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• April 2008

  An Academic Skating on Thin Ice

  Worsley, P.

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

• eBook available November 2019

  Access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies

  The Case of France and Belgium

  Merchant, J. (ed)

  Despite France and Belgium sharing and interacting constantly, access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies are strikingly different. The contributors to this volume are social scientists from France, Belgium, England and the United States and represent different disciplines. Each author has attempted, through the prism of their specialties, to demonstrate and analyse how and why this striking difference in access to ART exists.

  Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

• eBook available December 2017

  Affective States

  Entanglements, Suspensions, Suspicions

  Laszczkowski, M. & Reeves, M. (eds)

  The volume enhances the anthropological understanding of the various ways through which the state comes to be experienced as a visceral presence in social life.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

• eBook available July 2012

  After The History of Sexuality

  German Genealogies with and Beyond Foucault

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

  
  

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

• July 2021

  After Corporate Paternalism

  Material Renovation and Social Change in Times of Ruination

  Straube, C.

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

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Sociology

• eBook available December 2016

  Against Exoticism

  Toward the Transcendence of Relativism and Universalism in Anthropology

  Kapferer, B. & Theodossopoulos, D. (eds)

  This volume confronts the distortions of orientalism, ethnocentrism, and romantic nostalgia to expose exoticism, defined as the construction of false and unsubstantiated difference. Its aim is to re-found the importance of the exotic in the development of anthropological knowledge and to overcome methodological dualisms and dualistic approaches.

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

• eBook available June 2021

  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

• March 2005

  Ageing Without Children

  European and Asian Perspectives on Elderly Access to Support Networks

  Kreager, P. & Schröder-Butterfill, E. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

• eBook available July 2020

  Agency in Transnational Memory Politics

  Wüstenberg, J. & Sierp, A. (eds)

  This volume brings together theoretical and practical considerations to provide transnational memory scholars with an interdisciplinary investigation into agency—the “who” and the “how” of cross-border commemoration that motivates activists and fascinates observers.

  Subjects: History (General) Sociology Memory Studies

• May 2003

  Aging in Today's World

  Conversations between an Anthropologist and a Physician

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

  
  

  Subjects: Applied Anthropology Sociology Medical Anthropology

• November 2013

  Alienating Labour

  Workers on the Road from Socialism to Capitalism in East Germany and Hungary

  Bartha, E.

  
  

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

• eBook available July 2021

  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

• 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

• eBook available September 2019

  Ambiguous Childhoods

  Peer Socialisation, Schooling and Agency in a Zambian Village

  Clemensen, N.

  Drawing on rich linguistic-ethnographic details of Zambian children interacting, combined with observations of school and household procedures, the author provides a rare insight into the lives, voices, and learning paths of children in a rural African setting.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Development Studies Educational Studies

• eBook available May 2012

  Ambiguous Pleasures

  Sexuality and Middle Class Self-Perceptions in Nairobi

  Spronk, R.

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

• eBook available December 2016

  America Observed

  On an International Anthropology of the United States

  Dominguez, V. & Habib, J. (eds)

  There is surprisingly little fieldwork done in and on the United States by anthropologists from abroad. America Observed seeks to fill that gap by bringing into greater focus empirical as well as theoretical implications of this phenomenon for anthropological research and practice.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

• eBook available February 2022

  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

• January 2007

  Anarchism, Revolution and Reaction

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

  Smith, A.

  
  

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

• July 2003

  Anthropology & Law

  Donovan, J.M. & Anderson, III, H.E.

  
  

  Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

• August 2011

  The Anthropology of Empathy

  Experiencing the Lives of Others in Pacific Societies

  Hollan, D. W. & Throop, C. J. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

• eBook available July 2019

  The Anti-Social Contract

  Injurious Talk and Dangerous Exchanges in Northern Mongolia

  Højer, L.

  Set in a remote district of villagers and nomadic pastoralists in the northernmost part of Mongolia, this ethnography reveals an everyday universe where uncertain relations are as much internally cultivated in indigenous Mongolian perceptions of social relatedness, as it is externally confronted in postsocialist surroundings of unemployment and diminished social security.

  Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General)

• eBook available January 2018

  Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation

  Between Text and Practice

  Hausmair, B., Jervis, B., Nugent, R., & Williams, E. (eds)

  How can we study the impact of rules on the lives of past people using archaeological evidence? To answer this question, Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation presents case studies drawn from across Europe and the United States, exploring the use of archaeological evidence in understanding the relationship between rules, lived experience, and social identity.

  Subjects: Archaeology History: Medieval/Early Modern Sociology History (General)

• eBook available January 2023

  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

• October 2023

  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

• August 2009

  Assisting Reproduction, Testing Genes

  Global Encounters with the New Biotechnologies

  Birenbaum-Carmeli, D. & Inhorn, M. C. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

• eBook available January 2023

  At Home in a Nursing Home

  An Ethnography of Movement and Care in Australia

  Zhang, A. R. Y.

  Focusing on contemporary ideas about how aged care is provided, this book poses the question: How can people who are aged and frail live out the final phase of their lives with dignity? In seeking answers, the author examines what it means to be ‘at home’ in residential care in a novel and compassionate way.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

• April 2018

  Basic and Applied Research

  The Language of Science Policy in the Twentieth Century

  Kaldewey, D. & Schauz, D. (eds)

  Basic and Applied Research traces the conceptual history of the distinction between basic and applied research to its origins in nineteenth-century Europe, explores its role in different ideological contexts after World War II, and ultimately provides valuable insights into present-day EU research policy.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

• eBook available August 2018

  Being a Sperm Donor

  Masculinity, Sexuality, and Biosociality in Denmark

  Mohr, S.

  Through ethnographic explorations of the everyday lives of Danish sperm donors, Being a Sperm Donor explores how masculinity and sexuality are reconfigured in a time in which the norms and logics of (reproductive) biomedicine have become ordinary, and examines how the latter’s socio-cultural and political dimensions become intertwined with men’s intimate sense of self.

  Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

• eBook available December 2005

  Between Marx and Coca-Cola

  Youth Cultures in Changing European Societies, 1960-1980

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

  
  

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

• eBook available July 2008

  Between Mass Death and Individual Loss

  The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany

  Confino, A., Betts, P. & Schumann, D. (eds)

  
  

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

• eBook available July 2020

  Beyond Filial Piety

  Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies

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

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

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

• April 2011

  Beyond Pleasure

  Cultures of Modern Asceticism

  Peeters, E., van Molle, L. & Wils, K. (eds)

  
  

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

• July 2008

  Beyond Prison

  The Fight to Reform Prison Systems around the World

  Othmani, A.

  
  

  Subjects: History (General) Sociology

• eBook available March 2019

  Beyond the Border

  Young Minorities in the Danish-German Borderlands, 1955-1971

  Wung-Sung, T. H.

  Beyond the Border reconstructs the experiences of minority youths living in the Danish-German borderlands from the 1950s to the 1970s. Drawing on a remarkable variety of archival and oral sources, author Tobias Haimin Wung-Sung provides a rich and fine-grained analysis that encompasses political issues from the NATO alliance and European integration to everyday life and popular culture.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

• August 2007

  Blood and Oranges

  Immigrant Labor and European Markets in Rural Greece

  Lawrence, C. M.

  
  

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

• November 2009

  The Body in Asia

  Turner, B. & Yangwen, Z. (Eds.)

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology of Religion

• June 2020

  Borders across Healthcare

  Moral Economies of Healthcare and Migration in Europe

  Sahraoui, N. (ed)

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

  Subjects: Medical Anthropology Mobility Studies Sociology

• eBook available November 2019

  Bourdieu and Social Space

  Mobilities, Trajectories, Emplacements

  Reed-Danahay, D.

  French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu’s relevance for studies of spatiality and mobility has received less attention than other aspects of his work.  Here, Deborah Reed-Danahay argues that the concept of social space, central to Bourdieu’s ideas, addresses the structured inequalities that prevail in spatial choices and practices.

  Subjects: Theory and Methodology Mobility Studies Sociology

• eBook available November 2019

  Brazilian Steel Town

  Machines, Land, Money and Commoning in the Making of the Working Class

  Mollona, M.

  Volta Redonda is a Brazilian steel town founded in the 1940s by dictator Getúlio Vargas on an ex-coffee valley as a powerful symbol of Brazilian modernization. Brazilian Steel-Town tells the story of the people tied to this ailing giant – of their fears, hopes, and everyday struggles.

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

• August 2023

  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

• eBook available May 2022

  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

• January 2001

  Categories and Classifications

  Maussian Reflections on the Social

  Allen, N. J.

  
  

  Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

• eBook available March 2019

  Categories in Context

  Gender and Work in France and Germany, 1900–Present

  Berrebi-Hoffmann, I., Giraud, O., Renard, L., & Wobbe, T. (eds)

  Despite the wealth of empirical research into the interrelationships of gender and labor available, little is known about the forms of classification and categorization shaping these social phenomena. Categories in Context enriches our understanding of how cognitive categories such as status, law, and rights have been produced, comprehended, appropriated, and eventually transformed in France and Germany.

  Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General) Sociology

• December 2004

  Categories of Self

  Louis Dumont's Theory of the Individual

  Celtel, A.

  
  

  Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

• December 2001

  Celebrating Ethnicity and Nation

  American Festive Culture from the Revolution to the Early 20th Century

  Heideking, J., Fabre, G. & Dreisbach, K. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

• eBook available January 2019

  The Changing Meanings of the Welfare State

  Histories of a Key Concept in the Nordic Countries

  Edling, N. (ed)

  The Nordic concept of “the welfare state” is a well-worn analytical idea that has yet to receive much exploration beyond its postwar emergence. This volume chronicles “the welfare state” from its historical origins to its interpretations, values, and challenges over time in Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland.

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

• eBook available March 2010

  Changing the World, Changing Oneself

  Political Protest and Collective Identities in West Germany and the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s

  Davis, B., Mausbach, W., Klimke, M. & MacDougall, C. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

• August 2012

  Charismatic Leadership and Social Movements

  The Revolutionary Power of Ordinary Men and Women

  Stutje, J. W. (ed)

  
  

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

• July 2001

  Child Abuse on the Internet

  Breaking the Silence

  Arnaldo, C.A., in association with UNESCO

  
  

  Subject: Sociology

• eBook available October 2017

  Children of the Camp

  The Lives of Somali Youth Raised in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya

  Grayson, C.-L.

  This original study carefully considers how young people perceive their living environment and how growing up in exile structures their view of the past and their country of origin, and the future and its possibilities.

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

• eBook available November 2013

  Children of the Dictatorship

  Student Resistance, Cultural Politics and the 'Long 1960s' in Greece

  Kornetis, K.

