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Published January 1993
Rabbinic - Lay Relations in Jewish Law
Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)
Subject: Jewish Studies
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Published March 2019
Raccomandazione
Clientelism and Connections in Italy
Zinn, D. L.
Based on ethnographic research in southern Italy, this book examines the concept of raccomandazione, the omnipresent social practice of using connections to get things done. Viewing the practice from both emic and etic perspectives, it builds on and extends past scholarship to consider the nature of patronage in a contemporary society and its relationship to corruption.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Applied Anthropology
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Published 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
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Published May 2013
Race, Color, Identity
Rethinking Discourses about 'Jews' in the Twenty-First Century
Sicher, E. (ed)
Subjects: Jewish Studies Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Published December 2007
Race, Ethnicity, and Nation
Perspectives from Kinship and Genetics
Wade, P. (ed)
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published December 2005
Racism in Metropolitan Areas
Pinxten, R. & Preckler, E. (eds)
Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published April 2011
Racism in the Modern World
Historical Perspectives on Cultural Transfer and Adaptation
Berg, M. & Wendt, S. (eds)
Subject: History (General)
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Published November 2024
Radcliffe-Brown
Journeys Through Colonial Worlds, 1881-1955
Niehaus, I.
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881-1955) is widely renowned as a founder of modern social anthropology. This biography challenges popular stereotypes of him as a misplaced positivist and colonial conservative. It shows Radcliffe-Brown to be a thoroughly cosmopolitan scholar, a committed fieldworker, and a sharp critic of colonialism.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
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Published November 2003
Radical Ethnic Movements in Contemporary Europe
Daftary, F. & Troebst, S. (eds)
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
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Published October 2024
Rag Fair
A Different Migration History of London’s East End, 1780-1850
Münch, O.
Drawing on approaches across migration history, economic history, economic anthropology, and the sociology of movements, Rag Fair uncovers the social mechanisms behind the world-famous market’s role as an intercultural contact zone where Jewish and Irish migrants mingled, entered client relationships, and forged political alliances.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General) Mobility Studies Jewish Studies
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Published September 2010
Raising Citizens in the 'Century of the Child'
The United States and German Central Europe in Comparative Perspective
Schumann, D. (ed)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Educational Studies
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Published March 2019
Rampart Nations
Bulwark Myths of East European Multiconfessional Societies in the Age of Nationalism
Berezhnaya, L. & Hein-Kircher, H. (eds)
Rampart Nations delves deeper into the bulwark (antemurale) myth and uncovers the stories that have helped to spread it within Eastern Europe. Through perspectives that range from Eastern European art history to theology, with a concentration on the nexus of political, social, and religious history, this volume explores historical narratives that have shaped contemporary Eastern European national identities.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published 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
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Published August 2002
Re-examining Progressive Halakhah
Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)
Subject: Jewish Studies
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Published September 2016
Re-Imagining DEFA
East German Cinema in its National and Transnational Contexts
Allan, S. & Heiduschke, S. (eds)
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, interest in East German cinema has exploded, inspiring innumerable festivals, books, and exhibits. In this stimulating collection, leading international experts assess this vibrant landscape and plot an ambitious course for future research that considers other cinematic traditions, genre works, and DEFA’s post-unification “afterlife.”
Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published February 2015
Re-orienting Cuisine
East Asian Foodways in the Twenty-First Century
Kim, K. O. (ed)
Foods are changed by those who produce and supply them, and also by those who consume them. The contributors of this volume have expanded the discussion of food to include its social and cultural meanings and functions, thereby using it as a way to explain a culture and its changes.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition
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Published February 2004
Re-presenting the Shoah for the 21st Century
Lentin, R. (ed)
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies Memory Studies
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Published June 2008
(Re)constructing Armenia in Lebanon and Syria
Ethno-Cultural Diversity and the State in the Aftermath of a Refugee Crisis
Migliorino, N.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2005
Reading Germany
Literature and Consumer Culture in Germany before 1933
Reuveni, G.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies Media Studies
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Published August 2012
Reassessing the Nuremberg Military Tribunals
Transitional Justice, Trial Narratives, and Historiography
Priemel, K. C. & Stiller, A. (eds)
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History
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Published 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
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Published August 2008
Rebirth of a Culture
Jewish Identity and Jewish Writing in Germany and Austria today
Herzog, H. H., Herzog, T. & Lapp, B. (eds)
Subjects: Jewish Studies Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published August 2004
Rebordering the Mediterranean
Boundaries and Citizenship in Southern Europe
Suárez-Navaz, L.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published September 2000
Recalling the Belgian Congo
Conversations and Introspection
Dembour, M.-B.
Subjects: Colonial History Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published November 2003
Recasting West German Elites
Higher Civil Servants, Business Leaders, and Physicians in Hesse between Nazism and Democracy, 1945-1955
Hayse, M.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published April 2015
Reclaiming the Forest
The Ewenki Reindeer Herders of Aoluguya
Kolås, Å. & Xie, Y. (eds)
The reindeer herders of Aoluguya, China, are a group of former hunters who today see themselves as “keepers of reindeer.” To some, their future seems troubled, but this volume’s literary and academic contributions instead focus on the present, as the Ewenki attempt to reclaim their forest lifestyle and develop new forest livelihoods.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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Published December 2020
Recognizing the Past in the Present
New Studies on Medicine before, during, and after the Holocaust
Hildebrandt, S., Offer, M., & Grodin, M. A. (eds)
This interdisciplinary collection assembles a chain of documentation on the critical role of medicine in realizing the policies of Hitler’s regime. It traces the historical legacies of National Socialist medicine from their roots in the racial theories of the 1920s, through their manifestation in the Nazi period, and on to legacies and continuities from the postwar years to the present.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History Jewish Studies
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Published December 2001
Recollections of France
Memories, Identities and Heritage in Contemporary France
Blowen, S., Demossier, M. & Picard, J. (eds)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Heritage Studies Memory Studies
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Published 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
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Published August 2009
Reconceiving the Second Sex
Men, Masculinity, and Reproduction
Inhorn, M. C., Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, T., Goldberg, H. & Cour Mosegaard, M. la (eds)
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published September 2020
Reconciliation Road
Willy Brandt, Ostpolitik and the Quest for European Peace
Schoenborn, B.
Based on extensive research in Brandt’s personal archives, additional studies in international archives, and interviews with contemporary witnesses, this book traces Brandt’s nearly lifelong efforts towards the full reintegration of a united Germany into the community of European countries.
Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies
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Published December 1998
Reconstructing Education
East German Schools after Unification
Pritchard, R. M. O.
Subjects: Educational Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published July 2024
Reconstructing Homes
Affective Materiality and Atmospheres of Belonging
Koskinen-Koivisto, E., Korjonen-Kuusipuro, K., Čeginskas, V. L. A., Kajander, A., & De Nardi, H. (eds)
Reconstructing Homes takes on a multidisciplinary approach of sensory ethnography, visual methods, and autoethnography methodologies to explore affective engagements with materiality in the context of home and the idea of belonging.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 2013
Reconstructing Obesity
The Meaning of Measures and the Measure of Meanings
McCullough, M. & Hardin, J. (eds)
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Food & Nutrition
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Published 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)
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Published October 2015
Recovered Territory
A German-Polish Conflict over Land and Culture, 1919-1989
Polak-Springer, P.
From 1919 to 1989, the German-Polish borderland, one of Central Europe’s important industrial regions, was at the center of a conflict between Germany and Poland. In their interaction with — and mutual influence on — one another, both nations developed a transnational culture, giving the borderland a “Polish” / “German” face.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published February 2023
Red America
Greek Communists in the United States, 1920-1950
Karpozilos, K.
