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Published June 2025 Hammerstein’s Daughters
An Aristocratic Family Caught Between Tradition and Resistance
Paasche, G.
An enlightening chronicle of General Kurt von Hammerstein’s daughters, Marie Louise, Maria Therese, and Helga, and their attempts to thwart Hitler’s regime, this book provides an unrivalled insight into an overlooked history of tradition, resistance, adaptation, and rebellion in Nazi Germany.
Subjects: History: World War II History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History
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Published November 2000
Preserving Order Amid Chaos
The Survival of Schools in Uganda, 1971-1986
Paige, J.
Subjects: Educational Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published April 2010
A European Memory?
Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance
Pakier, M. & Stråth, B. (eds)
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies
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Published November 2015
Memory and Change in Europe
Eastern Perspectives
Pakier, M. & Wawrzyniak, J. (eds)
In studies of a common European past, there is a significant lack of scholarship on the former Eastern Bloc countries. This volume offers a reflection on memory in an Eastern European historical context, one that can be measured against and applied to historical experience in other parts of Europe.
Subjects: History (General) Sociology Memory Studies
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Published December 2010
Popular Historiographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Cultural Meanings, Social Practices
Paletschek, S. (ed)
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 2020
Captives, Colonists and Craftspeople
Material Culture and Institutional Power in Malta, 1600–1900
Palmer, R.
This innovative study draws on both archival evidence and archeological research to compare Malta’s experience under the regimes of the Knights of St. John from 1530 to 1798 and afterward as a maritime outpost of the British Empire in terms of such topics as slavery, the control of resources, and globalization.
Subjects: Colonial History Archaeology
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Published July 2019
Articulate Necrographies
Comparative Perspectives on the Voices and Silences of the Dead
Panagiotopoulos, A. & Espírito Santo, D. (eds)
Going beyond the frameworks of the anthropology of death, Articulate Necrographies offers a dramatic new way of studying the dead and its interactions with the living. The collection introduces the concept of “necrography” to describe the way death and the dead create their own kinds of biographies in and among the living.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Heritage Studies Literary Studies
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Published November 2008
Health, Risk, and Adversity
Panter-Brick, C. & Fuentes, A. (eds)
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published May 2015
Militant Around the Clock?
Left-Wing Youth Politics, Leisure, and Sexuality in Post-Dictatorship Greece, 1974-1981
Papadogiannis, N.
During the 1970s left-wing youth militancy in Greece intensified, especially after the collapse of the military dictatorship in 1974. This book is the first study of the impact of that political activism on the leisure pursuits and sexual behavior of Greek youth.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
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Published July 2020
Working in Greece and Turkey
A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation-States, 1840–1940
Papastefanaki, L. & Kabadayı, M. E. (eds)
The studies in Working in Greece and Turkey provide an overdue exploration of labour history on both sides of the Aegean, before as well as after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Deploying the approaches of global labour history as a framework, this volume presents transnational, transcontinental, and diachronic comparisons that illuminate the shared history of Greece and Turkey.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
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Published June 2010
Ethnobotany in the New Europe
People, Health and Wild Plant Resources
Pardo-de-Santayana, M., Pieroni, A. & Puri, R. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology
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Published January 2001
Morals of Legitimacy
Between Agency and the System
Pardo, I. (ed)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published December 2014
Clausewitz in His Time
Essays in the Cultural and Intellectual History of Thinking about War
Paret, P.
Anything but a detached theorist, Clausewitz was as fully engaged in the intellectual and cultural currents of his time as in its political and military conflicts. The essays in this volume follow his career in a complex military society, together with that of other students of war, both friends and rivals, providing a broad perspective that leads to significant documents so far unknown or ignored.
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
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Published April 2012
Myth and Modernity
Barlach's Drawings on the Nibelungen
Paret, P. & Thieme, H.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published November 2007
Holistic Anthropology
Emergence and Convergence
Parkin, D. & Ulijaszek, S. (eds)
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology of Religion
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Published March 1996
The Politics of Cultural Performance
Parkin, D., Caplan, L. & Fisher, H. (eds)
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Published March 2003
Louis Dumont and Hierarchical Opposition
Parkin, R.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology
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Published July 2021
How Kinship Systems Change
On the Dialectics of Practice and Classification
Parkin, R.
