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November 2025 Reading War, Making Memory
Remembering the Bosnian War across Europe
Sindbæk Andersen, T., Ortner, J., & Borčak, F. W.
A clarifying analysis of how authors from Bosnia-Herzegovina translate and transmit the memory of the Bosnian War into their fiction, Reading War, Making Memory spotlights a vital new framework for understanding the impact of conflict upon diasporic literature from the region of the former Yugoslavia: “mnemonic migration.”
Subjects: Memory Studies Literary Studies Heritage Studies
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November 2025 European Perspectives on Transition
A Comparative and Transnational Approach to the History of a Political and Social Concept
Sánchez León, P. & Cosovschi, A. (eds)
Offering a pioneering conceptual history of transition from a comparative perspective, this volume brings together eight case studies, ranging from the Third Wave of Southern Europe to the regime changes of Central and Eastern Europe, in order to rethink how we approach questions of temporality and transitional discourse.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies
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November 2025 Lurking Cold War
Life Through Historical Communion
Pipyrou, S.
Lasting traces of the Cold War continue to shape the social landscape in Italy and Greece. Lurking Cold War critiques the connections between global categories and individual experiences, foregrounding Cold War resonances through materiality, imagination, speculation, and affect – in literature, bureaucracy, and the family.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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November 2025 The Image that Never Ends
A Journey through Visual Anthropology
Canals, R.
This book explores the relationship between images and anthropology, offering a deeper understanding of how visual culture shapes our world. It addresses how anthropology can help us reflect on the role of images in daily life and reconsiders classic anthropological themes—ritual, kinship, and power—through the lens of contemporary visuality.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Media Studies
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November 2025 Keywords of the Balkan Route
The European Irregularized Migration Regime at the Periphery
Hameršak, M., Pleše, I., & Škokić, T. (eds)
Focusing on the Balkan Route, this volume examines the criminalization of migration and emerging vocabularies of border control and resistance. Through keywords like Autonomy, Route, and Solidarity, contributors from Croatia, Slovenia, and Serbia offer ethnographic and interdisciplinary insights into restricted mobility, border violence, and migrant-led struggles.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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November 2025 Embracing Change in Coastal Sri Lanka
Local Strategies in a Global Context
Stirrat, R. L.
Prioritising processes not structures based on the general premise that change rather than stasis is what characterises society, this book focuses on social change in a coastal village in Sri Lanka where change was the result of people reacting to processes at work in the wider economic and political context and were in no way passive victims to forces out of their control.
Subjects: Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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November 2025 Decolonizing Europe
Ethnographies of National and Transnational Projects
Ferraz de Matos, P. & Sansone, L. (eds)
This volume explores how race, colonial legacies, and structural inequality are addressed across diverse European contexts – north, central, eastern and southern – as well as in their entanglements with regions beyond Europe. It offers critical, grounded insights into the possibilities and challenges of decolonial thinking today.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Colonial History
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November 2025 Border-Straddling Heritages
Containment, Contestation, and Appreciation of Shared Pasts
Mozaffari, A. & Harvey, D. (eds)
In this geographically wide-ranging reassessment of the overlap between borders and heritage, Ali Mozaffari and David C. Harvey interrogate how “hyperglobalization” has simultaneously challenged and intensified notions of sovereignty and nationality, advancing a theory of heritage that recognizes its potential for simultaneously reflecting upon and generating borders.
Subjects: Heritage Studies History: 20th Century to Present Mobility Studies
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November 2025 Post-Contact Archaeology of Michigan and the Upper Great Lakes Region
Surface-Evans, S. L. & Jackson, M. M. (eds)
In this comprehensive reassessment of post-contact archaeology in the Upper Great Lakes region, Sarah L. Surface-Evans and Misty M. Jackson highlight the diversity and breadth of the area’s archaeological sites and the innovative findings they offer. In doing so, they highlight archaeology’s implications for transforming our understanding of present-day, social justice.
Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies History: 18th/19th Century
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November 2025 Food, Culture and Society in India
Social, Political, Economic and Cultural Perspectives
Patgiri, R. & Lalli, G. (Eds.)
Bringing together empirical research from across India, this volume examines how food intersects with identity, migration, livelihood and media. It offers interdisciplinary insights into the cultural, political and social dimensions of food in contemporary Indian life.
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Sociology Anthropology (General)
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December 2025 The Paradox of Difference
Moving Beyond Border Crossing, Translanguaging, and Unit Thinking
Doerr, N.
