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Published June 2018 Lessons in Perception
The Avant-Garde Filmmaker as Practical Psychologist
Taberham, P.
Narrative comprehension, memory, hallucination, and dreaming have long been objects of fascination for cognitive psychologists, as well as inspiration for experimental filmmakers. Lessons in Perception brings together film theory and psychological research by exploring how experimental filmmakers expand the viewer’s range of aesthetic sensitivities, and the creative possibilities uncharted by commercial cinema.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies Sociology
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Published August 2023
The Feeling of the Fall
An Ethnographic Writing Experiment between the Belize Barrier Reef and the Edges of Toronto, Ontario
Taccone, I.
As an inquiry into engagements with forces of loss and threat, this work explores experimental ways to write about climate crisis in anthropology. From Belize to Ontario and back, this ambitious piece of ethnographic writing set during a time “beyond ruin” in a fictional, ecotourist community in the year 2040.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Urban Studies
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Published May 2017
Daily Life in the Abyss
Genocide Diaries, 1915-1918
Tachjian, V.
Although research into the Armenian Genocide has grown tremendously in recent years, surprisingly little is known about the actual experiences of the genocide’s victims. Daily Life in the Abyss illuminates this aspect through the intertwined stories of two Armenian families who endured forced relocation and deprivation in and around modern-day Syria.
Subjects: Genocide History History: World War I
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Published January 2017
The Patient Multiple
An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision-Making in Bhutan
Taee, J.
In Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailments. The Patient Multiple delves into the context of patients’ daily lives and decision-making processes, showing how these unique mountain cultures are finding paths to health among a changing and multifaceted medical topography.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion
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Published January 2024
Enacted Relations
Performing Knowledge in an Australian Indigenous Community
Tamisari, F.
Enacted Relations explores the Yolngu relational ontology and epistemology in the context of everyday practices, ritual ceremonies, bicultural education, vernacular Christianity and the production of popular music.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 2017
Growing Up in Transit
The Politics of Belonging at an International School
Tanu, D.
Tanu offers the first ethnographic study of young people who experience high levels of international mobility while growing up, either moving across national borders or by attending international schools with trans-national student bodies.
Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Educational Studies
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Published August 2020
Under the Sign of the Cross
The People’s Salvation Cathedral and the Church-Building Industry in Postsocialist Romania
Tateo, G.
Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book investigates the construction of the world’s highest Orthodox cathedral in Bucharest, Romania. Through the notion of re-consecration, the book brings together sociological and anthropological scholarship on eastern Christianity, secularization, postsocialist urban change and nationalism in a vivid account of societal transformation.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Urban Studies
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Published September 1998
Sinti and Roma
Gypsies in German-speaking Society and Literature
Tebbutt, S. (ed)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Sociology Literary Studies
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Published October 2021
Carnivalizing Reconciliation
Contemporary Australian and Canadian Literature and Film beyond the Victim Paradigm
Teichler, H.
This book analyzes, within the realms of national literature and film, recent Australian and Canadian attempts to reconcile with Indigenous populations in the wake of forced child removal. As Hanna Teichler demonstrates, their systematic emphasis on the subjectivity of the victim is carnivalesque, temporarily overturning discursive hierarchies.
Subjects: Memory Studies Literary Studies Film and Television Studies
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Published December 2018
Of Life and Health
The Language of Art and Religion in an African Medical System
Tengan, A. B.
An anthropological study of the health system of the Dagara people of northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso, Of Life and Health develops a cultural and epistemological lexicon of Dagara life by examining its religious, ritual, and artistic expressions, and gives a holistic account of the Dagara knowledge system.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Medical Anthropology
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Published March 2023
Modeling the Past
Archaeology, History, and Dynamic Networks
Terrell, J., Golitko, M., Dawson, H., and Kissel, M.
Using this handbook, researchers learn to develop historical and archaeological research questions anchored in dynamic network analysis (DYRA). Undergraduate and graduate students, as well as professional historians and archaeologists can consult on issues that range from hypothesis-driven research to critiquing dominant historical narratives, especially those that have tended ignore the diversity of the archaeological record.
Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology (General)
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Published September 2010
The Transnational Condition
Protest Dynamics in an Entangled Europe
Teune, S. (ed)
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published September 2013
Trieglaff
Balancing Church and Politics in a Pomeranian World, 1807-1948
Thadden, R. von
“The story [the author] tells is rich and fascinating…[He] traces very effectively the economic evolution of Junker agriculture across the generations…I learned a lot from the book.” · Jonathan Steinberg, author of Bismarck. A Life
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published May 2021
Beyond the Veil
Reflexive Studies of Death and Dying
Thamann, A. & Christodoulaki, K. M. (eds)
Looking at the cultural responses to death and dying, this collection explores the emotional aspects that death provokes in humans, whether it is disgust, fear, awe, sadness, anger, or even joy. More broadly, this collection suggests a new paradigm in the study of death and dying.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Published November 2017
Stategraphy
Toward a Relational Anthropology of the State
Thelen, T., Vetters, L., & Benda-Beckmann, K. von (eds)
By exploring interactions and negotiations of local actors in different institutional settings, the contributors explore state transformations in relation to social security in a variety of locations spanning from Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans to the United Kingdom and France. Fusing grounded empirical studies with rigorous theorizing, the volume provides new perspectives to broader related debates in social research and political analysis.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published March 2003
Troubles with Turtles
Cultural Understandings of the Environment on a Greek Island
Theodossopoulos, D.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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Published November 2009
United in Discontent
Local Responses to Cosmopolitanism and Globalization
Theodossopoulos, D. & Kirtsoglou, E. (eds)
Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published May 2014
The Dark Side of Nation-States
Ethnic Cleansing in Modern Europe
Ther, P.
“Philipp Ther's newest contribution to the burgeoning literature on ethnic cleansing, forced deportation, and population transfer in the Twentieth Century is admirable in a number of ways. [It] is a genuinely comprehensive treatment of one of the most central problems of modern European history.” · Norman Naimark, H-Soz-u-Kult
“A groundbreaking study…based on an impressive amount of facts and balances… This analytically dense, well-written book is highly recommended for a broad audience.” · Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Subjects: Genocide History History (General)
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Published October 2004
The 'Conservative Revolutionaries'
The Protestant and Catholic Churches in Germany after Radical Political Change in the 1990s
Thériault, B.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published June 2024
The Politics of Relations
How Self-Government, Infrastructures, and Care Transform the State in Serbia
Thiemann, A.
Rethinking the contributions of the Manchester School of Social Anthropology for political ethnography, the Politics of Relations elaborates its relational approach to the state along four interlaced axes of research – embeddedness, boundary work, modalities and strategic selectivity – that enable thick comparisons across spatio-temporal scales of power.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
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Published August 2012
Hitler's Plans for Global Domination
Nazi Architecture and Ultimate War Aims
Thies, J.
Subject: History: World War II
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Published May 2019
José Antonio Primo de Rivera
The Reality and Myth of a Spanish Fascist Leader
Thomàs, J. M.
A leading figure in the Spanish Civil War, José Antonio Primo de Rivera was elevated to martyr status following his death and the victory of the Falangists. In this long-awaited translation, Joan Maria Thomàs cuts through the mythos surrounding Primo de Rivera’s life to give a measured, exhaustively researched study of his personality, beliefs, and political activity.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published January 2018
Expeditionary Anthropology
Teamwork, Travel and the ''Science of Man''
Thomas, M. & Harris, A. (eds)
Expeditions played a major role in the development of anthropology, but their significance has been eclipsed by the discipline’s valorization of the lone observer. This rich assessment of cross-cultural research and team-based travel is part of a new historical turn that regards expeditions as cultural formations, and provides new and compelling perspectives on the histories of anthropology and empire.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Travel and Tourism
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Published February 2012
Peter Lorre: Face Maker
Constructing Stardom and Performance in Hollywood and Europe
Thomas, S.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published January 2005
The Crisis of the German Left
The PDS, Stalinism and the Global Economy
Thompson, P.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published July 2009
Colette's Republic
Work, Gender, and Popular Culture in France, 1870-1914
Tilburg, P. A.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General)
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Published May 2022
Gender, Power, and Non-Governance
Is Female to Male as NGO Is to State?
Timmer, A. D. & Wirtz, E. (eds)
Using Sherry Ortner’s analogy of Female/Nature, Male/Culture, this volume interrogates the gendered aspects of governance by exploring the NGO/State relationship. By examining how NGOs/States perform gendered roles and actions and the gendered divisions of labor involved in different types of institutional engagement, this volume attends to the ways in which gender and governance constitute flexible, relational, and contingent systems of power.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Development Studies
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Published February 2023
The Right to Memory
History, Media, Law, and Ethics
Tirosh, N. & Reading, A. (eds)
The Right to Memory looks beyond everyday memory and commemoration practices, focusing instead on how memory relates to human rights and socio-legal constructs in order to legitimize and protect groups and individuals.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies Media Studies
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Published June 2010
Post-communist Nostalgia
Todorova, M. & Gille, Z. (eds)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies
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Published January 2024
The Legacy of Serbia's Great War
Politics and Remembrance
Tomić, A.
