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Published April 2016 Witches and Demons
A Comparative Perspective on Witchcraft and Satanism
La Fontaine, J.
Devil worship, black magic, and witchcraft have long captivated anthropologists as well as the general public. This volume explores the intersection of expert and lay understandings of evil and the cultural forms that evil assumes. It presents a powerful warning of the dangers and mistaken conclusions that are inevitable in untrained ideas about other ways of life.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
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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 September 2024
Daisy Wheel, Hexfoil, Hexafoil, Rosette
Protective Marks in Gravestone Art
Lacy, R. S.
Hexfoils have a history of use for personal protection and were carved both intentionally or graffitied into church pews and walls, bed frames, doors, and gravestones. This research sheds light on the use of this historic symbol to protect the bodies and souls of the deceased, across several thousand years and multiple countries.
Subjects: Archaeology Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Published January 2014
Hindi Is Our Ground, English Is Our Sky
Education, Language, and Social Class in Contemporary India
LaDousa, C.
Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published June 2020
States of Imitation
Mimetic Governmentality and Colonial Rule
Ladwig, P. & Roque, R. (eds)
Drawing on historical ethnographic studies of colonialism in Asia and Africa, States of Imitation examines how the colonial state attempted to administer, control, and integrate its indigenous subjects through mimetic governmentality, as well the ways indigenous states adopted these imitative practices to establish reciprocal ties with, or to resist the presence of, the colonial state.
Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published January 2019
Politics of Scale
New Directions in Critical Heritage Studies
Lähdesmäki, T., Thomas, S., & Zhu, Y. (eds)
Politics of Scale offers a global, multi- and interdisciplinary point of view to the scaled nature of heritage, and provides a theoretical discussion on scale as a social construct and a method in Critical Heritage Studies.
Subjects: Heritage Studies Museum 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 2021
Rethinking Internal Displacement
Geo-political Games, Fragile States and the Relief Industry
Laker, F.
To tackle the vast numbers of internally displaced people, a UN regime has emerged that seeks to replicate the long-established regime of refugee protection by applying international law and humanitarian assistance to citizens within their own borders. This book looks at the origins, structure and impact of this new UN regime and whether it is fit for purpose.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies
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Published November 2003
Illness and Irony
On the Ambiguity of Suffering in Culture
Lambek, M. & Antze, P. (ed)
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Published March 2009
Social Bodies
Lambert, H. & McDonald, M. (eds)
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published July 2002
The Politics of Education
Teachers and School Reform in Weimar Germany
Lamberti, M.
Subjects: Educational Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published December 2017
Seekers and Things
Spiritual Movements and Aesthetic Difference in Kinshasa
Lambertz, P.
Focusing on the intricate presence of a new Japanese religion (Sekai Kyûseikyô) in the densely populated and primarily Christian environment of Kinshasa (DR Congo), this ethnographic study offers a practitioner-orientated perspective to create a localised picture of religious globalization.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published September 2024
Performing State Boundaries
Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China
Lammer, C.
Polarizing images of China’s authoritarian, socialist or culturalist otherness limit state analyses but produce political effects. In an ecological village in Sichuan, potential supporters saw citizen participation as Western liberalism, Maoism or traditional rural culture. This book shows how contrasting judgments emerged from diverse repertoires through which multiple boundaries between state and non-state were performed.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
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Published February 2021
Religion and Pride
Hindus in Search of Recognition in La Réunion
Lang, N.
Through the examination of religious practices and public performance, the author offers a compelling study of how the Hindu community in the French territory of La Réunion assert pride in their religion as a means of gaining recognition as a religious minority.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
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Published August 2001
Ignaz Maybaum
A Reader
Lange, N. de (ed)
Subject: Jewish Studies
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Published April 1998
The Political Economy of German Unification
Lange, T. & Shackleton, J. (eds)
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published January 2007
Launching the Grand Coalition
The 2005 Bundestag Election and the Future of German Politics
Langenbacher, E. (ed.)