  
  

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

• eBook available June 2017

  Civil Society Revisited

  Lessons from Poland

  Jacobsson, K. & Korolczuk, E. (eds)

  In contrast to a social scientific literature that characterizes Polish civil society as weak and passive, this volume focuses on forms of collective action that researchers too often ignore due to their theoretical and methodological blind spots. It constitutes a powerful critique of a model of civil society that is ‘made from above’ by elites, media, and public institutions.

  Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

• eBook available September 2011

  Civilizations Beyond Earth

  Extraterrestrial Life and Society

  Vakoch, D. A. & Harrison, A. A. (eds)

  “For years sections of the SETI [Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence] community have bemoaned the fact that the social sciences are often sidelined in favour of the hard sciences when it comes to SETI discussion. Civilizations Beyond Earth starts to redress the balance, edited skillfully by Douglas Vakoch, the only sociologist on staff at the SETI Institute in California, and Albert Harrison, a psychologist from the University of California.” • Astronomy

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Archaeology

• eBook available October 2021

  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

• May 2016

  Coming of Age

  Constructing and Controlling Youth in Munich, 1942-1973

  Kalb, M.

  In the years following World War II, Munich society became obsessed with the hypothetical threat that youths posed to postwar stability. This fascinating study shows that constructs like the rowdy young male and the sexually deviant girl served as proxies for the anxieties of adult society, while allowing authorities to expand social control.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

• eBook available December 2007

  Coming of Age in Times of Uncertainty

  Blatterer, H.

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

• eBook available June 2022

  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

• eBook available June 2019

  The Configuration of the Spanish Public Sphere

  From the Enlightenment to the Indignados

  Jiménez Torres, D. & Villamediana González, L. (eds)

  This volume brings together leading scholars in Spanish and Latin American studies to explore the concept of the Spanish “public sphere” and its relation to society and political power over time. It offers a long-term, panoramic view—spanning from the Enlightenment to current developments in the EU—on one of the most urgent issues for contemporary European societies.

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

• eBook available February 2022

  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

• eBook available August 2016

  Constitutional Courts in Comparison

  The US Supreme Court and the German Federal Constitutional Court

  Rogowski, R. & Gawron T. (eds)

  The side-by-side comparison between the U.S. Supreme Court and the German Federal Constitutional Court provides a novel socio-legal approach in studying constitutional litigation, focusing on conditions of mobilisation, decision-making and implementation.

  Subject: Sociology

• June 2011

  Contested Mediterranean Spaces

  Ethnographic Essays in Honour of Charles Tilly

  Kousis, M., Selwyn, T. & Clark, D. (Eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Urban Studies Sociology Anthropology (General)

• April 2023

  Contesting Moralities

  Roma Identities, State and Kinship

  Sarafian, I.

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

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

• March 2007

  Continental Britons

  German-Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany

  Berghahn, M.

  
  

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

• eBook available November 2021

  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)

• eBook available June 2022

  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

• eBook available November 2016

  Creating a New Public University and Reviving Democracy

  Action Research in Higher Education

  Levin, M. & Greenwood, D. J.

  Morten Levin and Davydd Greenwood analyze the wreckage created by neoliberal academic administrators and policymakers, before going on to propose Action Research processes that can transform public universities back into institutions that promote academic freedom, integrity, and democracy.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies Sociology

• eBook available February 2020

  Credit and Debt in an Unequal Society

  Establishing a Consumer Credit Market in South Africa

  Schraten, J.

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

  Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sociology

• May 2014

  Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany

  Wetzell, R. F. (ed)

  
  

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

• April 2009

  Crime Stories

  Criminalistic Fantasy and the Culture of Crisis in Weimar Germany

  Herzog, T.

  
  

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

• eBook available June 2019

  Crossing Histories and Ethnographies

  Following Colonial Historicities in Timor-Leste

  Roque, R. & Traube, E. G. (eds)

  Brings together different generations of Timor-Leste scholars into dialogue to reconsider a diversity of such critical topics as the incorporation of strangers, the meanings of colonial documents, the value of sacred heirlooms, or the remembering (and forgetting) of colonial violence.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Sociology

• eBook available February 2012

  The Cult and Science of Public Health

  A Sociological Investigation

  Dew, K.

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Medical Anthropology

• December 2007

  Cultural Diversity and the Empowerment of Minorities

  Perspectives from Israel and Germany

  Al-Haj, M. & Mielke, R. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Educational Studies Sociology

• 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

• March 2014

  Culture, Suicide, and the Human Condition

  Honkasalo, M.-L. & Tuominen, M. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

• eBook available June 2012

  Cultures of Colour

  Visual, Material, Textual

  Horrocks, C. (ed)

  
  

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

• eBook available April 2018

  Cutting Cosmos

  Masculinity and Spectacular Events among the Bugkalot

  Mikkelsen, H. H.

  Exploring the notion of masculinity among the Bugkalot, Cutting Cosmos is not only an experimental, anthropological study of the paradoxes around which Bugkalot society revolves, but also a reflection on anthropological theory and writing.

  Subjects: Theory and Methodology Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

• April 2019

  Cyborg Mind

  What Brain–Computer and Mind–Cyberspace Interfaces Mean for Cyberneuroethics

  MacKellar, C.

  An inter-disciplinary examination of the ethical challenges arisings from direct interfaces between the human brain and computer systems as well as between the mind and cyberspace. This volume is the first extensive study in cyberneuroethics, a subject matter which is certain to have a significant impact in the 21st century and beyond.

  Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

• December 2011

  Dark Traces of the Past

  Psychoanalysis and Historical Thinking

  Straub, J. & Rüsen, J. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: History (General) Sociology

• June 2021

  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

• eBook available January 2020

  The Devil is Disorder

  Bodies, Spirits and Misfortune in a Trinidadian Village

  Lynch, R.

  What role might the Devil have in health and illness? The Devil is Disorder explores constructions of the body, health, illness and wider misfortune in a Trinidadian village where evangelical Christianity is growing in popularity. Based on long-term ethnography, the book takes a nuanced cosmological approach to situate evangelical Christian understandings.

  Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion Sociology

• eBook available January 2003

  Disputed Territories

  The Transnational Dynamics of Ethnic Conflict Settlement

  Wolff, S.

  
  

  Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology

• eBook available March 2014

  Domesticating Youth

  Youth Bulges and their Socio-political Implications in Tajikistan

  Roche, S.

  “This is an outstanding study of the ‘youth bulge’ in a remote country of Central Asia…Through her extensive field work, the author acquired a deep personal knowledge of the peculiarity of the country and its culture, for which little is available in the academic literature…This work is important not only for understanding the dynamics of the youth bulge in Tajikistan, but also to better grasp the rationale and multiple dimensions of youth movements in other developing countries of the same geographical area, and in particular the so-called “Arab Spring” revolutions.”   ·  Michel Garenne, Institut Pasteur, Paris

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

• November 2001

  Durkheim and Foucault

  Perspectives on Education and Punishment

  Cladis, M. (ed)

  
  

  Subjects: Educational Studies Sociology

• eBook available November 2013

  Durkheim in Dialogue

  A Centenary Celebration of The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

  Hausner, S. L. (ed)

  
  

  Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

• October 2002

  Durkheim Today

  Pickering, W. S. F. (ed)

  
  

  Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

• eBook available August 2013

  Durkheim, the Durkheimians, and the Arts

  Riley, A.T., Pickering, W.S.F., & Watts Miller, W. (eds)

  
  

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

• eBook available August 2012

  A Durkheimian Quest

  Solidarity and the Sacred

  Watts Miller, W.

  
  

  Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

• December 2011

  Dynamic Belonging

  Contemporary Jewish Collective Identities

  Goldberg, H. E., Cohen, S. M., & Kopelowitz, E. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Jewish Studies Sociology

• 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

• August 2011

  Ecofeminism and Rhetoric

  Critical Perspectives on Sex, Technology, and Discourse

  Vakoch, D. A. (ed)

  
  

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

• eBook available July 2016

  Economic Citizenship

  Neoliberal Paradoxes of Empowerment

  Sa'ar, A.

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

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

• eBook available September 2018

  Economy, Crime and Wrong in a Neoliberal Era

  Carrier, J. G. (ed)

  This volume examines the relationship between corporate and economic wrongdoing and the neoliberal policies and practices that have been influential in Western societies since around 1980, considering whether neoliberalism has affected the likelihood that people and firms will act in ways that many would consider wrong – and even fragmented our very ideas of economic right and wrong.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

• December 2011

  Education Policy and Equal Opportunity in Japan

  Okada, A.

  
  

  Subjects: Educational Studies History (General) Sociology

• eBook available September 2018

  Elite Malay Polygamy

  Wives, Wealth and Woes in Malaysia

  Zeitzen, M. K.

  An ethnography of elite polygamy in urban Malaysia, this volume explores the impact this growing practice has on Malay gender relations, examining the varied and often-conflicted polygamy narratives of elite Malay women, who manage their lives and loves under the “threat” of husbands able to marry another woman without their knowledge or consent.

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

• eBook available June 2021

  Emotions, Ethics, and Cinematic Experience

  New Phenomenological and Cognitivist Perspectives

  Sinnerbrink, R. (ed)

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

  Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies Sociology

• eBook available April 2019

  The Engaged Historian

  Perspectives on the Intersections of Politics, Activism and the Historical Profession

  Berger, S. (ed)

  Political action and historical research have been deeply intertwined for nearly as long as the historical profession has existed. In this insightful collection, practicing historians analyze, reflect on, and share their experiences of this complex relationship.

  Subjects: History (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology

• eBook available May 2019

  Engaging Evil

  A Moral Anthropology

  Olsen, W. C. & Csordas, T. J. (eds)

  Exploring the anthropology of evil as an empirical human phenomenon, this volume attempts to show the usefulness of treating evil as a descriptive reality where concepts such as violence, criminality, and hatred fall short of capturing the darkest side of human existence.

  Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology Anthropology of Religion

• November 2014

  Enhancing Democracy

  Public Policies and Citizen Participation in Chile

  Delamaza, G.

  Since the end of the Pinochet regime, Chilean public policy has sought to rebuild democratic governance in the country. This book examines the links between the state and civil society in Chile and the ways social policies have sought to ensure the inclusion of the poor in society and democracy.

  Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

• November 1999

  Essay on Time

  A Brief Study of the Representation of Time in Religion and Magic

  Hubert, H.

  
  

  Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

• eBook available March 2012

  Ethical Consumption

  Social Value and Economic Practice

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

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

• eBook available March 2021

  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

• May 2003

  Ethics and Genetics

  A Workbook for Practitioners and Students

  Wert, G. de, Meulen, R. ter, Mordacci, R. & Tallacchini, M.

  
  

  Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

• eBook available March 2014

  The Ethics of the New Eugenics

  MacKellar, C. & Bechtel, C. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

• eBook available August 2022

  Ethnographies of Deservingness

  Unpacking Ideologies of Distribution and Inequality

  Tošić, J. & Streinzer, A. (eds)

  Claims around 'who deserves what and why' moralise inequality in the current global context of unprecedented wealth and its ever more selective distribution. Ethnographies of Deservingness explores this seeming paradox and the role of moralized assessments of distribution by reconnecting disparate discussions in the anthropology of migration, economic anthropology and political anthropology.

  Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

• eBook available July 2018

  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)

• eBook available April 2021

  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

• eBook available June 2012

  European Foundations of the Welfare State

  Kaufmann, F.-X.

  
  

  Subjects: History (General) Sociology

• December 2018

  Europeanization in Sweden

  Opportunities and Challenges for Civil Society Organizations

  Meeuwisse, A. & Scaramuzzino, R. (eds)

  This volume brings together new empirical research into how the process of European integration has played out in Sweden. Europeanization in Sweden not only offers insights into how Europeanization is enacted on the ground, but also addresses the question of whether and how the “Swedish model” can guide European integration.

  Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

• April 2014

  Europeanizing Contention

  The Protest Against 'Fortress Europe' in France and Germany

  Monforte, P.

  “This book addresses a timely and under-researched topic…The empirical parts of the book present a large body of new information on social movement organizations in the two countries in a detailed and convincing manner.” • Barbara Laubenthal, University of Konstanz

  What are the consequences of European integration on social movements? Who are the “winners” and the “losers” of Europe’s organized civil society? This book explores the Europeanization of contention through an in-depth, comparative analysis of French and German pro-asylum movements since the end of the 1990s.

  Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

• June 2002

  Europe's New Racism

  Causes, Manifestations, and Solutions

  Evens Foundation

  
  

  Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology Urban Studies

• eBook available July 2021

  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

• eBook available May 2007

  Explorations in Psychoanalytic Ethnography

  Mimica, J. (ed)

  
   

  Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

• eBook available September 2020

  Facing the Crisis

  Ethnographies of Work in Italian Industrial Capitalism

  D'Aloisio, F. & Ghezzi, S. (eds)

  Facing the Crisis brings together ethnographic material from anthropological research projects carried out in various Italian industrial locations during the last economic crisis. With its wide number of locations and industries, the volume looks at all corners of the diverse Italian manufacturing system.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

• eBook available March 2023

  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

• May 2007

  Fire in the Dark

  Telling Gypsiness in North East England

  Buckler, S.

  
  

  Subjects: Applied Anthropology Sociology Anthropology (General)

• eBook available March 2023

  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

• 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

• April 2010

  Forging Political Identity

  Silk and Metal Workers in Lyon, France 1900-1939

  Mann, K.

  
  

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

• eBook available October 2017

  Foucault's Orient

  The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan

  Lazreg, M.

  Using interviews with scholars from Tunisia and Japan, this book examines the manner in which Foucault experienced and explained his encounters with non-Western cultures, unraveling the anthropological implications of his unwavering commitment to cultural difference.  It also traces the philosophical-theoretical sources of his conception of difference, and uncovers the contradictions of his dismissal of empirical anthropology to know human beings.

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

• eBook available June 2011

  France in the Age of Organization

  Factory, Home and Nation from the 1920s to Vichy

  Clarke, J.

  
  

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

• eBook available August 2016

  The France of the Little-Middles

  A Suburban Housing Development in Greater Paris

  Cartier, M., Coutant, I., Masclet, O., & Siblot, Y.

  The France of the Little-Middles explores the strained reception of the migrants in The Poplars, a housing development in suburban Paris that dates back to the mid-20th centrury. The authors examine tensions within the complex less as a product of racism and xenophobia than of anxiety about social class and the loss of a sense of community that reigned before.

  Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Urban Studies

• eBook available December 2021

  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

• eBook available March 2020

  Friendship without Borders

  Women's Stories of Power, Politics, and Everyday Life across East and West Germany

  Leask, P.

  Drawing on a set of interviews and a thousand letters written over fifty years, Friendship, Power, and Everyday Life considers how a group of women, self-defined as non-political, experienced, accepted, rejected, or countered the exercise of power across twentieth-century regimes in Germany.

  Subjects: History (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality

• eBook available September 2016

  From Craftsmen to Capitalists

  German Artisans from the Third Reich to the Federal Republic, 1939-1953

  McKitrick, F. L.

  As Hitler consolidated power, German artisans emerged as an important Nazi constituency, drawn by the party’s rejection of both capitalism and Bolshevism. Yet, after 1945, they became one of the pillars of postwar stability. This volume gives the first account of this astonishing transformation, exploring how tradesmen helped to realize German democratization and recovery.

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

• eBook available January 2023

  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

• August 2006

  From Tax Populism to Ethnic Nationalism

  Radical Right-wing Populism in Sweden

  Rydgren, J.

  
  

  Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

• June 2023

  From Village Commons to Public Goods

  Graduated Provision in Urbanizing China

  Trémon, A.-C.

  Illuminating the complex processes of China’s uneven urbanization through the lens of the transition from village commons to public goods, this book is set in three urbanized villages in Shenzhen, Chengdu, and Xi’an, which have experienced similar demographic explosions and dramatic changes to their landscapes, the livelihoods of its inhabitants, and the power structures governing their residents.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies Sociology

• eBook available April 2019

  Gendering Post-1945 German History

  Entanglements

  Hagemann, K., & Harsch, D., & Brühöfner, F. (eds)

  Gendering Post-1945 German History: Entanglements offers new and critical insight into the state of the research on post-war German history from a gender perspective. Using the concept of “entanglement,” this volume investigates the ways in which East and West German gender relations were socially and politically intertwined.

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

• eBook available October 2022

  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)

• February 2013

  The German Student Movement and the Literary Imagination

  Transnational Memories of Protest and Dissent

  Rinner, S.

  
  

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

• eBook available September 2013

  The Gift of European Thought and the Cost of Living

  Argyrou, V.

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

• April 2023

  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

• eBook available July 2019

  The Girl in the Text

  Smith, A. (ed)

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

  Subjects: Literary Studies Sociology Media Studies Anthropology (General)

• eBook available January 2023

  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: Anthropology (General) Sociology

• eBook available October 2018

  The Global Age-Friendly Community Movement

  A Critical Appraisal

  Stafford, P. B. (ed)

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

  Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

• eBook available July 2018

  Global Fluids

  The Cultural Politics of Reproductive Waste and Value

  Kroløkke, C.

  Embedded in feminist communication, sociological, and anthropological scholarship, Global Fluids examines the ways in which women’s body products (such as urine, eggs, and placentas) become valuable ingredients in the fertility and cosmetics industries, and develops cultural politics of reusability and extensibility to discuss the moral limits of their global distribution.

  Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

• eBook available April 2010

  Godless Intellectuals?

  The Intellectual Pursuit of the Sacred Reinvented

  Riley, A. T.

  
  

  Subjects: Sociology Anthropology of Religion

• March 2013

  The Golden Chain

  Family, Civil Society and the State

  Nautz, J., Ginsborg, P., & Nijhuis, T. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: History (General) Sociology

• 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

• March 2003

  Group Identities on French and British Television

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

  
  

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

• August 2013

  Growing Artefacts, Displaying Relationships

  Yams, Art and Technology amongst the Nyamikum Abelam of Papua New Guinea

  Coupaye, L.

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Heritage Studies

• eBook available May 2017

  Hairy Hippies and Bloody Butchers

  The Greenpeace Anti-Whaling Campaign in Norway

  Riese, J.

  This book provides an inside look at Greenpeace’s decades-long campaign against the Norwegian whaling industry. Combining historical narrative with sophisticated systems-theory analysis, it examines the organization’s failure to end Norwegian whaling, providing valuable lessons for other protest movements.

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

• eBook available December 2008

  Hierarchy

  Persistence and Transformation in Social Formations

  Rio, K. & Smedal, O. H. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

• eBook available August 2018

  Hierarchy and Value

  Comparative Perspectives on Moral Order

  Hickel, J. & Haynes, N. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

• April 2015

  The History of Labour Intermediation

  Institutions and Finding Employment in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

  Wadauer, S., Buchner, T., & Mejstrik, A. (eds)

  Searching for a job has been an everyday affair in both modern and past societies, and employment a concern for both individuals and institutions. The case studies in this volume investigate job search and placement practices in European countries, Australia, and India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

  Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

• May 2015

  Housing and Belonging in Latin America

  Klaufus, C. & Ouweneel, A. (eds)

  The intricacies of living in contemporary Latin American cities include cases of both empowerment and restriction. This volume captures the paradoxical histories and experiences of urban life in Latin America, offering new empirical and theoretical insights to scholars.

  Subjects: Urban Studies Sociology

• eBook available July 2021

  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

• eBook available March 2019

  How Materials Matter

  Design, Innovation and Materiality in the Pacific

  Were, G.

  Explores how design and innovation shape people’s lives in the Pacific. Focusing on plant materials from the region, it reveals ways in which a variety of people – from craftswomen and scientists to architects and politicians – work with materials to transform worlds.

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

• eBook available December 2019

  A Human Garden

  French Policy and the Transatlantic Legacies of Eugenic Experimentation

  Rosental, P.-A.

  A Human Garden explains the longevity of the Ungemach Gardens, an experimental eugenic city that survived on the outskirts of Strasbourg from the 1920s to the 1980s. He reveals the inheritance of eugenics, examining ways in which eugenics have come to influence social, health, and educational policymaking in the post-war era.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

• eBook available September 2022

  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

• December 2002

  Identities

  Time, Difference and Boundaries

  Friese, H. (ed)

  
  

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

• March 2007

  Identity and Networks

  Fashioning Gender and Ethnicity across Cultures

  Bryceson, D., Okely, J., & Webber, J. (eds)

  
   

  Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Theory and Methodology Sociology

• January 2012

  Identity Politics and the New Genetics

  Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging

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

  
  

  Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

• November 2003

  Illness and Irony

  On the Ambiguity of Suffering in Culture

  Lambek, M. & Antze, P. (ed)

  
  

  Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

• eBook available April 2012

  Images of Power and the Power of Images

  Control, Ownership, and Public Space

  Kapferer, J. (ed)

  
  

  Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

• eBook available July 2011

  Imagining the Post-Apartheid State

  An Ethnographic Account of Namibia

  Friedman, J. T.

  In northwest Namibia, people’s political imagination offers a powerful insight into the post-apartheid state. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork, this book focuses on the former South African apartheid regime and the present democratic government; it compares the perceptions and practices of state and customary forms of judicial administration, reflects upon the historical trajectory of a chieftaincy dispute in relation to the rooting of state power and examines everyday forms of belonging in the independent Namibian State.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

• eBook available 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

• eBook available September 2015

  In the Absence of the Gift

  New Forms of Value and Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Community

  Rasmussen, A. E.

  Nearly half the people born on the remote Mbuke Islands become teachers, businessmen, or bureaucrats in urban centers, while those who stay at home ask migrant relatives “What about me?” This detailed ethnography sheds light on remittance motivations and documents how terms like “community” can be useful in places otherwise permeated by kinship.
   

