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Published November 2014
U.S. Foreign Policy and the Other
Cullinane, M. P. & Ryan, D. (eds)
John Quincy Adams warned Americans not to search abroad for monsters to destroy, yet such figures have frequently habituated the discourses of U.S. foreign policy. This collection of essays focuses on counter-identities in American consciousness to explain how foreign policies and the discourse surrounding them develop.
Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published November 2015
Ultimate Ambiguities
Investigating Death and Liminality
Berger, P. & Kroesen, J. (eds)
Although dying can be seen as the paradigm of liminality, because periods of transition are often associated with death, many volumes on death in the social sciences do not specifically address liminality. This book investigates these “ultimate ambiguities” as crucial periods of creativity, change, and emergent aspects of social and religious life.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Published June 2021
Un-Settling Middle Eastern Refugees
Regimes of Exclusion and Inclusion in the Middle East, Europe, and North America
Inhorn, M. C. & Volk, L. (eds)
Since the Iraq war, the Middle East has been in continuous upheaval, resulting in the displacement of millions of people. Arriving from Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, and Syria in other parts of the world, the refugees show remarkable resilience and creativity amidst profound adversity. Through careful ethnography, this book vividly illustrates how refugees navigate regimes of exclusion, including cumbersome bureaucracies, financial insecurities, medical challenges, vilifying stereotypes, and threats of violence and bears witness to their struggles.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2024
(Un)Settling Place
Diverse and Divergent Place-Making of People on the Move
Winters, N., Drotbohm, H., & Guevara González, Y. (eds)
An illuminating ethnographic study of placemaking, (Un)Settling Place examines the nature of places that are remote, peripheral, and “along-the-way” of migrant journeys, highlighting the key role they play in the shaping of people’s mobilities and identities.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Mobility Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published June 2000
Under Siege
Portraits of Civilian Life in France During World War I
Young, R. (ed)
Subject: History: World War I
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Published August 2020
Under the Sign of the Cross
The People’s Salvation Cathedral and the Church-Building Industry in Postsocialist Romania
Tateo, G.
Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book investigates the construction of the world’s highest Orthodox cathedral in Bucharest, Romania. Through the notion of re-consecration, the book brings together sociological and anthropological scholarship on eastern Christianity, secularization, postsocialist urban change and nationalism in a vivid account of societal transformation.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Urban Studies
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Published December 2024
Understanding Business Offenders
A Comparative Analysis of Workplace Deviance, Convenience and Control
Gottschalk, P. & Hamerton, C.
Focusing on understanding business offenders through an exploration of workplace deviance and crime, this book closely examines a number of illustrative contemporary case studies and underpins the analysis of original comparative fieldwork, with an interdisciplinary approach, which informs, develops, and augments the existing literature on white-collar criminology.
Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology
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Published May 2017
Understanding Conflicts about Wildlife
A Biosocial Approach
Hill, C. M., Webber, A. D. & Priston, N. E. C. (eds)
Conflicts about wildlife are usually portrayed as resulting from the negative impacts of wildlife on human livelihoods or property. However, deeper analysis reveals that these conflicts are often better understood as people-people conflicts. Understanding Conflicts About Wildlife unites academics and practitioners to consider the political and social dimensions of ‘human-wildlife conflicts’.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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Published August 2013
Understanding Cultural Transmission in Anthropology
A Critical Synthesis
Ellen, R., Lycett, S. J., & Johns, S. E. (eds)
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Archaeology
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Published September 1996
Understanding Impoverishment
The Consequences of Development-Induced Displacement
McDowell, C. (ed)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies Theory and Methodology
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Published March 2014
Understanding Multiculturalism
The Habsburg Central European Experience
Feichtinger, J. & Cohen, G. B. (eds)
The essays in this collection offer a nuanced analysis of the multifaceted cultural experience of Central Europe under the late Habsburg monarchy and beyond. The authors examine how culturally coded social spaces can be described and understood historically without adopting categories formerly employed to justify the definition and separation of groups into nations, ethnicities, or homogeneous cultures. As we consider the issues of multiculturalism today, this volume offers new approaches to understanding multiculturalism in Central Europe freed of the effects of politically exploited concepts of social spaces.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Forthcoming June 2025
Understanding Social Images
Essays on Visual Methods and Teaching Visual Anthropology
Banks, M.
