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March 2026 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
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March 2026 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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March 2026 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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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
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March 2026 A Border Island on the Crossroads of History
Lampedusa and the Mediterranean
Albera, D.
For several centuries, Lampedusa has been an uninhabited land at the frontier of two conflicting worlds: between Africa and Europe and between Christianity and Islam. This book follows an ethnographic account of the social life on this small island, exploring its history articulated with the present where thousands of migrants and tourists cohabit both well and poorly in a few square miles.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology
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March 2026 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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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
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March 2026 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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March 2026 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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March 2026 Managing Pandemics in Early Modern Germany
Hess, P. (Eds.)
Pandemics spread throughout early modern Germany on a regular basis. Historical data and textual evidence are examined to explore how early modern states, communities, and individuals responded to such outbreaks, dealt with ensuing political, ethical, intellectual, social, and pragmatic issues, and handled arising conflicts, between 1480 and 1720.
Subject: History: Medieval/Early Modern
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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)
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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
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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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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
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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
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April 2026 Alterity and Human Evolution
Deep-Time and Multispecies Perspectives on Difference and Variation
Moro Abadía, O. & Porr, M. (eds)
Engaging critically with concepts of race, species, and otherness, Alterity and Human Evolution contributes to current debates on human evolution. Drawing on postcolonial and critical frameworks from the Humanities and Social Sciences, it interrogates key foundational concepts and assumptions underpinning evolutionary discourses.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Archaeology
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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
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April 2026 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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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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