  Subject: Anthropology (General) Sociology

• eBook available May 2018

  In the Best Interests of the Child

  Loss and Suffering in Adoption Proceedings

  Mass, M.

  Based on her experience as an expert witness in court proceedings on adoption in Israel, and through four representative case studies, Mass examines the view that emphasizes the lifelong loss inflicted on the child by compulsory ‘closed’ adoption, contrasting it with the need to ‘free the child for adoption’ when parents are assessed as incapable.

  Subject: Sociology

• eBook available March 2023

  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)

• eBook available October 2018

  Indeterminacy

  Waste, Value, and the Imagination

  Alexander, C. & Sanchez, A. (eds)

  What happens to people, places, and things that do not fit the progressive, ordering narratives of capitalism and modernity? This volume explores the indeterminacy left behind by conventional understandings of progress and shows how totalizing forward movement may be resisted by fragments, open-endedness, and the possibility of going nowhere at all.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

• eBook available May 2017

  Indigenist Mobilization

  Confronting Electoral Communism and Precarious Livelihoods in Post-Reform Kerala

  Steur, L.

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

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

• eBook available August 2011

  Indigenous Peoples and Demography

  The Complex Relation between Identity and Statistics

  Axelsson, P. & Sköld, P. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

• eBook available October 2008

  Indigenous Peoples, Civil Society, and the Neo-liberal State in Latin America

  Fischer, E. F. (ed)

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

• June 1999

  Industrial Culture and Bourgeois Society in Modern Germany

  Kocka, J.

  
  

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

• May 2006

  An Introduction to Two Theories of Social Anthropology

  Descent Groups and Marriage Alliance

  Dumont, L.

  
  

  Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

• eBook available November 2020

  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

• eBook available 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

• eBook available March 2012

  Israeli Identities

  Jews and Arabs Facing the Self and the Other

  Auron, Y.

  
  

  Subjects: Jewish Studies Sociology

• eBook available January 2020

  Jaguars of the Dawn

  Spirit Mediumship in the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer

  Pierini, E.

  Drawing upon over a decade of extensive fieldwork in temples of the Vale do Amanhecer in Brazil and Europe, this ethnography explores how mediums understand their experiences and how they learn to establish relationships with their spirit guides.

  Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Medical Anthropology Sociology

• eBook available November 2013

  Japanese Tourism

  Spaces, Places and Structures

  Funck, C. & Cooper, M.

  
  

  Subjects: Travel and Tourism Sociology

• eBook available June 2012

  Journeys Into Madness

  Mapping Mental Illness in the Austro-Hungarian Empire

  Blackshaw, G. & Wieber, S. (eds)

  
  

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

• eBook available November 2010

  The Ju/’hoan San of Nyae Nyae and Namibian Independence

  Development, Democracy, and Indigenous Voices in Southern Africa

  Biesele, M. & Hitchcock, R. K.

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

• December 2012

  Karl Marx

  An Intellectual Biography

  Hosfeld, R.

  
  

  Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

• August 2006

  The Kinning of Foreigners

  Transnational Adoption in a Global Perspective

  Howell, S.

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies Sociology

• eBook available September 2017

  Laborers and Enslaved Workers

  Experiences in Common in the Making of Rio de Janeiro's Working Class, 1850-1920

  Badaró Mattos, M.

  In the nineteenth century, Rio de Janeiro was not only home to the largest population of enslaved laborers in the Americas, but it was also the site of an incipient working-class consciousness across seemingly distinct social categories. This volume analyzes the diverse labor arrangements and associative life of Rio’s working class, from which emerged the strategies that workers free and unfree pursued against oppression.

  Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

• 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)

• August 2006

  Le Malaise Creole

  Ethnic Identity in Mauritius

  Boswell, R.

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

• eBook available June 2012

  Learning From the Children

  Childhood, Culture and Identity in a Changing World

  Waldren, J. & Kaminski, I.-M. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Mobility Studies

• December 2007

  Learning on the Shop Floor

  Historical Perspectives on Apprenticeship

  Munck, B. de, Kaplan, S. L. & Soly, H. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: History (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

• eBook available October 2007

  Learning Religion

  Anthropological Approaches

  Berliner, D. & Sarró, R. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology Sociology

• June 2018

  Lessons in Perception

  The Avant-Garde Filmmaker as Practical Psychologist

  Taberham, P.

  Narrative comprehension, memory, hallucination, and dreaming have long been objects of fascination for cognitive psychologists, as well as inspiration for experimental filmmakers. Lessons in Perception brings together film theory and psychological research by exploring how experimental filmmakers expand the viewer’s range of aesthetic sensitivities, and the creative possibilities uncharted by commercial cinema.

  Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies Sociology

• July 2003

  L'Evaluation en Comité

  A Textes et rapports de souscription au Comité destravaux historiques et scientifiques, 1903-1917

  Durkheim, E.

  
  

  Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

• April 2010

  The Life of Property

  House, Family and Inheritance in Béarn, South-West France

  Jenkins, T.

  
  

  Subjects: Theory and Methodology History (General) Sociology

• eBook available April 2021

  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

• eBook available August 2021

  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)

• eBook available July 2018

  Living Under Austerity

  Greek Society in Crisis

  Doxiadis, E. & Placas, A. (eds)

  Since its sovereign debt crisis in 2009, Greece has been living under austerity. This volume explores the effects of austerity policies on politics, health care, education, media, and other areas, and examines the crisis as the context for changing attitudes in Greek society regarding immigration, crime, minorities, consumption and more.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

• December 2010

  Lost to the State

  Family Discontinuity, Social Orphanhood and Residential Care in the Russian Far East

  Khlinovskaya Rockhill, E.

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

• March 2003

  Louis Dumont and Hierarchical Opposition

  Parkin, R.

  
  

  Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

• eBook available April 2019

  Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents

  The Making and Unmaking of Racial Exceptionalism

  Anderson, W., Roque, R., & Ventura Santos, R. (eds)

  The Portuguese-speaking Global South, especially Brazil, often envisions itself as exceptional in its racial conceptions and politics. Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents reassesses Gilberto Freyre’s influential claims that Portuguese colonialism produced what came to be called “racial democracy,” and explores racialization beyond the common trope of “race-mixing.”

  Subjects: Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

• eBook available July 2016

  Made In Egypt

  Gendered Identity and Aspiration on the Globalised Shop Floor

  Chakravarti, L. Z.

  This ground-breaking ethnography of an export-orientated factory in Egypt examines the dynamic relationships between the emergent Mubarak-bizniz (business) elites, who are caught in an intensely competitive globalized supply chain, and the local realities of the daily lives of their young, educated, and mixed-gender labor force.

  Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Sociology

• eBook available January 2023

  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

• eBook available May 2022

  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

• February 2023

  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

• November 2007

  The Manual of Ethnography

  Mauss, M.

  
  

  Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

• eBook available April 2011

  Mapping Difference

  The Many Faces of Women in Contemporary Ukraine

  Rubchak, M. J. (ed)

  
  

  Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

• December 1998

  Marcel Mauss

  A Centenary Tribute

  James, W. & Allen, N. J. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

• eBook available June 2012

  Marginal At the Center

  The Life Story of a Public Sociologist

  Kimmerling, B.

  
  

  Subjects: Sociology Jewish Studies

• eBook available June 2019

  Market Frictions

  Trade and Urbanization at the Vietnam-China Border

  Endres, K. W.

  Based on ethnographic research conducted during several years, Market Frictions examines the tensions and frictions that emerge from the interaction of global market forces, urban planning policies, and small-scale trading activities in the Vietnamese border city of Lào Cai.

  Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sociology

• eBook available May 2019

  Marketing Hope

  Get-Rich-Quick Schemes in Siberia

  Schiffauer, L.

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

  Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sociology

• eBook available January 2023

  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

• eBook available June 2017

  Mary Douglas

  Understanding Social Thought and Conflict

  6, P. & Richards, P.

  This valuable book introduces Mary Douglas’s theories, and outlines the ways in which her work is of continuing importance for the future of the social sciences. The authors effectively demonstrate how Douglas laid out the agenda for revitalizing social science by reworking Durkheim’s legacy for today, and reviews the growing body of research across the social sciences which has used, tested or developed her approach.

  Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

• eBook available April 2012

  Maternalism Reconsidered

  Motherhood, Welfare and Social Policy in the Twentieth Century

  Klein, M. van der, Plant, R. J., Sanders, Nichole, & Weintrob L. R. (eds)

  
  

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

• eBook available July 2021

  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

• eBook available July 2009

  Mediating Europe

  New Media, Mass Communications, and the European Public Sphere

  Harrison, J. & Wessels, B. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Media Studies Sociology

• May 2007

  Medical Identities

  Healing, Well Being and Personhood

  Maynard, K. (ed)

  
  

  Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

• November 2015

  Memory and Change in Europe

  Eastern Perspectives

  Pakier, M. & Wawrzyniak, J. (eds)

  In studies of a common European past, there is a significant lack of scholarship on the former Eastern Bloc countries. This volume offers a reflection on memory in an Eastern European historical context, one that can be measured against and applied to historical experience in other parts of Europe.

  Subjects: History (General) Sociology Memory Studies

• eBook available September 2015

  The Merkel Republic

  An Appraisal

  Langenbacher, E. (ed)

  Bringing together German politics experts from both sides of the Atlantic, this volume addresses the campaign, results, and consequences of the 2013 Bundestag election. Chapters delve into a diverse array of themes, including immigrant-origin and women candidates, the fate of the small parties, and the prospects for the SPD, as well as more general structural trends like the Europeanization and cosmopolitanization of German politics.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

• eBook available February 2018

  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

• eBook available June 2022

  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

• eBook available May 2016

  Migration by Boat

  Discourses of Trauma, Exclusion and Survival

  Mannik, L. (ed)

  Exploring various contemporary case studies and historic cultural renditions of boat migrations undertaken by asylum seekers and refugees, this book shows that boats not only move people and cultural capital between places, but also fuel cultural fantasies, dreams of adventure and hope, along with fears of invasion and terrorism.

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

• eBook available January 2022

  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

• November 2010

  Migration, Development, and Transnationalization

  A Critical Stance

  Glick Schiller, N. & Faist, T. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Theory and Methodology Sociology

• eBook available May 2015

  Militant Around the Clock?

  Left-Wing Youth Politics, Leisure, and Sexuality in Post-Dictatorship Greece, 1974-1981

  Papadogiannis, N.

  During the 1970s left-wing youth militancy in Greece intensified, especially after the collapse of the military dictatorship in 1974. This book is the first study of the impact of that political activism on the leisure pursuits and sexual behavior of Greek youth.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

• July 2023

  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

• eBook available August 2013

  The Mind of the Nation

  Völkerpsychologie in Germany, 1851-1955

  Klautke, E.