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published November 2010
Between Left and Right
The 2009 Bundestag Elections and the Transformation of the German Party System
Langenbacher, E. (ed)
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published September 2015
The Merkel Republic
An Appraisal
Langenbacher, E. (ed)
Bringing together German politics experts from both sides of the Atlantic, this volume addresses the campaign, results, and consequences of the 2013 Bundestag election. Chapters delve into a diverse array of themes, including immigrant-origin and women candidates, the fate of the small parties, and the prospects for the SPD, as well as more general structural trends like the Europeanization and cosmopolitanization of German politics.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
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Published July 2019
Twilight of the Merkel Era
Power and Politics in Germany after the 2017 Bundestag Election
Langenbacher, E. (ed)
Elections always have consequences, but the 2017 Bundestag election in Germany proved particularly consequential. With political upheaval across the globe—notably in Britain and the USA—it was vital to European and global order that Germany remain stable.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published June 2024
Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary German Politics and Policy
Langenbacher, E. (ed)
Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary German Politics and Policy presents the recent transformations across the European continent and the paradigm shifts in security and defense policy to investigate and predict the future of the altered state of German and European politics.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published March 2013
Dynamics of Memory and Identity in Contemporary Europe
Langenbacher, E., Niven, B., & Wittlinger, R. (eds)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies
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Published October 2023
Assembling Financialisation
Local Actors and the Making of Agricultural Investment
Langford, Z.
Farmers, Indigenous organisations, government and private-sector intermediaries from remote Northern Australia often negotiate with private finance capital to gain funds for agricultural development.This book demonstrates that while financialisation is a useful signifier of patterns of global change, it is assembled by a diverse range of often contradictory work.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
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Published October 1999
Germany's Difficult Passage to Modernity
Breakdown, Breakup, Breakthrough
Lankowski, C. (ed)
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published February 2015
Healing Roots
Anthropology in Life and Medicine
Laplante, J.
Laplante follows umhlonyane — one of the oldest and best-documented indigenous medicines in South Africa. The volume follows the plant anthropologically on its trails and trials of becoming a biopharmaceutical — from the “open air” to controlled environments — learning from the plant itself, and from the people who use it with hopes in healing.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published September 2020
Search After Method
Sensing, Moving, and Imagining in Anthropological Fieldwork
Laplante, J., Gandsman, A., & Scobie, W. (eds)
Reigniting a tradition of learning by experience, Search After Method is a plea for more lively forms of anthropology. The chapters relate the contributor’s first experiences of working in the field and use their experiences to link their work to the discipline of Anthropology, along with other broader fieldwork questions.
Subject: Theory and Methodology
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Published July 2015
Legal Dissonance
The Interaction of Criminal Law and Customary Law in Papua New Guinea
Larcom, S.
Papua New Guinea’s two most powerful legal orders — customary law and state criminal law — undermine each other in criminal matters. This phenomenon, called legal dissonance, can lead to an activity being advanced by one legal order and punished by the other, leading to injustice and each legal order’s diminished ability to deter wrongdoing.
Subject: Anthropology (General)
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Published June 2008
Where Humans and Spirits Meet
The Politics of Rituals and Identified Spirits in Zanzibar
Larsen, K.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Performance Studies
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Published June 2017
Space and Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History
Lässig, S. & Rürup, M. (eds)
This wide-ranging volume revisits both literal and metaphorical spaces in modern German history, working from an expansive concept of “the spatial” to examine the ways in which Jewishness has been attributed to them, and what the implications have been in different eras and social contexts.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century
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Published October 2019
The World of Children
Foreign Cultures in Nineteenth-Century German Education and Entertainment
Lässig, S. & Weiß, A. (eds)
In an era of technological advances and rapidly increasing international exchange, how did young Germans come to understand the world beyond their doorstep? Bringing together contributions from specialists in historical, literary, and cultural studies, this is a fascinating kaleidoscopic exploration of the ways that children absorbed, combined, and adapted notions of the world in their own ways.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General) Educational Studies
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Published March 2009
After the 'Socialist Spring'
Collectivisation and Economic Transformation in the GDR
Last, G.
Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Published August 2016
'City of the Future'
Built Space, Modernity and Urban Change in Astana
Laszczkowski, M.
The long-awaited comprehensive account of the rise of Astana, the capital city of Kazakhstan, this book argues for an understanding of space as inextricably material-and-imaginary, and unceasingly dynamic – allowing for a plurality of incompatible pasts and futures materialized in spatial form.
Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General) Geography
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Published December 2017
Affective States
Entanglements, Suspensions, Suspicions
Laszczkowski, M. & Reeves, M. (eds)
The volume enhances the anthropological understanding of the various ways through which the state comes to be experienced as a visceral presence in social life.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published July 2012
Environment and Citizenship in Latin America
Natures, Subjects and Struggles
Latta, A. & Wittman, H. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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Published September 2000
Shedding Light on the Darkness
A Guide to Teaching the Holocaust
Lauckner, N. & Jokiniemi, M.
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies
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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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Published October 2013
Border Encounters
Asymmetry and Proximity at Europe's Frontiers
Lauth Bacas, J. & Kavanagh, W. (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies
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Published August 2007
Blood and Oranges
Immigrant Labor and European Markets in Rural Greece
Lawrence, C. M.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published April 2020
Selfishness and Selflessness
New Approaches to Understanding Morality
Layne, L. L. (ed)
We are said to be suffering a narcissism epidemic when the need for collective action seems more pressing than ever. Selfishness and selflessness address the ‘proper’ and ‘improper’ relationship between one’s self and others. The work they do during periods of social instability and cultural change is probed in this original, interdisciplinary collection.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
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Published July 2024
Two Against the Tide
The shared career and lost legacy of Brenda and Charles Seligman
Lazarsfeld-Jensen, A.
When Charles Seligman invited his wife, Brenda, to share his tent in 1907, he sanctioned a professional place for female fieldworkers in anthropology. Two Against the Tide explores how as wealthy Anglo-Jews, Charles and Brenda Seligman built a shared career through secret benevolence and silent endurance of hardship.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)
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Published October 2017
Foucault's Orient
The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan
Lazreg, M.
Using interviews with scholars from Tunisia and Japan, this book examines the manner in which Foucault experienced and explained his encounters with non-Western cultures, unraveling the anthropological implications of his unwavering commitment to cultural difference. It also traces the philosophical-theoretical sources of his conception of difference, and uncovers the contradictions of his dismissal of empirical anthropology to know human beings.
Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published July 2003
Creative Land
Place and Procreation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea
Leach, J.
Subject: Anthropology (General)
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Published July 2009
The Political Economy of Germany under Chancellors Kohl and Schröder
Decline of the German Model?
Leaman, J.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies
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Published June 2013
Tax Justice and the Political Economy of Global Capitalism, 1945 to the Present
Leaman, J. & Waris, A. (eds)
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published July 2017
Travel and Representation
Lean, G., Staiff, R., & Waterton, E. (eds)
Exploring and re-examining the various convergences between literature, art, photography, television, cinema and travel, this collection offers a careful appreciation of the entanglement of travel and its representations, emphasizing a reconsideration of the intersections between travelers, fields of representation, imagination, emotions and corporeal experiences in the past, the present and future.
Subjects: Heritage Studies Travel and Tourism Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published March 2020
Friendship without Borders
Women's Stories of Power, Politics, and Everyday Life across East and West Germany
Leask, P.
Drawing on a set of interviews and a thousand letters written over fifty years, Friendship, Power, and Everyday Life considers how a group of women, self-defined as non-political, experienced, accepted, rejected, or countered the exercise of power across twentieth-century regimes in Germany.
Subjects: History (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published May 2017
Redescribing Relations
Strathernian Conversations on Ethnography, Knowledge and Politics
Lebner, A. (ed)
Marilyn Strathern is among the most creative and celebrated contemporary anthropologists, and her work draws interest from across the humanities and social sciences. With a comprehensive introduction and a newly translated interview, Redescribing Relations brings some of Strathern’s most committed and renowned readers into conversations in her honour.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published April 2020
In Fading Light
The Films of the Amber Collective
Leggott, J.
