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Forthcoming July 2025
From Hard Rock to Heavy Metal

Metal Tool Production and Use by Indigenous Hunter-Gatherers of North America

Bebber, M. R. & Wolff, C. B. (eds)

In North America metal use by hunter-gatherer populations began as early as 9,000 years ago and continued into modern times. The regional and cultural diversity of research in this volume contributes to how we conceptualize hunter-gatherer innovation, technological proficiency, and complex decision-making in the past.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
Forthcoming June 2025
The Riddle of Intelligence

It’s Not What You Think

Terrell, J., Anderson, E., Bandama, F., Ghosh, A., & Leenen-Young, M.

There is little agreement today on what it takes to be intelligent. Yet this word is widely believed to be about something real, mostly biological, and important. Looked at closely, it turns out this word belongs more in the realm of traditional folklore than modern science.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General)
Forthcoming June 2025
Wrestling with Hope

Sporting Aspirations and Neoliberal Subjectivity in Urban Senegal

Hann, M.

Wrestling with Hope follows the journey of football players and wrestlers in Dakar as they confront the realities of their sporting aspirations. It grapples with themes of masculinity, belief systems and economic survival whilst navigating the complexities of a neoliberal landscape.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Development Studies Urban Studies
Forthcoming June 2025
Women’s Empowerment and Son Preference in India

Feminist and Ethical discourse on Sex Selective Abortions

Suryanarayanan, S.

This book reviews the feminist, ethical and legal discourse on sex selective abortions and draws on women’s empowerment as an analytical lens to examine the son preference expressed in the notion of Vansh (lineage) among pregnant women.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Medical Anthropology
Forthcoming June 2025
Understanding Social Images

Essays on Visual Methods and Teaching Visual Anthropology

Banks, M.
Zeitlyn, D. & El Khachab, C. (eds)

Marcus Banks was one of the scholars who changed the way visual anthropology and visual methods were regarded in social and cultural anthropology. This collection of Banks’ essays considers the role of collaboration in the making of ethnographic films and makes the case for slow research.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Media Studies
Forthcoming June 2025
Capitalism and Catastrophe

A Critical Disaster Studies Manifesto

Swamy, R.

This book argues that disasters are intimately linked to historical processes that foster contemporary unequal relationships, and should therefore include both those commonly associated with nature as well as those we consider facets of history and social conflict, such as war and destitution.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Development Studies
Forthcoming May 2025
Sex, Risk, and Society

When Is Sex Dangerous?

Pollock, S. H.

When is sex abnormal and when is it dangerous? A multi-disciplinary approach that includes sociology, anthropology, history, and philosophy provides an understanding of how cultural norms have shifted over time and the implications of these shifts.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
Forthcoming May 2025
Children Dancing in Bali

Practice, Performance, and Power

McIntosh, J.

An illuminating ethnographic study of Balinese dance traditions, Children Dancing in Bali examines how children navigate the nexus of power, practice, and performance through the medium of Balinese culture, in order to negotiate fluctuations in their identity and society.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies
Forthcoming May 2025
Challenging Norms

Family Planning as a Reflection of Social Change in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe

Hein-Kircher, H., Hiemer, E.-M., & Nešťáková, D. (eds)

An enlightening and geographically wide-ranging re-examination of family planning in twentieth-century Eastern Europe, Challenging Norms interrogates the correlation between social attitudes to family planning and social, economic, and political modernization. In doing so, this volume highlights how these changes provide invaluable insights into ever-evolving societal norms and values.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology History: 20th Century to Present
Forthcoming May 2025
The Northern Ireland Conflict on the Margins of History

Protestant Memory on the Border

Funston, K. & McGrattan, C.

In thisexacting re-examination of paramilitary violence upon border Protestants within Northern Ireland, The Northern Ireland Conflict on the Margins of History illuminates the understudied impact the Troubles had upon the Protestant community’s physical, economic, and cultural presence within the border counties.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies Heritage Studies
Forthcoming May 2025
Participating in the Global Enterprise

Anthropological Research at Automobili Lamborghini

D'Aloisio, F.

Viewed through an anthropological lens, Automobili Lamborghini, the renowned Italian factory of super cars, presents a compelling case study. As an ethnography spanning three years, the book focuses on the different perspectives of the managers and the workers and the effects of the organization on their lives. It highlights the increasing value of Automobili Lamborghini for the VW Group globally.

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology
Forthcoming May 2025
Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples

Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development

Chatty, D. & Colchester, M. (eds)

The second edition of this remarkable book updates the immense advances in policy and soft international law with regards to the rights of mobile indigenous peoples in conservation.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies

Paperback available
Forthcoming May 2025
Fabrics of Anthropological Knowledge

Changing Perspectives in Europe and Beyond

Birkalan-Gedik, H. & Dimpflmeier, F. (eds)

Challenging the long-standing anthropological centre-periphery dichotomy and examining the transnational circulations of people, concepts and practices, this volume critiques and brings together a nuanced understanding of how anthropological knowledge is produced and circulated across the globe.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
Forthcoming May 2025
The Everyday Politics of Food Co-ops

Care, Aid and Community in Austerity Britain

Plender, C.

This book analyses how changing national politics impacted the practices of care, aid and community organizing within two London-based food co-ops at a time of rapid welfare withdrawal. It highlights the tensions between more radical and neoliberal imaginaries that played out within them.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
Forthcoming April 2025
Beyond the Euromissile Crisis

Global Histories of Anti-Nuclear Activism in the Cold War

Brunet, L.-A. & Karamouzi, E. (eds)

An illuminating re-examination of the Euromissile Crisis of the 1980s, Beyond the Euromissile Crisis broadens our understanding of anti-nuclear activism, highlighting its status as a global phenomenon with implications that extend beyond Europe and the 1987 INF treaty.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology
Forthcoming April 2025
Transnationalities of Migrant Moral Economies in a Transforming World

Čiubrinskas, V. & Glick Schiller, N. (eds)

An enlightening reassessment of migrant moral economies, Transnationalities of Migrant Moral Economies in a Transforming World examines the transformative potential of transnational mobility to create social networks capable of resisting authoritarianism and of rethinking reciprocity in a rapidly changing world.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
Forthcoming April 2025
Building Social Worlds

Thinking forwards with Esther Newcomb Goody

Bodenhorn, B., Fenitman, A., & Goody, M. (eds)

This collection draws on ethnography across Africa, Europe, Oceania and the Americas, and uses Goody’s ideas to expand their understanding of the nature of relationships, communication, intimacy, resistance and resilience with a particular focus on rich ethnographies of childhood and learning.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
Forthcoming April 2025
Women in Israel

Anthropological, Feminist, and Personal Perspectives

Hertzog, E.

This book is a comprehensive feminist examination of women's diverse experience in Israeli society over four decades and analyzes society during this time. As an ethnography, the book emphasizes a commitment to social justice and equality, and challenges prevailing social and gender research approaches.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
Forthcoming April 2025
Life as a Migrant Muslim Woman in Sectarian Northern Ireland

An Exploration of Gender, Visibility, Movement and Placemaking

Lubit, A. J.

The lives of migrant Muslim women in divided, post-conflict Northern Ireland, both before and after the pandemic, are full of diverse stories and experiences of belonging. This book explores how women strive to belong and create a home despite pervasive hatred, sexism and racism.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Refugee and Migration Studies
Forthcoming April 2025
Dreaming and the Imagination

Theoretical Intersections in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Newsom, M. D. (eds)

Of all the human behaviors anthropologists consider, perhaps the most conceptually challenging are those that cannot by directly observed. This volume draws from rich ethnographic data to offer theoretical and methodological tools for mapping the intersections between two such behaviors: dreaming and imagination.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Sociology
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
Forthcoming April 2025
Passing Misery

The Journal of a Forced Laborer in the Third Reich

Pasquiers, J. L. M. (au) & Thompson, R.L. (ed)

An illuminating translation of the journal of Jean Louis Mary Pasquiers, a former teacher and forced laborer, Passing Misery documents Pasquiers’ life within war-torn Europe, in unwilling service to the Nazi regime. In doing so, this book offers an unrivalled insight into the reality of collaboration and culpability during war.

Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present
Forthcoming April 2025
Germany’s Struggle for Modernity

Society, Economy, Culture, and Politics, 1780-1918

Kocka, J.

In this history of Germany from 1780 to 1918, Jürgen Kocka re-examines the seismic changes that took place within society, economy, culture, and politics. Innovatively resituating these developments within a wider, European context, this book provides fresh insights into the emergence of classical modernity within the nineteenth century.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I
Forthcoming April 2025
Political and Legal History of German Jews

A Short Introduction

Jensen, U.

An insightful reassessment of the political and legal history of German Jews, this book innovatively resituates German Jews as active and engaged political agents, who were invested in engaging with, resisting, and shaping policy, from the early modern period to the present day.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
Forthcoming March 2025
Groundwater Politics

Advanced Extractivism and Slow Resistance

Babidge, S.

The expanding mining industry in the Indigenous Atacameño-Likanantay territories in the hyper-arid Salar de Atacama in Chile are linked to the ecological harm to groundwater. The book addresses recent socioeconomic and political conditions it calls ‘advanced extractivism’ and asks how both ecological harm and mining economies are sustained.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies
Forthcoming March 2025
Tropical Nature

Colonial and Post-Colonial Conservation in Africa and Asia

Blanc, G., Guérin, M., & Quenet, G. (eds)

An insightful and wide-ranging study of the colonial history of conservation projects, Tropical Nature seeks to provide a much-needed history of the Global South from its own perspective. In doing so, this volume collection spotlights a “small-scale global history” that deciphers the relations binding human societies to the non-human world.

Subjects: Colonial History Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
Forthcoming March 2025
Ingmar Bergman Out of Focus

Film Cultures and International Reception

Van Belle, J., Arenos, F. R., & Peirano, M. P. (eds)

An exacting re-examination of Ingmar Bergman’s cultural heritage, Ingmar Bergman Out Of Focus digs into the perceived “familiarity” of Bergman’s films by analyzing how the Swedish director’s film aesthetics simultaneously shaped modern culture and were themselves reshaped by contemporary cultural debates.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
Forthcoming March 2025
Rethinking the Cinematic Cold War

The Struggle for Hearts and Minds Goes Global

Pisu, S., Pitassio, F., & Zinni, M. (eds)

An exacting reassessment of the relationship between culture and ideology within the Cold War period, Rethinking the Cinematic Cold War highlights the role that politics played in informing policies as well as cultural products and appetites, across geopolitical boundaries.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
Forthcoming March 2025
Haunting Ruins

Ethnographies of Ruination and Decay

Gamberi, V. & Calzana, C. (eds)

Ruins, rubble and decaying material can foster a more layered theory of time, change and memory. The seven ethnographic case studies in Haunting Ruins trace human engagements with the temporal forces of ruins, which can trace the past and transform the present.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology
Forthcoming March 2025
‘You Don’t Know’

Precarious Methods and Life in a Workers' Hostel

Nielsen, J. A. E.

People employed at sites of precarious work such as call centres or retail warehouses often live precarious lives. Drawing on ethnographic research in a London hostel for precarious workers, the book explores the political, analytical and practical limitations of using traditional methods of trying to make sense of life in these settings.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology
Forthcoming March 2025
From Triads to Pentads

Modelling Myth and Kinship in the Work of N.J. Allen

Allen, N. J. (au) & Parkin, R. (ed)

N.J. (‘Nick’) Allen had an extensive academic career, which for the most part was spent in Oxford. He passed away in 2020. This edited volume brings together a selection of his anthropological papers. It follows key areas of his research in which his contributions were novel, innovative, stimulating and plausible.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)
Forthcoming March 2025
Unraveling Management

Its Institutions, Practices and Beliefs

Carrier, J. G. (ed)

Management is everywhere. Schools teach it and professional organisations counsel about it. Books and articles are written for managers and about them. Management is usually understood in terms of styles of management, management policies and successful management but few tend to think about management in an abstract sense. This book addresses this gap.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Applied Anthropology Sociology
Forthcoming March 2025
Encountering the Global in Early Modern Germany

Microhistories of Mobility, Materiality, and Belonging

Brauner, C., Dürr, R., Hahn, P., Overkamp, A. S., & Siemianowski, S. (eds)

An exacting re-examination of early modern Germany’s entanglement with European colonial projects, Encountering the Global in Early Modern Germany provides a much-needed global perspective on the colonial “cult of connections” that underpinned early modern Germany’s social, religious, and material culture.

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Colonial History Refugee and Migration Studies
Forthcoming February 2025
Towards a British Natyam

Creating a British Classical Indian Dance Tradition

Gorringe, M.

An illuminating investigation into the ‘professionalization’ of classical Indian dance forms in Britain, Towards a British Natyam critically analyzes the cultural, social, and political frameworks that make a ‘profession’ within the arts possible, highlighting the transformational power of classical Indian dance within society to decenter white supremacy and recenter pluriversality.

Subjects: Performance Studies Heritage Studies Sociology
Forthcoming February 2025
The Island of the Pope

Catholics in the Aegean Archipelago between Empire and Nation-State, 1770-1830

Kousouris, D.

This illuminating re-examination of Syros’s transition into a major commercial hub following the Greek War of Independence revises the conventional understanding of the island’s demographic history, highlighting how, rather than withdraw, the native Catholic community adjusted and integrated into the new Greek nation-state.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History Refugee and Migration Studies
Forthcoming February 2025
Market and Monastery

Capitalism in Manangi Trade Diaspora

Ratanapruck, P.

In this enlightening ethnography of the Manangi, a Buddhist trading community from northern Nepal, Prista Ratanapruck highlights the way social institutions have boosted Manangi trade opportunities. Examining how capital production and accumulation interacts with the Manangi’s pursuit of social and spiritual aspirations, Market and Monastery illuminates an intriguing form of capitalism.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies Anthropology (General)
Forthcoming February 2025
Populism in Central and Eastern Europe

Krakovsky, R.

Providing a forensic analysis of the populist phenomenon that is sweeping across Central and Eastern Europe, Populism in Central and Eastern Europe re-examines the origins of this current political situation by tracing its historical development within this region of Europe, ultimately illuminating fresh strategies for addressing these longstanding political issues.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology
Forthcoming February 2025
The Disputed Austro-Hungarian Border

Agendas, Actors, and Practices in Western Hungary/Burgenland after World War I

Grandits, H., Murber, I., & Tyran, K. (eds)

A refreshing re-examination of the history of Austria and Hungary in the wake of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy, The Disputed Austro-Hungarian Border refocuses attention on the contested region of Western Hungary/Burgenland, considering how the process of building state borders shaped the region’s political, cultural, and social dynamics.

Subjects: History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies
Forthcoming February 2025
Illness and Enlightenment

Exploring Tibetan Perspectives on Madness in Text and Everyday Life

Deane, S.

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the Tibetan region of Amdo in northwest China, Illness and Enlightenment examines Tibetan medical and religious texts, to explore the multi-faceted concept of nyoné through key Tibetan concepts of wind, heart, and mind, as well as human-spirit relationships.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion
Forthcoming February 2025
Colonial Intervention and Destabilization of African Identities

Contours of Trusteeship and Organized Infantilism in Sub-Saharan Africa

Mfum-Mensah, O.

Colonial Intervention and Destabilization of African Identities takes an interdisciplinary approach to examine how external forces and African elite impose trusteeship practices on Africans to construct and consolidate hierarchical power relations in African societies that infantilize Africans and dispossess them off their resources.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Development Studies
Forthcoming February 2025
Representations of “Japanese Nature”

A Historical Overview

Ohnuki-Tierney, E.

“Nature” as a concept and word is extremely elusive, yet it is commonly taken for granted that “the pristine nature” is “out there.” This book explores the factors that have naturalized the idea of nature as pristine into our psyche, and as something that has a spatial, visual, and temporal dimension for “seasons”.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Paperback available
Forthcoming February 2025
Queer and Trans Life

Anthropological Futures

Posocco, S., Gonzalez-Polledo, E.J., Aaberg, L., & Altay, T. (eds)

Against a background marked by endless ordinary crises, widespread precarity, and disrupting critical events, Queer and Trans Life charts queer investments in futurity. It presents emerging queer and trans anthropological research in and about European contexts.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
Forthcoming February 2025
Traveling Models and Practical Norms

The Misadventures of Social Engineering in Africa and Beyond

Olivier de Sardan, J.-P.

Traveling Models and Practical Norms examines how different modes of governance that deliver services of general interest experience significant gaps between explicit rules of the game and implicit practices, between planned actions and daily routines.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies
Forthcoming February 2025
Carneiro

The Concise Evolutionary Essays

Bates Graber, R. (ed)

No one has done as much as Robert L. Carneiro to bring cultural evolutionism from its nineteenth-century origins into the twenty-first century. This volume promises to contribute to revitalizing this durable, profoundly illuminating theoretical perspective for current and future generations of students and anthropologists.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology
Forthcoming January 2025
Matter Out of Place

Anthropological Explorations of Bodies, Dirt and Morality

Lynch, R., Calabrese, J., & Littlewood, R. (eds)

This collection draws on classic anthropological ideas of pollution to explore bodies, dirt, and place, moral inversion and reinforcement, and disgust and taboo. The book is an invitation to consider the continued relevance of Douglas’ conceptualisation of pollution and dirt as ‘matter out of place’ in relation to contemporary circumstances.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Sociology
Forthcoming January 2025
Through the Water and the Storm

Maritime Averages and Seaborne Trade in Early Modern Genoa, 1590-1700

Iodice, A.

Drawing on quantitative, socio-economic and legal methodologies, this book examines the features of Mediterranean seaborne trade through the maritime Average procedures drafted or sent to Genoa, a small but wealthy Italian maritime republic, between 1590 and 1700.

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Travel and Tourism
Forthcoming January 2025
Agency and Author

German Literature Beyond the Bestseller List

Halverson, R. J. & Schaper, B. D. (eds)

An exacting meditation on the financial realities of authorship, Agency and Author explores how lesser-known German-language writers navigate the German literary landscape. Ranging from literary awards to social media hate campaigns, this volume considers authorial attempts to assert creative agency and the implications for wider, structural change it offers.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Literary Studies Cultural Studies (General)
Forthcoming January 2025
Resituating Crisis

Silencing and Voicing Crisis in Everyday Life

Andersen, D. J. & Aubry, L. (eds)

Crisis is not just a situation twisting normality but can become constitutive of normality itself. In exploring transformative and constructive elements to being in crisis, it resituates crisis in everyday life to foster critical and nuanced examination of discourses on and experiences of it.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Mobility Studies
Forthcoming January 2025
Belonging in Unhomely Homelands

Internal Displacement and Gendered Nationalism among Kosovo Serbs

Grujić, M.

Belonging in Unhomely Lands takes a feminist approach to examine the intricate dynamics of gender, national affiliation and belonging in the context of internal displacement and territorial disputes faced by Kosovo Serbs since the ethnic conflict and tensions two decades ago.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
Forthcoming January 2025
Desert Entanglements

The Making of the Badiya by Sahrawi Refugees of Western Sahara

Volpato, G.

The Sahrawi refugees in southwestern Algeria have struggled from exile for fifty years to reconfigure the animated desert they call badiya. They recovered camel husbandry and access to part of the former rangeland, and wove it back as seasonal nomadism. Desert Entanglements analyzes this process as an act of place-making premised on refugees’ agency.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
Forthcoming January 2025
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
Forthcoming January 2025
Value and Worthlessness

The Rise of the Populist Right and Other Disruptions in the Anthropology of Capitalism

Kalb, D.

Advocating for an interdisciplinary Marxist anthropology of the present, this book uses historical and global anthropology to engage with history, theory, unevenness, and comparison, while using “global ethnography” and “hidden histories” as the keys to social discovery.

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology
Forthcoming January 2025
Girls Take Action

Activism Networks by, for, and with Girls and Young Women

Vanner, C. (ed)

An illuminating examination of activism networks run for, by, and with girls and young women globally, Girls Take Action highlights the myriad ways girls and young women are exercising their agency in the face of injustice, considering especially the role collaboration plays in creating a more transnational understanding of girlhood.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
eBook available Forthcoming December 2024
Correcting the Record

Essays on the History of American Anthropology

Lewis, H. S.

The critique of twentieth-century American anthropology often portrays anthropologists of the past as servants of colonialism who “extracted” information from indigenous peoples and published works causing them harm. This volume presents powerful refutations of these damaging myths.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Colonial History
Forthcoming December 2024
Sinister and Righteous

Interpreting Left and Right in the Archaeological Record

Augé, C. Riley

This research demonstrates the ubiquitous, but often overlooked, occurrence of material culture meaningfully arranged according to deeply entrenched left and right concepts and is the first to bring together and expand upon these cultural ideologies.

Subjects: Archaeology Cultural Studies (General)
Forthcoming December 2024
Understanding Business Offenders

A Comparative Analysis of Workplace Deviance, Convenience and Control

Gottschalk, P. & Hamerton, C.

Focusing on understanding business offenders through an exploration of workplace deviance and crime, this book closely examines a number of illustrative contemporary case studies and underpins the analysis of original comparative fieldwork, with an interdisciplinary approach, which informs, develops, and augments the existing literature on white-collar criminology.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology
Forthcoming December 2024
(Un)Settling Place

Diverse and Divergent Place-Making of People on the Move

Winters, N., Drotbohm, H., & Guevara González, Y. (eds)

An illuminating ethnographic study of placemaking, (Un)Settling Place examines the nature of places that are remote, peripheral, and “along-the-way” of migrant journeys, highlighting the key role they play in the shaping of people’s mobilities and identities.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Mobility Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available Forthcoming December 2024
Haunting Futures

Crisis, Migration and Anticipation in Iceland

Pawlak, M.

The 2008 economic collapse in Iceland sent its residents into a destabilising crisis with far-reaching, temporal and affective consequences. Haunting Futures explores how the complex relationships of this unstable past and the anticipatory modes of the ongoing present keep Icelanders and the Polish migrant community in their midst alert to looming futures in crisis.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology History: 20th Century to Present
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
Forthcoming December 2024
Refugee Protection in Southeast Asia

Between Humanitarianism and Sovereignty

Kneebone, S., Mariñas, R., Missbach, A. & Walden, M. (eds)

With contributions from scholars within and outside the region, this book promotes new thinking on protection of refugees and on resolving tensions between states, actors and institutions involved in humanitarian action in Southeast Asia, particularly Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available Forthcoming December 2024
The Paris Peace Conference of 1919

The Challenge of a New World Order

Badel, L., Conze, E., & Dröber, A. (eds)

An illuminating and geographically wide-ranging reassessment of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, this volume reconsiders how this watershed treaty gave rise to new dynamics of global power and politics, reshaping the ideas of imperiality and nationality that have continued to shape the geopolitical landscape.

Subjects: History: World War I Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies
Published November 2024
Ritual, Rapture and Rebellion

The Making of Market, Mercy and Meaning Amongst the Gitanos of El Rastro

Brodersen, M. B.

This book is an anthropological account of a group of middle and upper-class Gitanos and their ways of creating a ‘society within society’ based upon distinct cultural, moral and ideological values, notions and practices.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
eBook available Published November 2024
Becoming Good Women

Schooling, Aspirations and Imagining the Future Among Female Students in Sri Lanka

Batatota, L. S.

This book illustrates that tuition space acts as an important site for identity formation and placemaking, where students play out their cosmopolitan aspirations whilst acquiring educational capital. It focuses on narratives of female Sinhalese students attending a national school in the Central Province of Sri Lanka.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Educational Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Published November 2024
Frontier Ethnographies

Deconstructing Research Experiences in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Choudhury, N. & Schmeding, A. (eds)

Frontier Ethnographies explores the ethnographic edges of contemporary anthropological inquiry in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Through examining moments of insecurity, vulnerability, doubt, fear, failure, and daydreaming, the volume reflects on the researchers’ experiences and challenges of doing field research in frontier settings.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published November 2024
Radcliffe-Brown

Journeys Through Colonial Worlds, 1881-1955

Niehaus, I.

Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881-1955) is widely renowned as a founder of modern social anthropology. This biography challenges popular stereotypes of him as a misplaced positivist and colonial conservative. It shows Radcliffe-Brown to be a thoroughly cosmopolitan scholar, a committed fieldworker, and a sharp critic of colonialism.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published November 2024
The Hidden Minority

Perceptions of Belonging and Otherness in the Finnish – Russian Borderland

Jerman, H.

The Russian minority in Finland is imbued with ’being hidden‘ or ’hiding oneself‘. The book explores informants’ reflections, together with the author, on the mental and physical crossing of national borders. Perceptions of belonging and/or Otherness and lived experience reveal a complex relationship of embodied memory, history, time and a multi-national social space.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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Published 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)

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eBook available Published November 2024
German Migrant Historians in North America

Transatlantic Careers and Scholarship after 1945

Hagemann, K. & Jaraush, K. H. (eds)

The experiences of German born historians who started emigrating to North America in the 1950s has had a unique impact on the practice and project of Central European History. German Migrant Historians in North America intimately reviews these historians’ experiences, career paths, scholarship, motivations and their contribution to Modern German Central European History.

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

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eBook available Published November 2024
Operation Barbarossa and its Aftermath

New Approaches to a Complex Campaign

Rossoliński-Liebe, G. (ed)

An illuminating re-examination of the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa and its Aftermath refocuses attention on the multiethnic nature of this military campaign, by considering the role played by troops from Slovakia, Romania, Italy, Spain, and others in Hitler’s plans for the Eastern Front and the Holocaust.

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

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eBook available Published November 2024
Silent Dilemmas of Project Managers

Solving the Existential Puzzle

Djolic, M. R.

A fastidious investigation into the nature of self-identity, Silent Dilemmas of Project Managers uses the context of project management to challenge the perceived separation of objective experience from subjective perception, highlighting how these adopted self-notions act as the object of existential anxiety.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Theory and Methodology Media Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published October 2024
Mobile Pastoralist Households

Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives

Houle, J.-L. (ed)

Mobile pastoralist activities occur at different scales across the landscape, including local, regional, and supra-regional scales. This research brings together the work of archaeologists currently engaged in mobile pastoralist household research in different regions of the world to highlight the importance of household studies and the utility of both archaeological and ethnoarchaeological approaches in understanding mobile pastoralist household formation, continuity, and adaptation to environmental, social, economic, and political change.

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

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eBook available Published October 2024
Kubrick's Mitteleuropa

The Central European Imaginary in the Films of Stanley Kubrick

Abrams, N. & Szaniiawski, J. (eds)

Stanley Kubrick was arguably one of the most influential American directors of the post-World War II era, and his Central European Jewish heritage, though often overlooked, greatly influenced his oeuvre. Kubrick's Mitteleuropa explores this as well as providing important commentary on the reception of his films in countries across Eastern Europe.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published October 2024
Shakespeare and the Modern Novel

Holderness, G. (ed)

As the Shakespearean novel and long prose narrative form undergo a renaissance today, distinguished Shakespeare critics demonstrate that the diversity and flexibility of interactions between Shakespeare and the modern novel are very much alive.

Subject: Literary Studies

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An Ethnographic Chiefdom

Epistemic Arrest and Knowledge Production in Czechoslovak Ethnography (1969–1989)

Balaš, N.

The Czechoslovak academic discipline called ‘Ethnography and Folklore Studies’ was impacted and influenced by the daily realities of state socialism in 1969–1989. This book examines how state socialist features such as Marxist–Leninist ideology brought about the discipline’s epistemic stalling.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

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Published October 2024
Calibrated Engagement

Chronicles of Local Politics in the Heartland of Myanmar

Huard, S.

For decades, the heartland of Myanmar has been configured as a pacified space under military surveillance. A closer look reveals how politics is enacted at distance with the state. Calibrated Engagement weaves together ethnography and history to chronicle the transformation of rural politics in Anya, the dry lands of central Myanmar.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies
eBook available Published October 2024
Tactical Citizenships

Encounters with Everyday State in the Republic of Cyprus

Kouros, T.

Tactical Citizenships is a testament to the tenacity and resourcefulness of marginalized individuals in directing their relations with the state. It explores the troubled relationship between a state and its citizens across four different kinds of social spaces in Limassol, Cyprus.

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published October 2024
Playing the Hand We Are Dealt

The Counterpoint of Fate and Freewill in Literature and Life

Jackson, M.

The relationship between literature and life can be construed as a counterpoint of fate and freewill. Rather than equating fate to the ‘hand we are dealt’ which is reducible to the social or familial environments into which we are born, this book explores the idea of fate through the books that shape our lives and under whose influence we write.

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

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Published October 2024
Voices in the Dark

The Energy Lives of Refugees

Rosenberg-Jansen, S.

In refugee camps all over the world, refugees are forced to secure their own access to energy and are provided with limited cooking resources and minimal electricity. Voices in the Dark draws upon a decade of original research to provide evidence on the energy lives of refugees.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available Published October 2024
Subjectivity at Latin America's Urban Margins

Kopper, M. & Richmond, M. A. (eds)

Subjectivity at Latin America's Urban Margins investigates how margins are actively produced, upheld, and challenged through the process of subject-making and margin-drawing by a multiplicity of actors affecting Latin American cities today.

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

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The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel

Ottoman Jews at the Dawn of the Tanzimat Era

Borovaya, O.

Based on newly discovered Ottoman and Jewish sources and using a legal lens on Levantine practices, The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel argues that the acquittal of Rhodian Jews following a ritual murder charge is only adequately understood in the context of the Tanzimat and the Sublime Porte’s foreign relations, and in the context of a shared Ottoman and Jewish history.

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

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eBook available Published October 2024
Rag Fair

A Different Migration History of London’s East End, 1780-1850

Münch, O.

Drawing on approaches across migration history, economic history, economic anthropology, and the sociology of movements, Rag Fair uncovers the social mechanisms behind the world-famous market’s role as an intercultural contact zone where Jewish and Irish migrants mingled, entered client relationships, and forged political alliances.

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

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eBook available Published September 2024
Daisy Wheel, Hexfoil, Hexafoil, Rosette

Protective Marks in Gravestone Art

Lacy, R. S.

Hexfoils have a history of use for personal protection and were carved both intentionally or graffitied into church pews and walls, bed frames, doors, and gravestones. This research sheds light on the use of this historic symbol to protect the bodies and souls of the deceased, across several thousand years and multiple countries.

Subjects: Archaeology Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Published September 2024
Becoming Other

Heterogeneity and Plasticity of the Self

Berliner, D.

Most of us are conscious of having a single and stable self, but the self is more fragmented and plastic than we care to think. David Berliner explores the captivating world of identity through an array of astonishing 'exo-experiences.'

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Literary Studies

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eBook available Published September 2024
Subject Lessons

Life Histories as Reciprocal Empowerment

Forrest, J.

Life histories are a class of oral data distinct from memoirs, autobiography, and conventional history in multiple ways.Subject Lessons examines the use of and value in using one’s life history as research within the social sciences.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published September 2024
Performing State Boundaries

Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China

Lammer, C.

Polarizing images of China’s authoritarian, socialist or culturalist otherness limit state analyses but produce political effects. In an ecological village in Sichuan, potential supporters saw citizen participation as Western liberalism, Maoism or traditional rural culture. This book shows how contrasting judgments emerged from diverse repertoires through which multiple boundaries between state and non-state were performed.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
Published September 2024
Unexpected Encounters

Migrants and Tourists in the Mediterranean

Vietti, F.

Exploring different dimensions of the intersection of migration and tourism in the Mediterranean, this book is the result of extensive ethnographic research carried out over a decade in the Mediterranean region. It shows how migration and tourism play complementary roles in boosting the global dynamics of cultural, social, economic and political transformation in the Mediterranean.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism
eBook available Published September 2024
Women Becoming Practitioner Researchers

From School Teacher to Academic

Corcoran, S. L., Goodley, C., Hay, A., & Olsson Rost, A. (eds)

Sixteen early career researchers (ECRs) tell their stories in Women Becoming Practitioner Researchers, focusing on connecting potential and current doctoral students with an understanding of what to expect in the transition from professional or schoolteacher environments to working for universities.

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)

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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
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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This Horrible Uncertainty

A German Woman Writes War, 1939-1948

Quinn, E.

Through her diary and other personal effects, Vera Conrad story contextualizes women’s roles and a story of personal pain shared by millions of German women who grappled with accommodating the political expectations and norms of Nazi society.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published August 2024
Immigrant Industry

Building Postwar Australia

Pieris, A., Lozanovska, M., Dellios, A., Saniga, A., & Beynon, D.

After the end of the Second World War, major federally funded industries in Australia depended on the employment of large numbers of refugees displaced by the war. This book aims to bring to the foreground post-war industry and immigration to comprehensively document a uniquely Australian shaping of the built environment.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Care in a Time of Humanitarianism

Stories of Refuge, Aid, and Repair in the Global South

Osanloo, A. & deBergh Robinson, C. (eds)

Care in a Time of Humanitarianism presents complex histories of forced migration and humanitarianism in an accessible way. It adopts a comparative approach to highlight the diverse cultural and religious traditions of care that are adopted across the Global South for the “distant others”.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

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A More Democratic Community

The Place of Democracy in the HIstory of European Integration

Lorenzini, S. & Tulli, U. (eds)

By addressing the “place” of democracy in the history of European integration, this book bridges the political history of postwar Europe with the history of European integration. It shows that European integration and the democratic stability of Western Europe were deeply connected, albeit in contradictory and non-linear ways.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Smoke and Mirrors

The Yenidze Cigarette Factory, Dresden

Nielsen, D.

Providing the first comprehensive account of the Yenidze Tobacco factory in Dresden, designed by the architect Martin Hammitzsch for the flamboyant Dresden tobacco personality Hugo Zietz, this unique addition to Dresden’s skyline was a formative addition to the development of the modernist aesthetic

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

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Science on Screen and Paper

Media Cultures and Knowledge Production in Cold War Europe

Ivanova, M. & Scholz, J. (eds)

Scientific discovery and discourse were central in the making of Cold War. Spanning various media, Science on Screen and Paper seeks to embrace the medial differences during the Cold War period through intersectional themes and strategies for the representation of science’s central role.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Documenting Socialism

East German Documentary Cinema

Allan, S. & Heiduschke, S. (eds)

More than 30 years after the collapse of the German Democratic Republic, its cinema continues to attract scholarly attention. Documenting Socialism brings a fresh introduction to the field of documentary cinema and the complexities of diversity under socialism in the GDR.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Published August 2024
Oscar Lewis in Cuba

La Partida Final

Rigdon, S. M.

The experience of Oscar Lewis’ Project Cuba offers lessons on the difficulties of doing social science research in any highly surveilled, politically controlled environment however sympathetic the principal investigator.

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

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Faith in War

Religion and the Military in Germany, c.1500-1650

Funke, N. M.

Confession played an important role in the wars that ravaged Europe until around 1650, but the religiosity of the men and women during this period is still underexplored. Faith in War shows that confessional coexistence became a fact of army life as people from all over Europe followed the Christian life in the chaos of war.

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Anthropology of Religion

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The Global Pontificate of Pius XII

War and Genocide, Reconstruction and Change, 1939-1958

Unger-Alvi, S. & Valbousquet, N. (eds)

Following Vatican archives opening up access to materials on the pontificate of Pius XII (1939-1958), the contributors to this volume were amongst the first to access these long-awaited records. They have analyzed them here to present a nuanced and revitalized approach to religious, modern post-war historiography.

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present Anthropology of Religion

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The New Australian Military Sociology

Antipodean perspectives

West, B. & Carter, C. (eds)

In exploring the insights that the Australian case has for theorising civil-military relations, the book serves as a model for other country case studies. This antipodean contribution to the field includes analysis of the changing demographics, new domestic and international responsibilities, Industry-Defence cooperation, women in the armed forces and contemporary veteran wellbeing.

Subjects: Sociology Peace and Conflict Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published August 2024
Governing Migration Through Paperwork

Legitimation Practices, Exclusive Inclusion and Differentiation

Andreetta, S. & Borrelli, L. M. (eds)

Based on ethnographic studies in various geographical and bureaucratic contexts, this collection shows how civil servants produce statehood, restrict migrants’ movements and engage with migrants’ strategies to make themselves legible. It contributes to the study of the state as documentary practice and highlights the role of paperwork as powerful practice of migration control.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available Published August 2024
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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The Attempt to Stay

Dam Building, Displacement, and Resistance in the Nile Valley, Sudan

Hänsch, V.

The construction of the Merowe Dam along the Nile in northern Sudan flooded local villages and forced thousands of inhabitants to flee to higher ground. This book follows the Manasir people’s attempts to resist state-run resettlement schemes, preserve their homeland, and try out meaningful ways of life along the emerging reservoir.

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

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The Potential for Anthropology and Urban Community Engagement

Lessons Learned from Twenty-Five Years in Milwaukee

Lackey, J. F. & Petrie, R.

Going beyond traditional relationships between practicing anthropologists and urban communities, this develops the foundations to extend the current scope of applied anthropology to grassroots research and lasting community programs using two partnering Milwaukee organizations as examples.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Urban Studies

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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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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
eBook available Published July 2024
Machine-Created Culture

Essays on the Archaeology of Digital Things and Places

Reinhard, A.

Machine-Created Culture offers archaeologists of any level new ways of interpreting electronic and digital artifacts, sites, and landscapes. Playfully told through the misadventures of a reluctant digital archaeologist, this book gently leads readers into emerging topics including quantum archaeology, entropy, psychogeography, complexity science, and more.

Subject: Archaeology

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Two Against the Tide

The shared career and lost legacy of Brenda and Charles Seligman

Lazarsfeld-Jensen, A.

When Charles Seligman invited his wife, Brenda, to share his tent in 1907, he sanctioned a professional place for female fieldworkers in anthropology. Two Against the Tide explores how as wealthy Anglo-Jews, Charles and Brenda Seligman built a shared career through secret benevolence and silent endurance of hardship.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

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Published July 2024
New Anthropologies of Italy

Politics, History and Culture

Heywood, P. (ed)

This book heralds an exciting new frontier by bringing together some of the leading ethnographers of Italy and placing together their contributions into the broader realm of anthropological history, culture and new perspectives in Europe.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
Published July 2024
Egalitarian Dynamics

Liminality, and Victor Turner’s Contribution to the Understanding of Socio-historical Process

Kapferer, B. & Gold, M. (eds)

Liminality: the state of being ‘betwixt and between’ is anthropology’s one of most influential concepts. This volume reconsiders Victor Turner’s innovative extension of Arnold Van Gennep’s concept of liminality. Engaging with topical issues across the globe – from neuroscience to open access publishing and refugee experience in Europe, it launches Turner’s fundamental work into the future.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)
Published July 2024
The Global Life of Mines

Mining and Post-Mining in Comparative Perspective

Pusceddu, A. M. & Zerilli, F. M. (eds)

The Global Life of Mines provides a comprehensive framework examining the spatial and temporal relationships between mining and postmining as interrelated and coexisting features within the global minescape.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Development Studies

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Published July 2024
Reconstructing Homes

Affective Materiality and Atmospheres of Belonging

Koskinen-Koivisto, E., Korjonen-Kuusipuro, K., Čeginskas, V. L. A., Kajander, A., & De Nardi, H. (eds)

Reconstructing Homes takes on a multidisciplinary approach of sensory ethnography, visual methods, and autoethnography methodologies to explore affective engagements with materiality in the context of home and the idea of belonging.

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

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Published July 2024
Lives in Limbo

Syrian Youth in Turkey

Bryant, R., Abdulla, A., Nimer, M., & Üstübici, A.

Lives in Limbo gives voice to the dreams of Syrian youth who have little hope of returning to their devastated homeland and explains why this generation’s future will shape how the region will develop. It explores how refugee youth create futures from the liminality of exile.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available Published July 2024
The Soul of the Nation

Catholicism and Nationalization in Modern Spain

Alonso, G. & Hernández Burgos, C. (eds)

Religion and politics have historically clashed in modern Spain, particularly following the crisis of 1808 when the Catholica Monarchy put the role of the Church at the heart of political cultural Debates. The Soul of the Nation seeks to unravel this complex and oppositional history between Catholic values and modern political regimes.

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

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Istanbul at the Threshold of Nation State

Allied Occupation, National Resistance, and Political Conflict, 1918-1923

Ülker, E.

In 1920s and 30s Turkey, the rise of Christian exclusionary movements and policies were backed by nationalist labor and merchant federations. An Imperial Capital at the Threshold of Nation State traces these formations in political dissent and coalition to the faction split of Turkish national movement in the middle of 1922.

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

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eBook available Published June 2024
Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary German Politics and Policy

Langenbacher, E. (ed)

Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary German Politics and Policy presents the recent transformations across the European continent and the paradigm shifts in security and defense policy to investigate and predict the future of the altered state of German and European politics.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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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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Courage and Compassion

A Jewish Boyhood in German-Occupied Greece

Molho, T.

Tony Molho tells a dramatic story of survival under the most adverse conditions during the Holocaust. A historian himself now telling his own story, Molho writes an autobiographical text that speaks of a Jewish childhood in Greece during World War II and the Axis Occupation.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War II Genocide History

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Culture Figures

A Rhetorical Reading of Anthropology

Mokrzan, M.

Employing ‘rhetorical reading,' Culture Figures dissects descriptive ethnography and theoretical texts, spanning classical monographs to recent texts representing various approaches in cultural anthropology. The book demonstrates how processes of using tropes and modes of persuasion underlie the creation of meanings or misunderstandings in cultural anthropology.

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

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eBook available Published June 2024
Limits of Life

Reflections on Life, Death, and the Body in the Age of Technoscience

Mogseth, M. E. & Nilsen, F. H. (eds)

Through a multidisciplinary approach, Limits of Life explores how the limitations and perceived finality of life and death are reconstituted through engagements with modern technology.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published June 2024
Rest in Plastic

Death, Time and Synthetic Materials in a Ghanaian Ewe Community

Bredenbröker, I.

Rest in Plastic gives an insight into local entanglements of death, synthetic materials and power in Ewe community. It shows how different materials and things that come to shape power relations, exist in a delicate balance between state and local governance, kin and outsiders, death and life, the invisible and the visible, movement and containment.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Anthropology of Religion
eBook available Published June 2024
One Hundred Years of Argonauts

Malinowski, Ethnography and Economic Anthropology

Hann, C. & James, D. (eds)

Malinowski’s pioneering work remains critical for anthropology in a postcolonial age. This volume uses ethnographic studies from around the world to contextualize the work politically and intellectually, examining its gestation and influence from multiple perspectives.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

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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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Black Schoolgirls in Space

Stories of Black Girlhoods Gathered on Educational Terrain

Ohito, E. O. & Mock Muñoz de Luna, L.

Black Schoolgirls in Space is a theoretical turn that advances the growing interest in transnational girlhoods by focusing on the Black girls as actors and agents in the construction of not only girlhood but also the educational worlds in which girlhoods are contained.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Development Studies Sociology
eBook available Published June 2024
Russian Historiography from 1880 to 1905

Pavel N. Miliukov and the Moscow School

Bohn, T. M.

Russian Historiography from 1880 to 1905 develops and intervenes the historic record of Pavel Miliukov (1859-1943), the late leader of the Constitutional Democrats and foreign minister of the Provisional Government, who drove the Moscow School’s paradigm shift from political and legal history to social and economic history.

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

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eBook available Published May 2024
Enchanted by Cinema

Wilhelm Thiele between Vienna, Berlin, and Hollywood

Horak, J.-C. & Seyfert, A.-B. (eds)

Enchanted by Cinema explores the films of the European music film pioneer William Thiele, as well as his career as an exile in Hollywood. Examining a wide range of the director’s filmography, the contributors address a variety of political, aesthetic and cross-cultural issues.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present Jewish Studies

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eBook available Published May 2024
Beyond Pain

The Anthropology of Body Suspensions

Manfredi, F.

Through thirteen years of fieldwork, an experimental practice-based methodology, and a new theoretical approach to harmonize online and offline data, Beyond Pain provides a wholly unique ethnographical exploration of the misunderstood world of body suspensions.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published May 2024
Practical Archaeogaming

Reinhard, A.

As a sequel to Archaeogaming: an Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games, the author focuses on the practical and applied side of the discipline, collecting recent digital fieldwork together in one place for the first time to share new methods in treating interactive digital built environments as sites for archaeological investigation.

Subjects: Archaeology Media Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published May 2024
Religious Sensibilities in Pursuit of Sexual Well-Being

African Diasporic Communities in the Netherlands

Bakuri, A. Z.

Through detailed ethnographic analysis, this book shows how religious sensibilities inform the health practices, issues of sexuality and well-being of the Ghanian-Dutch and Somali-Dutch communities residing in the Randstad area of the Netherlands.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective

Essays on Morality, Achievement and Modernity

Bayly, S.

Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective draws together essays that trace historical and contemporary realities in India and Vietnam about a variety of compelling topics such as the experience of the Indian caste system and the ethical challenges faced by Vietnamese working women.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Theory and Methodology

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Boaters of London

Alternative Living on the Water

Bowles, B. O. L.

London and the Southeast of England is home to many people living along rivers and canals. Boaters of London delves into the process of becoming a ‘boater’ and the political impact of the travelling population on the state. It examines an alternative style of living and the potential of a life spent afloat.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Urban Studies

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Social History of German Jews

A Short Introduction

Rürup, M.

Social History of German Jews traces the social history of modern German Jews from the end of the 18th century up to the aftermath of World War II, and focusses on the ascent of German Jews into the middle and upper-middle classes through both adversity and manifold forms of Jewish self-assertion.

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

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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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eBook available Published May 2024
The Trial of a Nazi Doctor

Franz Lucas as Defendant, Opportunist, and Deceiver

Wisely, A.

The Trial of a Nazi Doctor documents the career, crimes, and prosecution of Franz Bernhard Lucas (1911-1994), an SS camp doctor who tried to deflect his participation in the Nazi’s genocidal projects and juxtaposes them with a wide range of testimonials from witnesses including former camp inmates and Holocaust survivors.

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

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Quotas

The “Jewish Question” and Higher Education in Central Europe, 1880-1945

Miller, M. L. & Szapor, J. (eds)

Quotas focuses on the ideologies and practices of quota regimes in Central and Eastern Europe from the late nineteenth century throughout the 20th century, covering their origins development, and impact particularly on limiting access to higher education.

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

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Intimate Histories

African Americans and Germany since 1933

Klopprogge, N.

Intimate Histories investigates the role and conceptualizations of intimacy between African American and German relations between 1933 through 1990. Reviewing issues surrounding anti-miscegenation laws, casual sexual encounters, and unique friendships, this book traces how intimacy became an important site of transnational racial history.

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

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eBook available Published April 2024
State Intimacies

Sterilization, Care and Reproductive Chronicity in Rural North India

Fiks, E.

State Intimacies examines the mundane workings, ambiguity, and fragilities of care in post-colonial rural North India. The experience of reproductive chronicity is grounded in women’s everyday realities and experiences in sterilization camps and other healthcare settings in rural Rajasthan.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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eBook available Published April 2024
Difference and Sameness in Schools

Perspectives from the European Anthropology of Education

Gilliam, L. & Markom, C. (eds)

Through eleven case studies across Europe, this book looks at the handling of difference and sameness in European schools from an anthropological perspective. It offers insights into the diversity of and within these central institutions and, in a broader sense, European society itself.