  “This is a very careful and meticulous study of the history of a forgotten science, namely Völkerpsychologie, a scholarly attempt to study the psychological structure of nations. We can now understand not just its complex origins reaching back to the German intellectual history of the early 19th century, but also the intellectual intricacies in the works of its main protagonists.”  ·  Uffa Jensen, Max Planck Institute for Human Development

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

• February 2006

  Miners and the State in the Ottoman Empire

  The Zonguldak Coalfield, 1822-1920

  Quataert, D.

  
  

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

• eBook available October 2020

  The Mobility of Memory

  Migrations and Diasporas across European Borders

  Passerini, L., Trakilović, M., & Proglio, G. (eds)

  During five years of field research in Italy and the Netherlands, the “Bodies Across Borders: Oral and Visual Memory in Europe and Beyond” (BABE) team examined the connection between mobility and memory in Europe. This volume, the outcome of that project, engages with the tensions between roots and routes, history and memory, minds and bodies, macrostructures and micro stories, and control and resistance.

  Subjects: Mobility Studies Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology Memory Studies

• August 2006

  Modernity and Secession

  The Social Sciences and the Political Discourse of the lega nord in Italy

  Huysseune, M.

  
  

  Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Peace and Conflict Studies

• eBook available August 2020

  Modernity and the Unmaking of Men

  Schubert, V.

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

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality

• eBook available January 2020

  Money Counts

  Revisiting Economic Calculation

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

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

  Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

• October 2002

  Montesquieu

  His Contribution to the Establishment of Political Science

  Durkheim, E.

  
  

  Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

• October 2021

  Moral Economy at Work

  Ethnographic Investigations in Eurasia

  Yalçın-Heckmann, L. (ed)

  The idea of a moral economy has been explored and assessed in numerous disciplines. The anthropological studies in this volume provide a new perspective to this idea by showing how the relations of workers, employees and employers, and of firms, families and households are interwoven with local notions of moralities.

  Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

• eBook available May 2012

  Moving Subjects, Moving Objects

  Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions

  Svašek, M. (ed)

  
  

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

• eBook available May 2010

  Multicultural Dialogue

  Dilemmas, Paradoxes, Conflicts

  Gressgård, R.

  
  

  Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

• December 2005

  Music and Manipulation

  On the Social Uses and Social Control of Music

  Brown, S. & Volgsten, U. (eds)

  
  

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

• September 2015

  Narrating the City

  Histories, Space and the Everyday

  Fischer-Nebmaier, W., Berg, M. P., & Christou, A. (eds)

  With a focus on new research, this book explores the history of non-elite populations in cities from Caracas to Vienna, and Paris to Belgrade. Contributors’ research both asks classical socio-historical questions and takes narration seriously, engaging with novels, films, local history accounts, petitions to municipal authorities, and interviews with alternative cinema activists.

  Subjects: Urban Studies History (General) Sociology

• eBook available September 2012

  Narrating the Future in Siberia

  Childhood, Adolescence and Autobiography among the Eveny

  Ulturgasheva, O.

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

• eBook available December 2019

  Nationalism Revisited

  Austrian Social Closure from Romanticism to the Digital Age

  Karner, C.

  Focused on the German-speaking parts of the former Habsburg Empire, this book offers a series of analyses of the interplay of nationalism’s discursive and institutional facets. Christian Karner develops a distinctive, longue durée perspective on Austrian nationalism, which traces nationalist politics from the late eighteenth century to today’s digital age.

  Subjects: History (General) Sociology

• May 2006

  Nationalism's Bloody Terrain

  Racism, Class Inequality, and the Politics of Recognition

  Baca, G.

  
  

  Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology Sociology

• April 2005

  The Nature of Sociology

  Mauss, M.

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Sociology Theory and Methodology

• eBook available March 2020

  Navigating Miscarriage

  Social, Medical and Conceptual Perspectives

  Kilshaw, S. & Borg, K. (eds)

  This collected volume explores miscarriage in diverse historical and cultural settings with contributions from anthropologists, historians and medical professionals. The book considers meanings attached to miscarriage and how religious, cultural, medical and legal forces impact the way miscarriage is experienced and perceived.

  Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

• eBook available February 2022

  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

• January 2001

  The New Age in Glastonbury

  The Construction of Religious Movements

  Prince, R. & Riches, D.

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Sociology

• eBook available June 2015

  New Imaginaries

  Youthful Reinvention of Ukraine's Cultural Paradigm

  Rubchak, M.J. (ed)

  Contributors to this volume infuse their work with Western elements, although vestiges of Soviet-style ideas, research methodology and writing linger. This, as a result, is a paradigm articulating “New Imaginaries” — neither Soviet nor Western — offering a fresh portrait of Ukrainian society seen through a new generation of feminist scholars.

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

• eBook available July 2016

  New Uses of Bourdieu in Film and Media Studies

  Austin, G. (ed)

  French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s work has been extremely influential, but has only intermittently been used to study cinema and new media. With topics ranging from photography to mobile technology, this collection demonstrates the enormous relevance that Bourdieu holds for the field of media studies.

  Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies Sociology

• March 2015

  Nimby Is Beautiful

  Cases of Local Activism and Environmental Innovation around the World

  Hager, C. & Haddad, M. A. (eds)

  NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) protests are often criticized as parochial and short-lived, generating no lasting influence on broader processes related to environmental politics.  This volume offers a different perspective.  Drawing on cases from around the globe, it demonstrates that NIMBY protests, although always arising from a local concern in a particular community, often result in broader political, social, and technological change.

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Sociology

• eBook available February 2012

  Nordic Paths to Modernity

  Árnason, J. P. & Wittrock, B. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Development Studies History (General) Sociology

• eBook available November 2021

  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

• eBook available October 2016

  The Nuclear Crisis

  The Arms Race, Cold War Anxiety, and the German Peace Movement of the 1980s

  Becker-Schaum, C., Gassert, P., Mausbach, W., Klimke, M., and Zepp, M. (eds)

  In 1983, more than one million Germans joined to protest NATO’s deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe. This volume survey of the “Euromissiles” crisis as experienced by its various protagonists in Germany, including NATO’s strategic maneuvering and the contours of the German protest movement.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

• October 2023

  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)

• eBook available September 2003

  On Prayer

  Text and Commentary

  Mauss, M.

  
  

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

• October 2005

  On the Order of Chaos

  Social Anthropology and the Science of Chaos

  Mosko, M. S. & Damon, F. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

• eBook available January 2020

  On Violence in History

  Dwyer, P. & Micale, M. S. (eds)

  Is global violence on the decline? Steven Pinker’s highly-publicized argument that human violence across the world has been dramatically abating continues to influence discourse among academics and the general public alike.

  Subjects: History (General) Sociology

• eBook available September 2016

  The Online World of Surrogacy

  Berend, Z.

  Zsuzsa Berend presents a methodologically innovative ethnography of the surrogacy support website in the United States. The Online World of Surrogacy documents collective meaning-making practices that unfold online, and explores their practical, emotional, and moral implications.

  Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology

• February 2022

  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

• eBook available June 2012

  Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes

  An Anthropology of Everyday Religion

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

  
   

  Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Sociology

• eBook available January 2018

  Parallel Lives Revisited

  Mediterranean Guest Workers and their Families at Work and in the Neighbourhood, 1960-1980

  Bock, J. De

  In 2001, the term ‘parallel lives’ was coined in the UK to describe the relationship between immigrants and white Britons. Yet segregation among postwar immigrants was not new. Parallel Lives Revisited explores the lives of immigrants from six Mediterranean countries in the Belgian city of Ghent, concentrating on their experiences at the workplace and neighbourhood.

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

• April 2016

  Parenthood between Generations

  Transforming Reproductive Cultures

  Pooley, S. & Qureshi, K. (eds)

  Parenthood between Generations problematizes linear narratives about the emergence of ‘parenting’ as a dominant ideology. The chapters situate the cross-cutting power of the life-course in specific global historical contexts, so as to examine how reproductive cultures are influenced by demographic change, new technologies, migration and diaspora. Studies of working-class, minority and non-heterosexual families, illegitimacy and adoption shed light on of the diverse ways in which nature, biology, kinship and gender have been understood.

  Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

• eBook available March 2019

  Party Responses to Social Movements

  Challenges and Opportunities

  Piccio, D. R.

  Focusing on Italy and the Netherlands since the 1970s, Party Responses to Social Movements demonstrates how political parties have incorporated the demands of social movements to a surprising extent, even as both have grappled with fundamental and inevitable tension between their respective roles and aims.

  Subjects: Sociology Peace and Conflict Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

• October 2000

  Patterns of Provocation

  Police and Public Disorder

  Bessel, R. & Emsley, C. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

• January 2003

  Peace At Last?

  The Impact of the Good Friday Agreement on Northern Ireland

  Neuheiser, J. & Wolff, S. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: History (General) Sociology

• eBook available October 2017

  The Persistence of Race

  Continuity and Change in Germany from the Wilhelmine Empire to National Socialism

  Day, L. & Haag, O. (eds)

  In histories of the Third Reich, race is a ubiquitous topic, but German society produced a much more complex variety of racial representations over the first part of the twentieth century. This volume explores the hateful depictions of the Nazi era alongside Wilhelmine images of indigenous peoples, revealing race as on object of fascination for Germans across several eras.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

• eBook available March 2019

  Playing the Marginality Game

  Identity Politics in West Africa

  Schroven, A.

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

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Development Studies

• eBook available September 2012

  Playing with Languages

  Children and Change in a Caribbean Village

  Paugh, A. L.

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies Sociology

• eBook available September 2013

  A Policy Travelogue

  Tracing Welfare Reform in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Canada

  Kingfisher, C.

  “This is a groundbreaking book…that represents a sophisticated assemblage of ideas to frame and drive the analysis of data gleaned through long-term engagement with each site…Using the well-delineated concepts of travel, assemblage, and translation, [Kingfisher] explains the contradictory ways in which policy discourse is produced and through which traveling ideas ‘touch down’ in varied places and times and are selectively taken up by people in varied systems of social relations and grounded experiences.”  ·  Judith Goode, Temple University

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

• eBook available April 2011

  Policy Worlds

  Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power

  Shore, C., Wright S., & Però, D.

  
  

  Subjects: Theory and Methodology Applied Anthropology Sociology

• eBook available May 2019

  Political Networks and Social Movements

  Bolivian State–Society Relations under Evo Morales, 2006–2016

  Valdivia Rivera, S.

  Political Networks and Social Movements examines the relationship between the State and social movements under the administration of current Bolivian president Evo Morales. Author Soledad Valdivia Rivera analyzes how this linkage has come to transform the essence of the Bolivian political process as we know it.

  Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology History (General)

• eBook available October 2018

  The Politics of Authenticity

  Countercultures and Radical Movements across the Iron Curtain, 1968-1989

  Häberlen, J. C., Keck-Szajbel, M., & Mahoney, K. (eds)

  The Politics of Authentic Subjectivity explores how the politics of authenticity manifested itself among Italian leftists, East German lesbian activists, and punks on both sides of the Iron Curtain. This volume shows not only how authenticity came to define a variety of social contexts, but also how it helped to lay the groundwork for the neoliberalism of a subsequent era.

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

• eBook available June 2012

  The Politics of Education Reform in the Middle East

  Self and Other in Textbooks and Curricula

  Alayan, S., Rohde, A., & Dhouib, S. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Educational Studies Sociology

• eBook available November 2020

  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)

• August 2008

  Politics of Time

  Dynamics of Identity in Post-Communist Poland

  Koczanowicz, L.

  
  

  Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

• March 2016

  Post-Ottoman Coexistence

  Sharing Space in the Shadow of Conflict

  Bryant, R. (ed)

  Scholars often refer to the “peaceful coexistence” of various religious and ethnic groups under the Ottoman Empire before ethnonationalist conflicts dissolved that shared space and created legacies of division. Post-Ottoman Coexistence interrogates this “coexistence” and asks what practices enabled centuries of cooperation and sharing, as well as how and when such sharing was disrupted

  Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology

• eBook available April 2019

  Post-Ottoman Topologies

  The Presence of the Past in the Era of the Nation-State

  Argenti, N. (ed)

  With contributions from several of the Balkan countries that once were united under the aegis of the Ottoman Empire, this latest volume proposes new theoretical approaches to the experience and transmission of the past through time.

  Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Memory Studies

• eBook available March 2020

  Postwar Soldiers

  Historical Controversies and West German Democratization, 1945–1955

  Echternkamp, J.

  In Postwar Soldiers, Jörg Echternkamp analyzes three themes in the early history of West Germany: interpretations of the war during its conclusion and the occupation period; military veteran communities’ self-perceptions; and the public rehabilitation of the image of the German soldier.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

• eBook available December 2016

  Poverty and Welfare in Modern German History

  Raphael, L. (ed)

  This comprehensive volume demonstrates that the question of how to care for the poor has had significant implications for German history throughout the modern era. Here, eight leading historians provide essential case studies and syntheses of current research into German welfare, from the Holy Roman Empire to the present day.

  Subjects: History (General) Sociology

• March 1999

  Poverty in Transition and Transition in Poverty

  Recent Developments in Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Georgia, Russia, and Mongolia

  Atal, Y. (ed)

  
  

  Subjects: Sociology

• eBook available October 2014

  The Power of Death

  Contemporary Reflections on Death in Western Society

  Blanco, M.-J. & Vidal, R. (eds)

  The social and cultural changes of the last century have transformed death from an everyday fact to something hidden from view. Shifting between the practical and the theoretical, the professional and the intimate, the real and the fictitious, this collection of essays explores the continued power of death over our lives.

  Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Sociology Literary Studies

• January 2007

  The Power of Entrepreneurs

  Politics and Economy in Contemporary Spain

  Cabrera, M. & del Rey, F.

  
  

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

• December 1994

  The Power of the Story

  Fiction and Political Change

  Hanne, M.

  
  

  Subjects: Literary Studies History (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

• April 2023

  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

• August 2012

  Problems of Conception

  Issues of Law, Biotechnology, Individuals and Kinship

  Melhuus, M.

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Medical Anthropology

• eBook available March 2016

  Protest Cultures

  A Companion

  Fahlenbrach, K., Klimke, M., & Scharloth, J. (eds)

  Protest is a ubiquitous and richly varied cultural domain whose symbolic content is regularly deployed by media and advertisers, among others. Yet within social movement scholarship, culture has been comparatively neglected. This definitive research companion dramatically expands the analytical perspective on subject by covering a remarkable array of protest cultures.

  Subjects: Sociology History: 20th Century to Present

• eBook available April 2020

  Protest, Youth and Precariousness

  The Unfinished Fight against Austerity in Portugal

  Carmo, R. M. & Vasconcelos Simões, J. A. (eds)

  After over a decade of austerity in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, what lies next for European societies? This edited collection brings together sociologists, social movement specialists, political scientists, and other scholars to look specifically at how Portuguese youth have navigated this politically and economically difficult period.

  Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology History (General)

• December 2014

  Protests, Land Rights, and Riots

  Postcolonial Struggles in Australia in the 1980s

  Morris, B.

  The 1970s saw the Aboriginal people of Australia struggle for recognition of their postcolonial rights. Rural communities, where large Aboriginal populations lived, were provoked as a consequence of social fragmentation, unparalleled unemployment, and other major economic and political changes. The ensuing riots, protests, and law-and-order campaigns in New South Wales captured the tense relations that existed between indigenous people, the police, and the criminal justice system.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

• April 2000

  The Psychosocial Wellness of Refugees

  Issues in Qualitative and Quantitative Research

  Ahearn, F. (ed)

  
   

  Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology

• eBook available 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

• eBook available August 2020

  Punks and Skins United

  Identity, Class and the Economics of an Eastern German Subculture

  Venstel, A.

  Germany has one of the most lively and well-developed punk scenes in the world. However, punk in this country is not just a style-based music community. This book provides an anthropological examination of how punk reflects the larger changes and contradictions in post-reunification Germany.

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

• eBook available November 2021

  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

• eBook available December 2008

  Pursuits of Happiness

  Well-Being in Anthropological Perspective

  Mathews, G. & Izquierdo, C. (eds)

  
   

  Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

• eBook available August 2022

  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

• June 2004

  Race in France

  Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Difference

  Chapman, H. & Frader, L.L. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

• eBook available May 2013

  Race, Color, Identity

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

  Sicher, E. (ed)

  Subjects: Jewish Studies Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

• December 2005

  Racism in Metropolitan Areas

  Pinxten, R. & Preckler, E. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

• November 2003

  Radical Ethnic Movements in Contemporary Europe

  Daftary, F. & Troebst, S. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

• eBook available April 2016

  Rationed Life

  Science, Everyday Life, and Working-Class Politics in the Bohemian Lands, 1914–1918

  Kučera, R.

  Hundreds of thousands of workers toiled in Bohemian factories over the course of World War I, and their lives were inescapably shaped by the conflict. This study reconstructs their collective experience through explorations of food, labor, gender, and protest to assemble a fascinating case study in twentieth century social history.

  Subjects: History: World War I Sociology

• December 2002

  Rebellious Families

  Household Strategies and Collective Action in the 19th and 20th Centuries

  Kok, J. (ed)

  
  

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

• eBook available August 2004

  Rebordering the Mediterranean

  Boundaries and Citizenship in Southern Europe

  Suárez-Navaz, L.

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Refugee and Migration Studies

• eBook available September 2000

  Recalling the Belgian Congo

  Conversations and Introspection

  Dembour, M.-B.

  
  

  Subjects: Colonial History Anthropology (General) Sociology

• eBook available June 2018

  Reconceiving Muslim Men

  Love and Marriage, Family and Care in Precarious Times

  Inhorn, M. C. & Naguib, N. (eds)

  Through anthropological accounts of Muslim men’s everyday lives in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and diasporic settings, Reconceiving Muslim Men explores the creative ways in which Muslim men care for and nurture their families and communities. By focusing on reproduction, love, and care, this volume showcases Muslim men’s humanity.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

• November 2011

  Reconstructing the House of Culture

  Community, Self, and the Makings of Culture in Russia and Beyond

  Donahoe, B. & Habeck, J. O. (eds)

  
  

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

• eBook available January 2019

  Refugees Welcome?

  Difference and Diversity in a Changing Germany

  Bock, J.-J. & Macdonald, S. (eds)

  Combining in-depth anthropological studies with more long-term analyses, this volume examines the responses to and implications of the arrival in 2015 and 2016 of over one million asylum seekers and refugees in Germany – widely seen as the most major and contested social change in the country since reunification.

  Subjects: Sociology Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

• eBook available September 2019

  Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough

  Ethnographic Responses

  Martínez, F. & Laviolette, P. (eds)

  We are all repairers. Exploring some of the ways in which repair practices and perceptions of brokenness vary culturally Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough argues that repair is an attempt to extend the life of things as well as an answer to failures, gaps, wrongdoings and leftovers.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Heritage Studies

• eBook available May 2016

  Rescuing the Vulnerable

  Poverty, Welfare and Social Ties in Modern Europe

  Althammer, B., Raphael, L., & Stazic-Wendt, T. (eds)

  Covering numerous European nations, this volume explores social ties, poverty, and how their relationship informed the strategies of governments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through studies of neglected children, the homeless, and the unemployed, it provides a comparative perspective on the perceptions, representations, and experiences of poverty and welfare.

  Subjects: History (General) Sociology

• eBook available July 2004

  Resistance in an Amazonian Community

  Huaorani Organizing against the Global Economy

  Ziegler-Otero, L.

  
  

  Subjects: Development Studies Sociology

• October 2023

  Resisting Radicalisation?

  Understanding Young Peoples 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

• eBook available March 2020

  Rethinking the Age of Emancipation

  Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Gender, Family, and Religion in Italy and Germany, 1800–1918

  Baumeister, M., Lenhard, P., & Nattermann, R. (eds)

  Rethinking the Age of Emancipation aims at a critical reassessment of the development of the two “late” nations, Italy and Germany, from a new and transnational perspective. Essays by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars examine the discursive relationships among nationalism, war, and emancipation as well as the ambiguous roles of historical protagonists with competing loyalties.

  Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Jewish Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

• eBook available December 2017

  Returning Life

  Language, Life Force and History in Kilimanjaro

  Myhre, K. C.

  Returning Life explores how language and action affect life force. Diverse sources demonstrate how this phenomenon extends to coffee cash-cropping, Catholic Christianity, and colonial and post-colonial rule, featuring cognate languages throughout the area.

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

• eBook available June 2018

  The Revolt of the Provinces

  Anti-Gypsyism and Right-Wing Politics in Hungary

  Szombati, K.

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

  Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

• April 2005

  Revolution and Counterrevolution

  Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal Factory

  Murphy, K.

  
  

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

• eBook available April 2016

  The Revolution before the Revolution

  Late Authoritarianism and Student Protest in Portugal

  Accornero, G.

  Portugal’s 1974 “Carnation Revolution” was in many ways the culmination of a much longer history of resistance originating in universities and other sectors of society. Combining careful research with insights from social movement theory, this book traces these convulsions in Portuguese society over the course of the “long 1960s.”

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

• eBook available February 2021

  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

• May 2011

  The Rhetorical Emergence of Culture

  Meyer, C. & Girke, F. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

• eBook available April 2020

  Rhetorical Minds

  Meditations on the Cognitive Science of Persuasion

  Oakley, T.

  As a meditation on the nature of human thought and action, this book starts with the proposition that human thinking is inherently and irreducibly social, and that the long rhetorical tradition in the West has been a neglected source for thinking about cognition.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

• eBook available July 2015

  The Rhythm of Eternity

  The German Youth Movement and the Experience of the Past, 1900-1933

  Adriaansen, R.-J.

