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Economic Citizenship

Neoliberal Paradoxes of Empowerment

Sa'ar, A.

Economic Citizenship explores shifting responsibility for the welfare of minority and poor citizens, which has shifted from states to local communities through neoliberalization. This has produced odd discursive blends of justice, solidarity, and wellbeing, and placed the languages of feminist and minority rights side by side with the language of apolitical consumerism.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published October 2007
Kinship in Europe

Approaches to Long-Term Development (1300-1900)

Sabean, D. W., Teuscher, S., & Mathieu, J. (eds)

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

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eBook available Published June 2015
To the Bomb and Back

Finnish War Children Tell Their World War II Stories

Saffle, S. (ed)

Between 1939 and 1945 some 80,000 Finnish children were sent to Sweden, Denmark, and elsewhere, ostensibly to protect them from danger while their nation’s soldiers fought superior Soviet and German forces. This is the first English-language account of Finland’s war children and their experiences, told through the survivors’ own words.

Subjects: History: World War II Memory Studies

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Published June 2020
Borders across Healthcare

Moral Economies of Healthcare and Migration in Europe

Sahraoui, N. (ed)

Borders across Healthcare explores contemporary moral economies of the healthcare-migration nexus through a scalar and relational perspective. The volume documents the many ways in which borders come to disrupt healthcare settings and illuminates how judgements of a health-related deservingness become increasingly important, producing hierarchies that undermine a universal right to healthcare.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Mobility Studies Sociology

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eBook available Published March 2019
The Indoctrination of the Wehrmacht

Nazi Ideology and the War Crimes of the German Military

Sait, B.

Far from the image of an apolitical, “clean” Wehrmacht that persists in popular memory, German soldiers regularly cooperated with organizations like the SS in the abuse and murder of countless individuals. This in-depth study reveals that military indoctrination was but one piece of the larger effort at the socialization of young men during the Nazi era.

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

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Published January 2006
Anthropology and Sexual Morality

A Theoretical Investigation

Salazar, C.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Published July 1996
A Sentimental Economy

Commodity and Community in Rural Ireland

Salazar, C.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published January 2015
Religion and Science as Forms of Life

Anthropological Insights into Reason and Unreason

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

The relationships between science and religion are about to enter a new phase in our contemporary world. This volume analyzes the relationships between religion and science as forms of life: ways of engaging human experience that originate in particular social and cultural formations.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Published November 2010
Envisioning Eden

Mobilizing Imaginaries in Tourism and Beyond

Salazar, N.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published July 2018
Momentous Mobilities

Anthropological Musings on the Meanings of Travel

Salazar, N. B.

Grounded in an eclectic process of data collection, analysis of secondary sources and personal reflection, and drawing on a multi-sited and multi-method research design, Momentous Mobilities disentangles the meanings attached to temporary travels and stays abroad and offers empirical evidence as well as novel theoretical arguments to develop an anthropology of mobility.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism

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eBook available Published June 2014
Tourism Imaginaries

Anthropological Approaches

Salazar, N. B. & Graburn, N. H. H. (eds)

As a nexus of social practices through which individuals and groups establish places and peoples as credible objects of tourism, “tourism imaginaries” have yet to be fully explored. Presenting innovative conceptual approaches, this volume advances ethnographic research methods and critical scholarship regarding tourism and the imaginaries that drive it.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published June 2016
Keywords of Mobility

Critical Engagements

Salazar, N. B. & Jayaram, K. (eds)

Scholars from various disciplines have used key concepts to grasp mobilities, but as of yet, a working vocabulary of these has yet to be fully developed. This edited volume presents contributions that critically analyze mobility-related keywords: capital, cosmopolitanism, freedom, gender, immobility, infrastructure, motility, and regime.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism

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Published December 1999
Conceptualizing Religion

Immanent Anthropologists, Transcendent Natives, and Unbounded Categories

Saler, B.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published August 2017
Images from Paradise

The Visual Communication of the European Union's Federalist Utopia

Salgó, E.

Drawing upon the disciplines of politics, anthropology, psychoanalysis, aesthetics and cinema studies, Salgó presents a new way of looking at the “art of European unification” and to highlight the mythical sources of the federalist project.

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

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Published June 2014
Dignity for the Voiceless

Willem Assies's Anthropological Work in Context

Salman, T., Marti i Puig, S., & Haar, G. van der (eds)

“This is a fascinating body of work…I was most impressed by his balance of "hard" political-science analysis and the softer socio-cultural interpretations and by the balance of theory and applied work (scholarship speaking to real world contemporary problems).” · Edward Fischer, Vanderbilt University

Willem Assies explored the messy, often untidy daily lives of people, with their inconsistencies, irrationalities, and passions, but also with their hopes, sense of beauty, solidarity, and quest for dignity. This collection brings together some of Willem Assies’ best, most fascinating, and still highly relevant writings.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies

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Published July 2002
Risky Transactions

Trust, Kinship and Ethnicity

Salter, F. K. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published June 2021
Do Not Forget Me

Three Jewish Mothers Write to Their Sons from the Thessaloniki Ghetto

Saltiel, L. (ed)

Following the Axis invasion of Greece, the Nazis began persecuting the country’s Jews as they had across occupied Europe, beginning with small indignities and culminating in mass imprisonment and deportations. Among the many Jews confined to the Thessaloniki ghetto during this period were Sarina Saltiel, Mathilde Barouh, and Neama Cazes—three women bound for Auschwitz who spent the weeks before their deportation writing to their sons.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War II Genocide History

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Published April 2015
The Franco-Mauritian Elite

Power and Anxiety in the Face of Change

Salverda, T.

Mauritian Independence in 1968 marked the end of the heyday of the island’s Franco-Mauritian elite, who are now is faced with a more diverse power constellation. This book focuses on the power of these white elites still lingering on in postcolonial realities, and addresses how this group aims to prolong its position over time.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies

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Published August 2014
Beyond the Looking Glass

Narcissism and Female Stardom in Studio-Era Hollywood

Salzberg, A.

Exploring the fan’s desire for a material connection to the performer – as well as the star’s own dialogue between their embodied experience and their ideal self on the screen – Beyond the Looking Glass traces on- and off-screen representations of narcissistic femininity in classical Hollywood through studies of stars like Greta Garbo, Ava Gardner, and Marilyn Monroe.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

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eBook available Published May 2008
Border Interrogations

Questioning Spanish Frontiers

Sampedro, B. & Doubleday, S. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies History (General)

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eBook available Published February 2024
Fragile Futures

Ambiguities of Care in Burkina Faso

Samuelsen, H.

Caring for small children and the family in Burkina Faso is hard work. Although the health infrastructure in Burkina Faso is weak and many citizens feel neglected by the state, Fragile Futures shows that the state continues to play an important role in people’s engagements and hopes for a better future.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology Development Studies

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eBook available Published August 2018
All or None

Cooperation and Sustainability in Italy's Red Belt

Sánchez Hall, A.

All or None is a social history and anthropological study of the world’s oldest voluntary collective farms in Ravenna, Italy, addressing the question of the viability of cooperative enterprise as a potential solution for displaced workers, and as a more humane alternative to capitalist agribusiness.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published May 2011
Panamanian Museums and Historical Memory

Sánchez Laws, A. L.

Subjects: Museum Studies Memory Studies

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eBook available Published October 2015
Museum Websites and Social Media

Issues of Participation, Sustainability, Trust and Diversity

Sánchez Laws, A. L.

Online activities present a unique challenge for museums as they harness the potential of digital technology for sustainable development, trust building, and representations of diversity. This volume provides insight into the issues behind designing and implementing web pages and social media to serve the broadest range of museum stakeholders.

Subjects: Museum Studies Media Studies

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eBook available Published September 2024
The Death in their Eyes

What Perpetrator Images Perpetrate

Sánchez-Biosca, V.

Perpetrator images — those that embody the point of view of the perpetrators or their accomplices during acts of violence — from Abu Ghraib, the Auschwitz Album, and of illegal prisoners captured during the fiercest dictatorships, are analyzed under a new methodology in The Death in their Eyes to account not only for the visible aspect of the image but to see what is concealed behind or beyond the frame limits.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies Sociology

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eBook available Published July 2021
Peter Lilienthal

A Cinema of Exile and Resistance

Sandberg, C.

Peter Lilienthal is the first comprehensive study of Lilienthal’s life and career, highlighting the distinctively cross-cultural and transnational dimensions of his oeuvre, and exploring his role as an early exemplar of a more vibrant and inclusive European film culture.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

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Published September 2015
Developmentality

An Ethnography of the World Bank-Uganda Partnership

Sande Lie, J. H.

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork within the World Bank and a Ugandan ministry, this book critically examines how the new aid architecture recasts aid relations in terms of a partnership.

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)

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Staying at Home

Identities, Memories and Social Networks of Kazakhstani Germans

Sanders, R.

This book explores the interplay of those memories, social networks and state policies which play a role in the ‘construction’ of a Kazakhstani German identity. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Kazakhstan, Rita Sanders shows that social capital, including the power to influence identities, plays a key role in Kazakhstani German attitudes

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published November 2004
Nature Knowledge

Ethnoscience, Cognition, and Utility

Sanga, G. & Ortalli, G. (eds)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published December 2007
Fetishes and Monuments

Afro-Brazilian Art and Culture in the 20^th Century

Sansi, R.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Museum Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published May 2005
Bodies of Evidence

Burial, Memory and the Recovery of Missing Persons in Cyprus

Sant Cassia, P.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies

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eBook available Published April 2023
Contesting Moralities

Roma Identities, State and Kinship

Sarafian, I.