Socialism, Communism, and Anarchism were integral components of 19th and 20th century immigrant life. Red America explores the relationship between the immigrant experience in the United States and political radicalism, especially as it relates to the lesser explored Greek American experience in the 20th century.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published May 2017
Redescribing Relations
Strathernian Conversations on Ethnography, Knowledge and Politics
Lebner, A. (ed)
Marilyn Strathern is among the most creative and celebrated contemporary anthropologists, and her work draws interest from across the humanities and social sciences. With a comprehensive introduction and a newly translated interview, Redescribing Relations brings some of Strathern’s most committed and renowned readers into conversations in her honour.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published March 2016
Reflecting on Reflexivity
The Human Condition as an Ontological Surprise
Evens, T. M. S., Handelman, D. & Roberts, C. (eds)
Reflexivity is fundamental to human social life. This volume analyzes reflexivity on two analytical planes. On one is the role reflexivity plays in human life and the study of it. The other plane is anthropo-philosophical, which maintains that reflexivity definitively distinguishes the being and becoming of the human.
Subject: Theory and Methodology
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Published April 1999
Refugee Policy in Sudan 1967-1984
Karadawi, A.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2024
Refugee Protection in Southeast Asia
Between Humanitarianism and Sovereignty
Kneebone, S., Mariñas, R., Missbach, A. & Walden, M. (eds)
With contributions from scholars within and outside the region, this book promotes new thinking on protection of refugees and on resolving tensions between states, actors and institutions involved in humanitarian action in Southeast Asia, particularly Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Sustainable Development Goals
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Published August 2018
Refugee Resettlement
Power, Politics, and Humanitarian Governance
Garnier, A., Jubilut, L. L., & Sandvik, K. B.
The first of its kind, this volume explores refugee resettlement as a form of humanitarian governance; it offers a detailed understanding of resettlement practices, from the selection of refugees to their long-term integration in resettling states, and highlights the relevance of a lifespan approach to resettlement analysis.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published June 2004
Refugees and the Transformation of Societies
Agency, Policies, Ethics and Politics
Essed, P., Frerks, G. & Schrijvers, J. (eds)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies Peace and Conflict Studies
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Published January 2010
Refugees From Nazi Germany and the Liberal European States
Caestecker, F. & Moore, B. (eds)
Subjects: History: World War II Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published February 2022
Refugees on the Move
Crisis and Response in Turkey and Europe
Balkan, E. & Kutlu Tonak, Z. (eds)
Refugees on the Move highlights and explores the profound complexities of the current refugee issue by focusing specifically on Syrian refugees in Turkey and other European countries and responses from the host countries involved. The book examines the causes of the movement of refugee populations, and host governments’ attempts to manage and overcome the so-called “refugee crisis”.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published 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
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Published March 1997
Regime Changes
Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Regulation in Europe from the 1930s to the 1990s
Forsyth, D. & Notermans, T. (eds)
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published October 2015
Regimes of Ignorance
Anthropological Perspectives on the Production and Reproduction of Non-Knowledge
Dilley, R. & Kirsch, T. G. (eds)
Non-knowledge should not be simply regarded as the opposite of knowledge, but as complementary to it: each derives its character and meaning from the other and from their interaction. This volume’s ethnographic analyses provide a theoretical frame through which to consider the production and reproduction of ignorance, non-knowledge, and secrecy.
Subject: Theory and Methodology
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Published October 2019
Regimes of Responsibility in Africa
Genealogies, Rationalities and Conflicts
Rubbers, B. & Jedlowski, A. (eds)
How have African moral worlds changed since the 1990s? Regimes of Responsibility in Africa analyses the transformations that discourses and practices of responsibility have undergone in Africa. The work enters into a dialogue with the emerging corpus of studies in the field of ethics, providing to it a set of analytical perspectives that can help further enlarge its theoretical and geographical scope.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
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Published July 2010
Region-building
Vol. I: The Global Proliferation of Regional Integration
Kuehnhardt, L.