The Amber Film collective has been part of the British and European documentary scene since the late 1960s. Situating the work within wider social, political and historical contexts, In Fading Light interrogates how their critically acclaimed body of work—which includes documentaries, feature films, television films, and other experimental and campaigning projects—relates to other filmmakers in Britain and Europe.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published December 2001
Symbiosis and Ambivalence
Poles and Jews in a Small Galician Town
Lehmann, R.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History
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Published November 2016
Occupation in the East
The Daily Lives of German Occupiers in Warsaw and Minsk, 1939-1944
Lehnstaedt, S.
Following their occupation by the Third Reich, Warsaw and Minsk became home to tens of thousands of Germans. This study provides a nuanced portrait of their lives, as they acclimated to the daily routines of life in the East while helping to lay the groundwork for systematic mass murder.
Subject: History: World War II
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Published October 2020
Preventing Dementia?
Critical Perspectives on a New Paradigm of Preparing for Old Age
Leibing, A. & Schicktanz, S. (eds)
The conceptualization of dementia has changed dramatically in recent years with the claim that, through early detection and by controlling several risk factors, a prevention of dementia is possible. Although encouraging and providing hope against this feared condition, this claim is open to scrutiny. This volume looks at how this new conceptualization ignores many of the factors which influence a dementia sufferers’ prognosis.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published September 1999
Spain in International Context, 1936-1959
Leitz, C. & Dunthorn, D. (eds)
Subject: History (General)
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Published July 2010
Class, Contention, and a World in Motion
Lem, W. & Gardiner Barber, P. (eds)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Mobility Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published March 2000
Rural Property and Economy in Post-communist Albania
Lemel. H. W. (ed)
Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published May 2018
Being-Here
Placemaking in a World of Movement
Lems, A.
By exploring the lifeworlds of two middle-aged Somalis living in Melbourne, Australia, Being-Here sheds light on the existential dynamics of being-in-place. It discusses the interrelated meanings of emplacement and displacement as experienced in people’s everyday lives, and examines the figure of the refugee as a metaphor for societal alienation and estrangement.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies
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Published May 2022
Making Better Lives
Hope, Freedom and Home-Making among People Sleeping Rough in Paris
Lenhard, J.
In this ethnographic study, Johannes Lenhard observes the daily practices, routines and techniques of people who are sleeping rough on the streets of Paris. The book focusses on their survival practises, their short-term desires and hopes, how they earn money through begging, how they choose the best place to sleep at night and what role drugs and alcohol play in their lives.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Urban Studies
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Published October 2000
Israel and the Daughters of the Shoah
Reoccupying the Territories of Silence
Lentin, R.
Subjects: Genocide History Gender Studies and Sexuality Jewish Studies
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Published February 2004
Re-presenting the Shoah for the 21st Century
Lentin, R. (ed)
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies Memory Studies
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Published November 2022
The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky
Into Germany at the End of World War II
Lerg, C. A. (ed.)
The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky reproduces and critically examines Melvin J. Lasky’s diary, which expounds intense and insightful notes on German realities following the aftermath of World War Two and the ideological conflicts between the East and West.
Subjects: History: World War II History: 20th Century to Present Literary Studies
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Published March 2021
Jewish Self-Hate
Lessing, T.
This new edition makes Theodor Lessing’s seminal work Der Jüdische Selbsthaß accessible to English readers for the first time, supplemented with explanatory footnotes by translator Peter Appelbaum and illustrative essays by historian Sander L. Gilman and German scholar Paul Reitter.
Subject: Jewish Studies
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Published January 2005
Adolf Cluss, Architect
From Germany to America
Lessoff, A. & Mauch, C. (eds)
Subjects: Urban Studies History (General)
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Published September 2023
Translocal Care across Kosovo’s Borders
Reconfiguring Kinship along Gender and Generational Lines
Leutloff-Grandits, C.
