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Forthcoming Pb 2025
Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples

Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development

Chatty, D. & Colchester, M. (eds)

The second edition of this remarkable book updates the immense advances in policy and soft international law with regards to the rights of mobile indigenous peoples in conservation.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies
Forthcoming 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)
eBook available Published October 2024
Shakespeare and the Modern Novel

Holderness, G. (ed)

As the Shakespearean novel and long prose narrative form undergo a renaissance today, distinguished Shakespeare critics demonstrate that the diversity and flexibility of interactions between Shakespeare and the modern novel are very much alive.

Subject: Literary Studies

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eBook available Published August 2024
Immigrant Industry

Building Postwar Australia

Pieris, A., Lozanovska, M., Dellios, A., Saniga, A., & Beynon, D.

After the end of the Second World War, major federally funded industries in Australia depended on the employment of large numbers of refugees displaced by the war. This book aims to bring to the foreground post-war industry and immigration to comprehensively document a uniquely Australian shaping of the built environment.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published August 2024
Care in a Time of Humanitarianism

Stories of Refuge, Aid, and Repair in the Global South

Osanloo, A. & deBergh Robinson, C. (eds)

Care in a Time of Humanitarianism presents complex histories of forced migration and humanitarianism in an accessible way. It adopts a comparative approach to highlight the diverse cultural and religious traditions of care that are adopted across the Global South for the “distant others”.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology
eBook available Published June 2024
Courage and Compassion

A Jewish Boyhood in German-Occupied Greece

Molho, T.

Tony Molho tells a dramatic story of survival under the most adverse conditions during the Holocaust. A historian himself now telling his own story, Molho writes an autobiographical text that speaks of a Jewish childhood in Greece during World War II and the Axis Occupation.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War II Genocide History

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eBook available Forthcoming March 2025
One Hundred Years of Argonauts

Malinowski, Ethnography and Economic Anthropology

Hann, C. & James, D. (eds)

Malinowski’s pioneering work remains critical for anthropology in a postcolonial age. This volume uses ethnographic studies from around the world to contextualize the work politically and intellectually, examining its gestation and influence from multiple perspectives.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published March 2024
Max Gluckman

Macmillan, H.

This handy, concise biography describes the life and intellectual contribution of Max Gluckman (1911-75) who was one the most significant social anthropologists of the twentieth century.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Published March 2024
Crypto Crowds

Singularities and Multiplicities on the Blockchain

Shapiro, M. (ed)

Discussing the notions around social dynamics, Crypto Crowds explores how crowd and community formations manifest empirically in cryptocurrency sociality online. Pioneering in its approach to the increasing digitalization and datafication of everyday life, the volume encourages scholars explore further how ‘decentralized’ and ‘trustless’ technologies take part in the construction of postmodern crowds.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
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
eBook available Published November 2023
John F. Kennedy’s Hidden Diary, Europe 1937

The Travel Journals of JFK and Kirk LeMoyne Billings

Kennedy, J. F., LeMoyne Billings, K., & Lubrich, O.

Presenting the 1937 diaries of John F. Kennedy's tour of Europe alongside the "Scrapbook" of his travel companion, Lem Billings, John F. Kennedy’s Hidden Diary, Europe 1937 offers insights into Kennedy's early experiences on a continent under the shadow of Nazism.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published September 2023
Love, Loyalty and Deceit

Rosemary Firth, a Life in the Shadow of Two Eminent Men

Firth, H. & Brown, L.

How much do we really know about our parents’ lives? What secrets lie in plain sight? This is the true story of hidden love within a small circle of some of the most acclaimed anthropologists of the 20th century.

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

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eBook available Published September 2023
Alfred Cort Haddon

A Very English Savage

Walsh, C.

Using previously overlooked, primary sources Ciarán Walsh argues that Haddon, the grandson of anti-slavery activists, set out to revolutionize anthropology in the 1890s in association with a network of anarcho-utopian activists and philosophers. His book regards most of what has been written about Haddon in the past as a form of disciplinary folklore shaped by a theory of scientific revolutions.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published September 2023
Mary Douglas

Richards, P. & 6, P.

This handy, concise biography covers the life of Mary Douglas, one of the most important anthropologists of the second half of the 20th century. It offers an introduction to how her distinctive approach developed across a long and productive career and how it applies to current pressing issues of social conflict and planetary survival.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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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
eBook available Published August 2023
Shakespeare and Social Engagement

Mackenzie, R. & Shaughnessy, R. (eds)

Shakespeare’s roots in applied and participatory performance practices have been recently explored within a wide variety of educational, theatrical and community settings. Shakespeare and Social Engagement explores these settings, as well as audiences who have largely been excluded from existing accounts of Shakespeare’s performance history.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

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Published July 2023
Once Upon a Time is Now

A Kalahari Memoir

Biesele, M.

Fifty years after her first fieldwork with Ju/'hoan San hunter-gatherers, anthropologist Megan Biesele has written this exceptional memoir based on personal journals she wrote at the time.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Development Studies
eBook available 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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eBook available Forthcoming August 2025
Exceptional Experiences

Engaging with Jolting Events in Art and Fieldwork

Rethmann, P. & Wulff, H. (eds)

Looking at encounters that can puncture or jolt us, this volume uses art as a lens through which to register and understand exceptional experiences. The volume also includes the fieldworker’s experience of unexpected events that can lead to key understandings, as well as revelatory moments that happen during artistic creation and while looking at art.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available Published June 2023
Obstetric Violence and Systemic Disparities

Can Obstetrics Be Humanized and Decolonized?

Davis-Floyd, R. & Premkumar, A. (eds)

The final volume in this landmark 3-volume series on The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians looks at the challenges, and even violence, that obstetricians face across the world. This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to understand the diverse challenges that obstetricians must overcome.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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eBook available Published June 2023
Obstetricians Speak

On Training, Practice, Fear, and Transformation

Floyd-Davis, R. & Premkumar, A. (eds)

For the first time ever in a social science work, obstetricians tell their own stories of training, practice, fear, and transformation. This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to understand the ideologies and motives of individual obstetricians.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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eBook available Published June 2023
Cognition, Risk, and Responsibility in Obstetrics

Anthropological Analyses and Critiques of Obstetricians’ Practices

Davis-Floyd, R. & Premkumar, A. (eds)

Volume 2 in this landmark 3-volume series on The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians looks at cognition, risk, and responsibility in obstetrics. This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to understand obstetricians' differing ideologies and motives for practicing as they do.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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eBook available Forthcoming October 2025
Iconicity of the Uto-Aztecans

Snake Anthropomorphy in the Great Basin, the American Southwest and Mesoamerica

Mukhopadhyay, T. P. & Garfinkel, A. P.

The attempt to study a snake simulacrum thus constitutes the basic objective of this volume. A long, all-embracing iconicity of snakes and related snake motifs are evident in different cultural expressions ranging from rock art templates to other cultural artifacts like basketry, pottery, temple architecture and sculptural motifs.

Subject: Archaeology
eBook available Published May 2023
Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe

The Social Life of Asia Minor Refugees in Piraeus

Hirschon, R.

Since its first publication in 1989, this classic study has remained in demand. The third edition of Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe includes updated material with a new Preface, Epilogue, and map of the study area.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Forthcoming August 2025
Of Jaguars and Butterflies

Metalogues on Issues in Anthropology and Philosophy

Lloyd, G. & Vilaça, A.

Jointly authored by an anthropologist and a philosopher, this book investigates some of the most puzzling ideas and practices reported in modern ethnography and ancient philosophy concerning topics such as humans, animals, persons, spirits, agency, selfhood, consciousness, nature, life, death, disease and health.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published March 2023
The History of Thyssen

Family, Industry and Culture in the 20th Century

Schulz, G. & Szöllösi-Janze, M.

The History of Thyssenprovides a summary of a research project funded by the Thyssen Foundations. It is both an explanation of how the project was conceptualized and executed and a detailed case study of a family and business during the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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

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eBook available Forthcoming July 2025
In the Meantime

Toward an Anthropology of the Possible

Masquelier, A. & Durham, D. (eds)

The “meantime” represents the gap between what is past and the unknown future. When considered as waiting, the meantime is defined as a period of suspension to be endured. By contrast, the contributors of this volume understand it as a space of “the possible” where calculation coexists with uncertainty, promises with disappointment, and imminence with deferral.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General)
Forthcoming January 2025
Making Multiple Babies

Anticipatory Regimes of Assisted Reproduction

Wu, C.-L.

Human beings have been producing more twins, triplets, and quadruplets than ever before, due to the expansion of medically assisted conception. This book analyzes the anticipatory regimes of making multiple babies. With archival documents, participant observation, in-depth interviews, and registry data, this book traces the global and local governance of the assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) used to tackle multiple pregnancy since the 1970s.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
Forthcoming January 2025
Terrorism and the Pandemic

Weaponizing of COVID-19

Gunaratna, R. & Pethö-Kiss, K.

The global pandemic has offered extraordinary opportunities for extremists and terrorists to mobilize themselves and revive as more powerful actors in the security landscape. But could these threat groups actually capitalize on the coronavirus crisis and advance their malevolent agendas? This book provides, for the first time, a true picture of novel trends since the pandemic outbreak.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology of Religion
Forthcoming February 2025
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)
Forthcoming December 2024
This Land Is Not For Sale

Trust and Transitions in Northern Uganda

Meinert, L. & Reynolds Whyte, S. (eds)

As violent conflict has declined in northern Uganda, tensions and mistrust concerning land have increased. Residents try to deal with acquisitions by investors and exclusions from forests and wildlife reserves. Using extended case studies, collaborating researchers analyze the principles and practices that shape access to land. Contributors examine the multiplicity of land claims, the nature of transactions, and the management of conflicts.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies Sociology
eBook available Forthcoming October 2025
The Politics of Making Kinship

Historical and Anthropological Perspectives

Alber, E. (ed)

Leading us beyond current narratives on the decline of kinship which assume kinship’s existence since the dawn of civilization, The Politics of Making Kinship interrogates kinship’s geneses, constructions, elaborations, implementations, and enforcing agents across a long view of European history, and demonstrates how kinship is woven through modern societies.

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
Forthcoming February 2025
Sentient Ecologies

Xenophobic Imaginaries of Landscape

Coțofană, A. & Kuran, H. (eds)

Employing methodological perspectives from the fields of political geography, environmental studies, anthropology, and their cognate disciplines, this volume explores alternative logics of sentient landscapes as racist, xenophobic, and right-wing.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
eBook available Published August 2024
The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky

Into Germany at the End of World War II

Lerg, C. A. (ed.)

The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky reproduces and critically examines Melvin J. Lasky’s diary, which expounds intense and insightful notes on German realities following the aftermath of World War Two and the ideological conflicts between the East and West.

Subjects: History: World War II History: 20th Century to Present Literary Studies

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eBook available Published October 2022
Enlightening Encounters

The Journeys of an Anthropologist

Gudeman, S.

Drawing on his research in five Latin American countries, Steve Gudeman describes his anthropological fieldwork, bringing to life the excitement of gaining an understanding of the practices and ideas of others as well as the frustrations. He weaves into the text some of his findings as well as reflections on his own background that led to better fieldwork but also led him astray.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published November 2024
Thinking Europe

A History of the European Idea since 1800

Andrén, M.

This title assesses the idea of Europe through its intellectual history. Exploring the concept of integration and the relationship between this and arguments for division and borders it reveals their interplay in the composition of the contemporary European identity.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century
eBook available Published October 2024
Living on a Time Bomb

Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community

Schöneich, S.

Providing a holistic understanding of extensive oil extraction in rural Mexico, this book focuses on a campesino community, where oil extraction is deeply inscribed into the daily lives of the community members. The book shows how oil shapes the space where it is extracted in every aspect and produces multiple uncertainties.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
eBook available Forthcoming March 2025
Dynamics of Identification and Conflict

Anthropological Encounters

Hoehne, M. V., Gabbert, E. C., & Eidson, J. R. (eds)

Dealing with the dynamics of identification and conflict, this book uses theoretical orientations ranging from political ecology to rational choice theory, interpretive approaches, Marxism and multiscalar analysis. Case studies set in Africa, Europe and Central Asia are grouped in three sections devoted to pastoralism, identity and migration.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies
eBook available Published September 2022
An Anthropological Toolkit

Sixty Useful Concepts

Zeitlyn, D.

Presenting 60 theoretical ideas, David Zeitlyn asks, ‘How to write about anthropological theory without making a specific theoretical argument?’ and ‘Is it possible to practice anthropology without arguing for a single specific approach?’ To answer, he gives a series of mini-essays about an eclectic collection of theoretical concepts that over many years he has found helpful.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available 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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eBook available Published November 2024
Critical Public Archaeology

Confronting Social Challenges in the 21st Century

Westmont, V. C. (ed)

Critical approaches to public archaeology have been in use since the 1980s, however only recently have archaeologists begun using critical theory in conjunction with public archaeology to challenge dominant narratives of the past. This volume brings together current work on the theory and practice of critical public archaeology from Europe and the United States to illustrate the ways that implementing critical approaches can introduce new understandings of the past and reveal new insights on the present.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) History (General)

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Published September 2024
Managing Sacralities

Competing and Converging Claims of Religious Heritage

Hemel, E. van den, Salemink†, O., & Stengs, I. (eds)

What happens when religious sites, objects and practices become cultural heritage? Case studies from Denmark, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and the United Kingdom present an analysis of the paradoxes and challenges that arise when religious sites are transformed into heritage.

Subjects: Heritage Studies History (General) Anthropology of Religion
eBook available Forthcoming March 2025
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
Forthcoming December 2024
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
eBook available Forthcoming February 2025
Ethnographies of Deservingness

Unpacking Ideologies of Distribution and Inequality

Tošić, J. & Streinzer, A. (eds)

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

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology
eBook available Published April 2024
Puzzling Stories

The Aesthetic Appeal of Cognitive Challenge in Film, Television and Literature

Willemsen, S. & Kiss, M. (eds)

Many films and novels defy our ability to make sense of the plot. Puzzling Stories offers the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and trans-medial approach to the question of cognitive challenge in narrative art, bringing together psychological, philosophical, formal-historical, and empirical perspectives from leading scholars across these fields.

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

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Published October 2024
The Return of Polyandry

Kinship and Marriage in Central Tibet

Fjeld, H. E.

This book describes the surprising increase in polyandry in Panam valley during the 1980s. It explores married lives in polyandrous houses and develops a theory of a flexible kinship of potentiality through the lens of a farming village in Tibet Autonomous Region.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
Published August 2024
Tangled Mobilities

Places, Affects, and Personhood across Social Spheres in Asian Migration

Fresnoza-Flot, A. & Liu-Farrer, G. (eds)

Increasingly, scholarly works are approaching the challenges of peoples’ spatial movements across state frontiers as tied to various forms of mobilities that people experience. Using a plural and comparative lens with case studies, Tangled Mobilities brings fresh insight to the wider social phenomenon of mobility and the way places, affects, and personhood are shaped by and connected to it.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology
eBook available Published October 2024
Field Manual for the Archaeology of Ritual, Religion, and Magic

Augé , C. R.

By bringing together in one place specific objects, materials, and features indicating ritual, religious, or magical belief used by people around the world and through time, this tool will assist archaeologists in identifying evidence of belief-related behaviors and broadening their understanding of how those behaviors may also be seen through less obvious evidential lines.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Published November 2024
Where is the Good in the World?

Ethical Life between Social Theory and Philosophy

Henig, D., Strhan, A., & Robbins, J. (eds)

Bringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic case studies from diverse settings, this volume explores how different disciplinary perspectives on the good might engage with and enrich each other. This is the first interdisciplinary engagement with what it means to study the good as a fundamental aspect of social life.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Forthcoming July 2025
Chinese Medicine in East Africa

An Intimacy with Strangers

Hsu, E.

Based on fieldwork conducted between 2001-2008 in urban East Africa, this book explores who the patients, practitioners and paraprofessionals doing Chinese medicine were in this early period of renewed China-Africa relations.

Subject: Medical Anthropology
Published August 2024
Making Things Happen

Community Participation and Disaster Reconstruction in Pakistan

Murphy Thomas, J.

Making Things Happen is about the sociocultural side of post-disaster infrastructure reconstruction, drawing on one project, the Pakistan Earthquake Reconstruction and Recovery Project (PERRP). As disasters are increasing in number and intensity so too will be the need for reconstruction, for which PERRP has lessons to offer.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Development Studies
eBook available Published July 2022
Working With Diagrams

Engelmann, L., Humphrey, C. & Lynteris, C.

Arising from the need to go beyond the semiotic, cognitive, epistemic and symbolic reading of diagrams, this book looks at what diagrams are capable of in scholarly work. Rather than attempting to define what diagrams are, and what their dietic capacity might be, contributions to this volume draw together the work diagrams do in the development of theories.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published September 2024
Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline

Lewis, B.

Re-evaluating the evolution Oswald Spengler’s political activities and his work, Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline explains the outcome of Spengler’s meta-historical considerations on world history and the practical demands of Realpolitik. This volume takes a novel approach to one of the most important thinkers of the Weimar Republic and his contributions to the complex discourse of German national renewal.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published February 2024
Ethnographers Before Malinowski

Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922

Rosa, F. & Vermeulen, H. F. (eds)

At a time when anthropologists claim new ethnographic experiences, a second chance should be given to older ethnographic texts. Recovering monographs produced c.1870-1922 that dispute canonic models of writing culture, the present volume challenges the assumption that fieldwork carried out within a single context by a single individual, with its corresponding output, the monograph, was a twentieth-century invention.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Colonial History

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eBook available Published June 2022
Shakespeare and the First Hamlet

Bourus, T. (ed)

The first edition of Hamlet – often called ‘Q1’, shorthand for ‘first quarto’ – was published in 1603. The essays in this collected volume explore the ways in which we might approach Q1’s Hamlet, from performance to book history, from Shakespeare’s relationships with this contemporaries to the shape of his whole career.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

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eBook available Published April 2024
Wine Is Our Bread

Labour and Value in Moldovan Winemaking

Ana, D.

Based on ethnographic work in a Moldovan winemaking village, Wine Is Our Bread shows how workers in a prestigious winery have experienced the country’s recent entry into the globalized wine market and how their productive activities at home and in the winery contribute to the value of commercial terroir wines.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published January 2024
Making Better Lives

Hope, Freedom and Home-Making among People Sleeping Rough in Paris

Lenhard, J.

In this ethnographic study, Johannes Lenhard observes the daily practices, routines and techniques of people who are sleeping rough on the streets of Paris. The book focusses on their survival practises, their short-term desires and hopes, how they earn money through begging, how they choose the best place to sleep at night and what role drugs and alcohol play in their lives.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Urban Studies

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eBook available Published May 2022
Theorizing Relations in Indigenous South America

González Gálvez, M., Di Giminiani, P., & Bacchiddu, G. (eds)

Whether invented, discovered, implicit, or directly addressed, relations remain the main focus of most anthropological inquiries. These relations, once conceptualized in ethnographic fieldwork as self-evident connections between discrete social units, have been increasingly explored through local ontological theories. This collected volume explores how ethnographies of indigenous South America have helped to inspire this analytic shift.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published January 2024
Profiles of Anthropological Praxis

An International Casebook

Redding, T. M. & Cheney, C. C. (eds)

The book Profiles of Anthropological Praxis is something of a sequel to Anthropological Praxis: Translating Knowledge into Action, published in 1987 (Westview Press). As a casebook of anthropological projects, the new version shares a fascinating breadth of award-winning projects undertaken by applied anthropologists to address the needs of an array of stakeholders and situations.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Forthcoming February 2025
Soho on Screen

Cinematic Spaces of Bohemia and Cosmopolitanism, 1948-1963

Young, J.

Soho on Screenprovides the first history of London’s commercial and cultural center, Soho, in British cinema. It highlights forgotten British films, filmmakers, and stars in detail and introduces thoroughly researched studies that highlight not only the cultural importance of Soho as a locus for cinema but also the impact of gentrification on the cultural and social development of Soho today.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies
Published July 2024
Grazing Communities

Pastoralism on the Move and Biocultural Heritage Frictions

Bindi, L. (ed)

The present critical discourse on sustainable and responsible development implies a change of practices, a huge socio-economic transformation, and the return of new shepherds and herders in different European regions. This book is an occasion to reconsider grazing communities’ frictions in the new global heritage scenario.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Development Studies
eBook available Published August 2024
Hotbeds of Licentiousness

The British Glamour Film and the Permissive Society

Halligan, B.

By focusing on a series of colorful filmmakers whose work, while omnipresent during the 1970s, now remains critically ignored, Hotbeds of Licentiousness explores pornography as a lens through which to view radical changes in British society.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published May 2022
The Walls of Santiago

Social Revolution and Political Aesthetics in Contemporary Chile

Gordon-Zolov, T. & Zolov, E.

The response in Chile to Santiago’s metro’s fare hike in October of 2019 has grown into a strong and multi-faceted resistance movement. Through incisive and topical analysis, the authors offer a beautiful catalog of photographs of the murals, graffiti, and other forms of political art, reflecting on these aesthetic traditions and their relationship to the broader context of global protest movements and the long shadow cast by memories of the Pinochet regime.

Subjects: Media Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Published March 2024
Environing Empire

Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa

Kalb, M.

Between the infamous Benguela Current and the Namib Desert, nature significantly effected the progression of German imperialism and the creation of German Southwest Africa. Environing Empire reveals the environmental infrastructures that defined not only the culture of German colonial entanglements, but the fantasy that drove Lebensraum during the Second Reich.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)
eBook available Published July 2024
Arctic Abstractive Industry

Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North

Mason, A. (ed)

Examining the processes at work in sites of industrial extraction and ecological vulnerability in the contemporary Arctic, this book looks at the displacements that conceal exploitation, on the one hand, and appropriations of value on the other.

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

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eBook available Forthcoming May 2025
Fire on the Island

Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu

Bratrud, T.

In 2014, the island of Ahamb in Vanuatu became the scene of a startling Christian revival movement led by thirty children with ‘spiritual vision’. Based on twenty months of ethnographic fieldwork on Ahamb between 2010 and 2017, this book investigates how upheavals like the Ahamb revival can emerge to address and sometimes resolve social problems.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published June 2024
The Precarity of Masculinity

Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon

Kovač, U.

This book follows young Cameroonian men who aspire to migrate abroad and play football for a living while analyzing masculinities in West Africa. The book argues that the athletic aspirations of young Cameroonians and their propensity to consult with Pentecostal Men of God offer new insights about the nature of social mobility in the neoliberal age.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Published March 2022
Indigenous Resurgence

Decolonialization and Movements for Environmental Justice

Dhillon, J.

