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• May 1996

  Taboos in German Literature

  Jackson, D. (ed)

  
  

  Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

• June 2015

  The Underground Reader

  Sources in the Trans-Atlantic Counterculture

  Jackson, J. H. & Saxe, R. F.

  Every society has rebels, outlaws, troublemakers, and deviants.  This collection of primary sources takes readers on a journey through the intellectual and cultural history of the “underground” in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

  Subjects: Literary Studies History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

• June 2005

  Existential Anthropology

  Events, Exigencies, and Effects

  Jackson, M.

  
  

  Subject: Theory and Methodology

• eBook available July 2019

  Critique of Identity Thinking

  Jackson, M.

  Michael Jackson’s response to our beleaguered age is to ask what forms of speech and action are called for in ‘dark times’. He argues that experiences that fall outside the concepts and categories we habitually deploy in rendering life manageable and intelligible have both critical and redemptive power.

  Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

• April 2015

  What Is Existential Anthropology?

  Jackson, M. & Piette, A. (eds)

  What is existential anthropology, and how would you define it? Contributing anthropologists join editors Michael Jackson and Albert Piette in answering these questions and exploring how various approaches to the human condition might be brought together on the levels of method and of theory.

  Subject: Theory and Methodology

• January 1993

  Rabbinic - Lay Relations in Jewish Law

  Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)

  
  

  Subject: Jewish Studies

• 1994

  Conversion to Judaism in Jewish Law

  Essays and Responsa

  Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)

  
  

  Subject: Jewish Studies

• 1995

  Death and Euthanasia in Jewish Law

  Essays and Responsa

  Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)

  
  

  Subject: Jewish Studies

• November 1997

  Israel and the Diaspora in Jewish Law

  Essays and Responsa

  Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)

  
  

  Subject: Jewish Studies

• December 1998

  Aging and the Aged in Jewish Law

  Essays and Responsa

  Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)

  
  

  Subject: Jewish Studies

• November 1999

  Marriage and Its Obstacles in Jewish Law

  Essays and Responsa

  Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Jewish Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

• October 1999

  Crime and Punishment in Jewish Law

  Essays and Responsa

  Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)

  
  

  Subject: Jewish Studies

• November 2000

  Gender Issues in Jewish Law

  Essays and Responsa

  Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Jewish Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

• August 2002

  Re-examining Progressive Halakhah

  Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)

  
  

  Subject: Jewish Studies

• November 2003

  The Environment in Jewish Law

  Essays and Responsa

  Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Jewish Studies Environmental Studies (General)

• eBook available June 2017

  Civil Society Revisited

  Lessons from Poland

  Jacobsson, K. & Korolczuk, E. (eds)

  In contrast to a social scientific literature that characterizes Polish civil society as weak and passive, this volume focuses on forms of collective action that researchers too often ignore due to their theoretical and methodological blind spots. It constitutes a powerful critique of a model of civil society that is ‘made from above’ by elites, media, and public institutions.

  Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

• eBook available April 2016

  Having and Belonging

  Homes and Museums in Israel

  Jaffe-Schagen, J.

  This book draws striking connections between the supposedly divergent spheres of home and museum, which both house objects and generate social narratives. Through fascinating explorations of the museums and domestic spaces of eight Israeli communities, it gives a powerful account of museums’ role in state formation, proposing a new approach for societies in conflict.

  Subjects: Museum Studies Heritage Studies Refugee and Migration Studies

• eBook available December 2020

  Shamanism

  Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of Spirits and Healing

  Jakobsen, M.

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

• eBook available March 2010

  Culture Wars

  Context, Models and Anthropologists' Accounts

  James, D. Plaice, E. & Toren C. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

• December 1998

  Marcel Mauss

  A Centenary Tribute

  James, W. & Allen, N. J. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

• March 2000

  Sight and Sound Entwined

  Studies of the New Russian Poetry

  Janecek, G.

  
  

  Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

• December 2007

  Shades of Indignation

  Political Scandals in France, Past and Present

  Jankowski, P.