By tracing long-distant family relations with a special focus on cross-border marriages, this study looks at the reconfiguration of care relations, gender and generational roles among kin-members of Kosovo, who now live in different European states.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published June 2009
Social Security in Religious Networks
Anthropological Perspectives on New Risks and Ambivalences
Leutloff-Grandits, C., Peleikis, A. & Thelen, T. (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published August 1999
The Massacre in History
Levene, M. & Roberts, P. (eds)
Subject: Genocide History
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Published June 2008
Political Theory and Australian Multiculturalism
Levey, G. B. (ed)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published November 2016
Creating a New Public University and Reviving Democracy
Action Research in Higher Education
Levin, M. & Greenwood, D. J.
Morten Levin and Davydd Greenwood analyze the wreckage created by neoliberal academic administrators and policymakers, before going on to propose Action Research processes that can transform public universities back into institutions that promote academic freedom, integrity, and democracy.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies Sociology
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Published May 2002
Challenging Ethnic Citizenship
German and Israeli Perspectives on Immigration
Levy, D. & Weiss, Y.(eds)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published July 2022
Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline
Lewis, B.
Re-evaluating the evolution Oswald Spengler’s political activities and his work, Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline explains the outcome of Spengler’s meta-historical considerations on world history and the practical demands of Realpolitik. This volume takes a novel approach to one of the most important thinkers of the Weimar Republic and his contributions to the complex discourse of German national renewal.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published January 1998
A Year of Revolutions
Fanny Lewald's Recollections of 1848
Lewis, H. (ed)
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Literary Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
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Correcting the Record
Essays on the History of American Anthropology
Lewis, H. S.
The critique of twentieth-century American anthropology often portrays anthropologists of the past as servants of colonialism who “extracted” information from indigenous peoples and published works causing them harm. This volume presents powerful refutations of these damaging myths.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Colonial History
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Published March 2019
Fate Calculation Experts
Diviners Seeking Legitimation in Contemporary China
Li, G.
As the practice of divination, long stigmatized as an immoral superstition, enjoys a revival in contemporary China, Fate Calculation Experts explores the various ways in which diviners attempt to achieve legitimation in a society which identifies strongly with modernity, science, and rationality.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Published November 2011
Caring for the 'Holy Land'
Filipina Domestic Workers in Israel
Liebelt, C.
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Published September 1998
From Recovery to Catastrophe
Municipal Stabilization and Political Crisis
Lieberman, B.
Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Published June 2007
Holding Worlds Together
Ethnographies of Knowing and Belonging
Lien, M. E. & Melhuus, M. (eds)
Subject: Theory and Methodology
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Published January 2015
Anthropology & Philosophy
Dialogues on Trust and Hope
Liisberg, S., Pedersen, E. O., Dalsgård, A. L. (eds)
The present book is a workroom in which anthropologists and philosophers have begun a dialogue on trust and hope. The interdisciplinary efforts of the contributors demonstrate how the collaboration of anthropologists and philosophers can result in new and challenging ways of thinking about trust and hope.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
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Published December 1995
The Origins of Complex Societies in Late Prehistoric Iberia
Lillios, K. T.
A series of papers by a wide range of authors from different countries and backgrounds focuses firmly on the question of the origin and development of social complexity, from the Neolithic through the Bronze Age, in Iberia writ large. A wide range of specific topics is covered with this specific focus, from results of field projects, laboratory analyses, and theoretical overviews.
Subject: Archaeology
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Published March 2006
Germans No More
Accounts of Jewish Everyday Life, 1933-1938
Limberg, M. & Rübsaat, H. (eds)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Jewish Studies
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Published August 2017
Money in the German-speaking Lands
Lindemann, M. & Poley, J. (eds)
Germany’s leading role in EU economic policy following the 2008 financial crisis is in a sense only the latest step in a long history of attempts at political unification through economic integration. This volume follows this trajectory in German-speaking lands from the late Renaissance until the close of the twentieth century.
