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Published March 2008 'Brothers' or Others?
Propriety and Gender for Muslim Arab Sudanese in Egypt
Fábos, A. H.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
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Published March 2018
Back to the Postindustrial Future
An Ethnography of Germany's Fastest-Shrinking City
Ringel, F.
Back to the Postindustrial Future is the first comprehensive ethnography of the future, approaching Hoyerswerda, Germany’s fastest shrinking city, not from the perspective of its past, but persistently from that of its future. Through an extensive ethnography of the city, it allows us to investigate the postindustrial era and the futures it has supposedly lost.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies
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Published July 2002
Bali and Beyond
Case Studies in the Anthropology of Tourism
Yamashita, S.
Subjects: Travel and Tourism Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published May 2009
Balkan Departures
Travel Writing from Southeastern Europe
Bracewell, W. & Drace-Francis, A. (eds)
Subjects: History (General) Literary Studies
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Published March 2009
Banned in Berlin
Literary Censorship in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918
Stark, G. D.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published September 2018
Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andes
Angé, O.
Drawing on ethnographic data from fairs in the Southern Andes involving highland herders and lowland cultivators, Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andesadvances an anthropology of the practice of barter, contributing to a fuller understanding of how social groups create themselves through material circulation.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published 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
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Published May 2002
Becoming a Subject
Political Prisoners during the Greek Civil War, 1945-1950
Voglis, P.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published September 2013
Becoming East German
Socialist Structures and Sensibilities after Hitler
Fulbrook, M. & Port, A. I. (eds)
“This is an excellent edited collection. It provides a range of methodological approaches and is right up to date: it introduces a number of new academics onto the scene while also providing some old favourites. The volume significantly adds to our understanding of East Germany and its population. It provides a reassessment of antifascism and memory... Port’s introduction and Fulbrook’s chapter on memory are masterful.” · Mark Fenemore, Manchester Metropolitan University
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published November 2019
Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City
Fahy, J.
Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City centers on a growing multinational community of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) devotees in Mayapur, West Bengal. Paying particular attention to devotees’ failure to consistently live up to ISKCON’s ideals, and the ongoing struggle to realize the utopian vision of an ‘ideal Vedic city’.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2001
Bedouin Century
Education and Development among the Negev Tribes in the Twentieth Century
Abu-Rabia, A.
Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published June 2013
Bedouin of Mount Sinai
An Anthropological Study of their Political Economy
Marx, E.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published 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
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Published May 2014
Being a State and States of Being in Highland Georgia
Mühlfried, F.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies Development Studies
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Published May 2016
Being and Becoming
Embodiment and Experience among the Orang Rimba of Sumatra
Elkholy, R.
In a unique methodological contribution, Ramsey Elkholy adopts a set of body-centered approaches that reflect and capture the day-to-day, moment-to-moment ways in which the hunters and gatherers of Orang Rimba, Sumatra, engage with the world.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
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Published January 2019
Being Bedouin Around Petra
Life at a World Heritage Site in the Twenty-First Century
Bille, M.
Being Bedouin Around Petra explores the relationships between the UNESCO protection conferred on Petra, Jordan, and the traditions and lives of the semi-nomadic Bedouin who inhabit the surrounding area. It explores what it means to be Bedouin when tourism, heritage protection, national discourse, and other forces lay competing claims to the past.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Heritage Studies
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Published May 2017
Being Godless
Ethnographies of Atheism and Non-Religion
Blanes, R. L. & Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (eds)
Drawing on ethnographic inquiry and the anthropological literature on doubt and atheism, this volume explores people's reluctance to pursue religion. The contributors capture the experiences of godless people and examine their perspectives on the role of religion in their personal and public lives. In doing so, the volume contributes to a critical understanding of the processes of disengagement from religion and reveals the challenges and paradoxes that godless people face.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Published October 2013
Being Human, Being Migrant
Senses of Self and Well-Being
Grønseth, A. S. (ed)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published May 2018
Being-Here
Placemaking in a World of Movement
Lems, A.
By exploring the lifeworlds of two middle-aged Somalis living in Melbourne, Australia, Being-Here sheds light on the existential dynamics of being-in-place. It discusses the interrelated meanings of emplacement and displacement as experienced in people’s everyday lives, and examines the figure of the refugee as a metaphor for societal alienation and estrangement.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies
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Published May 2010
Béla Balázs: Early Film Theory
Visible Man and The Spirit of Film
Balázs, B.