Roma identities have often been presented in literature as collectively constructed and in opposition to those who are not Roma. Contesting Moralities challenges these preconceptions about Roma identification by disentangling the binaries between Roma and nonRoma, state and non-state, public and private. This book explores topics resonating in contemporary Romani studies that are in need of further exploration through individual perspectives.

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

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Indigeneity and the Sacred

Indigenous Revival and the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites in the Americas

Sarmiento, F. & Hitchner, S. (eds)

This important contribution presents current research in the political ecology of indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation of sacred natural sites in the Americas. The book explores how struggles for land, rights, and political power are embedded within physical landscapes, and how indigenous identity is reformed as globalizing forces simultaneously threaten and promote the notion of indigeneity.

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

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Published August 2018
Communities, Landscapes, and Interaction in Neolithic Greece

Sarris, A., Kalogiropoulou, E., Kalayci, T., & Karimali, E. (eds)

This volume provides a synthetic overview of recent developments in the study of Neolithic Greece, and reconsiders the dynamics of human-environment interactions while recording the growing diversity in layers of social organization. It fills an essential lacuna in contemporary literature and enhances our understanding of the Neolithic communities in the Greek Peninsula.

Subject: Archaeology

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eBook available Published September 2018
What is Work?

Gender at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present

Sarti, R., Bellavitis, A., & Martini, M. (eds)

Every society has a definition of what work is, and isn’t. What Is Work? offers a multi-disciplinary overview of work as it applies to the highly gendered realm of household economies, drawing from scholarship on gender history, economic sociology, family history, civil law, and feminist economics.

Subjects: History (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

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eBook available Published November 2023
Microhistories of Memory

Remediating the Holocaust by Bullets in Postwar West Germany

Saryusz-Wolska, M.

Microhistories of Memory takes the culturally significant West German novel, radio play, and television series Through the Night (originally Am grünen Strand der Spree, 1955-1960), depicting the mass shootings of Jews in the occupied Soviet Union during World War II, and provides an in-depth look into work’s circulation, reception, production, and popularity in the public sphere.

Subjects: Memory Studies Film and Television Studies Media Studies

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Reversible America

Cowboys, Clowns, and Bullfighters

Saumade, F. & Maudet, J.-B.

Reversible America negotiates the spectacle of Rodeo, cattle ranching, and bullfighting as it has manifested in California through cross border convergences of Iberian bullfighting, Native American hunting methods, and ethics in human and non-human relationships.

Subjects: Performance Studies History: 18th/19th Century

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Memorializing the GDR

Monuments and Memory after 1989

Saunders, A.

Since unification, eastern Germany has witnessed a rapidly changing memorial landscape. Memorializing the GDR provides the first in-depth study of this key topic, investigating the individuals and groups involved in the creation or destruction of memorials while addressing the subject’s complex aesthetic, political, and historical dimensions.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Urban Studies Heritage Studies

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Published April 2013
Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine

The Creation of an Industry and the Moral Economy of Tibetanness

Saxer, M.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

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Published November 2023
The UNHCR and the Afghan Crisis

The Making of the International Refugee Regime

Scalettaris, G.

Today the UNHCR is present in more than 130 countries and takes care of some 90 million people. This book looks at how it is deployed and who its agents are. By taking the reader through the offices in charge of the Afghan refugee crisis during the 2000s, in Geneva and in Kabul, the book shows the internal functioning of this international organization.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies
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The Legacies of a Hawaiian Generation

From Territorial Subject to American Citizen

Schachter, J.

“Schachter has produced a powerful and moving account of Native Hawaiian elders who have now passed physically but continue to live on in spirit in the prose that she has assembled from the writings gifted to her. This work represents the best that anthropology has to offer Indigenous peoples seeking to remain Native in a decidedly anti-Native world—a document that gives voice to the truths they know and which connects generations in a lineage of discourse.” · Ty Tengan, University of Hawaii

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History: 20th Century to Present

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Published October 2010
The East German State and the Catholic Church, 1945-1989

Schaefer, B.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite

Schaeper, T. & Schaeper, K.

Subjects: Educational Studies History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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Published June 1995
France and America in the Revolutionary Era

The Life of Jacques-Donatien Leray de Chaumont, 1725-1803

Schaeper, T. J.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

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Finding Ways Through Eurospace

West African Movers Re-viewing Europe from the Inside

Schapendonk, J.

Studying the im/mobility trajectories of West Africans in the EU, this book presents a new approach to West African migrants in Europe. Based on a trajectory ethnography, this book discusses how African migrants are confronted with rigid mobility regimes, but also how they manage to transgress and circumvent them.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published April 2014
Narrating Victimhood

Gender, Religion and the Making of Place in Post-War Croatia

Schäuble, M.

Based on fieldwork in rural Dalmatia in the Croatian-Bosnian border region, this book provides a unique account of the politics of ambiguous Europeanness from the perspective of those living at Europe's margins. Narrating Victimhood examines the continuing contestations over truth, history & memory that have helped shape this region.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

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eBook available Published July 2019
Shakespeare and Stratford

Scheil, K. (ed)

As the site of literary pilgrimage since the eighteenth century, the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the topic of hundreds of imaginary portrayals, Stratford is ripe for analysis, both in terms of its factual existence and its fictional afterlife.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Travel and Tourism Literary Studies

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Shakespeare and Biography

Scheil, K. & Holderness, G. (eds)

From Shakespeare’s religion to his wife to his competitors in the world of early modern theatre, biographers have approached the question of the Bard’s life from numerous angles. Shakespeare & Biography offers a fresh look at the biographical questions connected with the famous playwright’s life, through essays and reflections written by prominent international scholars and biographers.

Subjects: Literary Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Published October 2019
Germany On Their Minds

German Jewish Refugees in the United States and Their Relationships with Germany, 1938–1988

Schenderlein, A. C.

Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s, the United States granted asylum to approximately ninety thousand German Jews fleeing the horrors of the Third Reich. Author Anne C. Schenderlein gives a fascinating account of these entangled histories on both sides of the Atlantic and demonstrates the remarkable extent to which German Jewish refugees helped shape the course of West German democratization.

Subjects: Jewish Studies Refugee and Migration Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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The Social Origins of Thought

Durkheim, Mauss, and the Category Project

Schick, Johannes F. M.

The Social Origins of Thought explores the Durkheim School’s ambitious critique of philosophical interpretations of the genesis and constitution of the categories of thought. With contributions from philosophy, sociology, anthropology, media studies, and sinology, this volume illustrates the interdisciplinarity and intellectual rigor of the “category project”.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology Media Studies

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Liquid Bread

Beer and Brewing in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Schiefenhövel, W. and Macbeth, H. (eds)

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published June 2012
Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes

An Anthropology of Everyday Religion

Schielke, S. & Debevec, L. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published May 2019
Marketing Hope

Get-Rich-Quick Schemes in Siberia

Schiffauer, L.

Looks at how get-rich-quick schemes manifest themselves in a Siberian town. By focusing on the social dynamics of these popular economies, Leonie Schiffauer provides insights into how capitalist logic is learned and negotiated, and how it affects local realities in a post-Soviet environment.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published March 2004
Civil Enculturation

Nation-State, School and Ethnic Difference in The Netherlands, Britain, Germany, and France

Schiffauer, W. , Baumann, G., Kastoryano, R. & Vertovec, S, (eds)

Subject: Educational Studies

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eBook available Published December 2005
Between Marx and Coca-Cola

Youth Cultures in Changing European Societies, 1960-1980

Schildt, A. & Siegfried, D. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies Sociology

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Border Aesthetics

Concepts and Intersections

Schimanski, J. & Wolfe, S. F. (eds)

The field of border studies has analyzed the legal, geographical, and historical aspects of borders extensively, but such studies have hardly exhausted their conceptual fertility. Organized around six key ideas—ecology, imaginary, in/visibility, palimpsest, sovereignty and waiting—the interlocking essays collected here provide theoretical starting points for an aesthetic understanding of borders.

Subjects: Literary Studies Mobility Studies Anthropology (General)

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Contemporary Megaprojects

Organization, Vision, and Resistance in the 21st Century

Schindler, S., Fadaere, S., Brockington, D. (eds)

Contemporary “megaprojects” have evolved from the centralized, modernist projects undertaken in the past. With case studies ranging from mega-plantations in Southeast Asia to sports events, Contemporary Megaprojects explores the increasing ambition and pervasiveness of these projects, as well as their significant impact on both society and the environment.

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

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Published April 2005
The Nation, Europe, and the World

Textbooks and Curricula in Transition

Schissler, H. & Soysal, Y.N. (eds)

Subjects: Educational Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Published June 2008
Archives, Ancestors, Practices

Archaeology in the Light of its History

Schlanger, N. & Nordbladh, J. (eds)

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Heritage Studies

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eBook available Published May 2021
When They Came for Me

The Hidden Diary of an Apartheid Prisoner

Schlapobersky, J. R.

