo: nausea, dizziness, breathlessness, the sense of falling, and unknowingness of Self. Being lost in time, caught in the spin-cycle of crisis, people reflect on belonging to modern Europe, neoliberal promises of accumulation, defeated futures, and the existential dilemmas of life held captive.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
Published April 2008
Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance

St John, G. (ed)

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

Hb
eBook available Published January 2022
The Vienna Gestapo, 1938-1945

Crimes, Perpetrators, Victims

Boeckl-Klamper, E., Mang, T., & Neugebauer, W.

The Vienna Gestapo was the most important instrument of Nazi terror on Austrian soil. Through expert historical analysis of the Vienna Gestapo in the years 1938-1945, this volume provides a comprehensive presentation of not only the victims of persecution but also of the structures, organization and individuals actively involved on the Gestapo side.

Subjects: History: World War II Jewish Studies

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published October 2011
Vienna Is Different

Jewish Writers in Austria from the Fin-de-Siècle to the Present

Herzog, H. H.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present Literary Studies

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published January 2013
The Viennese Café and Fin-de-Siècle Culture

Ashby, C., Gronberg, T. & Shaw-Miller, S. (eds)

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

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published January 2019
Views of Violence

Representing the Second World War in German and European Museums and Memorials

Echternkamp, J. & Jaeger, S. (eds)

The modern vision of historical violence has been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War. This volume takes a historical perspective on World War II museums and explores how these institutions came to define the broader European, and even global, political contexts and cultures of public memory.

Subjects: Museum Studies History: World War II Memory Studies

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published October 2015
Viktor Frankl's Search for Meaning

An Emblematic 20th-Century Life

Pytell, T.

Viktor Frankl was a psychiatrist and philosopher who survived the Holocaust and went on to found the third school of Viennese psychotherapy. By critically examining the details of his intellectual life, including some previously unknown biographical details, we can begin to see the fascinating ambiguities and contradictions in Frankl’s thought.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
Published December 1993
Villages in the Steppe

Late Neolithic Settlement and Subsistence in the Balikh Valley, Northern Syria

Akkermans, P. M.

In this book, Akkermans provides a systematic overview of the Halaf culture in the Syrian portion of the valley of the Balikh River, a tributary of the Euphrates.

Subject: Archaeology

Hb
Paperback available
Published August 2016
Violent Becomings

State Formation, Sociality, and Power in Mozambique

Bertelsen, B. E.

Violent Becomings sheds light on violence in the periods of colonial and postcolonial state formation by conceptualizing the state not as the bureaucratically ordered polity of the nation-state, but as a continuously evolving and violently challenged mode of social ordering.

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

Paperback available
eBook available Published April 2018
The Virago Story

Assessing the Impact of a Feminist Publishing Phenomenon

Riley, C.

The Virago Story provides a comprehensive history of classic feminist publisher Virago, along with an up-to-date analysis of the four waves of feminism, new strands of feminist analysis and praxis, and publishing trends.

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

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published November 2009
Virtualism, Governance and Practice

Vision and Execution in Environmental Conservation

Carrier, J. C. & West, P. (eds)

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

Hb
Paperback available
Published March 2011
Vision and Change in Institutional Entrepreneurship

The Transformation from Science to Commercialization

Drori, I. & Landau, D.

Subject: Applied Anthropology

Hb
eBook available Published September 2023
Visions of Humanity

Historical Cultural Practices since 1850

Kunkel, S., Jessica Gienow-Hecht, J., & Jobs, S. (eds)

Visions of Humanity focuses on the promises and problems, the successes and the failures of “humanity” as an idea since the 19^th century. Through an international set of contributions, the volume examines the hopes and ambiguities involved in constructing, invoking, and instrumentalizing the “we” of humanity.

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
eBook available Published July 2023
Visions of Marriage

Politics and Family on Kinmen, 1920-2020

Chiu, H.-C.

Grounded in multi-generational stories from Kinmen in Taiwan, Visions of Marriage explores the historical entanglements between the pursuit of new personal and national futures. Focusing on the relational and future-making aspects of marriage, the ethnography highlights the intersection of transformations across familial generations and shifting political economies in Taiwan, and more globally. It provides comparative insights on family change and demographic shifts in Asia.>

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Paperback available
eBook available Published March 2012
Visions of the End of the Cold War in Europe, 1945-1990

Bozo, F., Rey, M.-P., Ludlow, N. P., & Rother, B. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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eBook available Published December 2017
Visitors to the House of Memory

Identity and Political Education at the Jewish Museum Berlin

Bishop Kendzia, V.

By accompanying a range of senior high school history students before, during and after their visits to the museum, Visitors to the House of Memory is an intimate exploration of how young Berliners from across the city experience the Jewish Museum Berlin.

Subjects: Museum Studies Jewish Studies Educational Studies Memory Studies

Hb
Paperback available
Published December 2007
Visual Interventions

Applied Visual Anthropology

Pink, S. (ed.)

Subjects: Applied Anthropology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published November 2017
Vital Diplomacy

The Ritual Everyday on a Dammed River in Amazonia

Nahum-Claudel. C.

Focusing on the major ceremonial cycle of the Enawene-nawe people, Vital Diplomacy sheds new light on classic Amazonian themes such as manioc cultivation and cuisine, predatory relations with non-humans, and the interplay of myth and practice, and to consider dynamics of kin, clan, and gender relations, the meaning of productive work, and practices of foreign diplomacy.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
Paperback available
Published January 1998
Vladimir Odoevsky and Romantic Poetics

Collected Essays

Cornwell, N.

Subject: Literary Studies

Hb
eBook available Published October 2017
The Voice of Prophecy

And Other Essays

Ardener, E.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
Published April 2001
Voices From the Void

The Genres of Liudmila Petrushevskaia

Dalton-Brown, S.