Using some of his landmark publications on kinship, along with a new introduction, chapter and conclusion, Robert Parkin discusses here the changes in kinship terminologies and marriage practices, as well as the dialectics between them.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published June 2023
White Eagle, Black Eagle
Ethnic Relations in the German-Polish Borderlands
Parkin, R.
Studying the German-Polish ethnic relations, this book analyses the people and region through their respective borderlands, migration, official cooperation and unofficial suspicions across the border.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology History: 20th Century to Present
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The Rise and Fall of Community Studies
An Introduction to the Anthropology of Europe
Parkin, R.
This book provides a partial retrospective on the field of anthropology of Europe, offering a rich collection of ethnographic summaries from across the continent. It will be of interest to students and academics seeking a survey of this branch of anthropology, whether for private study or university courses.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
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Published June 2010
Out of the Study and Into the Field
Ethnographic Theory and Practice in French Anthropology
Parkin, R.& de Sales, A. (eds)
Subjects: Theory and Methodology History (General)
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Published March 2002
The Archaeology of Tribal Societies
Parkinson, W. A. (ed)
Anthropological archaeologists have long attempted to develop models that will let them better understand the evolution of human social organization. This volume explores social organization in tribal - or 'autonomous village' - societies from several different ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and archaeological contexts - from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Period in the Near East to the contemporary Jivaro of Amazonia.
Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)
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Published May 2015
Fault Lines
Earthquakes and Urbanism in Modern Italy
Parrinello, G.
Although earthquakes can have disastrous effects on human lives and environments, they can also significantly influence urban development. This book follows the history of two Italian seismic disasters — the 1908 Messina earthquake and the 1968 earthquake in the Belice Valley, Sicily — exploring plans preceding the destruction and the urbanism that emerged from the ruins.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Published April 2025
Passing Misery
The Journal of a Forced Laborer in the Third Reich
Pasquiers, J. L. M. (au) & Thompson, R.L. (ed)
An illuminating translation of the journal of Jean Louis Mary Pasquiers, a former teacher and forced laborer, Passing Misery documents Pasquiers’ life within war-torn Europe, in unwilling service to the Nazi regime. In doing so, this book offers an unrivalled insight into the reality of collaboration and culpability during war.
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present
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Published December 2008
Women and Men in Love
European Identities in the Twentieth Century
Passerini, L.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published June 2023
Performing Memory
Corporeality, Visuality, and Mobility after 1968
Passerini, L. & Reinisch, D. (eds)
Through a post-1968 perspective on Europe, Performing Memory newly approaches the performative dimensions of memory within the historical cluster of visuality, corporeality and mobility. In a series of focused case studies from emerging and leading scholars, this volume enlarges the focus of memory across the histories of dance, theatre, the media, cinema, and other forms of artistic and political performances.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Performance Studies Mobility Studies
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Published October 2010
New Dangerous Liaisons
Discourses on Europe and Love in the Twentieth Century
Passerini, L., Ellena, L., & Geppert, A. (eds)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published November 2007
Women Migrants From East to West
Gender, Mobility and Belonging in Contemporary Europe
Passerini, L., Lyon, D., Capussotti, E. & Laliotou, I. (eds)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Mobility Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published October 2020
The Mobility of Memory
Migrations and Diasporas across European Borders
Passerini, L., Trakilović, M., & Proglio, G. (eds)
During five years of field research in Italy and the Netherlands, the “Bodies Across Borders: Oral and Visual Memory in Europe and Beyond” (BABE) team examined the connection between mobility and memory in Europe. This volume, the outcome of that project, engages with the tensions between roots and routes, history and memory, minds and bodies, macrostructures and micro stories, and control and resistance.
Subjects: Mobility Studies Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology Memory Studies
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Published August 2016
Wartime Captivity in the 20th Century
Archives, Stories, Memories
Pathé, A.-M. & Théofilakis, F. (eds)
In recent years, wartime captivity has taken on new urgency as a historical topic. This wide-ranging volume brings together an international selection of scholars to trace the contours of this evolving research agenda, offering fascinating new perspectives on historical moments ranging from the Great War to Guantanamo Bay.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published September 2012
Playing with Languages
Children and Change in a Caribbean Village
Paugh, A. L.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies Sociology
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Published January 2015
The Political Economy of Border Drawing
Arranging Legality in European Labor Migration Policies
Paul, R.