Subject: Development Studies
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Published June 2001
Relative Points of View
Linguistic Representations of Culture
Stroinska, M. (ed)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published October 2004
Religion and Nation
Iranian Local and Transnational Networks in Britain
Spellman, K.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
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Published February 2021
Religion and Pride
Hindus in Search of Recognition in La Réunion
Lang, N.
Through the examination of religious practices and public performance, the author offers a compelling study of how the Hindu community in the French territory of La Réunion assert pride in their religion as a means of gaining recognition as a religious minority.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
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Published January 2015
Religion and Science as Forms of Life
Anthropological Insights into Reason and Unreason
Salazar, C. & Bestard, J. (eds)
The relationships between science and religion are about to enter a new phase in our contemporary world. This volume analyzes the relationships between religion and science as forms of life: ways of engaging human experience that originate in particular social and cultural formations.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Published October 1999
Religion in English Everyday Life
An Ethnographic Approach
Jenkins, T.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology
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Published January 2011
Religion, Politics, and Globalization
Anthropological Approaches
Lindquist, G. & Handelman, D. (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
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Published April 2024
Religious Plurality at Princely Courts
Dynasty, Politics, and Confession in Central Europe, ca. 1555-1860
Marschke, B., Riches, D., Schunka, A., & Smart, S. (eds)
Examining previously neglected intersections and transformations in early modern European monarchical legitimization, Religious Plurality at Princely Courts works across multiple lenses of European studies to explore the effects of bi-confessional or multi-confessional intra-Christian settings at princely courts on dynastic, representative/symbolic, diplomatic, artistic, and theological levels.
Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Cultural Studies (General)
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Published May 2024
Religious Sensibilities in Pursuit of Sexual Well-Being
African Diasporic Communities in the Netherlands
Bakuri, A. Z.
Through detailed ethnographic analysis, this book shows how religious sensibilities inform the health practices, issues of sexuality and well-being of the Ghanian-Dutch and Somali-Dutch communities residing in the Randstad area of the Netherlands.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Published September 2016
Reluctant Intimacies
Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands
Świtek, B.
Based on seventeen months of ethnographic research among Indonesian eldercare workers in Japan, this book is the first ethnography to research Indonesian care workers’ relationships with the cared-for elderly, their Japanese colleagues and their employers.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published February 2017
Reluctant Skeptic
Siegfried Kracauer and the Crises of Weimar Culture
Craver, H. T.
Best remembered for investigations of film and other media, journalist and critic Siegfried Kracauer offered a seismographic reading of the Weimar-era confrontation between religion and secular modernity. This discerning study analyzes and contextualizes Kracauer’s early output, showing how he identified the quasi-theological roots of the era’s cultural ferment.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies
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Published October 2005
Remaking France
Americanization, Public Diplomacy, and the Marshall Plan
McKenzie, B.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published October 2009
Remaking Home
Reconstructing Life, Place and Identity in Rome and Amsterdam
Korac, M.
Subject: Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published April 2021
Remaking the Human
Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair, Reshaping, and Replacement
Jarrín, A. & Pussetti, C. (eds)
The technological capacity to transform biology - repairing, reshaping and replacing body parts, chemicals and functions – is now a part of our lives. This collection focuses on why people find these practices so seductive, and provides ethnographic insights into people’s motives and aspirations as they embrace or reject enhancement technologies, which are closely entangled with negotiations over gender, class, age, nationality and ethnicity.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published March 2006
Remapping Knowledge
Intercultural Studies for a Global Age
Spariosu, Mihai I.
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 2001
Remembering a Vanished World
A Jewish Childhood in Interwar Poland
Hamerow, T.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies
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Published November 2003
Remembering and Forgetting Nazism
Education, National Identity, and the Victim Myth in Postwar Austria
Utgaard, P.
