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• June 2000

  Placing London

  From Imperial Capital to Global City

  Eade, J.

  
  

  Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General)

• eBook available June 2021

  Rethinking Atlantic Empire

  Christopher Schmidt-Nowara’s Histories of Nineteenth-Century Spain and the Antilles

  Eastman, S. & Jacobsen, S. (eds)

  In recent years, the historiography of nineteenth-century Spain has been invigorated by interdisciplinary engagement with scholars working on topics such as empire, slavery, and race, exemplified by the work of Christopher Schmidt-Nowara. Rethinking Atlantic Empire places Schmidt-Nowara’s work within the context of the broader field, reflecting on his contributions and charting potential new directions in research.

  Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History

• eBook available March 2020

  Postwar Soldiers

  Historical Controversies and West German Democratization, 1945–1955

  Echternkamp, J.

  In Postwar Soldiers, Jörg Echternkamp analyzes three themes in the early history of West Germany: interpretations of the war during its conclusion and the occupation period; military veteran communities’ self-perceptions; and the public rehabilitation of the image of the German soldier.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

• eBook available January 2019

  Views of Violence

  Representing the Second World War in German and European Museums and Memorials

  Echternkamp, J. & Jaeger, S. (eds)

  The modern vision of historical violence has been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War. This volume takes a historical perspective on World War II museums and explores how these institutions came to define the broader European, and even global, political contexts and cultures of public memory.

  Subject: Museum Studies Memory Studies

• eBook available December 2010

  Experience and Memory

  The Second World War in Europe

  Echternkamp, J. & Martens, S. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: History: World War II Memory Studies

• eBook available September 2021

  Cattle Poetics

  How Aesthetics Shapes Politics in Mursiland, Ethiopia

  Eczet, J.-B.

  Loving cows, then killing them. The relation with cattle in Mursi country is shaped by the dichotomy between the value given to it during life and the death imposed upon it. This book investigates the link between the nurturing and killing of cattle, and its accompanying aesthetics, with Mursi society itself.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Development Studies

• eBook available May 2011

  The Dream in Islam

  From Qur'anic Tradition to Jihadist Inspiration

  Edgar, I. R.

   

   

  
  
   

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

• eBook available January 2019

  The Changing Meanings of the Welfare State

  Histories of a Key Concept in the Nordic Countries

  Edling, N. (ed)

  The Nordic concept of “the welfare state” is a well-worn analytical idea that has yet to receive much exploration beyond its postwar emergence. This volume chronicles “the welfare state” from its historical origins to its interpretations, values, and challenges over time in Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland.

  Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

• September 2023

  Urban Natures

  Living the More-than-Human City

  Edwards, F., PEttersen, I. N. & Popartan, L. (eds)

  Urban Natures explores the diversity, abundance, and impact of the conventional and future framings of urban natures. Recognizing a green resurgence in cities is underway, this volume applies a critical approach to examine urban greening histories, politics, discourses and ecologies

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

• eBook available March 2009

  European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology

  Edwards, J. & Salazar, C. (eds)

  
  

  Subject: Medical Anthropology

• June 2010

  Technologized Images, Technologized Bodies

  Edwards, J., Harvey, P. & Wade, P. (eds)

  
  

  Subject: Medical Anthropology

• 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

• eBook available February 2021

  Four-Color Communism

  Comic Books and Contested Power in the German Democratic Republic

  Eedy, S.

  As with all other forms of popular culture, comics in East Germany were tightly controlled by the state. Comics were employed as extensions of the regime’s educational system, delivering state ideology to develop the socialist personality among youth. The East German children who avidly read these comics, however, found their own meanings and projected their own desires in them.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies

• August 2023

  Entertaining German Culture

  Contemporary Transnational Television and Film

  Ehrig, S., Schaper, B. & Ward, E. (eds)

  In an increasingly transnational production of film and television, Entertaining German Culture explores and contextually thematizes a radical shift in the past fifteen years towards a profound appreciation of German cultural and intellectual history in the international mainstream.

  Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies History (General)

• January 2001

  Ethnic Conflict and Indoctrination

  Altruism and Identity in Evolutionary Perspectives

  Eibl-Eibesfeldt, I. & Salter, F. (eds)

  
  

  Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

• October 1998

  Indoctrinability, Ideology and Warfare

  Evolutionary Perspectives

  Eibl-Eibesfeldt, I. & Salter, F.K. (eds)

  
  

  Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

• eBook available June 2011

  Growing Up in Central Australia

  New Anthropological Studies of Aboriginal Childhood and Adolescence

  Eickelkamp, U. (ed)

  This volume presents recent and original studies of life experiences outside the institutional settings of childcare and education, of those growing up in contemporary Central Australia or with strong links to the region.

  Subject: Anthropology (General)

• eBook available December 2013

  The Rise of Market Society in England, 1066-1800

  Eisenberg, C.

  
  

  Subjects: History (General) History: Medieval/Early Modern History: 18th/19th Century

• February 2022

  Times of History, Times of Nature

  Temporalization and the Limits of Modern Knowledge

  Ekstrom, A. & Bergwik, S. (eds)

  Times of History, Times of Nature engages with this historical shift in temporal sensibilities through a combination of detailed case studies and synthesizing efforts. Focusing on the history of knowledge, media theory, and environmental humanities, this volume explores the rich and nuanced notions of time and temporality that have emerged in response to climate change.

  Subjects: History (General) Environmental Studies (General) Media Studies

• December 2002

  Defiance and Compliance

  Negotiating Gender in Low-Income Cairo

  El-Kholy, H.A.

  
  

  Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

• eBook available June 2022

  Migration and Health

  Challenging the Borders of Belonging, Care, and Policy

  El-Shaarawi, N. & Larchanché, S. (eds)

  Despite the centrality of migration in our contemporary world, scholarship on mobility and health frequently separates migrants according to legal status, country of origin, destination, or health concern. Yet people on the move and health systems face challenges and opportunities that transcend these boundaries, including border fortification, neoliberal agendas, and climate change. This volume challenges these epistemic borders.

  Subjects: Medical Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

• eBook available May 2003

  Wilhelminism and Its Legacies

  German Modernities, Imperialism, and the Meanings of Reform, 1890-1930

  Eley, G. & Retallack, J. (eds)

  
  

  Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

• July 2000

  The Silk Roads

  Highways of Culture and Commerce

  Elisseeff, V.

  
  

  Subject: History (General)

• eBook available May 2016

  Being and Becoming

  Embodiment and Experience among the Orang Rimba of Sumatra

  Elkholy, R.

  In a unique methodological contribution, Ramsey Elkholy adopts a set of body-centered approaches that reflect and capture the day-to-day, moment-to-moment ways in which the hunters and gatherers of Orang Rimba, Sumatra, engage with the world.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

• December 2005

  The Categorical Impulse

  Essays on the Anthropology of Classifying Behavior

  Ellen, R.

  
  

  Subject: Theory and Methodology

• eBook available November 2020

  Nature Wars

  Essays Around a Contested Concept

  Ellen, R.

  Made up of 10 of Roy Ellen’s finest articles along with a new introduction linking them together, this book looks back at his ideas about nature before taking the arguments forward. Many of the chapters focus on research the author has conducted amongst the Nuaulu people of eastern Indonesia.

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

• eBook available July 2007

  Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies

  Local Ecological Knowledge in Island Southeast Asia

  Ellen, R. (ed)

  
  

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)

• eBook available August 2013

  Understanding Cultural Transmission in Anthropology

  A Critical Synthesis

  Ellen, R., Lycett, S. J., & Johns, S. E. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Theory and Methodology Archaeology

• eBook available May 2017

  Methodologies of Mobility

  Ethnography and Experiment

  Elliot, A., Norum, R., & Salazar, N. B. (eds)

  Research into mobility is an exciting challenge for the social sciences that raises novel socio-cultural, ethical, and methodological questions. Speaking beyond disciplinary boundaries to the challenges of engaging with a world on the move, Methodologies of Mobility traces innovative strategies for designing, applying and reflecting on methodologies of mobility.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies Theory and Methodology

• February 1996

  Sexual Politics and the European Union

  The New Feminist Challenge

  Elman, R. A.