The conditions for non-EU migrant workers to gain legal entry to Britain, France, and Germany are at the same time similar and quite different. To explain this variation this book compares the fine-grained legal categories for migrant workers in each country, and examines the interaction of economic, social, and cultural rationales in determining migrant legality.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published December 2018
Humanitarianism and Media
1900 to the Present
Paulmann, J. (ed)
Humanitarianism & Media brings together scholars from a variety of backgrounds to offer an unprecedented exploration of the history behind humanitarian efforts and the media, spanning from the late nineteenth century to the present day.
Subjects: Media Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published December 2024
Haunting Futures
Crisis, Migration and Anticipation in Iceland
Pawlak, M.
The 2008 economic collapse in Iceland sent its residents into a destabilising crisis with far-reaching, temporal and affective consequences. Haunting Futures explores how the complex relationships of this unstable past and the anticipatory modes of the ongoing present keep Icelanders and the Polish migrant community in their midst alert to looming futures in crisis.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology History: 20th Century to Present Sustainable Development Goals
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Published May 2007
Identity Matters
Ethnic and Sectarian Conflict
Peacock, J. M., Thornton, P. M., and Inman, P. B. (eds)
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Peace and Conflict Studies
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Published December 2021
The Power of Scripture
Political Biblicism in the Early Stuart Monarchy between Representation and Subversion
Pečar, A.
The development of political rhetoric during the Reformation period through to the outbreak of the English Civil War was based on more varied sources than just the political language of civic humanism and republicanism. The Power of Scripture uncovers how biblical scripture directly shaped a national religious politics, forming a lasting impression on the socio-political structural development of Stuart England.
Subject: History: Medieval/Early Modern
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Published November 2007
Migration Without Borders
Essays on the Free Movement of People
Pécoud, A. & Guchteneire, P. de (eds)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Mobility Studies Development Studies
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Published March 2024
The Horse in My Blood
Multispecies Kinship in the Altai and Saian Mountains
Peemot, V. S.
Building upon Indigenous research epistemologies, Victoria Peemot engages with the study of how the human-horse relationships interact with each other, experience injustices and develop resilience strategies as multispecies unions.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Sociology
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Published April 2011
Beyond Pleasure
Cultures of Modern Asceticism
Peeters, E., van Molle, L. & Wils, K. (eds)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Sociology
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Published June 2020
Resisting Persecution
Jews and Their Petitions during the Holocaust
Pegelow Kaplan, T. & Gruner, W. (eds)
This volume offers the first extensive analysis of entreaties from persecuted Jews in the Nazi era, demonstrating their largely unappreciated value as a historical source and as an attempt to reclaim agency in increasingly desperate political circumstances.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Jewish Studies Genocide History
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Published April 2000
Challenging Modernity
Dada between Modern and Postmodern
Pegrum, M. A.
Subject: Cultural Studies (General)
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Published February 2020
Velvet Retro
Postsocialist Nostalgia and the Politics of Heroism in Czech Popular Culture
Pehe, V.
This innovative study develops the concept of “retro” to describe the nuanced and ironic depiction of the past as seen in Czech popular culture. It locates a distinctively retro aesthetic in Czech literature, film, and other cultural forms, enriching our understanding of not only the nation’s memory culture, but also the ways in which popular culture can structure collective memory.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present Film and Television Studies Memory Studies
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Published March 1999
European Memories of the Second World War
Peitsch, H., Burdett, C. & Gorrara, C. (eds)
Subjects: History: World War II Memory Studies
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Published July 2015
Masks and Staffs
Identity Politics in the Cameroon Grassfields
Pelican, Michaela
Subject: Anthropology (General)
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Published November 2009
Conversion After Socialism
Disruptions, Modernisms and Technologies of Faith in the Former Soviet Union
Pelkmans, M. (ed)
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
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Published March 2022
A New African Elite
Place in the Making of a Bridge Generation
Pellow, D.
Focusing on a sub-set of the Dagomba of northern Ghana, this book looks at the first generation to go through secondary school in the north. This book charts their path into elite status and argues that this generation uses the tools gained through education and social connections to influence politics back home.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies Development Studies
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Published July 2023
The Spirit of Matter
Modernity, Religion, and the Power of Objects
Pels, P.