Subject: Film and Television Studies
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Published September 2014
Belonging in Oceania
Movement, Place-Making and Multiple Identifications
Hermann, E., Kempf, W. & Meijl, T. van (eds)
Belonging can be understood by considering the intersections of movement, place-making and cultural identifications. The contributions present ethnographic case studies of such intersections in Oceania. Investigated are ongoing formations of place, self and community in connection with travelling, as well as with internal and international migration.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Mobility Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published September 2010
Berlin Divided City, 1945-1989
Broadbent, P. & Hake, S. (eds)
Subjects: Urban Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published May 2010
Berlin, Alexanderplatz
Transforming Place in a Unified Germany
Weszkalnys, G.
Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published April 2021
Bestsellers of the Third Reich
Readers, Writers and the Politics of Literature
Adam, C.
Christian Adam examines how books came into being under the Nazis, how they became bestsellers—sometimes against the will of the rulers—and which books were actually read. He writes the history of the bestsellers in the darkest epoch of the German past, thus opening a new perspective on the mentality of the Germans between 1933 and 1945.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Literary Studies
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Published December 2016
Between Blood and Gold
The Debates over Compensation for Slavery in the Americas
Beauvois, F.
Lost among current debates over slavery reparations is the fact that such payments were once widespread—except the “victims” were not slaves, but slaveholders deprived of their labor. This landmark study analyzes the debates over compensation within France and Great Britain, establishing a compelling analysis of the Atlantic slave trade’s aftermath.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History (General) Colonial History
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Published May 2006
Between Bombs and Good Intentions
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Italo-Ethiopian war, 1935-1936
Baudendistel, R.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies
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Published May 2017
Between Empire and Continent
British Foreign Policy before the First World War
Rose, A.
Historians have commonly interpreted Britain’s attempts to break through older alliances of European states before World War I as a reaction to aggressive German foreign policy. This groundbreaking political history demonstrates that British strategy instead arose from the complex interplay of national, continental and imperial considerations.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I
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Published November 2010
Between Left and Right
The 2009 Bundestag Elections and the Transformation of the German Party System
Langenbacher, E. (ed)
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published 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
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Published 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
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Published June 2011
Between Prague Spring and French May
Opposition and Revolt in Europe, 1960-1980
Klimke, M., Pekelder, J. & Scharloth, J. (eds)
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published May 1998
Between Reform and Revolution
German Socialism and Communism from 1840 to 1990
Barclay, D. & Weitz, E. (ed)
Subject: History (General)
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Published July 2011
Between the Avant-garde and the Everyday
Subversive Politics in Europe from 1957 to the Present
Brown, T. & Anton, L. (eds)
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published September 2023
Between the Forest and the Road
The Waorani Struggle for Living Well in the Ecuadorian Oil Circuit
Bravo Díaz, A.
During the past two decades Ecuadorians have engaged in a national debate around Buen Vivir (living well). This ethnography discusses one of the ways in which people experience well-being or aspire to live well in Ecuadorian Amazonia. Waponi Kewemonipa (living well) is a Waorani notion that embraces ideas of good conviviality, health and certain ecological relations.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Environmental Studies (General)
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Published December 2007
Between Tradition and Modernity
Aby Warburg and the Public Purposes of Art in Hamburg
Russell, M. A.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published November 2005
Between Two Worlds
The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933
Prawer, S. S.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Jewish Studies
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Published November 2004
Between Utopia and Disillusionment
A Narrative of the Political Transformation in Eastern Europe
Vogt, H.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published October 2013
Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
German Visions of Europe, 1926-1950
Bailey, C.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published October 2022
Beyond 'Hellenes' and 'Barbarians'
Asymmetrical Concepts in European Discourse
Postoutenko, K. (ed)
Surveying a variety of significant asymmetrical conceptualizations, Beyond 'Hellenes' and 'Barbarians' extends our current breadth of understanding of how ascriptive terms such as ‘civilization’ vs. ‘barbarity,’ or ‘order’ vs. ‘chaos’ functioned and continue to function in political, scientific, and fictional discourses.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century History: Medieval/Early Modern
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Published May 2010
Beyond Writing Culture
Current Intersections of Epistemologies and Representational Practices
Zenker, O. & Kumoll, K. (eds)
Subject: Theory and Methodology
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Published September 1997
Beyond 1989
Re-reading German literature since 1945
Bullivant, K. (ed)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Literary Studies
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Published July 2014
Beyond Alterity
German Encounters with Modern East Asia
Shen, Q. & Rosenstock, M. (eds)
This collection of essays examines German-language cultural production pertaining to modern China and Japan, and explicitly challenges orientalist notions by proposing a conception of East and West not as opposites, but as complementary elements of global culture, thereby urging a move beyond national paradigms in cultural studies. Essays focus on the mid-century German-Japanese alliance, Chinese-German Leftist collaborations, global capitalism, travel, identity, and cultural hybridity. The authors include historians and scholars of film and literature, and employ a wide array of approaches from postcolonial, globalization, media, and gender studies. The collection sheds new light on a complex and ambivalentset of international relationships, while also testifying to the potential of Asian German Studies.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Published May 1999
Beyond Caligari
The Films of Robert Wiene
Jung, U. & Schatzberg, W.
