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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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)
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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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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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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
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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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