Subjects: Educational Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published February 2004
Remembering Karelia
A Family's Story of Displacement during and after the Finnish Wars
Armstrong, K.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Published December 2009
Remembering Violence
Anthropological Perspectives on Intergenerational Transmission
Argenti, N. & Schramm, K. (Eds.)
Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General) History (General)
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Published 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
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Published January 2023
Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants
Returning to the Jewish Past in Spain and Portugal
Kandiyoti, D. & Benmayor, R. (eds)
In 2015, both Portugal and Spain passed laws enabling descendants of Sephardi Jews to obtain citizenship, an historic offer of reconciliation. Drawing from scholarly and first-person essays, Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants analyzes the memory and afterlives of those who were wronged, and how reconciliatory rights impact the lives of those affected.
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Published February 2025
Representations of “Japanese Nature”
A Historical Overview
Ohnuki-Tierney, E.
“Nature” as a concept and word is extremely elusive, yet it is commonly taken for granted that “the pristine nature” is “out there.” This book explores the factors that have naturalized the idea of nature as pristine into our psyche, and as something that has a spatial, visual, and temporal dimension for “seasons”.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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Published February 2022
Representing 21st-Century Migration in Europe
Performing Borders, Identities and Texts
González Ortega, N. & Martínez García, A. B. (eds)
The 21st century has witnessed some of the largest human migrations in history. Europe in particular has seen a major influx of refugees, redefining notions of borders and national identity. This interdisciplinary volume offers innovative interpretations of contemporary migration to Europe, engaging with the ongoing debate on forced mobility.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published December 2021
Repressed, Remitted, Rejected
German Reparations Debts to Poland and Greece
Roth, K. H. & Rübner, H.
Greece and Poland have recently reignited debates on minimally settled reparations demands resulting from suffering under the terror of Nazi occupation during the Second World War. Using an international law perspective, this expansive volume reconstructs the German occupation of Poland and Greece and confronts German aversions to reparations debt.
Subjects: History: World War II History: 20th Century to Present
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Published February 2009
Reproducing Class
Education, Neoliberalism, and the Rise of the New Middle Class in Istanbul
Rutz, H. J. & Balkan, E. M.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
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Published October 2004
Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State
Cultural Transformations in Childbearing
Unnithan-Kumar, M. (ed)
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published October 2007
Reproductive Disruptions
Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium
Inhorn, M. C. (ed)
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published 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
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Published February 2004
Researching Food Habits
Methods and Problems
Macbeth, H. & MacClancy, J. (eds)
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Theory and Methodology
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Published February 2023
Resettled Iraqi Refugees in the United States
War, Refuge, Belonging, Participation, and Protest
Keyel, J.
The American war against Iraq has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and displaced millions of people. Between 2003 and 2017, more than 172,000 Iraqis resettled in the United States. This book explores the experiences of fifteen of them and presents insights into the core experience of life as a refugee from war.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
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Published April 2020
Resettlers and Survivors
Bukovina and the Politics of Belonging in West Germany and Israel, 1945–1989
Fisher, G.
Resettlers and Survivors focuses on two groups of Bukovinians—ethnic Germans and German-speaking Jews—who navigated dramatically changed political and social circumstances in 1945. This study gives a nuanced account of how they dealt with the difficult legacies of World War II, while exploring Bukovina’s significance for them as both a geographical location and a “place of memory.”
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Jewish Studies Refugee and Migration Studies Memory Studies
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Published April 2007
Resistance and the State
Nepalese Experiences
Gellner, D.
Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published July 2004
Resistance in an Amazonian Community
Huaorani Organizing against the Global Economy
Ziegler-Otero, L.
Subjects: Development Studies Sociology
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Published June 2020
Resisting Persecution
Jews and Their Petitions during the Holocaust
Pegelow Kaplan, T. & Gruner, W. (eds)
This volume offers the first extensive analysis of entreaties from persecuted Jews in the Nazi era, demonstrating their largely unappreciated value as a historical source and as an attempt to reclaim agency in increasingly desperate political circumstances.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Jewish Studies Genocide History
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Published November 2023
Resisting Radicalisation?