Subject: Film and Television Studies
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Published October 2011
Beyond Conversion and Syncretism
Indigenous Encounters with Missionary Christianity, 1800-2000
Lindenfeld, D. & Richardson, M. (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Colonial History
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Published 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
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Published November 2012
Beyond Habermas
Democracy, Knowledge, and the Public Sphere
Emden, C. J. & Midgely, D. (eds)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Media Studies Literary Studies
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Published November 2018
Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion
Jewish Experiences of the First World War in Central Europe
Crouthamel, J., Geheran, M., Grady, T., & Köhne, J. B. (eds)
Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion recaptures the multifariousness of Central European Jewish life through the experiences of both soldiers and civilians during World War I. This collection explores rare sources and employs novel interdisciplinary methods to illuminate four interconnected themes: minorities and the meaning of military service, Jewish-Gentile relations, the cultural legacy of the war, and memory politics.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present
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Published April 2011
Beyond Pleasure
Cultures of Modern Asceticism
Peeters, E., van Molle, L. & Wils, K. (eds)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Sociology
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Published February 2020
Beyond Posthumanism
The German Humanist Tradition and the Future of the Humanities
Mathäs, A.
Against the background of debates about a revival of humanist values, this volume seeks to recast the question of the viability of the humanities by analyzing their long-disputed premises in German literature and philosophy. It emphasizes the importance of the humanities’ original mission of establishing a universal ethics by contextualizing disciplinary knowledge and making human experiences, bodily sensations, and emotions comprehensible through literary imagination.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Educational Studies
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Published July 2008
Beyond Prison
The Fight to Reform Prison Systems around the World
Othmani, A.
Subjects: History (General) Sociology
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Published February 2003
Beyond Rationalism
Rethinking Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery
Kapferer, B.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology of Religion
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Published 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
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Published October 2015
Beyond the Divide
Entangled Histories of Cold War Europe
Mikkonen, S. & Koivunen, P. (eds)
Cold War history has emphasized the division of Europe into two warring camps with separate ideologies and little in common. This volume presents an alternative perspective by suggesting that there were transnational networks bridging the gap and connecting like-minded people on both sides of the divide.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published February 2015
Beyond the Lens of Conservation
Malagasy and Swiss Imaginations of One Another
Keller, E.
This ethnography examines how the cooperation between a national park in Madagascar and a Swiss zoo is perceived by ordinary people at either end. One view focuses on power and history, the other on morality and progress. Nature conservation therefore widens the gap between people in the North and South.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published August 2014
Beyond the Looking Glass
Narcissism and Female Stardom in Studio-Era Hollywood
Salzberg, A.
Exploring the fan’s desire for a material connection to the performer – as well as the star’s own dialogue between their embodied experience and their ideal self on the screen – Beyond the Looking Glass traces on- and off-screen representations of narcissistic femininity in classical Hollywood through studies of stars like Greta Garbo, Ava Gardner, and Marilyn Monroe.
Subject: Film and Television Studies
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Published August 2023
Beyond the Social Contract
An Anthropology of Tax
Makovicky, N. & Smith, R. (eds)
Tax and taxation are conventionally understood as the embodiment of social contract. This ground-breaking collection of essays challenges this truism, examining what tax might tell us about the limits of social-contract thinking.
Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published May 2021
Beyond the Veil
Reflexive Studies of Death and Dying
Thamann, A. & Christodoulaki, K. M. (eds)
Looking at the cultural responses to death and dying, this collection explores the emotional aspects that death provokes in humans, whether it is disgust, fear, awe, sadness, anger, or even joy. More broadly, this collection suggests a new paradigm in the study of death and dying.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Published April 2020
Beyond Wild and Tame
Soiot Encounters in a Sentient Landscape
Oehler, A. C.
Responding to recent scholarship, this book examines animal domestication and offers a Soiot approach to animals and landscapes, which transcends the wild-tame dichotomy. It is an ethnography intended to help us reinvent our relations with the earth in unpredictable times.
Subject: Environmental Studies (General)
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Published January 2020
Big Capital in an Unequal World
The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan
Armytage, R.
Following the hidden lives of the global “1%”, this book examines the networks, social practices, marriages, and machinations of the elite in Pakistan. In doing so, it reveals the daily, even mundane, ways in which elites contribute to and shape the inequality that characterises the modern world.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
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Published September 2021
Bigger Fish to Fry
A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples
Sutton, D. E.
What defines cooking as cooking, and why does cooking matter to the understanding of society, cultural change and everyday life? This book explores these questions by proposing a new theory of the meaning of cooking as a willingness to put oneself and one’s meals at risk on a daily basis, with examples from the author's fieldwork in Greece.
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published September 2008
Biography Between Structure and Agency
Central European Lives in International Historiography
Berghahn, V. R. & Lässig, S. (eds)
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 2016
Biomedical Entanglements
Conceptions of Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Society
Herbst, F. A.
Biomedical Entanglements is an ethnographic study of the Giri people of Papua New Guinea, focusing on the indigenous population’s interaction with modern medicine. The study bridges medical anthropology and global health, exploring how the ‘biomedical’ is imbued with social meaning and how biomedicine affects Giri ways of life.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology
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Published March 2009
Biopolitics, Militarism, and Development
Eritrea in the Twenty-First Century
O'Kane, D. & Hepner, T. R. (eds)
Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published July 2020
Birds of Passage
Hunting and Conservation in Malta
Falzon, M.-A.
Drawing on years of ethnographic fieldwork in Malta, this book traces the complex interactions between hunters, birds and the landscapes they inhabit, as well as the dynamics and politics of bird conservation. Birds of Passage looks at the practice and meaning of hunting in a specific context, and raises broader questions about human-wildlife interactions and the uncertain outcomes of conservation.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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Published November 2017
Bishkek Boys
Neighbourhood Youth and Urban Change in Kyrgyzstan’s Capital
Schröder, P.
In this pioneering ethnographic study of identity, author Philipp Schröder explores integration and urban change in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek. Bishkek Boys offers unique insights into how post-Socialist economic liberalization, rural-urban migration and (state) ethnic nationalism have reshaped social relations among the boys who come of age in this Central Asian urban environment.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Refugee and Migration Studies Urban Studies
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Published August 2013
Bittersweet Europe
Albanian and Georgian Discourses on Europe, 1878-2008
Brisku, A.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published November 2000
Black Lambs and Grey Falcons
Women Travelling in the Balkans
Allcock, J. & Young, A.
Subjects: Travel and Tourism Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published August 2014
Blood and Fire
Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor
Kasmir, S. & Carbonella, A. (eds)
Six historical ethnographies stemming from fieldwork around the world offer a comparative perspective on the uneven consequences of and reactions to the anthropology of labor. The contributors’ vivid accounts show in how dispossession was lived by local working classes illustrates the defeat and unmaking of particular working classes.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published January 2013
Blood and Kinship
Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present
Johnson, C. H., Jussen, B., Sabean, D. W., & Teuscher, S. (eds)
Subjects: History (General) Anthropology (General)
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Published 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
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Published November 2014
Bloom and Bust
Urban Landscapes in the East since German Reunification
Cliver, G. & Smith-Prei, C. (eds)
More than two decades of deconstruction, renovation, and reconstruction have left the urban environments in the former German Democratic Republic completely transformed. This volume considers the changing urban landscapes in the former East create the cultural landscape of modern unified Germany.