Subject: Literary Studies

Hb
Published October 2024
Voices in the Dark

The Energy Lives of Refugees

Rosenberg-Jansen, S.

In refugee camps all over the world, refugees are forced to secure their own access to energy and are provided with limited cooking resources and minimal electricity. Voices in the Dark draws upon a decade of original research to provide evidence on the energy lives of refugees.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
Published September 2000
Voices in Times of Change

The Role of Writers, Opposition Movements, and the Churches in the Transformation of East Germany

Rock, D. (ed)

Subjects: Literary Studies History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Hb
Published January 2024
Voices of Long-Term Care Workers

Elder Care in the Time of COVID-19 and Beyond

Freidus, A. & Shenk, D.

Based on extensive narrative interviews, this collection of essays reflects on the participants’ individual experiences and represents the voices of staff and caregivers working in long-term residential care communities, in-home and community-based programs, as well as regional aging service providers and advocates.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology Applied Anthropology

Paperback available
eBook available Published April 2026
Voices of the Dunera

Ernst Kitzinger, Exile and Essays on Internment

Spark, S., Garrett, K. & McNamara, A.

Ernst Kitzinger, a 20th-Century art historian, was one of 2,500 men arrested in 1940 as ‘enemy aliens’ and deported from Britain to Australia aboard the HMT Dunera. Incarcerated in Hay, Kitzinger and his fellow internees mused on their lot through powerful prose and poetry, published here for the first time.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War II Genocide History Refugee and Migration Studies

Hb
Published August 2008
Voices of the Valley, Voices of the Straits

How Protest Creates Communities

Porta, D. della & Piazza, G.

Subject: Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published June 2020
Voices on War and Genocide

Three Accounts of the World Wars in a Galician Town

Bartov, O. (ed)

Taking as its point of departure Omer Bartov’s acclaimed recent monograph Anatomy of a Genocide, this volume brings together three extensive and previously unknown accounts of residents from the Ukrainian town of Buczacz, covering events during and between both world wars.

Subjects: History: World War II Jewish Studies Genocide History

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published August 2009
Voyage Through the Twentieth Century

A Historian's Recollections and Reflections

Klemperer, K. von

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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eBook available Published December 2020
Waithood

Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage and Childbearing

Inhorn, M. C. & Smith-Hefner, N. J. (eds)

The concept of “Waithood” was developed by political scientist Diane Singerman to describe the expanding period of time between adolescence and full adulthood as young people wait to secure steady employment and marry. The contributors to this volume employ the waithood concept as a frame for richly detailed ethnographic studies of “youth in waiting” from a variety of world areas.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published April 2018
Waiting for Elijah

Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape

HadžiMuhamedović, S.

Waiting for Elijah is an intimate portrait of time-reckoning, syncretism and proximity in one of the world’s most polarized places, the Bosnian Field of Gacko. Based on long-term, multi-sited fieldwork, it examines the complexity of time situated between folk cosmology, political constructions of history and bodily experiences of a landscape in transition.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Refugee and Migration Studies

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A Walk to the River in Amazonia

Ordinary Reality for the Mehinaku Indians

Stang, C. D.

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

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Forthcoming February 2027
Walking in Folklore and Ethnology

Themes, Practices and Methods for the Extraordinary and the Everyday

Paphitis, T., Österlund-Pötzsch, S. & Poole, S. (Eds.)

Subjects: Heritage Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published February 2022
Walls and Gateways

Contested Heritage in Dubrovnik

Loades, C. M.

Walls and Gateways provides an ethnographic case study, which explores how the production of Dubrovnik’s World Heritage intersects with the reconstruction and consolidation of identities and locality in the city’s post-war context. The book analyses how representations, perceptions and uses of Dubrovnik’s heritage are embedded in particular social and political structural conditions, cultural practices, materiality and place.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Anthropology (General) Memory Studies

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The Walls of Santiago

Social Revolution and Political Aesthetics in Contemporary Chile

Gordon-Zolov, T. & Zolov, E.

The response in Chile to Santiago’s metro’s fare hike in October of 2019 has grown into a strong and multi-faceted resistance movement. Through incisive and topical analysis, the authors offer a beautiful catalog of photographs of the murals, graffiti, and other forms of political art, reflecting on these aesthetic traditions and their relationship to the broader context of global protest movements and the long shadow cast by memories of the Pinochet regime.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present

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Walls, Borders, Boundaries

Spatial and Cultural Practices in Europe

Silberman, M., Till, K. E. & Ward, J. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Urban Studies Refugee and Migration Studies Memory Studies

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War and Women across Continents

Autobiographical and Biographical Experiences

Ardener, S., Armitage-Woodward, F., & Sciama, L.D. (eds)

Drawing on family materials, records, and eyewitness accounts, this book shows the impact of war on individual women caught up in diverse, and often treacherous, situations. Historical and modern chapters draw on vivid stories worldwide to answer the question: “How do women act in dangerous wars?”

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General)

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Published April 1996
The War for the German Mind

Re-educating Hitler's Soldiers

Smith, A. L.

Subject: History: World War II

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War Magic

Religion, Sorcery, and Performance

Farrer, D. S. (ed)

This collection documents war magic and warrior religion as performed in diverse cultures and historical time periods. By foregrounding embodiment, practice, and performance, the anthropological approaches to magic, sorcery, shamanism, and religion that the authors apply go beyond what magic ‘represents’ to consider what magic does.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Performance Studies

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Published October 2000
War of Extermination

The German Military in World War II

Heer, H. & Naumann. K. (eds)

Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History

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Published February 2001
War on the Homefront

An Examination of Wife Abuse

Haley, S. & Braun-Haley, E.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Applied Anthropology

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War Stories

The War Memoir in History and Literature

Dwyer, P. (ed)

Although war memoirs constitute a rich, varied literary form, they are often dismissed by historians as unreliable. This collection of essays is the first to explore the modern war memoir, revealing the genre’s surprising capacity for breadth and sophistication while remaining sensitive to the challenges it poses for scholars.