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published April 2024
Humanism Revisited

An Anthropological Perspective

Pinxten, R.

As heirs of a ‘heteronomic’ tradition, we are still stuck in Eurocentrism (often racism), and now even threaten to ruin nature by destroying biodiversity and causing the climate to warm up dangerously. Applied through an anthropological perspective, this book calls for a NEED-humanism: Not-Eurocentric, Ecological and (economically) Durable approach that can help explore inclusion and pluralism.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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eBook available Published April 2024
‘I am Here’, Abraham Said

Emmanuel Levinas and Anthropological Science

Rapport, N.

One of the most significant philosophical voices of the twentieth century – the philosopher of ‘the Other’ – Emmanuel Levinas’s work offers a challenge to the discipline of anthropology that claims knowledge of the human. This book endeavours to take Levinasian and anthropological precepts on ‘humanistic science’ equally seriously and offers tentative conclusions.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published April 2024
Food and Families in the Making

Knowledge Reproduction and Political Economy of Cooking in Morocco

Graf, K.

Food and Families in the Making looks at knowledge reproduction about how we know cooking and its role in the making of everyday family life. It also examines a political economy of cooking that situates Marrakchi women’s lived experience in the broader context of persisting poverty and food insecurity in Morocco.

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

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eBook available Published April 2024
Cinematically Transmitted Disease

Eugenics and Film in Weimar and Nazi Germany

Hales, B.

The roots of German National Socialist policies have strong connections to Weimar era circulation of medical hygiene propaganda films that conveyed strong connections between scientific legitimacy between racial superiority, genetically spread “incurable” diseases, and the degradation of the German national population.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: World War II Media Studies

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eBook available Published April 2024
Religious Plurality at Princely Courts

Dynasty, Politics, and Confession in Central Europe, ca. 1555-1860

Marschke, B., Riches, D., Schunka, A., & Smart, S. (eds)

Examining previously neglected intersections and transformations in early modern European monarchical legitimization, Religious Plurality at Princely Courts works across multiple lenses of European studies to explore the effects of bi-confessional or multi-confessional intra-Christian settings at princely courts on dynastic, representative/symbolic, diplomatic, artistic, and theological levels.

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published March 2024
Max Gluckman

Macmillan, H.

This handy, concise biography describes the life and intellectual contribution of Max Gluckman (1911-75) who was one the most significant social anthropologists of the twentieth century.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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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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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 March 2024
The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class

Everyday Politics and Moral Economy in a Post-Soviet City

Gorbach, D.

The industrial workers of Ukraine have a contradictory and complex political lifeworld. Based on three years of fieldwork in the city of Kryvyi Rih, this book focuses on the everyday politics and moral economy that constitute the working-class and structures its relations with other social groups.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Urban Studies

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eBook available Published March 2024
The Horse in My Blood

Multispecies Kinship in the Altai and Saian Mountains

Peemot, V. S.

Building upon Indigenous research epistemologies, Victoria Peemot engages with the study of how the human-horse relationships interact with each other, experience injustices and develop resilience strategies as multispecies unions.

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

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eBook available Published March 2024
Culturing the Body

Past Perspectives on Identity and Sociality

Collins, B. & Nowell, A. (eds)

The human body is both the site of lived experiences and a means of communicating those experiences to a diverse audience. Hominins have been culturing their bodies, that is adding social and cultural meaning through the use pigments and objects, for over 100,000 years. There is archaeological evidence for practices of adornment of the body by late Pleistocene and early Holocene hominins, including personal ornaments, clothing, hairstyles, body painting, and tattoos. These studies contribute to a novel and growing body of evidence for diversity of cultural expression in the past, something that is a hallmark of human cultures today.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)

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Contested Femininities

Representations of Modern Women in the German Illustrated Press, 1920-1960

Lynn, J.

Contested Femininities for the first time contributes a long-view study of constructions of the Neue or Moderne Frau (New or Modern Woman) in the illustrated press providing an incredible scope of inquiry spanning the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, post-war occupation, and a divided German.

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

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Published March 2024
Urban Displacement

Syria's Refugees in the Middle East

Knudsen, A. J. & Tobin, S. A. (eds)

Syria’s massive displacement (2012–present) is one of the largest, most complex and intractable humanitarian emergencies today. Urban Displacement examines multiple dimensions of this crisis from political and socioeconomic predicaments to questions of social belonging, the complexity of the international, regional and national responses and how they affect urban spaces.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available Published March 2024
Healing and Harm

Essays in Honor of Mary Lindemann

Heinsen-Roach, E., Lazer, S., Marschke, B., Poley, J., & Riches, D. (eds)

Professor Mary Lindemann’s career inspired several generations of researchers in early modern German history and culture. In Healing and Harm, scholars at the height of the field speak to key continuations of subjects stemming from the marked breakpoints across Lindemann’s wide body of work.

Subject: History: Medieval/Early Modern

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eBook available Published February 2024
Too Jewish or Not Jewish Enough

Ritual Objects and Avant-Garde Art at the Jewish Museum of New York

Abt, J.

This volume explores the origins of the Jewish Museum of New York and its evolution from collecting and displaying Jewish ritual objects, to Jewish art, to exhibiting avant-garde art devoid of Jewish content, created by non-Jews. Established within a rabbinic seminary, the museum’s formation and development reflect changes in Jewish society over the twentieth century as it grappled with choices between religion and secularism, particularism and universalism, and ethnic pride and assimilation.

Subjects: Museum Studies Jewish Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published February 2024
Working Class Formation in Turkey, 1946-1962

Work, Culture, and the Politics of the Everyday

Alp Özden, B.

Working Class Formation in Turkey explores the everyday practices of workers in Turkey from the End of War II to until just after the military interventions of 1960. Drawing a wide range of historical sources and moving beyond generalizations, this volume examines the contextual dynamics of the lives of Turkish workers during these critical decades.

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

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Fascist Europe

From Italian Supremacy to Subservience to the Reich (1932-1943)

Fioravanzo, M.

Examining the unexplored project for a new European order developed by Italian intellectuals, Fascist Europe reconstructs the theoretical debates that shaped relationships between Fascist Italy, the Nazi Reich, and other Axis nations. In doing so it sheds light on how much the order may have prospectively united or divided the Fascist regime and the Nazi Reich in the post-war order.

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

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Adoption, Emotion, and Identity

An Ethnopsychological Perspective on Kinship and Person in a Micronesian Society

Rauchholz, M.

Exploring adoption in the Pacific, this book goes beyond the commonplace structural-functional analysis of adoption as a positive “transaction in parenthood.” It examines the effects it has on adoptees inner sense of self, their conflicted emotional lives, and familial relationships that are affected by a personal sense of rejection and not belonging.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Embodying Exchange

Materiality, Morality and Global Commodity Chains in Andean Commerce

Müller, J.

Embodying Exchange addresses the infrastructural, legal and moral complexities in contemporary world trade through an ethnographic analysis of the interface of multinational brand manufacturers and popular traders in the Bolivian Andes.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies

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Fig Trees and Humans

Ficus Ecology and Mutualisms across Cultures

Aumeeruddy-Thomas, Y.

Fig Trees and Humans examines the interactions between the biology and ecology of the genus Ficus and how humans use and think of Ficus species across the tropics and in the Mediterranean region.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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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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Evil Spirits and Rocket Debris

In Search of Lost Souls in Siberia

Broz, L.

The Altai Republic in southern Siberia is renowned for excavations of frozen mummies. It also hosts fallout zones for the second stages of rockets launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome. Local inhabitants blame ‘evil spirits’ released by archaeological work and toxic fuel from rocket debris for their misfortunes. This book explores the divergent fates of such claims.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Sociology

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Edges of Noir

Extreme Filmmaking in the 1960s

Mirabile, M.

Edges of Noir addresses film studies’ neglect of 1960s experimental noir films that have resisted easy classification against more popularly regarded late noir films and responds to the interpretive dilemmas and anxieties of the time to which the films provided expression.

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

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Published February 2024
Political Friendship

Liberal Notables, Networks, and the Pursuit of the German Nation State, 1848-1866

Weaver, M.

Political Friendship demonstrates the central role of the German liberal elite’s interpersonal relationships in the uncertain path to unification and 19th century Germany political culture.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
Published February 2024
Invisible Labours

The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England

Middlemiss, A. L.

Invisible Labours traces women’s experiences of miscarriage and termination for foetal anomaly in the second trimester before legal viability and shows how such events are positioned as less ‘real’ or significant when the foetal being does not, or will not, survive. It describes the reproductive politics of this specific category of pregnancy loss in England.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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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Inclusion, Transformation, and Humility in North American Archaeology

Essays and Other “Great Stuff” Inspired by Kent G. Lightfoot

Mallios, S., Gonzalez, S. L., Grone, M., Hull, K. L., Nelson, P., & Siliman, S. W. (eds)

In a dynamic near half-century career of insight, engagement, and instruction, Kent G. Lightfoot transformed North American archaeology through his innovative ideas, robust collaborations, thoughtful field projects, and mentoring of numerous students. Authors emphasize the multifarious ways Lightfoot impacted—and continues to impact—approaches to archaeological inquiry, anthropological engagement, indigenous issues, and professionalism.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)

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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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Poland under German Occupation, 1939-1945

New Perspectives

Huener, J. & Löw, A. (eds)

Poland under German Occupation, 1939-1945 explores questions of Polish-Jewish life that are rarely discussed and new methodological directions to advance debates on the complicity of Polish citizens during the mass murder of Jews under the nation’s Nazi occupation.

Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History Jewish Studies

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Houses Transformed

Anthropological Perspectives on Changing Practices of Dwelling and Building

Alderman, J. & Stolz, R. (eds)

Houses Transformed explores the intersection of house biographies and social change, the politics of housing design, the social fabrication of aspirational houses, the domestication of concrete and the intersection of materiality and ontology, and the rhetoric of the vernacular.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Development Studies

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Published January 2024
Voices of Long-Term Care Workers

Elder Care in the Time of COVID-19 and Beyond

Freidus, A. & Shenk, D.

Based on extensive narrative interviews, this collection of essays reflects on the participants’ individual experiences and represents the voices of staff and caregivers working in long-term residential care communities, in-home and community-based programs, as well as regional aging service providers and advocates.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology Applied Anthropology
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
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Insidious Capital

Frontlines of Value at the End of a Global Cycle

Kalb, D. (ed)

In a global perspective of fast transforming social spaces that moves from East to West, Insidious Capital explores the struggles around the exploitation and valuation of labor, environmental politics, expansion of the ground rent, new hierarchies, the contradictions of higher education, the off-shoring of ‘immaterial’ labor, the illiberal right, and the mobilizations against it.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
eBook available Published January 2024
Stories between Tears and Laughter

Popular Czech Cinema and Film Critics

Vojvoda, R.

Stories between Tears and Laughter strikes new ground in the history of Czech cinema focusing on the historically underrepresented post-socialist era following the 1960s to reveal the discourse of cultural value through which popular Czech films were being evaluated.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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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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eBook available Published January 2024
Melanesian Mainstream

Stringband Music and Identity in Vanuatu

Ellerich, S. T.

Based in extensive ethnographic research, Melanesian Mainstream provides a detailed representation of the roots, context, evolution, and impact of stringband music in the Melanesian Republic of Vanuatu.

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

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Centennial Fever

Transnational Hispanic Commemorations and Spanish Nationalism

Moreno-Luzón, J.

Hispanic commemorations that shaped the major elements of Spanish identity at the beginning of the 20th century, and their persistence to the present day, from the “discovery” of America to the publication of Don Quixote of la Mancha, are truly global and transnational events that have created a cultural community on which Spanish nationalism has become dependent.

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

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Compliance

Cultures and Networks of Accommodation

Rollason, W. & Hirsch, E. (eds)

Exploring compliance from an anthropological perspective, this book offers a varied selection of chapters covering taxation, corporate governance, medicine, development, carbon offsetting, irregular migration and the building trade, compliance emerges as more than the opposite of resistance.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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After Liberation

Toward a Sociology of the Shoah
Selected Essays

Adler, H. G.

This collection gathers together, for the first time in English, some of H.G. Adler’s most important scholarly essays on the Shoah and connected themes. Spanning his thought across three decades they focus on the fate of the ‘coerced’ human being and reflect on freedom, enslavement, terror, dread, charisma, loneliness, and ideology.

Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies History: World War II

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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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Agency and Archaeology of the French Maritime Empire

Gauthier-Bérubé, M. & Dempsey, A. (eds)

Through detailed archaeological case study, a multiregional approach and a theoretical approach around agencies and individuality, this volume focuses on the diversity of the population that participated in the maritime network of France through the 17th to the 19th century and whose agency and importance is often overlooked.

Subjects: Archaeology Colonial History Political and Economic Anthropology

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Humanitarian Shame and Redemption

Norwegian Citizens Helping Refugees in Greece

Mogstad, H.

Following the 2015 ‘refugee crisis,’ many different actors emerged to contest or mitigate the EU’s border policies. This book explores the birth and trajectory of a Norwegian volunteer organisation “A Drop in the Ocean“, established by a mother of five with no prior experience in humanitarian work.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

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Published November 2023
Resisting Radicalisation?

Understanding Young People's Journeys through Radicalising Milieus

Pilkington, H. (ed)

Offering a critical perspective on the concept of radicalisation, this volume views it from the perspective of social actors who engage in radicalising milieus but have not crossed the threshold into violent extremism. The volume brings together contributions based on extensive empirical research conducted as part of a cross-European study of young people's engagement in ‘extreme right’ and ‘Islamist’ milieus.

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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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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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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The Familial Occult

Explorations at the Margins of Critical Autoethnography

Coțofană, A. (ed)

The Familial Occult addresses the presence of occult experiences in some scholars' families and how that has affected their epistemological and ontological worlds, as well as their identities as scholars. While much has been written on encountering the occult in fieldwork or becoming an apprentice in an occult practice, little yet has been published in the academic literature about growing up with the occult.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Anthropology of Religion

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Children are Everywhere

Conspicuous Reproduction and Childlessness in Reunified Berlin

Joshi, M.

This book explores everyday experiences of parenting and childlessness of ‘ethnic’ Germans in Berlin, who came of age around the fall of the Berlin Wall, and brings them into conversation with theories on parenting, waithood, non-biological intimacies, and masculinities.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Individually Ourselves

Personhood, Ethics, and Everyday Life in School

Winkler-Reid, S.

Individually Ourselves addresses the process of identity and community building through an examination of individuality and group dynamics during a formative juncture of life (based on ethnographic fieldwork in a London high school).

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies Sociology

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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
eBook available Published November 2023
Designing Knowledge Economies for Disaster Resilience

Case Studies from the African Diaspora

Waldron-Moore, P. (ed)

Acknowledging that low economic development and high climate costs do not equitably coexist, this collected volume interrogates the challenge for disaster-prone territories to determine supplemental strategies for restructuring and redesigning their environment.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies
eBook available Published November 2023
The Middle-Income Trap in Central and Eastern Europe

Causes, Consequences and Strategies in Post-Communist Countries

Kouli, Y. & Müller, U. (eds)

Reviewing the story of prosperity in Central and Eastern Europe up to current debates, The Middle-Income Trap in Central and Eastern Europe examines the reality of the diminishing marginal utility of further international investments alongside the pitfalls of higher national innovation.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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John F. Kennedy’s Hidden Diary, Europe 1937

The Travel Journals of JFK and Kirk LeMoyne Billings

Kennedy, J. F., LeMoyne Billings, K., & Lubrich, O.

Presenting the 1937 diaries of John F. Kennedy's tour of Europe alongside the "Scrapbook" of his travel companion, Lem Billings, John F. Kennedy’s Hidden Diary, Europe 1937 offers insights into Kennedy's early experiences on a continent under the shadow of Nazism.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Audiences of Nazism

Using Media in the Third Reich

Weckel, U.

Innovating against the considerable gap in research surrounding historical media reception within Nazi Germany, Audiences of Nazism finds sources of actual audience responses to critically engage with the Third Reich’s media production legacy.

Subjects: History: World War II Media Studies

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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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De-Commemoration

Removing Statues and Renaming Places

Gensburger, S. & Wüstenberg, J. (eds)

In the wake of recent protests against police violence and racism, calls to dismantle problematic memorials have reverberated around the globe. This is not a new phenomenon, however, nor is it limited to the Anglo-Saxon world. De-Commemoration focuses on the concept of de-commemoration as it relates to remembrance.

Subjects: Memory Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Poverty Archaeology

Architecture, Material Culture and the Workhouse under the New Poor Law

Newman, C. & Fennelly, K.

The Poor Laws in the United Kingdom left a built and material legacy of over two centuries of legislative provision for the poor and infirm. Workhouses represent the first centralized, state-organized system for welfare. This volume forms a social archaeology of the lived experience of poverty and health in the nineteenth century.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Of Hoarding and Housekeeping

Material Kinship and Domestic Space in Anthropological Perspective

Newell, S. (ed)

Of Hoarding and Housekeeping provides an anthropological, global, and comparative angle to the understanding of hoarding and decluttering. Focusing on the house, with careful attention to material flows in and out, this book examines practices of accumulation, storage, decluttering, and waste as practices of kinship and the objects themselves as material kin.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Cultural Studies (General)

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Assembling Financialisation

Local Actors and the Making of Agricultural Investment

Langford, Z.

Farmers, Indigenous organisations, government and private-sector intermediaries from remote Northern Australia often negotiate with private finance capital to gain funds for agricultural development.This book demonstrates that while financialisation is a useful signifier of patterns of global change, it is assembled by a diverse range of often contradictory work.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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Published October 2023
Foreigners in Their Own Country

Identity and Rejection in France

Martin, L. M.

Paying close attention to how people speak about themselves and their acceptance and rejection by others, this book provides an intimate account of the challenges faced by the millions of people in France—and throughout Western Europe—who fully participate in the life of their country but are often not seen as belonging there.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology
eBook available Published October 2023
The Amazonian Puzzle

Ethnic Positionings and Social Mobilizations

Boyer, V.

By examining the multiple cultural and ethnic threads that traverse this landscape, The Amazonian Puzzle sets out to show how the category of caboclo (a powerful spiritual entity to some, and to others a despised peasant of mixed ancestry) reveals deep currents of ethnic recompositions, religious interpenetration, and social hierarchy.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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The Subject of Sovereignty

Relationality and the Pivot Past Liberalism

Feldman, G.

Exploring the themes of nature, race, and the divine, this book identifies the more realistic alternative in the “relational subject”: a subject that is inseparable from the global field of relations through which it emerges and yet distinct from that field because it lives a life that no one else ever has.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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Love, Loyalty and Deceit

Rosemary Firth, a Life in the Shadow of Two Eminent Men

Firth, H. & Brown, L.

How much do we really know about our parents’ lives? What secrets lie in plain sight? This is the true story of hidden love within a small circle of some of the most acclaimed anthropologists of the 20th century.

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

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Alfred Cort Haddon

A Very English Savage

Walsh, C.

Using previously overlooked, primary sources Ciarán Walsh argues that Haddon, the grandson of anti-slavery activists, set out to revolutionize anthropology in the 1890s in association with a network of anarcho-utopian activists and philosophers. His book regards most of what has been written about Haddon in the past as a form of disciplinary folklore shaped by a theory of scientific revolutions.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Mary Douglas

Richards, P. & 6, P.

This handy, concise biography covers the life of Mary Douglas, one of the most important anthropologists of the second half of the 20th century. It offers an introduction to how her distinctive approach developed across a long and productive career and how it applies to current pressing issues of social conflict and planetary survival.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Urban Natures

Living the More-than-Human City

Edwards, F., PEttersen, I. N. & Popartan, L. (eds)

Urban Natures explores the diversity, abundance, and impact of the conventional and future framings of urban natures. Recognizing a green resurgence in cities is underway, this volume applies a critical approach to examine urban greening histories, politics, discourses and ecologies

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

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Visions of Humanity

Historical Cultural Practices since 1850

Kunkel, S., Jessica Gienow-Hecht, J., & Jobs, S. (eds)

Visions of Humanity focuses on the promises and problems, the successes and the failures of “humanity” as an idea since the 19^th century. Through an international set of contributions, the volume examines the hopes and ambiguities involved in constructing, invoking, and instrumentalizing the “we” of humanity.

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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These Were People Once

The Online Trade in Human Remains and Why It Matters

Huffer, D. & Graham, S.

People buy and sell human remains online. Most of this trade these days is over social media. In a study of this ‘bone trade’, how it works, and why it matters, the authors review and use a variety of methods drawn from the digital humanities to analyze the sheer volume of social media posts in search of answers to questions regarding this online bone trade.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange

Interactions, Transactions and Ethics in Asia and Beyond

Copeman, J., Long, N. J., Chau, L. M., Cook, J. & Marsden, M.(eds)

This volume advocates for an analytical focus on intellectual exchange, as well as producing an ethnographically informed framework for its study across cultures and contexts.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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An Anthropology of Disappearance

Politics, Intimacies and Alternative Ways of Knowing

Huttunen, L. & Perl, G. (eds)

All over the world, people deliberately disappear from their families, communities and the state’s bureaucratic gaze, as victims of oppressive regimes or while migrating along clandestine routes. This edited volume brings together scholars who engage ethnographically with such disappearances in various cultural, social and political contexts.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Memory Studies

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Translocal Care across Kosovo’s Borders

Reconfiguring Kinship along Gender and Generational Lines

Leutloff-Grandits, C.

By tracing long-distant family relations with a special focus on cross-border marriages, this study looks at the reconfiguration of care relations, gender and generational roles among kin-members of Kosovo, who now live in different European states.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
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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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Between the Forest and the Road

The Waorani Struggle for Living Well in the Ecuadorian Oil Circuit

Bravo Díaz, A.

During the past two decades Ecuadorians have engaged in a national debate around Buen Vivir (living well). This ethnography discusses one of the ways in which people experience well-being or aspire to live well in Ecuadorian Amazonia. Waponi Kewemonipa (living well) is a Waorani notion that embraces ideas of good conviviality, health and certain ecological relations.

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

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Published August 2023
Entertaining German Culture

Contemporary Transnational Television and Film

Ehrig, S., Schaper, B. & Ward, E. (eds)

In an increasingly transnational production of film and television, Entertaining German Culture explores and contextually thematizes a radical shift in the past fifteen years towards a profound appreciation of German cultural and intellectual history in the international mainstream.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies History (General)
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Weaponizing the Past

Collective Memory and Jews, Poles, and Communists in Twenty-First Century Poland

Korycki, K.

Theorizing and explaining the process of collective memory of Poland’s communist past, Weaponizing the Past explores contemporary politicizations of the past, national belonging and the production of anti-Semitism.

Subjects: Memory Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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That Sinking Feeling

On the Emotional Experience of Inferiority in Germany's Neoliberal Education System

Wellgraf, S.

Focusing on the emotions and affective states of students from poor migrant families, That Sinking Feeling presents a uniquely multi-layered ethnography on this under-represented area in the social and cultural sciences.

Subjects: Educational Studies Sociology Anthropology (General)

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Silences and Divided Memories

The Exodus and its Legacy in Post-War Istrian Society

Virloget, K. H.

Dealing with the difficult, silenced past of the so called "Istrian exodus" after the Second World War, this book shifts the usual focus from migrants to those who stayed behind and to the new immigrants who came to the “emptied” towns.

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

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Beyond the Social Contract

An Anthropology of Tax

Makovicky, N. & Smith, R. (eds)

Tax and taxation are conventionally understood as the embodiment of social contract. This ground-breaking collection of essays challenges this truism, examining what tax might tell us about the limits of social-contract thinking.

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology

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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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Broken Glass, Broken Class

Transformations of Work in Bulgaria

Kofti, D.

