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June 2025 Challenging Norms
Family Planning as a Reflection of Social Change in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe
Hein-Kircher, H., Hiemer, E.-M., & Nešťáková, D. (eds)
An enlightening and geographically wide-ranging re-examination of family planning in twentieth-century Eastern Europe, Challenging Norms interrogates the correlation between social attitudes to family planning and social, economic, and political modernization. In doing so, this volume highlights how these changes provide invaluable insights into ever-evolving societal norms and values.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology History: 20th Century to Present
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June 2025 The Riddle of Intelligence
It’s Not What You Think
Terrell, J., Anderson, E., Bandama, F., Ghosh, A., & Leenen-Young, M.
There is little agreement today on what it takes to be intelligent. Yet this word is widely believed to be about something real, mostly biological, and important. Looked at closely, it turns out this word belongs more in the realm of traditional folklore than modern science.
Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General)
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June 2025 Wrestling with Hope in Urban Senegal
Sports, Masculinity, and Precarious Trajectories
Hann, M.
Wrestling with Hope in Urban Senegal follows the journey of football players and wrestlers in Dakar as they confront the realities of their sporting aspirations. It grapples with themes of masculinity, belief systems and economic survival whilst navigating the complexities of a neoliberal landscape.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Development Studies Urban Studies
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June 2025 Women’s Empowerment and Son Preference in India
Feminist and Ethical discourse on Sex Selective Abortions
Suryanarayanan, S.
This book reviews the feminist, ethical and legal discourse on sex selective abortions and draws on women’s empowerment as an analytical lens to examine the son preference expressed in the notion of Vansh (lineage) among pregnant women.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Medical Anthropology
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June 2025 Understanding Social Images
Essays on Visual Methods and Teaching Anthropology
Banks, M.
Zeitlyn, D. & El Khachab, C. (eds)Marcus Banks was one of the scholars who changed the way visual anthropology and visual methods were regarded in social and cultural anthropology. This collection of Banks’ essays considers the role of collaboration in the making of ethnographic films and makes the case for slow research.
Subject: Theory and Methodology
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June 2025 Capitalism and Catastrophe
A Critical Disaster Studies Manifesto
Swamy, R.
This book argues that disasters are intimately linked to historical processes that foster contemporary unequal relationships, and should therefore include both those commonly associated with nature as well as those we consider facets of history and social conflict, such as war and destitution.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Development Studies Sustainable Development Goals
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June 2025 Hammerstein’s Daughters
An Aristocratic Family Caught Between Tradition and Resistance
Paasche, G.
An enlightening chronicle of General Kurt von Hammerstein’s daughters, Marie Louise, Maria Therese, and Helga, and their attempts to thwart Hitler’s regime, this book provides an unrivalled insight into an overlooked history of tradition, resistance, adaptation, and rebellion in Nazi Germany.
Subjects: History: World War II History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History
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June 2025 Women’s Zionism Worldwide, 1897–1948
Katzburg-Yungman, M.
A geographically wide-ranging study of women’s Zionist history, Women’s Zionism Worldwide seeks to provide a reassessment of the activities, aims, and achievements of women-led organizations, highlighting the impact their role had on Zionist ideology and gender relations.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present History: World War II
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June 2025 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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July 2025 From Hard Rock to Heavy Metal
Metal Tool Production and Use by Indigenous Hunter-Gatherers of North America
Bebber, M. R. & Wolff, C. B. (eds)
In North America metal use by hunter-gatherer populations began as early as 9,000 years ago and continued into modern times. The regional and cultural diversity of research in this volume contributes to how we conceptualize hunter-gatherer innovation, technological proficiency, and complex decision-making in the past.
Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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July 2025 Not the Troubles
Alternative Narratives from Belfast
Lane, K.
Not the Troubles shifts the academic focus from the perception of Belfast as a divided society and reveals alternative narratives of city life. Using storytelling as a leitmotif, it explores the epistemological validity of engaging with strangers in a range of settings, such as street corners, a hairdresser’s, a storytelling evening and considers how creative writers represent life in Belfast.
Subject: Anthropology (General)
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July 2025 The Duty of Memory
Changing Language in the Era of Memory, 1970 – 2010
Ledoux, S.
An illuminating investigation into the evolution of the phrase “duty of memory”, this volume spotlights how this theory of memory has been historicized and transmitted throughout French society, highlighting how its trajectory offers a lens for understanding contemporary societies’ relationship with the past on a global scale.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Heritage Studies
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July 2025 Language and Political Subjectivity
Stancemaking, Power and Politics in Chile and Venezuela
Makihara, M. & Rodríguez, J. L.
Language and Political Subjectivity offers an innovative approach to stancemaking as a rhetorical semiotic process that produces truth, beliefs, and certainties about social realities and relations. It considers how Indigenous and diasporic communities, with their political subjectivities, expand over significant sociohistorical changes, debates, and struggles in the transformation of Chilean democracy and Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution.
Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology
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July 2025 Elsdon Best
Holman, J. P. & Delgado Rosa, F.
This volume is dedicated to the New Zealander ethnographer Elsdon Best (1856-1931) who is a key figure in the history of anthropology due to his involuntary triggering of a fundamental and long-lasting anthropological debate on the Māori concept of hau.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
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July 2025 Entanglements of the Maya Universe
Life, Society, and Cosmos among the K'iche' of Momostenango
Zamora Corona, A.
This book aims to rethink the topic of cosmology in anthropology by analysing the many entanglements of cosmological ideas and the personal and political lives of individuals within the K’ich’e Maya community of Momostenango, Guatemala.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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July 2025 The Anthropology of Retirement
Life Beyond Work
Garvey, P. & Miller, D. (eds)
Experience of retirement varies considerably across the globe, from areas where most people cannot afford to retire to places where a multitude of new possibilities are being developed for retirees. This book is an anthropological approach to consider the range of contexts and consequences that impact life beyond work.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
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July 2025 Lessons of History
Learning from Catastrophe and Crisis in Twentieth-Century Europe
Karlsson, K.-G. & Karlsson, M. (eds)
Focusing on how cataclysmic events within primarily Central and Eastern Europe have been transmitted across borders and generations, this volume interrogates how the theory of historical lessons has evolved, ultimately providing a useful framework for comprehending contemporary conflicts and issues.
Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies
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July 2025 A German General and the Armenian Genocide
Otto Liman von Sanders Between Honor and State
Mirak-Weissbach, M.
An enlightening reassessment of the German General, Otto Liman von Sanders’ life, this book uses original archival materials to present a more nuanced insight into Liman von Sanders’ role in the Armenian genocide, in order to explore wider ethical questions concerning the nature of morality and justice in military conflict.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History Peace and Conflict Studies
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