  
  

  Subject: History (General)

• June 2015

  Yearnings in the Meantime

  'Normal Lives' and the State in a Sarajevo Apartment Complex

  Jansen, S.

  An ethnographic account, this book looks into a Sarajevo apartment building as its inhabitants yearn for “normal lives,” over a decade after the war and the disintegration of Socialist Yugoslavia. Starting from everyday concerns, it freshly explores how the time and place in which we are caught shape our hopes and fears.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

• October 2008

  Struggles for Home

  Violence, Hope and the Movement of People

  Jansen, S. & Löfving, S. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

• April 2014

  Gender History in a Transnational Perspective

  Networks, Biographies, Gender Orders

  Janz, O. & Schönpflug, D. (eds)

  “This collection of essays addresses important topics in the history of European feminisms.  It goes beyond national histories to examine transnational contacts, comparisons, and transfers… The essays are by an interesting collection of authors, some already very well known in the field, and others promising junior scholars.”  ·  Ann Taylor Allen, University of Louisville

  Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General)

• October 2021

  Transcending the Nostalgic

  Landscapes of Postindustrial Europe beyond Representation

  Jaramillo, G. S. & Tomann, J. (eds)

  This collection explores the affective and “more-than-representational” dimensions of post-industrial landscapes, analyzing narratives, practices, social formations, and other phenomena. Focusing on case studies from across Europe, it examines both the objective and the subjective aspects of societies that produce fewer things and employ fewer workers.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Heritage Studies

• eBook available October 1999

  Dictatorship as Experience

  Towards a Socio-Cultural History of the GDR

  Jarausch, K. (ed)

  
  

  Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

• August 1994

  Uniting Germany

  Documents and Debates

  Jarausch, K. & Gransow, V.

  
  

  Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

• eBook available April 2023

  The Burden of German History

  A Transatlantic Life

  Jarausch, K. H.

  The Burden of Germany History is Konrad H Jarausch’s much anticipated transatlantic autobiography set against the development and transformation of German studies over the past half-century. Using his life story, Jarausch’s concurrent life in the US and Germany brings us a self-critical historiography of a twentieth-century Germany that was wrestling with the responsibility for war and genocide.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History History: World War II

• September 1997

  After Unity

  Reconfiguring German Identities

  Jarausch, K. H. (ed)

  
  

  Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

• eBook available July 2013

  United Germany

  Debating Processes and Prospects

  Jarausch, K. H. (ed)

  
  

  Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

• eBook available May 2007

  Conflicted Memories

  Europeanizing Contemporary Histories

  Jarausch, K. H. & Lindenberger, T. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies

• eBook available December 2016

  Different Germans, Many Germanies

  New Transatlantic Perspectives

  Jarausch, K. H., Wenzel, H., & Goihl, K. (eds)

  For Anglo-American observers in particular, the legacies of two world wars still powerfully define twentieth-century German history. This volume collects insightful studies from leading scholars that suggest new ways for understanding Germany from a transatlantic perspective, arguing above all for a more nuanced, self-reflective, and holistic German Studies.

  Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

• eBook available April 2021

  Remaking the Human

  Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair, Reshaping, and Replacement

  Jarrín, A. & Pussetti, C. (eds)

  The technological capacity to transform biology - repairing, reshaping and replacing body parts, chemicals and functions – is now a part of our lives. This collection focuses on why people find these practices so seductive, and provides ethnographic insights into people’s motives and aspirations as they embrace or reject enhancement technologies, which are closely entangled with negotiations over gender, class, age, nationality and ethnicity.

  Subject: Medical Anthropology

• eBook available October 2017

  The Participants

  The Men of the Wannsee Conference

  Jasch, H.-C., & Kreutzmüller, C. (eds)

  Although the Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942 is today understood as a signal episode in the history of the Holocaust, many of its attendees remain relatively unknown to nonspecialists. Combining accessible prose with scholarly rigor, The Participants presents fascinating profiles of the all-too-human men who implemented some of the most inhuman acts in modern history.