Indigenous peoples around the world are standing up and speaking out against global capitalism to protect the land, water, and air. By placing Indigenous politics, histories, and ontologies at the center of our social movements for environmental justice, Indigenous Resurgence positions environmental justice within historical, social, political, and economic contexts.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology Colonial History
Published September 2024
Engaging Environments in Tonga

Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Relations in a Changing World

Perminow, A. A.

On March 11, 2011, a tsunami warning was issued for Tonga in Polynesia. On the low and small island of Kotu, people were unperturbed in the face of pending catastrophe. The book is an ethnography of the relationship between people and their environment based on fieldwork over three decades.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies
eBook available Forthcoming June 2025
Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined

A European History of Concepts Beyond the Nation State

Ihalainen, P. & Holmila, A. (eds)

Understanding the dynamics between nationalisms and internationalisms allows evaluating ongoing processes and intervening in current debates. Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined, uses a multidisciplinary approach to a long term and macro-level history of international projects since the eighteenth century to assess how spaces of politics have been debated and redefined in different European political cultures.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century
eBook available Published March 2022
Self in the World

Connecting Life's Extremes

Hart, K.

The eminent anthropologist Keith Hart reflects on a life of learning, sharing and remembering to offer readers the means of connecting life’s extremes – individual and society, local and global, personal and impersonal dimensions of existence and explores what it is that makes us fully human.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Published July 2024
Animals, Plants and Afterimages

The Art and Science of Representing Extinction

Bienvenue, V. & Chare, N. (eds)

From quaggas to thylacine to dinosaurs, Animals, Plants and Afterimages brings together leading scholars in the humanities and life sciences to explore how extinct species are represented in media, art, literature and elsewhere, crossing academic boundaries to explore how portrayals of disappeared species embody cultural assumptions.

Subjects: Media Studies Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available Forthcoming December 2024
The Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance

Analyzing Political Street Art in Latin America

Bogerts, L.

Through illuminating case studies of street art in Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Caracas, and Mexico City, The Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance explores the visual strategies of persuasion and meaning-making employed by both rulers and resisters to foster self-legitimization, identification, and mobilization.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Urban Studies Cultural Studies (General)
Published February 2022
Afropolitan Horizons

Essays toward a Literary Anthropology of Nigeria

Hannerz, U.

Nigeria is a country shaped by internal diversity and transnational connections, past and present. Leading Nigerian writers from Chinua Achebe, Amos Tutuola and Wole Soyinka to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Teju Cole have portrayed these Nigerian Issues, and have also written about some of the momentous events in Nigerian history. Afropolitan Horizons discusses their work alongside other novelists and commentators.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Literary Studies Anthropology of Religion
Published February 2022
Cooling Down

Local Responses to Global Climate Change

Hoffman, S. M., Eriksen, T. H., & Mendes, P. (eds)

Climate change is a slowly advancing crisis sweeping over the planet and affecting different habitats in strikingly diverse ways. While nations have signed treaties and implemented policies, most actual climate change assessments, adaptations, and countermeasures take place at the local level. This book portrays the diversity of explanations and remedies as expressed at the community level.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Urban Studies
eBook available Published November 2024
Configuring Contagion

Ethnographies of Biosocial Epidemics

Meinert, L. & Seeberg, J. (eds)

Expanding our understanding of contagion further than typical notions of infection and pandemics, this book widens the field to include biosocial epidemics. The chapters propose varied and detailed answers to questions about the epidemic and contagious potential of specific infections and non-infectious conditions.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

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Published June 2024
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
Published June 2024
Opening Up the University

Teaching and Learning with Refugees

Cantat, C., Cook, I., & Rajaram, P. K. (eds)

Including contributions from educators, administrators, practitioners, and students, Opening Up the University addresses specific points relating to the access and success of refugees in higher education. This expansive collected volume aims to inspire and question those who are considering creating their own interventions, suggesting concrete avenues for further action within existing academic structures.

Subjects: Educational Studies Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology
Published April 2024
Times of History, Times of Nature

Temporalization and the Limits of Modern Knowledge

Ekstrom, A. & Bergwik, S. (eds)

Times of History, Times of Nature engages with this historical shift in temporal sensibilities through a combination of detailed case studies and synthesizing efforts. Focusing on the history of knowledge, media theory, and environmental humanities, this volume explores the rich and nuanced notions of time and temporality that have emerged in response to climate change.

Subjects: History (General) Environmental Studies (General) Media Studies
eBook available Published June 2024
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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eBook available Published June 2023
An American Icon in Puerto Rico

Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play

Aguiló-Pérez, E. R.

Since her creation in 1959, Barbie has become an icon of femininity to girls all over the world. In this monograph, author Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez explores the ways through which women and girls in Puerto Rico construct their own identities in relation to femininity, body image, race, and nationalism through Barbie play.

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

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eBook available Forthcoming April 2025
The Vienna Gestapo, 1938-1945

Crimes, Perpetrators, Victims

Boeckl-Klamper, E., Mang, T., & Neugebauer, W.

The Vienna Gestapo was the most important instrument of Nazi terror on Austrian soil. Through expert historical analysis of the Vienna Gestapo in the years 1938-1945, this volume provides a comprehensive presentation of not only the victims of persecution but also of the structures, organization and individuals actively involved on the Gestapo side.

Subjects: History: World War II Jewish Studies
eBook available Forthcoming February 2025
Migration in the Making of the Gulf Space

Social, Political, and Cultural Dimensions

Bouzas, A. M. & Casini, L. (eds)

Combining visual and literary analyses and original ethnographic studies as part of a more general political reflection, Migration in the Making of Gulf Space examines the role of migrants and non-citizens in the processes of settling in the Arab States of the Gulf region.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available Published January 2022
Françoise Héritier

Gaillard, G.

A great intellectual figure, Françoise Héritier succeeded Claude Lévi-Strauss as the Chair of Anthropology at the Collège de France in 1982. She was both an Africanist, author of magnificent works on the Samo population, the scientific progenitor of kinship studies, the creator of a theoretical base to feminist thought and an activist for many causes.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published September 2024
We are All Africans Here

Race, Mobilities and West Africans in Europe

Loftsdóttir, K.

This book looks critically at racialization of mobility in Europe, anchoring the discussion in the aspiration of precarious migrants from Niger in Belgium and Italy. The book contextualizes their experiences within the ongoing securitization of mobility in their home country and the persistent denial of racism and colonialism that seeks to portray the innocence of Europe.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published December 2021
Extremism, Society, and the State

Loperfido, G. (ed)

This collected volume brings together leading anthropologists and cultural analysts to offer a concise look at the narratives, symbolic, and metaphoric fields related to extremism, systemitizing an approach to contemporary extremism by placing these idealogies into historical, political, and geo-systemic contexts.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available Published November 2021
The Paradoxical Republic

Austria 1945–2020

Rathkolb, O.

Written by one of the nation’s leading historians, this account of postwar Austria explores the tensions that have defined it for over seven decades. This newly revised edition also addresses the major developments since 2005, including a resurgent far right, economic instability, and the potential fracturing of the European Union.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published November 2021
Medieval Intersections

Gender and Status in Europe in the Middle Ages

Weikert, K. & Woodacre, E. (eds)

With contributions on topics ranging from medieval gynecology to clerical masculinity, this interdisciplinary collection highlights the various ways “status” can be interpreted relative to gender, and what these two interlocked concepts can reveal about the construction of gendered identities in the Middle Ages.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: Medieval/Early Modern

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eBook available Published April 2024
The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work

Craftwork in Twenty-First Century England

Marchand, T. H. J.

Against the backdrop of an alienating, technologizing and ever-accelerating world of material production, this book tells an intimate story: one about a community of woodworkers training at an historic institution in London’s East End during the present ‘renaissance of craftsmanship’.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published May 2024
Dressing Up

Menswear in the Age of Social Media

Bluteau, J. M.

What does men’s fashion say about contemporary masculinity? How do these notions operate in an increasingly digitized world? To answer these questions, author Joshua M. Bluteau combines theoretical analysis with vibrant narrative, exploring men’s fashion in the online world of social media as well as the offline worlds of retail, production, and the catwalk.

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

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eBook available Forthcoming October 2025
Defeating Impunity

Attempts at International Justice in Europe since 1914

Rovetta, O. & Lagrou, P. (eds)

Over the course of the long and violent twentieth century, only a minority of the perpetrators of international crimes ever stood trial. In analyzing and documenting the challenge addressing that status of international justice and its realization, this collection uses an international perspective to take the reader through both little known and prominent trials.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History
eBook available Forthcoming January 2025
Carnivalizing Reconciliation

Contemporary Australian and Canadian Literature and Film beyond the Victim Paradigm

Teichler, H.

This book analyzes, within the realms of national literature and film, recent Australian and Canadian attempts to reconcile with Indigenous populations in the wake of forced child removal. As Hanna Teichler demonstrates, their systematic emphasis on the subjectivity of the victim is carnivalesque, temporarily overturning discursive hierarchies.

Subjects: Memory Studies Literary Studies Film and Television Studies
eBook available Published July 2023
Outsiders

Memories of Migration to and from North Korea

Bell, M.

In this timely and insightful new book, Markus Bell presents the case study of Korean-Japanese – “Zainichi” – who have escaped North Korea in the years following the end of the Cold War. Through building alliances and long-distance relationships, Zainichi returnees resist forced integration and push back against life-threatening political purges to forge new ways of belonging.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published October 2023
Heritage under Socialism

Preservation in Eastern and Central Europe, 1945–1991

Gantner, E. B., Geering, C., & Vickers, P. (ed)

Heritage under Socialism enriches the conceptual, methodological and empirical scope of heritage studies. Its transnational approach highlights the socialist world’s diverse interpretations of heritage and its trajectories in post-socialist preservation practices, thus providing new perspectives on the way heritage has been shaped in the recent past.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Heritage Studies Memory Studies

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eBook available Published October 2021
One More for the Road

A Director’s Notes on Exile, Family, and Film

Grlić, R.

One More for the Road recounts the life and career of Croatian filmmaker Rajko Grlić in the form of a film dictionary, tying cinematic terms to anecdotes spanning Grlić’s life. With a scholarly introduction by Aida Vidan, these personal stories combine to provide insight into the socialist film industries and south Slavic film.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Published December 2023
Transcending the Nostalgic

Landscapes of Postindustrial Europe beyond Representation

Jaramillo, G. S. & Tomann, J. (eds)

This collection explores the affective and “more-than-representational” dimensions of post-industrial landscapes, analyzing narratives, practices, social formations, and other phenomena. Focusing on case studies from across Europe, it examines both the objective and the subjective aspects of societies that produce fewer things and employ fewer workers.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Heritage Studies
eBook available Published April 2024
Collaborative Happiness

Building the Good Life in Urban Cohousing Communities

Kingfisher, C.

Collaborative Happiness looks at two urban cohousing communities: Kankanmori, in Tokyo; and Quayside Village, in Vancouver. In expanding beyond mainstream approaches to happiness focused exclusively on the individual, Quayside Village and Kankanmori provide an alternative model for how to understand and practice the good life in an increasingly urbanized world marked by crisis of both social and environmental sustainability.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Urban Studies Sociology

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Published February 2024
The Anthroposcene of Weather and Climate

Ethnographic Contributions to the Climate Change Debate

Sillitoe, P. (ed)

While it is widely acknowledged that climate change is among the greatest global challenges of our times, it has local implications too. This volume forefronts these, giving anthropology a voice in this great debate, which natural scientists and policy makers have dominated thus far.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Urban Studies
eBook available Published April 2024
Transforming Author Museums

From Sites of Pilgrimage to Cultural Hubs

Spring, U., Schimanski, J., & Aarbakke, T. (eds)

Literary museums today must respond to new challenges; the traditional image of the author’s home museum as a sacred place of literary pilgrimage centered around a national hero has been questioned, and literary museums have begun to develop new strategies. The book addresses how literary museums have changed since the form was established, what challenges they face today and how we might imagine them in the future.

Subjects: Museum Studies Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

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Published September 2023
Moral Economy at Work

Ethnographic Investigations in Eurasia

Yalçın-Heckmann, L. (ed)

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

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
eBook available Published October 2021
Guido Goldman

Transatlantic Bridge Builder

Klingst, M.

Guido Goldman was one of the most distinguished protagonists of the reintegration of Germany into the international community after the defeat of Nazism in 1945. This biography looks at his remarkable life from his establishment of the German Marshall Fund to establishing the Center for European Studies at Harvard University.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

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eBook available Published September 2021
Hope and Insufficiency

Capacity Building in Ethnographic Comparison

Douglas-Jones, R. & Shaffner, J. (eds)

Hope and Insufficiency seeks to question the histories, assumptions, intentions, and enactments that has led to the ubiquity of capacity building as an anthropological concept, thereby developing a much-needed critical purchase on its persuasive power.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published June 2024
Israel-Palestine

Lands and Peoples

Bartov, O. (ed)

The conflict between Israel and Palestine has raised a plethora of unanswered questions, generated seemingly unreconcilable narratives, and profoundly transformed the land’s physical and political geography. This volume seeks to provide a deeper understanding of the links between the region that is now known as Israel and Palestine and its peoples—both those that live there as well as those who relate to it as a mental, mythical, or religious landscape.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published November 2023
How is a Man Supposed to be a Man?

Male Childlessness – a Life Course Disrupted

Hadley, R. A.

The global trend of declining fertility rates and an increasingly ageing population has serious implications for individuals and institutions alike. Childless men are mostly excluded from ageing, social science and reproduction scholarship and almost completely absent from most national statistics. This book examines the lived experiences of a hidden and disenfranchised population: men who wanted to be fathers.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

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Published January 2024
Digital Archives and Collections

Creating Online Access to Cultural Heritage

Müller, K.

Museums and archives all over the world digitize their collections and provide online access to heritage material. But what factors determine the content, structure and use of these online inventories? This book turns to India and Europe to answer this question. It explains how museums and archives envision, decide and conduct digitization and online dissemination.

Subjects: Museum Studies Media Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published December 2023
The Greek Military Dictatorship

Revisiting a Troubled Past, 1967–1974

Anastasakis, O. & Lagos, K. (eds)

From 1967 to 1974, the military junta ruling Greece attempted a dramatic reshaping of the nation, implementing ideas and policies that, for better or for worse, left an indelible mark on both domestic affairs and international relations. Bringing together leading scholars from a range of disciplines, The Greek Military Dictatorship provides a fresh and nuanced reassessment of this era.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published February 2024
Traumatic Pasts in Asia

History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present

Micale, M. S. & Pols, H. (eds)

Traumatic Pasts in Asia extends Euro-American paradigms of traumatic experience to new sites of world-historical suffering and, in the process, explores how these new terrains of investigation inform and enrich earlier understandings.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies Medical Anthropology

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eBook available Published September 2023
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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eBook available Published March 2023
Vertiginous Life

An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen

Knight, D. M.

Through individual stories from crisis Greece, this book explores the everyday effects of vertigo: nausea, dizziness, breathlessness, the sense of falling, and unknowingness of Self. Being lost in time, caught in the spin-cycle of crisis, people reflect on belonging to modern Europe, neoliberal promises of accumulation, defeated futures, and the existential dilemmas of life held captive.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published May 2024
Latin America and Refugee Protection

Regimes, Logics, and Challenges

Jubilut, L. L., Vera Espinoza, M., & Mezzanotti, G. (eds)

Looking at refugee protection in Latin America, this landmark edited collection assesses what the region has achieved in recent years. The book analyses Latin America’s main documents in refugee protection, evaluates the particular aspects of different regimes, and reviews their emergence, development and effect, to develop understanding of refugee protection in the region.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published August 2021
Contemporary Megaprojects

Organization, Vision, and Resistance in the 21st Century

Schindler, S., Fadaere, S., Brockington, D. (eds)

Contemporary “megaprojects” have evolved from the centralized, modernist projects undertaken in the past. With case studies ranging from mega-plantations in Southeast Asia to sports events, Contemporary Megaprojects explores the increasing ambition and pervasiveness of these projects, as well as their significant impact on both society and the environment.

Subjects: Development Studies Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Forthcoming February 2025
The Russian Cold

Histories of Ice, Frost, and Snow

Herzberg, J., Renner, A., & Schierle, I. (eds)

Cold has long been a fixture of Russian identity both within and beyond the nation, even as the ongoing effects of climate change complicate its meaning and cultural salience. The Russian Cold assembles fascinating new contributions from a variety of scholarly traditions, offering new perspectives on how to understand this mainstay of Russian culture and history.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)
eBook available Forthcoming December 2024
Stories from an Ancient Land

Perspectives on Wa History and Culture

Fiskesjö, M.

The Wa people have a rich civilization of their own and a deep history in the mountains of Southeast Asia. This book introduces aspects of Wa culture, including their approach to the world’s troubles, and the lessons others might learn from it.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available Published March 2024
Constructing Risk

Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment

Bender, S. O.

Reviewing current policies and practices, the book assesses the financial, economic and physical risk of building in hazardous areas, and looks at how societies are trying to create a more resilient built environment in spite of the dangers.

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

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eBook available Published August 2021
William Robertson Smith

Bošković, A.

William Robertson Smith’s influence on anthropology ranged from his relationship with John Ferguson McLennan, to advising James George Frazer to write about “Totem” and “Taboo” for the Encyclopaedia Britannica that he edited. This biography places a special emphasis on the notes and observations from his travels to Arabia, as well as on his influence on the representatives of the “Myth and Ritual School.”

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published July 2021
Matsutake Worlds

Faier, L. & Hathaway, M. J. (eds)

Matsutake Worlds explores matsutake mushrooms through the lens of multispecies encounters, to explore the mushroom’s success on the world stage. This success cannot be accounted for by any one cultural or economic process—rather, the matsutake has flourished due to many different processes, culminating in the culinary institution we know today.

Subjects: Sociology Food & Nutrition

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eBook available Published June 2023
Explorations in Economic Anthropology

Key Issues and Critical Reflections

Kaneff, D. & Endres, K. W. (eds)

At a time of rising global economic precarity and social inequality, the field of economic anthropology offers solutions through the study of local and contextualized economic practices. This book is made up of an exciting collection of succinct essays authored by leading scholars primarily from the field of economic anthropology.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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Published May 2023
After Corporate Paternalism

Material Renovation and Social Change in Times of Ruination

Straube, C.

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Sociology
eBook available Published July 2021
Margaret Mead

Shankman, P.

Tracing Mead’s career as an ethnographer, as the early voice of public anthropology, and as a public figure, this elegantly written biography links the professional and personal sides of her career. This short volume is an ideal starting point for anyone wanting to learn about, arguably, the most famous anthropologist of the twentieth century.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published June 2021
All Tomorrow's Cultures

Anthropological Engagements with the Future

Collins, S. G.

The first edition of All Tomorrow’s Cultures explored the legacy of futures-thinking in anthropology and marked the beginning of a resurgence of interest in anthropological futures. The new edition has been updated to reflect some of the outpouring of work since then, particularly in science and technology studies and in anthropological analyses of indigenous futures.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published June 2021
The Age of Capitalism and Bureaucracy

Perspectives on the Political Sociology of Max Weber

Mommsen, W. J.

In this new edition of Wolfgang Mommsen’s illuminating study, Max Weber is presented in terms of the major questions that preoccupied him as one of the towering social scientists of his time, with insights that are persistently relevant as we deal with the structures and dynamics of modern industrial societies.

Subjects: Sociology History: 20th Century to Present

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Published July 2023
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)
eBook available Published May 2024
Evil Eye in Christian Orthodox Society

A Journey from Envy to Personhood

Souvlakis, N.

Evil eye is a phenomenon observed globally and has to do with the misfortune and calamities that we can cause to someone else out of jealousy of their possessions. The book engages with evil eye beliefs in Corfu and investigates the Christian Orthodox influences on the phenomenon and how it affects individuals’ reactions to it.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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Published May 2023
Delta Life

Exploring Dynamic Environments where Rivers Meet the Sea

Krause, F. & Harris, M. (eds)

Proposing a series of innovative steps towards better understanding human lives at the interstices of water and land, this volume includes eight ethnographies from deltas around the world. The book presents ‘delta life’ with intimate descriptions of the predicaments, imaginations and activities of delta inhabitants.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available Published February 2024
The Moral Work of Anthropology

Ethnographic Studies of Anthropologists at Work

Mogensen, H. & Hansen, B. G. (eds)

Looking at anthropologists at work, this book investigates what kind of morality they perform in their occupations and the impact of this morality. The book includes ethnographic studies of anthropologists at work in four professional arenas: health care, business, management and interdisciplinary research.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Applied Anthropology

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eBook available Published December 2023
In Memory of Times to Come

Ironies of History in Southeastern Papua New Guinea

Demian, M.

Drawing on twenty years of research, this book examines the historical perspective of a Pacific people who saw “globalization” come and go. It asks the question: What does it mean to claim that global connections are in the past rather than the present or the future?

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

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eBook available Published June 2023
Sovereign Forces

Everyday Challenges to Environmental Governance in Latin America

McNeish, J.-A.

Sovereignty is a significant force regarding the ownership, use, protection and management of natural resources. By placing an emphasis on the complex intertwined relationship between natural resources and diverse claims to resource sovereignty, this book reveals the backstory of contemporary resource contestations in Latin America and their positioning within a more extensive history of extraction in the region.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies

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eBook available Forthcoming April 2025
German Rule, African Subjects

State Aspirations and the Reality of Power in Colonial Namibia

Zimmerer, J.

This classic study, now available for the first time in English, explains how German colonial ambitions foundered in present-day Namibia. As it shows, the highly rationalized planning of Wilhelmine authorities could not accommodate the practical, lived realities of both colonizer and colonized.

Subjects: Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available Published December 2023
Do Not Forget Me

Three Jewish Mothers Write to Their Sons from the Thessaloniki Ghetto

Saltiel, L. (ed)

Following the Axis invasion of Greece, the Nazis began persecuting the country’s Jews as they had across occupied Europe, beginning with small indignities and culminating in mass imprisonment and deportations. Among the many Jews confined to the Thessaloniki ghetto during this period were Sarina Saltiel, Mathilde Barouh, and Neama Cazes—three women bound for Auschwitz who spent the weeks before their deportation writing to their sons.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War II Genocide History

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eBook available Published June 2021
Emotions, Ethics, and Cinematic Experience

New Phenomenological and Cognitivist Perspectives

Sinnerbrink, R. (ed)

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

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies Sociology

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eBook available Published October 2024
Echoes of Surrealism

Challenging Socialist Realism in East German Literature, 1945–1990

Berendse, G.-J.

Echoes of Surrealism surveys areas of surrealist art throughout the entire lifespan of the GDR and explores analyses of the interaction and reciprocal influences of various art forms. Focusing on individual authors, visual artists, film directors and musicians who have taken a surrealist perspective in their work, this study reveals how the surrealist perspective offered an alternative to the rigid government cultural policies by questioning and confronting the status quo.

Subjects: Literary Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published May 2021
When They Came for Me

The Hidden Diary of an Apartheid Prisoner

Schlapobersky, J. R.