Based on a long-term study of the everyday postsocialist politics of labour in the wider context of intense socio-economic transformation in Bulgaria, this book tells the story of the flexibilization of production, the precaritization of work, shifting managerial practices, and ways in which people with different employment statuses live and work together.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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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
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Shakespeare and Social Engagement

Mackenzie, R. & Shaughnessy, R. (eds)

Shakespeare’s roots in applied and participatory performance practices have been recently explored within a wide variety of educational, theatrical and community settings. Shakespeare and Social Engagement explores these settings, as well as audiences who have largely been excluded from existing accounts of Shakespeare’s performance history.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

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Inside Party Headquarters

Organizational Culture and Practice of Rule in the Socialist Unity Party of Germany

Bergien, R.

As one of the first overviews of a central apparatus of a communist state party, Inside Party Headquarters focuses on the “inner life” of the party and its employees, and examines the changing relations of party and state over the course of four decades.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Once Upon a Time is Now

A Kalahari Memoir

Biesele, M.

Fifty years after her first fieldwork with Ju/'hoan San hunter-gatherers, anthropologist Megan Biesele has written this exceptional memoir based on personal journals she wrote at the time.

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

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Romani Chronicles of COVID-19

Testimonies of Harm and Resilience

Blasco, P. G. y & Fotta, M. (eds)

A ground-breaking volume that gathers the testimonies of NGO workers, street vendors, activists, scholars, health professionals, and creative writers to chronicle the devastating impact of COVID-19 on Romani communities globally.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Medical Anthropology

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Cryptopolitics

Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media

Bernal, V., Pype, K., & Rodima-Taylor, D. (eds)

Focusing on African societies, Crypolitics brings together empirically grounded studies of digital media to draw out the significance of hidden information, double meanings, and the constant processes of encoding and decoding messages in negotiations of power relations.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Media Studies
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If Cars Could Walk

Postsocialist Streets in Transformation

Duijzings, G. & Tuvikene, T. (eds)

Addressing the transformation of street life in postsocialist cities against the backdrop of the explosive rise of car-mobility in the last 25 years, If Cars Could Walk consists of ethnographic case studies documenting changes in these cities as former socialist modes of mobility are replaced by a culture of privately owned cars.

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

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Exceptional Experiences

Engaging with Jolting Events in Art and Fieldwork

Rethmann, P. & Wulff, H. (eds)

Looking at encounters that can puncture or jolt us, this volume uses art as a lens through which to register and understand exceptional experiences. The volume also includes the fieldworker’s experience of unexpected events that can lead to key understandings, as well as revelatory moments that happen during artistic creation and while looking at art.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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The Spirit of Matter

Modernity, Religion, and the Power of Objects

Pels, P.

A range of meaningful objects—exhibits of human remains or live people, fetishes, objects in a Catholic Museum, exotic photographs, commodities, and computers—demonstrate a subordinate modern consciousness about powerful objects and their “life”. The Spirit of Matter discusses these objects that move people emotionally but whose existence is often denied by modern wishful thinking of “mind over matter”.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Archaeology Museum Studies

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Sites of Modernity—Places of Risk

Risk and Security in Germany since the 1970s

Geyer, M. H. (ed)

Institutions with long traditions of calculating risk such as insurance firms, policing authorities, and prisons are at the center of debates surrounding the fields of security, risk, and emergencies. Starting with the 1970s, Sites of Modernity—Places of Risk innovates against these sprawling and changing debates and shows how attempts to manage and assess risk have shaped modernity.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Thinking Russia's History Environmentally

Evtuhov, C., Lajus, J., & Moon, D. (eds)

Thinking Russia’s History Environmentallybrings together an international set of scholars to showcase the contribution that the study of Russian environments makes to the global environmental field. It challenges the stereotypes of Russian history, highlighting lesser-known features of the nation’s environments…

Subjects: History (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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Military Politics

New Perspectives

Crosbie, T. (ed)

Bringing together new research by leading scholars, this volume rethinks the role played by militaries in politics. The volume introduces new theories of military politics, arguing against the inherited theories and practices of civil-military relations, and presents rich new data on senior officership and on the intersection of military politics and military operations.

Subjects: Sociology Peace and Conflict Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Visions of Marriage

Politics and Family on Kinmen, 1920-2020

Chiu, H.-C.

Grounded in multi-generational stories from Kinmen in Taiwan, Visions of Marriage explores the historical entanglements between the pursuit of new personal and national futures. Focusing on the relational and future-making aspects of marriage, the ethnography highlights the intersection of transformations across familial generations and shifting political economies in Taiwan, and more globally. It provides comparative insights on family change and demographic shifts in Asia.>

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Pure Food

Theoretical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Collinson, P. & Macbeth, H. (eds)

Food purity and nutrition has inter-disciplinary roots in anthropological, ethnological, evolutionary, psychological and applied perspectives. Pure Food presents the theoretical and cross-cultural aspects of adopting food purity. It demonstrates variations and similarities in diverse cultural beliefs, behaviours and practices in different societies that define the pure food mindset.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

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Innovation and Implementation

Critical Reflections on New Approaches to Historic Mortuary Data Collection, Analysis, and Dissemination

Mytum, H. & Veit, R. (eds)

Providing a comprehensive set of guidance to assist researchers wishing to carry out, curate and disseminate field research at a historic burial ground, chapters offer up to date methods for surface and subsurface survey and for the recording and archiving of burial monument data. Also included is the archaeological potential of pet cemeteries and other pet memorials.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology (General)

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Yugoslavia without Yugoslavs

The History of a National Idea

Jezernik, B.

Following the idea of Yugoslavism since its first public usage in 1849, Yugoslavia without Yugoslavs explains why the concept of Yugoslavia competed with Slavic, Serbian, and Croatian nationalistic ideas and failed just five years after its first nation state was established

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century History: World War I

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Obstetric Violence and Systemic Disparities

Can Obstetrics Be Humanized and Decolonized?

Davis-Floyd, R. & Premkumar, A. (eds)

The final volume in this landmark 3-volume series on The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians looks at the challenges, and even violence, that obstetricians face across the world. This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to understand the diverse challenges that obstetricians must overcome.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Obstetricians Speak

On Training, Practice, Fear, and Transformation

Floyd-Davis, R. & Premkumar, A. (eds)

For the first time ever in a social science work, obstetricians tell their own stories of training, practice, fear, and transformation. This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to understand the ideologies and motives of individual obstetricians.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Cognition, Risk, and Responsibility in Obstetrics

Anthropological Analyses and Critiques of Obstetricians’ Practices

Davis-Floyd, R. & Premkumar, A. (eds)

Volume 2 in this landmark 3-volume series on The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians looks at cognition, risk, and responsibility in obstetrics. This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to understand obstetricians' differing ideologies and motives for practicing as they do.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Planting Seeds of Knowledge

Agriculture and Education in Rural Societies in the Twentieth Century

Hartmann, H. & Tischler, J. (eds)

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, agricultural practices and rural livelihoods were challenged by changes such as commercialization, intensified global trade, and rapid urbanization. Planting Seeds of Knowledge studies the relationship between these agricultural changes and knowledge-making through a transnational lens.

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

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Creation and Creativity in Indigenous Lowland South America

Anthropological Perspectives

Halbmayer, E. & Goletz, A. (eds)

Investigating local Indigenous processes of creation and creativity, this book uses ethnographic and comparative anthropological perspectives to enquire about creative transformative practices in lowland South America.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Against Better Judgment

Akrasia in Anthropological Perspectives

McKearney, P. & Evans, N. H. A. (eds)

Anthropologists have long explained social behaviour as if people always do what they think is best. But what if most of these explanations only work because they are premised upon ignoring what philosophers call 'akrasia' – that is, the possibility that people might act against their better judgment? The contributors to this volume turn an ethnographic lens upon situations in which people seem to act out of line with what they judge, desire and intend.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Medical Anthropology

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White Eagle, Black Eagle

Ethnic Relations in the German-Polish Borderlands

Parkin, R.

Studying the German-Polish ethnic relations, this book analyses the people and region through their respective borderlands, migration, official cooperation and unofficial suspicions across the border.

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

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Performing Memory

Corporeality, Visuality, and Mobility after 1968

Passerini, L. & Reinisch, D. (eds)

Through a post-1968 perspective on Europe, Performing Memory newly approaches the performative dimensions of memory within the historical cluster of visuality, corporeality and mobility. In a series of focused case studies from emerging and leading scholars, this volume enlarges the focus of memory across the histories of dance, theatre, the media, cinema, and other forms of artistic and political performances.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Performance Studies Mobility Studies

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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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Theorizing Entrepreneurship for the Future

Stories from Global Frontiers

Beuving, J.

Presenting a new interpretation of entrepreneurial behaviour, this book focuses on how entrepreneurs consider the future. The study theorizes entrepreneurial behaviour as ‘future-work’: the social practices, language and rituals through which entrepreneurs neutralize or smoothen future unknowns.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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Music and Postwar Transitions in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Fléchet, A., Guerpin, M., Gumplowicz, P. & Kelly, B. L. (eds)

Music and Postwar Transitions takes a groundbreaking and much anticipated dive into the concept of postwar transitions and how these affect and are affected by the world of music. Leading scholars in the field explore new approaches to create a novel understanding of music and postwar periods.

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

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Yiddish Transformed

Reading Habits in the Russian Empire, 1860-1914

Cohen, N.

Yiddish Transformed explores Jewish reading practices alongside the rise of Yiddish in Eastern Europe between 1860 and 1914 by delving into publishing policies of Yiddish books and newspapers, popular literary genres of the time, the development of Jewish public libraries, as well as reflections of reading experiences in life stories.

Subjects: Jewish Studies Literary Studies

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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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War Stories

Reading Plains Indian Biographic Rock Art

Keyser, J. D. & Kaiser, D. A.

Presented is a lexicon of imagery, conventions, and symbols used by Plains Indians to communicate their warfare and social narratives. Familiarity with the lexicon will enable interested scholars and laypersons to understand what are otherwise enigmatic rock art drawings found from Calgary, Alberta through ten U.S. states, and into the Mexican state of Coahuila.

Subject: Archaeology

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Iconicity of the Uto-Aztecans

Snake Anthropomorphy in the Great Basin, the American Southwest and Mesoamerica

Mukhopadhyay, T. P. & Garfinkel, A. P.

The attempt to study a snake simulacrum thus constitutes the basic objective of this volume. A long, all-embracing iconicity of snakes and related snake motifs are evident in different cultural expressions ranging from rock art templates to other cultural artifacts like basketry, pottery, temple architecture and sculptural motifs.

Subject: Archaeology

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Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe

The Social Life of Asia Minor Refugees in Piraeus

Hirschon, R.

Since its first publication in 1989, this classic study has remained in demand. The third edition of Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe includes updated material with a new Preface, Epilogue, and map of the study area.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Chicanery

Senior Academic Appointments in Antipodean Anthropology, 1920–1960

Gray, G., Munro, D. & Winter, C.

Academic appointments can bring forth unexpected and unforeseen contests and tensions, cause humiliation and embarrassment for unsuccessful applicants and reveal unexpected allies and enemies. Chicanery deals with how the founding Chairs at Sydney, the Australian National University, Auckland and Western Australia dealt with this process.

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

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Gender in Germany and Beyond

Exploring the Legacy of Jean Quataert

Evans, J. V. & Rose, S. E. (eds)

Jean Quataert’s former students, colleagues, and collaborators come together in Gender in Germany and Beyond to not only celebrate Quataert’s shaping of the field of modern German, Women’s and transnational history, but also to expand on that scholarship, setting a precedent for the future of the field.

Subjects: History (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Servants of Culture

Paternalism, Policing, and Identity Politics in Vienna, 1700-1914

Natarajan, A.

Using a wide range of material including legal, criminal, literary, and political sources, Servants of Culture brings forward the previously neglected history of a mass migration of women from the Habsburg Empire’s countryside to work as servants for bourgeois households, inns and hotels during the second half of the 19th century. At the time, socio-political players claimed to want to improve the living and working conditions of these migrants but as Natarajan demonstrates these efforts resulted in an increase in surveillance and a restriction of freedoms for women and servants in Viennese history.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Corporate Social Responsibility and the Paradoxes of State Capitalism

Ethnographies of Norwegian Energy and Extraction Businesses Abroad

Knudsen, S. (ed)

Through a series of case studies in diverse regions of the world, this book explores how transnational Norwegian energy and extractive industries handle corporate social responsibility (CSR) when operating abroad.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology
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Exchange and Markets in Early Economic Development

Informal Economy in the Three New Guineas

Conroy, J. D.

The idea of an informal economy emerged from, and is a critique of, the ideology of ‘economic development’. It originated from Keith Hart’s recognition of informal economic activity in 1960s Ghana. In the context of four colonialisms – German, British, Australian and Dutch – this book recounts Hart’s effort in 1972 to introduce the informal ‘sector’ into development planning in Papua New Guinea.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies Colonial History

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Integrating Strangers

Sherbro Identity and The Politics of Reciprocity along the Sierra Leonean Coast

Ménard, A.

Drawing on an ethnography of Sherbro coastal communities in Sierra Leone, this book analyses the politics and practice of identity through the lens of the reciprocal relations that exist between socio-ethnic groups. Anaïs Ménard examines the implications of the social arrangement that binds landlords and strangers in a frontier region, the Freetown Peninsula, characterized by high degrees of individual mobility and social interactions.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies
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The Girl in the Pandemic

Transnational Perspectives

Mitchell, C. & Smith, A. (eds)

The early and critical stages of the pandemic presented exacerbated risks to the lives of girls and young women. The Girl in the Pandemic takes a diverse range of scholars across the world, particularly from the Global South, to document and contribute to a large narrative of what a post-pandemic future may bring for girls and young women.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Development Studies Sociology
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Things of the House

Material Culture and Migration from Post-Colonial Mozambique to Portugal

Rosales, M. V.

Focusing on the life stories of a group of European and Catholic Brahmin Goan families of the colonial elite who left Mozambique after their independence in 1975, the book shows how material culture interferes with structuring dimensions of migratory experiences, in the management of family ties and networks of belonging, as well as in the social dynamics of positioning, hierarchy and distinction.

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

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Of Jaguars and Butterflies

Metalogues on Issues in Anthropology and Philosophy

Lloyd, G. & Vilaça, A.

Jointly authored by an anthropologist and a philosopher, this book investigates some of the most puzzling ideas and practices reported in modern ethnography and ancient philosophy concerning topics such as humans, animals, persons, spirits, agency, selfhood, consciousness, nature, life, death, disease and health.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Citizens into Dishonored Felons

Felony Disenfranchisement, Honor, and Rehabilitation in Germany, 1806-1933

de Groot, T.

Throughout the long nineteenth century felony disenfranchisement affected the moral fabric of German society and coincided with a history of honor in German legal thought. Citizens into Dishonored Felons uses uncommonly extensive archival materials to address the emotional and symbolic impact of punishment as both an enforcement of societal hierarchies and a platform for reform.

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

A Borderland Capital

Kravchenko, V.

Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city located on the Ukrainian-Russian historical borderland, has often been overlooked given its historic role. Kharkov/Kharkov for the first time uncovers the city’s long history, from the 17th century to today, and its process of becoming a borderland and undergoing regional reconfiguration, modernization and development of national mythologies.

Subjects: History (General) Urban Studies

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The Burden of German History

A Transatlantic Life

Jarausch, K. H.

The Burden of Germany History is Konrad H Jarausch’s much anticipated transatlantic autobiography set against the development and transformation of German studies over the past half-century. Using his life story, Jarausch’s concurrent life in the US and Germany brings us a self-critical historiography of a twentieth-century Germany that was wrestling with the responsibility for war and genocide.

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

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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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Working the Fabric

Resourcefulness, Belonging and Island Life in Scotland’s Harris Tweed Industry

Nascimento, J.

Trademark-protected since 1910, the famous woollen cloth known as Harris Tweed can only be produced in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland – yet it is exported to over 50 countries around the world. Examining contemporary experiences of work and life, this book is the first in-depth anthropological study of the renowned textile industry, complementing and updating existing historical and ethnographic research.

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

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The Power of the Story

Writing Disasters in Haiti and the Circum-Caribbean

Joos, V., Munro, M. & Ribó, J. (eds)

A cross-disciplinary volume that combines and puts into dialogue perspectives on disasters, this book includes contributions from anthropology, history, cultural studies, sociology, and literary studies. Offering a rich and diverse set of arguments and analyses on the ever-relevant theme of catastrophe in the circum-Caribbean, it will encourage debate and collaboration between scholars working on disasters from a range of disciplinary perspectives.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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The Rich and the Poor in Modern Europe, 1890-2020

A Historian’s Response to Recent Debates among Economists

Kaelble, H.

While it is easy to accept that modern capitalism is the perpetrator of sociality inequality’s growth today, The Rich and the Poor reconsiders the constructs and facts that led to dramatic rises and crashes in the twentieth century European economic history.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Advocacy and Archaeology

Urban Intersections

Britt, K. M. & George, D. F. (eds)

Inspired by the idea of revolution and excitement about the ways archaeology is being used in social justice arenas, this volume seeks to visualize archaeology as part of a movement by redefining what archaeology is and does for the greater good.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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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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Former Neighbors, Future Allies?

German Studies and Ethnography in Dialogue

Weber, A. D. (ed)

Former Neighbors, Future Allies is a key bridge into the research and perspectives needed to nurture ethnography’s growing role in German studies. This volume creates a space for dialogue between North American Germanists and ethnographers in and of the German-speaking world, enriching both fields in the process.

Subjects: History (General) Anthropology (General)

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Amnesia Remembered

Reverse Engineering a Digital Artifact

Aycock, J.

As an introduction to studying and reverse engineering a digital artifact, this volume is intended for nontechnical audiences wanting to learn how to conduct their own similar research on computer software. While presented through an archaeological lens, it is also suitable for readers in history, game studies, and other areas in the humanities and social sciences, as well as computer science and engineering.

Subjects: Archaeology Media Studies Anthropology (General)

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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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Feeding Anxieties

The Politics of Children's Food in Poland

Boni, Z.

Focusing on the underlying politics behind children’s food, this book highlights the variety of social relationships, expectations and emotions ingrained in feeding children In Poland. With rich ethnographic accounts, including research with children, the book demonstrates how families, schools, the food industry and state agencies shape and experience feeding anxieties.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Set to See Us Fail

Debating Inequalities in the Child Welfare System of New York

Castellano, V.

Examining the interaction between families and professionals in the child welfare system of New York, this book focuses on how inequalities are reproduced, measured, managed, and contested. The book describes how state institutions and neoliberal governance intersect police the groups which are most represented in the child welfare system, including low income, female-headed families living in racialized neighborhoods.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Anthropology, Nationalism and Colonialism

Mendes Correia and the Porto School of Anthropology

Ferraz de Matos, P.

Contributing to the history of anthropology, this book looks at the Porto School of Anthropology and analyses the life and work of its main mentor – Mendes Correia (1888-1960). Focused on Portugal, the analysis is also comparative with other international contexts.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Political and Economic Anthropology

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Fixing Motorcycles in Post-Repair Societies

Technology, Aesthetics and Gender

Jderu, G.

Taking motorcycling in Romania as an ethnographic entry point, this book documents how bikers handle the inevitable moment of malfunction and breakdown. Using both mobile and sedentary research methods, the book describes the joys and troubles experienced by amateur mechanics, professional mechanics and untechnical male and females when fixing bikes.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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In the Meantime

Toward an Anthropology of the Possible

Masquelier, A. & Durham, D. (eds)

The “meantime” represents the gap between what is past and the unknown future. When considered as waiting, the meantime is defined as a period of suspension to be endured. By contrast, the contributors of this volume understand it as a space of “the possible” where calculation coexists with uncertainty, promises with disappointment, and imminence with deferral.

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

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The Long Shore

Archaeologies and Social Histories of Californias Maritime Cultural Landscapes

Meniketti, M. (ed)

Authors investigate the multifaceted character of maritime landscapes and maritime oriented communities in California’s equally diverse cultural landscape; viewed through an archaeological lens, and emphasizing social behavior and community as material culture in order to reveal intersections and commonalities.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology (General)

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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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Finding Home in Europe

Chronicles of Global Migrants

Pérez Murcia, L. E. & Bonfanti, S. (eds)

Bringing together the voices of nine individuals from an archive of over 200 in-depth interviews with transnational migrants and refugees across five European countries, Finding Home in Europe critically engages with how home is experienced by those who move.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Theory and Methodology

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Making Multiple Babies

Anticipatory Regimes of Assisted Reproduction

Wu, C.-L.

Human beings have been producing more twins, triplets, and quadruplets than ever before, due to the expansion of medically assisted conception. This book analyzes the anticipatory regimes of making multiple babies. With archival documents, participant observation, in-depth interviews, and registry data, this book traces the global and local governance of the assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) used to tackle multiple pregnancy since the 1970s.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

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Other Worlds, Other Bodies

Embodied Epistemologies and Ethnographies of Healing

Pierini, E., Groisman, A., & Espírito Santo, D. (eds)

This book proposes a sensory ethnography of healing with a focus on ethnographic knowing as embedded in an embodied epistemology of healing. Epistemological embodiment signals that personal scholarly experience of the “unknown”—be it in the form of trance, or as the embodiment of an “other”—shapes the concepts of healing, body, trance, self, and matter by which ethnographers craft out analysis.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology

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The Origins of German Self-Cultivation

Bildung and the Future of the Humanities

Ham, J., Kinzel, U., & Pan, D. T.-c. (eds)

Informing current debate about the future of the humanities, this volume focuses discussions on the Bildung’s original German context using a multi-disciplinary perspective root out the interesting ways that Bildung continues to shape our understanding of self-formation.

Subjects: History (General) Educational Studies

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A Sea of Transience

Poetics, Politics and Aesthetics along the Black Sea Coast

Khalvashi, T. & Demant Frederiksen, M. (eds)

Transience is found in every meeting, encounter and form of coexistence between people and things that exist and live by, or move across or along, the Black Sea. With particular attention to poetics, politics and aesthetics, this volume focuses on the scales of transient moments and histories, and enables readers to see and sense the many forms of transience that occur in a given landscape, sea or space.

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

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Terrorism and the Pandemic

Weaponizing of COVID-19

Gunaratna, R. & Pethö-Kiss, K.

The global pandemic has offered extraordinary opportunities for extremists and terrorists to mobilize themselves and revive as more powerful actors in the security landscape. But could these threat groups actually capitalize on the coronavirus crisis and advance their malevolent agendas? This book provides, for the first time, a true picture of novel trends since the pandemic outbreak.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology of Religion

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Resettled Iraqi Refugees in the United States

War, Refuge, Belonging, Participation, and Protest

Keyel, J.

The American war against Iraq has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and displaced millions of people. Between 2003 and 2017, more than 172,000 Iraqis resettled in the United States. This book explores the experiences of fifteen of them and presents insights into the core experience of life as a refugee from war.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

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Continental Encampment

Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East and Europe

Knudsen, A. J. & Berg, K. G. (eds)

During the past decade, Syria’s displacement crisis has made the Middle East one of the world’s foremost refugee-hosting regions. The volume explores responses to mass migration and traces the genealogy of humanitarian containment from the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of the first refugee camps to the present-day displacement ‘crises’ and the re-bordering of Europe.

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

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Red America

Greek Communists in the United States, 1920-1950

Karpozilos, K.