Understanding Young People's Journeys through Radicalising Milieus
Pilkington, H. (ed)
Offering a critical perspective on the concept of radicalisation, this volume views it from the perspective of social actors who engage in radicalising milieus but have not crossed the threshold into violent extremism. The volume brings together contributions based on extensive empirical research conducted as part of a cross-European study of young people's engagement in ‘extreme right’ and ‘Islamist’ milieus.
Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published January 2025
Resituating Crisis
Silencing and Voicing Crisis in Everyday Life
Andersen, D. J. & Aubry, L. (eds)
Crisis is not just a situation twisting normality but can become constitutive of normality itself. In exploring transformative and constructive elements to being in crisis, it resituates crisis in everyday life to foster critical and nuanced examination of discourses on and experiences of it.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Mobility Studies
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Published December 2008
Responsible History
Baets, A. De
Subject: History (General)
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Published June 2024
Rest in Plastic
Death, Time and Synthetic Materials in a Ghanaian Ewe Community
Bredenbröker, I.
Rest in Plastic gives an insight into local entanglements of death, synthetic materials and power in Ewe community. It shows how different materials and things that come to shape power relations, exist in a delicate balance between state and local governance, kin and outsiders, death and life, the invisible and the visible, movement and containment.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Anthropology of Religion
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Published April 2007
Restitution and Memory
Material Restoration in Europe
Diner, D. & Wunberg, G. (eds)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies
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Published March 2019
Rethinking and Unthinking Development
Perspectives on Inequality and Poverty in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Mpofu, B. & Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S. J. (eds)
Through theoretical contributions and case studies focusing on South Africa and Zimbabwe, this volume attempts to rethink (and unthink) development discourses and practices in southern Africa. The authors explore the ways in which legacies of colonialism impact development, as well as other factors such as regional politics, corruption, and socio-economic and cultural barriers.
Subjects: Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Sustainable Development Goals
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Published June 2016
Rethinking Antifascism
History, Memory and Politics, 1922 to the Present
García, H., Yusta, M., Tabet, X., & Climaco, C. (eds)
Rethinking Antifascism surveys recent research on the anti-fascist movement between 1922 and 1945. It first challenges the revisionist view of anti-fascism as a tool of Stalinism, then discusses the post-War memories and political uses of anti-fascism. These essays historicize anti-fascism as a transnational movement that shaped contemporary democracies.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies
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Published June 2021
Rethinking Atlantic Empire
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara’s Histories of Nineteenth-Century Spain and the Antilles
Eastman, S. & Jacobsen, S. (eds)
In recent years, the historiography of nineteenth-century Spain has been invigorated by interdisciplinary engagement with scholars working on topics such as empire, slavery, and race, exemplified by the work of Christopher Schmidt-Nowara. Rethinking Atlantic Empire places Schmidt-Nowara’s work within the context of the broader field, reflecting on his contributions and charting potential new directions in research.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History
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Published December 2017
Rethinking Holocaust Justice
Essays across Disciplines
Goda, N. J. W. (ed)
In the past two decades, the subject of post-Holocaust justice has experienced a surge of interest among historians and legal scholars. Rethinking Holocaust Justice offers a multifaceted approach to post-Holocaust justice, bringing together leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to explore the complexity of these issues.
Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present Jewish Studies
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Published November 2021
Rethinking Internal Displacement
Geo-political Games, Fragile States and the Relief Industry
Laker, F.