Whilst a student in South Africa, John Schlapobersky was arrested for opposing apartheid and tortured, detained and deported. In this volume, apartheid and its resistance come to life in personal stories that make this a vital historical document - one of its time and one for our own.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published May 2024
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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eBook available Forthcoming December 2024
Analysing Historical Narratives

On Academic, Popular and Educational Framings of the Past

Berger, S., Brauch, N., & Lorenz, C. (eds)

From ancient Greece to modern-day bestsellers, the studies gathered in Analysing Historical Narratives offer a wide-ranging look at the techniques used by historical texts, showing how in spite of the pursuit of objectivity, narrative strategies inevitably derive from historians’ contemporary concerns.

Subject: History (General)
eBook available Published July 2024
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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eBook available Published March 2024
Ethnography in the Raw

Life in a Luzon Village

Moeran, B.

Ethnography in the Raw describes the author’s encounters with a Philippine family into which he has married, his wife’s friends and acquaintances, and their lives in a remote rural village in the rice basin of Luzon, about 130 miles north east of Manila. It is both anthropological fieldwork ‘in the raw,’ and an incisive analysis of contemporary Philippine society and culture.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published January 2024
East German Film and the Holocaust

Ward, E.

By combining close analyses of five films made between 1947 and 1988 with extensive archival research, this book unravels the complex status of films dealing with Jewish persecution produced in a country that consistently privileged narratives of political persecution above racial victimhood.

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

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Published June 2023
Ethnographies of Power

A Political Anthropology of Energy

Loloum, T., Abram, S., & Ortar, N. (eds)

Energetic infrastructures are crucial to political organization. They shape the contours of states and international bodies, as well as corporations and communities, framing their material existence and their fears and idealisations of the future. Ethnographies of Power brings together ethnographic studies of contemporary entanglements of energy and political power.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Environmental Studies (General)
eBook available Published February 2024
The Herero Genocide

War, Emotion, and Extreme Violence in Colonial Namibia

Häussler, M.

Drawing on previously inaccessible and overlooked archival sources, The Herero Genocide undertakes a groundbreaking investigation into the war between colonizer and colonized in what was formerly German South West Africa and is today the nation of Namibia. The result is an indispensable account of a genocide that has been neglected for too long.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History

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eBook available Forthcoming July 2025
Exchanging Objects

Nineteenth-Century Museum Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution

Nichols, C. A.

As an historical account of the exchange of “duplicate specimens” between anthropologists at the Smithsonian Institution and museums, collectors, and schools around the world in the late nineteenth century, this book reveals connections between both well-known museums and little-known local institutions, created through the exchange of museum objects. It explores how anthropologists categorized some objects in their collections as “duplicate specimens,” making them potential candidates for exchange.

Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available Published March 2021
On the Death of Jews

Photographs and History

Fresco, N.

In this trenchant meditation on photographs from an atrocity in Latvia during the Holocaust, Nadine Fresco argues for the vital importance of photographs—and nontraditional sources more broadly—for understanding the Holocaust. She confronts charged questions around guilt and testimony while teasing out the subtle implications of camera angles, photo sequencing, and body language, helping us to see anew the perspectives of victims, perpetrators, and others who witnessed the brutality of the Holocaust.

Subjects: Genocide History Media Studies Jewish Studies

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eBook available Published January 2024
Perspectives in Motion

Engaging the Visual in Dance and Music

Stepputat, K & Diettrich, B. (eds)

Through a diverse range of case studies from Oceania, Asia, and Europe, and interdisciplinary approaches, Perspectives in Motion explores visual approaches to performance in global cultural contexts, offering new critical and ethnographic frameworks for understanding and experiencing practices of music and dance across the globe.

Subjects: Performance Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Published August 2023
Peripheries at the Centre

Borderland Schooling in Interwar Europe

Venken, M.

Peripheries at the Centre reveals how Prussia, and later the German Empire, used educational policy to promote national identity along its geographical margins. It shows how policymakers sought to cultivate ideal German students who, it was hoped, would help to usher in a new, peaceful era in European history while reinforcing their status as German citizens.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Educational Studies
eBook available Published March 2021
Jewish Self-Hate

Lessing, T.

This new edition makes Theodor Lessing’s seminal work Der Jüdische Selbsthaß accessible to English readers for the first time, supplemented with explanatory footnotes by translator Peter Appelbaum and illustrative essays by historian Sander L. Gilman and German scholar Paul Reitter.

Subject: Jewish Studies

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eBook available Published April 2023
The Best We Share

Nation, Culture and World-Making in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena

Brumann, C.

As the most ambitious study of the World Heritage arena so far, this volume dissects the inner workings of a prominent global body, demonstrating the power of ethnography in the highly formalised and diplomatic context of a multilateral organisation.

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

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eBook available Forthcoming February 2025
Agent of Change

The Deposition and Manipulation of Ash in the Past

Roth, B. J. & Adams, E. C. (eds)

Drawn from across the U.S. and Mesoamerica, the chapters in this volume explore the use, meanings, and cross-cultural patterns present in the use of ash. and highlight the importance of ash in ritual closure, social memory, and cultural transformation.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
eBook available Published March 2024
A Taste for Oppression

A Political Ethnography of Everyday Life in Belarus

Hervouet, R.

Belarus has emerged from communism in a unique manner. The author, who has lived in Belarus for several years, highlights several mechanisms of tyranny, beyond the regime’s ability to control and repress, which should not be underestimated. The book sheds light on the reasons why part of the population supports Alexander Lukashenko and takes a fresh look at the functioning of what has been called 'the last dictatorship in Europe'.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published March 2021
Deconstructing Dolls

Girlhoods and the Meanings of Play

Forman-Brunell, M. (ed)

Deconstructing Dolls explores the role of dolls in girlhood and young womanhood, seeking to understand the historical and contemporary significance of dolls particularly as they relate social meanings in the lives of girls.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published February 2024
South Africa's Dreams

Ethnologists and Apartheid in Namibia

Gordon, R. J.

In the early sixties, many South African anthropologists supported ‘Grand Apartheid’ in Namibia. South Africa’s colonial policies in the country served as a testing ground for many key features of its repressive infrastructure, and strategies for countering anti-apartheid resistance. The book also analyses how the knowledge used to justify and implement apartheid was created.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Peace and Conflict Studies

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eBook available Published November 2024
Political Graffiti in Critical Times

The Aesthetics of Street Politics

Campos, R., Pavoni, A., & Zaimakis, Y. (eds)

With a particular eye to the demographic, ecological, and economic crises of today, this volume provides a wide-ranging exploration of urban space and visual protest during periods of social and political upheaval. Assembling case studies that cover topics such as gentrification in Cyprus and the convulsions of post-independence East Timor, it reveals the ways in which street artists challenge existing social orders and reimagine urban landscapes.

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

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eBook available Published August 2024
Nordic War Stories

World War II as History, Fiction, Media, and Memory

Stecher-Hansen, M. (ed)

Nordic War Stories explores the commonalities and divergences among the five Nordic countries, examining formal and informal national historiographies alongside representations of the second world war in canonical literary works, memoirs, and films. Together, they comprise a valuable companion that challenges the myth of Scandinavian homogeneity while demonstrating the powerful influence that the war continues to exert on national self-conceptions.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies

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eBook available Published July 2024
Four-Color Communism

Comic Books and Contested Power in the German Democratic Republic

Eedy, S.

As with all other forms of popular culture, comics in East Germany were tightly controlled by the state. Comics were employed as extensions of the regime’s educational system, delivering state ideology to develop the socialist personality among youth. The East German children who avidly read these comics, however, found their own meanings and projected their own desires in them.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies

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eBook available Published November 2024
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

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eBook available Published October 2023
Lands of the Future

Anthropological Perspectives on Pastoralism, Land Deals and Tropes of Modernity in Eastern Africa

Gabbert, E. C., Gebresenbet, F., Galaty, J. G., & Schlee, G. (eds)

Rangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people who have lived there for centuries, outside commercial interests have displaced indigenous dwellers from pastoral territories. This volume presents case studies from Eastern Africa.

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

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eBook available Published May 2024
After Auschwitz

The Difficult Legacies of the GDR

Heitzer, E., Jander, M., Kahane, A., & Poutrus, P. G. (eds)

This provocative collection reflects on the heretofore ignored or repressed aspects of German mainstream society—including right-wing extremism, anti-Semitism and racism—to call for an ambitious renewal of historical research and political education to place East Germany in its proper historical context.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published June 2024
Embodying Borders

A Migrant’s Right to Health, Universal Rights and Local Policies

Ferrero, L., Quagliariello, C., & Vargas, A. C. (eds)

Based on extensive field research, the essays in this volume illuminate the experiences of migrants from their own point of view, providing a critical understanding of the complex social reality in which each experience is grounded.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Medical Anthropology

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eBook available Published August 2024
Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent

Reorienting Anthropology for the Future

Ahmad, I. (ed)

Tim Ingold has raised many questions which are crucial for anthropology as a discipline, such as whether ethnography is central to the subject, and how imagination, reality and truth are joined in anthropological enterprises. His interventions have impacted anthropologists and scholars at large. This volume contributes to the debate about the interrelationships between ethnography and anthropology and takes it to a new plane.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published January 2021
Cinemas of Boyhood

Masculinity, Sexuality, Nationality

Shary, T. (eds)

Drawing from political sociology, pop psychology, and film studies, Cinemas of Boyhood features an eclectic range of films from British and Indian cinemas to silent Hollywood and the new Hollywood of the 1980s, culminating in a comprehensive overview of the diverse concerns surrounding representations of boyhood in film.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

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eBook available 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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eBook available Published November 2023
In the Shadow of the Great War

Physical Violence in East-Central Europe, 1917–1923

Böhler, J., Konrád, O., Kučera, R. (eds)

Whether victorious or not, Central European states faced fundamental challenges after the First World War as they struggled to contain ongoing violence and forge peaceful societies. This collection explores the various forms of violence these nations confronted during this period, which effectively transformed the region into a laboratory for state-building.

Subjects: History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

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eBook available Published July 2024
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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eBook available Published December 2020
Shamanism

Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of Spirits and Healing

Jakobsen, M.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published January 2023
Waithood

Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage and Childbearing

Inhorn, M. C. & Smith-Hefner, N. J. (eds)

The concept of “Waithood” was developed by political scientist Diane Singerman to describe the expanding period of time between adolescence and full adulthood as young people wait to secure steady employment and marry. The contributors to this volume employ the waithood concept as a frame for richly detailed ethnographic studies of “youth in waiting” from a variety of world areas.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

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eBook available Published September 2023
The Politics of Personal Information

Surveillance, Privacy, and Power in West Germany

Frohman, L.

This book gives a definitive account of the politics of personal information in West Germany during the 1970s and 1980s, highlighting the growing role of personal information as a tool for social governance.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published May 2023
Ecological Nostalgias

Memory, Affect and Creativity in Times of Ecological Upheavals

Angé, O. & Berliner, D. (eds)

Introducing the study of econostalgias through a variety of rich ethnographic cases, this volume argues that a strictly human centered approach does not account for contemporary longings triggered by ecosystem upheavals.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies

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eBook available Published March 2023
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 November 2022
Writing the Great War

The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the Present

Cornelissen, C. & Weinrich, A. (eds)

The history of the First World War has been continually written and rewritten, producing a rich historiography shaped by the social and cultural circumstances of its creation. Writing the Great War provides a groundbreaking survey of this vast body of work, assembling contributions on a variety of national and regional historiographies from some of the most prominent scholars in the field.

Subjects: History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available Published November 2023
Homo Itinerans

Towards a Global Ethnography of Afghanistan

Monsutti, A.

This book builds on more than two decades of ethnographic itinerancy in some twenty countries, bringing the readers from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran to Europe, North America and Australia. It describes the everyday life and transnational circulations of Afghan refugees and expatriates.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

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eBook available Forthcoming January 2025
Invisible Faces and Hidden Stories

Narratives of Vulnerable Populations and Their Caregivers

Obeng, C. S. & Obeng, S. G. (eds)

Dealing with narratives of vulnerable populations, this book looks at how they deal with dimensions of their social life, especially in regards to health. It reflects the socio-political ecologies like public hostility and stereotyping, neglect of their unique health needs, their courage to overcome adversity, and the love of family and healthcare providers in mitigating their problems.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Applied Anthropology Sociology
eBook available Published November 2020
The Long Journey

Exploring Travel and Travel Writing

Di Bella, M. P. & Yothers, B. (eds)

Travel writing has, for centuries, comprised an essential historical record and wide-ranging literary form, reflecting the rich diversity of travel as a social and cultural practice, metaphorical process, and driver of globalization.

Subjects: Literary Studies Mobility Studies Cultural Studies (General) Travel and Tourism

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eBook available Published November 2020
Sounds German

Popular Music in Postwar Germany at the Crossroads of the National and Transnational

Fulk, K. A. (ed)

Sounds German surveys the sociopolitical impact of music on German national identity, gender and sexuality, and transnational cultural production and consumption, expanding on the ways in which sounds, technologies, media practices, and exchanges of popular music provide a unique glimpse into the cultural dynamics of postwar Germany.

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

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eBook available Published November 2020
Spanish Comics

Historical and Cultural Perspectives

Magnussen, A. (ed)

Spanish Comics offers an overview on contemporary scholarship on Spanish comics, focusing on a wide range of comics dating from early comics history in 1875-1939; the Francoist dictatorship, 1939-1975; the Political Transition, 1970-1985; and Democratic Spain from the early 1980s, and themes of memory, gender, regional identities, and history.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies

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eBook available Published November 2020
Engaging with Chaucer

Practice, Authority, Reading

Moseley, C.W.R.D. (ed)

This collected volume represents an homage to a toweringly great poet, as well as an acknowledgement of the intellectual excitement, challenges, and pleasure that readers owe to him as even today, his poems have the capacity to change the way we engage with fundamental questions of knowledge, understanding, and beauty.

Subjects: Media Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published November 2020
Histories of a Radical Book

E. P. Thompson and The Making of the English Working Class

Burton, A. & Fortado, S. (eds)

This collected volume explores the complex impact of E.P. Thompson’s monumental book, The Making of the English Working Class, both as an intellectual project and material object, relating it to the social and cultural history of the book form itself—an enduring artifact of English history.

Subject: Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Forthcoming April 2025
The Helmand Baluch

A Native Ethnography of the People of Southwest Afghanistan

Amiri, G. R.

The late Ghulam Rahman Amiri accompanied a joint Aghan-US archaeological mission to the Sistan region of southwest Afghanistan in the 1970s and published the ethnography in Farsi in Kabul in 1987. This volume, the first English translation, describes the cultural, political, and economic systems of the Baluch people living in the lower Helmand River Valley of Afghanistan.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology
eBook available Published May 2024
The Mobility of Memory

Migrations and Diasporas across European Borders

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

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

Subjects: Mobility Studies Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology Memory Studies

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eBook available Published September 2024
What Now

Everyday Endurance and Social Intensity in an Australian Aboriginal Community

Dalley, C.

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published January 2024
Aspirations of Young Adults in Urban Asia

Values, Family, and Identity

Westendorp, M., Remmert, D. & Finis, K. (eds)

Comparing first-person ethnographic accounts of young people living, working, and creating relationships in cities across Asia, this volume explores their contemporary lives, pressures, ideals, and aspirations.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies

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Published June 2023
Preventing Dementia?

Critical Perspectives on a New Paradigm of Preparing for Old Age

Leibing, A. & Schicktanz, S. (eds)

The conceptualization of dementia has changed dramatically in recent years with the claim that, through early detection and by controlling several risk factors, a prevention of dementia is possible. Although encouraging and providing hope against this feared condition, this claim is open to scrutiny. This volume looks at how this new conceptualization ignores many of the factors which influence a dementia sufferers’ prognosis.

Subject: Medical Anthropology
eBook available Published September 2020
Shakespeare and Biography

Scheil, K. & Holderness, G. (eds)

From Shakespeare’s religion to his wife to his competitors in the world of early modern theatre, biographers have approached the question of the Bard’s life from numerous angles. Shakespeare & Biography offers a fresh look at the biographical questions connected with the famous playwright’s life, through essays and reflections written by prominent international scholars and biographers.

Subjects: Literary Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published March 2023
Going Forward by Looking Back

Archaeological Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, and Collapse

Riede, F. & Sheets, P. (eds)

Catastrophes are on the rise due to climate change, as is their toll in terms of lives and livelihoods as world populations rise and people locate into hazardous places. This book catalogues a wide and diverse range of case studies of such disasters and human responses. This heritage of past disasters serves as inspiration for building culturally sensitive adaptions to present and future calamities, to mitigate their impacts, and facilitate recoveries.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology

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eBook available Published September 2020
Search After Method

Sensing, Moving, and Imagining in Anthropological Fieldwork

Laplante, J., Gandsman, A., & Scobie, W. (eds)

Reigniting a tradition of learning by experience, Search After Method is a plea for more lively forms of anthropology. The chapters relate the contributor’s first experiences of working in the field and use their experiences to link their work to the discipline of Anthropology, along with other broader fieldwork questions.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published October 2024
Nourishing Life

Foodways and Humanity in an African Town

Huhn, A.

In this accessible ethnography of a small town in northern Mozambique, everyday cultural knowledge and behaviors about food, cooking, and eating reveal the deeply human pursuit of a nourishing life. This emerges less through the consumption of specific nutrients than it does in the affective experience of alimentation in contexts that support vitality, compassion, and generative relations.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published March 2024
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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eBook available Published June 2023
Financialization

Relational Approaches

Hann, C. & Kalb, D. (eds)

Beginning with an original historical vision of financialization in human history, this volume then continues with a rich set of contemporary ethnographic case studies from Europe, Asia and Africa. Authors explore how finance influences social and economic structures in different environments.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology History (General)

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eBook available Published December 2023
Antisemitism in Galicia

Agitation, Politics, and Violence against Jews in the Late Habsburg Monarchy

Buchen, T.

Antisemitism in Galicia investigates the interaction of agitation, violence, and politics against Jews on the periphery of the Danube monarchy. In its comprehensive analysis of the functions and limitations of propaganda, rumors, and mass media, it shows just how significant antisemitism was to the politics of coexistence among Christians and Jews on the eve of the Great War.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Jewish Studies

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Published August 2020
Who’s Cashing In?

Contemporary Perspectives on New Monies and Global Cashlessness

Sen, A., Lindquist, J., & Kolling, M. (eds)

From credit cards to cryptocurrencies, online and mobile money, remittances, and demonetization policies, cashless infrastructures are becoming increasingly common around the world. Who’s Cashing In? explores how different modes of cashlessness impact, transform and challenge the everyday lives and livelihoods of local communities in multiple regional contexts.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published August 2023
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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eBook available Published April 2022
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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eBook available Published November 2023
Agency in Transnational Memory Politics

Wüstenberg, J. & Sierp, A. (eds)

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

Subjects: History (General) Sociology Memory Studies

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eBook available Published July 2020
An Enchantment of Digital Archaeology

Raising the Dead with Agent-Based Models, Archaeogaming and Artificial Intelligence

Graham, S.

The use of computation in archaeology is a kind of magic, a way of heightening the archaeological imagination. Agent-based modelling allows archaeologists to test the ‘just-so’ stories they tell about the past. These models are one end of a spectrum that ends with video games. This volume explores this spectrum in the context of Roman archaeology, addressing the strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities of a formalized approach to computation and archaeogaming.

Subjects: Archaeology Media Studies Heritage Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published June 2020
Ours Once More

Folklore, Ideology, and the Making of Modern Greece

Herzfeld, M.

When this work – one that contributes to both the history and anthropology fields – first appeared in 1982, it was hailed as a landmark study of the role of folklore in nation-building. In this expanded edition, a new introduction by the author and a foreword by Sharon Macdonald document its importance for current debates about Greece’s often contested place in the complex politics of the European Union.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General)

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Published June 2020
States of Imitation

Mimetic Governmentality and Colonial Rule

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

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

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published October 2022
Borders across Healthcare

Moral Economies of Healthcare and Migration in Europe

Sahraoui, N. (ed)

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

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Mobility Studies Sociology
eBook available Published December 2022
Voices on War and Genocide

Three Accounts of the World Wars in a Galician Town

Bartov, O. (ed)

Taking as its point of departure Omer Bartov’s acclaimed recent monograph Anatomy of a Genocide, this volume brings together three extensive and previously unknown accounts of residents from the Ukrainian town of Buczacz, covering events during and between both world wars.

Subjects: History: World War II Jewish Studies Genocide History

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eBook available Published March 2023
Time Work

Studies of Temporal Agency

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

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

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Sociology Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published March 2024
Communities and Place

A Thematic Approach to the Histories of LGBTQ Communities in the United States

Crawford-Lackey, K. & Springate, M. E. (eds)

Framing the emergence of queer enclaves in reference to place, this volume explores the physical and symbolic spaces of LGBTQ Americans. Authors provide an overview of the concept of “place” and its role in informing identity formation and community building. The book also includes interactive project prompts, providing opportunities to practically apply topics and theories discussed in the chapters.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies

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eBook available Published October 2023
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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eBook available Published January 2024
Don't Need No Thought Control

Western Culture in East Germany and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Horten, G.

Don't Need No Thought Control explores the dynamic interplay between popular demands, intensifying economic crises, and cultural policy decisions during the Erich Honecker era in a comprehensive and comparative analysis.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies Cultural Studies (General) Film and Television Studies

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eBook available Forthcoming September 2025
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
eBook available Published May 2023
On the Edges of Whiteness

Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War

Lingelbach, J.

From 1942 to 1950, nearly twenty thousand Poles found refuge from the horrors of World War II in camps within Britain’s African colonies, including Uganda, Tanganyika, and Kenya. On the Edges of Whiteness tells their improbable story, tracing the manifold, complex relationships that developed among refugees, their British administrators, and their African neighbors.

Subjects: History: World War II Refugee and Migration Studies Colonial History

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eBook available Published May 2020
Shakespeare and Money

Holderness, G. (ed)

Though better known for his literary merits, Shakespeare made money, wrote about money and enabled money-making by countless others in his name. With chapters by leading scholars on the economic, financial and commercial ramifications of his work, this multifaceted volume connects the Bard to both early modern and contemporary economic conditions, revealing Shakespeare to have been a serious economist in his own right.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

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eBook available Published October 2024
Can Academics Change the World?

An Israeli Anthropologist's Testimony on the Rise and Fall of a Protest Movement on Campus

Shokeid, M.

Moshe Shokeid narrates his experiences as a member of AD KAN (NO MORE), a protest movement of Israeli academics at Tel Aviv University, who fought against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, founded during the first Palestinian intifada/uprising (1987-1993).

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Jewish Studies Anthropology (General) Educational Studies

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eBook available Published October 2022
Structures of Protection?