Socialism, Communism, and Anarchism were integral components of 19th and 20th century immigrant life. Red America explores the relationship between the immigrant experience in the United States and political radicalism, especially as it relates to the lesser explored Greek American experience in the 20th century.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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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 January 2023
This Land Is Not For Sale

Trust and Transitions in Northern Uganda

Meinert, L. & Reynolds Whyte, S. (eds)

As violent conflict has declined in northern Uganda, tensions and mistrust concerning land have increased. Residents try to deal with acquisitions by investors and exclusions from forests and wildlife reserves. Using extended case studies, collaborating researchers analyze the principles and practices that shape access to land. Contributors examine the multiplicity of land claims, the nature of transactions, and the management of conflicts.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies Sociology

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The Marseille Mosaic

A Mediterranean City at the Crossroads of Cultures

Ingram, M. & Kleppinger, K. (eds)

Moving across disciplines, The Marseille Mosaic integrates a diverse range of sources and methods to reveal France’s second city in the national imagination as a critical site for postcolonial memory and urban transformation as they crucially interact with debates in contemporary French society.

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

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Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants

Returning to the Jewish Past in Spain and Portugal

Kandiyoti, D. & Benmayor, R. (eds)

In 2015, both Portugal and Spain passed laws enabling descendants of Sephardi Jews to obtain citizenship, an historic offer of reconciliation. Drawing from scholarly and first-person essays, Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants analyzes the memory and afterlives of those who were wronged, and how reconciliatory rights impact the lives of those affected.

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

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Polarized Pasts

Heritage and Belonging in Times of Political Polarization

Niklasson, E. (ed)

When questions of belonging enter the forefront of political debates, so too does heritage. From different ends at the political spectrum, people invoke the past to validate their stance on immigration, equality and security. Together, the texts pave the way for a better understanding of the role of the heritage in society.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Cultural Studies (General) Archaeology

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Calling on the Community

Understanding Participation in the Heritage Sector, an Interactive Governance Perspective

Rodenberg, J., Wagenaar, P., & Burgers, G.-J. (eds)

There is a call in Heritage Studies to democratize heritage practices and place local communities at the forefront; heritage plays an important role in identity formation, and therefore in social inclusion and exclusion. This series of studies contributes to a better understanding of public participation in the heritage sector by applying Public Administration theory on collaborative governance.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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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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Cosmopolitan Refugees

Somali Migrant Women in Nairobi and Johannesburg

Ripero-Muñiz, N.

Exploring the dynamics of identity formation processes in diasporic spaces, this book analyses how gender, cultural and religious practices are renegotiated in a situation of displacement. The author presents the comparative case study of Somali migrant women in Nairobi and Johannesburg: two cosmopolitan urban hubs in the global South.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Glimpses of Hope

The Rise of Industrial Labor at the Urban Margins of Nepal

Hoffmann, M.

Over the last decade, Nepal has witnessed significant urban growth and an expanding urban middle class. Glimpses of Hope tells the story of the people who enable some of the middle class consumer practices in urban Nepal. The book focuses on workers in modern food-processing, water-bottling, house building, and sand-mining industries and explores how workers see such forms of work, where union organization can help, and how work opportunities emerge along lines of gender and ethnicity.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sociology

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From Missionaries to Main Street

The Story of One Sgaw Karen Family in the United States

Gilhooly, D.

The Htoo family, who are Sgaw Karen and originally from Burma, resettled in the United States refugee resettlement program in 2007. This book chronicles their life in their new country. The book provides historical and cultural information on the Sgaw Karen people against the backdrop of the Htoo family’s path from Burma to Thailand.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Life with Durham Cathedral

A Laboratory of Community, Experience and Building

Calvert, A. J.

An ethnographic account of daily life in Durham Cathedral, this book examines the processes of negotiation and change between a community and their cathedral.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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A Magpie’s Tale

Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on the Kazakh of Western Mongolia

Portisch, A. O.

Telling the story of the author's time living with a Kazakh family in a small village in western Mongolia, this book contextualizes the family’s personal stories within the broader history of the region.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Refugee and Migration Studies

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The Art of Fate Calculation

Practicing Divination in Taipei, Beijing, and Kaifeng

Homola, S.

The Art of Fate Calculationexplores how conceptions of fate circulate in Chinese and Taiwanese societies while resisting uniformization and institutionalization. This is not only due to the stigma of “superstition” but also to the internal dynamic of fate calculation practice and learning.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Sociology

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End Game

The 1989 Revolution in East Germany

Kowalczuk, I.-S.

Focusing on major shifts in East Germany leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall, End Game accounts for everyday life from the autumn of 1989 to the first free elections in March of 1990. With an understanding of the events of 1989 as a citizens’ movement as a whole, the volume contextualizes the societal reactions to a nation’s large scale political changes.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Mythology and Symbolism of Eurasia and Indigenous Americas

Manifestations in Artifacts and Rituals

Oleszkiewicz-Peralba, M.

There is a continuity of a cohesive system of symbols and patterns from the Paleolithic and the Neolithic that survives in present-day imagery. The understanding of commonalities underlying these seemingly distant cultures demonstrates that, despite appearances, there is more that unites us than that divides us.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)

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Taking Our Water for the City

The Archaeology of New York City’s Watershed Communities

Beisaw, A. M.

Tap water enables the development of cities in locations with insufficient natural resources to support such populations. This archaeological examination of the New York City watershed reveals the cultural costs of urban water systems. Urban water systems do more than reroute water from one place to another. At best, they redefine communities. At worst, they erase them.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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The Politics of Making Kinship

Historical and Anthropological Perspectives

Alber, E. (ed)

Leading us beyond current narratives on the decline of kinship which assume kinship’s existence since the dawn of civilization, The Politics of Making Kinship interrogates kinship’s geneses, constructions, elaborations, implementations, and enforcing agents across a long view of European history, and demonstrates how kinship is woven through modern societies.

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

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The Servants of Empire

Sponsored German Women’s Colonization in Southwest Africa, 1896-1945

ODonnell, K. M.

In the late 1890s through the 1940s, Germany enacted race-based population policies in Southwest Africa which instrumentalized German women as colonists. The Servants of Empire engages the history of these colonial operatives, mostly comprised of poor, white women, as they became an unsettling force in colonial settlements and contributed to the rise of the German embrace of genocide, National Socialism, and apartheid.

Subjects: Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present

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Sentient Ecologies

Xenophobic Imaginaries of Landscape

Coțofană, A. & Kuran, H. (eds)

Employing methodological perspectives from the fields of political geography, environmental studies, anthropology, and their cognate disciplines, this volume explores alternative logics of sentient landscapes as racist, xenophobic, and right-wing.

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

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Pepsi and the Pill

Motherhood, Politics and Film in Britain and France, 1958–1969

Oliver-Powell, M.

With the reintroduction of many important debates surrounding reproductive rights, migration and nationalism, Pepsi and the Pill brings to the fore examples and critical historical and media analysis of British and French films in the popular culture and political discourses of 1960s Western Europe.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Sexual Self-Fashioning

Iranian Dutch Narratives of Sexuality and Belonging

Roodsaz, R.

Focusing on premarital sex, homosexuality, and cohabitation outside marriage, this book provides an ethnographic account of sexuality among the Iranian Dutch. It argues that by embracing, rejecting, and questioning modernity in stories about sexuality, the Iranian Dutch actively engage in processes of self-fashioning.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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Punching Back

Gender, Religion and Belonging in Women-Only Kickboxing

Rana, J.

In the Netherlands, girls and young women are increasingly active in women-only kickboxing. The general assumption, in the Netherlands and in western Europe more broadly, is that women’s sport is a form of secular, feminist empowerment. Muslim women’s participation would then exemplify the incongruence of Islam with the modern, secular nation-state. Punching Back provides a detailed ethnographic study that contests this view.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

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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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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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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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Fairies, Ghosts, and Santa Claus

Tinted Glasses, Fetishes, and the Politics of Seeing

Doerr, N. M.

Investigating the politics of seeing and its effects, this book draws on Slavoj Žižek’s notion of fetish and Walter Benjamin’s notion of the optical unconscious to offer new concepts: “tinted glasses”, through which we see the world; “unit-thinking”, which renders the world as consisting of discrete units; and “coherants”, which help fragmented experiences cohere into something intelligible.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Theory and Methodology

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The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky

Into Germany at the End of World War II

Lerg, C. A. (ed.)

The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky reproduces and critically examines Melvin J. Lasky’s diary, which expounds intense and insightful notes on German realities following the aftermath of World War Two and the ideological conflicts between the East and West.

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

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Enlightening Encounters

The Journeys of an Anthropologist

Gudeman, S.

Drawing on his research in five Latin American countries, Steve Gudeman describes his anthropological fieldwork, bringing to life the excitement of gaining an understanding of the practices and ideas of others as well as the frustrations. He weaves into the text some of his findings as well as reflections on his own background that led to better fieldwork but also led him astray.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology

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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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Thinking Europe

A History of the European Idea since 1800

Andrén, M.

This title assesses the idea of Europe through its intellectual history. Exploring the concept of integration and the relationship between this and arguments for division and borders it reveals their interplay in the composition of the contemporary European identity.

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

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Beyond 'Hellenes' and 'Barbarians'

Asymmetrical Concepts in European Discourse

Postoutenko, K. (ed)

Surveying a variety of significant asymmetrical conceptualizations, Beyond 'Hellenes' and 'Barbarians' extends our current breadth of understanding of how ascriptive terms such as ‘civilization’ vs. ‘barbarity,’ or ‘order’ vs. ‘chaos’ functioned and continue to function in political, scientific, and fictional discourses.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century History: Medieval/Early Modern

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Football Nation

The Playing Fields of German Culture, History, and Society

Dawson, R., Heinsohn, B., Knabe, O., & McDougall, A. (eds)

Germany’s football culture has a historically rich background full of transnational entanglements, German identity formation, and fan cultures. Football Nation constructs new insights surrounding the multifaceted landscapes of German historical and contemporary football debates as it investigates football’s role in discourses on culture, history, and politics.

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

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Brewing Socialism

Coffee, East Germans, and Twentieth-Century Globalization

Kloiber, A.

Taking an uncommonly focused lens against the deep and active role coffee had in connecting East Germans to a global market, Brewing Socialism uncovers the significance of East German efforts to democratize coffee and how that focus on material cultural informed the everyday life of the Social Unity Party’s conceptualization of a modern social utopia.

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

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German–Jewish Studies

Next Generations

Wallach, K. & Elyada. A. (eds)

Applying current and evolving interdisciplinary scholarship to bring an original and comprehensive assessment of why German-Jewish studies as a field is vital to further our understanding of antisemitism, racism, and coloniality, German-Jewish Studies: Next Generations grounds the field’s necessity to the future of scholarship in the twenty-first century.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Jewish Studies

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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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Pacific Spaces

Translations and Transmutations

Engels-Schwarzpaul, A.-C., Lopesi, L., & Refiti, A. L. (eds)

Delving into Pacific spaces from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and interpretations, this book looks at how the anthropological and architectural can be connected.

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

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Gentrifications

Views from Europe

Chabrol, M., Collet, A., Giroud, M., Launay, L., Rousseau, M., Minassian, H. ter

Using a thorough analysis of the diversity of the forms, places and actors of gentrification in an attempt to isolate the ‘DNA’ of gentrification, the book addresses the place of social groups in cities, their competition over the appropriation of space, the infrastructure unequally offered to them by economic and political actors and the stakes of everyday social relationships.

Subjects: Urban Studies Sociology Anthropology (General)

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Ӧmie Sex Affiliation

A Papuan Nature

Rohatynskyj, M.

The practice of affiliating the female child with the mother and the male child with the father was considered a rare and inexplicable practice in Papua New Guinean ethnography at the time the original data was collected some forty years ago. Marta Rohatynskyj undertakes a shift in her analytical concepts to reveal the deep-seated disjuncture between female and male that this practice represents.

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

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Dynamics of Identification and Conflict

Anthropological Encounters

Hoehne, M. V., Gabbert, E. C., & Eidson, J. R. (eds)

Dealing with the dynamics of identification and conflict, this book uses theoretical orientations ranging from political ecology to rational choice theory, interpretive approaches, Marxism and multiscalar analysis. Case studies set in Africa, Europe and Central Asia are grouped in three sections devoted to pastoralism, identity and migration.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies

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Museum, Place, Architecture and Narrative

Nordic Maritime Museums’ Portrayals of Shipping, Seafarers and Maritime Communities

Bünz, A.

A characteristic trait of the maritime museums is that they are often located in a contemporary and/or historical environment from which the collections and narratives originate. This volume unravels the kinds of worlds and realities the Nordic maritime museums stage, which identities and national myths they depict, and how they make use of both the surrounding maritime environments and the architectural properties of the museum buildings.

Subjects: Museum Studies Archaeology Cultural Studies (General)

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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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Humboldt Revisited

The Impact of the German University on American Higher Education

Brandser, G. C.

Humboldt Revisited offers a fresh perspective on the contemporary discourse surrounding reform of European universities. Drawing from a rich selection of historical sources, this volume challenges the conventional historical narratives on the Humboldt University, providing new insight into the American reception of the German ideas.

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

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Ritual

What It Is, How It Works, and Why

Davis-Floyd, R. & Laughlin, C. D.

Designed for both academic and lay audiences, this book identifies the characteristics of ritual and, via multiple examples, details how ritual works on the human body and brain to produce its often profound effects. These include enhancing courage, effecting healing, and generating group cohesion by enacting cultural—or individual—beliefs and values. It also shows what happens when ritual fails.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Anthropology of Religion

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Critical Public Archaeology

Confronting Social Challenges in the 21st Century

Westmont, V. C. (ed)

Critical approaches to public archaeology have been in use since the 1980s, however only recently have archaeologists begun using critical theory in conjunction with public archaeology to challenge dominant narratives of the past. This volume brings together current work on the theory and practice of critical public archaeology from Europe and the United States to illustrate the ways that implementing critical approaches can introduce new understandings of the past and reveal new insights on the present.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) History (General)

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Historical Reenactment

New Ways of Experiencing History

Carretero, M., Wagoner, B., & Perez-Manjarrez, E. (eds)

The increasing number of historical reenactments, along with their growing popularity, are catching both attention in popular culture and in multiple academic disciplines. Historical Reenactment takes a transdisciplinary and global approach to define and theorize reenactments as an embedded cultural and material phenomenon.

Subjects: Memory Studies Performance Studies

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Managing Sacralities

Competing and Converging Claims of Religious Heritage

Hemel, E. van den, Salemink†, O., & Stengs, I. (eds)

What happens when religious sites, objects and practices become cultural heritage? Case studies from Denmark, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and the United Kingdom present an analysis of the paradoxes and challenges that arise when religious sites are transformed into heritage.

Subjects: Heritage Studies History (General) Anthropology of Religion

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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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Borders in East and West

Transnational and Comparative Perspectives

Berger, S. & Hashimoto, N. (eds)

The different ways of understanding borders, through culture, politics, or even religion, is transforming and requires multi-disciplinary approaches the complexity of interactions and tensions that may arise. Borders in East and West focuses on the relationships between Europe and East Asia through comparative case studies to challenge discourses and build new perspectives.

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

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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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Morality, Crisis and Capitalism

Anthropology for Troubled Times

Baldacchino, J.-P. & Mitchell, J. P. (eds)

With the growing numbers of displaced populations and the rise in the politics of fear and hate, we are facing challenges to our very ‘species-being’. Papers in the volume include ethnographic studies on the ‘refugee crisis’, the ‘financial crisis’ and the ‘rule of law’ crisis in the Mediterranean as well as the crisis of violence and hunger in South America.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies

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Pacific Automobilism

Adventure, Status and the Carnival of Mobility, 1970–2015

Mom, G.

In this expansive volume, historian Gijs Mom explores how contemporary mobility has been impacted by social, political, and economic forces on a global scale, as in light of local mobility cultures, the car as an ‘adventure machine’ seems to lose cultural influence in favor of the car’s status character.

Subjects: Transport Studies History: 20th Century to Present Mobility Studies

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Francophone Migrations, French Islam and Wellbeing

The Soninké Foyer in Paris

Accoroni, D.

Addressing several issues of significance in the fields of Anthropology of Migration, Politics of Healthcare, Religious and Francophone Studies, this book pursues an unprecedented line of research by bringing to the fore the geopolitical dimension of francophonie, understood as a political construct, as much as a cultural, artistic and a linguistic space, with French as common language.

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

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Risky Futures

Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North

Ulturgasheva, O. & Bodenhorn, B. (eds)

Examining the intersections between environmental conditions and geopolitical tensions, this book brings together a unique combination of authors who are local practitioners and international researchers, and considers the situations of environmental calamity and socio-economic risks faced by small populations.

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

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Unusual Death and Memorialization

Burial, Space, and Memory in the Post-Medieval North

Kallio-Seppa, T., Lipkin, S., Väre, T., Moilanen, U. & Tranberg, A. (eds)

Most cultures and societies have their own customs and traditions of treating their dead. In the past, some deceased received a burial that deviated from tradition. The reasons for unusual burial could result from reasons such as outbreaks of epidemics or wars, or from premature births, distinctive social status, or disability. The case studies introduce varied views on ‘otherness’ that are visible in burial customs and memorialization.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Memory Studies

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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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Puzzling Stories

The Aesthetic Appeal of Cognitive Challenge in Film, Television and Literature

Willemsen, S. & Kiss, M. (eds)

Many films and novels defy our ability to make sense of the plot. Puzzling Stories offers the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and trans-medial approach to the question of cognitive challenge in narrative art, bringing together psychological, philosophical, formal-historical, and empirical perspectives from leading scholars across these fields.

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

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New Perspectives on Moral Change

Anthropologists and Philosophers Engage with Transformations of Life Worlds

Eriksen, C. & Hämäläinen, N. (eds)

The world we live in is constantly changing. Climate change, transforming gender conceptions, emerging issues of food consumption, novel forms of family life and technological developments are altering central areas of our forms of life. This raises questions of how to cope with and understand the moral changes implicit in such alterations. This anthology is the first to address moral change as such.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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Towards a Collaborative Memory

German Memory Work in a Transnational Context

Jones, S.

For the first time, this volume creates a sustained study that positions together transnational memory and relational sociology to consider the memory of the GDR. Towards a Collaborative Memory advances the field of transnational memory studies and develops new theoretical approaches that re-evaluate our understanding of actor-driven European memory.

Subjects: Memory Studies Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present

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Dynamics of Emigration

Émigré Scholars and the Production of Historical Knowledge in the 20th Century

Berger, S. & Müller, P. (eds)

In the dictatorships of the twentieth century, historians have frequently been exiled from both fascist and communist regimes. This book discusses the experience of exile and asks why some of them were successful in establishing themselves in their new host countries while others failed.

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

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The Return of Polyandry

Kinship and Marriage in Central Tibet

Fjeld, H. E.

This book describes the surprising increase in polyandry in Panam valley during the 1980s. It explores married lives in polyandrous houses and develops a theory of a flexible kinship of potentiality through the lens of a farming village in Tibet Autonomous Region.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Defining and Measuring Diversity in Archaeology

Another Step Toward an Evolutionary Synthesis of Culture

Eren, M. I. & Buchanan, B. (eds)

Calculating the diversity of biological or cultural classes is a fundamental way of describing, analyzing, and understanding the world around us. Featuring studies of archaeological diversity ranging from the data-driven to the theoretical, from the Paleolithic to the Historic periods, authors illustrate the range of data sets to which diversity measures can be applied, as well as offer new methods to examine archaeological diversity.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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200 Years of Peace

New Perspectives on Modern Swedish Foreign Policy

Biltekin, N., Müller, L., & Petersson, M. (eds)

In the wake of Sweden’s anniversary of 200 years of peace in 2014, this volume brings for the first time a targeted approach to the concept of claimed Swedish exceptionality. Taking on the nation’s policies of neutrality, 200 Years of Peace centers discussion around what it means for a nation to endure a uniquely long period of time without any pronounced conflict.

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

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Rethinking Social Movements after '68

Selves and Solidarities in West Germany and Beyond

Davis, B., Brühöfener, F., & Milder, S. (eds)

With a focus on West Germany and Europe, Social Movements after ’68 bridges the 1970s and 1980s as a vital period of European political development and social change. Looking past the known ruptures and changes in the history of European social movements, this volume brings together interconnected social movements including environmental, women’s and gay rights movements.

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

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Tangled Mobilities

Places, Affects, and Personhood across Social Spheres in Asian Migration

Fresnoza-Flot, A. & Liu-Farrer, G. (eds)

Increasingly, scholarly works are approaching the challenges of peoples’ spatial movements across state frontiers as tied to various forms of mobilities that people experience. Using a plural and comparative lens with case studies, Tangled Mobilities brings fresh insight to the wider social phenomenon of mobility and the way places, affects, and personhood are shaped by and connected to it.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

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Field Manual for the Archaeology of Ritual, Religion, and Magic

Augé , C. R.

By bringing together in one place specific objects, materials, and features indicating ritual, religious, or magical belief used by people around the world and through time, this tool will assist archaeologists in identifying evidence of belief-related behaviors and broadening their understanding of how those behaviors may also be seen through less obvious evidential lines.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology of Religion

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Heritage, Gentrification and Resistance in the Neoliberal City

Hammami, F., Jewesbury, D., & Valli, C. (eds)

What happens when versions of the past become silenced, suppressed or privileged due to urban restructuring? In this volume, the authors explore a variety of attempts to interrupt and interrogate urban restructuring, and to imagine alternative forms of urban organization, produced by diverse coalitions of resisting groups and individuals. Armed with historical narratives, oral histories, objects, physical built environment, memorials and intangible aspects of heritage that include traditions, local knowledge, experiences and memories, authors challenge the ‘devaluation’ of their neighbourhoods in official heritage and development narratives.

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

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Where is the Good in the World?

Ethical Life between Social Theory and Philosophy

Henig, D., Strhan, A., & Robbins, J. (eds)

Bringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic case studies from diverse settings, this volume explores how different disciplinary perspectives on the good might engage with and enrich each other. This is the first interdisciplinary engagement with what it means to study the good as a fundamental aspect of social life.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Anthropology of Religion

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Chinese Medicine in East Africa

An Intimacy with Strangers

Hsu, E.

Based on fieldwork conducted between 2001-2008 in urban East Africa, this book explores who the patients, practitioners and paraprofessionals doing Chinese medicine were in this early period of renewed China-Africa relations.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

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Making Things Happen

Community Participation and Disaster Reconstruction in Pakistan

Murphy Thomas, J.

Making Things Happen is about the sociocultural side of post-disaster infrastructure reconstruction, drawing on one project, the Pakistan Earthquake Reconstruction and Recovery Project (PERRP). As disasters are increasing in number and intensity so too will be the need for reconstruction, for which PERRP has lessons to offer.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Development Studies

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Crossroads of Heritage and Religion

Legacy and Sustainability of World Heritage Site Moravian Christiansfeld

Damsholt, T., Melchior, M. R., Petterson, C., & Reeh, T., (eds)

Looking at the crossroads between heritage and religion through the case study of Moravian Christiansfeld, designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in July 2015, this anthology reaches back to the eighteenth century when the church settlement was founded, examines its legacy within Danish culture and modern society, and brings this history into the present and the ongoing heritagization processes.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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Working With Diagrams

Engelmann, L., Humphrey, C. & Lynteris, C.

Arising from the need to go beyond the semiotic, cognitive, epistemic and symbolic reading of diagrams, this book looks at what diagrams are capable of in scholarly work. Rather than attempting to define what diagrams are, and what their dietic capacity might be, contributions to this volume draw together the work diagrams do in the development of theories.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline

Lewis, B.

Re-evaluating the evolution Oswald Spengler’s political activities and his work, Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline explains the outcome of Spengler’s meta-historical considerations on world history and the practical demands of Realpolitik. This volume takes a novel approach to one of the most important thinkers of the Weimar Republic and his contributions to the complex discourse of German national renewal.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Spanish Laughter

Humor and Its Sense in Modern Spain

Calvo Maturana, A. (ed)

Exploring various forms of humor in Modern Spain since their entry into the eighteenth-century public sphere, Spanish Laughter takes on the comforting, transgressive, conservative, rebellious, and other dynamic forms of humor as they have changed and contributed to the building of Spain’s cultural framework and historiographical panorama.