Subject: History (General)
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Published October 2011
Beyond Conversion and Syncretism
Indigenous Encounters with Missionary Christianity, 1800-2000
Lindenfeld, D. & Richardson, M. (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Colonial History
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Published April 2011
Practicing the Faith
The Ritual Life of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christians
Lindhardt, M. (ed)
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
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Published August 2010
The Early Morning Phonecall
Somali Refugees' Remittances
Lindley, A.
As migration from poverty-stricken and conflict-affected countries continues to hit the headlines, this book focuses on an important counter-flow: the money that people send home. This book explores the dynamics, infrastructure, and far-reaching effects of remittances from the perspectives of people in the Somali regions and the diaspora. By ‘following the money’ the author opens a window on the everyday lives of people caught up in processes of conflict, migration, and development. The book demonstrates how, in the interstices of state disruption and globalisation, and in the shadow of violence and political uncertainty, life in the Somali regions goes on, subject to complex transnational forms of social, economic, and political innovation and change.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies
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Published December 2005
Conjuring Hope
Healing and Magic in Contemporary Russia
Lindquist, G.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion
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Published January 2011
Religion, Politics, and Globalization
Anthropological Approaches
Lindquist, G. & Handelman, D. (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
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Published August 2019
Muted Memories
Heritage-Making, Bagamoyo, and the East African Caravan Trade
Lindström, J.
This book examines the centrality of the East African Caravan Trade to Bagamoyo, a Tanzanian port town on the Indian Ocean, and explores the way that this history was silenced when Bagamoyo was instead branded as a slave route town in 2006 in an attempt to qualify it for the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Development Studies
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Published May 2020
On the Edges of Whiteness
Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War
Lingelbach, J.
From 1942 to 1950, nearly twenty thousand Poles found refuge from the horrors of World War II in camps within Britain’s African colonies, including Uganda, Tanganyika, and Kenya. On the Edges of Whiteness tells their improbable story, tracing the manifold, complex relationships that developed among refugees, their British administrators, and their African neighbors.
Subjects: History: World War II Refugee and Migration Studies Colonial History
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Published December 2010
The Economic Diplomacy of Ostpolitik
Origins of NATO's Energy Dilemma
Lippert, W. D.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published August 2014
Vehicles
Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination
Lipset, D. & Handler, R. (eds)
On-the-ground vehicles offer themselves as rich metaphors for the moral imagination, for thinking about ethical dimensions of the social. Vehicles presents a collection of ethnographic essays on the metaphoric significance of vehicles in different cultures, from canoes in Papua New Guinea to cars in contemporary China, Japan, and Eastern Europe. Vehicles not only “carry people around,” but also “carry” how they relate to culture, politics and history.
Subjects: Transport Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published June 2016
Mortuary Dialogues
Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities
Lipset, D. & Silverman, E. K. (eds)
Mortuary Dialogues presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Through its set of rich ethnographies, the book examines how funerals and death rituals give rise to discourse and debate about sustaining moral persons and community amid modernity, and its enormous transformations.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Published February 2020
On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise
Affect, Tourism, Belize
Little, K.
On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise is a collection of seven stories about local lives in the fictional village of Wallaceville. They turn rogue in the face of runaway forces that take the form and figure of a Belize beast-time, which can appear as a comic mishap, social ruin, tragic excess, or wild guesses.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Literary Studies
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Published June 2016
Cosmos, Gods and Madmen
Frameworks in the Anthropologies of Medicine
Littlewood, R. & Lynch, R. (eds)
The social anthropology of sickness and health has always been concerned with religious cosmologies. The chapters cover a range of ethnographic areas and examine notions of personhood, agency, uncertainty and control among other questions. In so doing, the contributors seek to contextualise understandings within wider cultural understandings found in these areas, linking these concepts to the wider social fabric.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion
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The Chameleon State
Global Culture and Policy Shifts in Britain and Germany, 1914-1933
Liu, T-L.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published April 2009
The Mirage of China
Anti-Humanism, Narcissism, and Corporeality of the Contemporary World
Liu, X.