Whilst a student in South Africa, John Schlapobersky was arrested for opposing apartheid and tortured, detained and deported. In this volume, apartheid and its resistance come to life in personal stories that make this a vital historical document - one of its time and one for our own.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present

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How Enemies Are Made

Towards a Theory of Ethnic and Religious Conflict

Schlee, G.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

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Difference and Sameness as Modes of Integration

Anthropological Perspectives on Ethnicity and Religion

Schlee, G. & Horstmann, A. (eds)

What does it mean to “fit in?” This volume of essays demystifies the discourse on identity, challenging common assumptions about role of similarity in inclusion and exclusion. Armed with intimate knowledge of local social structures, these essays tease out the ways in which ethnicity, religion and nationalism are used for social integration.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Peace and Conflict Studies

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Changing Identifications and Alliances in North-east Africa

Volume I: Ethiopia and Kenya

Schlee, G. & Watson, E. E. (eds)

Forms of group identity play a prominent role in everyday lives and politics in northeast Africa. Case studies from Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya illustrate the way that identities are formed and change over time, and how local, national, and international politics are interwoven. Specific attention is paid to the impact of modern weaponry, new technologies, religious conversion, food and land shortages, international borders, civil war, and displacement on group identities.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)

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Changing Identifications and Alliances in North-east Africa

Volume II: Sudan, Uganda, and the Ethiopia-Sudan Borderlands

Schlee, G. & Watson, E. E. (eds)

Drawing on the expertise of anthropologists, historians and geographers, these volumes provide a significant account of a society profoundly shaped by identity politics and contribute to a better understanding of the nature of conflict and war, and forms of alliance and peacemaking, thus providing a comprehensive portrait of this troubled region.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)

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Planning for the Planet

Environmental Expertise and the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 1960–1980

Schleper, S.

In the 1960s and 1970s, rapidly growing environmental awareness and concern not only led to widespread calls for new policies, but also created unprecedented demand for ecological expertise by the likes of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. This book explores how conservation experts confronted new challenges tied to rival scientific approaches, Cold War politics, decolonization, and more.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

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Money Counts

Revisiting Economic Calculation

Schmidt, M. & Ross, S. (eds)

Traditionally viewed as an abstraction, the quantative nature of money is essential in evaluating the relationship between monetary systems and society. Money Counts moves beyond abstraction, exploring the conceptual diversity and everyday enactment of money’s quantity.

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Saltwater Sociality

A Melanesian Island Ethnography

Schneider, K.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

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The Brazilian Truth Commission

Local, National and Global Perspectives

Schneider, N. (ed)

Bringing together leading scholars, practitioners, and human rights activists, this groundbreaking volume provides the first systematic analysis of the 2012–2014 Brazilian National Truth Commission. It explores the emergence, functioning, and outcome of the Commission, and offers a more general and critical reassessment of truth commissions from a variety of perspectives.

Subject: Peace and Conflict Studies

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Reconciliation Road

Willy Brandt, Ostpolitik and the Quest for European Peace

Schoenborn, B.

Based on extensive research in Brandt’s personal archives, additional studies in international archives, and interviews with contemporary witnesses, this book traces Brandt’s nearly lifelong efforts towards the full reintegration of a united Germany into the community of European countries.

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

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Published September 2003
Experiencing Wages

Social and Cultural Aspects of Wage Forms in Europe since 1500

Scholliers, P., & Schwarz, L. (eds)

Subject: History (General)

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Published April 2013
From Fidelity to History

Film Adaptations as Cultural Events in the Twentieth Century

Scholz, A.-M.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present Film and Television Studies

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Published January 1996
Two Armies and One Fatherland

The End of the Nationale Volksarmee

Schönbohm, J.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published October 2022
Living on a Time Bomb

Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community

Schöneich, S.

Providing a holistic understanding of extensive oil extraction in rural Mexico, this book focuses on a campesino community, where oil extraction is deeply inscribed into the daily lives of the community members. The book shows how oil shapes the space where it is extracted in every aspect and produces multiple uncertainties.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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Published November 2015
The Germans and the Holocaust

Popular Responses to the Persecution and Murder of the Jews

Schrafstetter, S. & Steinweis, A. E. (eds)

For decades, historians have debated how and to what extent the Holocaust penetrated the German national consciousness between 1933 and 1945. This compact volume brings together six historical investigations into the subject from leading scholars, employing newly accessible and previously underexploited evidence.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Jewish Studies Genocide History

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Published January 2012
Identity Politics and the New Genetics

Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging

Schramm, K., Skinner, D., & Rottenburg, R. (eds)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

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Credit and Debt in an Unequal Society

Establishing a Consumer Credit Market in South Africa

Schraten, J.

Investigates the political reasons for South Africa adopting an allegedly self-regulating market despite its disastrous effects and identifies the colonialist ideas of property rights as a mainstay of the existing social order.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Merchant Kings

Corporate Governmentality in the Dutch Colonial Empire, 1815–1870

Schrauwers, A.

Merchant Kings offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the rapid industrialization of the Netherlands and its colonial holdings in Java during the nineteenth century. By placing colony and metropole into a single analytical frame, it offers a bracing new approach to understanding the development of modern corporations within the context of empire.

Subjects: Colonial History History: 18th/19th Century Political and Economic Anthropology

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Bishkek Boys

Neighbourhood Youth and Urban Change in Kyrgyzstan’s Capital

Schröder, P.

In this pioneering ethnographic study of identity, author Philipp Schröder explores integration and urban change in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek. Bishkek Boys offers unique insights into how post-Socialist economic liberalization, rural-urban migration and (state) ethnic nationalism have reshaped social relations among the boys who come of age in this Central Asian urban environment.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Refugee and Migration Studies Urban Studies

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Playing the Marginality Game

Identity Politics in West Africa

Schroven, A.

In Guinea, situated in the background of central government struggles, rural elites, through the use of identity politics, employ history and contemporary political reforms to maintain their privileges and perpetuate a generation-old local social contract that bridges ethnic and religious divides.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Development Studies

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eBook available Published August 2020
Modernity and the Unmaking of Men

Schubert, V.

Responding to the renewed emphasis on the significance of village studies, this book focuses on aging bachelorhood as a site of intolerable angst when faced with rural depopulation and social precarity. Based on ongoing ethnographic fieldwork in contemporary Macedonian society, the book explores the intersections between modernity, kinship and gender.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Published August 1998
Paths to Inclusion

The Integration of Migrants in the United States and Germany

Schuck, P. & Münz, R. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies

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eBook available Published February 2024
Gender History of German Jews

A Short Introduction

Schüler-Springorum, S.

Gender History of German Jews is a concise overview of German-Jewish gender agency and change against the “dawn of modernity” across both men and women who dealt with histories of status change, discrimination, persecution, and deportation.

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

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Published October 2014
The Forgotten Majority

German Merchants in London, Naturalization, and Global Trade 1660-1815

Schulte Beerbühl, M.

The “forgotten majority” of German merchants in London between the end of the Hanseatic League and the end of the Napoleonic Wars became the largest mercantile Christian immigrant group in the eighteenth century. Using previously neglected and little used evidence, this book assesses the causes of their migration, the establishment of their businesses in the capital, and the global reach of the enterprises.

Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century

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Published April 2006
The Body of the Queen

Gender and Rule in the Courtly World, 1500-2000

Schulte R. (ed)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Published September 2013
Death in East Germany, 1945-1990

Schulz, F. R.

“Felix Robin Schulz’s insightful and thoroughly researched book makes a significant contribution to the growing scholarship on the history of East Germany. It is, to my knowledge, the most comprehensive study of sepulchral culture in the GDR. Schulz is to be strongly commended for his extensive archival research in Berlin and in a number of city archives. He also visited numerous sites personally, which lends him a further layer of authority over his subject matter and allows him to make observations on how quickly certain spatial elements of socialist sepulchral culture are disappearing.” · Heléna Tóth, Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Munich

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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The History of Thyssen

Family, Industry and Culture in the 20th Century

Schulz, G. & Szöllösi-Janze, M.

The History of Thyssenprovides a summary of a research project funded by the Thyssen Foundations. It is both an explanation of how the project was conceptualized and executed and a detailed case study of a family and business during the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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

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eBook available Published July 2017
The Women's Liberation Movement

Impacts and Outcomes

Schulz, K. (ed)

This collection represents the first systematic reflection on the impact and outcomes of the women’s liberation movement in different areas and topics of Western societies. It systematically investigates movement outcomes in one country in the light of a reflective social movement theory and compares them to developments in other countries.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: 20th Century to Present

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Published March 2009
Political Violence in the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933

Fight for the Streets and Fear of Civil War

Schumann, D.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published September 2010
Raising Citizens in the 'Century of the Child'

The United States and German Central Europe in Comparative Perspective

Schumann, D. (ed)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Educational Studies

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Published July 1995
Politics and Government in Germany, 1944-1994

Basic Documents

Schweitzer, C-C., Karsten, D., Spencer, R., Taylor Cole, R., Kommers, D. P., & Nicholls, A. J. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published June 2003
A Venetian Island

Environment, History and Change in Burano

Sciama, L. D.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

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eBook available Published April 2016
Humour, Comedy and Laughter

Obscenities, Paradoxes, Insights and the Renewal of Life

Sciama, L.D. (ed)

Anthropological writings on humour are not numerous, but they do contain insight into the social processes that underlie joking and laughter. This volume examines the cognitive, social, and moral aspects of humour and its potential to bring about a sense of mutual understanding, even among different and possibly hostile people.

