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

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Anthropology<\/a><\/h5>\n

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\"Artifak:ARTIFAK<\/a>
\nCultural Revival, Tourism, and the Recrafting of History in Vanuatu
\nHugo DeBlock<\/p>\n

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Artifak<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Art and Commodity in Vanuatu<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Non-HumansNON-HUMANS IN AMERINDIAN SOUTH AMERICA<\/a>
\nEthnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals and Songs
\nEdited by Juan Javier Rivera And\u00eda<\/p>\n

Volume 37, EASA Series<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies whose lives and worlds are undergoing processes of transformation, adaptation, and deterioration, this volume offers new insights into the indigenous constitutions of humanity, personhood, and environment characteristic of the South American highlands and lowlands.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Towards Engaged Ontographies of Animist Developments in Amerindian South America<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"PacificPACIFIC REALITIES<\/a>
\nChanging Perspectives on Resilience and Resistance
\nEdited by Laurent Dousset and M\u00e9lissa Nayral<\/p>\n

Volume 6, Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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In the context of dramatic changes and processes of \u201cglocalization\u201d across the Pacific region, and avoiding conventional \u201clocal-global\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Resistance and Resilience<\/a><\/p>\n

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Film Studies<\/a><\/h5>\n

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\"SofiaSOFIA COPPOLA<\/a>
\nThe Politics of Visual Pleasure
\nAnna Backman Rogers<\/p>\n

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Sofia Coppola: The Politics of Visual Pleasure<\/em> interprets Coppola\u2019s oeuvre to date from a resolutely feminist and philosophical perspective. Using the work of a range of feminist theorists, Backman Rogers situates Coppola\u2019s work as a critique of postfeminist lifestyles that offer the viewer a feminist and feminine philosophy through beguilement, mood and surface.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0The Surface of The Image is Political<\/a><\/p>\n

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Genocide Studies<\/a><\/h5>\n

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\"ProbingPROBING THE LIMITS OF CATEGORIZATION<\/a>
\nThe Bystander in Holocaust History
\nEdited by Christina Morina and Krijn Thijs<\/p>\n

Volume 27, War and Genocide<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Combining historiographical, conceptual, and empirical perspectives on the bystander, the case studies in this book provide powerful insights into the complex social processes that accompany state-sponsored genocidal violence.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Probing the Limits of Categorization<\/a><\/p>\n

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History<\/a><\/h5>\n

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\"TheTHE CSCE AND THE END OF THE COLD WAR<\/a>
\nDiplomacy, Societies and Human Rights, 1972-1990
\nEdited by Nicolas Badalassi and Sarah B. Snyder<\/p>\n

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Bringing together new and innovative research on the CSCE, this volume explores questions key to understanding the Cold War: What role did diplomats play in shaping the 1975 Helsinki Final Act? How did that agreement and the CSCE more broadly shape societies in Europe and North America? And how did the CSCE and activists inspired by the Helsinki Final Act influence the end of the Cold War?<\/p>\n

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

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\"FromFROM WEIMAR TO HITLER<\/a>
\nStudies in the Dissolution of the Weimar Republic and the Establishment of the Third Reich, 1932-1934
\nEdited by Hermann Beck and Larry Eugene Jones<\/p>\n

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From Weimar to Hitler<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0The Nazi Seizure of Power in Historical and Historiographical Perspective<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"ExplorationsEXPLORATIONS AND ENTANGLEMENTS<\/a>
\nGermans in Pacific Worlds from the Early Modern Period to World War I
\nEdited by Hartmut Berghoff, Frank Biess, and Ulrike Strasser<\/p>\n

Volume 22, Studies in German History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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The studies gathered here offer fascinating research into German missionary, commercial, scientific, and imperial activity against the backdrop of the Pacific\u2019s overlapping cultural circuits and complex oceanic transits.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0German Histories and Pacific Histories<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"EmbersEMBERS OF EMPIRE<\/a>
\nContinuity and Rupture in the Habsburg Successor States after 1918
\nEdited by Paul Miller and Claire Morelon
\nAfterword by Pieter Judson<\/em><\/p>\n

Volume 22, Austrian and Habsburg Studies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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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<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n

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

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Jewish Studies<\/a><\/h5>\n

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\"BeyondBEYOND INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION<\/a>
\nJewish Experiences of the First World War in Central Europe
\nEdited by Jason Crouthamel, Michael Geheran, Tim Grady and Julia Barbara K\u00f6hne<\/p>\n

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Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n

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Museum Studies<\/a><\/h5>\n

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\"TheTHE MAN WHO INVENTED AZTEC CRYSTAL SKULLS<\/a>
\nThe Adventures of Eug\u00e8ne Boban
\nJane MacLaren Walsh and Brett Topping<\/p>\n

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Detailed are the travels, self-education, and archaeological explorations of Eug\u00e8ne 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.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0On the Trail of Crystal Skulls<\/a><\/p>\n