A range of meaningful objects—exhibits of human remains or live people, fetishes, objects in a Catholic Museum, exotic photographs, commodities, and computers—demonstrate a subordinate modern consciousness about powerful objects and their “life”. The Spirit of Matter discusses these objects that move people emotionally but whose existence is often denied by modern wishful thinking of “mind over matter”.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Archaeology Museum Studies
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Published January 2001
Trade Unions, Immigration, and Immigrants in Europe, 1960-1993
A Comparative Study of the Actions of Trade Unions in Seven West European Countries
Penninx, R. & Roosblad, J. (eds)
Subject: History (General)
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A Long Journey Home
Losing and Remaking Home following Conflict and Displacement
Pérez Murcia, L. E.
A Long Journey Home examines the experiences of those whose sense of home has been disrupted by decades of conflict and violence. It highlights the profound feelings of loss and the enduring struggle of living without a home – an experience that can last for years or even decades.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published February 2023
Finding Home in Europe
Chronicles of Global Migrants
Pérez Murcia, L. E. & Bonfanti, S. (eds)
Bringing together the voices of nine individuals from an archive of over 200 in-depth interviews with transnational migrants and refugees across five European countries, Finding Home in Europe critically engages with how home is experienced by those who move.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Theory and Methodology
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Published July 2009
Markets and Civil Society
The European Experience in Comparative Perspective
Perez-Diaz, V. (ed)
Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published March 2022
Engaging Environments in Tonga
Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Relations in a Changing World
Perminow, A. A.
On March 11, 2011, a tsunami warning was issued for Tonga in Polynesia. On the low and small island of Kotu, people were unperturbed in the face of pending catastrophe. The book is an ethnography of the relationship between people and their environment based on fieldwork over three decades.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies
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Published October 2007
Inclusionary Rhetoric/Exclusionary Practices
Left-wing Politics and Migrants in Italy
Però, D.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published March 2001
Literature, the 'Volk' & the Revolution in Mid-19th Century Germany
Perraudin, M.
Subjects: Literary Studies History: 18th/19th Century
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Published June 2001
Women and Modernity in Weimar Germany
Reality and its Representation in Popular Fiction
Petersen, V. R.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)
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Published November 2003
Anthropology & Mass Communication
Media and Myth in the New Millennium
Peterson, M.A.
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Published September 2015
Where Are All Our Sheep?
Kyrgyzstan, A Global Political Arena
Petric, B.
After the USSR collapsed, Kyrgyzstan followed a path of economic liberalization, but after a few years, they produced little, and the country’s principal industry of sheep breeding was decimated. This led to dependence on international aid, and ensuing comical encounters between the local population and well-meaning foreigners who help them.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies
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Published July 2005
Gray Zones
Ambiguity and Compromise in the Holocaust and its Aftermath
Petropolous, J. & Roth, J. (eds)
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies
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Published February 2020
If Everyone Returned, The Island Would Sink
Urbanisation and Migration in Vanuatu
Petrou, K.
Focusing on the small island of Paama, Vanuatu, and the capital, Port Vila, this book presents a rare and recent study of the ongoing significance of urbanization and internal migration in the Global South.
Subjects: Mobility Studies Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published July 2019
Lewis Henry Morgan's Comparisons
Reassessing Terminology, Anarchy and Worldview in Indigenous Societies of America, Australia and Highland Middle India
Pfeffer, G.
Georg Pfeffer re-examines the work of Lewis Henry Morgan on relationship terminologies, societal forms, and ideas of property and the relationship between these three domains. He concludes that reciprocal affinal relations determine most ‘classificatory’ terminologies and regulate many non-state societies, their property notions, and their rituals.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published February 2005
Unsilencing the Past
Track-Two Diplomacy and Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation
Phillips, D.L.
Subject: Peace and Conflict Studies
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Published September 2011
Tourism, Magic and Modernity
Cultivating the Human Garden
Picard, D.
“...an excellent and engaging commentary on the tourism industry, postcolonial societies and environmental governance. Its strength lies in the nuance and intricacy of its portrayals of social life and the way that it opens up a difficult yet much needed theoretical space in which to contemplate issues such as how we should investigate tourist subjectivity, how collective imaginaries are formed and sustained, and how dynamics of affect and desire constitute tourism as a social practice. Its readability and the vividness of characterisations in Picard’s accounts of his ethnographic observations will make the book an accessible and appealing text to students of tourism studies and social anthropology, and to these fields it makes a notable contribution.” · Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change
Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)
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Published March 2019
Party Responses to Social Movements
Challenges and Opportunities
Piccio, D. R.