  The Weimar era in Germany is often characterized as a time of significant change. Such periods of rupture transform the way people envision the past, present, and future. This book traces the conceptions of time and history during the German youth movement of the early 20th century.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

• eBook available August 2022

  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

• July 2002

  Risky Transactions

  Trust, Kinship and Ethnicity

  Salter, F. K. (ed)

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

• eBook available September 2022

  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

• eBook available August 2018

  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

• eBook available February 2020

  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

• July 2023

  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

• eBook available August 2006

  The Romani Movement

  Minority Politics and Ethnic Mobilization in Contemporary Central Europe

  Vermeersch, P.

  
  

  Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

• March 2000

  Rural Property and Economy in Post-communist Albania

  Lemel. H. W. (ed)

  
  

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

• eBook available February 2018

  Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces

  Religious Pluralism in the Post-Soviet Caucasus

  Darieva, T., Mühlfried, F., & Tuite, K. (eds)

  Though long-associated with violence, the Caucasus is a region rich with spirituality. Based on fresh ethnographies and studies of sacred sites in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia, Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces discusses vanishing and emerging sacred places in the multi-ethnic and multi-religious post-Soviet Caucasus.
   

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Sociology

• December 2005

  Sartre Today

  A Centenary Celebration

  Hoven, A. van den & Leak, A.

  
  

  Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

• December 2004

  Sartre, Self-formation and Masculinities

  Boulé, J.-P.

  
  

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

• eBook available February 2023

  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)

• May 2002

  A Sealed and Secret Kinship

  The Culture of Policies and Practices in American Adoption

  Modell, J.

  
  

  Subjects: Applied Anthropology Medical Anthropology Sociology

• eBook available April 2020

  Selfishness and Selflessness

  New Approaches to Understanding Morality

  Layne, L. L. (ed)

  We are said to be suffering a narcissism epidemic when the need for collective action seems more pressing than ever. Selfishness and selflessness address the ‘proper’ and ‘improper’ relationship between one’s self and others. The work they do during periods of social instability and cultural change is probed in this original, interdisciplinary collection.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

• November 2022

  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

• July 1996

  A Sentimental Economy

  Commodity and Community in Rural Ireland

  Salazar, C.

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

• eBook available March 2023

  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

• eBook available November 2022

  Sexscapes of Pleasure

  Women, Sexuality and the Whore Stigma in Italy

  Zambelli, E.

  Drawing from ethnographic research, this book brings together the narratives of Italian and migrant women pole dancing for leisure, women pole and lap dancing for work, as well as women selling sex. By tracing commonalities in women’s processes of subjectivation and othering across the non/sex working women divide, the book foregrounds the intersecting structures of oppression under which women negotiate selfhood.

  Subjects: Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

• eBook available February 2012

  Sexual Knowledge

  Feeling, Fact, and Social Reform in Vienna, 1900-1934

  McEwen, B.

  
  

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

• February 2002

  The Shaping of Environmental Policy in France

  Szarka, J.

  
   

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Sociology

• eBook available July 2012

  Sharing the Sacra

  The Politics and Pragmatics of Intercommunal Relations around Holy Places

  Bowman, G. (ed)

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Sociology Heritage Studies

• eBook available March 2011

  Sibling Relations and the Transformations of European Kinship, 1300-1900

  Johnson, C. H. & Sabean, D. W. (eds)

  “In all cases, the research is solid, not drawing from a single source, such as a series of   letters, but including a broad range of historical evidence. The analyses themselves are nicely nuanced and all connect with the main theoretical issues of the field, providing a lively discussion and indicating new directions for research. Scholars from many fields focusing on family and kinship, as well as general readers with an interest in family relations, will enjoy and find stimulation in this volume.”  ·  Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

  Subjects: History (General) Sociology

• December 2005

  Silence

  The Currency Of Power

  Achino-Loeb, M.-L. (ed)

  
  

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

• February 2014

  Silence, Screen, and Spectacle

  Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information

  Freeman, L. A., Nienass, B., & Daniell, R. (eds)

  This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgotten pasts we strain to hear. Employing social and cultural analysis, the essays within examine mnemonic technologies both new and old, and cover subjects as diverse as U.S. internment camps for Japanese Americans in WWII, the Canadian Indian Residential School system, Israeli memorial videos, and the desaparecidos in Argentina. Through these cases, the contributors argue for a re-interpretation of Guy Debord’s notion of the spectacle as a conceptual apparatus through which to examine the contemporary landscape of social memory, arguing that the concept of spectacle might be developed in an age seen as dissatisfied with the present, nervous about the future, and obsessed with the past.

  Subjects: Memory Studies Media Studies Sociology Cultural Studies (General)

• September 1998

  Sinti and Roma

  Gypsies in German-speaking Society and Literature

  Tebbutt, S. (ed)

  
  

  Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Sociology Literary Studies

• eBook available May 2017

  Sisters in Arms

  Militant Feminisms in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1968

  Karcher, K.

  Drawing on a wealth of new source material, Sisters in Arms gives a bracing account of how radical feminism was enacted by key German leftist organizations, such as the infamous Red Army Faction and June 2 Movement. These groups often diverged ideologically and tactically, but all demonstrated the potency of militant feminism within postwar protest movements.

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

• August 2015

  Social Bonds as Freedom

  Revisiting the Dichotomy of the Universal and the Particular

  Dumouchel, P. & Gotoh, R. (eds)

  Central to discussions of multiculturalism and minority rights in modern liberal societies is the idea that the particular demands of minority groups contradict the requirements of equality, anonymity, and universality for citizenship and belonging. The contributors to this volume question the significance of this dichotomy between the universal and the particular.

  Subject: Sociology

• November 2003

  The Social Construction of Diversity

  Recasting the Master Narrative of Industrial Nations

  Harzig, C. & Juteau, D. (eds)

  
  

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

• January 2008

  A Social History of Spanish Labour

  New Perspectives on Class, Politics, and Gender

  Piqueras, J., & Sanz Rozalén, V. (eds)

  
  

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

• January 2001

  Social Identities and Political Cultures in Italy

  Catholic, Communist, and 'Leghist' Communities between Civicness and Localism

  Cento Bull, A.

  
  

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

• eBook available November 2019

  Social Im/mobilities in Africa

  Ethnographic Approaches

  Noret, J. (ed)

  Grounded in both theory and ethnography, this volume insists on taking social positionality seriously when accounting for Africa’s current age of polarizing wealth. To this end, the notion of social im/mobilities emphasizes the complexities of current changes, taking us beyond the prism of a unidimensional social ladder, for social moves cannot always be apprehended through the binaries of ‘gains’ and ‘losses’.

  Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

• eBook available November 2013

  The Social Life of Achievement

  Long, N. J. & Moore, H. L. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

• January 2005

  Social Limits to Learning

  Essays on the Archeology of Domination, Resistance, and Experience

  Mergner, G.

  
  

  Subjects: Educational Studies Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

• eBook available March 2016

  Social Movement Studies in Europe

  The State of the Art

  Fillieule, O. & Accornero, G. (eds)

  This landmark volume is the first to comprehensively examine the field of social movement studies in a specifically European context. Combining comparative studies of significant issues and movements with focused national studies, this is a bold and uncommonly unified survey that will be essential for scholars and students of European social movements.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

• eBook available March 2022

  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

• eBook available July 2015

  Social Quality Theory

  A New Perspective on Social Development

  Herrmann, P. & Lin, K. (eds)

  Tracing the expansion of social quality theory and presenting its different aspects, this volume assesses societal progress and makes proposals that are relevant for policy making. Its rich diversity of approaches and cross-national comparisons reveal the increasingly important role of social quality theory for informing political debates on development and sustainability.

  Subjects: Sociology Development Studies

• eBook available October 2019

  Sometime Kin

  Layers of Memory, Boundaries of Ethnography

  Wallman, S.

  Sometime Kin is the portrait of an Alpine settlement - its history, economy and culture - and its unusual resistance to outsiders and modernisation. Against this we see it embrace the ethnographer’s four small children. Sandra Wallman’s account reveals the distortion to ordinary life caused by the intrusion of the anthropologist and the effect of informants observing her.

  Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

• eBook available February 2018

  Soup, Love, and a Helping Hand

  Social Relations and Support in Guangzhou, China

  Fleischer, F.

  Despite growing affluence, a large number of urban Chinese have problems making ends meet. Based on ethnographic research in Guangzhou, China, Soup, Love and a Helping Hand examines different modes and ideologies of help/support, as well as reciprocity, relatedness (kinship), and changing state-society relations in contemporary China.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

• eBook available May 2020

  Spaces of Solidarity

  Karen Activism in the Thailand-Burma Borderlands

  Sharples, R.

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

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

• eBook available January 2007

  State and Civil Society in Northern Europe

  The Swedish Model Reconsidered

  Trägårdh, L. (ed)

  
  

  Subject: Sociology

• eBook available August 2008

  The State and the Arts

  Articulating Power and Subversion

  Kapferer, J.

  
  

  Subjects: Urban Studies Sociology Cultural Studies (General)

• eBook available July 2016

  The State We're In

  Reflecting on Democracy's Troubles

  Cook, J., Long, N. J., & Moore, H. L. (eds)

  What makes people lose faith in democratic statecraft? The question seems an urgent one. In the first decades of the twenty-first century, citizens across the world have grown increasingly disillusioned with what was once a cherished ideal. The State We’re In is a must-read for all political theorists, scholars of democracy, and readers concerned for the future of the democratic ideal.
   

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

• eBook available November 2017

  Stategraphy

  Toward a Relational Anthropology of the State

  Thelen, T., Vetters, L., & Benda-Beckmann, K. von (eds)

  By exploring interactions and negotiations of local actors in different institutional settings, the contributors explore state transformations in relation to social security in a variety of locations spanning from Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans to the United Kingdom and France. Fusing grounded empirical studies with rigorous theorizing, the volume provides new perspectives to broader related debates in social research and political analysis.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

• June 2020

  States of Imitation

  Mimetic Governmentality and Colonial Rule

  Ladwig, P. & Roque, R. (eds)

  Drawing on historical ethnographic studies of colonialism in Asia and Africa, States of Imitation examines how the colonial state attempted to administer, control, and integrate its indigenous subjects through mimetic governmentality, as well the ways indigenous states adopted these imitative practices to establish reciprocal ties with, or to resist the presence of, the colonial state.

  Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

• July 2015

  Strike Action and Nation Building

  Labor Unrest in Palestine/Israel, 1899-1951

  De Vries, D.

  Strike-action has long been a notable phenomenon in Israeli society, despite forces that have weakened its recurrence, such as the Arab-Jewish conflict, the decline of organized labor, and the increase of precarious workers. This book unravels the trajectory of the strikes in the first half of the twentieth century as a rich source for the social-historical analysis of an otherwise nation-oriented and highly politicized history.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

• eBook available May 2020

  Structures of Protection?