In an expertly researched, original case study on the memory of the traumatic retreat of the Serbian army in 1915, The Legacy of Serbia’s Great War cuts past contemporary canonization of the retreat and links narratives of the past to political choices in the present.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies
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Published November 2012
Christian Politics in Oceania
Tomlinson, M. & McDougall, D. (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
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Published October 2014
Nighttime Breastfeeding
An American Cultural Dilemma
Tomori, C.
Nighttime breastfeeding and sleep for many new parents in the United States is fraught with intense challenges. Through a close ethnographic examination, this volume explores the impact of conflicting medical guidelines about breastfeeding and infant sleep, and uncovers cultural tensions about expectations for children, parents, and their relationship.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Nighttime Breastfeeding
An American Cultural Dilemma
Tomori, C.
In this updated edition, the author describes shifting medical guidance that increasingly supports breastfeeding yet remains largely separated from infant sleep guidance. The volume also provides a path towards more equitable approaches to nighttime infant care grounded in reproductive justice.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published April 2015
Living Kinship in the Pacific
Toren, C. & Pauwels, S. (eds)
Focusing on transformation and continuity over time in Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa, among others, contributors assert that kinship is a lived and living dimension of contemporary human lives. The ethnographic case studies add to the understanding of kinship as — according to Unaisi Nabobo-Baba — “knowledge that counts.”
Subject: Anthropology (General)
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Published October 2011
The Challenge of Epistemology
Anthropological Perspectives
Toren, C. & Pina-Cabral, J. de (eds)
Subject: Theory and Methodology
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Published April 2016
Whose Memory? Which Future?
Remembering Ethnic Cleansing and Lost Cultural Diversity in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe
Törnquist-Plewa, B. (ed)
Scholars have devoted considerable energy to understanding ethnic cleansing in Europe, yet much less attention has been given to how these incidents persist in collective memory today. This volume brings together case studies exploring how modern inhabitants “remember” instances of ethnic cleansing, and how they understand the heritage of groups that vanished in their wake.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History Memory Studies
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Published June 2024
The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880
Török, B. Z.
The science of Statistik (statistics) by the Habsburg state in the long 19th century was adapted to the political growth of imperial power. The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880 connects the disciplinary history of German sciences of the state to the integration of territories into the Habsburg state’s evolution.
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
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Published September 2014
The Challenges of Globalization
Economy and Politics in Germany, 1860-1914
Torp, C.
In the mid nineteenth century a process began that appears, from a present-day perspective, to have been the first wave of economic globalization. Within a few decades global economic integration reached a level that equaled, and in some respects surpassed, that of the present day. This book describes the interpenetration of the German economy with an emerging global economy before the First World War, while also demonstrating the huge challenge posed by globalization to the society and politics of the German Empire.
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
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Published March 2010
'For Their Own Good'
Civilian Evacuations in Germany and France, 1939-1945
Torrie, J. S.
The early twentieth-century advent of aerial bombing made successful evacuations essential to any war effort, but ordinary people resented them deeply. Based on extensive archival research in Germany and France, this is the first broad, comparative study of civilian evacuations in Germany and France during World War II
Subject: History: World War II
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Published November 2023
Other Borders
History, Mobility and Migration of Rudari Families between Romania and Italy
Tosi Cambini, S.
Other Borders is a deeply thorough, multi-site ethnographic research volume that brings forward the rudari lingurari family’s social and economic cultural organization and the mobilities developed in their migratory paths.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Cultural Studies (General) Theory and Methodology
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Published August 2022
Ethnographies of Deservingness
Unpacking Ideologies of Distribution and Inequality
Tošić, J. & Streinzer, A. (eds)
Claims around 'who deserves what and why' moralise inequality in the current global context of unprecedented wealth and its ever more selective distribution. Ethnographies of Deservingness explores this seeming paradox and the role of moralized assessments of distribution by reconnecting disparate discussions in the anthropology of migration, economic anthropology and political anthropology.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology
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Published October 2017
Global Exchanges
Scholarships and Transnational Circulations in the Modern World
Tournès, L. & Scott-Smith, G. (eds)
Exchanges between different cultures and institutions of learning have taken place for centuries, yet formal exchange programs did not exist until the 20th century. The essays in Global Exchanges examine the most important scholarship programs, exploring the essential contributions of organized exchange.
Subjects: Mobility Studies History: 20th Century to Present Educational Studies
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Published January 2007
State and Civil Society in Northern Europe
The Swedish Model Reconsidered
Trägårdh, L. (ed)
Subject: Sociology
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Published May 2013
Civil Society in the Age of Monitory Democracy
Trägårdh, L., Witoszek, N., & Taylor, B. (eds)
Subject: History (General)
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Published April 2013
Diaspora Online
Identity Politics and Romanian Migrants
Trandafoiu, R.