To tackle the vast numbers of internally displaced people, a UN regime has emerged that seeks to replicate the long-established regime of refugee protection by applying international law and humanitarian assistance to citizens within their own borders. This book looks at the origins, structure and impact of this new UN regime and whether it is fit for purpose.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies
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Published December 2002
Rethinking International Organizations
Pathology and Promise
Dijkzeul, D. & Beigbeder, Y. (ed)
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published November 2020
Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema
Hales, B. & Weinstein, V. (eds)
The film industry in the Weimar Republic was a major site for German-Jewish experience that provided a sphere for Jewish "outsiders" to shape mainstream culture. The essays in Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema offer new historical, theoretical, and methodological approaches to the significant involvement of Jewish people in Weimar cinema.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published July 2007
Rethinking Migration
New Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives
Portes, A. & DeWind, J. (eds)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Theory and Methodology Development Studies
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Published July 2022
Rethinking Social Movements after '68
Selves and Solidarities in West Germany and Beyond
Davis, B., Brühöfener, F., & Milder, S. (eds)
With a focus on West Germany and Europe, Social Movements after ’68 bridges the 1970s and 1980s as a vital period of European political development and social change. Looking past the known ruptures and changes in the history of European social movements, this volume brings together interconnected social movements including environmental, women’s and gay rights movements.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published 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
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Rethinking the Cinematic Cold War
The Struggle for Hearts and Minds Goes Global
Pisu, S., Pitassio, F., & Zinni, M. (eds)
An exacting reassessment of the relationship between culture and ideology within the Cold War period, Rethinking the Cinematic Cold War highlights the role that politics played in informing policies as well as cultural products and appetites, across geopolitical boundaries.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Published December 2009
Rethinking the Informal City
Critical Perspectives from Latin America
Hernández, F., Kellett, P. and Allen, L.K. (Eds.)
Subject: Urban Studies
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Published October 2001
Rethinking Vienna 1900
Beller, S. (ed)
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published 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
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Returns, Entanglements and Collaboration
Anthropological Experimentations
Tošić, J., Strasser, S., & Lems, A. (eds)
This collection marks the EASA Book Series’ 50th volume to celebrate collaborative forms of knowledge production in anthropology. It is organized around eight key themes and concepts that have marked anthropological debates in Europe over the past 20 years.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
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Published October 2020
Revealing the Invisible Mine
Social Complexities of an Undeveloped Mining Project
Skrzypek, E. E.
The Frieda River area in Papua New Guinea is home to one of the biggest undeveloped gold and copper deposits in the Pacific. This book offers an account of local stakeholder strategies as they unfolded at Frieda over forty years and provides a strong and novel commentary on sustainability and social accountability of the mining industry operating in indigenous territories.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sustainable Development Goals
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Published July 2024
Reversible America
Cowboys, Clowns, and Bullfighters
Saumade, F. & Maudet, J.-B.
Reversible America negotiates the spectacle of Rodeo, cattle ranching, and bullfighting as it has manifested in California through cross border convergences of Iberian bullfighting, Native American hunting methods, and ethics in human and non-human relationships.
Subjects: Performance Studies History: 18th/19th Century
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Published April 2020
Revisiting Austria
Tourism, Space, and National Identity, 1945 to the Present
Graml, G.
Revisiting Austria draws on a rich selection of films, marketing materials, literature, and first-person accounts to explore the ways in which tourism has shaped both international and domestic perceptions of Austrian identity even as it has failed to confront the nation’s often violent and troubled history.
Subjects: Travel and Tourism History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies
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Published 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
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Published October 2000
Reynard the Fox
Cultural Metamorphoses and Social Engagement in the Beast Epic from the Middle Ages to the Present
Varty, K. (ed)
Subjects: Literary Studies History (General)
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Published 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
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Published 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
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Published February 2010
Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite
Schaeper, T. & Schaeper, K.
