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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 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 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 2016
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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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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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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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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Published April 2022
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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Published March 2006
Anti-americanism in Latin America and the Caribbean
McPherson A. (ed)
Subject: History (General)
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Published December 2019
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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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 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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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)
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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
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Forthcoming 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)
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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 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
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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)
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Published April 1999
Braving the Street
The Anthropology of Homelessness
Glasser, I. & Bridgman, R.
Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General)
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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
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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
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Published October 1994
Cars
Analysis, History, Cases
Williams, K., Haslam, C., Johal, S. & Williams, J.
Subject: History (General)
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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Published July 2012
Cinema of Choice
Optional Thinking and Narrative Movies
Ben Shaul, N.
Subject: Film and Television Studies
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Published June 2020
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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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 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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Published April 2012
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 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 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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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 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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Published December 2007
Decentering America
Gienow-Hecht, J. C. E. (ed)
Subject: History (General)
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Published October 2018
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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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)
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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)
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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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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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Published February 2024
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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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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Published December 2015
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: Media Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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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 February 2001
Expanding Suburbia
Reviewing Suburban Narratives
Webster, R. (ed)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Urban Studies
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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 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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Published August 2023
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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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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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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Published April 2008
A Foreign Affair
Billy Wilder's American Films
Gemünden, G.
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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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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 2023
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 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
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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 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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Published January 2001
The German-American Encounter
Conflict and Cooperation between Two Cultures, 1800-2000
Trommler, F. & Shore, E. (eds)
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Published October 2001
Germany and America
Essays in Honor of Gerald R. Kleinfeld
Friedrich, W.-U. (ed)
Subject: History (General)
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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
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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
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Published July 2004
Globalization
Some Critical Issues
Chun, A. (ed)
Subject: Theory and Methodology
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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
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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
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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)
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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)
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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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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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Published October 2014
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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I Dreamed the Animals
Kaniuekutat: The Life of an Innu Hunter
Henriksen, G.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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Published May 2023
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 November 2019
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.
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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)
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Published June 2017
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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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
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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
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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
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Published August 2012
Journey Through America
Koeppen, W.
Subjects: Literary Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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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)
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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
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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
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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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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
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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)
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Published December 2006
The Many Faces of Clio
Cross-cultural Approaches to Historiography
Essays in Honor of Georg G. IggersWang, Q. E. & Fillafer, F. (eds)
Subject: History (General)
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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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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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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 December 1998
Multiculturalism in Transit
A German-American Exchange
Milich, K. & Peck, J. (eds)
Subject: 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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Published February 2022
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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Published January 2010
The New Media Nation
Indigenous Peoples and Global Communication
Alia, V
Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published October 2014
Nighttime Breastfeeding
An American Cultural Dilemma
Tomori, C.
Nighttime breastfeeding and sleep for many new parents in the United States is fraught with intense challenges. Through a close ethnographic examination, this volume explores the impact of conflicting medical guidelines about breastfeeding and infant sleep, and uncovers cultural tensions about expectations for children, parents, and their relationship.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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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 2020
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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Published April 2018
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 1998
Paths to Inclusion
The Integration of Migrants in the United States and Germany
Schuck, P. & Münz, R. (eds)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published October 2000
Patterns of Provocation
Police and Public Disorder
Bessel, R. & Emsley, C. (eds)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Published February 2008
Practicing Public Diplomacy
A Cold War Odyssey
Richmond, Y.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published July 2013
Pregnancy in Practice
Expectation and Experience in the Contemporary US
Han, S.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published September 2019
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 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
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Published February 2023
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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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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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
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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)
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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
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Published January 2009
Screening Nostalgia
Populuxe Props and Technicolor Aesthetics in Contemporary American Film
Sprengler, C.
Subject: Film and Television Studies
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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
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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 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 February 2006
The Society of the Cincinnati
Conspiracy and Distrust in Early America
Hünemörder, M.
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
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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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Published December 2003
Studying Contemporary Western Society
Method and Theory
Mead, M.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
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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
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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
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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
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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 Media Studies Film and Television Studies
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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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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
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Published January 1995
Toward a Global Civil Society
Walzer, M. (ed)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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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 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)
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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
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Published January 1995
Universities in the Twenty-first Century
Muller, S. (ed)
Subject: Educational Studies
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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
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Published August 2009
Voyage Through the Twentieth Century
A Historian's Recollections and Reflections
Klemperer, K. von
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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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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Published May 2023
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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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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Published December 2005
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 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 October 2004
The World Trade Center and Global Crisis
Some Critical Perspectives
Kapferer, B. (ed)
Subject: Theory and Methodology
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