Rethinking Refugee Shelter

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

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

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published February 2023
Theorising Media and Conflict

Budka, P. & Bräuchler, B. (eds)

Theorising Media and Conflict brings together anthropologists as well as media and communication scholars to collectively address the elusive and complex relationship between media and conflict. Practitioners, policymakers, students and scholars who wish to understand the lived realities and dynamics of contemporary conflicts will find this book invaluable.

Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published October 2024
Selfishness and Selflessness

New Approaches to Understanding Morality

Layne, L. L. (ed)

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

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eBook available Published November 2024
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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eBook available Published April 2020
Shakespeare and His Biographical Afterlives

Franssen, P. & Edmondson, P. (eds)

New Shakespeare biographies are published every year, though very little new documentary evidence has come to light. Inevitably speculative, these biographies straddle the line between fact and fiction. Shakespeare and His Biographical Afterlives explores the relationship between fiction and non-fiction within Shakespeare’s biography.

Subject: Literary Studies

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eBook available Published March 2020
Not Even Past

How the United States Ends Wars

Fitzgerald, D., Ryan, D., & Thompson, J. M. (eds)

This volume brings together international experts on American history and foreign affairs to assess the cumulative impact of the United States’ efforts to end wars. It offers essential perspectives on both the Cold War and post-9/11 eras and demonstrates just how high the stakes are as the US confronts the possibility of war without end.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies History: 20th Century to Present History (General)

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eBook available Forthcoming September 2025
Rethinking the Age of Emancipation

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

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

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

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Jewish Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
eBook available Published February 2023
Navigating Miscarriage

Social, Medical and Conceptual Perspectives

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

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

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

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Published March 2020
After the Pink Tide

Corporate State Formation and New Egalitarianisms in Latin America

Gold, M. & Zagato, A. (eds)

The left-wing Pink Tide movement that swept across Latin America seems to now be overturned, as a new wave of free-market thinkers emerge across the continent. This book analyses the emergence of corporate power within Latin America and the response of egalitarian movements across the continent trying to break open the constraints of the state.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published September 2023
Friendship without Borders

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

Leask, P.

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

Subjects: History (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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eBook available Published August 2024
On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise

Affect, Tourism, Belize

Little, K.

On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise is a collection of seven stories about local lives in the fictional village of Wallaceville. They turn rogue in the face of runaway forces that take the form and figure of a Belize beast-time, which can appear as a comic mishap, social ruin, tragic excess, or wild guesses.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Literary Studies

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Published December 2022
Comrades in Arms

Military Masculinities in East German Culture

Smith, T.

Without question, the East German National People’s Army sought to exemplify traditional masculine ideals of stoicism, sacrifice, and physical courage. Yet depictions of the military in East German film and literature were far more nuanced and ambivalent. Comrades in Arms shows how cultural works have portrayed violence, vulnerability, military theatricality, and a range of masculinities.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available Published December 2023
Velvet Retro

Postsocialist Nostalgia and the Politics of Heroism in Czech Popular Culture

Pehe, V.

This innovative study develops the concept of “retro” to describe the nuanced and ironic depiction of the past as seen in Czech popular culture. It locates a distinctively retro aesthetic in Czech literature, film, and other cultural forms, enriching our understanding of not only the nation’s memory culture, but also the ways in which popular culture can structure collective memory.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present Film and Television Studies Memory Studies

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eBook available Forthcoming September 2025
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
eBook available Published January 2023
A U-Turn to the Future

Sustainable Urban Mobility since 1850

Emanuel, M., Schipper. F., & Oldenziel, R. (eds)

Unsustainable practices since the Industrial Revolution still impact our everyday lives. This book looks at how we can achieve sustainable urban mobility now and in the future by tapping into our knowledge of the historical trajectories leading up to the features of modern mobility in cities today.

Subjects: Mobility Studies History (General) Urban Studies Transport Studies

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eBook available Published September 2022
The Roma and Their Struggle for Identity in Contemporary Europe

Baar, H. van & Kóczé, A. (eds)

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published February 2020
Cultural Resource Management

A Collaborative Primer for Archaeologists

King, T. F. (ed)

Stressing the interdisciplinary, public-policy oriented character of Cultural Resource Management (CRM), which is not merely “applied archaeology,” this short, relatively uncomplicated introduction is aimed at emerging archaeologists.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies

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eBook available Published January 2020
Money Counts

Revisiting Economic Calculation

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

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

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Forthcoming September 2025
Feelings Materialized

Emotions, Bodies, and Things in Germany, 1500–1950

Hillard, D., Lempa, H., & Spinney, R. (eds)

Examining the material aspects of emotion, this volume encompasses technology, photography, aesthetics, and a variety of other historical themes in an innovative application of emotion studies. Feelings Materialized brings together an interdisciplinary group of Germanists to unveil the emotions embedded in the world of things and bodies.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Media Studies History: Medieval/Early Modern Literary Studies
eBook available Published September 2023
Jaguars of the Dawn

Spirit Mediumship in the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer

Pierini, E.

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

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Medical Anthropology Sociology

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eBook available Published August 2023
Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America

Binford, L., Gill, L., & Striffler, S. (eds)

Informed by Eric Wolf’s Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, published in 1969, this book examines selected peasant struggles in seven Latin American countries during the last fifty years and suggests the continuing relevance of Wolf’s approach.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published January 2023
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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eBook available Published January 2020
On Violence in History

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

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

Subjects: History (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published May 2023
Men Under Fire

Motivation, Morale, and Masculinity among Czech Soldiers in the Great War, 1914–1918

Hutečka, J.

In historical writing on World War I, Czech-speaking soldiers serving in the Austro-Hungarian military are primarily studied as Czechs, rarely as soldiers, and never as men. Men under Fire provides a groundbreaking analysis of this oft-overlooked cohort, drawing on a wealth of soldiers’ private writings to explore experiences of exhaustion, sex, loyalty, authority, and combat itself.

Subjects: History: World War I Gender Studies and Sexuality

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eBook available Published December 2019
Mixed Harvest

Stories from the Human Past

Swigart, R.

After millennia of wandering the earth with little impact, a universal, if inadvertent transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and pastoralism was complete within a period of a few thousand years. Mixed Harvest tells the story of the Sedentary Divide, the most significant event since modern humans emerged.

Subjects: Archaeology Literary Studies Memory Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published November 2023
Social Im/mobilities in Africa

Ethnographic Approaches

Noret, J. (ed)

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

Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published November 2019
The Anatomy of the Holocaust

Selected Works from a Life of Scholarship

Hilberg, R.
Pehle, W. H. & Schlott, R. (eds)

Historian Raul Hilberg produced a variety of archival research, personal essays, and other works over a career that spanned half a century. The Anatomy of the Holocaust collects some of Hilberg’s most essential and groundbreaking writings—many of them published in obscure journals or otherwise inaccessible to nonspecialists—in a single volume.

Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies

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eBook available Published November 2019
German Railroads, Jewish Souls

The Reichsbahn, Bureaucracy, and the Final Solution

Browning, C. R., Hayes, P. & Hilberg, R.

This book centers around preeminent Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg’s landmark study of Nazi railways and their roles within the Jewish genocide. Supplemented with additional writings from Hilberg, primary source materials, and a comprehensive historical survey from leading scholars Christopher Browning and Peter Hayes, this is a rich and accessible introduction to a topic in Holocaust history that remains understudied even today.

Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History Transport Studies

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eBook available Published February 2023
Heritage Movements in Asia

Cultural Heritage Activism, Politics, and Identity

Mozaffari, A. & Jones, T. (eds)

This volume is unique in that it is dedicated to approaching the analysis of heritage through the concepts of social movements. Adapting the latest developments in the field of social movements, the chapters examine the formation, use and contestation of heritage by various official, non-official and activist players and the spaces where such ongoing negotiations and contestation take place.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Museum Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published November 2019
It Happens Among People

Resonances and Extensions of the Work of Fredrik Barth

Wu, K. & Weller, R. P. (eds)

Written by eleven leading anthropologists from around the world, this volume extends the insights of Fredrik Barth, one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century, to push even further at the frontiers of anthropology.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published February 2022
Nourishing the Nation

Food as National Identity in Catalonia

Johannes, V.

Provides an ethnographic account of the everyday experience of national identity in Catalonia, using an essential, everyday object of consumption: food. As a crucial element of Catalan cultural life, a focus on food provides unique insight into the lived realities of Catalan nationalism, and how Catalans experience and express their national identity today.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Forthcoming January 2025
Fame Amid the Ruins

Italian Film Stardom in the Age of Neorealism

Gundle, S.

Italian cinema gave rise to some of the best-known films of the postwar years, and its stars were beloved by both the public and producers. This book explores the many conflicts over stars and stardom that arose during Italian cinema’s postwar rebirth, shedding new light on the close relationship forged between cinema and society.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available Published November 2022
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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eBook available Published February 2024
Identities and Place

Changing Labels and Intersectional Communities of LGBTQ and Two-Spirit People in the United States

Crawford-Lackey, K. & Springate, M. E. (eds)

With a focus on historic sites, this volume explores the recent history of non- heteronormative Americans from the early twentieth century onward and the places associated with these communities. Authors explore how queer identities are connected with specific places: places where people gather, socialize, protest, mourn, and celebrate. Each chapter is accompanied by prompts and activities that invite readers to think critically and immerse themselves in the subject matter while working collaboratively with others.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies

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eBook available 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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eBook available Published October 2019
Playing with the Past

Exploring Values in Heritage Practice

Clark, K.

Heritage is all around us, not just in monuments and museums, but in places that matter, the countryside and in collections and stories. It touches all of us. How do we decide what to preserve? And how do we make the case for heritage when there are so many other priorities? Playing with the Past is designed to make the case for heritage. It is the first ever action-learning book about heritage.

Subjects: Museum Studies Heritage Studies Archaeology

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Published October 2022
Germany On Their Minds

German Jewish Refugees in the United States and Their Relationships with Germany, 1938–1988

Schenderlein, A. C.

Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s, the United States granted asylum to approximately ninety thousand German Jews fleeing the horrors of the Third Reich. Author Anne C. Schenderlein gives a fascinating account of these entangled histories on both sides of the Atlantic and demonstrates the remarkable extent to which German Jewish refugees helped shape the course of West German democratization.

Subjects: Jewish Studies Refugee and Migration Studies History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available Published January 2022
Cinema of Collaboration

DEFA Coproductions and International Exchange in Cold War Europe

Ivanova, M.

Almost from their very inception, European cinemas frequently undertook collaborative ventures in an attempt to cultivate a transnational “Film-Europe.” And despite the significant obstacles that the East/West divide presented to achieving that ideal, in the postwar era it was DEFA, the state cinema of the newly created East Germany, that emerged as one of the primary sites where these practices persisted.

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

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eBook available Published October 2019
Disaster Upon Disaster

Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice

Hoffman, S. M. & Barrios, R. E. (eds)

A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies mandated to deal with the concern. Disaster Upon Disaster illuminates the numerous disjunctions between the suppositions, realities, agendas, and executions in the field and advances solutions and the matter of outcomes.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Applied Anthropology

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Published October 2019
Experiencing Archaeology

A Laboratory Manual of Classroom Activities, Demonstrations, and Minilabs for Introductory Archaeology

Homsey-Messer, L., Michaud, T., Lockard Reed, A., & Bobo, V.

This laboratory-style manual compiles a wide variety of uniquely designed, hands-on classroom activities to acquaint advanced high school and introductory college students to the field of archaeology. Ranging in length from five to thirty minutes, activities created by archaeologists are designed to break up traditional classroom lecture, engage students of all learning styles, and easily integrate into large classes and/or short class periods that do not easily accommodate traditional laboratory work.

Subject: Archaeology

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eBook available October 2019
Experiencing Archaeology

A Laboratory Manual of Classroom Activities, Demonstrations, and Minilabs for Introductory Archaeology, Instructor's Edition

Homsey-Messer, L., Michaud, T., Lockard Reed, A., & Bobo, V.

This laboratory-style manual compiles a wide variety of uniquely designed, hands-on classroom activities to acquaint advanced high school and introductory college students to the field of archaeology. This Instructor's Edition provides detailed explanations for activities ranging in length from five to thirty minutes that are designed to break up traditional classroom lecture, and easily integrate into large classes and/or short class periods that do not easily accommodate traditional laboratory work.

Subject: Archaeology
eBook available Published September 2019
Shakespeare and the Ethics of War

Gray, P. (ed)

How does Shakespeare represent war? This volume reviews scholarship to date on the question and introduces new perspectives, looking at contemporary conflict through the lens of the past.

Subjects: Literary Studies Cultural Studies (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Media Studies

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eBook available Published September 2019
Shakespeare and Creative Criticism

Conkie, R. & Maisano, S. (eds)

What kinds of critical insights are made possible only or especially via creative strategies? This volume examines how creative modes of writing might facilitate or inform new ways to critically engage with Shakespeare.

Subjects: Literary Studies Performance Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published September 2019
Nearly the New World

The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933–1945

Newman, J.

In the years leading up to the Second World War, increasingly desperate European Jews looked to far-flung destinations such as the Barbados, Trinidad, and Jamaica in search of refuge. Nearly the New World tells the remarkable story of Jewish refugees who overcame persecution and sought safety in the West Indies from the 1930s through the end of World War II

Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History History: World War II Refugee and Migration Studies

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eBook available Published December 2022
Preservation and Place

Historic Preservation by and of LGBTQ Communities in the United States

Crawford-Lackey, K. & Springate, M. E. (eds)

Historically significant archaeological sites affiliated with two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer history in the United States are examined in this unique volume. The importance of the preservation process in documenting and interpreting the lives and experiences of queer Americans is emphasized. The book features chapters on archaeology and interpretation, as well as several case studies focusing on queer preservation projects.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies

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eBook available Published September 2022
The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia

Czech Initiatives, German Policies, Jewish Responses

Gruner, W.

After the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Czech and German authorities adopted radicalized anti-Jewish policies, including depriving Jews of their property, hauling them into forced labor, and deporting them to concentration camps. In this pioneering study, Wolf Gruner demonstrates that these proceedings were not only controlled by Berlin, but also driven forward by the Czech government and local authorities.

Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History

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eBook available Forthcoming December 2024
Water, Life, and Profit

Fluid Economies and Cultures of Niamey, Niger

Keough, S. B. & Youngstedt, S. M

Water, Life, and Profit offers a holistic analysis of the people, economies, cultural symbolism, and material culture involved in the management, production, distribution, and consumption of drinking water in the urban context of Niamey, Niger. Keough and Youngstedt offer new insights into the lived experiences of gender, ethnicity, class, and spatial structure in Niamey’s water economies today.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available Published September 2022
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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eBook available Forthcoming July 2025
Constructing Industrial Pasts

Heritage, Historical Culture and Identity in Regions Undergoing Structural Economic Transformation

Berger, S. (ed)

The contributions in this volume demonstrate that even as forms of industrial heritage provide anchors of identity for local populations, their meanings remain deeply contested, as both radical and conservative varieties of nostalgia intermingle with critical approaches as well as straightforward apologias for a past that was often full of pain, exploitation and struggle.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Heritage Studies
eBook available Published April 2023
The Sound of Silence

Indigenous Perspectives on the Historical Archaeology of Colonialism

Äikäs, T. & Salmi, A.-K. (eds)

Colonial encounters between indigenous peoples and European state powers are overarching themes in the historical archaeology of the modern era, and postcolonial historical archaeology has repeatedly emphasized the complex two-way nature of colonial encounters. The volume examines common trajectories in indigenous colonial histories, and explores new ways to understand cultural contact, hybridization and power relations between indigenous peoples and colonial powers from the indigenous point of view.

Subjects: Archaeology Colonial History Memory Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published April 2022
The Vampire

Origins of a European Myth

Bohn, T. M.

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

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

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eBook available Published August 2023
Testimonies of Resistance

Representations of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando

Chare, N. & Williams, D. (eds)

As eyewitnesses to and unwilling abettors of the murder of their fellow Jews, the Sonderkommando comprise one of the most fascinating and troubling topics within Holocaust history. This interdisciplinary collection assembles careful investigations into how the Sonderkommando have been represented—both by themselves and by others—during and since the Holocaust.

Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History Jewish Studies

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Published February 2023
Entangled Entertainers

Jews and Popular Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna

Hödl, K.

Viennese popular culture at the turn of the twentieth century was shaped jointly by Jews and non-Jews alike, though their relationship was not immune to bouts of anti-Semitism. The case studies in this book provide new findings in understanding what it meant to be Jewish among artists, performers and impresarios at the turn of the twentieth century.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
Published October 2022
Submerged on the Surface

The Not-So-Hidden Jews of Nazi Berlin, 1941–1945

Lutjens Jr., R. N.

Between 1941 and 1945, some 6,500 Berlin Jews, in fear for their lives, made the choice to flee their impending deportations and live submerged in Nazi Germany. This book sheds light on the daily life of those who hid and on the city that was both the source of their persecution and the site of their survival.

Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History
eBook available Published June 2022
Ambiguous Childhoods

Peer Socialisation, Schooling and Agency in a Zambian Village

Clemensen, N.

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Development Studies Educational Studies

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eBook available Forthcoming May 2025
The Museum of Mankind

Man and Boy in the British Museum Ethnography Department

Burt, B.

The Museum of Mankind was an innovative and popular showcase for minority cultures from around the non-Western world from 1970 to 1997, as the devolved Ethnography Department of the British Museum. This memoir of over forty years’ service with the Department is a critical appreciation of its achievements in the various roles of a national museum, of the personalities of its staff and of the issues raised in the representation of exotic cultures.

Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available Published August 2019
Multiple Nature-Cultures, Diverse Anthropologies

Bruun Jensen, C. & Morita, A. (eds)

Over time, the role of nature in anthropology has evolved from being a mere backdrop for social and cultural diversity to being viewed as an integral part of the ontological entanglement of human and nonhuman agents. This transformation of the role of nature offers important insight into the relationships between diverse anthropological traditions.

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

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eBook available Published April 2023
Escapees

The History of Jews Who Fled Nazi Deportation Trains in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands

von Fransecky, T.

Hundreds of Jewish men, women and children escaped from deportation trains bound for extermination camps by making a dangerous leap from the moving train. Drawing from extensive interviews and new sources, Tanja Fransecky sheds light on a hitherto neglected chapter of Jewish resistance to the National Socialist extermination policy.

Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies Mobility Studies

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eBook available Published October 2023
Fierce Medicines, Fragile Socialities

Grounding Global HIV Treatment in Tanzania

Mattes, D.

Looking at Tanga, a city on the Tanzanian Swahili coast, Dominik Mattes examines the implementation of antiretroviral HIV-treatment (ART) in the area, exploring the manifold infrastructural and social fragilities of treatment provision in public HIV clinics as well as patients’ multi-layered struggles of coming to terms with ART in their everyday lives.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Development Studies

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eBook available Published November 2022
In Search of European Liberalisms

Concepts, Languages, Ideologies

Freeden, M., Fernández-Sebastián, J. & Leonhard, J. (eds)

This comprehensive study takes a fresh look at the diverse understandings and interpretations of the concept of liberalism in Europe during the last several centuries, encompassing not just the familiar movements, doctrines, and political parties that fall under the heading of “liberal” but also the intertwined historical currents of thought behind them.

Subject: History (General)

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eBook available Published December 2022
When Will We Talk About Hitler?

German Students and the Nazi Past

Oeser, A.

What do ordinary Germans think of their country’s Nazi past? Do young Germans just want to "move on?" Combining observation, interviews, and archival work, the studies conducted in this book explore these questions to reveal the complexity of history and how young Germans view Nazism’s place in contemporary society.

Subjects: History (General) Educational Studies Anthropology (General) Memory Studies

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eBook available Published November 2023
Perestroika and the Party

National and Transnational Perspectives on European Communist Parties in the Era of Soviet Reform

Di Palma, F. (ed)

While studies of the impact of Gorbachev-era reforms have overwhelmingly focused on the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc nations, this ambitious collection assesses their historical trajectories on both sides of the Iron Curtain. It moves beyond domestic politics and narrowly defined foreign relations to examine the reforms’ collective impact.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published March 2022
Hazardous Chemicals

Agents of Risk and Change, 1800-2000

Homburg, E. & Vaupel, E. (eds)

Covering a host of both notorious and little-known substances, the chapters in this collection investigate the emergence of specific toxic, pathogenic, carcinogenic, and ecologically harmful chemicals as well as the scientific, cultural and legislative responses they have prompted over the past two hundred years.

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

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eBook available Forthcoming July 2025
Ambiguous Transitions

Gender, the State, and Everyday Life in Socialist and Postsocialist Romania

Massino, J.

Ambiguous Transitions provides an accessible, intimate exploration of gender and citizenship in socialist Romania. Author Jill M. Massino connects women’s everyday lives to larger political, economic, and social processes, challenging conventional understandings of life in socialist Romania as uniformly oppressive.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available Forthcoming March 2025
PC Worlds

Political Correctness and Rising Elites at the End of Hegemony

Friedman, J.

This provocative work offers an anthropological analysis of the phenomenon of political correctness, both as a general phenomenon of communication, in which associations in space and time take precedence over the content of what is communicated, and as specific critical historical conjunctures in which new elites attempt to redefine social reality.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Media Studies
eBook available Published July 2019
Twilight of the Merkel Era

Power and Politics in Germany after the 2017 Bundestag Election

Langenbacher, E. (ed)

Elections always have consequences, but the 2017 Bundestag election in Germany proved particularly consequential. With political upheaval across the globe—notably in Britain and the USA—it was vital to European and global order that Germany remain stable.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published July 2019
Shakespeare and the Arab World

Hennessey, K. & Litvin, M. (eds)

Offering a variety of perspectives on the history and role of Arab Shakespeare translation, production, adaptation and criticism, this volume explores both international and locally focused Arab/ic appropriations of Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

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eBook available Published July 2019
Shakespeare and Commemoration

Calvo, C. & Hoenselaars, T. (eds)

Memory and commemoration play a vital role not only in the work of Shakespeare, but also in the process that has made him a world author. As the contributors of this collection demonstrate, the phenomenon of commemoration has no single approach, as it occurs on many levels, has a long history, and is highly unpredictable in its manifestations.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Performance Studies Literary Studies Memory Studies

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eBook available Published May 2022
Critique of Identity Thinking

Jackson, M.

