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February 2026 Christianity, Colonialism and Indigenous History in French Polynesia
Advance into Past
Misaki, M.
This book illustrates how indigenous Christians perceive social change and how their historical perceptions inform the creation of their own Christianity in an increasingly modernised French Polynesian society.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Colonial History Sociology
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February 2026 Writing on the Move
Form, Practice and (Im)mobility in Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century Travel Writing
Ounoughi, S. & Hannigan, T. (eds)
Although the practice of reading and writing typically requires stasis, travel writing emerges from movement. This book examines the tensions between actual journeys and their resultant texts by asking questions about the meaning of ‘movement’ and what counts as ‘travel writing’ in an age of virtual journeying and enforced immobility.
Subjects: Travel and Tourism Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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February 2026 Reconstruction of the Pakhtun Code of Life in a Changing Pakistan
Khan, A.
This book aims to give a faithful presentation of Pahktun reality by investigating the diverse and changing patterns of social relations among Pahktuns and considering the practice of gham khadee to be a manifestation of the code of life.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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February 2026 Where Saints Show Respect
Mafia, Modernity, and Rituals of Power
Palumbo, B.
This book draws on three decades of ethnographic research to explore the penetration of mafia values in Sicilian society. By exploring rituals through which local society learns deep respect for those values, this study aims to offer a critical perspective on Sicilian modernity.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Anthropology of Religion
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February 2026 Practice Theory and the Biosocial
Microbes, Matter and Milieu
Shove, E., Blue, S. & Kelly, M.
From urban infrastructures to the medieval plague and from antibiotic resistance to epigenetics, this book develops an account of how previous and present arrangements make some futures more likely than others. By demonstrating the relevance of social and practice theories, this study considers questions about how bacteria, viruses, microscopic materials and societies develop in tandem.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Medical Anthropology Sociology
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February 2026 Black Lisbon
The Making of Anticolonial Internationalism in Portugal, 1910-1935
Cleminson, R.
An analysis of how ‘race’ and nation were conceptualised, mobilised and lived by colonised black Africans in Lisbon and in the Portuguese colonies across time.
Subjects: Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Mobility Studies
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February 2026 Lives in Fragments
Self-Narrative Sources and Biographical Approaches to the Armenian Genocide
Yetkin, E., Maksudyan, N. & Çelik, A. (Eds.)
An examination of life stories that were fragmented and shattered through the historical violence of the Armenian genocide. Offers a nuanced understanding of genocide’s complex historical and social dimensions, and reflects on the history and memory of genocidal violence.
Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present
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February 2026 With a Penetrating Gaze from the Sidelines
Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews, and the History of Holocaust Historiography
Schlott, R. & Kansteiner, W. (eds)
Raul Hilberg’s The Destruction of the European Jews (1961) was a foundational text in the field of Holocaust historiography. Hilberg describes the persecution as a bureaucratic process involving the entire German society. This volume explores the origins of Hilberg’s study, debates in which it was implicated, its accomplishments and shortcomings.
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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February 2026 Remembering Resistance
A Jewish Memoir from Nazi-Occupied Budapest, 1944-45
Eger, A., Frojimovics, K. & Kovács , É. (Eds.)
An illuminating chronicle of the life and work of Jewish couple, László and Eugenia Szamosi, liberating oppressed Jews in Nazi-occupied Budapest, Remembering Resistance offers an unrivalled insight into a family’s personal history of resistance and provides a paradigm for mediating our methods of remembrance.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History History: World War II
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March 2026 Carneiro
The Concise Evolutionary Essays
Bates Graber, R. (ed)
Robert L. Carneiro is one of the most influential figures in anthropology in the twentieth century who brought cultural evolutionism from its nineteenth century origins. This book aims to contribute to revitalizing Carneiro’s profound theoretical perspective for current and future generations of students and anthropologists.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology
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March 2026 Ibn Khaldun
Rosen, L.