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

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Communication

A House Seen from Everywhere

Klyukanov, I. E.

Focusing on the scientific study of communication, this book is a systematic examination. To that end, the natural, social, cultural, and rational scientific perspectives on communication are presented and then brought together in one unifying framework of the semiotic square, showing how all four views are interconnected.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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What Remains

Responses to the Legacy of Christa Wolf

Fetz, G. A. & Herminghouse, P. (eds)

In response to the legacy of Christa Wolf, What Remains addresses arguably the most important German writer in the period of since World War II until her death in 2011. Scholars across the U.S. and Europe address both the importance of her role in contributing to the cultural life of East Germany and the controversies surrounding her life and works in the aftermath of the collapse of East Germany and the process of German unification.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Literary Studies

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Ethnographers Before Malinowski

Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922

Rosa, F. & Vermeulen, H. F. (eds)

At a time when anthropologists claim new ethnographic experiences, a second chance should be given to older ethnographic texts. Recovering monographs produced c.1870-1922 that dispute canonic models of writing culture, the present volume challenges the assumption that fieldwork carried out within a single context by a single individual, with its corresponding output, the monograph, was a twentieth-century invention.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Colonial History

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Technology and the Common Good

The Unity and Division of a Democratic Society

Batteau, A. W.

Building on the work of Elinor Ostrom (Governing the Commons) the author examines how the different shared goods of a democratic society are shaped by technology and demonstrates how club goods, common pool resources, and public goods are supported, enhanced, and disrupted by technology.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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In the Shadow of Auschwitz

German Massacres against Polish Civilians, 1939–1945

Brewing, D.

An in-depth analysis of German massacres in Poland over the whole period of German occupation during the Second World War, this innovative study recounts the widely forgotten ethnic Polish civilian victims. Using both German and Polish sources, In the Shadow of Auschwitz uncovers for the first time the depredations that were inflicted on Polish society under Nazi rule.

Subjects: Genocide History History: World War II

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Migration and Health

Challenging the Borders of Belonging, Care, and Policy

El-Shaarawi, N. & Larchanché, S. (eds)

Despite the centrality of migration in our contemporary world, scholarship on mobility and health frequently separates migrants according to legal status, country of origin, destination, or health concern. Yet people on the move and health systems face challenges and opportunities that transcend these boundaries, including border fortification, neoliberal agendas, and climate change. This volume challenges these epistemic borders.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

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The Cracked Art World

Conflict, Austerity, and Community Arts in Northern Ireland

Rush, K.

This book presents a nuanced view of Northern Ireland, a place at once deeply mired in its past and seeking to forge a new future for itself as a ‘post-post-conflict’ place within the context of a changing United Kingdom, a disintegrating Europe, and a globalized world.

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

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Museum Times

Changing Histories in South Africa

Witz, L.

Museums flourished in post-apartheid South Africa. In older museums, there were renovations on the go, and at least fifty new museums opened. Most sought to depict violence and suffering under apartheid and the growth of resistance. These unlikely journeys are tracked as museums became a primary setting for contesting histories. The author demonstrates how an institution concerned with the conservation of the past is simultaneously a site for changing history.

Subjects: Museum Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Shakespeare and the First Hamlet

Bourus, T. (ed)

The first edition of Hamlet – often called ‘Q1’, shorthand for ‘first quarto’ – was published in 1603. The essays in this collected volume explore the ways in which we might approach Q1’s Hamlet, from performance to book history, from Shakespeare’s relationships with this contemporaries to the shape of his whole career.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

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Food Connections

Production, Exchange and Consumption in West African Migration

Abranches, M.

Food Connections follows the movement of food from its production sites in West Africa to its final spaces of consumption in Europe. It is an ethnographic study of economic and social life amongst a close-knit community of food producers, traders andconsumers and a wide range of small intermediaries that operate in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

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Wine Is Our Bread

Labour and Value in Moldovan Winemaking

Ana, D.

Based on ethnographic work in a Moldovan winemaking village, Wine Is Our Bread shows how workers in a prestigious winery have experienced the country’s recent entry into the globalized wine market and how their productive activities at home and in the winery contribute to the value of commercial terroir wines.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Political and Economic Anthropology

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Making Better Lives

Hope, Freedom and Home-Making among People Sleeping Rough in Paris

Lenhard, J.

In this ethnographic study, Johannes Lenhard observes the daily practices, routines and techniques of people who are sleeping rough on the streets of Paris. The book focusses on their survival practises, their short-term desires and hopes, how they earn money through begging, how they choose the best place to sleep at night and what role drugs and alcohol play in their lives.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Urban Studies

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Theorizing Relations in Indigenous South America

González Gálvez, M., Di Giminiani, P., & Bacchiddu, G. (eds)

Whether invented, discovered, implicit, or directly addressed, relations remain the main focus of most anthropological inquiries. These relations, once conceptualized in ethnographic fieldwork as self-evident connections between discrete social units, have been increasingly explored through local ontological theories. This collected volume explores how ethnographies of indigenous South America have helped to inspire this analytic shift.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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Continental Transfers

Cultural and Political Exchange among Spain, Italy and Argentina, 1914-1945

Fuentes Codera, M. & Dogliani, P. (eds)

The cultural and political connections between Spain, Italy and Argentina developed complex transnational transfers over the course of two World Wars. Bringing together scholars from all three nations, Continental Transfers configures a multidirectional approach to the nations’ reciprocal exchange using new theoretical ground to understand the development links to the construction of national and supranational identities, such as Latinism and Hispanism.

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

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Profiles of Anthropological Praxis

An International Casebook

Redding, T. M. & Cheney, C. C. (eds)

The book Profiles of Anthropological Praxis is something of a sequel to Anthropological Praxis: Translating Knowledge into Action, published in 1987 (Westview Press). As a casebook of anthropological projects, the new version shares a fascinating breadth of award-winning projects undertaken by applied anthropologists to address the needs of an array of stakeholders and situations.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Theory and Methodology

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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 Media Studies

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Bulldozer Capitalism

Accumulation, Ruination, and Dispossession in Northeastern Turkey

Evren, E.

Set in the resource frontier of northeastern Turkey, Bulldozer Capitalism studies the rise and decline of an anti-dam/anti-displacement campaign and the political responses to other extractive projects that it helped to shape in its aftermath.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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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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Grazing Communities

Pastoralism on the Move and Biocultural Heritage Frictions

Bindi, L. (ed)

The present critical discourse on sustainable and responsible development implies a change of practices, a huge socio-economic transformation, and the return of new shepherds and herders in different European regions. This book is an occasion to reconsider grazing communities’ frictions in the new global heritage scenario.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Development Studies

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Hotbeds of Licentiousness

The British Glamour Film and the Permissive Society

Halligan, B.

By focusing on a series of colorful filmmakers whose work, while omnipresent during the 1970s, now remains critically ignored, Hotbeds of Licentiousness explores pornography as a lens through which to view radical changes in British society.

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

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The Walls of Santiago

Social Revolution and Political Aesthetics in Contemporary Chile

Gordon-Zolov, T. & Zolov, E.

The response in Chile to Santiago’s metro’s fare hike in October of 2019 has grown into a strong and multi-faceted resistance movement. Through incisive and topical analysis, the authors offer a beautiful catalog of photographs of the murals, graffiti, and other forms of political art, reflecting on these aesthetic traditions and their relationship to the broader context of global protest movements and the long shadow cast by memories of the Pinochet regime.

Subjects: Media Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Environing Empire

Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa

Kalb, M.

Between the infamous Benguela Current and the Namib Desert, nature significantly effected the progression of German imperialism and the creation of German Southwest Africa. Environing Empire reveals the environmental infrastructures that defined not only the culture of German colonial entanglements, but the fantasy that drove Lebensraum during the Second Reich.

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

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Thrift and Its Paradoxes

From Domestic to Political Economy

Alexander, C. & Sosna, D. (eds)

Through a wide range of ethnographic contexts this book explores how practices and moralities of thrift are intertwined with austerity, debt, welfare, and patronage across various social and temporal scales and are constantly re-negotiated at the nexus of socio-economic, religious, and kinship ideals and praxis.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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Anglo-American Relations and the Transmission of Ideas

A Shared Political Tradition?

Dobson, A. & Marsh, S. (eds)

With a central objective to interrogate the notion of a shared Anglo-American political tradition, Anglo-American Relations and the Transmission of Ideas opens up new debate on the nature of the ‘first principles’ that were to frame the development of Anglo-American ideas embedded in our everyday institutions and organizations.

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

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Collecting Educational Media

Making, Storing and Accessing Knowledge

Hertling, A. & Carrier, P. (eds)

Over the last two centuries, collectors from around the world have historicized, politicized, and digitized media in the pursuit of knowledge and education. This collected volume explores how collections of educational media influence the ways in which people learn in both the present and future.

Subjects: Educational Studies Media Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Minority Discourses in Germany since 1990

Gezen, E., Layne, P., & Skolnik, J. (eds)

Minorities and Minority Discourse in Germany since 1990 opens the question of why ethnic minorities in Germany are often discussed in isolation. Whereas most studies examine Black Germans, Jews in Germany, or Turkish Germans on their own terms vis-à-vis the majority German society, this volume takes on unique and comparative perspectives on an increasingly complex German society.

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

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Arctic Abstractive Industry

Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North

Mason, A. (ed)

Examining the processes at work in sites of industrial extraction and ecological vulnerability in the contemporary Arctic, this book looks at the displacements that conceal exploitation, on the one hand, and appropriations of value on the other.

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

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Fire on the Island

Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu

Bratrud, T.

In 2014, the island of Ahamb in Vanuatu became the scene of a startling Christian revival movement led by thirty children with ‘spiritual vision’. Based on twenty months of ethnographic fieldwork on Ahamb between 2010 and 2017, this book investigates how upheavals like the Ahamb revival can emerge to address and sometimes resolve social problems.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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African Political Systems Revisited

Changing Perspectives on Statehood and Power

Bošković, A. & Schlee, G. (eds)

Reexamining a classical work of Social Anthropology, African Political Systems (1940), edited by Fortes and Evans-Pritchard, this book looks at the colonial and academic context from which the work arose, as well as its reception and its subject matter and looks at how the work can help with analysis of current politics in Africa.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Colonial History Development Studies

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Nurturing the Other

First Contacts and the Making of Christian Bodies in Amazonia

Grotti, V.

Combining archival research, oral history and long-term ethnography, this book studies relations between Amerindians and outsiders such as American missionaries through a series of contact expeditions that led to the 'pacification' of three native Amazonian groups in Suriname and French Guiana.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Anthropology of Religion

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The Precarity of Masculinity

Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon

Kovač, U.

This book follows young Cameroonian men who aspire to migrate abroad and play football for a living while analyzing masculinities in West Africa. The book argues that the athletic aspirations of young Cameroonians and their propensity to consult with Pentecostal Men of God offer new insights about the nature of social mobility in the neoliberal age.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Indigenous Resurgence

Decolonialization and Movements for Environmental Justice

Dhillon, J.

Indigenous peoples around the world are standing up and speaking out against global capitalism to protect the land, water, and air. By placing Indigenous politics, histories, and ontologies at the center of our social movements for environmental justice, Indigenous Resurgence positions environmental justice within historical, social, political, and economic contexts.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology Colonial History

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A New African Elite

Place in the Making of a Bridge Generation

Pellow, D.

Focusing on a sub-set of the Dagomba of northern Ghana, this book looks at the first generation to go through secondary school in the north. This book charts their path into elite status and argues that this generation uses the tools gained through education and social connections to influence politics back home.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies Development Studies

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The World beyond the West

Perspectives from Eastern Europe

Kałczewiak, M. & Kozłowska, M. (eds)

Exploring the evolution of Eastern European discourses in Asia, Africa and Latin America in nineteenth and twentieth century, this volume locates the mechanisms and strategies that diverse Eastern European social actors adopted when discussing the non-European world. The Eastern European perspective is not only an important addition to the study of orientalism and post coloniality, but the transnational links in-between Eastern Europe show the region’s importance to a global history.

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

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Engaging Environments in Tonga

Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Relations in a Changing World

Perminow, A. A.

On March 11, 2011, a tsunami warning was issued for Tonga in Polynesia. On the low and small island of Kotu, people were unperturbed in the face of pending catastrophe. The book is an ethnography of the relationship between people and their environment based on fieldwork over three decades.

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

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Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined

A European History of Concepts Beyond the Nation State

Ihalainen, P. & Holmila, A. (eds)

Understanding the dynamics between nationalisms and internationalisms allows evaluating ongoing processes and intervening in current debates. Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined, uses a multidisciplinary approach to a long term and macro-level history of international projects since the eighteenth century to assess how spaces of politics have been debated and redefined in different European political cultures.

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

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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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Self in the World

Connecting Life's Extremes

Hart, K.

The eminent anthropologist Keith Hart reflects on a life of learning, sharing and remembering to offer readers the means of connecting life’s extremes – individual and society, local and global, personal and impersonal dimensions of existence and explores what it is that makes us fully human.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Animals, Plants and Afterimages

The Art and Science of Representing Extinction

Bienvenue, V. & Chare, N. (eds)

From quaggas to thylacine to dinosaurs, Animals, Plants and Afterimages brings together leading scholars in the humanities and life sciences to explore how extinct species are represented in media, art, literature and elsewhere, crossing academic boundaries to explore how portrayals of disappeared species embody cultural assumptions.

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

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The Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance

Analyzing Political Street Art in Latin America

Bogerts, L.

Through illuminating case studies of street art in Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Caracas, and Mexico City, The Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance explores the visual strategies of persuasion and meaning-making employed by both rulers and resisters to foster self-legitimization, identification, and mobilization.

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

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Forging Architectural Tradition

National Narratives, Monument Preservation and Architectural Work in the Nineteenth Century

Damjanović, D. & Łupienko, Al. (eds)

During the nineteenth century, a change developed in the way architectural objects from the distant past were viewed by contemporaries. Architectural heritage often was (and still is) an important element of nation building. Authors address the process of building national myths around certain architectural objects. National narratives are questioned, as is the position architectural heritage played in the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries.

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

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Contested Holdings

Museum Collections in Political, Epistemic and Artistic Processes of Return

Bodenstein, F., Otoiu, D., & Troelenberg, E.-M. (eds)

Covering a range of case studies and a global geography, authors aim to historicize and bring depth to contemporary debates in relation to both the return of material culture and human remains. Defined as contested holdings, differing museum collections ranging from fine arts to physical anthropology provide connections between the treatment and conceptualization of collections that generally occupy separate realms in the museum world.

Subjects: Museum Studies Archaeology Cultural Studies (General)

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Moving Frames

Photographs in German Cinema

Collenberg-González, C. & Sheehan, M. P. (eds)

Through an intermedial approach combining studies on cinema and photography, Moving Frames addresses precise historical moments uniquely in a German context. Across films both in and outside the canon, this volume tackles those specific historical moments experienced in media forms to gauge the cultural, political, and transnational trends in humanity’s desire for agency and how that agency is represented.

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

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Afropolitan Horizons

Essays toward a Literary Anthropology of Nigeria

Hannerz, U.

Nigeria is a country shaped by internal diversity and transnational connections, past and present. Leading Nigerian writers from Chinua Achebe, Amos Tutuola and Wole Soyinka to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Teju Cole have portrayed these Nigerian Issues, and have also written about some of the momentous events in Nigerian history. Afropolitan Horizons discusses their work alongside other novelists and commentators.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Literary Studies Anthropology of Religion

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Cooling Down

Local Responses to Global Climate Change

Hoffman, S. M., Eriksen, T. H., & Mendes, P. (eds)

Climate change is a slowly advancing crisis sweeping over the planet and affecting different habitats in strikingly diverse ways. While nations have signed treaties and implemented policies, most actual climate change assessments, adaptations, and countermeasures take place at the local level. This book portrays the diversity of explanations and remedies as expressed at the community level.

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

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Configuring Contagion

Ethnographies of Biosocial Epidemics

Meinert, L. & Seeberg, J. (eds)

Expanding our understanding of contagion further than typical notions of infection and pandemics, this book widens the field to include biosocial epidemics. The chapters propose varied and detailed answers to questions about the epidemic and contagious potential of specific infections and non-infectious conditions.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

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Refugees on the Move

Crisis and Response in Turkey and Europe

Balkan, E. & Kutlu Tonak, Z. (eds)

Refugees on the Move highlights and explores the profound complexities of the current refugee issue by focusing specifically on Syrian refugees in Turkey and other European countries and responses from the host countries involved. The book examines the causes of the movement of refugee populations, and host governments’ attempts to manage and overcome the so-called “refugee crisis”.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Opening Up the University

Teaching and Learning with Refugees

Cantat, C., Cook, I., & Rajaram, P. K. (eds)

Including contributions from educators, administrators, practitioners, and students, Opening Up the University addresses specific points relating to the access and success of refugees in higher education. This expansive collected volume aims to inspire and question those who are considering creating their own interventions, suggesting concrete avenues for further action within existing academic structures.

Subjects: Educational Studies Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

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Times of History, Times of Nature

Temporalization and the Limits of Modern Knowledge

Ekstrom, A. & Bergwik, S. (eds)

Times of History, Times of Nature engages with this historical shift in temporal sensibilities through a combination of detailed case studies and synthesizing efforts. Focusing on the history of knowledge, media theory, and environmental humanities, this volume explores the rich and nuanced notions of time and temporality that have emerged in response to climate change.

Subjects: History (General) Environmental Studies (General) Media Studies

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Durable Solutions

Challenges with Implementing Global Norms for Internally Displaced Persons in Georgia

Funke, C.

Focusing on Georgia, this book presents a theoretical and empirical study on the implementation of durable solutions for internally displaced persons (IDPs). Building on extensive field research, it describes and explains the considerable problems which Georgia faces in establishing global norms, as well as the ongoing hardship that IDPs experience.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies

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Representing 21st-Century Migration in Europe

Performing Borders, Identities and Texts

González Ortega, N. & Martínez García, A. B. (eds)

The 21st century has witnessed some of the largest human migrations in history. Europe in particular has seen a major influx of refugees, redefining notions of borders and national identity. This interdisciplinary volume offers innovative interpretations of contemporary migration to Europe, engaging with the ongoing debate on forced mobility.

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

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An American Icon in Puerto Rico

Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play

Aguiló-Pérez, E. R.

Since her creation in 1959, Barbie has become an icon of femininity to girls all over the world. In this monograph, author Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez explores the ways through which women and girls in Puerto Rico construct their own identities in relation to femininity, body image, race, and nationalism through Barbie play.

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

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Walls and Gateways

Contested Heritage in Dubrovnik

Loades, C. M.

Walls and Gateways provides an ethnographic case study, which explores how the production of Dubrovnik’s World Heritage intersects with the reconstruction and consolidation of identities and locality in the city’s post-war context. The book analyses how representations, perceptions and uses of Dubrovnik’s heritage are embedded in particular social and political structural conditions, cultural practices, materiality and place.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Anthropology (General) Memory Studies

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Land and the Mortgage

History, Culture, Belonging

Rodima-Taylor, D. & Shipton, P. (eds)

The mortgaging of land is not just economic and legal but also social and cultural. Here, anthropologists, historians, and economists explore origins, variations, and meanings of the land mortgage, and the risks to homes and livelihoods.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

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Neoliberalizing Diversity in Liberal Arts College Life

Urciuoli, B.

Far from being synonymous with race or other forms of social difference, diversity is a construct frequently contrasting with the reality of students’ lives. Neoliberalizing Diversity in Liberal Arts College Life focuses on how neoliberal diversity operates at one liberal arts college, exploring the relationship between higher education and neoliberalism.

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

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An Urban Future for Sápmi?

Indigenous Urbanization in the Nordic States and Russia

Berg-Nordlie, M., Dankertsen, A, & Winsvold, M. (eds)

Presenting the political and cultural processes that occur within the indigenous Sámi people of North Europe as they undergo urbanization, this book examines how they have retained their sense of history and culture in this new setting. The book is written by a team of researchers, mostly Sámi, from all the countries covered in the book.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies Sociology

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Entrepreneurs of Identity

The Islamic State’s Symbolic Repertoire

Günther, C.

Understanding the Islamic State’s ideologues as ‘entrepreneurs of identity’, this book explores how the group defined categories of social identity and used these categories as tools of communicative and cognitive structuring.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies

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The Vienna Gestapo, 1938-1945

Crimes, Perpetrators, Victims

Boeckl-Klamper, E., Mang, T., & Neugebauer, W.

The Vienna Gestapo was the most important instrument of Nazi terror on Austrian soil. Through expert historical analysis of the Vienna Gestapo in the years 1938-1945, this volume provides a comprehensive presentation of not only the victims of persecution but also of the structures, organization and individuals actively involved on the Gestapo side.

Subjects: History: World War II Jewish Studies

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Migration in the Making of the Gulf Space

Social, Political, and Cultural Dimensions

Bouzas, A. M. & Casini, L. (eds)

Combining visual and literary analyses and original ethnographic studies as part of a more general political reflection, Migration in the Making of Gulf Space examines the role of migrants and non-citizens in the processes of settling in the Arab States of the Gulf region.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Françoise Héritier

Gaillard, G.

A great intellectual figure, Françoise Héritier succeeded Claude Lévi-Strauss as the Chair of Anthropology at the Collège de France in 1982. She was both an Africanist, author of magnificent works on the Samo population, the scientific progenitor of kinship studies, the creator of a theoretical base to feminist thought and an activist for many causes.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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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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France, Germany, and Nuclear Deterrence

Quarrels and Convergences during the Cold War and Beyond

Badalassi, N. & Gloriant, F. (eds)

France, Germany, and the Nuclear Deterrence employs a multi-archival approach to the legacy of World War II and the bipolar division of Europe. The volume longitudinally covers the post-war, Cold War and post-Cold War eras and leads into the present day to focus on the history of Franco-German strategic and nuclear relations within an evolving Euro-Atlantic security architecture.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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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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Franz Baermann Steiner

A Stranger in the World

Adler, J. & Fardon, R.

Franz Baermann Steiner (1909-52) provided the vital link between the intellectual culture of central Europe and the Oxford Institute of Anthropology in its post-Second World War years.

This book demonstrates his quiet influence within anthropology, which has extended from Mary Douglas to David Graeber, and how his remarkable poetry reflected profoundly on the slavery and murder of the Shoah.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Literary Studies

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Germany and the Confessional Divide

Religious Tensions and Political Culture, 1871-1989

Ruff, M. E. & Großbölting, T. (eds)

Germany confessional identities developed against cultural, religious, and political tensions in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Unpacking the conflicted religious history, this collection focuses on defining traumatic events, tracing their origins across division between Catholics and Protestants, hinderance of German unification, and transforming religious identities, allegiances, and practices

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

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Repressed, Remitted, Rejected

German Reparations Debts to Poland and Greece

Roth, K. H. & Rübner, H.

Greece and Poland have recently reignited debates on minimally settled reparations demands resulting from suffering under the terror of Nazi occupation during the Second World War. Using an international law perspective, this expansive volume reconstructs the German occupation of Poland and Greece and confronts German aversions to reparations debt.

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

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The Power of Scripture

Political Biblicism in the Early Stuart Monarchy between Representation and Subversion

Pečar, A.

The development of political rhetoric during the Reformation period through to the outbreak of the English Civil War was based on more varied sources than just the political language of civic humanism and republicanism. The Power of Scripture uncovers how biblical scripture directly shaped a national religious politics, forming a lasting impression on the socio-political structural development of Stuart England.