Zeitlyn, D. & El Khachab, C. (eds)Marcus Banks was one of the scholars who changed the way visual anthropology and visual methods were regarded in social and cultural anthropology. This collection of Banks’ essays considers the role of collaboration in the making of ethnographic films and makes the case for slow research.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Media Studies
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Published October 2017
Unearthing the Past to Forge the Future
Colin Mackenzie, the Early Colonial State, and the Comprehensive Survey of India
Wolffhardt, T.
During the 1800s, the East India Company consolidated its rule in India. In desperate need of knowledge about this territory and its population, the company appointed Colin Mackenzie as the first Surveyor General of India. Unearthing the Past to Forge the Future explores the life and career of Mackenzie, and his massive survey of India.
Subjects: Colonial History History: 18th/19th Century
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Published September 2024
Unexpected Encounters
Migrants and Tourists in the Mediterranean
Vietti, F.
Exploring different dimensions of the intersection of migration and tourism in the Mediterranean, this book is the result of extensive ethnographic research carried out over a decade in the Mediterranean region. It shows how migration and tourism play complementary roles in boosting the global dynamics of cultural, social, economic and political transformation in the Mediterranean.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism
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Published July 2014
Unforgotten
Love and the Culture of Dementia Care in India
Brijnath, B.
Though the number of people living with dementia in India will rise with increased life expectancy, little is known about how people in India cope with dementia. Unforgotten offers a rich ethnographic account of how middle-class families in urban India care for their relatives with dementia—illuminating idioms on dementia and aging, the experience of care-giving, and the social and cultural barriers in accessing support.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published March 2004
United and Divided
Germany since 1990
Dennis M. & Kolinsky, E. (eds)
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published July 2013
United Germany
Debating Processes and Prospects
Jarausch, K. H. (ed)
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published November 2009
United in Discontent
Local Responses to Cosmopolitanism and Globalization
Theodossopoulos, D. & Kirtsoglou, E. (eds)
Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published August 1994
Uniting Germany
Documents and Debates
Jarausch, K. & Gransow, V.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published January 1995
Universities in the Twenty-first Century
Muller, S. (ed)
Subject: Educational Studies
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Published November 2000
Universities Remembering Europe
Nations, Culture and Higher Education
Crawley, F., Smeyers, P. & Standish, P. (eds)
Subject: Educational Studies
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Published January 2021
Unlocking the Love-Lock
The History and Heritage of a Contemporary Custom
Houlbrook, C.
A padlock is a mundane object, designed to fulfil a specific – and secular – purpose. A contemporary custom has given padlocks new significance155. This custom is ‘love-locking’, where padlocks are engraved with names and attached to bridges in declaration of romantic commitment. This book explores the worldwide popularity of the love-lock as a ritual token of love and commitment by considering its history, symbolism, and heritage.
Subjects: Heritage Studies Archaeology Museum Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Forthcoming March 2025
Unraveling Management
Its Institutions, Practices and Beliefs
Carrier, J. G. (ed)
Management is everywhere. Schools teach it and professional organisations counsel about it. Books and articles are written for managers and about them. Management is usually understood in terms of styles of management, management policies and successful management but few tend to think about management in an abstract sense. This book addresses this gap.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Applied Anthropology Sociology
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Published May 2011
Unruly Hills
A Political Ecology of India's Northeast
Karlsson, B. G.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published October 2010
Unsafe Motherhood
Mayan Maternal Mortality and Subjectivity in Post-War Guatemala
Berry, N.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology
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Published February 2005
Unsilencing the Past
Track-Two Diplomacy and Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation
Phillips, D.L.