Subjects: Urban Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published August 2020
Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure
Remembering Ghosts on the Margins of History
Surface-Evans, S., Garrison, A. E. & Supernant, K. (eds)
What happens when we blur time and allow ourselves to haunt or to become haunted by the ghosts of the past? The authors draw on archaeological, historical, and ethnographic data to imagine timescapes that transcend our temporality. This volume demonstrates the value of conceiving of ghosts not just as metaphors, but for making the past more concrete and allowing the negative specters of enduring historical legacies, such as colonialism and capitalism, to be exorcised.
Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Memory Studies Heritage Studies
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Published February 2015
Bodies in Pain
Emotion and the Cinema of Darren Aronofsky
Laine, T.
The films of Darren Aronofsky invite emotional engagement by means of affective resonance between the film and the spectator’s lived body. Bodies in Pain analyses how Aronofsky’s films engage the spectator in an affective form of viewing that involves all the senses, ultimately engendering a process of (self) reflection through their emotional dynamics.
Subject: Film and Television Studies
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Published May 2005
Bodies of Evidence
Burial, Memory and the Recovery of Missing Persons in Cyprus
Sant Cassia, P.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies
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Published January 2014
Bondage
Labor and Rights in Eurasia from the Sixteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries
Stanziani, A.
Subject: History (General)
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Published April 2017
Border Aesthetics
Concepts and Intersections
Schimanski, J. & Wolfe, S. F. (eds)
The field of border studies has analyzed the legal, geographical, and historical aspects of borders extensively, but such studies have hardly exhausted their conceptual fertility. Organized around six key ideas—ecology, imaginary, in/visibility, palimpsest, sovereignty and waiting—the interlocking essays collected here provide theoretical starting points for an aesthetic understanding of borders.
Subjects: Literary Studies Mobility Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published October 2013
Border Encounters
Asymmetry and Proximity at Europe's Frontiers
Lauth Bacas, J. & Kavanagh, W. (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies
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Published May 2008
Border Interrogations
Questioning Spanish Frontiers
Sampedro, B. & Doubleday, S. (eds)
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Published 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
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Published September 2022
Borders in East and West
Transnational and Comparative Perspectives
Berger, S. & Hashimoto, N. (eds)
The different ways of understanding borders, through culture, politics, or even religion, is transforming and requires multi-disciplinary approaches the complexity of interactions and tensions that may arise. Borders in East and West focuses on the relationships between Europe and East Asia through comparative case studies to challenge discourses and build new perspectives.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History
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Published February 2014
Borders of Belonging
Experiencing History, War and Nation at a Danish Heritage Site
Daugbjerg, M.
This book explores how such struggles unfold in practice at a highly symbolic battlefield site in the Danish/German borderland. Comprised of an ethnography of two profoundly different institutions – a conventional museum and an experience-based heritage center – it analyses the ways in which staff and visitors interfere with, relate to, and literally “make sense” of the war heritage and its national connotations. Borders of Belonging offers a comparative, in-depth analysis of the practices and negotiations through which history is made and manifested at two houses devoted to the interpretation of one event: the decisive battle of the 1864 war in which Otto von Bismarck, on his way to uniting the new German Empire, led the Prussian army to victory over the Danish.
Subjects: Heritage Studies Travel and Tourism Museum Studies Memory Studies
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Published November 2019
Born a Slave, Died a Pioneer
Nathan Harrison and the Historical Archaeology of Legend
Mallios, S.
Few people in the history of the United States embody ideals of the American Dream more than Nathan Harrison. His is a story with prominent themes of overcoming staggering obstacles, forging something-from-nothing, and evincing gritty perseverance. This book uses spectacular recent discoveries from the Nathan Harrison cabin site to offer new insights and perspectives into this most American biography.
Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies History (General) Anthropology (General)
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Published August 2015
Boro, L'Île d'Amour
The Films of Walerian Borowczyk
Kuc, K., Mikurda, K., & Oleszczyk, O. (eds)
There has been a revival of interest in the work of Polish film director Walerian Borowczyk, a label-defying auteur and “escape artist” if there ever was one. This volume, markedly experimental in character, allows scholars to gain insight into previously unnoticed aspects of Borowczyk’s complex and ambiguous oeuvre.
