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We\u2019re delighted to offer a selection of latest releases from our core subjects of Anthropology, History, and Medical Anthropology, along with our New in Paperback titles.<\/h3>\n

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Anthropology<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"MirrorsMIRRORS OF PASSING<\/a>Unlocking the Mysteries of Death, Materiality, and Time<\/p>\n

Edited by Sophie Seebach and Rane Willerslev<\/p>\n

Mirrors of Passing<\/em>\u00a0offers a powerful window into this oldest of human preoccupations by investigating the interrelationships of death, materiality, and temporality across far-flung times and places.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n

\"HierarchyHIERARCHY AND VALUE<\/a>Comparative Perspectives on Moral Order<\/p>\n

Edited by Jason Hickel and Naomi Haynes<\/p>\n

Volume 7, Studies in Social Analysis<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Why do some communities see hierarchy as desireable? In this book, leading anthropologists draw on insightful ethnographic case studies from around the world to address these trends. Together, they develop a theory of hierarchy that treats it both as a relational form and a framework for organizing ideas about the social good.<\/td>\n

\"MomentousMOMENTOUS MOBILITIES<\/a>Anthropological Musings on the Meanings of Travel<\/p>\n

Noel B. Salazar<\/p>\n

Volume 4, Worlds in Motion<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Grounded in scholarly analysis and personal reflection, and drawing on a multi-sited and multi-method research design, Momentous Mobilities<\/em> 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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"PilgrimagePILGRIMAGE AND POLITICAL ECONOMY<\/a>Translating the Sacred<\/p>\n

Edited by Simon Coleman and John Eade<\/p>\n

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.<\/td>\n

\"LivingLIVING UNDER AUSTERITY<\/a>Greek Society in Crisis<\/p>\n

Edited by Evdoxios Doxiadis and Aimee Placas<\/p>\n

Since its sovereign debt crisis in 2009, Greece has been living under austerity, with no apparent end in sight. This volume explores the effects of policies pursued by the Greek state since then (under the direction of the Troika), and how Greek society has responded.<\/td>\n

\"AnAN AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS DIASPORA<\/a>Warlpiri Matriarchs and the Refashioning of Tradition<\/p>\n

Paul Burke<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"EthnographiesETHNOGRAPHIES OF MOVEMENT, SOCIALITY AND SPACE<\/a>Place-Making in the New Northern Ireland<\/p>\n

Edited by Milena Komarova and Maru\u0161ka Sva\u0161ek<\/p>\n

Volume 8, Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Exploring the complex dynamics of twenty-first century spatial sociality, this volume provides a much-needed multi-dimensional perspective that undermines the dominant image of Northern Ireland as a conflict-ridden place.<\/td>\n

\"SenseSENSE AND ESSENCE<\/a>Heritage and the Cultural Production of the Real<\/p>\n

Edited by Birgit Meyer and Mattijs van de Port<\/p>\n

Volume 9, Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/td>\n

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History<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\"EmpathyEMPATHY AND HISTORY<\/a>Historical Understanding in Re-enactment, Hermeneutics and Education<\/p>\n

Tyson Retz<\/p>\n

Volume 35, Making Sense of History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Empathy and History<\/em> is the first comprehensive account of empathy\u2019s place in the practice, teaching, and philosophy of history. Beginning with the concept\u2019s roots in nineteenth-century German historicism, the book follows its historical development, transformation, and deployment while revealing its relevance for practitioners today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Medical Anthropology<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\"GlobalGLOBAL FLUIDS<\/a>The Cultural Politics of Reproductive Waste and Value<\/p>\n

Charlotte Krol\u00f8kke<\/p>\n

Volume 39, Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Taking a sociological and anthropological perspective, the author focuses in particular on the role that countries like Denmark, Spain, the Netherlands, and Japan play in the reproductive products industry, and discusses the moral limits of the cultural and rhetorical trajectories that turn women\u2019s body products into internationally mobile substances.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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\"HealingHEALING ROOTS<\/a>Anthropology in Life and Medicine<\/p>\n

Julie Laplante<\/p>\n

Volume 15, Epistemologies of Healing<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cOverall, Laplante\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0Healing Roots, focusing on the tensions between the biomedical and traditional healing\u2013based ways of making a medicine is an informative and important contribution to the literature [of] intrinsic value in the classroom, primarily for graduate-level students with specific interests in South Africa and the crossroads of ethnopharmacology and biomedicine.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Medical Anthropology Quarterly<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Tracing the Preclinical Trial of an Indigenous Plant<\/a><\/td>\n

\"Shamanism:SHAMANISM<\/a>Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of Spirits and Healing<\/p>\n

Merete Demant Jakobsen\u2020<\/p>\n

“This is a most useful book in the present discourse on shamanism, for it is one in which a specialist in traditional or classical shamanism who is also familiar with New Age shamanism compares the two complexes … highly recommendable.”<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00b7 Shamanism<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The volume is highly to be recommended to the specialist and to the interested layperson alike.”<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00b7\u00a0Religious Studies Review<\/strong><\/td>\n

\"TheTHE SECOND GENERATION<\/a>\u00c9migr\u00e9s from Nazi Germany as Historians<\/p>\n

With a Biobibliographic Guide<\/p>\n

Edited by Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, and James J. Sheehan<\/p>\n

Volume 20, Studies in German History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe contributions to this volume manage impressively to show the interconnections between life and work, describing the professional developments against the background of emigration as well as demonstrating the influence of the refugee experience on their historical works.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Geschichtswissenschaft<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/a>\u00a0Refugees from Nazi Germany as Historians: Origins and Migrations, Interests and Identities<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"WorldWORLD HERITAGE ON THE GROUNDEthnographic Perspectives<\/p>\n

Edited by Christoph Brumann and David Berliner<\/p>\n

Volume 28, EASA Series<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe anthology presents case studies not only useful for furthering the field of heritage studies, but also for opening up the field of heritage to the anthropology of international institutions.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Heritage & Society<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/a>\u00a0UNESCO World Heritage \u2013 Grounded?<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n

\"KjaerulffFlexible\"<\/a>FLEXIBLE CAPITALISM<\/a>Exchange and Ambiguity at Work<\/p>\n

Edited by Jens Kjaerulff<\/p>\n

Volume 25, EASA Series<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe book is an intriguing compilation of research that deals with changes in modern labour and employment. Its authors add new perspectives to debates in sociology of work and contemporary social thought.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0Vera Trappmann<\/strong>,\u00a0Universit\u00e4t Magdeburg<\/em><\/p>\n

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