  Rethinking Refugee Shelter

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

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

  Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

• October 2023

  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

• July 2009

  Substantial Justice

  An Anthropology of Village Courts in Papua New Guinea

  Goddard, M.

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

• eBook available September 2009

  Substitute Parents

  Biological and Social Perspectives on Alloparenting in Human Societies

  Bentley, G. & Mace, R. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General)

• eBook available October 2008

  Suffering and Evil

  The Durkheimian Legacy

  Pickering, W. S. F. & Rosati, M. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

• eBook available September 2008

  Taking Sides

  Ethics, Politics, and Fieldwork in Anthropology

  Armbruster, H. & Lærke, A. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

• July 2022

  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

• eBook available March 2021

  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

• March 2006

  Techniques, Technology and Civilization

  Mauss, M.

  
  

  Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

• April 1999

  Television Broadcasting in Contemporary France and Britain

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

  
  

  Subjects: Film and Television Studies Sociology Media Studies

• eBook available July 2021

  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)

• August 2023

  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)

• June 2023

  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

• eBook available November 2012

  The Third World in the Global 1960s

  Christiansen, S. & Scarlett, Z. (eds)

  
  

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

• 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

• eBook available April 2022

  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

• eBook available November 2015

  Time and the Field

  Dalsgaard, S. & Nielsen, M. (eds)

  Despite numerous conceptual facelifts, definitions and demarcations of ‘the field’ have remained fundamentally anchored in tropes of spatiality with the association between field and fieldworker characterized by distances in space. This collection serves a fresh invitation to a temporally oriented ethnography by radically rethinking the notion of the field in terms of time rather than space.

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

• eBook available June 2020

  Time Work

  Studies of Temporal Agency

  Flaherty, M. G., Meinert, L., & Dalsgård, A. L. (eds)

  Examining how people alter or customize various dimensions of their temporal experience, this volume discovers how we resist external sources of temporal constraint or structure. These ethnographic studies are international in scope and look at many different countries and continents.

  Subjects: Applied Anthropology Sociology Anthropology (General)

• November 2016

  Transnational Struggles for Recognition

  New Perspectives on Civil Society since the 20th Century

  Gosewinkel, D. & Rucht, D. (eds)

  “Recognition” is a critical concept for social movements, and while its theoretical and empirical dimensions have usually been studied separately, this collection focuses on both against a transnational backdrop. With special emphasis on the efforts of women’s and Jewish organizations in 20th-century Europe, it demonstrates exemplary historical-analytical approaches to the subject.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

• eBook available January 2022

  Tropological Thought and Action

  Essays on the Poetics of Imagination

  Živković, M., Pelkey, J. & Fernandez, J. W. (eds)

  From twilight in the Himalayas to dream worlds in the Serbian state, this book provides a unique collection of anthropological and cross-cultural inquiry into the power of rhetorical tropes and their relevance to the formation and analysis of social thought and action through a series of ethnographic essays offering in-depth studies of the human imagination at work and play around the world.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

• eBook available January 2016

  Trust Us

  Reproducing the Nation and the Scandinavian Nationalist Populist Parties

  Hellström, A.

  In order to affect domestic politics, Scandinavian populist parties must cross the threshold to the national parliament while earning the nation’s trust. While the Progress Party in Norway and the Danish People’s Party have, the Sweden Democrats has not. The fissures in public opinion lead to a polarized public debate that raises the question of national identity, of what we are.

  Subjects: Sociology History: 20th Century to Present

• eBook available April 2016

  Trusting and its Tribulations

  Interdisciplinary Engagements with Intimacy, Sociality and Trust

  Broch-Due, V. & Ystanes, M. (eds)

  Despite its immense significance and ubiquity in our everyday lives, the complex workings of trust are poorly understood and theorized. This volume explores trust and mistrust amidst locally situated scenes of sociality and intimacy.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

• eBook available February 2012

  Tuff City

  Urban Change and Contested Space in Central Naples

  Dines, N.

  
  

  Subjects: Urban Studies Sociology Anthropology (General)

• May 1996

  Turkish Culture in German Society

  Horrocks, D. & Kolinsky, E. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

• June 2015

  The Underground Reader

  Sources in the Trans-Atlantic Counterculture

  Jackson, J. H. & Saxe, R. F.

  Every society has rebels, outlaws, troublemakers, and deviants.  This collection of primary sources takes readers on a journey through the intellectual and cultural history of the “underground” in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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

• eBook available March 2018

  Urban Dreams

  Transformations of Family Life in Burkina Faso

  Roth, C.
  de Jong, W., Perlik, M., Steuer, N., & Znoj, H. (eds)

  This collection of Claudia Roth's work closely documents the livelihood strategies of members of various neighbourhoods in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. This collection focuses on notions of “the African family” as a solidary network, changing marriage and kinship relations, and increasingly precarious social status of young women and men.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Urban Studies

• eBook available January 2022

  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

• eBook available April 2012

  Urban Residence

  Housing and Social Transformations in Globalizing Ecuador

  Klaufus, C.

  
  

  Subjects: Urban Studies Applied Anthropology Sociology

• eBook available September 2019

  The Vampire

  Origins of a European Myth

  Bohn, T. M.

  Drawing on a wealth of heretofore neglected sources from multiple languages, this book gives a fascinating account of how vampires—whose various incarnations originally developed within the folk traditions of societies throughout the world—came to be inextricably tied to Eastern Europe in the popular imagination.

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

• February 2014

  Variations on Uzbek Identity

  Strategic Choices, Cognitive Schemas and Political Constraints in Identification Processes

  Finke, P.

  “…a meticulous study of ethnic groups faring in different regions of contemporary Uzbekistan. Nowadays, when there are so many unjustifiable restrictions imposed by the Karimov regime for foreign students who are eager to study Uzbek society, this book is a lucky example of a scholar who managed, in spite all restrictions, to conduct and complete substantial fieldwork research in four regions of Uzbekistan.” · Alisher Ilkhamov, Independent Scholar

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Sociology

• eBook available September 2021

  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

• July 2023

  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

• September 2000

  Voices in Times of Change

  The Role of Writers, Opposition Movements, and the Churches in the Transformation of East Germany

  Rock, D. (ed)

  
  

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

• August 2008

  Voices of the Valley, Voices of the Straits

  How Protest Creates Communities

  Porta, D. della & Piazza, G.

  
  

  Subject: Sociology

• eBook available December 2020

  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

• eBook available July 2009

  A Walk to the River in Amazonia

  Ordinary Reality for the Mehinaku Indians

  Stang, C. D.

  
  

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

• eBook available August 2010

  The Ways of Friendship

  Anthropological Perspectives

  Desai, A. & Killick, E. (eds)

  
  

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

• eBook available October 2020

  We Come as Members of the Superior Race

  Distortions and Education Policy Discourse in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Mfum-Mensah, O.

  We Come as Members of the Superior Race discusses the stereotype of Africans as “primitive” and “unintelligent,” exploring how this legacy has enforced contemporary educational and development discourses which view African societies as subordinated in a global geopolitical order, and how it continues to influence education policy in Sub-Sahara Africa today.

  Subject: Educational Studies Sociology

• June 2014

  Weary Warriors

  Power, Knowledge, and the Invisible Wounds of Soldiers

  Moss, P. & Prince, M. J.

  “…offers a sustained and persuasive analysis of the institutional dynamics and individual actions by which various forms of warrelated neuroses are recognised, treated, negotiated, claimed and reproduced…The rich and impressive array of sources – military and medical texts, biographies and autobiographies, popular novels and films and journalistic accounts – on which the analysis is based makes the volume all the more persuasive.” · Social Anthropology

  “This is a solid piece of scholarship. The authors successfully apply key concepts from Foucault, along with those of his feminist critics, to the analysis of soldiers returning from war. In so doing, they deepen our understanding of how weary warriors are constructed through time and space, and what his/her diagnosis, treatment, and release says about wider relations of power in, between, and across the state, the military, psychiatry, and the body itself.” · Carolyn Gallaher, American University

  Subjects: Sociology History (General) Peace and Conflict Studies

• eBook available October 2020

  What Now

  Everyday Endurance and Social Intensity in an Australian Aboriginal Community

  Dalley, C.

  Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork undertaken since 2006, the book addresses some of the most topical aspects of remote Aboriginal life in Australia. This includes the role of kinship and family, relationships to land and sea, and cross-cultural relations with non-Aboriginal residents.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

• October 2015

  What We Now Know About Race and Ethnicity

  Banton, M.

  Academic writing about race in the USA implicitly endorses the so-called `one-drop' rule. This generates a paradox that can be resolved only by distinguishing theoretical knowledge from practical knowledge.

  Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General)

• eBook available May 2009

  When God Comes to Town

  Religious Traditions in Urban Contexts

  Pinxten, R. & Dikomitis, L. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Sociology

• eBook available December 2005

  Where Have All the Homeless Gone?

  The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis

  Marcus, A.

  
  

  Subjects: Theory and Methodology Urban Studies Sociology

• eBook available July 2022

  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

• January 2004

  Who Owns the Past?

  The Politics of Time in a 'Model' Bulgarian Village

  Kaneff, D.

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

• eBook available May 2017

  Wolf Conflicts

  A Sociological Study

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

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

  Subjects: Sociology Environmental Studies (General)

• eBook available September 2021

  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

• eBook available July 2020

  Working in Greece and Turkey

  A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation-States, 1840–1940

  Papastefanaki, L. & Kabadayı, M. E. (eds)

  The studies in Working in Greece and Turkey provide an overdue exploration of labour history on both sides of the Aegean, before as well as after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Deploying the approaches of global labour history as a framework, this volume presents transnational, transcontinental, and diachronic comparisons that illuminate the shared history of Greece and Turkey.

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

• April 2023

  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)

• eBook available March 2018

  World Heritage Craze in China

  Universal Discourse, National Culture, and Local Memory

  Yan, H.

  There is a World Heritage Craze in China. China claims to have the longest continuous civilization in the world and is seeking the recognition from UNESCO. With a sociological lens, this book offers comprehensive insights into World Heritage, as well as China’s deep social, cultural, and political structures.

  Subjects: Heritage Studies Archaeology Sociology Travel and Tourism

• September 2014

  A World of Populations

  Transnational Perspectives on Demography in the Twentieth Century

  Hartmann, H. & Unger, C. R. (eds)

  Demographics were transformed into public policies that shaped family planning, population growth, medical practice, and environmental conservation. While covering a variety of regions and time periods, the essays in this book share an interest in the transnational dynamics of emerging demographic discourses and practices. Together, they present a global picture of the history of demographic knowledge.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

• January 1998

  A Year of Revolutions

  Fanny Lewald's Recollections of 1848

  Lewis, H. (ed)

  
  

  Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Literary Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology