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Published December 2001
Academic Anthropology and the Museum

Back to the Future

Bouquet, M. (ed)

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

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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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Published August 2000
At Home in the Hills

Sense of Place in the Scottish Borders

Gray, J. N.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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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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Published February 2015
Beyond the Lens of Conservation

Malagasy and Swiss Imaginations of One Another

Keller, E.

This ethnography examines how the cooperation between a national park in Madagascar and a Swiss zoo is perceived by ordinary people at either end. One view focuses on power and history, the other on morality and progress. Nature conservation therefore widens the gap between people in the North and South.

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

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Blood and Kinship

Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present

Johnson, C. H., Jussen, B., Sabean, D. W., & Teuscher, S. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Anthropology (General)

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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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Border Encounters

Asymmetry and Proximity at Europe's Frontiers

Lauth Bacas, J. & Kavanagh, W. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies

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Changing Properties of Property

Benda-Beckmann, K. von, Benda-Beckmann, F. von & Wiber, M. (eds)

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)

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'City of the Future'

Built Space, Modernity and Urban Change in Astana

Laszczkowski, M.

The long-awaited comprehensive account of the rise of Astana, the capital city of Kazakhstan, this book argues for an understanding of space as inextricably material-and-imaginary, and unceasingly dynamic – allowing for a plurality of incompatible pasts and futures materialized in spatial form.

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General) Geography

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Published June 2015
Contemporary Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Europe

Colonialist and Nationalist Impulses

Rountree, K. (ed)

Though all Pagan and Native Faith movements valorize human relationships with nature and embrace polytheistic cosmologies, practitioners’ beliefs, practices, goals and agendas are diverse. Contributors to this volume draw on ethnographic cases within Europe to explore the interplay of nationalism and transnationalism within these recently emerging and diverse groups.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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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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Published July 1996
Coping with Tourists

European Reactions to Mass Tourism

Boissevain, J. (ed)

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Development Studies Anthropology (General)

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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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Crafting 'The Indian'

Knowledge, Desire, and Play in Indianist Reenactment

Kalshoven, P. T.

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

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Published December 2005
Crossing European Boundaries

Beyond Conventional Geographical Categories

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

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published June 2004
Culture and Politics

Identity and Conflict in a Multicultural World

Pinxten, R. & Verstraete, G. & Longman, C. (eds)

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

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Dancing At the Crossroads

Memory and Mobility in Ireland

Wulff, H.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies

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Death of the Father

An Anthropology of the End in Political Authority

Borneman, J. (ed)

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

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Death of the Public University?

Uncertain Futures for Higher Education in the Knowledge Economy

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

Continuous government reforms to make universities ‘world class’, entrepreneurial and drivers of the knowledge economy, are transforming the traditional mission and meaning of the public university and its ability to act as ‘critic and conscience’ of society. This collection explores the new landscapes of higher education emerging across Europe and Australasia.

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published November 2016
Death, Materiality and Mediation

An Ethnography of Remembrance in Ireland

Graham, B.

Barbara Graham analyzes a diverse range of objects associated with death and remembrance in Ireland. In doing so, she explores the materially mediated interactions between the living and the dead, revealing the physical, cognitive, emotional, and spiritual roles of the dead in contemporary Irish communities.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Anthropology of Religion

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Published January 2009
Developing Skill, Developing Vision

Practices of Locality at the Foot of the Alps

Grasseni, C.

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published October 2011
Diasporic Generations

Memory, Politics, and Nation among Cubans in Spain

Berg, M. L.

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

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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 Sustainable Development Goals

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Published March 2004
An Earth-colored Sea

'Race', Culture and the Politics of Identity in the Post-Colonial Portuguese-Speaking World

Vale de Almeida, M.

Subjects: Colonial History Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published March 2016
Enduring Uncertainty

Deportation, Punishment and Everyday Life

Hasselberg, I.

Focusing on the lived experience of immigration policy and processes, this volume presents a fascinating ethnography of deportation as it is felt and understood by those subjected to it. This book is important for broader understandings of epistemology, border control policy, and human rights.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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Ethical Consumption

Social Value and Economic Practice

Carrier, J. G. & Luetchford, P. G. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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Ethnobotany in the New Europe

People, Health and Wild Plant Resources

Pardo-de-Santayana, M., Pieroni, A. & Puri, R. (eds)

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

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Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space

Place-Making in the New Northern Ireland

Komarova, M. & Svašek, M. (eds)

Exploring the complex dynamics of twenty-first century spatial sociality, physical movement and placemaking in Northern Ireland, this volume provides a much-needed multi-dimensional perspective that undermines the dominant image of the region as a conflict-ridden place. The contributions here draw on and further develop theories of space, place, movement, identity and sociality.

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

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Forthcoming July 2026
Europe’s Disappearing Waste

Unanticipated Conflicts between Removal and Greening

Daniel Sosna

Through ethnographic research conducted among landfill workers and waste pickers, Europe’s Disappearing Waste explores the inner workings of the Czech waste management system that is underpinned by the belief that waste should disappear.

Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
eBook available Published August 2017
European Anthropologies

Barrera-González, A., Heintz, M. & Horolets, A. (eds)

By assessing the diversity of European intellectual histories within sociocultural anthropology, this volume aims to sketch its intellectual and institutional portrait. It will be a useful reading for the students of anthropology, ethnology, history and philosophy of science, research and science policy makers.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Colonial History

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Published April 2008
Exploring Regimes of Discipline

The Dynamics of Restraint

Dyck, N.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Published July 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
Published July 2015
Figuration Work

Student Participation, Democracy and University Reform in a Global Knowledge Economy

Nielsen, G. B.

What should the role of students be in shaping their education, their university, and the wider society? This book seeks to answer these questions following recent international educational reforms. Using Denmark as the prism, the author reflects on and questions the kinds of future citizens who will emerge from current reforms.

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)

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Finding Ways Through Eurospace

West African Movers Re-viewing Europe from the Inside

Schapendonk, J.

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

Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published May 2007
Fire in the Dark

Telling Gypsiness in North East England

Buckler, S.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Sociology Anthropology (General)

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Published October 2004
Foundations of National Identity

From Catalonia to Europe

Llobera, J.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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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

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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) Sustainable Development Goals

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Published May 2008
God-botherers and Other True-believers

Gandhi, Hitler, and the Religious Right

Bailey, F. G.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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Published May 2022
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 Sustainable Development Goals

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Published February 2015
The Great Reimagining

Public Art, Urban Space, and the Symbolic Landscapes of a 'New' Northern Ireland

Hocking, B. T.

Offering a detailed ethnographic account of Northern Ireland’s post-conflict visual transformation, this book examines the official effort to produce new civic images against a backdrop of ongoing political and social struggle.

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published July 1996
The Hegemonic Male

Masculinity in a Portuguese Town

Vale de Almeida, M.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published August 2017
Images from Paradise

The Visual Communication of the European Union's Federalist Utopia

Salgó, E.

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

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

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eBook available Published June 2019
In Pursuit of Belonging

Forging an Ethical Life in European-Turkish Spaces

Rottmann, S, B.

The story of one remarkable woman, Leyla, a mother, who has struggled against pain and shame to live a life that makes her proud and which also inspires others. Using her story, In Pursuit of Belonging enhances our understanding of key issues in the anthropology of ethics and migration.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

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Published May 2009
Indispensable Eyesores

An Anthropology of Undesired Buildings

Hoorn, M. v der

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

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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 October 2019
Inward Looking

The Impact of Migration on Romanipe from the Romani Perspective

Marinov, A. G.

Inward Looking seeks to understand the relationship between Romani identity, performance and migration. Particularly, it studies the idea of ‘Romanipe’ under the prism of the personal accounts of Romani migrants. The findings are based on qualitative data gathered from Romani migrants from three towns in Bulgaria.

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

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Irish/ness Is All Around Us

Language Revivalism and the Culture of Ethnic Identity in Northern Ireland

Zenker, O.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Kinship in Europe

Approaches to Long-Term Development (1300-1900)

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

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

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Published November 2015
Language and Identity Politics

A Cross-Atlantic Perspective

Späti, C. (ed)

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

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General)

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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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Messy Europe

Crisis, Race, and Nation-State in a Postcolonial World

Loftsdóttir, K., Smith, A. L., & Hipfl, B. (eds)

Messy Europe links theoretical insights to current discussions of crisis – economic and otherwise – showing how these shape the creation of subjectivities and identities. The chapters theorize “Europe” as a contested and fluid construction, and, by focusing on particular case studies, analyze how specific understandings of self and others occur in the crisis context.

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

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Published December 2025
Migration as Anchorage

Ethnography of a Palestinian Family in London

Obeid, M.

A Palestinian family, stranded in London during Israel’s 2008 war on Gaza, opens a café and adapts to uncertainty. This ethnography follows their efforts to recreate home, introducing the concept of ‘anchoring’ to explore migration, home and place, highlighting the fluidity, temporariness and serendipity of these experiences.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies
Published January 2001
The New Age in Glastonbury

The Construction of Religious Movements

Prince, R. & Riches, D.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published December 2006
Nursing Stories

Life and Death in a German Hospice

Eschenbruch, N.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology

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Published June 2000
Placing London

From Imperial Capital to Global City

Eade, J.

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published March 1996
The Politics of Cultural Performance

Parkin, D., Caplan, L. & Fisher, H. (eds)

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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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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Post-cosmopolitan Cities

Explorations of Urban Coexistence

Humphrey, C. & Skvirskaja, V. (eds)

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

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eBook available Published November 2022
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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Re-Turns, Entanglements and Collaborations

Anthropological Experimentations

Tošić, J., Strasser, S., & Lems, A. (eds)

This collection marks the EASA Book Series’ 50th volume to celebrate collaborative forms of knowledge production in anthropology. It is organized around eight key themes and concepts that have marked anthropological debates in Europe over the past 20 years.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Published October 2004
Religion and Nation

Iranian Local and Transnational Networks in Britain

Spellman, K.

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

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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

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The Rise and Fall of Community Studies

An Introduction to the Anthropology of Europe

Parkin, R.

This book provides a partial retrospective on the field of anthropology of Europe, offering a rich collection of ethnographic summaries from across the continent. It will be of interest to students and academics seeking a survey of this branch of anthropology, whether for private study or university courses.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Roma Activism

Reimagining Power and Knowledge

Beck, S. & Ivasiuc, A. (eds)

Exploring contemporary debates and developments and gathering together contributors from activism, academia, and the worlds of policy and development, this volume argues for taking up reflexivity as practice in in Roma-related research and forms of activism, and advocates a necessary renewal of research sites, methods, and epistemologies.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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The Roma and Their Struggle for Identity in Contemporary Europe

Baar, H. van & Kóczé, A. (eds)

Thirty years after the collapse of Communism, and at a time of radically diverse kinds of identity politics, including anti-migrant, anti-Roma, anti-Muslim and anti-establishment movements, this book analyses how Roma identity is expressed in contemporary Europe.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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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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Published December 2004
Science, Magic and Religion

The Ritual Processes of Museum Magic

Bouquet, M. & Porto, N. (eds)

Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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Published July 1996
A Sentimental Economy

Commodity and Community in Rural Ireland

Salazar, C.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published November 2022
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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Singing Ideas

Performance, Politics and Oral Poetry

Ní Shíocháin, T.

The songs of the beloved Irish poet Máire Bhuí Ní Laeire (Yellow Mary O’Leary) explore themes of colonial subjection, oppression and injustice, representing an integral contribution to the development of anti-colonial thought in Ireland. Singing Ideas explores the significance of her work, and the immense power of her chosen medium.

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

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Staying at Home

Identities, Memories and Social Networks of Kazakhstani Germans

Sanders, R.

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

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published August 2014
Talking Stones

The Politics of Memorialization in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland

Viggiani, E.

Using the memorialization of the Troubles in contemporary Northern Ireland as a case study, this book investigates how non-state, often proscribed, organizations have filled a societal vacuum in the creation of public memorials. In particular, these groups have sifted through the past to propose “official” collective narratives of national identification, historical legitimation, and moral justifications for violence.

Subjects: Memory Studies Heritage Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published August 1996
A Tamil Asylum Diaspora

Sri Lankan Migration, Settlement and Politics in Switzerland

McDowell, C.

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

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eBook available Published August 2021
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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Travelling with the Argonauts

Informal Networks Seen without a Vertical Lens

Irek, M.

Travelling with the Argonauts offers a new perspective in the research of the social space, reflecting on how best to investigate amorphous social phenomena, such as informal networks. Breaking with much current theory, it considers informality not as marginal or substandard, but as life itself, as the real experience of ordinary people.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Mobility Studies

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eBook available Published November 2009
Turning the Tune

Traditional Music, Tourism, and Social Change in an Irish Village

Kaul, A.

Subjects: Performance Studies Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

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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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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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Published July 2001
Whatever Happened to Asylum in Britain?

A Tale of Two Walls

Pirouet, L.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published April 2017
When Things Become Property

Land Reform, Authority and Value in Postsocialist Europe and Asia

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

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published February 2010
When Women Held the Dragon's Tongue

and Other Essays in Historical Anthropology

Rebel, H.

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

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Witches and Demons

A Comparative Perspective on Witchcraft and Satanism

La Fontaine, J.

Devil worship, black magic, and witchcraft have long captivated anthropologists as well as the general public. This volume explores the intersection of expert and lay understandings of evil and the cultural forms that evil assumes. It presents a powerful warning of the dangers and mistaken conclusions that are inevitable in untrained ideas about other ways of life.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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Back to the Future

Bouquet, M. (ed)

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

Alfred Cort Haddon

A Very English Savage

Walsh, C.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

At Home in the Hills

Sense of Place in the Scottish Borders

Gray, J. N.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Beyond Pain

The Anthropology of Body Suspensions

Manfredi, F.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Beyond the Lens of Conservation

Malagasy and Swiss Imaginations of One Another

Keller, E.

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

Blood and Kinship

Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present

Johnson, C. H., Jussen, B., Sabean, D. W., & Teuscher, S. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Anthropology (General)

Boaters of London

Alternative Living on the Water

Bowles, B. O. L.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Urban Studies

Border Encounters

Asymmetry and Proximity at Europe's Frontiers

Lauth Bacas, J. & Kavanagh, W. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies

Changing Properties of Property

Benda-Beckmann, K. von, Benda-Beckmann, F. von & Wiber, M. (eds)

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)

'City of the Future'

Built Space, Modernity and Urban Change in Astana

Laszczkowski, M.

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General) Geography

Contemporary Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Europe

Colonialist and Nationalist Impulses

Rountree, K. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

Continental Encampment

Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East and Europe

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

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

Coping with Tourists

European Reactions to Mass Tourism

Boissevain, J. (ed)

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Development Studies Anthropology (General)

The Cracked Art World

Conflict, Austerity, and Community Arts in Northern Ireland

Rush, K.

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

Crafting 'The Indian'

Knowledge, Desire, and Play in Indianist Reenactment

Kalshoven, P. T.

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

Crossing European Boundaries

Beyond Conventional Geographical Categories

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

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

Culture and Politics

Identity and Conflict in a Multicultural World

Pinxten, R. & Verstraete, G. & Longman, C. (eds)

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

Dancing At the Crossroads

Memory and Mobility in Ireland

Wulff, H.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies

Death of the Father

An Anthropology of the End in Political Authority

Borneman, J. (ed)

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

Death of the Public University?