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

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eBook available Published May 2020
Structures of Protection?

Rethinking Refugee Shelter

Scott-Smith, T. & Breeze, M. E. (eds)

Questioning what shelter is and how we can define it, this volume brings together twenty-three essays on different forms of refugee shelter, with a view to widening public understanding about the lives of forced migrants and developing theoretical understanding of this oft-neglected facet of the refugee experience.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published April 1999
Television Broadcasting in Contemporary France and Britain

Scriven, M. & Lecomte, M. (eds)

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Sociology Media Studies

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Published March 2003
Group Identities on French and British Television

Scriven, M. & Roberts, E. (eds)

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) Sociology Media Studies

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eBook available Published August 2018
Mirrors of Passing

Unlocking the Mysteries of Death, Materiality, and Time

Seebach, S. & Willerslev, R. (eds)

Mirrors of Passing explores the relationship between death, materiality, and temporality, drawing from the fields of archaeology, cultural anthropology, political science, and media studies to explore fundamental questions about the relationship between death and our perception of time.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Published May 2024
Shaping Tomorrow's World

A Twentieth-Century History of West German, Cold War, and Global Futures Studies

Seefried, E.

Shaping Tomorrow’s World is an award-winning volume that documents the history of futures studies using extensive archival material and rich analysis of the debates surrounding the limits of fields growth.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Published May 2007
Intersected Identities

Strategies of Visualisation in 19th and 20th Century Mexican Culture

Segre, E.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies

Hb
Published April 2009
Europe At the Seaside

The Economic History of Mass Tourism in the Mediterranean

Segreto, L., Manera, C. & Pohl, M. (eds)

Subject: History (General)

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Forthcoming April 2025
From Legacies to Futures

The Lifeworlds of Older Adults in Europe

Seidel, K., Prendergast, D., & Saris, A. J.

Through ninety-four ethnographic case studies of community dwelling older adults in Europe before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, this book highlights the importance of agency, friction between self-perceptions on age and outside impositions and the need to deconstruct old age as a homogenizing category of belonging.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology Sociology
eBook available Published July 2004
The Imaginary Revolution

Parisian Students and Workers in 1968

Seidman, M.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published January 2024
Breathing Hearts

Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany

Selim, N.

Sufism is known as the mystical dimension of Islam. Nasima Selim explores this definition to find out what it means to ‘breathe well’ along the Sufi path in the context of anti-Muslim racism. Breathing Hearts is the first book-length ethnographic account of Sufi practices and politics in Berlin.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Refugee and Migration Studies
Published August 2020
Who’s Cashing In?

Contemporary Perspectives on New Monies and Global Cashlessness

Sen, A., Lindquist, J., & Kolling, M. (eds)

From credit cards to cryptocurrencies, online and mobile money, remittances, and demonetization policies, cashless infrastructures are becoming increasingly common around the world. Who’s Cashing In? explores how different modes of cashlessness impact, transform and challenge the everyday lives and livelihoods of local communities in multiple regional contexts.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
Published October 2007
On Perpetual Peace

A Timely Assessment

Senghaas, D.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Development Studies

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eBook available Published December 2019
An Archaeology of Unchecked Capitalism

From the American Rust Belt to the Developing World

Shackel, P. A.

By drawing parallels between the past and present – for example, the coal mines of the nineteenth-century northeastern Pennsylvania and the sweatshops of the twenty-first century in Bangladesh – we can have difficult conversations about the past and advance our commitment to address social justice issues.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published October 2016
Honour and Violence

Gender, Power and Law in Southern Pakistan

Shah, N.

This volume explores the implication of modern law in the seemingly ancient cultural practice of karo kari, which allows male family members to take the lives of female relatives accused of adultery. Drawing connections between local contests over marriage and resources, Nafisa Shah unearths deep historical processes and power relations at work in Upper Sindh, Pakistan.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

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eBook available Published July 2021
Margaret Mead

Shankman, P.

Tracing Mead’s career as an ethnographer, as the early voice of public anthropology, and as a public figure, this elegantly written biography links the professional and personal sides of her career. This short volume is an ideal starting point for anyone wanting to learn about, arguably, the most famous anthropologist of the twentieth century.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Published December 2002
The Peirce Seminar Papers

Volume V: Essays in Semiotic Analysis

Shapiro, M. (ed)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century Literary Studies

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Published January 1995
The Peirce Seminar Papers

Volume II: An Annual of Semiotic Analysis

Shapiro, M. (ed)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century Literary Studies

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Published March 2024
Crypto Crowds

Singularities and Multiplicities on the Blockchain

Shapiro, M. (ed)

Discussing the notions around social dynamics, Crypto Crowds explores how crowd and community formations manifest empirically in cryptocurrency sociality online. Pioneering in its approach to the increasing digitalization and datafication of everyday life, the volume encourages scholars explore further how ‘decentralized’ and ‘trustless’ technologies take part in the construction of postmodern crowds.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
eBook available Published May 2020
Spaces of Solidarity

Karen Activism in the Thailand-Burma Borderlands

Sharples, R.

Exploring notions of activism and space as narrated by Karen displaced persons and refugees in the Thai-Burma borderlands, this book looks beyond refugees as passive victims or a ‘humanitarian case’. Instead, the book examines the active engagement the Karen have with their persecution and displacement, and their subsequent emplacement in the borderlands.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published January 2021
Cinemas of Boyhood

Masculinity, Sexuality, Nationality

Shary, T. (eds)

Drawing from political sociology, pop psychology, and film studies, Cinemas of Boyhood features an eclectic range of films from British and Indian cinemas to silent Hollywood and the new Hollywood of the 1980s, culminating in a comprehensive overview of the diverse concerns surrounding representations of boyhood in film.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Published January 2009
Negotiating Risk

British Pakistani Experiences of Genetics

Shaw, A.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

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Published October 2005
Changing Sex and Bending Gender

Shaw, A. & Ardener, S. (eds)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published January 2015
Cousin Marriages

Between Tradition, Genetic Risk and Cultural Change

Shaw, A. & Raz, A. (eds)

Juxtaposing contributions from geneticists and anthropologists, this volume provides a contemporary overview of cousin marriage, presenting a reflective, interdisciplinary analysis of the social and ethical issues raised by both the discourse of risk in cousin marriage, as well as existing and potential interventions to promote “healthy consanguinity.”

Subject: Medical Anthropology

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eBook available Published July 2020
Beyond Filial Piety

Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies

Shea, J., Moore, K., & Zhang, H. (eds)

This volume explores emerging cultural meanings and social responses to population aging in contemporary East Asian societies. Drawing on ethnographic, demographic, policy, archival, and media data, the authors trace both common patterns and diverging trends across China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, and Korea.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published July 2014
Beyond Alterity

German Encounters with Modern East Asia

Shen, Q. & Rosenstock, M. (eds)

This collection of essays examines German-language cultural production pertaining to modern China and Japan, and explicitly challenges orientalist notions by proposing a conception of East and West not as opposites, but as complementary elements of global culture, thereby urging a move beyond national paradigms in cultural studies. Essays focus on the mid-century German-Japanese alliance, Chinese-German Leftist collaborations, global capitalism, travel, identity, and cultural hybridity. The authors include historians and scholars of film and literature, and employ a wide array of approaches from postcolonial, globalization, media, and gender studies. The collection sheds new light on a complex and ambivalentset of international relationships, while also testifying to the potential of Asian German Studies.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

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Published May 2003
Aging in Today's World

Conversations between an Anthropologist and a Physician

Shield, R. R. & Aronson, S. M.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Sociology Medical Anthropology

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Forthcoming December 2024
Family Beyond Family

The Varieties of Kinship Experience

Shipton, P. & Ito-Adler, J. P. (eds)

Arguably all humans invent or accept forms of family beyond those that are close biological kin. These fictive forms of kinship may vary across diverse cultures and serve different purposes. This book explores a wide variety of such kinship formations, while observing and examining the principles and purposes behind them.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available Published January 2003
The Road to War

France and Vietnam 1944-1947

Shipway, M.

Subject: Colonial History

Pb
eBook available Published February 2017
Genocide in the Ottoman Empire

Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, 1913-1923

Shirinian, G. N. (ed)

From 1913 to 1923, the Ottoman Empire deported or killed staggering numbers of non-Turkish, non-Muslim citizens in an attempt to preserve “Turkey for the Turks,” setting a modern precedent for how a regime can commit genocide while largely escaping accountability. This definitive volume is the first to comprehensively examine the genocides of the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks in comparative fashion.

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published May 2020
Can Academics Change the World?

An Israeli Anthropologist's Testimony on the Rise and Fall of a Protest Movement on Campus

Shokeid, M.

Moshe Shokeid narrates his experiences as a member of AD KAN (NO MORE), a protest movement of Israeli academics at Tel Aviv University, who fought against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, founded during the first Palestinian intifada/uprising (1987-1993).

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Jewish Studies Anthropology (General) Educational Studies

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Forthcoming November 2024
Beyond Ethics and Pragmatism

Evocative Moments in Doing Ethnography

Shokeid, M.