  
  

  Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology

• February 1996

  Sexual Subordination and State Intervention

  Comparing Sweden and the United States

  Elman, R. A.

  
  

  Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)

• eBook available June 2013

  Framing Africa

  Portrayals of a Continent in Contemporary Mainstream Cinema

  Eltringham, N. (ed)

  
   

  Subjects: Film and Television Studies Anthropology (General) History (General)

• eBook available February 2020

  A U-Turn to the Future

  Sustainable Urban Mobility since 1850

  Emanuel, M., Schipper. F., & Oldenziel, R. (eds)

  Unsustainable practices since the Industrial Revolution still impact our everyday lives. This book looks at how we can achieve sustainable urban mobility now and in the future by tapping into our knowledge of the historical trajectories leading up to the features of modern mobility in cities today.

  Subjects: Mobility Studies History (General) Urban Studies Transport Studies

• eBook available November 2012

  Beyond Habermas

  Democracy, Knowledge, and the Public Sphere

  Emden, C. J. & Midgely, D. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Media Studies Literary Studies

• July 2012

  Changing Perceptions of the Public Sphere

  Emden, C. J. & Midgley, D. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

• eBook available June 2019

  Market Frictions

  Trade and Urbanization at the Vietnam-China Border

  Endres, K. W.

  Based on ethnographic research conducted during several years, Market Frictions examines the tensions and frictions that emerge from the interaction of global market forces, urban planning policies, and small-scale trading activities in the Vietnamese border city of Lào Cai.

  Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sociology

• eBook available March 2012

  Engaging the Spirit World

  Popular Beliefs and Practices in Modern Southeast Asia

  Endres, K. W. & Lauser, A. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

• eBook available March 2007

  Exploring Gypsiness

  Power, Exchange and Interdependence in a Transylvanian Village

  Engebrigtsen, A.

  
  

  Subject: Anthropology (General)

• eBook available August 2006

  The Limits of Meaning

  Case Studies in the Anthropology of Christianity

  Engelke, M. & Tomlinson, M. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

• eBook available July 2022

  Working With Diagrams

  Engelmann, L., Humphrey, C. & Lynteris, C.

  Arising from the need to go beyond the semiotic, cognitive, epistemic and symbolic reading of diagrams, this book looks at what diagrams are capable of in scholarly work. Rather than attempting to define what diagrams are, and what their dietic capacity might be, contributions to this volume draw together the work diagrams do in the development of theories.

  Subject: Theory and Methodology

• eBook available October 2022

  Pacific Spaces

  Translations and Transmutations

  Engels-Schwarzpaul, A.-C., Lopesi, L., & Refiti, A. L. (eds)

  Delving into Pacific spaces from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and interpretations, this book looks at how the anthropological and architectural can be connected.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Development Studies

• eBook available March 2011

  Collective Terms

  Race, Culture, and Community in a State-Planned City in France

  Epstein, B. S.

  
  

  Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General)

• eBook available December 2015

  Russian Postmodernism

  New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture

  Epstein, M., Genis, A. A., & Vladiv-Glover-, S. M.

  The end of the Cold War has enabled Russia to take part in the global rise and crystallization of postmodernism. This volume investigates the manifestations of this crucial trend in Russian fiction, poetry, art, and spirituality, demonstrating how Russian postmodernism is its own unique entity.

  Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

• eBook available November 2017

  Peaceful Selves

  Personhood, Nationhood, and the Post-Conflict Moment in Rwanda

  Eramian, L.