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Performance Studies<\/a><\/h5>\n

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\"CuratingCURATING LIVE ARTS<\/a>
\nCritical Perspectives, Essays, and Conversations on Theory and Practice
\nEdited by Dena Davida, Marc Pronovost, V\u00e9ronique Hudon, and Jane Gabriels<\/p>\n

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Curating Live Arts<\/em> brings together bold and innovative essays from an international group of theorist-practitioners to pose vital questions, propose future visions, and survey the landscape of this rapidly evolving discipline. Reflecting the field\u2019s characteristic eclecticism, the writings assembled here offer practical and insightful investigations into the curation of theatre, dance, sound art, music, and other performance forms\u2014not only in museums, but in community, site-specific, and time-based contexts, placing it at the forefront of contemporary dialogue and discourse.<\/p>\n

Read A Collective Introduction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"EmpireEMPIRE OF PICTURES<\/a>
\nGlobal Media and the 1960s Remaking of American Foreign Policy
\nS\u00f6nke Kunkel<\/p>\n

Volume 8, Explorations in Culture and International History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cKunkel provides an empirically grounded framework for understanding the United States as an imperial power that cultivated recognition through pictures.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Diplomatic History<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Why Empires Need Pictures<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"MarkingMARKING EVIL<\/a>
\nHolocaust Memory in the Global Age
\nEdited by Amos Goldberg and Haim Hazan<\/p>\n

Volume 21, Making Sense of History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cGoldberg and Hazan must be congratulated on bringing together an important and exciting collection of essays that in their sheer interdisciplinary range are essential reading for scholars across the arts and humanities.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Holocaust Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"ChildrenCHILDREN IN THE HOLOCAUST AND ITS AFTERMATH<\/a>
\nHistorical and Psychological Studies of the Kestenberg Archive
\nEdited by Sharon Kangisser Cohen, Eva Fogelman, and Dalia Ofer<\/p>\n

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\u201cIdentifying and evaluating sources is fundamental in the history of child- hood, especially since children so rarely leave their own records. This book is about one such source, remarkable in its conception and with some serious potential for understanding a very challenging subject\u2014the experience of the surviving children of the Holocaust.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"TheTHE MAKING OF THE GREEK GENOCIDE<\/a>
\nContested Memories of the Ottoman Greek Catastrophe
\nErik Sj\u00f6berg<\/p>\n

Volume 23, War and Genocide<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cSj\u00f6berg\u2019s book is a must-read for history students inclined to embrace historical knowledge as a definite credo. With much agility, Sj\u00f6berg convinces his readership of the liveliness and hence the instability of the way a body politic, at all levels, relates to its past. One can call this postmodern; it is also Heraclitan.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 H-Nationalism<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Cosmopolitan memory and the Greek genocide narrative<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"MicrohistoriesMICROHISTORIES OF THE HOLOCAUST<\/a>
\nEdited by Claire Zalc and Tal Bruttmann<\/p>\n

Volume 24, War and Genocide<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThis selection of mostly highly stimulating and well-researched case studies not only gives insight into the diversity of what we think of as the Holocaust, but also a sense of how differently we can go about studying this topic and past social life in general. There is much to be gained, therefore, from reading this collection not selectively, according to one\u2019s own research interests, but as a whole. In this sense, this is a very effective publication and a great addition to the literature.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 H-Soz-Kult<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Towards a Microhistory of the Holocaust<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"WhoseWHOSE MEMORY? WHICH FUTURE?<\/a>
\nRemembering Ethnic Cleansing and Lost Cultural Diversity in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe
\nEdited by Barbara T\u00f6rnquist-Plewa<\/p>\n

Volume 18, Contemporary European History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026the book should be of interest to anyone concerned about Europe\u2019s multi-ethnic past as perceived, acknowledged or even celebrated at the city level at the former Eastern Europa today. It can be read with profit by scholars and students across various humanistic disciplines.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 The Polish Review<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"MilitantMILITANT AROUND THE CLOCK?<\/a>
\nLeft-Wing Youth Politics, Leisure, and Sexuality in Post-Dictatorship Greece, 1974-1981
\nNikolaos Papadogiannis<\/p>\n

Volume 13, Protest, Culture & Society<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe author offers a very unconventional insight into the complex power struggles over and among the Greek youth. He masterfully switches between the institutional perspective of the former youth organizations, speaking through an extensive body of written sources, and the perspectives of their formerly young members, voiced through over 50 oral testimonies, recorded in Athens and Thessaloniki.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u00b7 Slavic Review<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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\"Shamanism:NEW & REVISED PAPERBACK EDITION<\/p>\n

SHAMANISM<\/a>
\nTraditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of Spirits and Healing
\nMerete Demant Jakobsen\u2020<\/p>\n

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“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> \u00b7 Shamanism<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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