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Published December 2015 Ecological Migrants
The Relocation of China's Ewenki Reindeer Herders
Xie, Y.
This ethnography details changing Ewenki ways of life brought China’s recent ecological migration policies, which aim to preserve and restore the badly damaged ecologies of western China. This ethnography examines these policies and their effects on Aoluguya Ewenki hunters, who have been relocated.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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Published October 2021
Moral Economy at Work
Ethnographic Investigations in Eurasia
Yalçın-Heckmann, L. (ed)
The idea of a moral economy has been explored and assessed in numerous disciplines. The anthropological studies in this volume provide a new perspective to this idea by showing how the relations of workers, employees and employers, and of firms, families and households are interwoven with local notions of moralities.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
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Published July 2002
Bali and Beyond
Case Studies in the Anthropology of Tourism
Yamashita, S.
Subjects: Travel and Tourism Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2002
Globalization in Southeast Asia
Local, National, and Transnational Perspectives
Yamashita, S. & Eades, J.S. (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies
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Published October 2004
The Making of Anthropology in East and Southeast Asia
Yamashita, S., Bosco, J., & Eades, J.S. (eds)
Subject: Theory and Methodology
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Published March 2018
World Heritage Craze in China
Universal Discourse, National Culture, and Local Memory
Yan, H.
There is a World Heritage Craze in China. China claims to have the longest continuous civilization in the world and is seeking the recognition from UNESCO. With a sociological lens, this book offers comprehensive insights into World Heritage, as well as China’s deep social, cultural, and political structures.
Subjects: Heritage Studies Archaeology Sociology Travel and Tourism
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Published May 2022
Soho on Screen
Cinematic Spaces of Bohemia and Cosmopolitanism, 1948-1963
Young, J.
Soho on Screenprovides the first history of London’s commercial and cultural center, Soho, in British cinema. It highlights forgotten British films, filmmakers, and stars in detail and introduces thoroughly researched studies that highlight not only the cultural importance of Soho as a locus for cinema but also the impact of gentrification on the cultural and social development of Soho today.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies
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Published June 2000
Under Siege
Portraits of Civilian Life in France During World War I
Young, R. (ed)
Subject: History: World War I
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Published September 2015
The Event of Charlie Hebdo
Imaginaries of Freedom and Control
Zagato, A. (ed)
The January 2015 shooting at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris sparked an enormous discussion among citizens and intellectuals worldwide. By analyzing the effects the attacks have had in various spheres of social life including the political, ideology, collective imaginaries, the media, and education, this collection aims to serve as a contribution and a critical response to that discussion.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published December 2016
Microhistories of the Holocaust
Zalc, C. & Bruttmann, T. (eds)
Increasingly, recent historical scholarship has demonstrated a willingness to study the Holocaust at scales as focused as a single neighborhood or family. This volume brings together scholars to reflect on the ongoing microhistorical turn in Holocaust studies, assessing its historiographical pitfalls as well as the distinctive opportunities it affords researchers.
Subjects: Genocide History History: World War II Jewish Studies
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Published November 2022
Sexscapes of Pleasure
Women, Sexuality and the Whore Stigma in Italy
Zambelli, E.
Drawing from ethnographic research, this book brings together the narratives of Italian and migrant women pole dancing for leisure, women pole and lap dancing for work, as well as women selling sex. By tracing commonalities in women’s processes of subjectivation and othering across the non/sex working women divide, the book foregrounds the intersecting structures of oppression under which women negotiate selfhood.
Subjects: Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
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Forthcoming July 2025
Entanglements of the Maya Universe
Life, Society, and Cosmos among the K'iche' of Momostenango
Zamora Corona, A.
This book aims to rethink the topic of cosmology in anthropology by analysing the many entanglements of cosmological ideas and the personal and political lives of individuals within the K’ich’e Maya community of Momostenango, Guatemala.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Published November 2014
Rivers, Memory, And Nation-building
A History of the Volga and Mississippi Rivers
Zeisler-Vralsted, D.
Rivers figure prominently in a nation’s historical memory, and the Volga and Mississippi have special importance in Russian and American cultures. Despite being forced into submission for modern-day hydrological regimes, the Volga and Mississippi Rivers persist in the collective memory and continue to offer solace, recreation, and sustenance. Through their histories we derive a more nuanced view of human interaction with the environment.