Subject: History: Medieval/Early Modern

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We are All Africans Here

Race, Mobilities and West Africans in Europe

Loftsdóttir, K.

This book looks critically at racialization of mobility in Europe, anchoring the discussion in the aspiration of precarious migrants from Niger in Belgium and Italy. The book contextualizes their experiences within the ongoing securitization of mobility in their home country and the persistent denial of racism and colonialism that seeks to portray the innocence of Europe.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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Extremism, Society, and the State

Loperfido, G. (ed)

This collected volume brings together leading anthropologists and cultural analysts to offer a concise look at the narratives, symbolic, and metaphoric fields related to extremism, systemitizing an approach to contemporary extremism by placing these idealogies into historical, political, and geo-systemic contexts.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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The Paradoxical Republic

Austria 1945–2020

Rathkolb, O.

Written by one of the nation’s leading historians, this account of postwar Austria explores the tensions that have defined it for over seven decades. This newly revised edition also addresses the major developments since 2005, including a resurgent far right, economic instability, and the potential fracturing of the European Union.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Rethinking Internal Displacement

Geo-political Games, Fragile States and the Relief Industry

Laker, F.

To tackle the vast numbers of internally displaced people, a UN regime has emerged that seeks to replicate the long-established regime of refugee protection by applying international law and humanitarian assistance to citizens within their own borders. This book looks at the origins, structure and impact of this new UN regime and whether it is fit for purpose.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies

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Medieval Intersections

Gender and Status in Europe in the Middle Ages

Weikert, K. & Woodacre, E. (eds)

With contributions on topics ranging from medieval gynecology to clerical masculinity, this interdisciplinary collection highlights the various ways “status” can be interpreted relative to gender, and what these two interlocked concepts can reveal about the construction of gendered identities in the Middle Ages.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: Medieval/Early Modern

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Good Enough Mothers

Practicing Nurture and Motherhood in Chiapas, Mexico

López, JM

Motherhood in Mexico is profoundly shaped by the legacy of colonialism. This ethnography situates motherhood in a critical global health analysis of maternal health inequalities and interventions in the southeast state of Chiapas.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

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The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work

Craftwork in Twenty-First Century England

Marchand, T. H. J.

Against the backdrop of an alienating, technologizing and ever-accelerating world of material production, this book tells an intimate story: one about a community of woodworkers training at an historic institution in London’s East End during the present ‘renaissance of craftsmanship’.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Cosmic Coherence

A Cognitive Anthropology Through Chinese Divination

Matthews, W.

Humans are unique in their ability to create systematic accounts of the world – theories based on guiding cosmological principles. This book is about the role of cognition in creating cosmologies, and explores this through the ethnography and history of Yijing divination in China.

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

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Dressing Up

Menswear in the Age of Social Media

Bluteau, J. M.

What does men’s fashion say about contemporary masculinity? How do these notions operate in an increasingly digitized world? To answer these questions, author Joshua M. Bluteau combines theoretical analysis with vibrant narrative, exploring men’s fashion in the online world of social media as well as the offline worlds of retail, production, and the catwalk.

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

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Defeating Impunity

Attempts at International Justice in Europe since 1914

Rovetta, O. & Lagrou, P. (eds)

Over the course of the long and violent twentieth century, only a minority of the perpetrators of international crimes ever stood trial. In analyzing and documenting the challenge addressing that status of international justice and its realization, this collection uses an international perspective to take the reader through both little known and prominent trials.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History

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Nothing New in Europe?

Israelis Look at Antisemitism Today

Haviv-Horiner, A.

Anti-Semitism’s recent rise in Europe and Germany has manifested in verbal hostility and attacks. Through fifteen interviews with Jewish Israelis and contextual essays, Nothing New in Europe? provides an opportunity to reflect on current anti-Semitic discourse under a more educated and objective light.

Subject: Sociology

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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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Outsiders

Memories of Migration to and from North Korea

Bell, M.

In this timely and insightful new book, Markus Bell presents the case study of Korean-Japanese – “Zainichi” – who have escaped North Korea in the years following the end of the Cold War. Through building alliances and long-distance relationships, Zainichi returnees resist forced integration and push back against life-threatening political purges to forge new ways of belonging.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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Heritage under Socialism

Preservation in Eastern and Central Europe, 1945–1991

Gantner, E. B., Geering, C., & Vickers, P. (ed)

Heritage under Socialism enriches the conceptual, methodological and empirical scope of heritage studies. Its transnational approach highlights the socialist world’s diverse interpretations of heritage and its trajectories in post-socialist preservation practices, thus providing new perspectives on the way heritage has been shaped in the recent past.

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

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One More for the Road

A Director’s Notes on Exile, Family, and Film

Grlić, R.

One More for the Road recounts the life and career of Croatian filmmaker Rajko Grlić in the form of a film dictionary, tying cinematic terms to anecdotes spanning Grlić’s life. With a scholarly introduction by Aida Vidan, these personal stories combine to provide insight into the socialist film industries and south Slavic film.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Transcending the Nostalgic

Landscapes of Postindustrial Europe beyond Representation

Jaramillo, G. S. & Tomann, J. (eds)

This collection explores the affective and “more-than-representational” dimensions of post-industrial landscapes, analyzing narratives, practices, social formations, and other phenomena. Focusing on case studies from across Europe, it examines both the objective and the subjective aspects of societies that produce fewer things and employ fewer workers.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Heritage Studies

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Collaborative Happiness

Building the Good Life in Urban Cohousing Communities

Kingfisher, C.

Collaborative Happiness looks at two urban cohousing communities: Kankanmori, in Tokyo; and Quayside Village, in Vancouver. In expanding beyond mainstream approaches to happiness focused exclusively on the individual, Quayside Village and Kankanmori provide an alternative model for how to understand and practice the good life in an increasingly urbanized world marked by crisis of both social and environmental sustainability.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Urban Studies Sociology

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Transnational Railway Cultures

Trains in Music, Literature, Film, and Visual Art

Fraser, B. & Spalding, S. (eds)

Spanning five continents and a diverse range of contexts, this collection offers an unprecedentedly broad survey of global representations of trains. From experimental novels to Hollywood blockbusters, the works studied here chart fascinating routes across a remarkably varied cultural landscape.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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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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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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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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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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Guido Goldman

Transatlantic Bridge Builder

Klingst, M.

Guido Goldman was one of the most distinguished protagonists of the reintegration of Germany into the international community after the defeat of Nazism in 1945. This biography looks at his remarkable life from his establishment of the German Marshall Fund to establishing the Center for European Studies at Harvard University.

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

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Cattle Poetics

How Aesthetics Shapes Politics in Mursiland, Ethiopia

Eczet, J.-B.

Loving cows, then killing them. The relation with cattle in Mursi country is shaped by the dichotomy between the value given to it during life and the death imposed upon it. This book investigates the link between the nurturing and killing of cattle, and its accompanying aesthetics, with Mursi society itself.

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

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Hope and Insufficiency

Capacity Building in Ethnographic Comparison

Douglas-Jones, R. & Shaffner, J. (eds)

Hope and Insufficiency seeks to question the histories, assumptions, intentions, and enactments that has led to the ubiquity of capacity building as an anthropological concept, thereby developing a much-needed critical purchase on its persuasive power.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

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Israel-Palestine

Lands and Peoples

Bartov, O. (ed)

The conflict between Israel and Palestine has raised a plethora of unanswered questions, generated seemingly unreconcilable narratives, and profoundly transformed the land’s physical and political geography. This volume seeks to provide a deeper understanding of the links between the region that is now known as Israel and Palestine and its peoples—both those that live there as well as those who relate to it as a mental, mythical, or religious landscape.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

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How is a Man Supposed to be a Man?

Male Childlessness – a Life Course Disrupted

Hadley, R. A.

The global trend of declining fertility rates and an increasingly ageing population has serious implications for individuals and institutions alike. Childless men are mostly excluded from ageing, social science and reproduction scholarship and almost completely absent from most national statistics. This book examines the lived experiences of a hidden and disenfranchised population: men who wanted to be fathers.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

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Dictionary of Authentic American Proverbs

Mieder, W.

Dictionary of American Proverbs offers a comprehensive reference guide for distinctly American proverbs. Featuring a compendium of nearly 1,500 American proverbs spanning the 17th century to present day, this dictionary also includes a scholarly introduction along with a comprehensive bibliography of proverb collections and interpretive scholarship.

Subjects: Literary Studies Heritage Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Digital Archives and Collections

Creating Online Access to Cultural Heritage

Müller, K.

Museums and archives all over the world digitize their collections and provide online access to heritage material. But what factors determine the content, structure and use of these online inventories? This book turns to India and Europe to answer this question. It explains how museums and archives envision, decide and conduct digitization and online dissemination.

Subjects: Museum Studies Media Studies Anthropology (General)

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The Camino de Santiago

Curating the Pilgrimage as Heritage and Tourism

Murray, M.

Pilgrimage, as a global activity linked to the sacred, speaks to the special significance of persons, places and events. This book relates these sentiments to the curatorship of the Camino de Santiago that comprises a lattice of European pilgrimage itineraries converging at Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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The Greek Military Dictatorship

Revisiting a Troubled Past, 1967–1974

Anastasakis, O. & Lagos, K. (eds)

From 1967 to 1974, the military junta ruling Greece attempted a dramatic reshaping of the nation, implementing ideas and policies that, for better or for worse, left an indelible mark on both domestic affairs and international relations. Bringing together leading scholars from a range of disciplines, The Greek Military Dictatorship provides a fresh and nuanced reassessment of this era.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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The Cinematic Language of Theo Angelopoulos

Karalis, V.

The Cinematic Language of Theo Angelopoulos offers a detailed study and critical discussion of the acclaimed filmmaker’s cinematic aesthetics as they developed over his career, exploring different styles through which Greek and European history, identity, and loss have been visually articulated throughout his oeuvre.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Work, Society, and the Ethical Self

Chimeras of Freedom in the Neoliberal Era

Hann, C. (ed)

Primarily on the basis of ethnographic case-studies from around the world, this volume links investigations of work to questions of personal and professional identity and social relations. The authors uncover complex entanglements between the drudgery and exploitation experienced by most people in the course of making a living and ideals of emancipated personhood.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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Traumatic Pasts in Asia

History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present

Micale, M. S. & Pols, H. (eds)

Traumatic Pasts in Asia extends Euro-American paradigms of traumatic experience to new sites of world-historical suffering and, in the process, explores how these new terrains of investigation inform and enrich earlier understandings.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies Medical Anthropology

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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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Vertiginous Life

An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen

Knight, D. M.

Through individual stories from crisis Greece, this book explores the everyday effects of vertigo: nausea, dizziness, breathlessness, the sense of falling, and unknowingness of Self. Being lost in time, caught in the spin-cycle of crisis, people reflect on belonging to modern Europe, neoliberal promises of accumulation, defeated futures, and the existential dilemmas of life held captive.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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International Organizations Revisited

Agency and Pathology in a Multipolar World

Dijkzeul, D. & Salomons, D. (eds)

Thoroughly revised and based on current management research, this follow-up to Rethinking International Organizations provides a wealth of both empirical and theoretical insights to the management of the United Nations and international NGOs, along with practical recommendations for how these organizations can function more effectively.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Iron Landscapes

National Space and the Railways in Interwar Czechoslovakia

Jeschke, F.

Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the newly formed country of Czechoslovakia built an ambitious national rail network out of what remained of the obsolete Habsburg system. Drawing on evidence ranging from government documents to newsreels to train timetables, Iron Landscapes gives a nuanced account of how planners and authorities knitted together the young nation-state and articulated a Czechoslovak cosmopolitanism.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Transport Studies

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Latin America and Refugee Protection

Regimes, Logics, and Challenges

Jubilut, L. L., Vera Espinoza, M., & Mezzanotti, G. (eds)

Looking at refugee protection in Latin America, this landmark edited collection assesses what the region has achieved in recent years. The book analyses Latin America’s main documents in refugee protection, evaluates the particular aspects of different regimes, and reviews their emergence, development and effect, to develop understanding of refugee protection in the region.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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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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Territory, State and Nation

The Geopolitics of Rudolf Kjellén

Björk, R. & Lundén, T. (eds)

Rudolf Kjellén, regularly referred to as “the father of geopolitics”, developed in the first decade of the twentieth century an analytical model for calculating the capabilities of great-power states and promoting their interests in the international arena. Territory, State and Nation explores his century-long international scholarly impact, his analytical model, and his analyses of contemporary history.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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The Russian Cold

Histories of Ice, Frost, and Snow

Herzberg, J., Renner, A., & Schierle, I. (eds)

Cold has long been a fixture of Russian identity both within and beyond the nation, even as the ongoing effects of climate change complicate its meaning and cultural salience. The Russian Cold assembles fascinating new contributions from a variety of scholarly traditions, offering new perspectives on how to understand this mainstay of Russian culture and history.

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

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Living Like a Girl

Agency, Social Vulnerability and Welfare Measures in Europe and Beyond

Vogel, M. & Arnell, L. (eds)

With a particular focus on girls who have experienced interventions by social services, the contributions in Living Like a Girl expand our understanding of contemporary European girlhood by demonstrating how social problems are managed in different cultural contexts, political and social systems.

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

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Tracing Slavery

The Politics of Atlantic Memory in The Netherlands

Balkenhol, M.

Looking at the ways in which the memory of slavery affects present-day relations in Amsterdam, this ethnographic account reveals a paradox: while there is growing official attention to the country’s slavery past (monuments, festivals, ritual occasions), many interlocutors showed little interest in the topic. This book follows the issue of slavery in everyday realities and offers a fine-grained ethnography of how people refer to this past.

Subjects: Memory Studies Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies

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Stories from an Ancient Land

Perspectives on Wa History and Culture

Fiskesjö, M.

The Wa people have a rich civilization of their own and a deep history in the mountains of Southeast Asia. This book introduces aspects of Wa culture, including their approach to the world’s troubles, and the lessons others might learn from it.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Constructing Risk

Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment

Bender, S. O.

Reviewing current policies and practices, the book assesses the financial, economic and physical risk of building in hazardous areas, and looks at how societies are trying to create a more resilient built environment in spite of the dangers.

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

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William Robertson Smith

Bošković, A.

William Robertson Smith’s influence on anthropology ranged from his relationship with John Ferguson McLennan, to advising James George Frazer to write about “Totem” and “Taboo” for the Encyclopaedia Britannica that he edited. This biography places a special emphasis on the notes and observations from his travels to Arabia, as well as on his influence on the representatives of the “Myth and Ritual School.”

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Matsutake Worlds

Faier, L. & Hathaway, M. J. (eds)

Matsutake Worlds explores matsutake mushrooms through the lens of multispecies encounters, to explore the mushroom’s success on the world stage. This success cannot be accounted for by any one cultural or economic process—rather, the matsutake has flourished due to many different processes, culminating in the culinary institution we know today.

Subjects: Sociology Food & Nutrition

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Explorations in Economic Anthropology

Key Issues and Critical Reflections

Kaneff, D. & Endres, K. W. (eds)

At a time of rising global economic precarity and social inequality, the field of economic anthropology offers solutions through the study of local and contextualized economic practices. This book is made up of an exciting collection of succinct essays authored by leading scholars primarily from the field of economic anthropology.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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Almost, but Not Quite Bored in Pula

An Anthropological Study of the Tapija Phenomenon in Northwest Croatia

Matošević, A.

Based on interviews and fieldwork conducted among residents of Pula – a coastal city in Northwestern Croatia, this study explores various aspects of a local feeling of boredom. This is mirrored in the term tapija, a word of Turkish origin describing a property deed.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Textures of Belonging

Senses, Objects and Spaces of Romanian Roma

Racleş, A.

The longstanding European conception that Roma and non-Roma are separated by unambiguous socio-cultural distinctions has led to the construction of Roma as "non-belonging others." Challenging this conception, Textures of Belonging explores how Roma negotiate and feel belonging on the everyday level.

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

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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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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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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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How Kinship Systems Change

On the Dialectics of Practice and Classification

Parkin, R.

Using some of his landmark publications on kinship, along with a new introduction, chapter and conclusion, Robert Parkin discusses here the changes in kinship terminologies and marriage practices, as well as the dialectics between them.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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All Tomorrow's Cultures

Anthropological Engagements with the Future

Collins, S. G.

The first edition of All Tomorrow’s Cultures explored the legacy of futures-thinking in anthropology and marked the beginning of a resurgence of interest in anthropological futures. The new edition has been updated to reflect some of the outpouring of work since then, particularly in science and technology studies and in anthropological analyses of indigenous futures.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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The Age of Capitalism and Bureaucracy

Perspectives on the Political Sociology of Max Weber

Mommsen, W. J.

In this new edition of Wolfgang Mommsen’s illuminating study, Max Weber is presented in terms of the major questions that preoccupied him as one of the towering social scientists of his time, with insights that are persistently relevant as we deal with the structures and dynamics of modern industrial societies.

Subjects: Sociology History: 20th Century to Present

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Un-Settling Middle Eastern Refugees

Regimes of Exclusion and Inclusion in the Middle East, Europe, and North America

Inhorn, M. C. & Volk, L. (eds)

Since the Iraq war, the Middle East has been in continuous upheaval, resulting in the displacement of millions of people. Arriving from Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, and Syria in other parts of the world, the refugees show remarkable resilience and creativity amidst profound adversity. Through careful ethnography, this book vividly illustrates how refugees navigate regimes of exclusion, including cumbersome bureaucracies, financial insecurities, medical challenges, vilifying stereotypes, and threats of violence and bears witness to their struggles.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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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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Delta Life

Exploring Dynamic Environments where Rivers Meet the Sea

Krause, F. & Harris, M. (eds)

Proposing a series of innovative steps towards better understanding human lives at the interstices of water and land, this volume includes eight ethnographies from deltas around the world. The book presents ‘delta life’ with intimate descriptions of the predicaments, imaginations and activities of delta inhabitants.

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

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Embracing Landscape

Living with Reindeer and Hunting among Spirits in South Siberia

Küçüküstel, S.

Examining human-animal relations among the reindeer hunting and herding Dukha community in northern Mongolia, this book focuses on concepts such as domestication and wildness from an indigenous perspective. By looking into hunting rituals and herding techniques, the ethnography questions the dynamics between people, domesticated reindeer, and wild animals.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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The Moral Work of Anthropology

Ethnographic Studies of Anthropologists at Work

Mogensen, H. & Hansen, B. G. (eds)

Looking at anthropologists at work, this book investigates what kind of morality they perform in their occupations and the impact of this morality. The book includes ethnographic studies of anthropologists at work in four professional arenas: health care, business, management and interdisciplinary research.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Applied Anthropology

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NGOs and Lifeworlds in Africa

Transdisciplinary Perspectives

Kalfelis, M. C. & Knodel, K. (eds)

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become ubiquitous in the development sector in Africa and attracting more academic attention. However, the fact that NGOs are an integral part of the everyday lives of men and women on the continent has been overlooked thus far. By taking a radical empirical stance, this book studies NGOs as a vital part of the lifeworlds of Africans.

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)

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In Memory of Times to Come

Ironies of History in Southeastern Papua New Guinea

Demian, M.

Drawing on twenty years of research, this book examines the historical perspective of a Pacific people who saw “globalization” come and go. It asks the question: What does it mean to claim that global connections are in the past rather than the present or the future?

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

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Sovereign Forces

Everyday Challenges to Environmental Governance in Latin America

McNeish, J.-A.

Sovereignty is a significant force regarding the ownership, use, protection and management of natural resources. By placing an emphasis on the complex intertwined relationship between natural resources and diverse claims to resource sovereignty, this book reveals the backstory of contemporary resource contestations in Latin America and their positioning within a more extensive history of extraction in the region.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies

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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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Rethinking Atlantic Empire

Christopher Schmidt-Nowara’s Histories of Nineteenth-Century Spain and the Antilles

Eastman, S. & Jacobsen, S. (eds)

In recent years, the historiography of nineteenth-century Spain has been invigorated by interdisciplinary engagement with scholars working on topics such as empire, slavery, and race, exemplified by the work of Christopher Schmidt-Nowara. Rethinking Atlantic Empire places Schmidt-Nowara’s work within the context of the broader field, reflecting on his contributions and charting potential new directions in research.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History

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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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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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Echoes of Surrealism

Challenging Socialist Realism in East German Literature, 1945–1990

Berendse, G.-J.

Echoes of Surrealism surveys areas of surrealist art throughout the entire lifespan of the GDR and explores analyses of the interaction and reciprocal influences of various art forms. Focusing on individual authors, visual artists, film directors and musicians who have taken a surrealist perspective in their work, this study reveals how the surrealist perspective offered an alternative to the rigid government cultural policies by questioning and confronting the status quo.

Subjects: Literary Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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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.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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To See a Moose

The History of Polish Sex Education

Kościańska, A.

Guiding the reader through the development of sex education in Poland, Agnieszka Kościańska looks at how it has changed from the 19th century to the present day. The book also identifies the women and men who changed the way sex was written about in the country, and how they established the field of Polish sexology.

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

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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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Analysing Historical Narratives

On Academic, Popular and Educational Framings of the Past

Berger, S., Brauch, N., & Lorenz, C. (eds)

From ancient Greece to modern-day bestsellers, the studies gathered in Analysing Historical Narratives offer a wide-ranging look at the techniques used by historical texts, showing how in spite of the pursuit of objectivity, narrative strategies inevitably derive from historians’ contemporary concerns.

Subject: History (General)

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Mattering the Invisible

Technologies, Bodies, and the Realm of the Spectral

Espírito Santo, D. & Hunter, J. (eds)

Exploring how technological apparatuses “capture” invisible worlds, this book looks at how spirits, UFOs, discarnate entities, spectral energies, atmospheric forces and particles are mattered into existence by human minds. The book uses contemporary case studies where the realm of the invisible arises through technological engagement, and where the paranormal intertwines with modern technology.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Media Studies

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Legal Entanglements

Law, Rights and the Battle for Legitimacy in Divided Germany, 1945-1989

Gehrig, S.

Drawing on wide-ranging archival research and recently declassified documents, Legal Entanglements follows the politicians, intellectuals, and other historical actors on both sides of the Berlin Wall who helped their nation to navigate volatile and uncertain legal circumstances.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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A Twisted Style

The Culture of Dreadlocks in “Western” Societies

Jerrentrup, M. T.

In "western" cultures, some people have chosen a dreadlock hairstyle, despite many in mainstream society looking at it in a negative light. Based on interviews and close observations in social media, the book offers insights into the culture(s) surrounding dreadlocks and ultimately interprets the phenomenon as a postmodern form of individuality.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

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Making Scenes

Global Perspectives on Scenes in Rock Art

Davidson, I. & Nowell, A. (eds)

In this unique volume examining the nature of scenes in rock art, researchers examine what defines a scene, what are the necessary elements of a scene, and what can the evolutionary history tell us about storytelling, sequential memory and cognitive evolution among ancient and living cultures?

Subject: Archaeology

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Liminal Moves

Traveling along Places, Meanings, and Times

Cangià, F.

Liminal Moves explores the (im)mobilities of three groups of people - street monkey performers in Japan, adolescents writing about migrants in Italy, and men accompanying their partners in Switzerland for work. The book explores how, for these ‘travelers’, the interplay of mobility and immobility creates a ‘liminal hotspot’, a condition of suspension and ambivalence between places, meanings and times.

Subjects: Mobility Studies 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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Remaking the Human

Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair, Reshaping, and Replacement

Jarrín, A. & Pussetti, C. (eds)

The technological capacity to transform biology - repairing, reshaping and replacing body parts, chemicals and functions – is now a part of our lives. This collection focuses on why people find these practices so seductive, and provides ethnographic insights into people’s motives and aspirations as they embrace or reject enhancement technologies, which are closely entangled with negotiations over gender, class, age, nationality and ethnicity.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

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Ethnography in the Raw

Life in a Luzon Village

Moeran, B.

