\u201c\u2026 A very interesting analysis of how sitcoms negotiated the \u2018culture wars,\u2019 paying particular attention to discussions of gender, race, and sexuality. Particularly effective here is the ability to set the text\u2014the sitcom\u2014into the larger context of politics, culture, and society in the three national cases the author compares\u2026 The book makes an important methodological contribution \u2026 it will make a splash with historians \u2026 and students of film and media studies.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Robert Moeller<\/strong>, University of California, Irvine<\/p>\n ———————————————————————————————————————————–<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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\u2019s population. This book explores television\u2019s impact on social change by comparing three sitcoms and their audiences. The shows in focus \u2013 Till Death Us Do Part in Britain, All in the Family in the United States, and One Heart and One Soul in West Germany \u2013 centered on a bigoted anti-hero and his family. Between 1966 and 1979 they saturated popular culture, and managed to accelerate as well as deradicalize value changes and collective attitudes regarding gender roles, sexuality, religion, and race.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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 increasing precariousness of employment. While the impact of strikes was not always immense, they are deeply rooted in Israel’s past during the Ottoman Empire and Mandate Palestine. Workers persist in using them for material improvement and to gain power in both the private and public sectors, reproducing a vibrant social practice whose codes have withstood the test of time. This book unravels the trajectory of the strikes as a rich source for the social-historical analysis of an otherwise nation-oriented and highly politicized history.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Volume 22, Making Sense of History Series<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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 in the Germany of the early 20th century. By focusing on both the discourse and practices of the youth movement, the author shows how it reinterpreted and revived the past to overthrow the premises of modern historical thought. In so doing, this book provides insight into the social implications of the ideological de-historicization of the past.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Volume 11, Integration and Conflict Studies Series<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Cameroon Grassfields, home to three ethnic groups \u2013 Grassfields societies, Mbororo, and Hausa \u2013 provide a valuable case study for the anthropological examination of identity politics and interethnic relations. In the midst of the political liberalization of Cameroon in the late 1990s and 2000s, local responses to political and legal changes took the form of a series of performative and discursive expressions of ethnicity. Confrontational encounters stimulated by economic and political rivalry, as well as socially integrative processes, transformed collective self-understanding in Cameroon in conjunction with recent global discourses on human, minority, and indigenous rights. The book provides a vital contribution to the study of ethnicity, conflict, and social change in the anthropology of Africa.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Volume 8, Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology Series<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Anthropologists have acted as experts and educators on the nature and ways of life of people worldwide, working to understand the human condition in broad comparative perspective. As a discipline, anthropology has often advocated \u2014 and even defended \u2014 the cultural integrity, authenticity, and autonomy of societies across the globe. Public anthropology today carries out the discipline\u2019s original purpose, grounding theories in lived experience and placing empirical knowledge in deeper historical and comparative frameworks. This is a vitally important kind of anthropology that has the goal of improving the modern human condition by actively engaging with people to make changes through research, education, and political action.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Volume 27, EASA Series<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n What role should students take in shaping their education, their university, and the wider society? These questions have assumed new importance in recent years as universities are reformed to become more competitive in the \u201cglobal knowledge economy.\u201d With Denmark as the prism, this book shows how negotiations over student participation \u2014 influenced by demands for efficiency, flexibility, and student-centered education \u2014 reflect broader concerns about democracy and citizen participation in increasingly neoliberalised states. Combining anthropological and historical research, Gritt B. Nielsen develops a novel approach to the study of policy processes and opens a timely discussion about the kinds of future citizens who will emerge from current reforms.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Theses on Feuerbach, Marx writes, \u201cThe philosophers have only interpreted the world differently; the point is to change it.\u201d This collection examines how filmmakers have tried to change the world by engaging in emancipatory politics through their work, and how audiences have received them. It presents a wide spectrum of case studies, covering both film and digital technology, with examples from throughout cinematic history and around the world, including Soviet Russia, Palestine, South America, and France. Discussions range from the classic Marxist cinema of Aleksandr Medvedkin, Chris Marker, and Jean-Luc Godard, to recent media such as 5 Broken Cameras (2010), the phenomena of video-blogging, and bicycle activism films.