  Twenty years after the 1994 genocide, Rwandans are still troubled by what made the violence possible and how they can know it will not recur. This study uncovers how Rwandan visions of peace and modern nationhood concern not only political reform or economic development, but also transformations in the self.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies

• eBook available February 2019

  Public Engagement and Education

  Developing and Fostering Stewardship for an Archaeological Future

  Erdman, K. M. (ed)

  Public Engagement and Education shares effective approaches for engaging and educating learners of all ages about archaeology and how one can encourage them to become stewards of the past. Offered are applied examples that are not bound to specific geographies or cultures, but rather, are approaches that can be implemented almost anywhere.

  Subjects: Archaeology Educational Studies

• June 2005

  Toward a Global Community of Historians

  The International Historical Congresses and the International Committee of Historical Sciences, 1898-2000

  Erdmann, K.

  
  

  Subject: History (General)

• eBook available August 2022

  Defining and Measuring Diversity in Archaeology

  Another Step Toward an Evolutionary Synthesis of Culture

  Eren, M. I. & Buchanan, B. (eds)

  Calculating the diversity of biological or cultural classes is a fundamental way of describing, analyzing, and understanding the world around us. Featuring studies of archaeological diversity ranging from the data-driven to the theoretical, from the Paleolithic to the Historic periods, authors illustrate the range of data sets to which diversity measures can be applied, as well as offer new methods to examine archaeological diversity.

  Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

• eBook available May 2014

  From Antiquities to Heritage

  Transformations of Cultural Memory

  Eriksen, A.

  What does it mean when runic stones or medieval churches are transformed from antiquities to monuments to heritage sites? This book argues that the transformations concern more than words alone: They reflect fundamental changes in the way we experience the past, and the way historical objects are assigned meaning and value in the present.

  Subjects: Museum Studies Memory Studies Heritage Studies

• February 2019

  Going to Pentecost

  An Experimental Approach to Studies in Pentecostalism

  Eriksen, A. Blanes, R. L., MacCarthy, M.

  Co-authored by three anthropologists with long–term expertise studying Pentecostalism in Africa and Melanesia, and in recognition of the increasingly non-territorial nature of religion in the contemporary world, Going to Pentecost offers an experimental approach to the study of global religious movements, and Pentecostalism in particular.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

• eBook available August 2022

  New Perspectives on Moral Change

  Anthropologists and Philosophers Engage with Transformations of Life Worlds

  Eriksen, C. & Hämäläinen, N. (eds)

  The world we live in is constantly changing. Climate change, transforming gender conceptions, emerging issues of food consumption, novel forms of family life and technological developments are altering central areas of our forms of life. This raises questions of how to cope with and understand the moral changes implicit in such alterations. This anthology is the first to address moral change as such.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

• eBook available October 2014

  Anthropology Now and Next

  Essays in Honor of Ulf Hannerz

  Eriksen, T. H., Garsten, C. & Randeria, S. (eds)

  The scholarship of Ulf Hannerz is characterized by extraordinary breadth and visionary nature. Contributions honor Hannerz’ legacy by addressing theoretical, epistemological, ethical and methodological challenges facing anthropological inquiry. The book showcases anthropology, a discipline devoted to the study of localized phenomena, in a world of global connectedness and accelerated change.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

• December 2006

  Nursing Stories

  Life and Death in a German Hospice

  Eschenbruch, N.

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology

• eBook available October 2017

  Silenced Communities

  Legacies of Militarization and Militarism in a Rural Guatemalan Town

  Esparza, M.

  Silenced Communities offers an ethnographic account of the failed demilitarization of the rural militia in the town of Santo Tomás Chichicastenango following the Guatemalan Civil War. Author Marcia Esparza explores how legacies of grassroots militarization affect indigenous communities exploited by the internal colonialism prevalent in Latin American societies.

  Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies History: 20th Century to Present

• eBook available May 2021

  Mattering the Invisible

  Technologies, Bodies, and the Realm of the Spectral

  Espírito Santo, D. & Hunter, J. (eds)

  Exploring how technological apparatuses “capture” invisible worlds, this book looks at how spirits, UFOs, discarnate entities, spectral energies, atmospheric forces and particles are mattered into existence by human minds. The book uses contemporary case studies where the realm of the invisible arises through technological engagement, and where the paranormal intertwines with modern technology.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Media Studies

• eBook available June 2004

  Refugees and the Transformation of Societies

  Agency, Policies, Ethics and Politics

  Essed, P., Frerks, G. & Schrijvers, J. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies Peace and Conflict Studies

• eBook available April 2018

  Experimental Collaborations

  Ethnography through Fieldwork Devices

  Estalella, A. & Sánchez Criado, T. (eds)

  Grounded in a series of diverse ethnographic projects in Africa, America and Europe, Experimental Collaborations attempts to expand our ethnographic repertoire of fieldwork devices. The titular concept signals a descriptive account of certain forms of ethnographic engagement, and a research and pedagogic program to intervene in current forms of ethnographic practice and learning.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

• 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

• May 2023

  Gender in Germany and Beyond

  Exploring the Legacy of Jean Quataert

  Evans, J. V. & Rose, S. E. (eds)

  Jean Quataert’s former students, colleagues, and collaborators come together in Gender in Germany and Beyond to not only celebrate Quataert’s shaping of the field of modern German, Women’s and transnational history, but also to expand on that scholarship, setting a precedent for the future of the field.

  Subjects: History (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

• eBook available January 2018

  The Ethics of Seeing

  Photography and Twentieth-Century German History

  Evans, J., Betts P., & Hoffmann, S.-L. (eds)

  The Ethics of Seeing brings together an international group of scholars to explore the complex relationship between the visual and the historic in German history. These revealing case studies illustrate photography’s multilayered role as a new form of representation, a means to subjective experience, and a fresh mode of narrating the past.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies

• May 1996

  Conservative Radicalism

  A Sociology of Conservative Party Youth Structures and Libertarianism 1970-1992

  Evans, T.

  Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

• June 2002

  Europe's New Racism

  Causes, Manifestations, and Solutions

  Evens Foundation

  
  

  Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology Urban Studies

• eBook available May 2008

  Anthropology as Ethics

  Nondualism and the Conduct of Sacrifice

  Evens, T. M. S.

  
  

  Subject: Theory and Methodology

• September 2006

  The Manchester School

  Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology

  Evens, T. M. S. & Handelman, D. (eds)

  
  

  Subject: Theory and Methodology

• eBook available March 2016

  Reflecting on Reflexivity

  The Human Condition as an Ontological Surprise

  Evens, T. M. S., Handelman, D. & Roberts, C. (eds)

  Reflexivity is fundamental to human social life. This volume analyzes reflexivity on two analytical planes. On one is the role reflexivity plays in human life and the study of it. The other plane is anthropo-philosophical, which maintains that reflexivity definitively distinguishes the being and becoming of the human.

  Subject: Theory and Methodology

• April 2004

  Cultures of Exile

  Images of Displacement

  Everett, W. & Wagstaff, P. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Film and Television Studies

• eBook available May 2022

  Bulldozer Capitalism

  Accumulation, Ruination, and Dispossession in Northeastern Turkey

  Evren, E.

  Set in the resource frontier of northeastern Turkey, Bulldozer Capitalism studies the rise and decline of an anti-dam/anti-displacement campaign and the political responses to other extractive projects that it helped to shape in its aftermath.

  Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

• July 2023

  Thinking Russia's History Environmentally

  Evtuhov, C., Lajus, J., & Moon, D. (eds)

  Thinking Russia’s History Environmentallybrings together an international set of scholars to showcase the contribution that the study of Russian environments makes to the global environmental field. It challenges the stereotypes of Russian history, highlighting lesser-known features of the nation’s environments…

  Subjects: History (General) Environmental Studies (General)

• 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