  Subjects: Genocide History History: World War II

• eBook available March 2023

  Fixing Motorcycles in Post-Repair Societies

  Technology, Aesthetics and Gender

  Jderu, G.

  Taking motorcycling in Romania as an ethnographic entry point, this book documents how bikers handle the inevitable moment of malfunction and breakdown. Using both mobile and sedentary research methods, the book describes the joys and troubles experienced by amateur mechanics, professional mechanics and untechnical male and females when fixing bikes.

  Subjects: Mobility Studies Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality

• July 2005

  Pathways to Heaven

  Contesting Mainline and Fundamentalist Christianity in Papua New Guinea

  Jebens, H.

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

• eBook available April 2010

  After the Cult

  Perceptions of Other and Self in West New Britain (Papua New Guinea)

  Jebens, H.

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

• eBook available March 2021

  The Struggle for the Past

  How We Construct Social Memories

  Jelin, E.

  Organized around Argentine “memory wars” since the 1970s, The Struggle for the Past undertakes an innovative exploration of memory’s dynamic social character. In addition to its analysis of how human rights movements have inflected public memory and democratization in Argentina, it also gives an illuminating account of the emergence and development of Memory Studies as a field.

  Subjects: Memory Studies Peace and Conflict Studies

• May 2005

  France in the Era of Fascism

  Essays on the French Authoritarian Right

  Jenkins, B. (ed)

  
  

  Subject: History: World War II

• October 1999

  Religion in English Everyday Life

  An Ethnographic Approach

  Jenkins, T.

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology

• April 2010

  The Life of Property

  House, Family and Inheritance in Béarn, South-West France

  Jenkins, T.

  
  

  Subjects: Theory and Methodology History (General) Sociology

• eBook available November 2009

  Deleuzian Intersections

  Science, Technology, Anthropology

  Jensen, C. B. & Rödje, K. (Eds.)

  
  

  Subject: Theory and Methodology

• eBook available May 2021

  A Twisted Style

  The Culture of Dreadlocks in “Western” Societies

  Jerrentrup, M. T.

  In "western" cultures, some people have chosen a dreadlock hairstyle, despite many in mainstream society looking at it in a negative light. Based on interviews and close observations in social media, the book offers insights into the culture(s) surrounding dreadlocks and ultimately interprets the phenomenon as a postmodern form of individuality.

  Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

• eBook available August 2021

  Iron Landscapes

  National Space and the Railways in Interwar Czechoslovakia

  Jeschke, F.

  Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the newly formed country of Czechoslovakia built an ambitious national rail network out of what remained of the obsolete Habsburg system. Drawing on evidence ranging from government documents to newsreels to train timetables, Iron Landscapes gives a nuanced account of how planners and authorities knitted together the young nation-state and articulated a Czechoslovak cosmopolitanism.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Transport Studies

• July 2023

  Yugoslavia without Yugoslavs

  Jezernik, B.

  Following the idea of Yugoslavism since its first public usage in 1849, Yugoslavia without Yugoslavs explains why the concept of Yugoslavia competed with Slavic, Serbian, and Croatian nationalistic ideas and failed just five years after its first nation state was established

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century History: World War I

• eBook available June 2019

  The Configuration of the Spanish Public Sphere

  From the Enlightenment to the Indignados

  Jiménez Torres, D. & Villamediana González, L. (eds)

  This volume brings together leading scholars in Spanish and Latin American studies to explore the concept of the Spanish “public sphere” and its relation to society and political power over time. It offers a long-term, panoramic view—spanning from the Enlightenment to current developments in the EU—on one of the most urgent issues for contemporary European societies.

  Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

• eBook available September 2011

  Funerals in Africa

  Explorations of a Social Phenomenon

  Jindra, M. & Noret, J. (eds)

  This volume brings together scholars who have conducted research on funerary events across sub-Saharan Africa. The contributions offer an in-depth understanding of the broad changes and underlying causes in African societies over the years, such as changes in religious beliefs, social structure, urbanization, and technological changes and health.

  Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

• eBook available November 2019

  Nourishing the Nation

  Food as National Identity in Catalonia

  Johannes, V.

  Provides an ethnographic account of the everyday experience of national identity in Catalonia, using an essential, everyday object of consumption: food. As a crucial element of Catalan cultural life, a focus on food provides unique insight into the lived realities of Catalan nationalism, and how Catalans experience and express their national identity today.

  Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

• December 2005

  Multiple Medical Realities

  Patients and Healers in Biomedical, Alternative and Traditional Medicine

  Johannessen, H. & Lázár, I. (eds)

  
  

  Subject: Medical Anthropology

• eBook available March 2011

  Sibling Relations and the Transformations of European Kinship, 1300-1900

  Johnson, C. H. & Sabean, D. W. (eds)

  “In all cases, the research is solid, not drawing from a single source, such as a series of   letters, but including a broad range of historical evidence. The analyses themselves are nicely nuanced and all connect with the main theoretical issues of the field, providing a lively discussion and indicating new directions for research. Scholars from many fields focusing on family and kinship, as well as general readers with an interest in family relations, will enjoy and find stimulation in this volume.”  ·  Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

  Subjects: History (General) Sociology

• eBook available January 2013

  Blood and Kinship

  Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present

  Johnson, C. H., Jussen, B., Sabean, D. W., & Teuscher, S. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: History (General) Anthropology (General)

• August 2011

  Transregional and Transnational Families in Europe and Beyond

  Experiences Since the Middle Ages

  Johnson, C. H., Sabean, D. W., Teuscher, S. & Trivellato, F. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: History (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

• eBook available May 2017

  Archeologies of Confession

  Writing the German Reformation, 1517-2017

  Johnson, C. L., Luebke, D. M., Plummer, M. E. & Spohnholz, J. (eds)

  Can one give voice to those whom history has forgotten? The essays collected here examine the formation of religious identities during the Reformation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Germany through case studies of remembering and forgetting—instances in which patterns and practices of religious plurality were excised from historical memory.

  Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Memory Studies

• eBook available May 2020

  The Candle and the Guillotine

  Revolution and Justice in Lyon, 1789–93

  Johnson, J. P.

  Using Lyon as a lens for understanding the politics of revolutionary France, this book reveals the widespread enthusiasm for judicial change in Lyon at the time of the Revolution, as well as the conflicts that ensued between elected magistrates in the face of radical democratization.

  Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

• eBook available February 2010

  Landscape Ethnoecology

  Concepts of Biotic and Physical Space

  Johnson, L. M. & Hunn, E. S. (eds)

  
  

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

• eBook available September 2015

  The Living Ancestors

  Shamanism, Cosmos and Cultural Change among the Yanomami of the Upper Orinoco

  Jokic, Z.

  This ethnography focuses on Yanomami shamanism, especially in the context of cultural change. The author interweaves ethnographic material with theoretical components of a holographic principle, or the “part is equal to the whole.” This book fills a gap in the study of Yanomami people and enriches understanding of this ancient phenomenon.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

• October 2001

  Crossing Boundaries

  The Exclusion and Inclusion of Minorities in Germany and America

  Jones, L. (ed)

  
  

  Subjects: History (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

• eBook available July 2014

  The German Right in the Weimar Republic

  Studies in the History of German Conservatism, Nationalism, and Antisemitism

  Jones, L. E. (ed)

  “The individual chapters range in quality from good to excellent....[and offer] a judicious mix of work from prominent academics and younger scholars. The weighing up of continuities and discontinuities between the Right and Nazism is well considered and offers refreshingly new insights into the history of inter-war Germany.”  ·  Conan Fischer, University of St. Andrews

  Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

• eBook available August 2022

  Towards a Collaborative Memory

  German Memory Work in a Transnational Context

  Jones, S.

  For the first time, this volume creates a sustained study that positions together transnational memory and relational sociology to consider the memory of the GDR. Towards a Collaborative Memory advances the field of transnational memory studies and develops new theoretical approaches that re-evaluate our understanding of actor-driven European memory.