Focusing on Italy and the Netherlands since the 1970s, Party Responses to Social Movements demonstrates how political parties have incorporated the demands of social movements to a surprising extent, even as both have grappled with fundamental and inevitable tension between their respective roles and aims.
Subjects: Sociology Peace and Conflict Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published November 2013
Screening Nature
Cinema beyond the Human
Pick, A. & Narraway, G. (eds)
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 2002
Durkheim Today
Pickering, W. S. F. (ed)
Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology
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Published October 2008
Suffering and Evil
The Durkheimian Legacy
Pickering, W. S. F. & Rosati, M. (eds)
Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology
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Published June 2019
Money Games
Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town
Pickles, A. J.
Since the Colonial era, gambling has come to dominate nighttime activity in Papua New Guinea. This richly detailed ethnography intersects with theories of money, value, play, money, exchange, informal economy, materiality, social change, leadership, and the anthropology of Melanesia.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published February 2004
The German Economy During the Nineteenth Century
Pierenkemper, T. & Tilly, R.
Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century
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Published January 2020
Jaguars of the Dawn
Spirit Mediumship in the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer
Pierini, E.
Drawing upon over a decade of extensive fieldwork in temples of the Vale do Amanhecer in Brazil and Europe, this ethnography explores how mediums understand their experiences and how they learn to establish relationships with their spirit guides.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Medical Anthropology Sociology
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Published February 2023
Other Worlds, Other Bodies
Embodied Epistemologies and Ethnographies of Healing
Pierini, E., Groisman, A., & Espírito Santo, D. (eds)
This book proposes a sensory ethnography of healing with a focus on ethnographic knowing as embedded in an embodied epistemology of healing. Epistemological embodiment signals that personal scholarly experience of the “unknown”—be it in the form of trance, or as the embodiment of an “other”—shapes the concepts of healing, body, trance, self, and matter by which ethnographers craft out analysis.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology
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Published August 2024
Immigrant Industry
Building Postwar Australia
Pieris, A., Lozanovska, M., Dellios, A., Saniga, A., & Beynon, D.
After the end of the Second World War, major federally funded industries in Australia depended on the employment of large numbers of refugees displaced by the war. This book aims to bring to the foreground post-war industry and immigration to comprehensively document a uniquely Australian shaping of the built environment.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published December 2007
Traveling Cultures and Plants
The Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacy of Human Migrations
Pieroni, A. & Vandebroek, I. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published November 2023
Resisting Radicalisation?
Understanding Young People's Journeys through Radicalising Milieus
Pilkington, H. (ed)
Offering a critical perspective on the concept of radicalisation, this volume views it from the perspective of social actors who engage in radicalising milieus but have not crossed the threshold into violent extremism. The volume brings together contributions based on extensive empirical research conducted as part of a cross-European study of young people's engagement in ‘extreme right’ and ‘Islamist’ milieus.
Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published July 2020
After Society
Anthropological Trajectories out of Oxford
Pina-Cabral, J. & Bowman, G. (eds)
In the early 1980s, when the contributors to this volume completed their graduate training at Oxford, the conditions of practice in anthropology were undergoing profound change. Here self-ethnography is used to portray the contributors’ anthropological trajectories, showing how analytical and academic engagements interacted creatively over time.
Subject: Theory and Methodology
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Published March 2008
On the Margins of Religion
Pine, F. & Pina-Cabral, J. de (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology
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Published December 2007
Visual Interventions
Applied Visual Anthropology
Pink, S. (ed.)
Subjects: Applied Anthropology
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Published December 2005
Applications of Anthropology
Professional Anthropology in the Twenty-first Century
Pink, S. (ed)
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Medical Anthropology
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Published October 2015
Media, Anthropology and Public Engagement
Pink, S. & Abram, S. (eds)
Contemporary anthropologists’ engagement with social and digital media simultaneously offers opportunities to disseminate work in new ways, while challenging scholars to move into unfamiliar collaborative domains and expose their research to new forms of scrutiny. This volume’s contributors question whether, through these new practices, a fresh public anthropology is emerging.