Subject: Anthropology (General)
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An Invitation to Anthropology
The Structure, Evolution and Cultural Identity of Human Societies
Llobera, J.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
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Foundations of National Identity
From Catalonia to Europe
Llobera, J.
Subject: Anthropology (General)
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Published June 2001
Secret Spaces, Forbidden Places
Rethinking Culture
Lloyd, F. & O'Brien, C. (eds)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published April 2023
Of Jaguars and Butterflies
Metalogues on Issues in Anthropology and Philosophy
Lloyd, G. & Vilaça, A.
Jointly authored by an anthropologist and a philosopher, this book investigates some of the most puzzling ideas and practices reported in modern ethnography and ancient philosophy concerning topics such as humans, animals, persons, spirits, agency, selfhood, consciousness, nature, life, death, disease and health.
Subject: Anthropology (General)
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Published February 2022
Walls and Gateways
Contested Heritage in Dubrovnik
Loades, C. M.
Walls and Gateways provides an ethnographic case study, which explores how the production of Dubrovnik’s World Heritage intersects with the reconstruction and consolidation of identities and locality in the city’s post-war context. The book analyses how representations, perceptions and uses of Dubrovnik’s heritage are embedded in particular social and political structural conditions, cultural practices, materiality and place.
Subjects: Heritage Studies Anthropology (General) Memory Studies
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Published April 2013
Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia
Bioregionalism, Permaculture, and Ecovillages
Lockyer, J. & Veteto, J. R. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2021
We are All Africans Here
Race, Mobilities and West Africans in Europe
Loftsdóttir, K.
This book looks critically at racialization of mobility in Europe, anchoring the discussion in the aspiration of precarious migrants from Niger in Belgium and Italy. The book contextualizes their experiences within the ongoing securitization of mobility in their home country and the persistent denial of racism and colonialism that seeks to portray the innocence of Europe.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published February 2018
Messy Europe
Crisis, Race, and Nation-State in a Postcolonial World
Loftsdóttir, K., Smith, A. L., & Hipfl, B. (eds)
Messy Europe links theoretical insights to current discussions of crisis – economic and otherwise – showing how these shape the creation of subjectivities and identities. The chapters theorize “Europe” as a contested and fluid construction, and, by focusing on particular case studies, analyze how specific understandings of self and others occur in the crisis context.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Iron in the Soul
Displacement, Livelihood and Health in Cyprus
Loizos, P.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published January 2011
Constitutionalism and Transitional Justice in South Africa
Lollini, A.
Subject: History (General)
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Published April 2021
Ethnographies of Power
A Political Anthropology of Energy
Loloum, T., Abram, S., & Ortar, N. (eds)
Energetic infrastructures are crucial to political organization. They shape the contours of states and international bodies, as well as corporations and communities, framing their material existence and their fears and idealisations of the future. Ethnographies of Power brings together ethnographic studies of contemporary entanglements of energy and political power.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Environmental Studies (General)
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Published December 2012
Sociality
New Directions
Long, N. J. & Moore, H. L. (eds)
Subject: Theory and Methodology
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Published November 2013
The Social Life of Achievement
Long, N. J. & Moore, H. L. (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published December 2021
Extremism, Society, and the State
Loperfido, G. (ed)
This collected volume brings together leading anthropologists and cultural analysts to offer a concise look at the narratives, symbolic, and metaphoric fields related to extremism, systemitizing an approach to contemporary extremism by placing these idealogies into historical, political, and geo-systemic contexts.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published November 2021
Good Enough Mothers
Practicing Nurture and Motherhood in Chiapas, Mexico
López, JM
Motherhood in Mexico is profoundly shaped by the legacy of colonialism. This ethnography situates motherhood in a critical global health analysis of maternal health inequalities and interventions in the southeast state of Chiapas.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
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Published August 2024
A More Democratic Community
The Place of Democracy in the HIstory of European Integration
Lorenzini, S. & Tulli, U. (eds)
By addressing the “place” of democracy in the history of European integration, this book bridges the political history of postwar Europe with the history of European integration. It shows that European integration and the democratic stability of Western Europe were deeply connected, albeit in contradictory and non-linear ways.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published March 2011
Diversity and Dissent
Negotiating Religious Difference in Central Europe, 1500-1800
Louthan, H., Cohen, G. B. & Szabo, F. A. J. (eds)
Subject: History: Medieval/Early Modern
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Published December 2001
Women as Sacred Custodians of the Earth?