  Subjects: Memory Studies Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present

• January 2018

  The Witness as Object

  Video Testimony in Memorial Museums

  Jong, S. de

  Today more than ever before, the historical witness is now a “museum object” in the form of video interviews. With a focus on Holocaust museums, this study scrutinizes this new global phenomenon of the “musealisation” of testimony, exploring the processes, prerequisites, and consequences of video testimonies as exhibits.

  Subjects: Museum Studies History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies Memory Studies

• December 2011

  Gendered Money

  Financial Organization in Women's Movements, 1880-1933

  Jonsson, P. & Neunsinger, S.

  
  

  Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General)

• April 2023

  The Power of the Story

  Writing Disasters in Haiti and the Circum-Caribbean

  Joos, V., Munro, M. & Ribó, J. (eds)

  A cross-disciplinary volume that combines and puts into dialogue perspectives on disasters, this book includes contributions from anthropology, history, cultural studies, sociology, and literary studies. Offering a rich and diverse set of arguments and analyses on the ever-relevant theme of catastrophe in the circum-Caribbean, it will encourage debate and collaboration between scholars working on disasters from a range of disciplinary perspectives.

  Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

• eBook available December 2018

  Conceptualizing the World

  An Exploration across Disciplines

  Jordheim, H. & Sandmo, E. (eds)

  This innovative and interdisciplinary volume explores the central paradox of globalization and illuminates historical moments that range from antiquity to the era of Google Earth through contributions that trace the emergence of the world in multitudinous representations, practices, and human experiences.

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

• eBook available July 2008

  Melanesian Odysseys

  Negotiating the Self, Narrative, and Modernity

  Josephides, L.

  
   

  Subject: Anthropology (General)

• eBook available June 2017

  The Ethics of Knowledge Creation

  Transactions, Relations, and Persons

  Josephides, L. & Grønseth, A. S. (eds)

  This volume focuses on how knowledge is relationally created, how local knowledge can be transmuted into ‘universal knowledge’, and how transactions and consumption of knowledge monitors knowledge. The Ethics of Knowledge Creation examines how these transactions are then situated according to broader contradictions or synergies between ethical, epistemological, and political concerns.

  Subjects: Applied Anthropology Theory and Methodology

• March 2014

  We the Cosmopolitans

  Moral and Existential Conditions of Being Human

  Josephides, L. & Hall, A. (eds)

  The provocative title of this book is deliberately and challengingly universalist, matching the theoretically experimental essays, where contributors try different ideas to answer distinct concerns regarding cosmopolitanism. Leading anthropologists explore what cosmopolitanism means in the context of everyday life, variously viewing it as an aspect of kindness and empathy, as tolerance, hospitality and openness, and as a defining feature of pan-human individuality. The chapters thus advance an existential critique of abstract globalization discourse. The book enriches interdisciplinary debates about hitherto neglected aspects of contemporary cosmopolitanism as a political and moral project, examining the form of its lived effects and offering new ideas and case studies to work with.

  Subject: Anthropology (General)

• September 2012

  A Matter of Belief

  Christian Conversion and Healing in North-East India

  Joshi, V.

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

• October 2008

  Transformations and Crises

  The Left and the Nation in Denmark and Sweden, 1956-1980

  Jørgensen, T. E.

  
  

  Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

• eBook available August 2021

  Latin America and Refugee Protection

  Regimes, Logics, and Challenges

  Jubilut, L. L., Vera Espinoza, M., & Mezzanotti, G. (eds)

  Looking at refugee protection in Latin America, this landmark edited collection assesses what the region has achieved in recent years. The book analyses Latin America’s main documents in refugee protection, evaluates the particular aspects of different regimes, and reviews their emergence, development and effect, to develop understanding of refugee protection in the region.

  Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

• November 2004

  Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe

  Judson, P. & Rozenblit, M. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

• May 1999

  Beyond Caligari

  The Films of Robert Wiene

  Jung, U. & Schatzberg, W.

  
  

  Subject: Film and Television Studies