Subject: Peace and Conflict Studies
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Published August 2022
Unusual Death and Memorialization
Burial, Space, and Memory in the Post-Medieval North
Kallio-Seppa, T., Lipkin, S., Väre, T., Moilanen, U. & Tranberg, A. (eds)
Most cultures and societies have their own customs and traditions of treating their dead. In the past, some deceased received a burial that deviated from tradition. The reasons for unusual burial could result from reasons such as outbreaks of epidemics or wars, or from premature births, distinctive social status, or disability. The case studies introduce varied views on ‘otherness’ that are visible in burial customs and memorialization.
Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Memory Studies
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Published October 2009
Unveiling the Whale
Discourses on Whales and Whaling
Kalland, A.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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Published June 2013
Up Close and Personal
On Peripheral Perspectives and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge
Shore, C. & Trnka, S. (eds)
Subject: Theory and Methodology
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Published August 2014
Up, Down, and Sideways
Anthropologists Trace the Pathways of Power
Stryker, R. & González, R. (eds)
Up, Down, and Sidewaysis a collection of essays by ten anthropologists who use a “vertical slice” approach to critically analyze the relationship between undemocratic and sometimes authoritarian uses and abuses of power today and the survival of the human species. It is atimely examination of modern institutions ranging from the nuclear family to transnational corporations within such countries as Russia, Mexico, South Korea, Peru, Indonesia, Guatemala, and the U.S.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Applied Anthropology
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Published March 2024
Urban Displacement
Syria's Refugees in the Middle East
Knudsen, A. J. & Tobin, S. A. (eds)
Syria’s massive displacement (2012–present) is one of the largest, most complex and intractable humanitarian emergencies today. Urban Displacement examines multiple dimensions of this crisis from political and socioeconomic predicaments to questions of social belonging, the complexity of the international, regional and national responses and how they affect urban spaces.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published March 2018
Urban Dreams
Transformations of Family Life in Burkina Faso
Roth, C.
de Jong, W., Perlik, M., Steuer, N., & Znoj, H. (eds)This collection of Claudia Roth's work closely documents the livelihood strategies of members of various neighbourhoods in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. This collection focuses on notions of “the African family” as a solidary network, changing marriage and kinship relations, and increasingly precarious social status of young women and men.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Urban Studies
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Published September 2023
Urban Natures
Living the More-than-Human City
Edwards, F., PEttersen, I. N. & Popartan, L. (eds)
Urban Natures explores the diversity, abundance, and impact of the conventional and future framings of urban natures. Recognizing a green resurgence in cities is underway, this volume applies a critical approach to examine urban greening histories, politics, discourses and ecologies
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Sustainable Development Goals
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Published August 2010
Urban Pollution
Cultural Meanings, Social Practices
Dürr, E. & Jaffe, R. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Urban Studies Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published April 2012
Urban Residence
Housing and Social Transformations in Globalizing Ecuador
Klaufus, C.
Subjects: Urban Studies Applied Anthropology Sociology
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Published June 2020
Urban Sustainability in the Arctic
Measuring Progress in Circumpolar Cities
Orttung, R. W.
Urban Sustainability in the Arctic advances our understanding of cities in the far north by applying elements of the international standard for urban sustainability (ISO 37120) to numerous Arctic cities. In delivering rich material about northern cities in Alaska, Canada, and Russia, the book examines how well the ISO 37120 measures sustainability and how well it applies in northern conditions.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology Urban Studies Sustainable Development Goals
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Published March 2015
Urban Violence in the Middle East
Changing Cityscapes in the Transition from Empire to Nation State
Freitag, U., Fuccaro, N., Ghrawi, C., & Lafi, N., (eds)
This volume explores the phenomenon of urban violence in order to unveil general developments and historical specificities in a variety of Middle Eastern contexts. The case studies counter notions of a violent Middle East to foster a new understanding of violent behavior in this region.
Subjects: Urban Studies History (General)
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