Ibn Khaldun’s theory of history, economics, and group cohesion has influenced thinkers far beyond his North African homeland. His holistic approach foreshadowed modern social science, blending direct observation with cultural interpretation. A vital precursor to contemporary anthropology, his insights on solidarity, religion, and society remain relevant today.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
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March 2026 Migration and Welfare Austerity
Mobilizing Kinship for Care, Welfare and Development in Kyrgyzstan
Ismailbekova, A.
Migration is destructive to the nuclear family and wider village life, but it provides an opportunity for lineages to be mobilized for collective social action that is both local and translocal. This book aims to share experiences of people in Alma, a village in Kyrgyzstan, and how they created a ‘moral economy of migration’ that became territorialised as kinship was de-territorialised.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology
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March 2026 The Give and Take of Wind
History, Struggle and Renewable Energy in the Mediterranean
Cappello, E.
This book addresses the industrial crises, environmental issues, and local attitudes toward energy transitions through case studies in Sardinia and San Pietro. By approaching European transitional politics from an ethnographic perspective, this study focuses on the practices, frameworks and alternative strategies of those who resist the EU Green Deal.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Environmental Studies (General) Sociology Sustainable Development Goals
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March 2026 A Border Island on the Crossroads of History
Lampedusa and the Mediterranean
Albera, D.
For several centuries, Lampedusa has been an uninhabited land at the frontier of two conflicting worlds: between Africa and Europe and between Christianity and Islam. This book follows an ethnographic account of the social life on this small island, exploring its history articulated with the present where thousands of migrants and tourists cohabit both well and poorly in a few square miles.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology
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March 2026 Friendship and Exchange Along the North Coast of New Guinea
Welsch, R. L.
This book explores how more than 100 communities who speak nearly fifty languages from five unrelated language phyla interact by developing persistent relations known as “hereditary friendship.” These relations provide everyone along the coast with fish, sago, and earthenware pots as well as many other useful commodities that resulted in peace and harmony.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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March 2026 Rethinking the Historiography of the Soviet Bloc
The Totalitarianism Paradigm and Institutional Practices under Communism
Ungureanu, M. (Ed.)
Addressing polarized narratives of authoritarian control and societal resistance, this volume reconsiders the totalitarianism paradigm in the study of the Soviet Bloc. Historians, philosophers, and literary scholars explore both its enduring explanatory power and its conceptual limits, drawing on insights from social epistemology and the history of social sciences.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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March 2026 Forced Labor for Siemens in the Women’s Concentration Camp Ravensbrück
Reports from Contemporary Witnesses
International Friends Association of the Ravensbrück Memorial (Eds)
In 1942-1945, Siemens & Halske AG maintained an armaments factory adjacent to the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp, where up to 2,300 female prisoners were deployed in forced labor. This volume contains the testimonies of Ravensbrück survivors, shedding light on the system of forced labor in the context of the concentration camp
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies History: World War II
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March 2026 The Social Survey in Global Perspective, 1900-2020s
Greenhalgh, C., Corbould, C. & Anderson, W. (eds)
Tracing the evolution of social surveys to explore their worldwide impact across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Exploring the double-sided legacy of social surveying, as an engine of both progressive reform and state surveillance, this book reasses the empirical practices that continue to determine how we understand our world.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
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March 2026 Managing Pandemics in Early Modern Germany
Hess, P. (Eds.)
Pandemics spread throughout early modern Germany on a regular basis. Historical data and textual evidence are examined to explore how early modern states, communities, and individuals responded to such outbreaks, dealt with ensuing political, ethical, intellectual, social, and pragmatic issues, and handled arising conflicts, between 1480 and 1720.
Subject: History: Medieval/Early Modern
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March 2026 The Greek War of Independence
Impact, Perceptions, and Transformation Within and Beyond the Empire
Moiras, L., Christofis, N., & Lamprou, A., (Eds.)
The Greek Revolution of 1821 reshaped the Eastern Mediterranean and reverberated across the globe. Moving beyond traditional nationalist historiography, this study draws on recent transnational and Ottoman-centered scholarship to examine how diaspora networks, European Philhellenes, and great power rivalries transformed a regional revolt into an international cause.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History (General)
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