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Published May 1996 Taboos in German Literature
Jackson, D. (ed)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published June 2005
Existential Anthropology
Events, Exigencies, and Effects
Jackson, M.
Subject: Theory and Methodology
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Published 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)
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Published 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
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Published January 1993
Rabbinic - Lay Relations in Jewish Law
Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)
Subject: Jewish Studies
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Published 1994
Conversion to Judaism in Jewish Law
Essays and Responsa
Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)
Subject: Jewish Studies
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Published 1995
Death and Euthanasia in Jewish Law
Essays and Responsa
Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)
Subject: Jewish Studies
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Published November 1997
Israel and the Diaspora in Jewish Law
Essays and Responsa
Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)
Subject: Jewish Studies
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Published December 1998
Aging and the Aged in Jewish Law
Essays and Responsa
Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)
Subject: Jewish Studies
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Published November 1999
Marriage and Its Obstacles in Jewish Law
Essays and Responsa
Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)
Subjects: Jewish Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published October 1999
Crime and Punishment in Jewish Law
Essays and Responsa
Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)
Subject: Jewish Studies
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Published November 2000
Gender Issues in Jewish Law
Essays and Responsa
Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)
Subjects: Jewish Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published August 2002
Re-examining Progressive Halakhah
Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)
Subject: Jewish Studies
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Published November 2003
The Environment in Jewish Law
Essays and Responsa
Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)
Subjects: Jewish Studies Environmental Studies (General)
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Published 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
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Published 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
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Published December 2020
Shamanism
Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of Spirits and Healing
Jakobsen, M.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
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Published March 2010
Culture Wars
Context, Models and Anthropologists' Accounts
James, D. Plaice, E. & Toren C. (eds)
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published December 1998
Marcel Mauss
A Centenary Tribute
James, W. & Allen, N. J. (eds)
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology
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Published March 2000
Sight and Sound Entwined
Studies of the New Russian Poetry
Janecek, G.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published December 2007
Shades of Indignation
Political Scandals in France, Past and Present
Jankowski, P.
Subject: History (General)
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Published 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
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Published October 2008
Struggles for Home
Violence, Hope and the Movement of People
Jansen, S. & Löfving, S. (eds)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published 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)
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Published 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
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Published October 1999
Dictatorship as Experience
Towards a Socio-Cultural History of the GDR
Jarausch, K. (ed)
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published August 1994
Uniting Germany
Documents and Debates
Jarausch, K. & Gransow, V.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published 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
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Published September 1997
After Unity
Reconfiguring German Identities
Jarausch, K. H. (ed)
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published July 2013
United Germany
Debating Processes and Prospects
Jarausch, K. H. (ed)
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published May 2007
Conflicted Memories
Europeanizing Contemporary Histories
Jarausch, K. H. & Lindenberger, T. (eds)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies
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Published 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
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Published 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
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Published 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
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Published 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
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Published July 2005
Pathways to Heaven
Contesting Mainline and Fundamentalist Christianity in Papua New Guinea
Jebens, H.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
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Published 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)
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Published 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
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Published May 2005
France in the Era of Fascism
Essays on the French Authoritarian Right
Jenkins, B. (ed)
Subject: History: World War II
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Published October 1999
Religion in English Everyday Life
An Ethnographic Approach
Jenkins, T.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology
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Published April 2010
The Life of Property
House, Family and Inheritance in Béarn, South-West France
Jenkins, T.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology History (General) Sociology
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Published November 2009
Deleuzian Intersections
Science, Technology, Anthropology
Jensen, C. B. & Rödje, K. (Eds.)
Subject: Theory and Methodology
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Published 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)
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Published 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
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Published July 2023
Yugoslavia without Yugoslavs
The History of a National Idea
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
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Published 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
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Published 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)
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Published 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)
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Published December 2005
Multiple Medical Realities
Patients and Healers in Biomedical, Alternative and Traditional Medicine
Johannessen, H. & Lázár, I. (eds)
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published 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
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Published 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)
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Published 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
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Published 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
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Published 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
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Published 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)
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Published 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
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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 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
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Published 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
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Published 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
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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 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
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Published 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)
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Published July 2008
Melanesian Odysseys
Negotiating the Self, Narrative, and Modernity
Josephides, L.
Subject: Anthropology (General)
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Published 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
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Published 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)
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Published November 2023
Children are Everywhere
Conspicuous Reproduction and Childlessness in Reunified Berlin
Joshi, M.
This book explores everyday experiences of parenting and childlessness of ‘ethnic’ Germans in Berlin, who came of age around the fall of the Berlin Wall, and brings them into conversation with theories on parenting, waithood, non-biological intimacies, and masculinities.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published September 2012
A Matter of Belief
Christian Conversion and Healing in North-East India
Joshi, V.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Published 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
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Published 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
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Published November 2004
Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe
Judson, P. & Rozenblit, M. (eds)
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published May 1999
Beyond Caligari
The Films of Robert Wiene
Jung, U. & Schatzberg, W.
Subject: Film and Television Studies
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