Subjects: Applied Anthropology
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Published April 2017
Theoretical Scholarship and Applied Practice
Pink, S., Fors, V., & O'Dell, T. (eds)
Academics across the globe are being urged by universities and research councils to do research that impacts the world beyond academia. The contributions to this collection advance our understanding of the ethics, values, opportunities and challenges that emerge in making of engaged and interdisciplinary scholarship.
Subject: Applied Anthropology
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Published March 2008
Where There Is No Midwife
Birth and Loss in Rural India
Pinto, S.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published April 2024
Humanism Revisited
An Anthropological Perspective
Pinxten, R.
As heirs of a ‘heteronomic’ tradition, we are still stuck in Eurocentrism (often racism), and now even threaten to ruin nature by destroying biodiversity and causing the climate to warm up dangerously. Applied through an anthropological perspective, this book calls for a NEED-humanism: Not-Eurocentric, Ecological and (economically) Durable approach that can help explore inclusion and pluralism.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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Published May 2009
When God Comes to Town
Religious Traditions in Urban Contexts
Pinxten, R. & Dikomitis, L. (eds)
Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published December 2005
Racism in Metropolitan Areas
Pinxten, R. & Preckler, E. (eds)
Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published June 2004
Culture and Politics
Identity and Conflict in a Multicultural World
Pinxten, R. & Verstraete, G. & Longman, C. (eds)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Lurking Cold War
Life Through Historical Communion
Pipyrou, S.
Lasting traces of the Cold War continue to shape the social landscape in Italy and Greece. Lurking Cold War critiques the connections between global categories and individual experiences, foregrounding Cold War resonances through materiality, imagination, speculation, and affect – in literature, bureaucracy, and the family.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published January 2008
A Social History of Spanish Labour
New Perspectives on Class, Politics, and Gender
Piqueras, J., & Sanz Rozalén, V. (eds)
Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
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Whatever Happened to Asylum in Britain?
A Tale of Two Walls
Pirouet, L.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published March 2025
Rethinking the Cinematic Cold War
The Struggle for Hearts and Minds Goes Global
Pisu, S., Pitassio, F., & Zinni, M. (eds)
An exacting reassessment of the relationship between culture and ideology within the Cold War period, Rethinking the Cinematic Cold War highlights the role that politics played in informing policies as well as cultural products and appetites, across geopolitical boundaries.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Published October 2010
Hitler's Slaves
Life Stories of Forced Labourers in Nazi-Occupied Europe
Plato, A., Leh, A. & Thonfeld, C. (eds)
Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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The Everyday Politics of Food Co-ops
Care, Aid and Community in Austerity Britain
Plender, C.
This book analyses how changing national politics impacted the practices of care, aid and community organizing within two London-based food co-ops at a time of rapid welfare withdrawal. It highlights the tensions between more radical and neoliberal imaginaries that played out within them.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
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Published June 2019
Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany
Plummer, M. E. & Harrington, J. F. (eds)
This volume offers a coherent and interdisciplinary approach to a wide variety of early modern subjects centered on onomastics, the study of names. Leading scholars in the field seek to explore the dynamics and impact of this naming (or renaming) process in a variety of contexts: social, artistic, literary, theological, and scientific.
Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Cultural Studies (General)
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Published May 2019
Gustav Stresemann
The Crossover Artist
Pohl, K. H.
Gustav Stresemann has become a steadfast icon and key figure in understanding contemporary German and European history. Renowned historian Karl Heinrich Pohl draws on new archival material and extensive research to supplement our previous knowledge of Stresmann’s life and work.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present History (General)
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Recovered Territory
A German-Polish Conflict over Land and Culture, 1919-1989
Polak-Springer, P.
From 1919 to 1989, the German-Polish borderland, one of Central Europe’s important industrial regions, was at the center of a conflict between Germany and Poland. In their interaction with — and mutual influence on — one another, both nations developed a transnational culture, giving the borderland a “Polish” / “German” face.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published February 2016
The Devil's Riches
A Modern History of Greed
Poley, J.
A seeming constant in the history of capitalism, greed has nonetheless undergone considerable transformations over the last five hundred years. This multilayered account offers a fresh take on an old topic, showing how evolving ideas about greed became formative elements of the modern experience.
Subject: History (General)
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Published January 2012
Concentrationary Cinema
Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais's Night and Fog
Pollock, G. & Silverman, M. (eds)
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Genocide History Cultural Studies (General)
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Published April 2019
Concentrationary Art
Jean Cayrol, the Lazarean and the Everyday in Post-war Film, Literature, Music and the Visual Arts
Pollock, G. & Silverman, M. (eds)
The seminal work of Jean Cayrol has experienced a revival in the French-speaking world since his death in 2005. Concentrationary Art represents the first translation into English of Cayrol’s two essays on concentrationary art, as well as the first book-length study of his theory.
Subjects: Literary Studies Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies
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Published May 2025
Sex, Risk, and Society
When Is Sex Dangerous?
Pollock, S. H.
When is sex abnormal and when is it dangerous? A multi-disciplinary approach that includes sociology, anthropology, history, and philosophy provides an understanding of how cultural norms have shifted over time and the implications of these shifts.
Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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The American Impact on Postwar Germany
Pommerin, R. (ed)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Parenthood between Generations
Transforming Reproductive Cultures
Pooley, S. & Qureshi, K. (eds)
Parenthood between Generations problematizes linear narratives about the emergence of ‘parenting’ as a dominant ideology. The chapters situate the cross-cutting power of the life-course in specific global historical contexts, so as to examine how reproductive cultures are influenced by demographic change, new technologies, migration and diaspora. Studies of working-class, minority and non-heterosexual families, illegitimacy and adoption shed light on of the diverse ways in which nature, biology, kinship and gender have been understood.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
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Voices of the Valley, Voices of the Straits
How Protest Creates Communities
Porta, D. della & Piazza, G.
Subject: Sociology
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Rethinking Migration
New Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives
Portes, A. & DeWind, J. (eds)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Theory and Methodology Development Studies
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Published July 2015
The State and the Grassroots
Immigrant Transnational Organizations in Four Continents
Portes, A. & Fernández-Kelly, P. (eds)
Whereas most of the literature on migration focuses on individuals and their families, this book studies the organizations created by immigrants to protect themselves in their receiving states. Comparing eighteen of these grassroots organizations formed across the world, researchers focus on the internal structure and activities of these organizations as they relate to developmental initiatives.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies
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Published January 2023
A Magpie’s Tale
Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on the Kazakh of Western Mongolia
Portisch, A. O.
Telling the story of the author's time living with a Kazakh family in a small village in western Mongolia, this book contextualizes the family’s personal stories within the broader history of the region.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published July 2013
Foodways and Empathy
Relatedness in a Ramu River Society, Papua New Guinea
Poser, A. von
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)
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Published February 2025
Queer and Trans Life
Anthropological Futures
Posocco, S., Gonzalez-Polledo, E.J., Aaberg, L., & Altay, T. (eds)
Against a background marked by endless ordinary crises, widespread precarity, and disrupting critical events, Queer and Trans Life charts queer investments in futurity. It presents emerging queer and trans anthropological research in and about European contexts.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published May 2006
Media and Nation Building
How the Iban became Malaysian
Postill, J.
Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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Localizing the Internet
An Anthropological Account
Postill, J.
Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published October 2022
Beyond 'Hellenes' and 'Barbarians'
Asymmetrical Concepts in European Discourse
Postoutenko, K. (ed)
Surveying a variety of significant asymmetrical conceptualizations, Beyond 'Hellenes' and 'Barbarians' extends our current breadth of understanding of how ascriptive terms such as ‘civilization’ vs. ‘barbarity,’ or ‘order’ vs. ‘chaos’ functioned and continue to function in political, scientific, and fictional discourses.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century History: Medieval/Early Modern
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Published August 2016
German Television
Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
Powell, L. & Shandley, Robert R. (eds)
Long overlooked by scholars and critics, the history and aesthetics of German television have only recently begun to attract serious, sustained attention, and then largely within Germany. This ambitious volume collects penetrating essays on the distinctive theories, practices, and social-historical contexts that defined television in Germany.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies
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Published December 2016
Human Origins
Contributions from Social Anthropology
Power, C., Finnegan, M. & Callan, H. (eds)
Social anthropologists have been conspicuously absent from debates about the origins of modern humans. Human Origins explores why that is, and how social anthropology can shed light on early kinship and economic relations, gender politics, ritual, cosmology, ethnobiology, medicine, and the evolution of language.