Michael Jackson’s response to our beleaguered age is to ask what forms of speech and action are called for in ‘dark times’. He argues that experiences that fall outside the concepts and categories we habitually deploy in rendering life manageable and intelligible have both critical and redemptive power.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Forthcoming January 2025
Articulate Necrographies

Comparative Perspectives on the Voices and Silences of the Dead

Panagiotopoulos, A. & Espírito Santo, D. (eds)

Going beyond the frameworks of the anthropology of death, Articulate Necrographies offers a dramatic new way of studying the dead and its interactions with the living. The collection introduces the concept of “necrography” to describe the way death and the dead create their own kinds of biographies in and among the living.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Heritage Studies Literary Studies
eBook available Published July 2019
The Girl in the Text

Smith, A. (ed)

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

Subjects: Literary Studies Sociology Media Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published July 2019
Shakespeare and Stratford

Scheil, K. (ed)

As the site of literary pilgrimage since the eighteenth century, the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the topic of hundreds of imaginary portrayals, Stratford is ripe for analysis, both in terms of its factual existence and its fictional afterlife.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Travel and Tourism Literary Studies

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eBook available Published July 2023
France and the German Question, 1945–1990

Bozo, F. & Wenkel, C. (eds)

This book revisits France’s attitude towards the German question as it existed and evolved during the post-World War Two and the Cold War eras in order to shed light on previously neglected aspect of the history of the Cold War, of Germany, and of Europe in the second half of the twentieth century.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Forthcoming June 2025
Planning for the Planet

Environmental Expertise and the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 1960–1980

Schleper, S.

In the 1960s and 1970s, rapidly growing environmental awareness and concern not only led to widespread calls for new policies, but also created unprecedented demand for ecological expertise by the likes of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. This book explores how conservation experts confronted new challenges tied to rival scientific approaches, Cold War politics, decolonization, and more.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available Published August 2022
Mobile Urbanity

Somali Presence in Urban East Africa

Carrier, N. & Scharrer, T. (eds)

Demystifying Somali residence and mobility in urban East Africa, this volume shows its historical depth, and explores the social, cultural and political underpinnings of Somali-led urban transformation. In so doing, it offers a vivid case study of the transformative power of (forced) migration on urban centres, and the intertwining of urbanity and mobility.

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

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eBook available Published April 2024
Peace at All Costs

Catholic Intellectuals, Journalists, and Media in Postwar Polish–German Reconciliation

Frieberg, A. E.

Peace at All Costs reconsiders postwar Polish-German relations as an interdisciplinary case study of reconciliation and follows an influential network of non-state peace activists, major players in print and audiovisual media, as they attempted to establish dialogue in the 1950s and 1960s.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies Media Studies

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eBook available Published September 2023
Crossing Histories and Ethnographies

Following Colonial Historicities in Timor-Leste

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

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Sociology

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Published September 2022
Making Bodies Kosher

The Politics of Reproduction among Haredi Jews in England

Kasstan, B.

Analyses the ways in which Haredi Jews negotiate healthcare services using theoretical perspectives in political philosophy. This is the first archival and ethnographic study of Haredi Jews in the UK, and will allow readers to understand how reproductive care issues affect this growing minority population.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Jewish Studies Anthropology of Religion
eBook available Published April 2022
Invisible Founders

How Two Centuries of African American Families Transformed a Plantation into a College

Rainville, L.

Literal and metaphorical excavations at Sweet Briar College reveal how African American labor enabled the transformation of Sweet Briar Plantation into a private women’s college in 1906. Despite being built and maintained by African American families, the college did not integrate its student body for sixty years after it opened. Invisible Founders challenges our ideas of what a college “founder” is, restoring African American narratives to their deserved and central place in the story of a single institution.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Educational Studies Heritage Studies

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eBook available Forthcoming October 2025
Encounters with Emotions

Negotiating Cultural Differences since Early Modernity

Gammerl, B., Nielsen, P., & Pernau, M. (eds)

Spanning Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Encounters with Emotions investigates experiences of face-to-face transcultural encounters from the seventeenth century to the present. The case-studies presented in this volume explore the cultural aspects of nature and the bodily dimensions of nurture in order to trace the historical trajectories that shape our understandings of current cultural boundaries and effects of globalization.

Subjects: History (General) Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available Published September 2023
German Division as Shared Experience

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Postwar Everyday

Carter, E., Palmowski, J., & Schreiter, K. (eds)

German Division as Shared Experience shows the extent to which the story of East and West Germany was one of mutual entanglement after 1945. By subsuming political considerations into the historical domain of the social and cultural, each of the innovative studies presented here analyzes moments of connection at the level of lived experience across the East-West divide.

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

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eBook available Published March 2023
Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century

Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

Collinson, P., Young, I., Antal, L., & Macbeth, H. (eds)

Sustainability is one of the great problems facing food production today. Using cross-disciplinary perspectives from international scholars working in social, cultural and biological anthropology, ecology and environmental biology, this volume brings many new perspectives to the problems we face.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published October 2022
Engaging Evil

A Moral Anthropology

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

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

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Published May 2019
Management by Seclusion

A Critique of World Bank Promises to End Global Poverty

Cochrane, G.

Assessing the World Bank’s attempts to combat global poverty over the past 50 years, anthropologist and former World Bank Advisor Glynn Cochrane argues that instead of the Bank’s prevailing strategy of “management by seclusion,” poverty alleviation requires personal engagement with the poorest by helpers with hands-on local and cultural skills.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies

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eBook available Published November 2022
Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents

The Making and Unmaking of Racial Exceptionalism

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

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

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

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eBook available Published January 2021
Magical House Protection

The Archaeology of Counter-Witchcraft

Hoggard, B.

Belief in magic and particularly the power of witchcraft was a deep and enduring presence in popular culture; people created and concealed many objects to protect themselves from harmful magic. Detailed are the principal forms of magical house protection in Britain and beyond from the fourteenth century to the present day.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Published April 2019
Post-Ottoman Topologies

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

Argenti, N. (ed)

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

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Memory Studies

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Published August 2022
Cyborg Mind

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

MacKellar, C.

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

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
eBook available Published August 2022
Gendering Post-1945 German History

Entanglements

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

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

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

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eBook available Published March 2019
Democracy's Paradox

Populism and its Contemporary Crisis

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

Does populism indicate a radical crisis in Western democratic political systems? Is it a revolt by those who feel they have too little voice in the affairs of state or are otherwise marginalized or oppressed? Or are populist movements part of the democratic process?

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Forthcoming December 2024
The Engaged Historian

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

Berger, S. (ed)

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

Subjects: History (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology
eBook available Published February 2023
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

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eBook available Published October 2023
How Materials Matter

Design, Innovation and Materiality in the Pacific

Were, G.

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

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

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eBook available Published May 2022
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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eBook available Published September 2021
The Indoctrination of the Wehrmacht

Nazi Ideology and the War Crimes of the German Military

Sait, B.

Far from the image of an apolitical, “clean” Wehrmacht that persists in popular memory, German soldiers regularly cooperated with organizations like the SS in the abuse and murder of countless individuals. This in-depth study reveals that military indoctrination was but one piece of the larger effort at the socialization of young men during the Nazi era.

Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published September 2022
Extinct Monsters to Deep Time

Conflict, Compromise, and the Making of Smithsonian's Fossil Halls

Marsh, D. E.

Extinct Monsters to Deep Time is an ethnography that documents the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of the museum in the 21st century.

Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published February 2022
Screening Art

Modernist Aesthetics and the Socialist Imaginary in East German Cinema

Allan, S.

Screening Art represents the first full-length study of films about art and artists produced by the state-owned Eastern German film studio DEFA. It investigates the essential role that these “art films” played in the development of new paradigms of socialist art in post-war Europe.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published July 2022
At Home on the Waves

Human Habitation of the Sea from the Mesolithic to Today

King, T. J. & Robinson, G. (eds)

This collection explores the variety of ways in which people have long made themselves at home at sea, bringing together both ethnographic and archaeological research – much of it with an explicit Ingoldian approach – on a wide range of geographical areas and historical periods.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology Environmental Studies (General)

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Published December 2022
Going to Pentecost

An Experimental Approach to Studies in Pentecostalism

Eriksen, A. Blanes, R. L., MacCarthy, M.

Co-authored by three anthropologists with long–term expertise studying Pentecostalism in Africa and Melanesia, and in recognition of the increasingly non-territorial nature of religion in the contemporary world, Going to Pentecost offers an experimental approach to the study of global religious movements, and Pentecostalism in particular.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
eBook available Published March 2022
Public Engagement and Education

Developing and Fostering Stewardship for an Archaeological Future

Erdman, K. M. (ed)

Public Engagement and Education shares effective approaches for engaging and educating learners of all ages about archaeology and how one can encourage them to become stewards of the past. Offered are applied examples that are not bound to specific geographies or cultures, but rather, are approaches that can be implemented almost anywhere.

Subjects: Archaeology Educational Studies

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eBook available Published January 2019
The Arkansas Regulators

Gerstäcker, F.
Adams, C. & Irmscher, C. (eds)

Friedrich Gerstäcker’s The Arkansas Regulators is a rousing tale of frontier adventure, first published in German in 1846, but virtually lost to English readers for well over a century. This long-awaited translation and scholarly edition of the novel offers a startling rewriting of the frontier myth from a European perspective.

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

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eBook available Published August 2023
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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eBook available 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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eBook available Published November 2022
Views of Violence

Representing the Second World War in German and European Museums and Memorials

Echternkamp, J. & Jaeger, S. (eds)

The modern vision of historical violence has been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War. This volume takes a historical perspective on World War II museums and explores how these institutions came to define the broader European, and even global, political contexts and cultures of public memory.

Subjects: Museum Studies History: World War II Memory Studies

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eBook available Published November 2021
The Changing Meanings of the Welfare State

Histories of a Key Concept in the Nordic Countries

Edling, N. (ed)

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

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

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eBook available Published January 2023
Politics of Scale

New Directions in Critical Heritage Studies

Lähdesmäki, T., Thomas, S., & Zhu, Y. (eds)

Politics of Scale offers a global, multi- and interdisciplinary point of view to the scaled nature of heritage, and provides a theoretical discussion on scale as a social construct and a method in Critical Heritage Studies.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Museum Studies

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eBook available Published September 2020
Transforming Study Abroad

A Handbook

Doerr, N. M.

Written for study abroad practitioners, this book approaches key study abroad concepts – such as “culture”, “native speaker”, and “immersion” – from a number of theoretical perspectives, and considers study abroad not as an encounter with cultural others, but as an occasion to analyze constructions of “differences” in daily life.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Educational Studies Mobility Studies

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eBook available Published December 2023
Conceptualizing the World

An Exploration across Disciplines

Jordheim, H. & Sandmo, E. (eds)

This innovative and interdisciplinary volume explores the central paradox of globalization and illuminates historical moments that range from antiquity to the era of Google Earth through contributions that trace the emergence of the world in multitudinous representations, practices, and human experiences.

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

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eBook available Published July 2020
Dreams of Germany

Musical Imaginaries from the Concert Hall to the Dance Floor

Gregor, N. & Irvine, T. (eds)

Why is Germany imagined as the ‘land of music’? How has that image been made over time? Exploring examples that range from Bruckner to the Beatles, from classical song to sex-club dance music, a team of historians and musicologists explores these perennial questions in innovative and exciting ways.

Subjects: Media Studies History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Performance Studies

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eBook available Published January 2020
Humanitarianism and Media

1900 to the Present

Paulmann, J. (ed)

Humanitarianism & Media brings together scholars from a variety of backgrounds to offer an unprecedented exploration of the history behind humanitarian efforts and the media, spanning from the late nineteenth century to the present day.

Subjects: Media Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published September 2024
Law, History, and Justice

Debating German State Crimes in the Long Twentieth Century

Weinke, A.

Law, History, and Justice investigates the changing nature of international humanitarian law and explores the entanglements between historical experience, historiography, and law and (moral) politics by focusing on the effects of international law violations during the First World War, the National Socialist mass crimes, the Holocaust, as well as the systematic wrongdoings of the GDR.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published November 2020
Contemplating Historical Consciousness

Notes from the Field

Clark, A. & Peck, C. L. (eds)

Contemplating Historical Consciousness draws on three decades of applied research to tease out what has been learned from the field. Leading scholars from around the world reflect on their practice as historians, ethnographers, social scientists and demographers in order to explore the possibilities and limitations of research into historical consciousness.

Subjects: History (General) Theory and Methodology

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Published February 2023
Europeanization in Sweden

Opportunities and Challenges for Civil Society Organizations

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

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

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available Published November 2018
Sofia Coppola

The Politics of Visual Pleasure

Backman Rogers, A.

Sofia Coppola: The Politics of Visual Pleasure interprets Coppola’s oeuvre to date from a resolutely feminist and philosophical perspective. Using the work of a range of feminist theorists, Backman Rogers situates Coppola’s work as a critique of postfeminist lifestyles that offer the viewer a feminist and feminine philosophy through beguilement, mood and surface.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published December 2020
Probing the Limits of Categorization

The Bystander in Holocaust History

Morina, C. & Thijs, K. (eds)

This volume discusses a number of case studies addressing the history of bystanding during and after the Nazi era. Combining historiographical, conceptual and empirical contributions, Probing the Limits of Categorization explores the roles and experiences of individuals caught up in the dynamics of state-sponsored genocidal violence.

Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published November 2021
Embers of Empire

Continuity and Rupture in the Habsburg Successor States after 1918

Miller, P. & Morelon, C. (eds)

The end of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy radically reshaped the political structures and national identity of East-Central Europe. Embers of Empire focuses on this complex and disruptive transition and sheds new light on the efficacity of imperial institutions, as well as the sources for instability in the newly formed nations.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published December 2021
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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eBook available Published December 2020
From Weimar to Hitler

Studies in the Dissolution of the Weimar Republic and the Establishment of the Third Reich, 1932-1934

Beck, H. & Jones, L. E. (eds)

From Weimar to Hitler examines the crisis of Weimar democracy, the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship, and the Nazi consolidation of power, drawing from multiple perspectives to discover whether the transition from Weimar to Hitler was historically predetermined or the product of human miscalculation and intent.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published November 2018
Curating Live Arts

Critical Perspectives, Essays, and Conversations on Theory and Practice

Davida, D., Pronovost, M., Hudom, V., & Gabriels, J. (eds)

Situated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation has grown in recent years to become a vibrant interdisciplinary project. Curating Live Arts brings together innovative essays from international theorist-practitioners to pose vital questions, propose future visions, and survey the landscape of this rapidly evolving discipline.

Subjects: Performance Studies Museum Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Forthcoming June 2025
Artifak

Cultural Revival, Tourism, and the Recrafting of History in Vanuatu

DeBlock, H.

Artifak investigates the meaning and value of (art) objects as commodities in Vanuatu, in differing states of transit and transition: in the local place, on the market, and in the museum. It provides an ethnographic account of commoditization in the context of revitalization of culture and the arts in Vanuatu.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Museum Studies
eBook available Published April 2020
The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls

The Adventures of Eugène Boban

MacLaren Walsh, J. & Topping, B.

Detailed are the travels, self-education, and archaeological explorations of Eugène Boban, an expert in the field of pre-Columbian studies and explores the circumstances that allowed him to sell fakes to museums that would remain undetected for over a century.

Subjects: Museum Studies Archaeology

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eBook available Published June 2024
Explorations and Entanglements

Germans in Pacific Worlds from the Early Modern Period to World War I

Berghoff, H., Biess, F., & Strasser, U. (eds)

Explorations and Entanglements reconstructs the German elements in the overlapping cultural circuits and complex oceanic transits of the “Pacific Worlds.” It concentrates on the pre-1914 period and encompasses scientific, cultural, religious and commercial exchanges. It opens a gate to a fascinating and hitherto much neglected arena of transnational encounters.

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

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eBook available Published July 2020
The CSCE and the End of the Cold War

Diplomacy, Societies and Human Rights, 1972-1990

Badalassi, N. & Snyder, S. B. (eds)

Since its inception over forty years ago, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe has been met with political and historical controversies. While it’s known today as a significant contributor to the end of the Cold War, The CSCE and the End of the Cold War revisits some of the most fascinating questions in Cold War historiography.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

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eBook available Published June 2022
Non-Humans in Amerindian South America

Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals and Songs

Rivera Andía, J. J. (ed)

Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies, and presenting ethnographies of non-human entities emerging in ritual, oral tradition, cosmology, shamanism and music, this book offers new insights into the indigenous constitutions of humanity, personhood, and environment characteristic of the South American highlands and lowlands.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Forthcoming August 2025
Ice and Snow in the Cold War

Histories of Extreme Climatic Environments

Herzberg, J., Kehrt, C., & Torma, F. (eds)

This fascinating volume demonstrates that regions such as Alaska, the polar landscapes, and the cold areas of the Soviet periphery were of no small importance during the Cold War. Through histories of these extremely cold environments, this volume makes a novel intervention in Cold War historiography, one whose global and transnational approach undermines the simple opposition of “East” and “West.”

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)
eBook available Forthcoming August 2025
The Art of Resistance

Cultural Protest against the Austrian Far Right in the Early Twenty-First Century

Fiddler, A.

The 1999 Austrian election results produced an uprising against a turn to the political right. The Art of Resistance examines artworks created in responses to the Freedom Party of Austria and analyses the styles and strategies deployed by a large range of artists who clashed against increased normalization of far-right thinking.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available Published August 2020
The Global Age-Friendly Community Movement

A Critical Appraisal

Stafford, P. B. (ed)

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

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

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eBook available Published October 2020
Social DNA

Rethinking Our Evolutionary Past

Martin, M. K.

Social DNA presents a new synthesis of ideas on human social origins based upon the evolution of behavioral plasticity and the process of multilevel selection. What set our ancestors off on a separate evolutionary trajectory – what made them human – was the ability to flex their reproductive and social strategies in response to changing environmental conditions.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology

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eBook available Published December 2021
Changes in the Air

Hurricanes in New Orleans from 1718 to the Present

Rohland, E.

Changes in the Air looks at New Orleans and its changing cultural responses to hurricanes over three centuries, carefully exploring the complex interplay of sociopolitical, economic, legal, and cultural factors in the development or stagnation of adaptive practices.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History (General) Urban Studies

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eBook available Published October 2018
Polish Cinema

A History

Haltof, M.

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Marek Haltof’s seminal survey takes stock of dramatic shifts in Polish society and to provide an essential account of the nation’s cinema from the nineteenth century to today. It covers such renowned figures as Kieślowski and Wajda along with vastly expanded coverage of documentaries, animation, and television.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published November 2020
The Politics of Authenticity

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

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

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

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

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eBook available Published June 2023
The Decisionist Imagination

Sovereignty, Social Science and Democracy in the 20th Century

Bessner, D. & Guilhot, N. (eds)

The Decisionist Imagination explores the relationship between the key concept of “decisionism,” as it emerged from 1920s political theory, and the postwar development of formal decision theory when sovereign decision-making became an object of scientific inquiry in a new cultural, institutional, and international landscape.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published October 2020
Indeterminacy

Waste, Value, and the Imagination

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

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published November 2020
What is Work?

Gender at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present

Sarti, R., Bellavitis, A., & Martini, M. (eds)

Every society has a definition of what work is, and isn’t. What Is Work? offers a multi-disciplinary overview of work as it applies to the highly gendered realm of household economies, drawing from scholarship on gender history, economic sociology, family history, civil law, and feminist economics.

Subjects: History (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

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eBook available Forthcoming March 2025
Screened Encounters

The Leipzig Documentary Film Festival, 1955-1990

Moine, C.

Established in 1955, the Leipzig Film Festival’s location in the GDR deeply implicated it in the cultural and political competition between East and West Germany. Screened Encounters offers a comprehensive study of the festival’s history, as well as its influence on international relations during the Cold War.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available Published April 2023
Travelling towards Home

Mobilities and Homemaking

Frost, N. & Selwyn, T. (eds)

This collection brings ethnographic insight into the ever more topical question of homemaking, exploring a diverse range of socio-political contexts worldwide (from Jewish returnees from Israel to Ukraine to young gay South Asians in London) and provoking new understandings of the material and symbolic process of making oneself “at home.”

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies

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eBook available Published April 2022
Gulag Memories

The Rediscovery and Commemoration of Russia's Repressive Past

Bogumił, Z.

Gulag Memories explores the impact of the Gulag on collective memory as it applies to the language of commemoration in Russia, focusing on four regions particularly affected by the Gulag: Solovetsky Islands, the Komi Republic, the Perm region, and Kolyma.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies

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eBook available Forthcoming May 2025
A History Shared and Divided

East and West Germany since the 1970s

Bösch, F. (ed)

Divided History uniquely explores how East and West Germany responded to the new challenges and crises of the 1970s, and reunification. Topics range from political, labor, and business issues to migration and environmental issues, showing how the two German states remained inextricably connected in the 1970s and 1980s.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available Published September 2021
Medicinal Rule

A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa

Stroeken, K.

Based on ethnography-driven regional comparison and a critical re-examination of classic monographs on some forty cultural groups, this volume makes the arresting claim that across equatorial Africa, the model of rule has been medicine – and not (as Europeans have long assumed) the colonizer’s despotic administrator, the missionary’s divine king, or Vansina’s big man.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History

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eBook available Published May 2023
Cash Transfers in Context

An Anthropological Perspective

Olivier de Sardan, J.-P. & Piccoli, E. (eds)

Cash transfer programs have become the preferred channel for delivering emergency aid or tackling poverty in low-and middle-income countries. This book sheds light on their unpredicted consequences worldwide, detailing how they are used by actors to pursue their own strategies and how local populations relate to the external norms they impose.

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

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eBook available Published October 2021
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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eBook available Published August 2020
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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eBook available Published October 2020
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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eBook available Published November 2020
Nation Branding in Modern History

Viktorin, C., Gienow-Hecht, J. C. E., Estner, A., & Will, M. K. (eds)

Branding in Modern History draws from a variety of international case studies, ranging from Austria and Switzerland to Chile, the US, China, Spain, Suriname, and Poland to investigate the nexus between cultural marketing, self-representation and political power by looking at current nation branding campaigns as well as its historical predecessors.

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

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eBook available Forthcoming May 2025
The Wheel of Autonomy

Rhetoric and Ethnicity in the Omo Valley

Girke, F.

Through the theoretical lens of rhetoric, this book offers an interactionalist analysis of how the Kara – a small population in southern Ethiopia – negotiate ethnic and non-ethnic differences among themselves, the relations with their various neighbors, and eventually their integration in the Ethiopian state.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available Published October 2022
The Rite of Urban Passage

The Spatial Ritualization of Iranian Urban Transformation

Masoudi, R.

Focusing on the spatial dynamics of Muharram processions in the Iranian city, this book offers an alternative approach to understanding the process of urban transformation, and puts forward a spatial genealogy of Muharram rituals that provides a platform for developing a fresh spatial approach to ritual studies.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Forthcoming January 2025
Carnage and Care on the Eastern Front

The War Diaries of Bernhard Bardach, 1914-1918

Bardach, B.

Care and Carnage on the Eastern Front documents the day-to-day life of a doctor serving on the Eastern Front between 1914-1918. Bardach’s meticulous records offer a personal glimpse into the critical first weeks of fighting as well as the ultimate collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Army.