Subjects: History (General) Environmental Studies (General) Memory Studies
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Published September 2022
An Anthropological Toolkit
Sixty Useful Concepts
Zeitlyn, D.
Presenting 60 theoretical ideas, David Zeitlyn asks, ‘How to write about anthropological theory without making a specific theoretical argument?’ and ‘Is it possible to practice anthropology without arguing for a single specific approach?’ To answer, he gives a series of mini-essays about an eclectic collection of theoretical concepts that over many years he has found helpful.
Subject: Theory and Methodology
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Published September 2018
Elite Malay Polygamy
Wives, Wealth and Woes in Malaysia
Zeitzen, M. K.
An ethnography of elite polygamy in urban Malaysia, this volume explores the impact this growing practice has on Malay gender relations, examining the varied and often-conflicted polygamy narratives of elite Malay women, who manage their lives and loves under the “threat” of husbands able to marry another woman without their knowledge or consent.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published February 2007
Driving Germany
The Landscape of the German Autobahn, 1930-1970
Zeller, T.
Subjects: Transport Studies History: 20th Century to Present Mobility Studies Environmental Studies (General)
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Published April 2013
Irish/ness Is All Around Us
Language Revivalism and the Culture of Ethnic Identity in Northern Ireland
Zenker, O.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published May 2010
Beyond Writing Culture
Current Intersections of Epistemologies and Representational Practices
Zenker, O. & Kumoll, K. (eds)
Subject: Theory and Methodology
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Published January 2023
At Home in a Nursing Home
An Ethnography of Movement and Care in Australia
Zhang, A. R. Y.
Focusing on contemporary ideas about how aged care is provided, this book poses the question: How can people who are aged and frail live out the final phase of their lives with dignity? In seeking answers, the author examines what it means to be ‘at home’ in residential care in a novel and compassionate way.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published July 2004
Resistance in an Amazonian Community
Huaorani Organizing against the Global Economy
Ziegler-Otero, L.
Subjects: Development Studies Sociology
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Published June 2014
Encounters with Modernity
The Catholic Church in West Germany, 1945-1975
Ziemann, B.
“This is a fascinating study of the interrelatedness of processes of secularization and the increased adoption of social science methods and theories by the Catholic Church (…). Ziemann has written a case study of an important institution, the Catholic Church, and its attempts to modernize its institution and outlook within a rapidly modernizing society in the postwar Federal Republic. It will be read with great interest by anyone interested in such processes of modernization.” · German History
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published September 2011
Multiple Moralities and Religions in Post-Soviet Russia
Zigon, J. (ed)
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
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Published June 2021
German Rule, African Subjects
State Aspirations and the Reality of Power in Colonial Namibia
Zimmerer, J.
This classic study, now available for the first time in English, explains how German colonial ambitions foundered in present-day Namibia. As it shows, the highly rationalized planning of Wilhelmine authorities could not accommodate the practical, lived realities of both colonizer and colonized.
Subjects: Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present
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Published March 2019
Raccomandazione
Clientelism and Connections in Italy
Zinn, D. L.
Based on ethnographic research in southern Italy, this book examines the concept of raccomandazione, the omnipresent social practice of using connections to get things done. Viewing the practice from both emic and etic perspectives, it builds on and extends past scholarship to consider the nature of patronage in a contemporary society and its relationship to corruption.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Applied Anthropology
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Published January 2022
Tropological Thought and Action
Essays on the Poetics of Imagination
Živković, M., Pelkey, J. & Fernandez, J. W. (eds)
From twilight in the Himalayas to dream worlds in the Serbian state, this book provides a unique collection of anthropological and cross-cultural inquiry into the power of rhetorical tropes and their relevance to the formation and analysis of social thought and action through a series of ethnographic essays offering in-depth studies of the human imagination at work and play around the world.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published June 2001
Global Migrants, Global Refugees
Problems and Solutions
Zolberg, A. & Benda, P. (eds)
Subject: Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published February 2010
Transnational Families, Migration and Gender
Moroccan and Filipino Women in Bologna and Barcelona
Zontini, E.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
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