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

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War Stories

Reading Plains Indian Biographic Rock Art

Keyser, J. D. & Kaiser, D. A.

Presented is a lexicon of imagery, conventions, and symbols used by Plains Indians to communicate their warfare and social narratives. Familiarity with the lexicon will enable interested scholars and laypersons to understand what are otherwise enigmatic rock art drawings found from Calgary, Alberta through ten U.S. states, and into the Mexican state of Coahuila.

Subject: Archaeology

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War, Technology, Anthropology

Stroeken, K. (ed)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

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Published February 1995
Warrior Gentlemen

'Gurkhas' in the Western Imagination

Caplan, L.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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The Wars of Yesterday

The Balkan Wars and the Emergence of Modern Military Conflict, 1912-13

Boeckh, K. & Rutar, S. (eds)

Together comprising one of the first modern conflicts of the twentieth century, the Balkan Wars (1912–13) served as precursors of the bloody wars to follow. This volume offers a fascinating exploration of the wars’ history, with a central focus on the experiences of both combatants and civilians.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Wartime Captivity in the 20th Century

Archives, Stories, Memories

Pathé, A.-M. & Théofilakis, F. (eds)

In recent years, wartime captivity has taken on new urgency as a historical topic. This wide-ranging volume brings together an international selection of scholars to trace the contours of this evolving research agenda, offering fascinating new perspectives on historical moments ranging from the Great War to Guantanamo Bay.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published April 2003
Water for People – Water for Life

United Nations

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies

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Water, Life, and Profit

Fluid Economies and Cultures of Niamey, Niger

Keough, S. B. & Youngstedt, S. M

Water, Life, and Profit offers a holistic analysis of the people, economies, cultural symbolism, and material culture involved in the management, production, distribution, and consumption of drinking water in the urban context of Niamey, Niger. Keough and Youngstedt offer new insights into the lived experiences of gender, ethnicity, class, and spatial structure in Niamey’s water economies today.

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

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Water, Scale and Materiality

Anthropological Perspectives on Hydrosocial Relations

Strang, V. & Krause, F. (eds)

Anthropology plays a key role in articulating people’s engagement with water and showing how local relationships with waterways and marine areas translate into larger impacts on regional and global ecosystems. Traversing Scales in Material Relations with Water explores diverse relationships with waterbodies, and considers how these are expressed in art, material culture, and infrastructures.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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Waterworlds

Anthropology in Fluid Environments

Hastrup, K. & Hastrup. F. (eds)

In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people’s lives, practices, and stories. Contributors analyse the union of water and social lives, thereby challenging anthropologists to foreground the mutable character of their subjects and responsibly engage with the generative role of cultural analysis.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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The Ways of Friendship

Anthropological Perspectives

Desai, A. & Killick, E. (eds)

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

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Published October 2007
Ways of Knowing

New Approaches in the Anthropology of Knowledge and Learning

Harris, M. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Educational Studies

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We are All Africans Here

Race, Mobilities and West Africans in Europe

Loftsdóttir, K.

This book looks critically at racialization of mobility in Europe, anchoring the discussion in the aspiration of precarious migrants from Niger in Belgium and Italy. The book contextualizes their experiences within the ongoing securitization of mobility in their home country and the persistent denial of racism and colonialism that seeks to portray the innocence of Europe.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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We Come as Members of the Superior Race

Distortions and Education Policy Discourse in Sub-Saharan Africa

Mfum-Mensah, O.

We Come as Members of the Superior Race discusses the stereotype of Africans as “primitive” and “unintelligent,” exploring how this legacy has enforced contemporary educational and development discourses which view African societies as subordinated in a global geopolitical order, and how it continues to influence education policy in Sub-Sahara Africa today.

Subjects: Educational Studies Development Studies Sociology

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Published March 2014
We the Cosmopolitans

Moral and Existential Conditions of Being Human

Josephides, L. & Hall, A. (eds)

The provocative title of this book is deliberately and challengingly universalist, matching the theoretically experimental essays, where contributors try different ideas to answer distinct concerns regarding cosmopolitanism. Leading anthropologists explore what cosmopolitanism means in the context of everyday life, variously viewing it as an aspect of kindness and empathy, as tolerance, hospitality and openness, and as a defining feature of pan-human individuality. The chapters thus advance an existential critique of abstract globalization discourse. The book enriches interdisciplinary debates about hitherto neglected aspects of contemporary cosmopolitanism as a political and moral project, examining the form of its lived effects and offering new ideas and case studies to work with.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Weaponizing the Past

Collective Memory and Jews, Poles, and Communists in Twenty-First Century Poland

Korycki, K.

Theorizing and explaining the process of collective memory of Poland’s communist past, Weaponizing the Past explores contemporary politicizations of the past, national belonging and the production of anti-Semitism.

Subjects: Memory Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Published June 2014
Weary Warriors

Power, Knowledge, and the Invisible Wounds of Soldiers

Moss, P. & Prince, M. J.