Subjects: History: World War I Jewish Studies
Published August 2018
Communities, Landscapes, and Interaction in Neolithic Greece

Sarris, A., Kalogiropoulou, E., Kalayci, T., & Karimali, E. (eds)

This volume provides a synthetic overview of recent developments in the study of Neolithic Greece, and reconsiders the dynamics of human-environment interactions while recording the growing diversity in layers of social organization. It fills an essential lacuna in contemporary literature and enhances our understanding of the Neolithic communities in the Greek Peninsula.

Subject: Archaeology

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eBook available Published August 2018
Mirrors of Passing

Unlocking the Mysteries of Death, Materiality, and Time

Seebach, S. & Willerslev, R. (eds)

Mirrors of Passing explores the relationship between death, materiality, and temporality, drawing from the fields of archaeology, cultural anthropology, political science, and media studies to explore fundamental questions about the relationship between death and our perception of time.

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

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eBook available Published August 2018
Hierarchy and Value

Comparative Perspectives on Moral Order

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published April 2023
An Australian Indigenous Diaspora

Warlpiri Matriarchs and the Refashioning of Tradition

Burke, P.

This book is a multi-sited ethnography of the migration of a minority of the aboriginal Warlpiri away from their traditional homeland to distant towns and cities. It follows a number of Warlpiri matriarchs into their new locations, exploring how they sustain their independent lives and examining their changing relationship with the traditional culture they represent.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

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eBook available Published June 2022
Empathy and History

Historical Understanding in Re-enactment, Hermeneutics and Education

Retz, T.

The History and Function of Empathy in Historical Studies is the first comprehensive account of empathy’s place in historical scholarship, history pedagogy, and the philosophy of history. It explains how empathy became central to teaching history in schools, and traces its roots in nineteenth-century German historicism.

Subjects: History (General) Educational Studies

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eBook available 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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eBook available Published August 2020
Momentous Mobilities

Anthropological Musings on the Meanings of Travel

Salazar, N. B.

Grounded in an eclectic process of data collection, analysis of secondary sources and personal reflection, and drawing on a multi-sited and multi-method research design, Momentous Mobilities disentangles the meanings attached to temporary travels and stays abroad and offers empirical evidence as well as novel theoretical arguments to develop an anthropology of mobility.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism

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eBook available Published August 2020
Living Under Austerity

Greek Society in Crisis

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

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published July 2018
Sense and Essence

Heritage and the Cultural Production of the Real

Meyer, B. & van de Port, M. (eds)

Contrary to popular perceptions, cultural heritage is not given, but constantly in the making, subject to dynamic processes of (re)inventing culture within particular social formations and via particular forms of mediation. Through the heuristic concepts of the "politics of authentication" and "aesthetics of persuasion," this volume explores the centrality of this tension to heritage formation worldwide.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Museum Studies

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eBook available Forthcoming March 2025
Democracy in Modern Europe

A Conceptual History

Kurunmäki, J., Nevers, J., & te Velde, H. (eds)

As one of the most influential ideas in modern European history, democracy has reshaped not only the landscape of government, but also fundamental social and political thought on a global level. Democracy in Modern Europe covers the history of democracy in modern Europe.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
Published October 2022
Lessons in Perception

The Avant-Garde Filmmaker as Practical Psychologist

Taberham, P.

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

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies Sociology
eBook available Published May 2024
The Ethos of History

Time and Responsibility

Helgesson, S. & Svenungsson, J. (eds)

This illuminating collective meditation on historical practice show how “ethos”— evoking a society’s “fundamental character” as well as knowledge and commitment—can serve as a conceptual lodestar for understanding as a narrative, a form of consciousness, and an ethical-political orientation.

Subject: History (General)

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eBook available Published June 2018
Archaeogaming

An Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games

Reinhard, A.

Video games exemplify contemporary material objects, resources, and spaces that people use to define their culture. This book serves as a general introduction to "archaeogaming"; it describes the intersection of archaeology and video games and applies archaeological method and theory into understanding game-spaces as both site and artifact.

Subjects: Archaeology Media Studies Heritage Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published June 2018
The Global Life of Austerity

Comparing Beyond Europe

Rakopoulos, T. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Forthcoming May 2025
History and Belonging

Representations of the Past in Contemporary European Politics

Berger, S. & Tekin, C. (eds)

One of the EU’s primary strategies in European unification has been to construct a common representation of European history, yet the question remains: is there an uncontested history of Europe? History and Belonging addresses this question along with many others related to the EU’s post-national identity policies.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available Published September 2024
Who are 'We'?

Reimagining Alterity and Affinity in Anthropology

Chua, L. & Mathur, N. (eds)

Who do ‘we’ anthropologists think ‘we’ are? Drawing together reflections and ethnographic case studies, this volume explores how the anthropological ‘we’ has been construed, transformed and deployed across history and the global anthropological landscape. It interrogates how these constructions have influenced the discipline, and opens spaces in which they might be reimagined.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published May 2022
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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eBook available Published August 2020
Intimate Mobilities

Sexual Economies, Marriage and Migration in a Disparate World

Groes, C. & Fernandez, N. T. (eds)

This book explores how various types of migration that are often seen as distinct phenomena – such as marriage migration, romance tourism and sex work migration – are in fact variations of cross-border mobilities that evolve around experiences and constructions of “intimacy”, and are facilitated by and deeply entwined with issues of power, gender and sexuality.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

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eBook available Published March 2022
Care across Distance

Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration

Hromadžić, A. & Palmberger, M. (eds)

With a broad geographical scope, Care across Distance explores the multiple ways in which care across regional and national borders materializes from and contributes to changes in political economy; family and intergenerational relations; religion and spirituality; ethics and responsibility; and personhood and subjectivity.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies

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eBook available Published July 2020
Memorializing the GDR

Monuments and Memory after 1989

Saunders, A.

Since unification, eastern Germany has witnessed a rapidly changing memorial landscape. Memorializing the GDR provides the first in-depth study of this key topic, investigating the individuals and groups involved in the creation or destruction of memorials while addressing the subject’s complex aesthetic, political, and historical dimensions.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Urban Studies Heritage Studies

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eBook available Published September 2021
Taking on Technocracy

Nuclear Power in Germany, 1945 to the Present

Augustine, D. L.

Taking on Technocracy addresses changing attitudes towards nuclear energy in the age of global warming. The German decision to abandon nuclear power is placed in a historical context, including popularization of science, new social movements, media, policing, gender, and the history of emotions.

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

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eBook available Published October 2019
Searching for a Better Life

Growing Up in the Slums of Bangkok

Mahony, S.

This book offers an ethnographic account of young people growing up in the slums of Bangkok, exploring their struggles to get by in conditions of severe structural constraint and the outcomes and side effects of their endeavours; in doing so, it offers an antidote to neoliberal assumptions about personal responsibility.

Subject: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies

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Published June 2023
Basic and Applied Research

The Language of Science Policy in the Twentieth Century

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

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

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
eBook available Published December 2021
Waiting for Elijah

Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape

HadžiMuhamedović, S.

Waiting for Elijah is an intimate portrait of time-reckoning, syncretism and proximity in one of the world’s most polarized places, the Bosnian Field of Gacko. Based on long-term, multi-sited fieldwork, it examines the complexity of time situated between folk cosmology, political constructions of history and bodily experiences of a landscape in transition.

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

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eBook available Published September 2021
Experimental Collaborations

Ethnography through Fieldwork Devices

Estalella, A. & Sánchez Criado, T. (eds)

Grounded in a series of diverse ethnographic projects in Africa, America and Europe, Experimental Collaborations attempts to expand our ethnographic repertoire of fieldwork devices. The titular concept signals a descriptive account of certain forms of ethnographic engagement, and a research and pedagogic program to intervene in current forms of ethnographic practice and learning.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published April 2018
Animism beyond the Soul

Ontology, Reflexivity, and the Making of Anthropological Knowledge

Swancutt, K. & Mazard, M. (eds)

The contributors to this volume offer compelling case studies that demonstrate how indigenous animistic practices, concepts, traditions, and ontologies are co-authored in highly reflexive ways by anthropologists and their interlocutors.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Published March 2020
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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eBook available Published April 2018
The Virago Story

Assessing the Impact of a Feminist Publishing Phenomenon

Riley, C.

The Virago Story provides a comprehensive history of classic feminist publisher Virago, along with an up-to-date analysis of the four waves of feminism, new strands of feminist analysis and praxis, and publishing trends.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published April 2018
Moral Anthropology

A Critique

Kapferer, B. & Gold, M. (eds)

A development in anthropological theory, characterized as the 'moral turn', is gaining popularity and should be carefully considered. In examining the context, arguments, and discourse that surrounds this trend, this volume aims to reconceptualise the discipline of anthropology in a radically critical way.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published March 2019
Money at the Margins

Global Perspectives on Technology, Financial Inclusion, and Design

Maurer, B., Musaraj, S., & Small, I. V. (eds)

Mobile money, e-commerce, cash cards, retail credit cards, and more — as new monetary technologies become increasingly available, the global South has embraced these mediums as a simple solution to the issue of financial inclusion. Money at the Margins is a groundbreaking exploration of the uses and socio-cultural impact of new forms of money and financial services.

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

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eBook available Published February 2022
Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism

Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject

Hann, C. & Parry, J. (eds)

Bringing together ethnographic case studies of industrial labor from different parts of the world, Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism explores the increasing casualization of workforces and the weakening power of organized labor. By exploring this relationship, these essays question the claim that neoliberal ideology has become the new ‘commonsense’ of our times.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published July 2022
World Heritage Craze in China

Universal Discourse, National Culture, and Local Memory

Yan, H.

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

Subjects: Heritage Studies Archaeology Sociology Travel and Tourism

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eBook available Forthcoming June 2025
The Southeast Asia Connection

Trade and Polities in the Eurasian World Economy, 500 BC–AD 500

Chew, S. C.

Over world history, Southeast Asia’s contribution to the world economy (during the late prehistoric and early historic periods) has not been given much attention. This book attempts to recalibrate these interactions of Southeast Asia with other parts of the world economy, and gives the region its due instead of treating it as little more than a region of peripheral entrepôts.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available Published March 2018
Global Sustainability and Communities of Practice

Maida, C. A. & Beck, S, (eds)

Using case-based and theoretical chapters that examine rural and urban communities of practice, this volume illustrates how participatory researchers and students as well as policy and community leaders find ways to engage with the broader public when it comes to global sustainability research and practice. Collaboration between experts and the public is vital for effective community engagement aimed at improving the lives of the most vulnerable in society, whether at the local or global level.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published May 2020
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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eBook available Published February 2018
Doing Conceptual History in Africa

Fleisch, A. & Stephens, R. (eds)

The contributions assembled here focus on the complex role of language in Africa’s historical development. From prehistoric dynamics of wealth and poverty to the conceptual foundations of postcolonial nationalism, each engages with African intellectual history while analyzing the regional and global contexts in which categories like “work” and “land” take shape.

Subject: History (General)

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eBook available Published May 2019
A Living Past

Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America

Soluri, J., Leal, C., & Pádua, J. A. (eds)

Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is no longer in its infancy. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past gives a transnational and thematically diverse survey of historical developments since the nineteenth century.

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

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eBook available Published July 2022
After Difference

Queer Activism in Italy and Anthropological Theory

Heywood, P.

This book is a contribution to the anthropology of Italy and of Europe as an ethnography of queer activism in Bologna; and, at the same time, it is an intervention in a set of ongoing theoretical debates in anthropology surrounding the perennial problem of the relationship between ethnographic data and anthropological analysis. It combines discussions of identity and difference, ethics, the fieldwork setting, and anthropology’s turn to ontology.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

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eBook available Published October 2021
Messy Europe

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

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

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

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

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eBook available Published March 2023
Managing Northern Europe's Forests

Histories from the Age of Improvement to the Age of Ecology

Oosthoek, K. J. & Hölzl, R. (eds)

Eleven chapters, organized regionally, explore the origins of state forestry policy in Northern Europe from the early modern period to the present. Topics include fundamental policy aims, the functioning and organisations of forestry, forest management, wood supply, regulations, forest statistics, wood depletion, growing stock, forest conservation, and landscape protection.

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

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eBook available Published October 2019
Nazism, the Holocaust, and the Middle East

Arab and Turkish Responses

Nicosia, F. R. & Ergene, B. A. (eds)

How was Nazism received in the Middle East? By focusing on Arab and Turkish reactions to Nazi anti-Semitism and persecution of the Jews in Germany and Europe, this collection offers a fresh perspective on institutional and popular attitudes towards Jewish communities throughout the Middle East during the 1930s and 1940s.

Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies

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Published November 2019
The Witness as Object

Video Testimony in Memorial Museums

Jong, S. de

Today more than ever before, the historical witness is now a “museum object” in the form of video interviews. With a focus on Holocaust museums, this study scrutinizes this new global phenomenon of the “musealisation” of testimony, exploring the processes, prerequisites, and consequences of video testimonies as exhibits.

Subjects: Museum Studies History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies Memory Studies
eBook available Published November 2020
Communist Parties Revisited

Sociocultural Approaches to Party Rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991

Bergien, R. & Gieseke, J. (eds)

Drawing from perspectives from within the everyday life of basic organizations and the practices of the party apparatuses, Communist Parties Revisited sheds light on the inner workings the Eastern Bloc, and the effects of state socialist policy on a micro historical level.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published December 2020
The Wars of Yesterday

The Balkan Wars and the Emergence of Modern Military Conflict, 1912-13

Boeckh, K. & Rutar, S. (eds)

Together comprising one of the first modern conflicts of the twentieth century, the Balkan Wars (1912–13) served as precursors of the bloody wars to follow. This volume offers a fascinating exploration of the wars’ history, with a central focus on the experiences of both combatants and civilians.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Forthcoming April 2025
Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation

Between Text and Practice

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

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

Subjects: Archaeology History: Medieval/Early Modern Sociology History (General)
eBook available Published September 2021
Expeditionary Anthropology

Teamwork, Travel and the ''Science of Man''

Thomas, M. & Harris, A. (eds)

Expeditions played a major role in the development of anthropology, but their significance has been eclipsed by the discipline’s valorization of the lone observer. This rich assessment of cross-cultural research and team-based travel is part of a new historical turn that regards expeditions as cultural formations, and provides new and compelling perspectives on the histories of anthropology and empire.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Travel and Tourism

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eBook available Forthcoming April 2025
Island Historical Ecology

Socionatural Landscapes of the Eastern and Southern Caribbean

Siegel, P. (ed)

Island Historical Ecology addresses Caribbean island ecologies from the perspective of social and cultural intervention, focusing on selected islands between Venezuela and Puerto Rico. This volume goes on to compare these ecologies with well-documented patterns in the Mediterranean and Pacific islands, placing the Caribbean into a larger context of island historical ecology.

Subjects: Archaeology Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published July 2019
The Ethics of Seeing

Photography and Twentieth-Century German History

Evans, J., Betts P., & Hoffmann, S.-L. (eds)

The Ethics of Seeing brings together an international group of scholars to explore the complex relationship between the visual and the historic in German history. These revealing case studies illustrate photography’s multilayered role as a new form of representation, a means to subjective experience, and a fresh mode of narrating the past.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies

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eBook available Published January 2018
Contrarian Anthropology

The Unwritten Rules of Academia

Nader, L.

Analyzing the workings of boundary maintenance in the areas of anthropology, energy, gender, and law, Nader contrasts dominant trends in academia with work that pushes the boundaries of acceptable methods and theories. Although the selections illustrate the history of one anthropologist’s work over half a century, the wider intent is to label a field as contrarian to reveal unwritten rules that sometimes hinder transformative thinking.

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

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eBook available Published April 2020
Staging Citizenship

Roma, Performance and Belonging in EU Romania

Szeman, I.

Staging Citizenship explores a wide range of Roma performances and representations—from live music and cultural performances to Gypsy soaps and reality TV shows, demonstrating how disenfranchised urban Roma claim cultural citizenship and belonging in music, dance, activism and everyday encounters.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Performance Studies

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eBook available Published December 2017
Affective States

Entanglements, Suspensions, Suspicions

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

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published November 2019
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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eBook available Published July 2021
Singing Ideas

Performance, Politics and Oral Poetry

Ní Shíocháin, T.

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

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

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eBook available Published December 2020
Visitors to the House of Memory

Identity and Political Education at the Jewish Museum Berlin

Bishop Kendzia, V.

By accompanying a range of senior high school history students before, during and after their visits to the museum, Visitors to the House of Memory is an intimate exploration of how young Berliners from across the city experience the Jewish Museum Berlin.

Subjects: Museum Studies Jewish Studies Educational Studies Memory Studies

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eBook available Published March 2023
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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eBook available Published October 2020
Indigeneity on the Move

Varying Manifestations of a Contested Concept

Gerharz, E., Uddin, N., & Chakkarath, P. (eds)

“Indigeneity” has become a prominent yet contested concept in national and international politics, as well as within the social sciences. This edited volume draws from authors representing different disciplines and perspectives, aiming to convey a theoretical and empirical overview of indigeneity in order to investigate the concept’s scientific and political potential.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

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Published December 2017
The Great Reform That Never Was

Chiaramonte, A. & Wilson, A. (eds)

In Italy, 2016 was meant to be the year of the “great reform,” a constitutional revision that would have concluded the never-ending transition from “First” to “Second” Republic, a long process involving several transformations in the electoral system and party system since the 1990s. It did not turn out this way.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published November 2017
Stategraphy

Toward a Relational Anthropology of the State

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

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published January 2023
From Clans to Co-ops

Confiscated Mafia Land in Sicily

Rakopoulos, T.

From Clans to Co-ops explores the social, political, and economic relations that enable the constitution of cooperatives through antimafia transformation of landholdings. The volume is the first monograph on Sicily’s rural antimafia movement, contributing to the anthropology and sociology of cooperatives, as well as to broader debates about small-scale democratic institutions, food movements and agrarian activism.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Food & Nutrition
eBook available Published September 2019
Peaceful Selves

Personhood, Nationhood, and the Post-Conflict Moment in Rwanda

Eramian, L.

Twenty years after the 1994 genocide, Rwandans are still troubled by what made the violence possible and how they can know it will not recur. This study uncovers how Rwandan visions of peace and modern nationhood concern not only political reform or economic development, but also transformations in the self.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies

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eBook available Published July 2019
Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin

Bauer, K. & Hosek, J. R. (eds)

Transformed by the Wall's opening in 1989 and the concomitant shift in global relations of power, Berlin continues to shape historical and contemporary images of Germanness. This interdisciplinary anthology explores Berlin's unique cultural topographies in literature, film, architecture, urban planning, and city marketing.

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

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eBook available Published August 2022
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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eBook available Published October 2023
Vital Diplomacy

The Ritual Everyday on a Dammed River in Amazonia

Nahum-Claudel. C.

Focusing on the major ceremonial cycle of the Enawene-nawe people, Vital Diplomacy sheds new light on classic Amazonian themes such as manioc cultivation and cuisine, predatory relations with non-humans, and the interplay of myth and practice, and to consider dynamics of kin, clan, and gender relations, the meaning of productive work, and practices of foreign diplomacy.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published November 2021
Subjects, Citizens, and Others

Administering Ethnic Heterogeneity in the British and Habsburg Empires, 1867-1918

Gammerl, B.

Exploring racism, migration, and citizenship, Subjects, Citizens and Others offers a pioneering analysis of how the British and the Austro-Hungarian Empire governed their ethnically diverse populations. Author Benno Gammerl rejects common assumptions about ethnic exclusivity in Eastern and Western Europe, analyzing the legal and political conditions that help to foster ethnic heterogeneity.

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

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eBook available Published June 2020
Difference and Sameness as Modes of Integration

Anthropological Perspectives on Ethnicity and Religion

Schlee, G. & Horstmann, A. (eds)

What does it mean to “fit in?” This volume of essays demystifies the discourse on identity, challenging common assumptions about role of similarity in inclusion and exclusion. Armed with intimate knowledge of local social structures, these essays tease out the ways in which ethnicity, religion and nationalism are used for social integration.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Peace and Conflict Studies

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eBook available Published July 2024
The Persistence of Race

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

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

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

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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eBook available Published June 2020
Foucault's Orient

The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan

Lazreg, M.

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

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

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eBook available Published July 2021
Children of the Camp

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

Grayson, C.-L.

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

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

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eBook available Published May 2020
From Eastern Bloc to European Union

Comparative Processes of Transformation since 1990

Heydemann, G. & Vodička, K. (eds)

This volume assembles detailed, empirically grounded studies of eleven former Soviet states and current EU members. Each chapter analyzes the political, economic, and social transformation processes that have taken place in a given nation, identifying structural similarities and assessing outcomes compared to one another as well as the rest of Europe.

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

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eBook available Published December 2020
Growing Up in Transit

The Politics of Belonging at an International School

Tanu, D.

Tanu offers the first ethnographic study of young people who experience high levels of international mobility while growing up, either moving across national borders or by attending international schools with trans-national student bodies.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Educational Studies

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eBook available Published October 2017
The Participants

The Men of the Wannsee Conference

Jasch, H.-C., & Kreutzmüller, C. (eds)

Although the Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942 is today understood as a signal episode in the history of the Holocaust, many of its attendees remain relatively unknown to nonspecialists. Combining accessible prose with scholarly rigor, The Participants presents fascinating profiles of the all-too-human men who implemented some of the most inhuman acts in modern history.

Subjects: Genocide History History: World War II

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eBook available Published April 2020
Straying from the Straight Path

How Senses of Failure Invigorate Lived Religion

Beekers, D. & Kloos, D. (eds)

Responding to the need for comparative approaches in the face of the increasingly separated fields of the anthropology of Islam and Christianity, Straying from the Straight Path gives full attention to moral failure as a constitutive and potentially energizing force in the religious lives of both Muslims and Christians in different parts of the world.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Published December 2019
Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia

Transitioning to an Alternative World System

Baer, H. A.

As global economic and population growth continues to skyrocket, increasingly strained resources have ignited the search for an alternative to capitalism. Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia outlines the urgent need to reevaluate the current system, and replace it with one capable of mobilizing people globally to prevent on-going human socio-economic, environmental degradation, and anthropogenic climate change.

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

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eBook available Published July 2023
Global Exchanges

Scholarships and Transnational Circulations in the Modern World

Tournès, L. & Scott-Smith, G. (eds)

Exchanges between different cultures and institutions of learning have taken place for centuries, yet formal exchange programs did not exist until the 20th century. The essays in Global Exchanges examine the most important scholarship programs, exploring the essential contributions of organized exchange.

Subjects: Mobility Studies History: 20th Century to Present Educational Studies

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eBook available Published December 2019
Eastern Europe Unmapped

Beyond Borders and Peripheries

Kacandes, I. & Komska, Y. (eds)

Arguably more than any other world regions, the area known as Eastern Europe has been defined by its location on the map. Rather than expound on borders and neighbors, Eastern Europe Unmapped raises questions about the meaning and relevance of the area’s non-contiguous, frequently global or extraterritorial, entanglements.