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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, from India to Colombia to Vietnam to the Congo, researchers from the United States, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Spain focus their studies on the internal structure and activities of these organizations as they relate to developmental initiatives. The book outlines the principal positions in the migration and development debate and discusses the concept of transnationalism as a means of resolving these controversies.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Papua New Guinea\u2019s two most powerful legal orders \u2014 customary law and state law \u2014undermine one another in criminal matters. This phenomenon, called legal dissonance, partly explains the low level of personal security found in many parts of the country. This book demonstrates that a lack of coordination in the punishing of wrong behavior is both problematic for legal orders themselves and for those who are subject to such legal phenomena Legal dissonance can lead to behavior being simultaneously promoted by one legal order and punished by the other, leading to injustice, and, perhaps more importantly, undermining the ability of both legal orders to deter wrongdoing.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Social quality thinking emerged from a critique of one-sided policies by breaking through the limitations previously set by purely economistic paradigms. By tracing its expansion and presenting different aspects of social quality theory, this volume provides an overview of a more nuanced approach, which assesses societal progress and introduces proposals that are relevant for policy making. Crucially, important components emerge with research by scholars from Asia, particularly China, eastern Europe, and other regions beyond western Europe, the theory\u2019s place of origin. As this volume shows, this rich diversity of approaches and their cross-national comparisons reveal the increasingly important role of social quality theory for informing political debates on development and sustainability.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n —————————————————–<\/p>\n New in Paperback:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Volume 7, Studies of the Biosocial Society Series<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cEveryone who has anything to do with fieldwork should read this book. To my knowledge there is no other work that so clearly demonstrates the kinds of ethical dilemmas that occur routinely in the field, in all their everyday, messiness\u2026It will appeal to anyone working within anthropological or conservation-based disciplines, but it will encourage scholars and students of virtually any discipline, even journalists, to think about the effects of their work. More, much more, this volume should be required reading for anyone who ever sits on an ethics committee.\u201d \u00b7<\/em> Qualitative Research<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Volume 25, Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality Series<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cPregnancy in Practice is a feminist contribution to the anthropology of reproduction in that it explores the quotidian experiences of pregnant women\u2026While her sample is by no means statistically representative of the experiences of American women, the women in her ethnography represent the normative prenatal experience in America. Han successfully demonstrates that the concept of an \u2018ordinary\u2019 or \u2018norma\u2019 pregnancy is a phantom itself. Because of this work, perhaps we can definitively say that all women have ordinary pregnancies, or perhaps none do.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Association for Feminist Anthropology Review<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We\u2019re delighted to offer a selection of latest releases from our core subjects of Anthropology, Applied Anthropology, Education, Film Studies, History, Media Studies, Refugee & Migration Studies, Socio-Legal Studies, and Sociology,\u00a0along with a selection of our New in Paperback titles. 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TELEVISION’S MOMENT<\/a>
\nSitcom Audiences and the Sixties Cultural Revolution
\nChristina von Hodenberg<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/DeVriesStrike.jpg\")
STRIKE ACTION AND NATION BUILDING<\/a>
\nLabor Unrest in Palestine\/Israel, 1899-1951
\nDavid De Vries<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/AdriaansenRhythm.jpg\")
THE RHYTHM OF ETERNITY<\/a>
\nThe German Youth Movement and the Experience of the Past, 1900-1933
\nRobbert-Jan Adriaansen<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/PelicanMasks.jpg\")
MASKS AND STAFFS<\/a>
\nIdentity Politics in the Cameroon Grassfields
\nMichaela Pelican<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/BeckPublic.jpg\")
PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY IN A BORDERLESS WORLD<\/a>
\nEdited by Sam Beck and Carl A. Maida<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/NielsenFiguration.jpg\")
FIGURATION WORK<\/a>
\nStudent Participation, Democracy and University Reform in a Global Knowledge Economy
\nGritt B. Nielsen<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/MazierskaMarx.jpg\")
MARXISM AND FILM ACTIVISM<\/a>
\nScreening Alternative Worlds
\nEdited by Ewa Mazierska and Lars Kristensen<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/PortesState.jpg\")
THE STATE AND THE GRASSROOTS<\/a>
\nImmigrant Transnational Organizations in Four Continents
\nEdited by Alejandro Portes and Patricia Fern\u00e1ndez-Kelly<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/LarcomLegal.jpg\")
LEGAL DISSONANCE<\/a>
\nThe Interaction of Criminal Law and Customary Law in Papua New Guinea
\nShaun Larcom<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/LinSocial.jpg\")
SOCIAL QUALITY THEORY<\/a>
\nA New Perspective on Social Development
\nEdited by Ka Lin and Peter Herrmann<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/MacClancyEthics.jpg\")
ETHICS IN THE FIELD<\/a>
\nContemporary Challenges
\nEdited by Jeremy MacClancy and Agust\u00edn Fuentes<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/HanPregnancy.jpg\")
PREGNANCY IN PRACTICE<\/a>
\nExpectation and Experience in the Contemporary US
\nSallie Han<\/p>\n