“…offers a sustained and persuasive analysis of the institutional dynamics and individual actions by which various forms of warrelated neuroses are recognised, treated, negotiated, claimed and reproduced…The rich and impressive array of sources – military and medical texts, biographies and autobiographies, popular novels and films and journalistic accounts – on which the analysis is based makes the volume all the more persuasive.” · Social Anthropology

“This is a solid piece of scholarship. The authors successfully apply key concepts from Foucault, along with those of his feminist critics, to the analysis of soldiers returning from war. In so doing, they deepen our understanding of how weary warriors are constructed through time and space, and what his/her diagnosis, treatment, and release says about wider relations of power in, between, and across the state, the military, psychiatry, and the body itself.” · Carolyn Gallaher, American University

Subjects: Sociology History (General) Peace and Conflict Studies

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Weather Signs

Traditional Meteorological Knowledge in Japanese Small-Scale Fisheries

Bulian, G.

Drawing on ethnography, historical sources, and folklore, this book examines how fishermen and coastal communities in Japan read winds, clouds, seas, animals, and celestial signs to anticipate change and manage risk.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
Published August 2011
Weathering the World

Recovery in the Wake of the Tsunami in a Tamil Fishing Village

Hastrup, F.

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

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Weimar Publics/Weimar Subjects

Rethinking the Political Culture of Germany in the 1920s

Canning, K., Barndt, K. & McGuire, K. (eds)

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

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Weimar Radicals

Nazis and Communists between Authenticity and Performance

Brown, T. S.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published June 2002
Western Historical Thinking

An Intercultural Debate

Rüsen, J. (ed)

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Published April 2015
What Is Existential Anthropology?

Jackson, M. & Piette, A. (eds)

What is existential anthropology, and how would you define it? Contributing anthropologists join editors Michael Jackson and Albert Piette in answering these questions and exploring how various approaches to the human condition might be brought together on the levels of method and of theory.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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What Is History For?

Johann Gustav Droysen and the Functions of Historiography

Assis, A. A.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

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What is Work?

Gender at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present

Sarti, R., Bellavitis, A., & Martini, M. (eds)

Every society has a definition of what work is, and isn’t. What Is Work? offers a multi-disciplinary overview of work as it applies to the highly gendered realm of household economies, drawing from scholarship on gender history, economic sociology, family history, civil law, and feminist economics.

Subjects: History (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

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What Now

Everyday Endurance and Social Intensity in an Australian Aboriginal Community

Dalley, C.

Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork undertaken since 2006, the book addresses some of the most topical aspects of remote Aboriginal life in Australia. This includes the role of kinship and family, relationships to land and sea, and cross-cultural relations with non-Aboriginal residents.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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What Remains

Responses to the Legacy of Christa Wolf

Fetz, G. A. & Herminghouse, P. (eds)

In response to the legacy of Christa Wolf, What Remains addresses arguably the most important German writer in the period of since World War II until her death in 2011. Scholars across the U.S. and Europe address both the importance of her role in contributing to the cultural life of East Germany and the controversies surrounding her life and works in the aftermath of the collapse of East Germany and the process of German unification.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Literary Studies

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Published October 2015
What We Now Know About Race and Ethnicity

Banton, M.

Academic writing about race in the USA implicitly endorses the so-called `one-drop' rule. This generates a paradox that can be resolved only by distinguishing theoretical knowledge from practical knowledge.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General)

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Published July 2001
Whatever Happened to Asylum in Britain?

A Tale of Two Walls

Pirouet, L.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published August 2018
The Wheel of Autonomy

Rhetoric and Ethnicity in the Omo Valley

Girke, F.

Through the theoretical lens of rhetoric, this book offers an interactionalist analysis of how the Kara – a small population in southern Ethiopia – negotiate ethnic and non-ethnic differences among themselves, the relations with their various neighbors, and eventually their integration in the Ethiopian state.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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When God Comes to Town

Religious Traditions in Urban Contexts

Pinxten, R. & Dikomitis, L. (eds)

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Sociology

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When They Came for Me

The Hidden Diary of an Apartheid Prisoner

Schlapobersky, J. R.

Whilst a student in South Africa, John Schlapobersky was arrested for opposing apartheid and tortured, detained and deported. In this volume, apartheid and its resistance come to life in personal stories that make this a vital historical document - one of its time and one for our own.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published April 2017
When Things Become Property

Land Reform, Authority and Value in Postsocialist Europe and Asia

Sikor, T., Dorondel, S., Stahl, J. & Xuan To, P.

Almost all elements of nature have become the target of property laws, from the classic preoccupation with land to more ephemeral material, such as air and genetic resources. When Things Become Property examines postsocialist land and forest reforms in Albania, Romania and Vietnam, finding that property reforms are not miracle tools available to governments for refashioning economies, politics or environments.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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When Will We Talk About Hitler?

German Students and the Nazi Past

Oeser, A.

What do ordinary Germans think of their country’s Nazi past? Do young Germans just want to "move on?" Combining observation, interviews, and archival work, the studies conducted in this book explore these questions to reveal the complexity of history and how young Germans view Nazism’s place in contemporary society.

Subjects: History (General) Educational Studies Anthropology (General) Memory Studies

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When Women Held the Dragon's Tongue

and Other Essays in Historical Anthropology

Rebel, H.

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

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Published September 2015
Where Are All Our Sheep?

Kyrgyzstan, A Global Political Arena

Petric, B.

After the USSR collapsed, Kyrgyzstan followed a path of economic liberalization, but after a few years, they produced little, and the country’s principal industry of sheep breeding was decimated. This led to dependence on international aid, and ensuing comical encounters between the local population and well-meaning foreigners who help them.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies

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Where Have All the Homeless Gone?

The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis

Marcus, A.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Urban Studies Sociology

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Published June 2008
Where Humans and Spirits Meet

The Politics of Rituals and Identified Spirits in Zanzibar

Larsen, K.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Performance Studies

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Where is the Good in the World?