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

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eBook available Published September 2021
Gender in Georgia

Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation, and History in the South Caucasus

Barkaia, M. & Waterston, A. (eds)

As Georgia seeks to reinvent itself in the post-Soviet period, Georgian women are maneuvering to adjust to the new economic, social and political order. Gender in Georgia brings together an international group of feminist scholars to explore the socio-political conditions that have shaped gender dynamics in Georgia from the late 19th century to the present.

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

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eBook available Published April 2023
Moral Engines

Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life

Mattingly, C., Dyring, R., Louw, M., & Schwarz Wentzer, T. (eds)

What fundamentally drives human beings to strive for moral perfection? Is it care of the self? Is it care for others? Is it inextricably wedded to politics? Moral Engines includes some of the foremost voices in the anthropology of morality, representing a unique interdisciplinary conversation between anthropologists and philosophers about the moral engines of ethical life.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published August 2019
The Anthropology of the Fetus

Biology, Culture, and Society

Han, S., Betsinger, T. K., & Scott, A. B. (eds)

As a biological, cultural, and social entity, the human fetus is a multifaceted subject which calls for equally diverse perspectives to fully understand. Anthropology of the Fetus seeks to achieve this by bringing together specialists in biological anthropology, archaeology, and cultural anthropology, all with the ultimate goal of developing a holistic anthropology of the fetus.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published September 2017
House of the Waterlily

A Novel of the Ancient Maya World

Carmean, K.

House of the Waterlily is a historical novel set in the world of the Late Classic Period Maya of the Southern Lowlands. Through the story of Lady Winik, a young Maya noble girl, the reader is immersed in the everyday world of the Maya

Subjects: Archaeology Literary Studies Memory Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published March 2022
Spanish Lessons

Cinema and Television in Contemporary Spain

Smith, P. J.

Spanish film and television represent a remarkably influential and vibrant cultural industry, as well as a fertile site of innovation in the production of “transmedia” works that bridge narrative forms. Spanish Lessons provides an engaging exploration of the nation’s visual culture in an era of collapsing genre boundaries, accelerating technological change, and political-economic tumult.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies

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eBook available Published August 2017
The Nanking Atrocity, 1937-1938

Complicating the Picture

Wakabayashi, B. T. (ed)

First published in 2007, The Nanking Atrocity remains an essential resource for understanding the massacre. This second edition includes an extensive new introduction reflecting on the historiographical developments of the last decade, making this even more relevant as we approach the 80th anniversary of the Nanking massacre.

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published July 2022
Money in the German-speaking Lands

Lindemann, M. & Poley, J. (eds)

Germany’s leading role in EU economic policy following the 2008 financial crisis is in a sense only the latest step in a long history of attempts at political unification through economic integration. This volume follows this trajectory in German-speaking lands from the late Renaissance until the close of the twentieth century.

Subject: History (General)

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eBook available Published December 2018
Cultural Borders of Europe

Narratives, Concepts and Practices in the Present and the Past

Andrén, M., Lindkvist, T., Söhrman, I. & Vajta, K. (eds)

The cultural borders of Europe are today more visible than ever, creating uncertainty for liberal democratic traditions, and questions of legitimacy, political representation, and the legal bases for citizenship. This book provides a wide-ranging exploration of these lines of demarcation in a variety of European regions and historical eras.

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published October 2018
World War I and the Jews

Conflict and Transformation in Europe, the Middle East, and America

Rozenblit, M. L. and Karp, J. (eds)

World War I utterly transformed the lives of Jews around the world, allowing them to demonstrate patriotism, dispel antisemitic myths, and fight for their rights. This book provides a fascinating survey of the ways in which Jewish communities in Europe, North America, and the Middle East participated in and were changed by the Great War during and after the conflict.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War I

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eBook available Published March 2019
Gender, Violence, Refugees

Buckley-Zistel, S. & Krause, U. (eds)

Providing nuanced accounts of how the social identities of men and women, the context of displacement and the experience or manifestation of violence interact, this collection offers conceptual analyses and in-depth case studies to illustrate how gender relations are affected by displacement, encampment and return.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

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eBook available Published January 2022
A Goddess in Motion

Visual Creativity in the Cult of María Lionza

Canals, R.

Shedding light on the role of visual creativity in religion, Canals explores the current practice of the cult of María Lionza, one of the most important and yet unexplored religious practices in Venezuela.

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

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eBook available Published September 2018
Living Before Dying

Imagining and Remembering Home

Davies, J.

This in-depth description of life in a nursing/care home, told in a year of daily conversations with patients and staff, highlights the daily care of frail or ill residents of extreme old age, emphasising interaction with care assistants and the different behaviours of men and women.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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eBook available Published May 2020
European Anthropologies

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

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Colonial History

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eBook available Published December 2018
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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eBook available Published March 2024
The Bressonians

French Cinema and the Culture of Authorship

Morari, C.

With his meticulous approach to craft, formal innovations, and intensely personal style, Robert Bresson was in many ways the prototypical auteur. This strikingly original study of Bresson and his cinematic afterlives his influence in the work of French filmmakers such as Pialat, Eustache, and Rohmer—directors united by the “problem” of authorial style they inherited from Bresson.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

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eBook available Published October 2019
The Women's Liberation Movement

Impacts and Outcomes

Schulz, K. (ed)

This collection represents the first systematic reflection on the impact and outcomes of the women’s liberation movement in different areas and topics of Western societies. It systematically investigates movement outcomes in one country in the light of a reflective social movement theory and compares them to developments in other countries.

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

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Published December 2018
European Regions and Boundaries

A Conceptual History

Mishkova, D. & Trencsényi, B. (eds)

References to regional differences remain central to cultural and political discourse all over the European continent. This collection presents a synoptic view of these regional concepts together with the historical and disciplinary contexts where they had emerged by bringing together prominent European and US scholars from multiple disciplines to explore how regionalization has been conceptualized throughout European history.

Subjects: History (General) Mobility Studies
eBook available Published June 2019
Mad Mädchen

Feminism and Generational Conflict in Recent German Literature and Film

McCarthy, M.

The last two decades have been frequently discordant for German feminism, as a new cohort of activists has come of age and challenged many of the movement’s strategic and philosophical orthodoxies. This book offers an incisive cultural analysis of these trans-generational debates, identifying characteristic features of their representation in German literature, film, and media.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Media Studies Film and Television Studies Literary Studies

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eBook available Published September 2020
Managing Ambiguity

How Clientelism, Citizenship, and Power Shape Personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Brković, Č.

Why do people turn to personal connections to get things done? Challenging widespread views of favors as means of survival in transitioning contexts, this volume demonstrates that these contemporary globalized forms of flexible governance are not contradictory to one another, but often mutually constitutive.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published February 2021
Transborder Media Spaces

Ayuujk Videomaking between Mexico and the US

Kummels, I.

Transborder Media Spaces offers a new perspective on how various media forms have been appropriated by Mexican indigenous people in the light of transnational migration and ethnopolitical movements. Within new media spaces, the Ayuujk people carve out their own visions of development, modernity, gender, and indigeneity in the twenty-first century.

Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published June 2017
Stories Make the World

Reflections on Storytelling and the Art of the Documentary

Most, S.

Today, at a time when we are seeking to orient ourselves within a flood of raw information and conflicting narratives, an understanding of storytelling is of vital importance for making sense of the world. In this book, award-winning screenwriter Stephen Most offers a captivating, refreshingly heartfelt exploration of how documentary film and other forms of storytelling remain so essential today.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Literary Studies

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eBook available Published January 2022
Poland Daily

Economy, Work, Consumption and Social Class in Polish Cinema

Mazierska, E.

Polish cinema has inescapably been shaped by the nation’s succession of different economic and ideological regimes over the last century. This volume is the first to analyze the entirety of the nation’s film history—from independence in 1918 to today—through the lenses of political economy and social class.

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

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eBook available Published October 2021
Civil Society Revisited

Lessons from Poland

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

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

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published January 2023
Footprints in Paradise

Ecotourism, Local Knowledge, and Nature Therapies in Okinawa

Murray, A. E.

In Okinawa, ecotourism promises to provide employment for a dwindling population of rural youth while preserving the natural environment and bolstering regional pride. Footprints in Paradise explores how sense of place in Okinawa is transformed as language, landscapes, and wildlife are reconstituted as treasured and vulnerable resources.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism Environmental Studies (General)
eBook available Published October 2019
Conceptual History in the European Space

Steinmetz, W., Freeden, M., & Fernández-Sebastián, J. (eds)

Bringing together leading scholars from across Europe, this volume represents a landmark intervention in the historiography of concepts. With clarifying overviews of such contested theoretical terrain as translatability, spatiality, and center-periphery dynamics, it also provides valuable insights into the current era of disenchantment with the European project.

Subject: History (General)

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eBook available Published August 2019
Space and Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History

Lässig, S. & Rürup, M. (eds)

This wide-ranging volume revisits both literal and metaphorical spaces in modern German history, working from an expansive concept of “the spatial” to examine the ways in which Jewishness has been attributed to them, and what the implications have been in different eras and social contexts.

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

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eBook available Published March 2021
Organic Cinema

Film, Architecture, and the Work of Béla Tarr

Botz-Bornstein, T.

What might the “organic” mean in the context of film studies? This innovative volume locates one instance of organicity in the work of Béla Tarr, the renowned Hungarian filmmaker “slow cinema” pioneer. It analyzes Tarr’s long take and other signature techniques, establishes links between the seemingly remote spheres of film and architecture.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published October 2020
The Myth of Self-Reliance

Economic Lives Inside a Liberian Refugee Camp

Omata, N.

The Myth of Self-Reliance provides valuable insights into refugees’ experiences of repatriation to Liberia after protracted exile and their responses to the ending of refugee status for remaining refugees in Ghana.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published June 2022
The Dance of Nurture

Negotiating Infant Feeding

Van Esterik, P. & O'Connor, R. A.

Breastfeeding and child feeding at the center of nurturing practices, yet the work of nurture has escaped the scrutiny of medical and social scientists. The Dance of Nurture integrates ethnography, biology and the political economy of infant feeding to detail the efforts to improve infant feeding practices globally by UN agencies and advocacy groups concerned with solving global nutrition and health problems.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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eBook available Published August 2019
Money in a Human Economy

Hart, K. (eds)

Contributors to this volume attempt to think about money as a category of thought, offer theories on luxury and sex in capitalist development, and follow the evolution of money today from the role of the global South in shaping its future, to cross-border investment in China, to Bitcoin as politics. Money in a Human Economy offers multiple perspectives on capital’s central role in the formation of world society, as well as in the shaping of its current discontents.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published June 2017
Mary Douglas

Understanding Social Thought and Conflict

6, P. & Richards, P.

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

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

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eBook available Published June 2019
Indigeneity and the Sacred

Indigenous Revival and the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites in the Americas

Sarmiento, F. & Hitchner, S. (eds)

This important contribution presents current research in the political ecology of indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation of sacred natural sites in the Americas. The book explores how struggles for land, rights, and political power are embedded within physical landscapes, and how indigenous identity is reformed as globalizing forces simultaneously threaten and promote the notion of indigeneity.

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

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eBook available Published September 2020
The Mirror of the Medieval

An Anthropology of the Western Historical Imagination

Fazioli, K. P.

The Middle Ages have always held a uniquely important place in the Western imagination. This book gives an eye-opening account of the ways various political and intellectual projects have appropriated the medieval past for their own ends, grounded in an analysis of contemporary struggles over power and identity in the Eastern Alps.

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Theory and Methodology Archaeology

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eBook available 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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eBook available Published December 2018
Fascism without Borders

Transnational Connections and Cooperation between Movements and Regimes in Europe from 1918 to 1945

Bauerkämper, A. & Rossolińki-Liebe, G. (eds)

Despite its reputation for ultra-nationalism, Fascism understood itself as a transnational political movement. Through a series of fascinating case studies, this expansive collection examines fascism’s transational dimension, from the movements inspired by the early example of Fascist Italy to the international antifascist organizations that emerged in subsequent years.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published June 2021
Wolf Conflicts

A Sociological Study

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

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

Subjects: Sociology Environmental Studies (General)

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eBook available Published June 2019
Archeologies of Confession

Writing the German Reformation, 1517-2017

Johnson, C. L., Luebke, D. M., Plummer, M. E. & Spohnholz, J. (eds)

Can one give voice to those whom history has forgotten? The essays collected here examine the formation of religious identities during the Reformation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Germany through case studies of remembering and forgetting—instances in which patterns and practices of religious plurality were excised from historical memory.

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Memory Studies

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eBook available Published September 2019
Grace after Genocide

Cambodians in the United States

Mortland, C. A.

Grace after Genocide is the first comprehensive ethnography of Cambodian refugees, charting their struggle to transition from agrarian life to survival in post-industrial America, while still maintaining their Cambodian identities. The ethnography details how America’s mid-twentieth century involvement in Southeast Asia has had enormous consequences on Khmer refugees and their children.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

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eBook available Published February 2020
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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eBook available Published December 2018
Let Them Not Return

Sayfo – The Genocide Against the Assyrian, Syriac, and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire

Gaunt, D., Atto, N., & Barthoma, S. O. (eds)

While the Armenian genocide is today widely recognized, the broader context of Ottoman violence against minority groups—including the indigenous, largely Christian Assyrians—are less well known. This volume is the first scholarly edited collection focused on the Assyrian genocide, or “sayfo.”

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published December 2018
Labour, Unions and Politics under the North Star

The Nordic Countries, 1700-2000

Hilson, M., Neunsinger, S., & Vyff, I. (eds)

Notwithstanding Nordic countries’ reputation for strong labour movements, the fortunes of organized labour have varied widely throughout the region and across different historical periods. Together, the essays collected here explore themes such as work, unions, politics and migration in the Nordic states from the early modern period to the twenty-first century.

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published December 2018
Daily Life in the Abyss

Genocide Diaries, 1915-1918

Tachjian, V.

Although research into the Armenian Genocide has grown tremendously in recent years, surprisingly little is known about the actual experiences of the genocide’s victims. Daily Life in the Abyss illuminates this aspect through the intertwined stories of two Armenian families who endured forced relocation and deprivation in and around modern-day Syria.

Subjects: Genocide History History: World War I

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eBook available Published October 2018
Methodologies of Mobility

Ethnography and Experiment

Elliot, A., Norum, R., & Salazar, N. B. (eds)

Research into mobility is an exciting challenge for the social sciences that raises novel socio-cultural, ethical, and methodological questions. Speaking beyond disciplinary boundaries to the challenges of engaging with a world on the move, Methodologies of Mobility traces innovative strategies for designing, applying and reflecting on methodologies of mobility.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published November 2019
Sisters in Arms

Militant Feminisms in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1968

Karcher, K.

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

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

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eBook available Published November 2019
Conflict, Domination, and Violence

Episodes in Mexican Social History

Illades, C.

This wide-ranging, briskly narrated volume from acclaimed Mexican historian Carlos Illades guides the reader through key episodes in Mexican social history, from rebellions under Porfirio Díaz to the recent emergence of neo-anarchist movements. Taken together, they comprise a mosaic history of power and resistance, with ordinary people confronting the forces of domination and transforming Mexican society.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Peace and Conflict Studies

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eBook available Published October 2019
Evidence and Meaning

A Theory of Historical Studies

Rüsen, J.

One of the premier historiographers alive today, Jörn Rüsen has made enormous contributions to the methods and theoretical framework of history. In Evidence and Meaning, Rüsen surveys the seismic changes that have shaped the historical profession over the last half-century, while offering a clear, economical account of his theory of history.

Subject: History (General)

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eBook available Published October 2018
Death of the Public University?

Uncertain Futures for Higher Education in the Knowledge Economy

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

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

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published October 2019
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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eBook available 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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eBook available Published October 2018
On Retaliation

Towards an Interdisciplinary Understanding of a Basic Human Condition

Turner, B. & Schlee, G. (eds)

Retaliatory logics are associated with all types of social and political organization. Deriving a concept of retaliation from the overall notion of reciprocity, contributors to this volume touch upon the interaction between retaliation and violence, the state’s monopoly on legitimate punishment, socio-political frameworks, religious interpretations, and economic processes.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies

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Published July 2023
Driving Modernity

Technology, Experts, Politics, and Fascist Motorways, 1922-1943

Moraglio, M.

Driving Modernity recounts the history of the first Italian motorway, which—alongside railways and aviation—Italian authorities hoped would spread an ideology of technological nationalism. It explains how Italy ultimately failed to realize its mammoth infrastructural vision, addressing the political and social conditions that made a coherent plan of development impossible.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Mobility Studies Transport Studies
eBook available Published November 2020
The Greek Exodus from Egypt

Diaspora Politics and Emigration, 1937-1962

Dalachanis, A.

This painstakingly researched book explains how Egypt’s once-robust Greek population dwindled to virtually nothing, beginning with the abolition of foreigners’ privileges in 1937 and culminating in the nationalist revolution of 1952. It reconstructs the delicate sociopolitical circumstances that Greeks had to navigate during this period, tracing the complex causes of demographic decline.

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

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eBook available Published November 2018
Children in the Holocaust and its Aftermath

Historical and Psychological Studies of the Kestenberg Archive

Kangisser Cohen, S., Fogelman, E., & Ofer, D. (eds)

The testimonies of individuals who survived the Holocaust as children pose distinct challenges for researchers, requiring them to often follow simultaneous, disparate narratives. This interdisciplinary volume brings together historians, psychologists, and other scholars to explore child survivors’ accounts, with a central focus on the Kestenberg Holocaust Child Survivor Archive’s over 1,500 testimonies.

Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies

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eBook available Published August 2020
Collaborative Intimacies in Music and Dance

Anthropologies of Sound and Movement

Chrysagis, E. & Karampampas, P. (eds)

Across varied domains, music and dance both emerge from and give rise to intimate collaboration. This theoretically rich collection takes an ethnographic approach to understanding the collaborative dimension of sound and movement in everyday life, drawing on genres and practices in contexts as diverse as Japanese shakuhachi playing, Peruvian huayno, and the Greek goth scene.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published April 2017
When Things Become Property

Land Reform, Authority and Value in Postsocialist Europe and Asia

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

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published August 2019
Theoretical Scholarship and Applied Practice

Pink, S., Fors, V., & O'Dell, T. (eds)

Academics across the globe are being urged by universities and research councils to do research that impacts the world beyond academia. The contributions to this collection advance our understanding of the ethics, values, opportunities and challenges that emerge in making of engaged and interdisciplinary scholarship.

Subject: Applied Anthropology

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eBook available Published April 2017
Starry Nights

Critical Structural Realism in Anthropology

Reyna, S. P.

Starry Nights formulates something of an un-canon: it critiques postmodernism while devising its own strategy for conducting research. It envisions a 'big tent' anthropology that is vast in scope, addressing social, cultural and biological domains by developing a scientific realism for analyzing different fields, a structure for unifying them, and a critical attitude for improving them.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published October 2018
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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eBook available Published September 2019
Food Culture

Anthropology, Linguistics and Food Studies

Chrzan, J. & Brett, J. (eds)

This volume offers a comprehensive guide to methods used in the sociocultural, linguistic and historical research of food use. This volume is unique in offering food-related research methods from multiple academic disciplines, and includes methods that bridge disciplines to provide a thorough review of best practices.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition

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eBook available Published September 2019
Food Health

Nutrition, Technology, and Public Health

Chrzan, J. & Brett, J. (eds)

This volume provides in-depth analysis and comprehensive review of methods necessary to design, plan, implement and analyze public health programming related to food and nutrition using anthropological best practices.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition

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eBook available Published January 2019
Anthropology and Public Service

The UK Experience

MacClancy, J. (ed)

Many anthropologists are now finding jobs in commercial organizations or in government. This volume shows how anthropologists can set new agendas, and revise old ones in the public sector. Included are discussions of anthropologists’ work with the Department for International Development, the Ministry of Defence, the UK Border Agency, and their contributions to prison governance.

Subject: Applied Anthropology

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eBook available Published May 2021
Metaphors of Spain

Representations of Spanish National Identity in the Twentieth Century

Moreno-Luzón, J. & Núñez Seixas, X. M. (eds)

Despite the undeniably political character of the history of Spanish nationalism, a cultural approach can also provide essential insights into the subject. Metaphors of Spain brings together leading historians to examine Spanish nationalism through its diverse and complementary cultural artifacts, from “formal” representations such as the flag to music, bullfighting, and other more diffuse examples.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published January 2020
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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eBook available Published September 2019
Food Research

Nutritional Anthropology and Archaeological Methods

Chrzan, J. & Brett, J. (eds)

Biocultural and archaeological research on food, past and present, often relies on very specific, precise, methods for data collection and analysis. These are presented here in a broad-based review.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition Archaeology

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eBook available Published October 2020
The Romance of Crossing Borders

Studying and Volunteering Abroad

Doerr, N. M. & Davis Taïeb, H. (eds)

What draws people to study abroad or volunteer in far-off communities? This volume explores what draws students to study or volunteer abroad. In doing so, the book sheds light on how affect is managed by educators and mobilized by students and volunteers themselves, and how these structures of feeling related to broader social and economic forces.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism Educational Studies

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eBook available Published June 2020
The Patient Multiple

An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision-Making in Bhutan

Taee, J.

In Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailments. The Patient Multiple delves into the context of patients’ daily lives and decision-making processes, showing how these unique mountain cultures are finding paths to health among a changing and multifaceted medical topography.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Published November 2019
The Monumental Nation

Magyar Nationalism and Symbolic Politics in Fin-de-siècle Hungary

Varga, B.

In a quixotic episode in nineteenth-century Hungary’s attempts to spread nationalist sentiments, monuments were erected near small towns commemorating the medieval conquest of the Carpathian Basin—the supposed origin of the Hungarian nation. This study recounts the troubled history of this plan, which provoked resistance and even hostility among provincial Hungarians.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

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eBook available Published November 2023
Xenocracy

State, Class, and Colonialism in the Ionian Islands, 1815-1864

Gekas, S.