Ethnography in the Raw describes the author’s encounters with a Philippine family into which he has married, his wife’s friends and acquaintances, and their lives in a remote rural village in the rice basin of Luzon, about 130 miles north east of Manila. It is both anthropological fieldwork ‘in the raw,’ and an incisive analysis of contemporary Philippine society and culture.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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East German Film and the Holocaust

Ward, E.

By combining close analyses of five films made between 1947 and 1988 with extensive archival research, this book unravels the complex status of films dealing with Jewish persecution produced in a country that consistently privileged narratives of political persecution above racial victimhood.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

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Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters

New Lives of Old Imaginaries

Mageo, J. & Knauft, B. (eds)

Reconsidering issues of representation in the insular Pacific, this volume explores authenticity and authorship in practice as “traveling concepts” that spawn cross-fertilization along the cultural and historical routes they traverse. The chapters are contextualized by a strongly theorized introduction that considers how notions of authenticity and authorship have developed in Western societies too.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies

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Ethnographies of Power

A Political Anthropology of Energy

Loloum, T., Abram, S., & Ortar, N. (eds)

Energetic infrastructures are crucial to political organization. They shape the contours of states and international bodies, as well as corporations and communities, framing their material existence and their fears and idealisations of the future. Ethnographies of Power brings together ethnographic studies of contemporary entanglements of energy and political power.

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

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Bestsellers of the Third Reich

Readers, Writers and the Politics of Literature

Adam, C.

Christian Adam examines how books came into being under the Nazis, how they became bestsellers—sometimes against the will of the rulers—and which books were actually read. He writes the history of the bestsellers in the darkest epoch of the German past, thus opening a new perspective on the mentality of the Germans between 1933 and 1945.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Literary Studies

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The Herero Genocide

War, Emotion, and Extreme Violence in Colonial Namibia

Häussler, M.

Drawing on previously inaccessible and overlooked archival sources, The Herero Genocide undertakes a groundbreaking investigation into the war between colonizer and colonized in what was formerly German South West Africa and is today the nation of Namibia. The result is an indispensable account of a genocide that has been neglected for too long.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History

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Exchanging Objects

Nineteenth-Century Museum Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution

Nichols, C. A.

As an historical account of the exchange of “duplicate specimens” between anthropologists at the Smithsonian Institution and museums, collectors, and schools around the world in the late nineteenth century, this book reveals connections between both well-known museums and little-known local institutions, created through the exchange of museum objects. It explores how anthropologists categorized some objects in their collections as “duplicate specimens,” making them potential candidates for exchange.

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

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In-Betweenness in Greater Khartoum

Spaces, Temporalities, and Identities from Separation to Revolution

Franck, A., Casciarri, B., & Salim El-Hassan, I. (eds)

Drawing from original fieldwork in Khartoum and empirical data, In-Betweenness in Greater Khartoum uses in-between spaces as a lens to analyze how political events, in particular the 2011 independence of South Sudan, works along with other processes such as globalization and eco-nomic neo-liberalization to impact communities across the region.

Subjects: Urban Studies Peace and Conflict Studies

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On the Death of Jews

Photographs and History

Fresco, N.

In this trenchant meditation on photographs from an atrocity in Latvia during the Holocaust, Nadine Fresco argues for the vital importance of photographs—and nontraditional sources more broadly—for understanding the Holocaust. She confronts charged questions around guilt and testimony while teasing out the subtle implications of camera angles, photo sequencing, and body language, helping us to see anew the perspectives of victims, perpetrators, and others who witnessed the brutality of the Holocaust.

Subjects: Genocide History Media Studies Jewish Studies

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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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At the Edge of the Wall

Public and Private Spheres in Divided Berlin

Hochmuth, H.

The neighboring boroughs of Friedrichschain and Kreuzberg shared a history and identity until their fortunes diverged dramatically following the construction of the Berlin Wall, which placed them within opposing political systems. This revealing account of the two towns during and after the Cold War takes a microhistorical approach to illuminate the broader historical trajectories of East and West Berlin.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Urban Studies

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Peripheries at the Centre

Borderland Schooling in Interwar Europe

Venken, M.

Peripheries at the Centre reveals how Prussia, and later the German Empire, used educational policy to promote national identity along its geographical margins. It shows how policymakers sought to cultivate ideal German students who, it was hoped, would help to usher in a new, peaceful era in European history while reinforcing their status as German citizens.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Educational Studies

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The Struggle for the Past

How We Construct Social Memories

Jelin, E.

Organized around Argentine “memory wars” since the 1970s, The Struggle for the Past undertakes an innovative exploration of memory’s dynamic social character. In addition to its analysis of how human rights movements have inflected public memory and democratization in Argentina, it also gives an illuminating account of the emergence and development of Memory Studies as a field.

Subjects: Memory Studies Peace and Conflict Studies

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Jewish Self-Hate

Lessing, T.

This new edition makes Theodor Lessing’s seminal work Der Jüdische Selbsthaß accessible to English readers for the first time, supplemented with explanatory footnotes by translator Peter Appelbaum and illustrative essays by historian Sander L. Gilman and German scholar Paul Reitter.

Subject: Jewish Studies

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Floating Economies

The Cultural Ecology of the Dal Lake in Kashmir, India

Casimir, M. J.

In the Himalayas of the Indian part of Kashmir three communities depend on the ecology of the Dal lake: market gardeners, houseboat owners and fishers. Floating Economies describes for the first time the complex intermeshing economy, social structure and ecology of the area against the background of history and the present volatile socio-political situation.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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Ethical Practice in Participatory Visual Research with Girls

Transnational Approaches

Moletsane, R., Wiebesiek, L.,Treffry-Goatley, A. & Mandrona, A. (eds)

Girls and young women from rural and indigenous communities around the world face some of the most adverse social issues in the world despite the existence of protective laws and treaties. This collected volume explores the potential of participatory visual method (PVM) for girls and young women in these communities.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

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The Best We Share

Nation, Culture and World-Making in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena

Brumann, C.

As the most ambitious study of the World Heritage arena so far, this volume dissects the inner workings of a prominent global body, demonstrating the power of ethnography in the highly formalised and diplomatic context of a multilateral organisation.

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

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Agent of Change

The Deposition and Manipulation of Ash in the Past

Roth, B. J. & Adams, E. C. (eds)

Drawn from across the U.S. and Mesoamerica, the chapters in this volume explore the use, meanings, and cross-cultural patterns present in the use of ash. and highlight the importance of ash in ritual closure, social memory, and cultural transformation.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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A Taste for Oppression

A Political Ethnography of Everyday Life in Belarus

Hervouet, R.

Belarus has emerged from communism in a unique manner. The author, who has lived in Belarus for several years, highlights several mechanisms of tyranny, beyond the regime’s ability to control and repress, which should not be underestimated. The book sheds light on the reasons why part of the population supports Alexander Lukashenko and takes a fresh look at the functioning of what has been called 'the last dictatorship in Europe'.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Deconstructing Dolls

Girlhoods and the Meanings of Play

Forman-Brunell, M. (ed)

Deconstructing Dolls explores the role of dolls in girlhood and young womanhood, seeking to understand the historical and contemporary significance of dolls particularly as they relate social meanings in the lives of girls.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)

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Religion and Pride

Hindus in Search of Recognition in La Réunion

Lang, N.

Through the examination of religious practices and public performance, the author offers a compelling study of how the Hindu community in the French territory of La Réunion assert pride in their religion as a means of gaining recognition as a religious minority.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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South Africa's Dreams

Ethnologists and Apartheid in Namibia

Gordon, R. J.

In the early sixties, many South African anthropologists supported ‘Grand Apartheid’ in Namibia. South Africa’s colonial policies in the country served as a testing ground for many key features of its repressive infrastructure, and strategies for countering anti-apartheid resistance. The book also analyses how the knowledge used to justify and implement apartheid was created.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Peace and Conflict Studies

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Political Graffiti in Critical Times

The Aesthetics of Street Politics

Campos, R., Pavoni, A., & Zaimakis, Y. (eds)

With a particular eye to the demographic, ecological, and economic crises of today, this volume provides a wide-ranging exploration of urban space and visual protest during periods of social and political upheaval. Assembling case studies that cover topics such as gentrification in Cyprus and the convulsions of post-independence East Timor, it reveals the ways in which street artists challenge existing social orders and reimagine urban landscapes.

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

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Experiencing Materiality

Museum Perspectives

Gamberi, V.

Representing a cutting-edge study on the junction between theoretical anthropology, material culture studies, religious studies and museum anthropology, this study highlights the contradictions of museum practices and, at the same time, the potentialities that contemporary museums could offer for an engaging relationship between visitors and museum artefacts and for rethinking or, better, ‘softening’ specific approaches in material culture studies.

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

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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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Four-Color Communism

Comic Books and Contested Power in the German Democratic Republic

Eedy, S.

As with all other forms of popular culture, comics in East Germany were tightly controlled by the state. Comics were employed as extensions of the regime’s educational system, delivering state ideology to develop the socialist personality among youth. The East German children who avidly read these comics, however, found their own meanings and projected their own desires in them.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies

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More than Mere Spectacle

Coronations and Inaugurations in the Habsburg Monarchy during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Van Gelder, K.

More than Mere Spectacle brings together new research on the numerous coronations and inaugurations in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Habsburg Monarchy, examining why so many of them still took place, what political, legal, social, and cultural significance they bore, and how they adapted to actual circumstances. It takes the flexibility of their format as the key to understanding their lasting relevance.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

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Rhetoric and Social Relations

Dialectics of Bonding and Contestation

Abbink, J. & LaTosky, S. (eds)

Rhetoric and Social Relations addresses the use and embeddedness of rhetoric in social life and social interaction. It explores the constitutive role of rhetoric in socio-cultural relations, where discursive persuasion is so important, and contains both theoretical chapters as well as fascinating examples of the ambiguities and effects of rhetoric used (un)consciously in social praxis.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Risk on the Table

Food Production, Health, and the Environment

Creager, A. N. H. & Gaudilière, J.-P. (eds)

From the proliferation of synthetic additives to the threat posed by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the chapters in Risk on the Table zero in on key historical cases in North America and Europe that illuminate the history of food safety, highlighting the powerful tension that exists between policymakers’ decisions and cultural notions of “pure” food.

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

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Lands of the Future

Anthropological Perspectives on Pastoralism, Land Deals and Tropes of Modernity in Eastern Africa

Gabbert, E. C., Gebresenbet, F., Galaty, J. G., & Schlee, G. (eds)

Rangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people who have lived there for centuries, outside commercial interests have displaced indigenous dwellers from pastoral territories. This volume presents case studies from Eastern Africa.

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

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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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After Auschwitz

The Difficult Legacies of the GDR

Heitzer, E., Jander, M., Kahane, A., & Poutrus, P. G. (eds)

This provocative collection reflects on the heretofore ignored or repressed aspects of German mainstream society—including right-wing extremism, anti-Semitism and racism—to call for an ambitious renewal of historical research and political education to place East Germany in its proper historical context.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Embodying Borders

A Migrant’s Right to Health, Universal Rights and Local Policies

Ferrero, L., Quagliariello, C., & Vargas, A. C. (eds)

Based on extensive field research, the essays in this volume illuminate the experiences of migrants from their own point of view, providing a critical understanding of the complex social reality in which each experience is grounded.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Medical Anthropology

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Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent

Reorienting Anthropology for the Future

Ahmad, I. (ed)

Tim Ingold has raised many questions which are crucial for anthropology as a discipline, such as whether ethnography is central to the subject, and how imagination, reality and truth are joined in anthropological enterprises. His interventions have impacted anthropologists and scholars at large. This volume contributes to the debate about the interrelationships between ethnography and anthropology and takes it to a new plane.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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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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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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Unlocking the Love-Lock

The History and Heritage of a Contemporary Custom

Houlbrook, C.

A padlock is a mundane object, designed to fulfil a specific – and secular – purpose. A contemporary custom has given padlocks new significance155. This custom is ‘love-locking’, where padlocks are engraved with names and attached to bridges in declaration of romantic commitment. This book explores the worldwide popularity of the love-lock as a ritual token of love and commitment by considering its history, symbolism, and heritage.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Archaeology Museum Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Commerce as Politics

The Two Centuries of Struggle for Basotho Economic Independence

Maliehe, S. M.

This is the first comprehensive economic history of the Basotho people of Southern Africa and spans from the 1820s to the present day. The book documents what the Basotho have done on their own account, focusing on their systematic exclusion from trade and their political efforts to insert themselves into their country’s commerce.

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Colonial History

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In the Shadow of the Great War

Physical Violence in East-Central Europe, 1917–1923

Böhler, J., Konrád, O., Kučera, R. (eds)

Whether victorious or not, Central European states faced fundamental challenges after the First World War as they struggled to contain ongoing violence and forge peaceful societies. This collection explores the various forms of violence these nations confronted during this period, which effectively transformed the region into a laboratory for state-building.

Subjects: History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

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Recognizing the Past in the Present

New Studies on Medicine before, during, and after the Holocaust

Hildebrandt, S., Offer, M., & Grodin, M. A. (eds)

This interdisciplinary collection assembles a chain of documentation on the critical role of medicine in realizing the policies of Hitler’s regime. It traces the historical legacies of National Socialist medicine from their roots in the racial theories of the 1920s, through their manifestation in the Nazi period, and on to legacies and continuities from the postwar years to the present.

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

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Shamanism

Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of Spirits and Healing

Jakobsen, M.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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Waithood

Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage and Childbearing

Inhorn, M. C. & Smith-Hefner, N. J. (eds)

The concept of “Waithood” was developed by political scientist Diane Singerman to describe the expanding period of time between adolescence and full adulthood as young people wait to secure steady employment and marry. The contributors to this volume employ the waithood concept as a frame for richly detailed ethnographic studies of “youth in waiting” from a variety of world areas.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

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The Politics of Personal Information

Surveillance, Privacy, and Power in West Germany

Frohman, L.

This book gives a definitive account of the politics of personal information in West Germany during the 1970s and 1980s, highlighting the growing role of personal information as a tool for social governance.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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The Sea Commands

Community and Perception of the Environment in a Portuguese Fishing Village

Mendes, P.

Azenha do Mar is a fishing community on the southwest coast of Portugal. It came into existence around forty years ago, as an outcome of the abandonment of work in the fields and of propitious ecological conditions. This book looks at the migration processes since the founding of the community and how they relate to the social inequalities towards property and labour which prevail today.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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The Meanings of a Disaster

Chernobyl and Its Afterlives in Britain and France

Kalmbach, K.

Focusing on the cases of Great Britain and France, this innovative study explores the discourses and narratives that arose in the wake of the incident among both state and nonstate actors. It gives a thorough account of the strategies that shaped Western European responses to the disaster as well as nuclear policy up to the present day.

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

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Politics of the Dunes

Poetry, Architecture, and Coloniality at the Open City

Woods, M.

Politics of the Dunes explores the ways in which the Open City’s architectural and urban practice is devoted to keeping open the utopian possibility for multiplicity, pluralism, and democratization in the face of authoritarianism, a powerful mode of postcolonial environmental urbanism that can inform architectural practices today.

Subjects: Urban Studies Sociology History (General)

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Ecological Nostalgias

Memory, Affect and Creativity in Times of Ecological Upheavals

Angé, O. & Berliner, D. (eds)

Introducing the study of econostalgias through a variety of rich ethnographic cases, this volume argues that a strictly human centered approach does not account for contemporary longings triggered by ecosystem upheavals.

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

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Nature Wars

Essays Around a Contested Concept

Ellen, R.

Made up of 10 of Roy Ellen’s finest articles along with a new introduction linking them together, this book looks back at his ideas about nature before taking the arguments forward. Many of the chapters focus on research the author has conducted amongst the Nuaulu people of eastern Indonesia.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

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Collective and State Violence in Turkey

The Construction of a National Identity from Empire to Nation-State

Astourian, S. & Kévorkian, R. (eds)

Collective and State Violence in Turkey provides a wide range of case studies and historiographical reflections on the alarming recurrence of violence in Turkish history, as atrocities against varied ethnic-religious groups from the nineteenth century to today have propelled the nation’s very sense of itself.

Subjects: History (General) Genocide History Peace and Conflict Studies

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Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema

Hales, B. & Weinstein, V. (eds)

The film industry in the Weimar Republic was a major site for German-Jewish experience that provided a sphere for Jewish "outsiders" to shape mainstream culture. The essays in Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema offer new historical, theoretical, and methodological approaches to the significant involvement of Jewish people in Weimar cinema.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Sensitive Subjects

The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary German and Austrian Cinema

Mukhida, L.

Sensitive Subjects examines how contemporary German-language cinema may be read as seeking to produce greater political sensitivity in audiences through its form—that is, by employing medium-specific devices such as lighting, sound, editing and mise-en-scène in ways that prompt a more critical stance towards the societies it depicts.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies

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Writing the Great War

The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the Present

Cornelissen, C. & Weinrich, A. (eds)

The history of the First World War has been continually written and rewritten, producing a rich historiography shaped by the social and cultural circumstances of its creation. Writing the Great War provides a groundbreaking survey of this vast body of work, assembling contributions on a variety of national and regional historiographies from some of the most prominent scholars in the field.

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

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Dust Inside

Fighting and Living with Asbestos-Related Disasters in Brazil

Mazzeo, A.

Toxic production, disrupted lives and contaminated bodies. Care for unacknowledged suffering, incurable cancers, and immeasurable losses. This book bears witness to the invisible disasters provoked by the asbestos market worldwide and gives a voice to the communities of survivors who struggle daily in the name of social and environmental justice.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Environmental Studies (General)

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Homo Itinerans

Towards a Global Ethnography of Afghanistan

Monsutti, A.

This book builds on more than two decades of ethnographic itinerancy in some twenty countries, bringing the readers from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran to Europe, North America and Australia. It describes the everyday life and transnational circulations of Afghan refugees and expatriates.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

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Invisible Faces and Hidden Stories

Narratives of Vulnerable Populations and Their Caregivers

Obeng, C. S. & Obeng, S. G. (eds)

Dealing with narratives of vulnerable populations, this book looks at how they deal with dimensions of their social life, especially in regards to health. It reflects the socio-political ecologies like public hostility and stereotyping, neglect of their unique health needs, their courage to overcome adversity, and the love of family and healthcare providers in mitigating their problems.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Applied Anthropology Sociology

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The Long Journey

Exploring Travel and Travel Writing

Di Bella, M. P. & Yothers, B. (eds)

Travel writing has, for centuries, comprised an essential historical record and wide-ranging literary form, reflecting the rich diversity of travel as a social and cultural practice, metaphorical process, and driver of globalization.

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

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Sounds German

Popular Music in Postwar Germany at the Crossroads of the National and Transnational

Fulk, K. A. (ed)

Sounds German surveys the sociopolitical impact of music on German national identity, gender and sexuality, and transnational cultural production and consumption, expanding on the ways in which sounds, technologies, media practices, and exchanges of popular music provide a unique glimpse into the cultural dynamics of postwar Germany.

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

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Spanish Comics

Historical and Cultural Perspectives

Magnussen, A. (ed)

Spanish Comics offers an overview on contemporary scholarship on Spanish comics, focusing on a wide range of comics dating from early comics history in 1875-1939; the Francoist dictatorship, 1939-1975; the Political Transition, 1970-1985; and Democratic Spain from the early 1980s, and themes of memory, gender, regional identities, and history.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies

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Engaging with Chaucer

Practice, Authority, Reading

Moseley, C.W.R.D. (ed)

This collected volume represents an homage to a toweringly great poet, as well as an acknowledgement of the intellectual excitement, challenges, and pleasure that readers owe to him as even today, his poems have the capacity to change the way we engage with fundamental questions of knowledge, understanding, and beauty.

Subjects: Media Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Histories of a Radical Book

E. P. Thompson and The Making of the English Working Class

Burton, A. & Fortado, S. (eds)

This collected volume explores the complex impact of E.P. Thompson’s monumental book, The Making of the English Working Class, both as an intellectual project and material object, relating it to the social and cultural history of the book form itself—an enduring artifact of English history.

Subject: Cultural Studies (General)

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The Helmand Baluch

A Native Ethnography of the People of Southwest Afghanistan

Amiri, G. R.

The late Ghulam Rahman Amiri accompanied a joint Aghan-US archaeological mission to the Sistan region of southwest Afghanistan in the 1970s and published the ethnography in Farsi in Kabul in 1987. This volume, the first English translation, describes the cultural, political, and economic systems of the Baluch people living in the lower Helmand River Valley of Afghanistan.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology

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Captives, Colonists and Craftspeople

Material Culture and Institutional Power in Malta, 1600–1900

Palmer, R.

This innovative study draws on both archival evidence and archeological research to compare Malta’s experience under the regimes of the Knights of St. John from 1530 to 1798 and afterward as a maritime outpost of the British Empire in terms of such topics as slavery, the control of resources, and globalization.

Subjects: Colonial History Archaeology

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From Hard Rock to Heavy Metal

Metal Tool Production and Use by Indigenous Hunter-Gatherers of North America

Bebber, M. R. & Wolff, C. B. (eds)

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

The Riddle of Intelligence

It’s Not What You Think

Terrell, J., Anderson, E., Bandama, F., Ghosh, A., & Leenen-Young, M.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General)

Wrestling with Hope

Sporting Aspirations and Neoliberal Subjectivity in Urban Senegal

Hann, M.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Development Studies Urban Studies

Women’s Empowerment and Son Preference in India

Feminist and Ethical discourse on Sex Selective Abortions

Suryanarayanan, S.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Medical Anthropology

Understanding Social Images

Essays on Visual Methods and Teaching Visual Anthropology

Banks, M.Zeitlyn, D. & El Khachab, C. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Media Studies

Capitalism and Catastrophe

A Critical Disaster Studies Manifesto

Swamy, R.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Development Studies

Sex, Risk, and Society

When Is Sex Dangerous?

Pollock, S. H.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

Children Dancing in Bali

Practice, Performance, and Power

McIntosh, J.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies

Challenging Norms

Family Planning as a Reflection of Social Change in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe

Hein-Kircher, H., Hiemer, E.-M., & Nešťáková, D. (eds)

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

The Northern Ireland Conflict on the Margins of History

Protestant Memory on the Border

Funston, K. & McGrattan, C.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies Heritage Studies

Participating in the Global Enterprise

Anthropological Research at Automobili Lamborghini

D'Aloisio, F.

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology

Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples

Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development

Chatty, D. & Colchester, M. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies

Fabrics of Anthropological Knowledge

Changing Perspectives in Europe and Beyond

Birkalan-Gedik, H. & Dimpflmeier, F. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

The Everyday Politics of Food Co-ops

Care, Aid and Community in Austerity Britain

Plender, C.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

Beyond the Euromissile Crisis

Global Histories of Anti-Nuclear Activism in the Cold War

Brunet, L.-A. & Karamouzi, E. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology

Transnationalities of Migrant Moral Economies in a Transforming World

Čiubrinskas, V. & Glick Schiller, N. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

Building Social Worlds

Thinking forwards with Esther Newcomb Goody

Bodenhorn, B., Fenitman, A., & Goody, M. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Women in Israel

Anthropological, Feminist, and Personal Perspectives

Hertzog, E.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Life as a Migrant Muslim Woman in Sectarian Northern Ireland

An Exploration of Gender, Visibility, Movement and Placemaking

Lubit, A. J.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Refugee and Migration Studies

Dreaming and the Imagination

Theoretical Intersections in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Banks, M.
Zeitlyn, D. & El Khachab, C. (eds)