Subject: Anthropology (General)
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Published November 2005
Between Two Worlds
The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933
Prawer, S. S.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Jewish Studies
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Aging and the Digital Life Course
Prendergast, D. & Garattini, C. (eds)
Breaking new ground in the study of technology and aging, this book examines how technological developments are redefining experiences and expectations around growing older in the twenty-first century. This book explores the key themes of social media, robotics, chronic disease and dementia management, care-giving, gaming, migration and data inheritance.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology
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Published January 2015
Making a Difference?
Social Assessment Policy and Praxis and its Emergence in China
Price, S. & Robinson, K. (eds)
This collection of essays locates recent Chinese experience with development in a historical and comparative perspective. Contributors − social scientists employed by international development banks, national government agencies, and sub-contracting groups – use real-life experience to examine development policies from a practitioner’s perspective.
Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published August 2012
Reassessing the Nuremberg Military Tribunals
Transitional Justice, Trial Narratives, and Historiography
Priemel, K. C. & Stiller, A. (eds)
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History
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Published June 2010
Terror From the Sky
The Bombing of German Cities in World War II
Primoratz, I. (ed)
Subjects: History: World War II History: 20th Century to Present
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Published January 2001
The New Age in Glastonbury
The Construction of Religious Movements
Prince, R. & Riches, D.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published December 1998
Reconstructing Education
East German Schools after Unification
Pritchard, R. M. O.
Subjects: Educational Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Living Translation
Language and the Search for Resonance in U.S. Chinese Medicine
Pritzker, S. E.
Integrating theoretical perspectives with carefully grounded ethnographic analyses of everyday interaction and experience, Living Translation examines the worlds of international translators as well as U.S. teachers and students of Chinese medicine, focusing on the transformations that occur as participants engage in a “search for resonance” with foreign terms and concepts. Based on a close examination of heated international debates as well as specific texts, classroom discussions, and interviews with publishers, authors, teachers, and students, Sonya Pritzker demonstrates the “living translation” of Chinese medicine as a process unfolding through interaction, inscription, embodied experience, and clinical practice. By documenting the stream of conversations that together constitute this process, the book thus traces the translation of Chinese medicine from text to practice with an eye towards the social, political, historical, moral, and even personal dimensions involved in the transnational production of knowledge about health, illness, and the body.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Precious Pills
Medicine and Social Change among Tibetan Refugees in India
Prost, A.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published July 2009
Learning Democracy
Education Reform in West Germany, 1945-1965
Puaca, B. M.
Subjects: Educational Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published October 2015
Making Ubumwe
Power, State and Camps in Rwanda's Unity-Building Project
Purdeková, A.
Since the end of the Rwandan genocide, the new political elite has been challenged with building a unified nation. The book investigates this project of civic education, the explosion of neo-traditional institutions and activities, and the uses of camps and retreats that come together to shape the “ideal” Rwandan citizen.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies
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Published July 2024
The Global Life of Mines
Mining and Post-Mining in Comparative Perspective
Pusceddu, A. M. & Zerilli, F. M. (eds)
The Global Life of Mines provides a comprehensive framework examining the spatial and temporal relationships between mining and postmining as interrelated and coexisting features within the global minescape.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Development Studies
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Published June 2012
The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama
Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa
Pype, K.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published October 2015
Viktor Frankl's Search for Meaning
An Emblematic 20th-Century Life
Pytell, T.
Viktor Frankl was a psychiatrist and philosopher who survived the Holocaust and went on to found the third school of Viennese psychotherapy. By critically examining the details of his intellectual life, including some previously unknown biographical details, we can begin to see the fascinating ambiguities and contradictions in Frankl’s thought.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published February 2006
Miners and the State in the Ottoman Empire
The Zonguldak Coalfield, 1822-1920
Quataert, D.
Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
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Published September 2024
This Horrible Uncertainty
A German Woman Writes War, 1939-1948
Quinn, E.
Through her diary and other personal effects, Vera Conrad story contextualizes women’s roles and a story of personal pain shared by millions of German women who grappled with accommodating the political expectations and norms of Nazi society.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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In Search of Salt
Changes in Beti (Cameroon) Society, 1880-1960
Quinn, F.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History
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