Exploring five paradoxes in how “difference” is constructed and navigated, this book critically examines discourse and practice across race studies, language education, and global mobility, offering fresh insights into the politics of difference and possibilities for alternative engagements.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Refugee and Migration Studies
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December 2025 Education, Aspiration and Social Mobility
Uncertain Futures for Rural Youth in India
Froerer, P.
Informed by over two decades of anthropological research in Chhattisgarh, this book examines how the marginalized Adivasi (tribal) youth in rural India navigate the contradictory ways in which education represents both a strategy for social mobility and a very tangible risk.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Educational Studies Mobility Studies Sociology
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December 2025 Prophetic Histories
Time, Theology, and Theocracy in Solomon Islands
Timmer, J.
On Malaita in Solomon Islands, an evangelical Israelite-inspired movement centers on a distinctive time-consciousness that reads the historical past and present as prophetic signs of an imminent future. This book examines how these ‘prophetic histories’ interweave biblical narrative, theological reflection, local accounts, kastom practice, spiritual journeys and Old-Testament political theory.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Development Studies
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December 2025 A Revelatory Pandemic
Crisis, Agency, and COVID in Latin America
Barrios, R. & García-Acosta, V. (eds)
Bringing the anthropologies of disaster, epidemics, and crisis into conversation, A Revelatory Pandemic subjects the hopeful expectations of post-pandemic change to social-scientific scrutiny across Latin America and challenges popular and scholarly assumptions about the causes and outcomes of crisis.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
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December 2025 Facing Discrimination
Religion and Agency in Contemporary European Contexts
Lems, J. & Planet Contreras, A. (eds)
Through six micro-level studies from Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands, Facing Discrimination offers insight into the dynamics of religious beliefs and bodily practices among those who are discriminated against. It examines how religion as a source of agency interacts with processes of marginalization.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Political and Economic Anthropology
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December 2025 The Figure of the Politician in Modern and Contemporary Europe
Ihalainen, P., Lopez, R., Palonen, K., & te Velde, H. (eds)
In this geographically wide-ranging assessment of the figure of the politician in modern and contemporary Europe, Pasi Ihalainen, Rosario López, Kari Palonen, and Henk te Velde re-examine the trajectory of terms like ‘politician’ and ‘statesman’, in order to spotlight how profoundly the concept of representative democracy is shifting.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies
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December 2025 A History of the I.G. Farben Trial
Armament, Exploitation, Auschwitz
Lindner, S.
In this exacting examination of the history of the I.G. Farben trial, Stephan H. Lindner charts the build up and aftermath of this watershed event, in order to highlight its implications for understanding the complexities of corporate social responsibility and of putting the military-industrial complex on trial.
Subjects: History: World War II History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History
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December 2025 Europe Facing East in the Age of Ottoman Power
War, Diplomacy, and the Composite State
Tracy, J.
Bringing together his wealth of research on the Habsburg-Ottoman conflict over the kingdom of Hungary, historian James Tracy provides a comprehensive and exacting examination of the implications this battle had for notions of sovereignty, statehood, and civilization.
Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Peace and Conflict Studies
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December 2025 Torn is the Curtain
Early Film Cultures in Istanbul
Balan, C.
Re-examining film’s potential as both an artistic and ideological discipline, Torn is the Curtain interrogates the relationship between early film cultures within Istanbul and ever-changing ideas of social transformation, highlighting how emergent ideas of post-colonialism, Orientalism, and feminism impacted Turkish spectatorship culture.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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December 2025 Death, Commemoration, and Cultural Meaning
Past and Present
Spinelli, R. & Lacy, R. (Eds.)
An overview of grieving and memorialization – from a diverse, international group of academics – ranging from traditional modes of expression to contemporary modes that revolve around the digital world.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Archaeology
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December 2025 Small Adults or Big Kids?
Exploring Archaeological and Bioarcheological Approaches to Adolescence
Avery, C. & Thacher, D. (eds)
This book explores the meaning of adolescence, a critical period of the life course, through the analysis of material culture, historical documents, skeletal remains, isotope analysis, and other lines of evidence. By considering the implications for archaeologists and biological anthropologists, this book investigates the lived experiences of adolescents in the past to further our understanding of past societies.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology Sociology
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December 2025 Investigating Online Heritage Crime
New Directions, New Technologies, Emerging Markets
Huffer, D. & Handby, E. (Eds.)
Considering the correlation between new digital technologies and the growth of the online trafficking landscape, Investigating Online Heritage Crime conducts an investigative deep-dive into how these relatively under-researched "sites" of heritage crime operate and how they function within the wider social media ecosystem of platforms like Facebook and Instagram.
Subjects: Heritage Studies Media Studies Archaeology
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