Women, Spirituality and the Environment
Low, A. & Tremayne, S. (eds)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Published May 2014
Cinema At the Edges
New Encounters with Julio Medem, Bigas Luna and José Luis Guerín
Loxham, A.
Subject: Film and Television Studies
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Published December 2008
Dances with Spiders
Crisis, Celebrity and Celebration in Southern Italy
Lüdtke, K.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Performance Studies
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Published August 2014
Mixed Matches
Transgressive Unions in Germany from the Reformation to the Enlightenment
Luebke, D. M. & Lindemann, M. (eds)
Taking as a point of departure Martin Luther’s redefinition of marriage, the contributors to this volume spin out the multiple ways that the Reformers’ attempts to simplify and clarify marriage affected education, philosophy, literature, high politics, diplomacy, and law. Ranging from the Reformation, through the ages of confessionalization, to the Enlightenment, Mixed Matches addresses the historical complexity of the socio-cultural institution of marriage.
Subject: History: Medieval/Early Modern
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Published May 2012
Conversion and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Germany
Luebke, D. M., Poley, J., Ryan, D. C., & Sabean, D. W. (eds)
Subject: History: Medieval/Early Modern
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Published December 2016
The Forest People without a Forest
Development Paradoxes, Belonging and Participation of the Baka in East Cameroon
Lueong, G. M.
The Forest People without a Forest explores how the Baka, who live in Eastern Cameroon, assert forms of belonging in order to participate in development interventions, and how community life is shaped and reshaped through these interventions. These interventions raise paradoxes of belonging for the Baka, and are often targeted toward competing and contradictory goals.
Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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Published May 2006
Turning the Kaleidoscope
Perspectives on European Jewry
Lustig, S. & Leveson, I. (eds)
Subjects: Jewish Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published September 2019
Submerged on the Surface
The Not-So-Hidden Jews of Nazi Berlin, 1941–1945
Lutjens Jr., R. N.
Between 1941 and 1945, some 6,500 Berlin Jews, in fear for their lives, made the choice to flee their impending deportations and live submerged in Nazi Germany. This book sheds light on the daily life of those who hid and on the city that was both the source of their persecution and the site of their survival.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History
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Europe After Maastricht
American and European Perspectives
Lützeler, P. M. (ed)
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published April 2013
Transitions and Transformations
Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course
Lynch, C. & Danely, J. (eds)
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published January 2020
The Devil is Disorder
Bodies, Spirits and Misfortune in a Trinidadian Village
Lynch, R.
What role might the Devil have in health and illness? The Devil is Disorder explores constructions of the body, health, illness and wider misfortune in a Trinidadian village where evangelical Christianity is growing in popularity. Based on long-term ethnography, the book takes a nuanced cosmological approach to situate evangelical Christian understandings.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion Sociology
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Matter Out of Place
Anthropological Explorations of Bodies, Dirt and Morality
Lynch, R., Calabrese, J., & Littlewood, R. (eds)
This collection draws on classic anthropological ideas of pollution to explore bodies, dirt, and place, moral inversion and reinforcement, and disgust and taboo. The book is an invitation to consider the continued relevance of Douglas’ conceptualisation of pollution and dirt as ‘matter out of place’ in relation to contemporary circumstances.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Sociology
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Published March 2024
Contested Femininities
Representations of Modern Women in the German Illustrated Press, 1920-1960
Lynn, J.
Contested Femininities for the first time contributes a long-view study of constructions of the Neue or Moderne Frau (New or Modern Woman) in the illustrated press providing an incredible scope of inquiry spanning the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, post-war occupation, and a divided German.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality Media Studies
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