Ethical Life between Social Theory and Philosophy

Henig, D., Strhan, A., & Robbins, J. (eds)

Bringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic case studies from diverse settings, this volume explores how different disciplinary perspectives on the good might engage with and enrich each other. This is the first interdisciplinary engagement with what it means to study the good as a fundamental aspect of social life.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Anthropology of Religion

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Where Saints Show Respect

Mafia, Modernity, and Rituals of Power

Palumbo, B.

This book draws on three decades of ethnographic research to explore the penetration of mafia values in Sicilian society. By exploring rituals through which local society learns deep respect for those values, this study aims to offer a critical perspective on Sicilian modernity.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Anthropology of Religion

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Where There Is No Midwife

Birth and Loss in Rural India

Pinto, S.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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White Eagle, Black Eagle

Ethnic Relations in the German-Polish Borderlands

Parkin, R.

Studying the German-Polish ethnic relations, this book analyses the people and region through their respective borderlands, migration, official cooperation and unofficial suspicions across the border.

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

Hb
Published February 2010
Who Abolished Slavery?

Slave Revolts and Abolitionism
A Debate with João Pedro Marques

Drescher, S. & Emmer, P. (eds)

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

Hb
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eBook available Published June 2018
Who are 'We'?

Reimagining Alterity and Affinity in Anthropology

Chua, L. & Mathur, N. (eds)

Who do ‘we’ anthropologists think ‘we’ are? Drawing together reflections and ethnographic case studies, this volume explores how the anthropological ‘we’ has been construed, transformed and deployed across history and the global anthropological landscape. It interrogates how these constructions have influenced the discipline, and opens spaces in which they might be reimagined.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Who Knows Tomorrow?

Uncertainty in North-Eastern Sudan

Calkins, S.

Uncertainty, though intertwined with all human activity, is experienced differently—sometimes obsessed over and other times ignored. This ethnography shows how Rashaida in north-eastern Sudan deal with unknowns, which at times present debilitating problems, but also may offer opportunities to create other futures.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies

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Published January 2004
Who Owns the Past?

The Politics of Time in a 'Model' Bulgarian Village

Kaneff, D.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
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Published August 2012
Who Owns the Stock?

Collective and Multiple Property Rights in Animals

Khazanov, A. M. & Schlee, G. (eds)

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

Hb
Published August 2020
Who’s Cashing In?

Contemporary Perspectives on New Monies and Global Cashlessness

Sen, A., Lindquist, J., & Kolling, M. (eds)

From credit cards to cryptocurrencies, online and mobile money, remittances, and demonetization policies, cashless infrastructures are becoming increasingly common around the world. Who’s Cashing In? explores how different modes of cashlessness impact, transform and challenge the everyday lives and livelihoods of local communities in multiple regional contexts.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
Published October 2014
Whose Cosmopolitanism?

Critical Perspectives, Relationalities and Discontents

Glick Schiller, N. & Irving, A. (eds)

Whose Cosmopolitanism? examines cosmopolitanism’s possibilities, aspirations and applications—as well as its tensions, contradictions, and discontents—from a range of different disciplinary perspectives. The book investigates cosmopolitanism’s emergence as a contemporary social process, global aspiration or emancipatory political project and asks whether it can serve as a political or methodological framework for action in a world of conflict and difference.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Whose Memory? Which Future?

Remembering Ethnic Cleansing and Lost Cultural Diversity in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe

Törnquist-Plewa, B. (ed)

Scholars have devoted considerable energy to understanding ethnic cleansing in Europe, yet much less attention has been given to how these incidents persist in collective memory today. This volume brings together case studies exploring how modern inhabitants “remember” instances of ethnic cleansing, and how they understand the heritage of groups that vanished in their wake.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History Memory Studies

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Wilhelminism and Its Legacies

German Modernities, Imperialism, and the Meanings of Reform, 1890-1930

Eley, G. & Retallack, J. (eds)

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

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William Robertson Smith

Bošković, A.

William Robertson Smith’s influence on anthropology ranged from his relationship with John Ferguson McLennan, to advising James George Frazer to write about “Totem” and “Taboo” for the Encyclopaedia Britannica that he edited. This biography places a special emphasis on the notes and observations from his travels to Arabia, as well as on his influence on the representatives of the “Myth and Ritual School.”

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Willing Seduction

The Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich, and Mass Culture

Kosta, B.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

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eBook available Published October 2012
Wind Over Water

Migration in an East Asian Context

Haines, D. W., Yamanaka, K. & Yamashita, S. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published May 2022
Wine Is Our Bread

Labour and Value in Moldovan Winemaking

Ana, D.

Based on ethnographic work in a Moldovan winemaking village, Wine Is Our Bread shows how workers in a prestigious winery have experienced the country’s recent entry into the globalized wine market and how their productive activities at home and in the winery contribute to the value of commercial terroir wines.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published August 2015
Witchcraft, Witches, and Violence in Ghana

Adinkrah, M.

Witchcraft violence is a feature of many contemporary African societies. In Ghana, belief in witchcraft and the malignant activities of putative witches is prevalent. This book provides a detailed account of Ghanaian witchcraft beliefs and practices and their role in fueling violent attacks on these alleged witches.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Witches and Demons

A Comparative Perspective on Witchcraft and Satanism

La Fontaine, J.

Devil worship, black magic, and witchcraft have long captivated anthropologists as well as the general public. This volume explores the intersection of expert and lay understandings of evil and the cultural forms that evil assumes. It presents a powerful warning of the dangers and mistaken conclusions that are inevitable in untrained ideas about other ways of life.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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With a Penetrating Gaze from the Sidelines

Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews, and the History of Holocaust Historiography

Schlott, R. & Kansteiner, W. (eds)

Raul Hilberg’s The Destruction of the European Jews (1961) was a foundational text in the field of Holocaust historiography. Hilberg describes the persecution as a bureaucratic process involving the entire German society. This volume explores the origins of Hilberg’s study, debates in which it was implicated, its accomplishments and shortcomings.

Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Published January 2018
The Witness as Object

Video Testimony in Memorial Museums

Jong, S. de

Today more than ever before, the historical witness is now a “museum object” in the form of video interviews. With a focus on Holocaust museums, this study scrutinizes this new global phenomenon of the “musealisation” of testimony, exploring the processes, prerequisites, and consequences of video testimonies as exhibits.

Subjects: Museum Studies History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies

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Wolf Conflicts

A Sociological Study

Skogen, K., Krange, O., & Figari, H.

Making a comeback in Northern Europe and North America, wolf populations cause conflicts by affecting the livelihoods of rural peoples. However, their arrivals also become embedded in more general societal tensions. Wolf Conflicts reveals how conflicts over land use and conservation intertwine with patterns of hegemony and resistance in modern societies.

Subjects: Sociology Environmental Studies (General)

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Published December 2008
Women and Men in Love

European Identities in the Twentieth Century

Passerini, L.

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

Hb
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Published June 2001
Women and Modernity in Weimar Germany

Reality and its Representation in Popular Fiction

Petersen, V. R.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
Published November 1998
Women and Russian Culture

Projections and Self-Perceptions

Marsh, R. (ed)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
Published January 1998
Women and Socialism - Socialism and Women

Europe Between the World Wars

Gruber, H. & Graves, P. (eds)

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

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Published September 2014
Women and the City, Women in the City

A Gendered Perspective on Ottoman Urban History

Maksudyan, N. (ed)

Accessing court records, state archives, oral sources, literary material, memoirs, and newspapers, the contributors to this volume reconstruct women’s lives in the Ottoman Empire, from Aleppo to Sofia, and from Jeddah to Istanbul. The seven chapters offer a wide panorama of the Ottoman urban geography, with a specific concern for gender roles.

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

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Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation

Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation

Abdo, N. & Lentin, R. (eds)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

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Published December 2001
Women as Sacred Custodians of the Earth?

Women, Spirituality and the Environment

Low, A. & Tremayne, S. (eds)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion

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Women Becoming Practitioner Researchers

From School Teacher to Academic

Corcoran, S. L., Goodley, C., Hay, A., & Olsson Rost, A. (eds)

Sixteen early career researchers (ECRs) tell their stories in Women Becoming Practitioner Researchers, focusing on connecting potential and current doctoral students with an understanding of what to expect in the transition from professional or schoolteacher environments to working for universities.

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
Published August 1995
Women in Contemporary Russia

Koval, V. (ed)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
eBook available Published April 2025
Women in Israel

Anthropological, Feminist, and Personal Perspectives

Hertzog, E.

This book is a comprehensive feminist examination of women's diverse experience in Israeli society over four decades and analyzes society during this time. As an ethnography, the book emphasizes a commitment to social justice and equality, and challenges prevailing social and gender research approaches.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
Published March 2006
Women in Polish Cinema

Mazierska, E. & Ostrowska, E.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
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Women Migrants From East to West

Gender, Mobility and Belonging in Contemporary Europe

Passerini, L., Lyon, D., Capussotti, E. & Laliotou, I. (eds)

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

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Published October 1995
Women of Prague

Ethnic Diversity and Social Change from the Eighteenth Century to the Present

Iggers, W.

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

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Published September 2012
Women of Two Countries

German-American Women, Women's Rights and Nativism, 1848-1890

Bank, M.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: 18th/19th Century

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Published March 1995
Women, Family and Society in Medieval Europe

Historical Essays, 1978-1991

Herlihy, D.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: Medieval/Early Modern

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Published February 2001
Women, Power, and the Academy

From Rhetoric to Reality

Kearney, M.-L. (ed)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Educational Studies

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eBook available Published June 2025
Women’s Empowerment and Son Preference in India

Feminist and Ethical discourse on Sex Selective Abortions

Suryanarayanan, S.

This book reviews the feminist, ethical and legal discourse on sex selective abortions and draws on women’s empowerment as an analytical lens to examine the son preference expressed in the notion of Vansh (lineage) among pregnant women.

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

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eBook available Published June 2025
Women’s Zionism Worldwide, 1897–1948

Katzburg-Yungman, M.

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

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Published January 2006
The Women's Camp in Moringen

A Memoir of Imprisonment in Germany 1936-1937

Herz, G.

Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

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eBook available Published July 2017
The Women's Liberation Movement

Impacts and Outcomes

Schulz, K. (ed)

This collection represents the first systematic reflection on the impact and outcomes of the women’s liberation movement in different areas and topics of Western societies. It systematically investigates movement outcomes in one country in the light of a reflective social movement theory and compares them to developments in other countries.

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

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Work in a Modern Society

The German Historical Experience in Comparative Perspective

Kocka, J. (ed)

Subject: History (General)

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Published September 2021
Work, Society, and the Ethical Self

Chimeras of Freedom in the Neoliberal Era

Hann, C. (ed)

Primarily on the basis of ethnographic case-studies from around the world, this volume links investigations of work to questions of personal and professional identity and social relations. The authors uncover complex entanglements between the drudgery and exploitation experienced by most people in the course of making a living and ideals of emancipated personhood.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
eBook available Published February 2024
Working Class Formation in Turkey, 1946-1962

Work, Culture, and the Politics of the Everyday

Alp Özden, B.

Working Class Formation in Turkey explores the everyday practices of workers in Turkey from the End of War II to until just after the military interventions of 1960. Drawing a wide range of historical sources and moving beyond generalizations, this volume examines the contextual dynamics of the lives of Turkish workers during these critical decades.