Subjects: Educational Studies History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Rights in Exile
Janus-Faced Humanitarianism
Verdirame, G. & Harrell-Bond, B.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published January 2021
Risk on the Table
Food Production, Health, and the Environment
Creager, A. N. H. & Gaudilière, J.-P. (eds)
From the proliferation of synthetic additives to the threat posed by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the chapters in Risk on the Table zero in on key historical cases in North America and Europe that illuminate the history of food safety, highlighting the powerful tension that exists between policymakers’ decisions and cultural notions of “pure” food.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present Food & Nutrition Sustainable Development Goals
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Published 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 Sustainable Development Goals
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Published July 2002
Risky Transactions
Trust, Kinship and Ethnicity
Salter, F. K. (ed)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published 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
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Ritual in Its Own Right
Exploring the Dynamics of Transformation
Handelman, D. & Lindquist, G. (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology
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Ritual Retellings
Luangan Healing Performances through Practice
Herrmans, I.
The book is an ethnography of belian, a lively tradition of shamanistic curing rituals performed by the Luangans of Indonesian Borneo. This volume demonstrates the importance of understanding rituals as emergent within their specific historical and social settings, and highlights the irreducibility of lived reality to epistemological certainty.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion
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Ritual, Rapture and Rebellion
The Making of Market, Mercy and Meaning Amongst the Gitanos of El Rastro
Brodersen, M. B.
This book is an anthropological account of a group of middle and upper-class Gitanos and their ways of creating a ‘society within society’ based upon distinct cultural, moral and ideological values, notions and practices.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
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Rivers, Memory, And Nation-building
A History of the Volga and Mississippi Rivers
Zeisler-Vralsted, D.
Rivers figure prominently in a nation’s historical memory, and the Volga and Mississippi have special importance in Russian and American cultures. Despite being forced into submission for modern-day hydrological regimes, the Volga and Mississippi Rivers persist in the collective memory and continue to offer solace, recreation, and sustenance. Through their histories we derive a more nuanced view of human interaction with the environment.
Subjects: History (General) Environmental Studies (General) Memory Studies
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Published August 1995
Roads to the Palace
Jewish Texts and Teaching
Rosenak, M.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Educational Studies
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Published May 2007
Robbery and Restitution
The Conflict over Jewish Property in Europe
Dean, M., Goschler, C. & Ther, P. (eds)
Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History
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Published April 2005
Rock of Contention
Free French and Americans at War in New Caledonia, 1940-1945
Munholland, K.
Subjects: History: World War II Colonial History
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Published 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
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Published 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
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Published June 2013
Routes Into the Abyss
Coping with Crises in the 1930s
Konrad, H. & Maderthaner, W. (eds)
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published July 2017
Ruptures in the Everyday
Views of Modern Germany from the Ground
Bergerson, A. S. & Schmieding, L.
Throughout the twentieth century, Germans underwent constant disruptions in their lives, and many struggled to integrate their experiences into coherent narratives. Ruptures in the Everyday brings together twenty-six interdisciplinary researchers in an innovative, collectively authored work of scholarship that investigates Alltag—everyday life—through such fragmentary experiences.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published 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
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Published May 2011
Russia Before The 'Radiant Future'
Essays in Modern History, Culture, and Society
Confino, M.
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published July 2001
Russian Culture
Mead, M. & Gorer, G.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published June 2024
Russian Historiography from 1880 to 1905
Pavel N. Miliukov and the Moscow School
Bohn, T. M.
Russian Historiography from 1880 to 1905 develops and intervenes the historic record of Pavel Miliukov (1859-1943), the late leader of the Constitutional Democrats and foreign minister of the Provisional Government, who drove the Moscow School’s paradigm shift from political and legal history to social and economic history.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century
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Published November 2000
Russian Literature and Its Demons
Davidson, P. (ed)
Subject: Literary Studies
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Published December 2015
Russian Postmodernism
New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture
Epstein, M., Genis, A. A., & Vladiv-Glover-, S. M.
The end of the Cold War has enabled Russia to take part in the global rise and crystallization of postmodernism. This volume investigates the manifestations of this crucial trend in Russian fiction, poetry, art, and spirituality, demonstrating how Russian postmodernism is its own unique entity.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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