Based on several long-term fieldwork projects in Israel and the U.S., this book brings together a repertoire of subjective and professional experiences of an anthropologist who attended various theoretical and methodological tutoring settings.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published June 2013
Up Close and Personal

On Peripheral Perspectives and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge

Shore, C. & Trnka, S. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published April 2011
Policy Worlds

Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power

Shore, C., Wright S., & Però, D.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Applied Anthropology Sociology

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eBook available Published October 2023
Cinema and the Environment in Eastern Europe

From Communism to Capitalism

Shpolberg, M. & Brasiskis, L. (eds)

Cinema and the Environment in Eastern Europe traces from the 1970s through the post 1989 period how documentaries and filmmakers began to articulate alternative, aesthetically and ideologically provocative visions of the relationship between human and natural worlds.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published May 2013
Race, Color, Identity

Rethinking Discourses about 'Jews' in the Twenty-First Century

Sicher, E. (ed)

Subjects: Jewish Studies Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published May 2023
Coproducing Europe

An Ethnography of Film Markets, Creativity and Identity

Sideri, E.

By focusing on regional film markets in Thessasloniki, Sarajevo, and Tbilisi, Coproduction Europe uses comparative ethnography to look beyond the economic nature of film coproductions to explore their role in Europeanisation, memories of the Cold War, and preconstructed political agendas.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published September 2022
Edible People

The Historical Consumption of Slaves and Foreigners and the Cannibalistic Trade in Human Flesh

Siefkes, C.

While human cannibalism has attracted considerable notice and controversy, certain aspects of the practice have received scant attention. These include the connection between cannibalism and xenophobia: the capture and consumption of unwanted strangers. Likewise ignored is the connection to slavery: the fact that in some societies slaves and persons captured in slave raids could be, and were, killed and eaten. This book explores these largely forgotten practices and ignored connections.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Colonial History

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Published November 1998
The Great Immigration

Russian Jews in Israel

Siegel, D.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Jewish Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
eBook available Published January 2018
Island Historical Ecology

Socionatural Landscapes of the Eastern and Southern Caribbean

Siegel, P. (ed)

Island Historical Ecology addresses Caribbean island ecologies from the perspective of social and cultural intervention, focusing on selected islands between Venezuela and Puerto Rico. This volume goes on to compare these ecologies with well-documented patterns in the Mediterranean and Pacific islands, placing the Caribbean into a larger context of island historical ecology.

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

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eBook available Published July 2020
Modern Lusts

Ernest Borneman: Jazz Critic, Filmmaker, Sexologist

Siegfried, D.

Detlef Siegfried’s long-awaited English translation chronicles Ernest Borneman’s journey from his days as a young Jewish Communist in Berlin to his ventures in England and Canada, and ultimately, to his endeavors as the most prominent sexologist spearheading the sexual revolution in West Germany and Austria in the twentieth century.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Film and Television Studies Media Studies

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Published November 2014
Property in East Central Europe

Notions, Institutions, and Practices of Landownership in the Twentieth Century

Siegrist, H. & Müller, D. (eds)

The national appropriation of property in the interwar period and the communist era represent an onerous legacy for the postcommunist (re)construction of a liberal-individualist property regime. However, as the scholars in the this collection show, after the demise of communism in Eastern Europe property is again a major factor in shaping individual identity and in providing the political order and culture with a foundational institution.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published December 2016
Languid Bodies, Grounded Stances

The Curving Pathway of Neoclassical Odissi Dance

Sikand, N.

Odissi dance has transformed over the centuries from an Indian temple ritual to a transnational genre performed—and consumed—throughout the world. Building on ethnographic research in multiple locations, this book reveals the complexity of odissi as it is practiced today, at the intersection of identity, nationalism, tradition, and neoliberal economics.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published April 2017
When Things Become Property

Land Reform, Authority and Value in Postsocialist Europe and Asia

Sikor, T., Dorondel, S., Stahl, J. & Xuan To, P.

Almost all elements of nature have become the target of property laws, from the classic preoccupation with land to more ephemeral material, such as air and genetic resources. When Things Become Property examines postsocialist land and forest reforms in Albania, Romania and Vietnam, finding that property reforms are not miracle tools available to governments for refashioning economies, politics or environments.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published May 2012
Walls, Borders, Boundaries

Spatial and Cultural Practices in Europe

Silberman, M., Till, K. E. & Ward, J. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Urban Studies Refugee and Migration Studies Memory Studies

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Published December 2006
Local Science Vs Global Science

Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge in International Development

Sillitoe, P. (ed)

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

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eBook available Published August 2014
Sustainable Development

An Appraisal from the Gulf Region

Sillitoe, P. (ed)

With growing evidence of unsustainable use of the world’s resources, such as hydrocarbon reserves, and related environmental pollution, as in alarming climate change predictions, sustainable development is arguably the prominent issue of the 21st century. Bringing together university faculty and government personnel from the Gulf, Europe, and North America this volume gives a wide ranging introduction focusing on the arid Gulf region and beyond, where the challenges of sustainable development are starkly evident.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Geography

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Published October 2021
The Anthroposcene of Weather and Climate

Ethnographic Contributions to the Climate Change Debate

Sillitoe, P. (ed)

While it is widely acknowledged that climate change is among the greatest global challenges of our times, it has local implications too. This volume forefronts these, giving anthropology a voice in this great debate, which natural scientists and policy makers have dominated thus far.

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

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eBook available Published February 2013
Palimpsestic Memory

The Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film

SIlverman, M

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Genocide History Colonial History

Hb
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Published April 2015
Anxious Histories

Narrating the Holocaust in Jewish Communities at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century

Silverstein, J.

Over the last 70 years, memories and narratives of the Holocaust have played a significant role in constructing Jewish communities. This book explores one field where these narratives are disseminated: Holocaust pedagogy in Jewish schools in Melbourne and New York.

Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies

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Published January 2016
Tourism and Informal Encounters in Cuba

Simoni, V.

Based on a detailed ethnography, this book explores tourism in Cuba, drawing attention to challenges that tourists and local people face in establishing meaningful connections with each other. Comparing a wide array of these experiences, the author uses tourism to offer a new understanding of how relationships across difference and inequality are imagined and understood.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism

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Published August 2023
Temple Tracks

Labour, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia

Sinha, V.

The notions of labour, mobility and piety have a complex and intertwined relationship. Using ethnographic methods and a historical perspective, Temple Tracks critically outlines the interlink of railway construction in colonial and post-colonial Asia, as well as the anthropology of infrastructure and transnational mobilities with religion.

Subjects: Transport Studies Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology of Religion
eBook available Published June 2021
Emotions, Ethics, and Cinematic Experience

New Phenomenological and Cognitivist Perspectives

Sinnerbrink, R. (ed)

Since the early 1990s, phenomenology and cognitivism have become two of the most influential approaches to film theory. Emotions, Ethics, and Cinematic Experience explores how these two approaches might work together to create a philosophy of film that is both descriptively rich and theoretically productive.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies Sociology

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Published September 2014
The Polynesian Iconoclasm

Religious Revolution and the Seasonality of Power

Sissons, J.

Seeking an answer to why the event occurred the way that it did,The Polynesian Iconoclasm explores the ten years in the early nineteenth century during which inhabitants of Tahiti, Hawaii and fifteen related societies destroyed or desecrated their temples and god-images. In the aftermath, hundreds of architecturally innovative churches were constructed, and oppressive laws and courts were introduced — and rebelled against.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published January 2021
Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe

Representations, Transfers and Exchanges

Šístek, F. (ed)

As a Slavic-speaking religious and ethnic “Other” living just a stone’s throw from the symbolic heart of the continent, the Muslim peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina have long occupied a liminal space in the European imagination. This volume assembles contributions from historians, anthropologists, political scientists, and literary scholars to examine the political, social, and discursive dimensions of Bosnian Muslims’ encounter with the West.

Subjects: History (General) Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Published November 2016
The Making of the Greek Genocide

Contested Memories of the Ottoman Greek Catastrophe

Sjöberg, E.

After World War I, over one million Ottoman Greeks were expelled from Turkey, resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths. This study analyzes the fight for international recognition of the Greek genocide narrative, showing how its memory developed as a cultural trauma with both nationalist and cosmopolitan dimensions.

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

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Published February 2010
Changes in Museum Practice

New Media, Refugees and Participation

Skartveit & Goodnow, K. (eds)

Subjects: Museum Studies Refugee and Migration Studies

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Published September 2009
The Radical Right in Switzerland

Continuity and Change, 1945-2000

Skenderovic, D.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published March 2012
Writing the Dark Side of Travel

Skinner, J. (ed)

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies

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Published October 2011
Great Expectations

Imagination and Anticipation in Tourism

Skinner, J. & Theodossopoulos, D. (eds)

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published May 2017
Wolf Conflicts

A Sociological Study

Skogen, K., Krange, O., & Figari, H.

Making a comeback in Northern Europe and North America, wolf populations cause conflicts by affecting the livelihoods of rural peoples. However, their arrivals also become embedded in more general societal tensions. Wolf Conflicts reveals how conflicts over land use and conservation intertwine with patterns of hegemony and resistance in modern societies.

Subjects: Sociology Environmental Studies (General)

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eBook available Published October 2020
Revealing the Invisible Mine

Social Complexities of an Undeveloped Mining Project

Skrzypek, E. E.

The Frieda River area in Papua New Guinea is home to one of the biggest undeveloped gold and copper deposits in the Pacific. This book offers an account of local stakeholder strategies as they unfolded at Frieda over forty years and provides a strong and novel commentary on sustainability and social accountability of the mining industry operating in indigenous territories.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
Published March 2008
Empathy and Healing

Essays in Medical and Narrative Anthropology

Skultans, V.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

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Published December 2015
Comrades of Color

East Germany in the Cold War World

Slobodian, Q. (ed)

The political culture of the German Democratic Republic strongly emphasized solidarity with the non-white world, from contributions to relief efforts in Vietnam to public memorials for Ho Chi Minh and Martin Luther King, Jr. Through a series of illuminating historical investigations, this volume traces the contours of East German internationalism.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published September 2024
Vanquished and Victorious

World War One Veterans in Austria and Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938

Šmidrkal, V., Cole, L., Leidinger, H., Kučera, R., Walleczek-Fritz, J., & Šustrová, R.

Innovatively providing a comparative investigation of Austria and Czechoslovakia as key ‘successor states’ of the Habsburg Empire, Vanquished and Victorious reviews the considerable gaps in our understanding of the role veterans played.

Subjects: History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present
Published January 2007
Anarchism, Revolution and Reaction

Catalan Labor and the Crisis of the Spanish State, 1898-1923

Smith, A.

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

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eBook available Published July 2019
The Girl in the Text

Smith, A. (ed)

How are girls represented in written and graphic texts, and how do these representations inform our understanding of girlhood? In this volume, contributors examine the girl in the text in order to explore a range of perspectives on girlhood across borders and in relation to their positionality.

Subjects: Literary Studies Sociology Media Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published May 2018
Capturing Quicksilver

The Position, Power, and Plasticity of Chinese Medicine in Singapore

Smith, A. A.

Capturing Quicksilver considers the use, promotion, and legislation of Chinese medicine in Singapore in relation to government policies favoring international investment, urban redevelopment, healthcare regulation, “multiracial” nationalism, and the management of history and heritage. Theoretically and methodologically developed within medical anthropology, it explores embodied experience and individual and group creativity vis-à-vis state agendas.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology (General)

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Published April 1996
The War for the German Mind

Re-educating Hitler's Soldiers

Smith, A. L.

Subject: History: World War II

Hb
eBook available Published May 2014
Intellectuals and (Counter-) Politics

Essays in Historical Realism

Smith, G.

“A cutting edge discussion between anthropology and the disciplines of history and geography, all through the lens of the politics of intellectual work. A paradigm of sensitive ethnographic work fused with broadly social/political theory, this book will pull in a lot of people looking to find their way out of a certain rabbit hole of recent academia.” · Neil Smith, Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Gavin Smith suggests a research agenda designed to maximize the political leverage of ordinary people faced with ever more remote states and technologies that make capitalism increasingly rapacious. He tackles the political conundrums of our times and asks what roles intellectuals might play therein.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published March 2015
Extraordinary Encounters

Authenticity and the Interview

Smith, K., Staples, J. & Rapport, N. (eds)

The interview creates a context of interaction with a particular authenticity to experience. Contributors explore how the interview is experienced as a particular kind of knowing within which personal, biographic, and social norms are explored and interrogated, providing direction and awareness for future encounters.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Spanish Lessons

Cinema and Television in Contemporary Spain

Smith, P. J.

Spanish film and television represent a remarkably influential and vibrant cultural industry, as well as a fertile site of innovation in the production of “transmedia” works that bridge narrative forms. Spanish Lessons provides an engaging exploration of the nation’s visual culture in an era of collapsing genre boundaries, accelerating technological change, and political-economic tumult.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies

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Published February 2020
Comrades in Arms

Military Masculinities in East German Culture

Smith, T.

Without question, the East German National People’s Army sought to exemplify traditional masculine ideals of stoicism, sacrifice, and physical courage. Yet depictions of the military in East German film and literature were far more nuanced and ambivalent. Comrades in Arms shows how cultural works have portrayed violence, vulnerability, military theatricality, and a range of masculinities.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality History: 20th Century to Present

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Published May 2014
Vanished History

The Holocaust in Czech and Slovak Historical Culture

Sniegon, T.

“This book opens up important issues not dealt with extensively in the historiography so far. Unlike with some other post-Communist countries, and Poland in particular, there hasn't been that much interest in the topic of commemoration and historicisation of the Holocaust in post-Communist Czechoslovakia…The author should be praised for the critical distance with which he approaches the historical cultures in both parts of former Czechoslovakia and its actors.” · Michal Frankl, Jewish Museum in Prague

Subjects: Genocide History History: World War II Jewish Studies

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Published July 2006
Household Archaeology on the Northwest Coast

Sobel, E. A., Gahr, D. A. T., & Ames, K. A. (eds)

Since the late 1970s, household archaeology has become a key theoretical and methodological framework for research on the development of permanent social inequality and complexity, as well as for understanding the social, political and economic organization of chiefdoms and states. This volume is the cumulative result of more than a decade of research focusing on household archaeology as a means to gain understanding of the evolution of social complexity, regardless of underlying economy.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)

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Published November 2014
Mass Communication In Israel

Nationalism, Globalization, and Segmentation

Soffer, O.

Mass communication has long been recognized as an important contributor to national identity and nation building. This book examines the relationship between media and nationalism in Israel, arguing that, in comparison to other countries, the Israeli case is unique.

Subject: Media Studies

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Published May 2008
Struggling for Recognition

The Alevi Movement in Germany and in Transnational Space

Sökefeld, M.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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A Living Past

Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America

Soluri, J., Leal, C., & Pádua, J. A. (eds)

Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is no longer in its infancy. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past gives a transnational and thematically diverse survey of historical developments since the nineteenth century.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

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Published March 2006
The Politics of Egalitarianism

Theory and Practice

Solway, J. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Medical Anthropology

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Dynamics of Political Domination in Africa

An Axel Sommerfelt Collection

Sommerfelt, A., (au) Sommerfelt, T., Jakoubek, M., & Eriksen, T. H. (eds)

Axel Sommerfelt has been an important influence on Norwegian and Scandinavian anthropology, but his contributions are almost unknown. This book brings together some of his critical writings, newly written articles and an interview positions him in the history of ‘North Sea’ social anthropology and shows his continued relevance.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

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Fear in Bongoland

Burundi Refugees in Urban Tanzania

Sommers, M.

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

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State Collapse and Reconstruction in the Periphery

Political Economy, Ethnicity and Development in Yugoslavia, Serbia and Kosovo

Sörensen, J. S.

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology

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Evil Eye in Christian Orthodox Society

A Journey from Envy to Personhood

Souvlakis, N.

Evil eye is a phenomenon observed globally and has to do with the misfortune and calamities that we can cause to someone else out of jealousy of their possessions. The book engages with evil eye beliefs in Corfu and investigates the Christian Orthodox influences on the phenomenon and how it affects individuals’ reactions to it.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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Civil–Military Entanglements

Anthropological Perspectives

Sørensen, B. R. & Ben-Ari, E. (eds)

Military-civilian encounters are multiple and diverse in our times. This volume traces out the ripples, reverberations and resonations of civil-military entanglements which allow for an understanding of the roles war, violence and the military play in shaping contemporary societies and the everyday life of its citizens.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Applied Anthropology

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Published January 2001
Echoes of Narcissus

Spaas, L. (ed)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

Hb
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Published March 2006
Remapping Knowledge

Intercultural Studies for a Global Age

Spariosu, Mihai I.

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Published November 2015
Language and Identity Politics

A Cross-Atlantic Perspective

Späti, C. (ed)

In a multicultural world, the relationship between language and identity remains a often fraught subject, as evidenced by new legislation and heated public debates in many societies. This volume traces the contours of these complex phenomena, examining the interaction of language, identity, and political activity across Europe and North America.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General)

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Published June 1997
Osthandel and Ostpolitik

German Foreign Trade Policies in Eastern Europe from Bismarck to Adenauer

Spaulding, R. M.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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After The History of Sexuality

German Genealogies with and Beyond Foucault

Spector, S., Puff, H. & Herzog, D. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

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Published October 2004
Religion and Nation

Iranian Local and Transnational Networks in Britain

Spellman, K.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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Published August 2007
Selling the Economic Miracle

Economic Reconstruction and Politics in West Germany, 1949-1957

Spicka, M. E.

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present

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Published October 2006
A Different Kind of War

The UN Sanctions Regime in Iraq

Sponeck, H.C. von

Subject: Peace and Conflict Studies

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Screening Nostalgia

Populuxe Props and Technicolor Aesthetics in Contemporary American Film

Sprengler, C.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

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Transforming Author Museums

From Sites of Pilgrimage to Cultural Hubs

Spring, U., Schimanski, J., & Aarbakke, T. (eds)

Literary museums today must respond to new challenges; the traditional image of the author’s home museum as a sacred place of literary pilgrimage centered around a national hero has been questioned, and literary museums have begun to develop new strategies. The book addresses how literary museums have changed since the form was established, what challenges they face today and how we might imagine them in the future.

Subjects: Museum Studies Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

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Ambiguous Pleasures

Sexuality and Middle Class Self-Perceptions in Nairobi

Spronk, R.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

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Published April 2008
Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance

St John, G. (ed)

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

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Published November 2003
The Bounded Field

Localism and Local Identity in an Italian Alpine Valley

Stacul, J.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Published December 2005
Crossing European Boundaries

Beyond Conventional Geographical Categories

Stacul, J., Moutsou, C., & Kopnina, H. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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The Global Age-Friendly Community Movement

A Critical Appraisal

Stafford, P. B. (ed)

This book provides an introduction to the global phenomenon of the age-friendly community movement, through an extensive collection of international case studies by researchers and practitioners. It explores current tensions in the movement and offers a wide-ranging set of recommendations for advancing age-friendly community development.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

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A Walk to the River in Amazonia

Ordinary Reality for the Mehinaku Indians

Stang, C. D.

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

Hb
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The Future of Indigenous Museums

Perspectives from the Southwest Pacific

Stanley, N. (ed)

Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published January 2014
Bondage

Labor and Rights in Eurasia from the Sixteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries

Stanziani, A.

Subject: History (General)

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Banned in Berlin

Literary Censorship in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918

Stark, G. D.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

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The Guardians of Concepts

Political Languages of Conservatism in Britain and West Germany, 1945-1980

Steber, M.

Since 1945, German and British intellectuals and politicians have struggled to define the term “conservative” throughout its complicated history. The Guardians of Concepts rigorously uncovers the changes in the idea of conservatism and its national and transnational political language history.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Nordic War Stories

World War II as History, Fiction, Media, and Memory

Stecher-Hansen, M. (ed)

Nordic War Stories explores the commonalities and divergences among the five Nordic countries, examining formal and informal national historiographies alongside representations of the second world war in canonical literary works, memoirs, and films. Together, they comprise a valuable companion that challenges the myth of Scandinavian homogeneity while demonstrating the powerful influence that the war continues to exert on national self-conceptions.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies

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The State Otherwise

Green Space, Citizenship and Advocating for the Public in Beirut

Stefanelli, A.

The State Otherwise examines the difficult predicament of Beirut’s public green spaces from the vantage point of the civic campaign to reopen Horsh al Sanawbar, the city’s largest public park. It asks questions about the nature of privatisation of public property, civic society’s potential to mobilise individuals and the role of public authorities in promoting the public good.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Environmental Studies (General)

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Published September 2010
The Plans That Failed

An Economic History of the GDR

Steiner, A.

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present

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Published March 2008
Austria, Germany, and the Cold War

From the Anschluss to the State Treaty, 1938-1955

Steininger, R.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Germany and the Middle East

From Kaiser Wilhelm II to Angela Merkel

Steininger, R.

For more than a hundred years, persistent conflict in the Middle East has led global superpowers like Germany to become involved. Germany and the Middle East encounters in detail how the nation came to accept its historical responsibility towards newer states in the Middle East, and how major developments of the twentieth century shaped its approach to the region.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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The Force of Comparison

A New Perspective on Modern European History and the Contemporary World

Steinmetz, W. (ed)

Drawing on a range of multidisciplinary perspectives, this volume investigates the concepts and practices of comparison from the early modern period to the present. Each contribution demonstrates how comparison has helped to drive the seemingly irresistible dynamism of the modern world, with a particular focus on what comparison looks like “in action.”

Subject: History (General)

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Conceptual History in the European Space

Steinmetz, W., Freeden, M., & Fernández-Sebastián, J. (eds)

Bringing together leading scholars from across Europe, this volume represents a landmark intervention in the historiography of concepts. With clarifying overviews of such contested theoretical terrain as translatability, spatiality, and center-periphery dynamics, it also provides valuable insights into the current era of disenchantment with the European project.

Subject: History (General)

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Communities of Complicity

Everyday Ethics in Rural China

Steinmüller, H.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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The Law in Nazi Germany

Ideology, Opportunism, and the Perversion of Justice

Steinweis, A. E. & Rachlin, R. D. (eds)

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

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The Americanization of Europe

Culture, Diplomacy, and Anti-Americanism after 1945

Stephan, A (ed)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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Published November 2004
Americanization and Anti-americanism

The German Encounter with American Culture after 1945

Stephan, A. (ed)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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Perspectives in Motion

Engaging the Visual in Dance and Music

Stepputat, K & Diettrich, B. (eds)

Through a diverse range of case studies from Oceania, Asia, and Europe, and interdisciplinary approaches, Perspectives in Motion explores visual approaches to performance in global cultural contexts, offering new critical and ethnographic frameworks for understanding and experiencing practices of music and dance across the globe.

Subjects: Performance Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Indigenist Mobilization

Confronting Electoral Communism and Precarious Livelihoods in Post-Reform Kerala

Steur, L.

Indigenist Mobilization explores the history of the dynamics between the Communist party in Kerala and indigenist activists, and the subtle ways in which global capitalist restructuring leads to a resonance of indigenist visions in the changed the everyday working lives and future aspirations of subaltern groups in Kerala.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published August 2004
Anthropology and Consultancy

Issues and Debates

Stewart, P. & Strathern, A. (eds)

Subject: Applied Anthropology

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The Emperor's Old Clothes

Constitutional History and the Symbolic Language of the Holy Roman Empire

Stollberg-Rilinger, B.

For many years, scholars struggled to write the history of the constitution and political structure of the Holy Roman Empire. This book argues that this was because the political and social order could not be understood without considering the rituals and symbols that held the Empire together.

Subject: History: Medieval/Early Modern

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Published April 2001
Public Law in Germany, 1800-1914

Stolleis, M.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

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Protest in Hitler's “National Community”

Popular Unrest and the Nazi Response

Stoltzfus, N. & Maier-Katkin, B. (eds)

That Hitler’s Gestapo harshly suppressed any signs of opposition inside the Third Reich is a common misperception. This book presents studies of public dissent that examine circumstances under which “racial” Germans were motivated to protest, as well as the conditions determining the regime’s response.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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The Holocaust and Historical Methodology

Stone, D. (ed)

Subjects: Genocide History History: World War II

Hb
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Gardening the World

Agency, Identity and the Ownership of Water

Strang, V.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies

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Published June 2008
The Strassmanns

Science, Politics and Migration in Turbulent Times (1793-1993)

Strassmann, W. P.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History (General)

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Published June 2005
Narration, Identity, and Historical Consciousness

Straub, J. (ed)

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

Hb
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Published December 2011
Dark Traces of the Past

Psychoanalysis and Historical Thinking

Straub, J. & Rüsen, J. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Sociology

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Published July 2021
After Corporate Paternalism

Material Renovation and Social Change in Times of Ruination

Straube, C.

In this ethnographic study of post-paternalist ruination and renovation, Christian Straube explores social change at the intersection of material decay and social disconnection in the former mine township Mpatamatu of Luanshya, one of the oldest mining towns on the Zambian Copperbelt.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Sociology

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Madness, Bureaucracy and Gender in Mumbai, India

Narratives from a Psychiatric Hospital

Strauss, A.

Regional mental hospitals in India are perceived as colonial artefacts in need of reformation. In the last two decades, there has been discussion around the maltreatment of patients, corruption and poor quality of mental health treatment in these institutions. This ethnography scrutinizes bureaucracy of these asylum-like institutions in the context of national change and the global mental health movement.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Culture and Rhetoric

Strecker, I. & Tyler, S. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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Published June 2013
Astonishment and Evocation

The Spell of Culture in Art and Anthropology

Strecker, I. & Verne, M. (eds)

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

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Moral Power

The Magic of Witchcraft

Stroeken, K.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion

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Medicinal Rule

A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa

Stroeken, K.

Based on ethnography-driven regional comparison and a critical re-examination of classic monographs on some forty cultural groups, this volume makes the arresting claim that across equatorial Africa, the model of rule has been medicine – and not (as Europeans have long assumed) the colonizer’s despotic administrator, the missionary’s divine king, or Vansina’s big man.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History

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War, Technology, Anthropology

Stroeken, K. (ed)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

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Published June 2001
Relative Points of View

Linguistic Representations of Culture

Stroinska, M. (ed)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

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Up, Down, and Sideways

Anthropologists Trace the Pathways of Power

Stryker, R. & González, R. (eds)

Up, Down, and Sidewaysis a collection of essays by ten anthropologists who use a “vertical slice” approach to critically analyze the relationship between undemocratic and sometimes authoritarian uses and abuses of power today and the survival of the human species. It is atimely examination of modern institutions ranging from the nuclear family to transnational corporations within such countries as Russia, Mexico, South Korea, Peru, Indonesia, Guatemala, and the U.S.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Applied Anthropology

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Different from the Others

German and Dutch Discourses of Queer Femininity and Female Desire, 1918–1940

Sturgess, C.

Presenting for the first time a comparative and socio-cultural history of queer femininities in Germany and the Netherlands for an English-speaking audience, Different from the Others highlights this submerged history and engages queer authors and activists from the Netherlands to challenge and redress conceptualizations of queer femininity in the interwar period.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present

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Published August 2012
Charismatic Leadership and Social Movements

The Revolutionary Power of Ordinary Men and Women

Stutje, J. W. (ed)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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eBook available Published January 2022
Emerging Technologies and Museums

Mediating Difficult Heritage

Stylianou-Lambert, T., Bounia, A., & Heraclidou, A. (eds)

Emerging technologies in museums have the potential to reveal unheard or silenced stories, challenge preconceptions, encourage emotional responses, introduce the unexpected, and overall provide alternative experiences. By examining varied theoretical approaches and case studies, authors demonstrate how “awkward”, contested, and rarely discussed subjects and stories are treated – or can be potentially treated - in a museum setting with the use of the latest technology.