Xenocracy offers a much-needed account of the islands of the Ionian Sea during their half-century of oversight by Great Britain. It recounts how, despite Britain’s liberal reforms, the Ionian State’s economic deterioration anticipated the “neocolonial” condition with which the Greek nation struggles even today.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History

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eBook available Published December 2019
Poverty and Welfare in Modern German History

Raphael, L. (ed)

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

Subjects: History (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published April 2018
Stars and Stardom in Brazilian Cinema

Bergfelder, T., Shaw, L. & Vieira, J. L. (eds)

The richness of Brazilian stardom extends well beyond the ubiquitous Carmen Miranda, and among the studies assembled in this volume are fascinating explorations of figures alongside interrogations of the inner workings of the star system in Brazil, from the pioneering efforts of silent-era actresses to the recent advent of the non-professional movie star.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies

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eBook available Published January 2020
The Imbalance of Power

Leadership, Masculinity and Wealth in the Amazon

Brightman, M

The Imbalance of Power demonstrates that the indigenous societies of the Guiana region of Amazonia do not fit conventional characterizations of ‘simple’ political units with ‘egalitarian’ political ideologies and ‘harmonious’ relationships with nature.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published March 2019
International Organizations and Environmental Protection

Conservation and Globalization in the Twentieth Century

Kaiser, W. & Meyer, J.-H. (eds)

Environmental issues transcend national boundaries, and thus they have been a particular focus for international organizations for over a century. This volume is the first to comprehensively explore the environmental activities of regional bodies, professional communities, the United Nations, NGOs, and other international organizations during the twentieth century.

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

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eBook available Published November 2018
Microhistories of the Holocaust

Zalc, C. & Bruttmann, T. (eds)

Increasingly, recent historical scholarship has demonstrated a willingness to study the Holocaust at scales as focused as a single neighborhood or family. This volume brings together scholars to reflect on the ongoing microhistorical turn in Holocaust studies, assessing its historiographical pitfalls as well as the distinctive opportunities it affords researchers.

Subjects: Genocide History History: World War II Jewish Studies

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eBook available Published September 2018
A Fragmented Landscape

Abortion Governance and Protest Logics in Europe

De Zordo, S., Mishtal, J., & Anton. J. (eds)

Since 1945, European states’ social policy landscapes have proven remarkably varied, especially when it comes to contentious issues such as abortion, which is governed by a wide range of policy regimes. This volume provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary survey of the struggles over abortion rights in Europe from the immediate postwar era to the present era.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published December 2016
America Observed

On an International Anthropology of the United States

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

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published January 2022
The Forest People without a Forest

Development Paradoxes, Belonging and Participation of the Baka in East Cameroon

Lueong, G. M.

The Forest People without a Forest explores how the Baka, who live in Eastern Cameroon, assert forms of belonging in order to participate in development interventions, and how community life is shaped and reshaped through these interventions. These interventions raise paradoxes of belonging for the Baka, and are often targeted toward competing and contradictory goals.

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

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eBook available Published September 2020
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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eBook available Published September 2018
Different Germans, Many Germanies

New Transatlantic Perspectives

Jarausch, K. H., Wenzel, H., & Goihl, K. (eds)

For Anglo-American observers in particular, the legacies of two world wars still powerfully define twentieth-century German history. This volume collects insightful studies from leading scholars that suggest new ways for understanding Germany from a transatlantic perspective, arguing above all for a more nuanced, self-reflective, and holistic German Studies.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published December 2016
Human Origins

Contributions from Social Anthropology

Power, C., Finnegan, M. & Callan, H. (eds)

Social anthropologists have been conspicuously absent from debates about the origins of modern humans. Human Origins explores why that is, and how social anthropology can shed light on early kinship and economic relations, gender politics, ritual, cosmology, ethnobiology, medicine, and the evolution of language.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published December 2016
Against Exoticism

Toward the Transcendence of Relativism and Universalism in Anthropology

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

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

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

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Published December 2016
Governing Under Constraint

Carbone, M. & Piattoni, S. (eds)

In 2015, Matteo Renzi’s government continued to elicit contrasting reactions while dealing with both internal and external constraints. Although the success of the 2015 Universal Exposition in Milan helped to bolster the image of the country, Italy continued to play a marginal role in key international areas, such as migration, European austerity policies, and the fight against terrorism.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published November 2018
The Making of the Greek Genocide

Contested Memories of the Ottoman Greek Catastrophe

Sjöberg, E.

After World War I, over one million Ottoman Greeks were expelled from Turkey, resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths. This study analyzes the fight for international recognition of the Greek genocide narrative, showing how its memory developed as a cultural trauma with both nationalist and cosmopolitan dimensions.

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

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Published May 2018
Migration, Memory, and Diversity

Germany from 1945 to the Present

Wilhelm, C. (ed)

German attitudes toward migrants have been profoundly shaped by the legacies of the Second World War. This volume explores the history of migration and diversity in Germany from 1945 onward, showing how conceptions of “otherness” developed while memories of Nazism were still fresh, and identifying the continuities and transformations they have exhibited up until today.

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

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eBook available Published December 2019
Ambassadors of Realpolitik

Sweden, the CSCE and the Cold War

Makko, A.

This groundbreaking study looks at the tension between realism and idealism in Swedish diplomacy during the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe and 1975 Helsinki Accords. It offers a compelling counternarrative of this period, showing that Sweden strategically ignored human rights violations in Eastern Europe in its pursuit of national interests.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published June 2019
Occupation in the East

The Daily Lives of German Occupiers in Warsaw and Minsk, 1939-1944

Lehnstaedt, S.

Following their occupation by the Third Reich, Warsaw and Minsk became home to tens of thousands of Germans. This study provides a nuanced portrait of their lives, as they acclimated to the daily routines of life in the East while helping to lay the groundwork for systematic mass murder.

Subject: History: World War II

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eBook available Published April 2018
War Stories

The War Memoir in History and Literature

Dwyer, P. (ed)

Although war memoirs constitute a rich, varied literary form, they are often dismissed by historians as unreliable. This collection of essays is the first to explore the modern war memoir, revealing the genre’s surprising capacity for breadth and sophistication while remaining sensitive to the challenges it poses for scholars.

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

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eBook available Published May 2018
Memory Unbound

Tracing the Dynamics of Memory Studies

Bond, L., Craps, S., & Vermeulen, P. (eds)

Increasingly, scholars understand memory to be a fluid, dynamic process, rather than a reified object. Embodying this elastic approach, this state-of-the-field collection systematically explores the transcultural, transgenerational, transmedial, and transdisciplinary dimensions of memory—four key concepts that have sometimes been studied in isolation but never in such an integrated manner.

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

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eBook available Published June 2021
Narratives in the Making

Writing the East German Past in the Democratic Present

Gallinat, A.

This ethnography studies two very different institutions in one eastern German state taking divergent approaches to the past. While government organizations reliably depict the GDR as a dictatorship, one major regional newspaper focuses on the experiences and concerns of its readers—“memory work” that inevitably shapes citizenship and democracy.

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

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Published March 2018
Sustaining Russia's Arctic Cities

Resource Politics, Migration, and Climate Change

Orttung, R. (ed)

Urban areas in Arctic Russia are experiencing unprecedented social and ecological change. This collection outlines the key challenges that city managers will face in navigating this shifting political, economic, social, and environmental terrain.

Subjects: Urban Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies

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eBook available Published April 2018
Creating a New Public University and Reviving Democracy

Action Research in Higher Education

Levin, M. & Greenwood, D. J.

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies Sociology

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Published July 2020
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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eBook available Published October 2016
Honour and Violence

Gender, Power and Law in Southern Pakistan

Shah, N.

This volume explores the implication of modern law in the seemingly ancient cultural practice of karo kari, which allows male family members to take the lives of female relatives accused of adultery. Drawing connections between local contests over marriage and resources, Nafisa Shah unearths deep historical processes and power relations at work in Upper Sindh, Pakistan.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

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eBook available Published November 2019
The Nuclear Crisis

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

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

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

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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eBook available Published October 2016
The Man from the Third Row

Hasse Ekman, Swedish Cinema and the Long Shadow of Ingmar Bergman

Gustafsson, F.

Once one of the leading lights of Swedish cinema, director Hasse Ekman is today virtually unknown outside of Sweden, eclipsed by the iconic Ingmar Bergman. This first-ever English-language book on the subject provides an engaging, comprehensive survey of Ekman’s career, combining explorations of historical context with insightful analyses of styles and themes.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

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eBook available Published August 2019
Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness

An Ethnography of the Degraded in Postsocialist Poland

Rakowski, T.

Practitioners of Powerlessness gives a dramatic account of life after the socio-economic transformations of the 1990s in Poland, which left many people impoverished and unemployed.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Published October 2016
Trees, Knots, and Outriggers

Environmental Knowledge in the Northeast Kula Ring

Damon, F. H.

Trees, Knots and Outriggers (Kaynen Muyuw) is the culmination of twenty-five years of work by Frederick H. Damon and his attention to cultural adaptations to the environment in Melanesia.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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eBook available Published August 2019
Leaving Footprints in the Taiga

Luck, Spirits and Ambivalence among the Siberian Orochen Reindeer Herders and Hunters

Brandišauskas, D.

Donatas Brandišauskas probes the strategies that Orochen reindeer herders of southeastern Siberia have developed to navigate dramatic environmental and social changes that have unfolded in post-Soviet Siberia.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published February 2020
Life as a Hunt

Thresholds of Identities and Illusions on an African Landscape

Marks, S. A.

The landscape of Zambia’s central Luangwa Valley has been crafted over centuries by the Valley Bisa who live there. Stuart Marks explores an emergent dissonance with the inconvenient conventions and myths of conservationists, administrators and philanthropists who seek to intervene in Africa’s environmental and wildlife crises on new terms and with technical means.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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eBook available Published December 2019
From Craftsmen to Capitalists

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

McKitrick, F. L.

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

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

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eBook available Published June 2019
In the Name of the Great Work

Stalin's Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its Impact in Eastern Europe

Olšáková, D. (ed)

Following Stalin’s lead, the newly communist states of Eastern Europe pursued a total “transformation of nature” in the 1940s and 1950s intended to improve agricultural outputs. This richly detailed volume follows the history of such projects in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, exploring their varied, but largely disastrous, consequences.

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

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eBook available Published September 2018
Migrations in the German Lands, 1500-2000

Coy, J., Poley, J., & Schunka, A. (eds)

The essays collected here reconstruct the experiences of vagrants, laborers, religious exiles, refugees, and other migrants during the last five hundred years of German history. These diverse contributions identify important commonalities between eras and contextualize Germany within broader migration histories.

Subjects: History (General) Mobility Studies Refugee and Migration Studies

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eBook available 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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eBook available Published March 2021
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 September 2016
Contextualizing Disaster

Button, G. V. & Schuller, M. (eds)

Contextualizing Disaster argues that, while disasters are increasingly represented by the media as unique, exceptional, newsworthy events, it is a mistake to think of disasters as isolated or discrete occurrences.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology
eBook available Published September 2018
The Online World of Surrogacy

Berend, Z.

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

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology

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eBook available Published September 2016
War Magic

Religion, Sorcery, and Performance

Farrer, D. S. (ed)

This collection documents war magic and warrior religion as performed in diverse cultures and historical time periods. By foregrounding embodiment, practice, and performance, the anthropological approaches to magic, sorcery, shamanism, and religion that the authors apply go beyond what magic ‘represents’ to consider what magic does.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Performance Studies

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eBook available Published October 2018
'City of the Future'

Built Space, Modernity and Urban Change in Astana

Laszczkowski, M.

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

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General) Geography

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Published August 2023
Deadly Contradictions

The New American Empire and Global Warring

Reyna, S. P.

As US imperialism continues to dictate foreign policy, Deadly Contradictions is a compelling account of the American empire. Stephen P. Reyna argues that contemporary forms of violence exercised by American elites in the colonies, client state, and regions of interest have deferred imperial problems, but not without raising their own set of deadly contradictions.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published October 2021
Staying at Home

Identities, Memories and Social Networks of Kazakhstani Germans

Sanders, R.

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

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published July 2019
The Devil's Wheels

Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic

Disko, S.

During the unprecedented modernization of Germany’s Weimar Republic, motorcycle culture instantiated the new link between consumption and identity. Motorcycles became symbols of masculinity and freedom that exposed the problems and allures of mass-consumption and modern values. The Devil’s Wheels analyzes motorcycle culture, and reassesses mechanized life in Weimar Germany.

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

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eBook available Published February 2018
German Television

Historical and Theoretical Perspectives

Powell, L. & Shandley, Robert R. (eds)

Long overlooked by scholars and critics, the history and aesthetics of German television have only recently begun to attract serious, sustained attention, and then largely within Germany. This ambitious volume collects penetrating essays on the distinctive theories, practices, and social-historical contexts that defined television in Germany.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies

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eBook available Published December 2021
Divining History

Prophetism, Messianism and the Development of the Spirit

Svenungsson, J.

Messianic ideas of impending redemption have inspired and engendered struggles for justice, yet also violent utopian ideologies. This book analyzes the double-edged legacy of Judeo-Christian theologies of history by exploring their impact on subsequent philosophies of history and political ideologies, from Ancient Judaism, through German Romanticism, to contemporary radical thought.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion History (General)

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eBook available Published July 2019
The France of the Little-Middles

A Suburban Housing Development in Greater Paris

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

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

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Urban Studies

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Published August 2016
Violent Becomings

State Formation, Sociality, and Power in Mozambique

Bertelsen, B. E.

Violent Becomings sheds light on violence in the periods of colonial and postcolonial state formation by conceptualizing the state not as the bureaucratically ordered polity of the nation-state, but as a continuously evolving and violently challenged mode of social ordering.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Colonial History
eBook available Published August 2016
French Foreign Policy since 1945

An Introduction

Bozo, F.

This compact and engaging history recounts France’s efforts to reconcile its proud history and global ambitions with a realistic appraisal of its capabilities following World War II. It provides insightful analysis of decolonization, the Cold War, and European unification, always attentive to the challenges posed by an increasingly multipolar, interconnected world.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published August 2019
Made In Egypt

Gendered Identity and Aspiration on the Globalised Shop Floor

Chakravarti, L. Z.

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

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published March 2018
New Uses of Bourdieu in Film and Media Studies

Austin, G. (ed)

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

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies Sociology

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eBook available Published April 2018
Economic Citizenship

Neoliberal Paradoxes of Empowerment

Sa'ar, A.

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

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

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eBook available Published May 2020
Living on Thin Ice

The Gwich'in Natives of Alaska

Dinero, S. C.

Using quantitative and qualitative data gathered since the turn of the millennium, this volume offers an interdisciplinary evaluation of social and economic changes amongst the Gwich’in Natives of Alaska.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Urban Studies

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eBook available Published August 2021
The Total Work of Art

Foundations, Articulations, Inspirations

Imhoof, D., Menninger, M. E., & Steinhoff, A. J. (eds)

In this wide-ranging volume’s twelve compact essays, scholars from across the disciplines trace Gesamtkunstwerk—the ideal of the “total work of art”—from its foundations in the early nineteenth century to its manifold articulations and reimaginings in the twentieth century and beyond.

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

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eBook available Published July 2016
Creativity in Transition

Politics and Aesthetics of Cultural Production Across the Globe

Svašek, M. & Meyer, B. (eds)

Exploring creative practices in various settings, the book calls attention to the spread of modernist discourses of creativity, from the colonial era to the current obsession with ‘innovation’ in neo-liberal capitalist cultural politics, but also to the less visible practices of copying, recycling and reproduction that occur as part and parcel of creative improvisation.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published June 2019
The Nature of German Imperialism

Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in Colonial East Africa

Gissibl, B.

This is the first book-length study analyzing the origins of Tanzania’s wildlife conservation under German colonial rule. It examines the shift of wildlife policies from exploitation to preservation. By situating East Africa’s conservation in a global context, The Nature of German Imperialism shows how colonial policy helped to shape international conservationist efforts.

Subjects: Colonial History Environmental Studies (General)

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eBook available Published May 2019
The State We're In

Reflecting on Democracy's Troubles

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

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published May 2018
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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eBook available Published September 2018
Cosmos, Gods and Madmen

Frameworks in the Anthropologies of Medicine

Littlewood, R. & Lynch, R. (eds)

The social anthropology of sickness and health has always been concerned with religious cosmologies. The chapters cover a range of ethnographic areas and examine notions of personhood, agency, uncertainty and control among other questions. In so doing, the contributors seek to contextualise understandings within wider cultural understandings found in these areas, linking these concepts to the wider social fabric.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Published March 2018
Keywords of Mobility

Critical Engagements

Salazar, N. B. & Jayaram, K. (eds)

Scholars from various disciplines have used key concepts to grasp mobilities, but as of yet, a working vocabulary of these has yet to be fully developed. This edited volume presents contributions that critically analyze mobility-related keywords: capital, cosmopolitanism, freedom, gender, immobility, infrastructure, motility, and regime.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism

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eBook available Published February 2022
Narratives in Motion

Journalism and Modernist Events in 1920s Portugal

Trindade, L.

A fascinating study of newspapers in 1920s Portugal, Narratives in Motion explores how the new “modernist reportage” embodied the spirit of its era while mediating some of its most spectacular episodes. In the process, it shows how that journalism epitomized a distinctively modern entanglement of narrative and event.

Subjects: Media Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Published June 2018
Designing Worlds

National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization

Fallan, K. & Lees-Maffei, G. (eds)

In design history, globalization is deeply intertwined with a long-held bias towards Western, industrialized nations. By reassessing the role of regional and national design histories and challenging the claim that nation states are obsolete in identity construction, Designing Worlds reflects on new national narratives from around the world.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies
eBook available Published July 2019
Mortuary Dialogues

Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities

Lipset, D. & Silverman, E. K. (eds)

Mortuary Dialogues presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Through its set of rich ethnographies, the book examines how funerals and death rituals give rise to discourse and debate about sustaining moral persons and community amid modernity, and its enormous transformations.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Published May 2018
Fascist Interactions

Proposals for a New Approach to Fascism and Its Era, 1919-1945

Roberts, D. D.

Increasingly, scholars of fascism have called for a new agenda with research beyond Italy and Germany, less preoccupation with classification, and sustained attention to the relationships among different fascist formations. Starting from a critical assessment of these imperatives, this volume charts a path that deemphasizes rigid distinctions while still deploying reasonably rigorous criteria of differentiation.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published July 2020
Coming of Age

Constructing and Controlling Youth in Munich, 1942-1973

Kalb, M.

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

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
eBook available Published June 2018
Migration by Boat

Discourses of Trauma, Exclusion and Survival

Mannik, L. (ed)

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

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

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eBook available Published August 2021
Tropics of Vienna

Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire

Bach, U. E.

Though not a conventional colonial power, the Austrian Empire had a metropole-periphery structure that shaped its cultural and intellectual life. This book illuminates colonial utopian writing in the work of Roth, Herzl, and others, revealing a shared longing for alternative social and spatial configurations.

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

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eBook available Published February 2020
Ownership and Nurture

Studies in Native Amazonian Property Relations

Brightman, M., Fausto, C. & Grotti, V. (eds)

Through ethnography of the Amazonia region, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for debates about the classic anthropological theme of property. This volume demonstrates that property relations are of central importance in Amazonia despite portrayals of the region as the antithesis of Western, property-based, civilization.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published November 2018
Whose Memory? Which Future?

Remembering Ethnic Cleansing and Lost Cultural Diversity in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe

Törnquist-Plewa, B. (ed)

Scholars have devoted considerable energy to understanding ethnic cleansing in Europe, yet much less attention has been given to how these incidents persist in collective memory today. This volume brings together case studies exploring how modern inhabitants “remember” instances of ethnic cleansing, and how they understand the heritage of groups that vanished in their wake.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History Memory Studies

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Published September 2022
Parenthood between Generations

Transforming Reproductive Cultures

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

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

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
eBook available Published April 2016
Witches and Demons

A Comparative Perspective on Witchcraft and Satanism

La Fontaine, J.

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Published September 2018
Humour, Comedy and Laughter

Obscenities, Paradoxes, Insights and the Renewal of Life

Sciama, L.D. (ed)

Anthropological writings on humour are not numerous, but they do contain insight into the social processes that underlie joking and laughter. This volume examines the cognitive, social, and moral aspects of humour and its potential to bring about a sense of mutual understanding, even among different and possibly hostile people.

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

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eBook available Published July 2018
World Heritage on the Ground

Ethnographic Perspectives

Brumann, C. & Berliner, D. (eds)

The UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972 is a key arena for contemporary cultural and natural conservation. In case studies from across the globe, anthropologists with situated expertise in specific World Heritage sites explore the consequences of the World Heritage framework and the global spread of this heritage regime.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Archaeology Museum Studies

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eBook available Published April 2020
Trusting and its Tribulations

Interdisciplinary Engagements with Intimacy, Sociality and Trust

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

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published February 2018
Our Common Denominator

Human Universals Revisited

Antweiler, C.

Against the backdrop of a discipline focused on difference, Christoph Antweiler reasserts the importance of cross-cultural commonalities -- phenomena that occur regularly in all known human societies -- for anthropological research and for life and co-existence beyond the academy.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published March 2019
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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Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples

Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development

Chatty, D. & Colchester, M. (eds)

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

Representations of “Japanese Nature”

A Historical Overview

Ohnuki-Tierney, E.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Shakespeare and the Modern Novel

Holderness, G. (ed)

Subject: Literary Studies

Immigrant Industry

Building Postwar Australia

Pieris, A., Lozanovska, M., Dellios, A., Saniga, A., & Beynon, D.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

Care in a Time of Humanitarianism

Stories of Refuge, Aid, and Repair in the Global South

Osanloo, A. & deBergh Robinson, C. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

Courage and Compassion

A Jewish Boyhood in German-Occupied Greece

Molho, T.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War II Genocide History

One Hundred Years of Argonauts

Malinowski, Ethnography and Economic Anthropology

Hann, C. & James, D. (eds)

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

Max Gluckman

Macmillan, H.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

Crypto Crowds

Singularities and Multiplicities on the Blockchain

Shapiro, M. (ed)

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

Resisting Radicalisation?

Understanding Young People's Journeys through Radicalising Milieus

Pilkington, H. (ed)

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

John F. Kennedy’s Hidden Diary, Europe 1937

The Travel Journals of JFK and Kirk LeMoyne Billings

Kennedy, J. F., LeMoyne Billings, K., & Lubrich, O.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Love, Loyalty and Deceit

Rosemary Firth, a Life in the Shadow of Two Eminent Men

Firth, H. & Brown, L.

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

Alfred Cort Haddon

A Very English Savage

Walsh, C.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

Mary Douglas

Richards, P. & 6, P.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

Beyond the Social Contract

An Anthropology of Tax

Makovicky, N. & Smith, R. (eds)

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology

Shakespeare and Social Engagement

Mackenzie, R. & Shaughnessy, R. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

Once Upon a Time is Now

A Kalahari Memoir

Biesele, M.

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

Romani Chronicles of COVID-19

Testimonies of Harm and Resilience

Blasco, P. G. y & Fotta, M. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Medical Anthropology

Exceptional Experiences

Engaging with Jolting Events in Art and Fieldwork

Rethmann, P. & Wulff, H. (eds)

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

Obstetric Violence and Systemic Disparities

Can Obstetrics Be Humanized and Decolonized?

Davis-Floyd, R. & Premkumar, A. (eds)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Obstetricians Speak