Subject: Film and Television Studies
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Published December 2008
Boundless Worlds
An Anthropological Approach to Movement
Kirby, P. W. (ed)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Theory and Methodology
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Published 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
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Published April 1999
Braving the Street
The Anthropology of Homelessness
Glasser, I. & Bridgman, R.
Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published 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
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Published March 2015
Bread from the Lion's Mouth
Artisans Struggling for a Livelihood in Ottoman Cities
Faroqhi, S. (ed)
The newly awakened interest in the lives of craftspeople in Turkey is highlighted in this collection, which uses archival documents to follow Ottoman artisans from the late 15th century to the beginning of the 20th. The authors examine historical changes in the lives of artisans, focusing on the craft organizations (or guilds) that underwent substantial changes over the centuries.
Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published May 2015
Breaking Boundaries
Varieties of Liminality
Horvath, A., Thomassen, B., & Wydra, H. (eds)
Liminality has the potential to be a leading paradigm for understanding transformation in a globalizing world. This book explores the methodological range and applicability of the concept to a variety of concrete social and political problems.
Subject: Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2016
Breaking Rocks
Music, Ideology and Economic Collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa
Trapido, J.
Based on fieldwork in Kinshasa and Paris, Breaking Rocks examines patronage payments within Congolese popular music. This book offers insights into both the ideologies of power and value in central Africa’s troubled post-colonial political economy, and the economic flows that make up the hidden side of the globalization.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published June 2005
Breast Feeding and Sexuality
Behaviour, Beliefs and Taboos among the Gogo Mothers in Tanzania
Mabilia, M.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Breathing Hearts
Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany
Selim, N.
Sufism is known as the mystical dimension of Islam. Nasima Selim explores this definition to find out what it means to ‘breathe well’ along the Sufi path in the context of anti-Muslim racism. Breathing Hearts is the first book-length ethnographic account of Sufi practices and politics in Berlin.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published October 2022
Brewing Socialism
Coffee, East Germans, and Twentieth-Century Globalization
Kloiber, A.
Taking an uncommonly focused lens against the deep and active role coffee had in connecting East Germans to a global market, Brewing Socialism uncovers the significance of East German efforts to democratize coffee and how that focus on material cultural informed the everyday life of the Social Unity Party’s conceptualization of a modern social utopia.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published September 2012
Bridging Divides
Ethno-Political Leadership among the Russian Sámi
Overland, I. & Berg-Nordlie, M.
Subject: Development Studies
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Published March 2009
Bringing Culture to the Masses
Control, Compromise and Participation in the GDR
Richthofen, E. von
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published 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
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Published July 2012
Building a European Identity
France, the United States, and the Oil Shock, 1973-74
Gfeller, A. E.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published May 2006
Building on Water
Venice, Holland and the Construction of the European Landscape in Early Modern Times
Ciriacono, S.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: Medieval/Early Modern Urban Studies
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Published 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
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Published May 2020
Bureaucracy, Work and Violence
The Reich Ministry of Labour in Nazi Germany, 1933–1945
Nützenadel, A. (ed)
In Bureaucracy, Work and Violence, the Reich Ministry of Labor is for the first time systematically illuminated as the bureaucratic arm responsible for the implementation of the National Socialist work doctrine. Historians reveal through pioneering research that the classical administrative apparatuses were far more involved in the Nazi regime and its crimes than has long been suspected.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History
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Published April 2018
Burgundy
The Global Story of Terroir
Demossier, M.
Drawing on more than twenty years of fieldwork, this book explores the professional, social and cultural world of Burgundy wines and demystifies the terroir ideology to provide a unique long-term ethnographic analysis of what lies behind the concept in Burgundy, raising important questions about the future of quality wine in a global era.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition Cultural Studies (General)
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Published August 2015
Bush Bound
Young Men and Rural Permanence in Migrant West Africa
Gaibazzi, P.
Many young men in a Gambian village, although eager to travel for money and experience, settle as farmers, family heads, businessmen, civic activists or, alternatively, as employed, demoted youth. This ethnography focuses on these “stayers,” who enable others to migrate while preserving the values and traditions of rural, sedentary life.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published March 2004
Business and Industry in Nazi Germany
Nicosia, F.R. & Huener, J. (eds)
Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History
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