Subjects: Museum Studies Heritage Studies Media Studies

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Rebordering the Mediterranean

Boundaries and Citizenship in Southern Europe

Suárez-Navaz, L.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Refugee and Migration Studies

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Transcultural Montage

Suhr, C. & Willerslev, R. (eds)

“This is an ambitious and ground-breaking volume which takes a thoroughly interdisciplinary perspective on what the editors have branded as ‘transcultural montage.’ ...The total effect is a mesmerising and in many ways insightful comparative endeavour that will do much to consolidate montage as a theme that goes to the heart of contemporary social theory.” · Martin Holbraad, University College London

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Film and Television Studies Museum Studies

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eBook available Published August 2020
Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure

Remembering Ghosts on the Margins of History

Surface-Evans, S., Garrison, A. E. & Supernant, K. (eds)

What happens when we blur time and allow ourselves to haunt or to become haunted by the ghosts of the past? The authors draw on archaeological, historical, and ethnographic data to imagine timescapes that transcend our temporality. This volume demonstrates the value of conceiving of ghosts not just as metaphors, but for making the past more concrete and allowing the negative specters of enduring historical legacies, such as colonialism and capitalism, to be exorcised.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Memory Studies Heritage Studies

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Bigger Fish to Fry

A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples

Sutton, D. E.

What defines cooking as cooking, and why does cooking matter to the understanding of society, cultural change and everyday life? This book explores these questions by proposing a new theory of the meaning of cooking as a willingness to put oneself and one’s meals at risk on a daily basis, with examples from the author's fieldwork in Greece.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Published April 2011
The Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany

Sutton, K.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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France and the Construction of Europe, 1944-2007

The Geopolitical Imperative

Sutton, M.

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
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Postsocialism

Politics and Emotions in Central and Eastern Europe

Svasek M. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Moving Subjects, Moving Objects

Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions

Svašek, M. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Mobility Studies Sociology

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Creativity in Transition

Politics and Aesthetics of Cultural Production Across the Globe

Svašek, M. & Meyer, B. (eds)

Exploring creative practices in various settings, the book calls attention to the spread of modernist discourses of creativity, from the colonial era to the current obsession with ‘innovation’ in neo-liberal capitalist cultural politics, but also to the less visible practices of copying, recycling and reproduction that occur as part and parcel of creative improvisation.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Divining History

Prophetism, Messianism and the Development of the Spirit

Svenungsson, J.

Messianic ideas of impending redemption have inspired and engendered struggles for justice, yet also violent utopian ideologies. This book analyzes the double-edged legacy of Judeo-Christian theologies of history by exploring their impact on subsequent philosophies of history and political ideologies, from Ancient Judaism, through German Romanticism, to contemporary radical thought.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion History (General)

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Fortune and the Cursed

The Sliding Scale of Time in Mongolian Divination

Swancutt, K.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion

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Crafting Chinese Memories

The Art and Materiality of Storytelling

Swancutt, K. (ed)

Through an interdisciplinary conversation with contributors from social anthropology, religious studies, film studies, literary studies, cultural studies, and history, Crafting Chinese Memories is the first volume to address how works of art shape memories, and offers new ways of conceptualising storytelling, memory-making, art, and materiality. It explores the memories of artists, filmmakers, novelists, storytellers, and persons who come to terms with their own histories even as they reveal the social memories of watershed events in modern China.

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

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Animism beyond the Soul

Ontology, Reflexivity, and the Making of Anthropological Knowledge

Swancutt, K. & Mazard, M. (eds)

The contributors to this volume offer compelling case studies that demonstrate how indigenous animistic practices, concepts, traditions, and ontologies are co-authored in highly reflexive ways by anthropologists and their interlocutors.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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Mixed Harvest

Stories from the Human Past

Swigart, R.

After millennia of wandering the earth with little impact, a universal, if inadvertent transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and pastoralism was complete within a period of a few thousand years. Mixed Harvest tells the story of the Sedentary Divide, the most significant event since modern humans emerged.

Subjects: Archaeology Literary Studies Memory Studies Anthropology (General)

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Reluctant Intimacies

Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands

Świtek, B.

Based on seventeen months of ethnographic research among Indonesian eldercare workers in Japan, this book is the first ethnography to research Indonesian care workers’ relationships with the cared-for elderly, their Japanese colleagues and their employers.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

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Girls in Global Development

Figurations of Gendered Power

Switzer, H., Desai, K., & Bent, E. (eds)

Slating new directions in conversations surrounding gender, development, human rights, investment, and equality, Girls in Global Development theorizes the intersection of girlhood and global development through the novel concept of “Girls in Development” or GID.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Development Studies Sociology

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Published February 2002
The Shaping of Environmental Policy in France

Szarka, J.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Sociology

Hb
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Published June 1999
Nazism in Central Germany

The Brownshirts in 'Red' Saxony

Szejnmann, C.-C.

Subject: History: World War II

Hb
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Staging Citizenship

Roma, Performance and Belonging in EU Romania

Szeman, I.

Staging Citizenship explores a wide range of Roma performances and representations—from live music and cultural performances to Gypsy soaps and reality TV shows, demonstrating how disenfranchised urban Roma claim cultural citizenship and belonging in music, dance, activism and everyday encounters.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Performance Studies

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Estates and Constitution

The Parliament in Eighteenth-Century Hungary

Szijártó, I. M.

Estates and Constitution provides a rich account of Hungarian politics during the eighteenth century, restoring the Diet to its rightful place as one of the era’s major innovations in government. István M. Szijártó traces the religious, economic, and partisan forces that shaped the Diet, putting its historical significance in international perspective and demonstrating that it played a critical role in the eventual dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

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The Revolt of the Provinces

Anti-Gypsyism and Right-Wing Politics in Hungary

Szombati, K.

The first in-depth ethnographic monograph on the New Right in Central and Eastern Europe, The Revolt of the Provinces explores the making of right-wing hegemony in Hungary over the last decade, focusing on interaction between social antagonisms emerging on the local level and struggles waged within the political public sphere.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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eBook available Published September 2022
The Chernobyl Effect

Antinuclear Protests and the Molding of Polish Democracy, 1986–1990

Szulecki, K., Waluszko, J., & Borewicz, T.

Empirically rich, The Chernobyl Effect shows how the Chernobyl catastrophe sparked a new kind of protest against the communist authorities of Poland. Drawing on samizdat, archival sources, and open-ended interviews with participants the authors show how a qualitatively new phenomenon was created on the opposition scene and challenge the dominant narrative of the Cold War’s end.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Economic Citizenship

Neoliberal Paradoxes of Empowerment

Sa'ar, A.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

Kinship in Europe

Approaches to Long-Term Development (1300-1900)

Sabean, D. W., Teuscher, S., & Mathieu, J. (eds)

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

To the Bomb and Back

Finnish War Children Tell Their World War II Stories

Saffle, S. (ed)

Subjects: History: World War II Memory Studies

Borders across Healthcare

Moral Economies of Healthcare and Migration in Europe

Sahraoui, N. (ed)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Mobility Studies Sociology

The Indoctrination of the Wehrmacht

Nazi Ideology and the War Crimes of the German Military

Sait, B.

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

Anthropology and Sexual Morality

A Theoretical Investigation

Salazar, C.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Gender Studies and Sexuality

A Sentimental Economy

Commodity and Community in Rural Ireland

Salazar, C.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

Religion and Science as Forms of Life

Anthropological Insights into Reason and Unreason

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

Envisioning Eden

Mobilizing Imaginaries in Tourism and Beyond

Salazar, N.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

Momentous Mobilities

Anthropological Musings on the Meanings of Travel

Salazar, N. B.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism

Tourism Imaginaries

Anthropological Approaches

Salazar, N. B. & Graburn, N. H. H. (eds)

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

Keywords of Mobility

Critical Engagements

Salazar, N. B. & Jayaram, K. (eds)

Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism

Conceptualizing Religion

Immanent Anthropologists, Transcendent Natives, and Unbounded Categories

Saler, B.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology

Images from Paradise

The Visual Communication of the European Union's Federalist Utopia

Salgó, E.

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

Dignity for the Voiceless

Willem Assies's Anthropological Work in Context

Salman, T., Marti i Puig, S., & Haar, G. van der (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies

Risky Transactions

Trust, Kinship and Ethnicity

Salter, F. K. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Do Not Forget Me

Three Jewish Mothers Write to Their Sons from the Thessaloniki Ghetto

Saltiel, L. (ed)

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War II Genocide History

The Franco-Mauritian Elite

Power and Anxiety in the Face of Change

Salverda, T.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies

Beyond the Looking Glass

Narcissism and Female Stardom in Studio-Era Hollywood

Salzberg, A.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

Border Interrogations

Questioning Spanish Frontiers

Afro-Brazilian Art and Culture in the 20^th Century