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

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Published November 2004
Working for the Enemy

Ford, General Motors, and Forced Labor in Germany during the Second World War

Billstein, R., Fings, K., Kugler, A. & Levis, N.

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

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eBook available Published July 2020
Working in Greece and Turkey

A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation-States, 1840–1940

Papastefanaki, L. & Kabadayı, M. E. (eds)

The studies in Working in Greece and Turkey provide an overdue exploration of labour history on both sides of the Aegean, before as well as after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Deploying the approaches of global labour history as a framework, this volume presents transnational, transcontinental, and diachronic comparisons that illuminate the shared history of Greece and Turkey.

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

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Published March 2026
Working the Dutch Asylum Apparatus

An Ethnography of Suspicious Compassion and State Power

Hertoghs, M.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available Published April 2023
Working the Fabric

Resourcefulness, Belonging and Island Life in Scotland’s Harris Tweed Industry

Nascimento, J.

Trademark-protected since 1910, the famous woollen cloth known as Harris Tweed can only be produced in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland – yet it is exported to over 50 countries around the world. Examining contemporary experiences of work and life, this book is the first in-depth anthropological study of the renowned textile industry, complementing and updating existing historical and ethnographic research.

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

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eBook available Published July 2022
Working With Diagrams

Engelmann, L., Humphrey, C. & Lynteris, C.

Arising from the need to go beyond the semiotic, cognitive, epistemic and symbolic reading of diagrams, this book looks at what diagrams are capable of in scholarly work. Rather than attempting to define what diagrams are, and what their dietic capacity might be, contributions to this volume draw together the work diagrams do in the development of theories.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Published May 2008
Working with Spirit

Experiencing Izangoma Healing in Contemporary South Africa

Wreford, J. T.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion

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Published July 2005
The World Ahead

An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future

Mead, M.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published March 2022
The World beyond the West

Perspectives from Eastern Europe

Kałczewiak, M. & Kozłowska, M. (eds)

Exploring the evolution of Eastern European discourses in Asia, Africa and Latin America in nineteenth and twentieth century, this volume locates the mechanisms and strategies that diverse Eastern European social actors adopted when discussing the non-European world. The Eastern European perspective is not only an important addition to the study of orientalism and post coloniality, but the transnational links in-between Eastern Europe show the region’s importance to a global history.

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

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eBook available Published March 2018
World Heritage Craze in China

Universal Discourse, National Culture, and Local Memory

Yan, H.

There is a World Heritage Craze in China. China claims to have the longest continuous civilization in the world and is seeking the recognition from UNESCO. With a sociological lens, this book offers comprehensive insights into World Heritage, as well as China’s deep social, cultural, and political structures.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Archaeology Sociology Travel and Tourism

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eBook available Published April 2016
World Heritage on the Ground

Ethnographic Perspectives

Brumann, C. & Berliner, D. (eds)

The UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972 is a key arena for contemporary cultural and natural conservation. In case studies from across the globe, anthropologists with situated expertise in specific World Heritage sites explore the consequences of the World Heritage framework and the global spread of this heritage regime.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Archaeology Museum Studies

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A World History of Mobility

An Essay on Road Cultures and Beyond

Mom, G.

In this comprehensive world history of (auto)mobility, Gijs Mom draws upon his expertise within the field to assess the past and present of road cultures, and hypothesize its future. From climate change and capitalism to decolonization and gender, this volume spotlights the car’s influence on our sense of identity and imagination.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Sociology Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published October 2019
The World of Children

Foreign Cultures in Nineteenth-Century German Education and Entertainment

Lässig, S. & Weiß, A. (eds)

In an era of technological advances and rapidly increasing international exchange, how did young Germans come to understand the world beyond their doorstep? Bringing together contributions from specialists in historical, literary, and cultural studies, this is a fascinating kaleidoscopic exploration of the ways that children absorbed, combined, and adapted notions of the world in their own ways.

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

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Published September 2014
A World of Populations

Transnational Perspectives on Demography in the Twentieth Century

Hartmann, H. & Unger, C. R. (eds)

Demographics were transformed into public policies that shaped family planning, population growth, medical practice, and environmental conservation. While covering a variety of regions and time periods, the essays in this book share an interest in the transnational dynamics of emerging demographic discourses and practices. Together, they present a global picture of the history of demographic knowledge.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Published October 2004
The World Trade Center and Global Crisis

Some Critical Perspectives

Kapferer, B. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published August 2017
World War I and the Jews

Conflict and Transformation in Europe, the Middle East, and America

Rozenblit, M. L. and Karp, J. (eds)

World War I utterly transformed the lives of Jews around the world, allowing them to demonstrate patriotism, dispel antisemitic myths, and fight for their rights. This book provides a fascinating survey of the ways in which Jewish communities in Europe, North America, and the Middle East participated in and were changed by the Great War during and after the conflict.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War I

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eBook available Published June 2018
Worldwide Mobilizations

Class Struggles and Urban Commoning

Kalb, D. & Mollona, M. (eds)

Viewing the significant urban insurrections of past decades with an anthropological eye, Worldwide Mobilizations argues that transformations of urban class relationships must be approached in a way that is both globally and locally informed, and contends that every case of urban mobilization should be understood against its precise context in the global capitalist transformation.

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

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Wrestling with Hope in Urban Senegal

Sports, Masculinity, and Precarious Trajectories

Hann, M.