Subjects: Media Studies Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published July 2024
Migration, Dislocation and Movement on Screen
Trandafoiu, R. (ed)
Examining the way contemporary screen industries capture and reflect migration, movement and displacement, Migration, Dislocation and Movement on Screen offers case studies on screen media representations that engage with important emergences of transnational and cosmopolitan imaginaries.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Refugee and Migration Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published December 2016
Breaking Rocks
Music, Ideology and Economic Collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa
Trapido, J.
Based on fieldwork in Kinshasa and Paris, Breaking Rocks examines patronage payments within Congolese popular music. This book offers insights into both the ideologies of power and value in central Africa’s troubled post-colonial political economy, and the economic flows that make up the hidden side of the globalization.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 2022
Inconceivable Iran
To Reproduce or Not to Reproduce?
Tremayne, S.
This book offers a much-needed analysis of shifting reproductive policies and practices in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a society that is usually represented as either “revolutionary” or “oppressive.” Instead, Tremayne reflects on more than four decades of research to argue that changing reproductive behaviors on the part of ordinary Iranians must always be viewed against the backdrop of core cultural values and traditions.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published December 2001
Managing Reproductive Life
Cross-Cultural Themes in Fertility and Sexuality
Tremayne, S. (ed)
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published June 2023
From Village Commons to Public Goods
Graduated Provision in Urbanizing China
Trémon, A.-C.
Illuminating the complex processes of China’s uneven urbanization through the lens of the transition from village commons to public goods, this book is set in three urbanized villages in Shenzhen, Chengdu, and Xi’an, which have experienced similar demographic explosions and dramatic changes to their landscapes, the livelihoods of its inhabitants, and the power structures governing their residents.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies Sociology
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Published January 2000
Paradoxes of Civil Society
New Perspectives on Modern German and British History
Trentmann, F. (ed)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General)
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Published June 2016
Narratives in Motion
Journalism and Modernist Events in 1920s Portugal
Trindade, L.
A fascinating study of newspapers in 1920s Portugal, Narratives in Motion explores how the new “modernist reportage” embodied the spirit of its era while mediating some of its most spectacular episodes. In the process, it shows how that journalism epitomized a distinctively modern entanglement of narrative and event.
Subjects: Media Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published January 2001
The German-American Encounter
Conflict and Cooperation between Two Cultures, 1800-2000
Trommler, F. & Shore, E. (eds)
Subject: History (General)
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Published July 2014
Americans in Tuscany
Charity, Compassion, and Belonging
Trundle, C.
In the first ethnographic monograph of Americans in Italy, Catherine Trundle argues that charity and philanthropy are the central means through which many American women negotiate a sense of migrant belonging in Italy. In exploring the often-ignored role of charitable action in migrant community formation, Trundle contributes to anthropological theories of gift giving, compassion, and reflexivity.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published November 2010
The Long Way Home
The Meaning and Values of Repatriation
Turnbull, P. & Pickering, M. (eds)
Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies
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Published April 2017
On Retaliation
Towards an Interdisciplinary Understanding of a Basic Human Condition
Turner, B. & Schlee, G. (eds)
Retaliatory logics are associated with all types of social and political organization. Deriving a concept of retaliation from the overall notion of reciprocity, contributors to this volume touch upon the interaction between retaliation and violence, the state’s monopoly on legitimate punishment, socio-political frameworks, religious interpretations, and economic processes.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies
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Published November 2009
The Body in Asia
Turner, B. & Yangwen, Z. (Eds.)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology of Religion
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Published November 2006
Heart of Lightness
The Life Story of an Anthropologist
Turner, E.
Subject: Anthropology (General)
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Published July 2010
Politics of Innocence
Hutu Identity, Conflict and Camp Life
Turner, S.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies Development Studies
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Published November 2022
Invested Narratives
German Responses to Economic Crisis
Twark, J. (ed)
Narratives of how nations survive, restructure or even fail during economic crisis not only inform future responses to crisis but also strengthen national theoretical, empirical, and analytical financial discourse. Invested Narratives brings together an interdisciplinary set of scholars to address the history of German responses to crisis over the past 200 years.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century
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Published January 2022
Mediated Lives
Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan
Twigt, M.
Using the example of Iraqi refugees in Jordan's capital of Amman, this book describes how information and communication technologies (ICTs) play out in the everyday experiences of urban refugees, geographically located in the Global South, and shows how interactions between online and offline spaces are key for making sense of the humanitarian regime, for carving out a sense of home and for sustaining hope.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Media Studies
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Published June 2011
The Lives of Chinese Objects
Buddhism, Imperialism and Display
Tythacott, L.
Subjects: Museum Studies History (General) Archaeology
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