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February 2025 Towards a British Natyam
Creating a British Classical Indian Dance Tradition
Gorringe, M.
An illuminating investigation into the ‘professionalization’ of classical Indian dance forms in Britain, Towards a British Natyam critically analyzes the cultural, social, and political frameworks that make a ‘profession’ within the arts possible, highlighting the transformational power of classical Indian dance within society to decenter white supremacy and recenter pluriversality.
Subjects: Performance Studies Heritage Studies Sociology
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February 2025 The Island of the Pope
Catholics in the Aegean Archipelago between Empire and Nation-State, 1770-1830
Kousouris, D.
This illuminating re-examination of Syros’s transition into a major commercial hub following the Greek War of Independence revises the conventional understanding of the island’s demographic history, highlighting how, rather than withdraw, the native Catholic community adjusted and integrated into the new Greek nation-state.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History Refugee and Migration Studies
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February 2025 Populism in Central and Eastern Europe
Krakovsky, R.
Providing a forensic analysis of the populist phenomenon that is sweeping across Central and Eastern Europe, Populism in Central and Eastern Europe re-examines the origins of this current political situation by tracing its historical development within this region of Europe, ultimately illuminating fresh strategies for addressing these longstanding political issues.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology
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February 2025 The Disputed Austro-Hungarian Border
Agendas, Actors, and Practices in Western Hungary/Burgenland after World War I
Grandits, H., Murber, I., & Tyran, K. (eds)
A refreshing re-examination of the history of Austria and Hungary in the wake of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy, The Disputed Austro-Hungarian Border refocuses attention on the contested region of Western Hungary/Burgenland, considering how the process of building state borders shaped the region’s political, cultural, and social dynamics.
Subjects: History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies
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February 2025 Illness and Enlightenment
Exploring Tibetan Perspectives on Madness in Text and Everyday Life
Deane, S.
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the Tibetan region of Amdo in northwest China, Illness and Enlightenment examines Tibetan medical and religious texts, to explore the multi-faceted concept of nyoné through key Tibetan concepts of wind, heart, and mind, as well as human-spirit relationships.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion
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February 2025 Representations of “Japanese Nature”
A Historical Overview
Ohnuki-Tierney, E.
“Nature” as a concept and word is extremely elusive, yet it is commonly taken for granted that “the pristine nature” is “out there.” This book explores the factors that have naturalized the idea of nature as pristine into our psyche, and as something that has a spatial, visual, and temporal dimension for “seasons”.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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February 2025 Queer and Trans Life
Anthropological Futures
Posocco, S., Gonzalez-Polledo, E.J., Aaberg, L., & Altay, T. (eds)
Against a background marked by endless ordinary crises, widespread precarity, and disrupting critical events, Queer and Trans Life charts queer investments in futurity. It presents emerging queer and trans anthropological research in and about European contexts.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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February 2025 Traveling Models and Practical Norms
The Misadventures of Social Engineering in Africa and Beyond
Olivier de Sardan, J.-P.
Traveling Models and Practical Norms examines how different modes of governance that deliver services of general interest experience significant gaps between explicit rules of the game and implicit practices, between planned actions and daily routines.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies
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March 2025 Groundwater Politics
Advanced Extractivism and Slow Resistance
Babidge, S.
The expanding mining industry in the Indigenous Atacameño-Likanantay territories in the hyper-arid Salar de Atacama in Chile are linked to the ecological harm to groundwater. The book addresses recent socioeconomic and political conditions it calls ‘advanced extractivism’ and asks how both ecological harm and mining economies are sustained.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies Sustainable Development Goals
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March 2025 Tropical Nature
Colonial and Post-Colonial Conservation in Africa and Asia
Blanc, G., Guérin, M., & Quenet, G. (eds)
An insightful and wide-ranging study of the colonial history of conservation projects, Tropical Nature seeks to provide a much-needed history of the Global South from its own perspective. In doing so, this volume collection spotlights a “small-scale global history” that deciphers the relations binding human societies to the non-human world.
Subjects: Colonial History Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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March 2025 Ingmar Bergman Out of Focus
Film Cultures and International Reception
Van Belle, J., Arenos, F. R., & Peirano, M. P. (eds)
An exacting re-examination of Ingmar Bergman’s cultural heritage, Ingmar Bergman Out Of Focus digs into the perceived “familiarity” of Bergman’s films by analyzing how the Swedish director’s film aesthetics simultaneously shaped modern culture and were themselves reshaped by contemporary cultural debates.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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March 2025 Rethinking the Cinematic Cold War
The Struggle for Hearts and Minds Goes Global
Pisu, S., Pitassio, F., & Zinni, M. (eds)
An exacting reassessment of the relationship between culture and ideology within the Cold War period, Rethinking the Cinematic Cold War highlights the role that politics played in informing policies as well as cultural products and appetites, across geopolitical boundaries.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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March 2025 Haunting Ruins
Ethnographies of Ruination and Decay
Gamberi, V. & Calzana, C. (eds)
Ruins, rubble and decaying material can foster a more layered theory of time, change and memory. The seven ethnographic case studies in Haunting Ruins trace human engagements with the temporal forces of ruins, which can trace the past and transform the present.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology
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March 2025 ‘You Don’t Know’
Precarious Methods and Life in a Workers' Hostel
Nielsen, J. A. E.
People employed at sites of precarious work such as call centres or retail warehouses often live precarious lives. Drawing on ethnographic research in a London hostel for precarious workers, the book explores the political, analytical and practical limitations of using traditional methods of trying to make sense of life in these settings.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology
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March 2025 From Triads to Pentads
Modelling Myth and Kinship in the Work of N.J. Allen
Allen, N. J. (au) & Parkin, R. (ed)
N.J. (‘Nick’) Allen had an extensive academic career, which for the most part was spent in Oxford. He passed away in 2020. This edited volume brings together a selection of his anthropological papers. It follows key areas of his research in which his contributions were novel, innovative, stimulating and plausible.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)
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March 2025 Unraveling Management
Its Institutions, Practices and Beliefs
Carrier, J. G. (ed)
Management is everywhere. Schools teach it and professional organisations counsel about it. Books and articles are written for managers and about them. Management is usually understood in terms of styles of management, management policies and successful management but few tend to think about management in an abstract sense. This book addresses this gap.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Applied Anthropology Sociology
$34.95 / £27.95 (epub format)