Wrestling with Hope in Urban Senegal follows the journey of football players and wrestlers in Dakar as they confront the realities of their sporting aspirations. It grapples with themes of masculinity, belief systems and economic survival whilst navigating the complexities of a neoliberal landscape.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Development Studies Urban Studies

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Published October 2014
Writing Democracy

The Norwegian Constitution 1814-2014

Gammelgaard, K. & Holmøyvik, E. (eds)

The Norwegian Constitution is the oldest functioning constitution in Europe. Its bicentenary in 2014 has inspired the analyses in this volume, where contributors focus on the Constitution as a text to explore new ways of analyzing democratic development. Writing Democracy examines the framing of the Norwegian Constitution, its transformations, and its interpretations during the last two centuries.

Subject: History (General)

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Forthcoming September 2026
Writing Holocaust History

Browning, C.

In this collection of essays, Browning explores the evolution of Holocaust historiography and illustrates key research trends. Taken together, these essays highlight the shifting focus in Holocaust scholarship, from Germany to Eastern Europe, policy making to implementation, leaders to participants, and perpetrators to victims.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present History: World War II
Published April 2002
Writing Mothers and Daughters

Renegotiating the Mother in Western European Narratives by Women

Giorgio, A. (ed)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published February 2026
Writing on the Move

Form, Practice and (Im)mobility in Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century Travel Writing

Ounoughi, S. & Hannigan, T. (eds)

Although the practice of reading and writing typically requires stasis, travel writing emerges from movement. This book examines the tensions between actual journeys and their resultant texts by asking questions about the meaning of ‘movement’ and what counts as ‘travel writing’ in an age of virtual journeying and enforced immobility.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

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eBook available Published March 2012
Writing the Dark Side of Travel

Skinner, J. (ed)

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

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Published November 2020
Writing the Great War

The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the Present

Cornelissen, C. & Weinrich, A. (eds)

The history of the First World War has been continually written and rewritten, producing a rich historiography shaped by the social and cultural circumstances of its creation. Writing the Great War provides a groundbreaking survey of this vast body of work, assembling contributions on a variety of national and regional historiographies from some of the most prominent scholars in the field.

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

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Xenocracy

State, Class, and Colonialism in the Ionian Islands, 1815-1864

Gekas, S.

Xenocracy offers a much-needed account of the islands of the Ionian Sea during their half-century of oversight by Great Britain. It recounts how, despite Britain’s liberal reforms, the Ionian State’s economic deterioration anticipated the “neocolonial” condition with which the Greek nation struggles even today.

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

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Published January 1998
A Year of Revolutions

Fanny Lewald's Recollections of 1848

Lewis, H. (ed)

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Literary Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

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Published November 2015
The Year of the Bulldozer

Hanretty, C. & Profeti, S. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published June 2015
Yearnings in the Meantime

'Normal Lives' and the State in a Sarajevo Apartment Complex

Jansen, S.

An ethnographic account, this book looks into a Sarajevo apartment building as its inhabitants yearn for “normal lives,” over a decade after the war and the disintegration of Socialist Yugoslavia. Starting from everyday concerns, it freshly explores how the time and place in which we are caught shape our hopes and fears.

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

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eBook available Published September 2008
Years of Conflict

Adolescence, Political Violence and Displacement

Hart, J. (ed)

Subject: Refugee and Migration Studies

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eBook available Published June 2023
Yiddish Transformed

Reading Habits in the Russian Empire, 1860-1914

Cohen, N.

Yiddish Transformed explores Jewish reading practices alongside the rise of Yiddish in Eastern Europe between 1860 and 1914 by delving into publishing policies of Yiddish books and newspapers, popular literary genres of the time, the development of Jewish public libraries, as well as reflections of reading experiences in life stories.

Subjects: Jewish Studies Literary Studies

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Young Men in Uncertain Times

Amit, V. & Dyck, N. (eds)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

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Youth Gangs and Street Children

Culture, Nurture and Masculinity in Ethiopia

Heinonen, P.

The rapidly expanding population of youth gangs and street children is one of the most disturbing issues in many cities around the world. By focusing on gender as the defining element of these children’s lives — as they describe it in their own words — this book offers a clear analysis of how the unequal and antagonistic gender relations that are tolerated and normalized by everyday school and family structures shape their lives at home and on the street.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published July 2023
Yugoslavia without Yugoslavs

The History of a National Idea

Jezernik, B.

Following the idea of Yugoslavism since its first public usage in 1849, Yugoslavia without Yugoslavs explains why the concept of Yugoslavia competed with Slavic, Serbian, and Croatian nationalistic ideas and failed just five years after its first nation state was established

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century History: World War I

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Forthcoming December 2026
Yugoslavia's Relations with the Two Germanies During the Hallstein Doctrine Era

Maričić, A.

Maričić examines Yugoslavia’s relations with the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) between 1955 and 1968, a period marked by the FRG’s Hallstein Doctrine. In 1957, Yugoslavia formally recognised the GDR, a move which made its already uneasy position in a divided Europe even more precarious.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
Published June 2010
Zimbabwe's New Diaspora

Displacement and the Cultural Politics of Survival

McGregor, J. & Primorac, R. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published June 2026
Zora Neale Hurston

Böschemeier, A. & Gomes, P.

Exploring Zora Neale Hurston’s life and work through a decolonial lens, this book traces Hurston’s journey from her early life (1891–1919) and struggles at the margins (1920–1930) to her peak as a pioneering ethnographer and writer (1931–1956) and her later years (1957–1960).

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Ӧmie Sex Affiliation

A Papuan Nature

Rohatynskyj, M.

The practice of affiliating the female child with the mother and the male child with the father was considered a rare and inexplicable practice in Papua New Guinean ethnography at the time the original data was collected some forty years ago. Marta Rohatynskyj undertakes a shift in her analytical concepts to reveal the deep-seated disjuncture between female and male that this practice represents.

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

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