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  Academic Anthropology and the Museum

  Back to the Future

  Edited by Mary Bouquet

  The museum boom, with its accompanying objectification and politicization of culture, finds its counterpart in the growing interest by social scientists in material culture, much of which is to be found in museums. Not surprisingly, anthropologists in particular are turning their attention again to museums, after decades of neglect, during which fieldwork became the hallmark of modern anthropology - so much so that the "social" and the "material" parted company so radically as to produce a kind of knowledge gap between historical collections and the intellectuals who might have benefitted from working on these material representations of culture.

  Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

  
  
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  Adoption, Emotion, and Identity

  An Ethnopsychological Perspective on Kinship and Person in a Micronesian Society

  Manuel Rauchholz

  Exploring adoption in the Pacific, this book goes beyond the commonplace structural-functional analysis of adoption as a positive “transaction in parenthood.” It examines the effects it has on adoptees inner sense of self, their conflicted emotional lives, and familial relationships that are affected by a personal sense of rejection and not belonging.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

  
  
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  Adventures in Aidland

  The Anthropology of Professionals in International Development

  Edited by David Mosse

  Anthropological interest in new subjects of research and contemporary knowledge practices has turned ethnographic attention to a wide ranging variety of professional fields. Among these the encounter with international development has perhaps been longer and more intimate than any of the others.

  Subjects: Applied Anthropology Development Studies

  
  
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  The Allure of Capitalism

  An Ethnography of Management and the Global Economy in Crisis

  Emil A. Røyrvik

  The “managerial revolution,” or the rise of management as a distinct and vital group in industrial society, might be identified as a major development of the modernization processes, similar to the scientific and industrial revolutions. Studying “transnational” or “global” corporate management at the post-millennium moment provides a suitable focal point from which to investigate globalized (post)modernity and capitalism especially, and as such this book offers an anthropology of global capitalism at its moment of crisis.

  Subjects: Applied Anthropology Political and Economic Anthropology

  
  
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  An American Icon in Puerto Rico

  Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play

  Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez

  Since her creation in 1959, Barbie has become an icon of femininity to girls all over the world. In this monograph, author Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez explores the ways through which women and girls in Puerto Rico construct their own identities in relation to femininity, body image, race, and nationalism through Barbie play.

  Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

  
  
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  The Americanization of Europe

  Culture, Diplomacy, and Anti-Americanism after 1945

  Edited by Alexander Stephan

  Recent tensions between the U.S.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

  
  
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  The Anatomy of the Holocaust

  Selected Works from a Life of Scholarship

  Raul Hilberg
  Edited by Walter H. Pehle and René Schlott

  Historian Raul Hilberg produced a variety of archival research, personal essays, and other works over a career that spanned half a century. The Anatomy of the Holocaust collects some of Hilberg’s most essential and groundbreaking writings—many of them published in obscure journals or otherwise inaccessible to nonspecialists—in a single volume.

  Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies

  
  
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  Animism in Rainforest and Tundra

  Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia

  Edited by Marc Brightman, Vanessa Elisa Grotti, and Olga Ulturgasheva
  Foreword by Stephen Hugh-Jones
  Afterword by Piers Vitebsky

  Amazonia and Siberia, classic regions of shamanism, have long challenged ‘western’ understandings of man’s place in the world. By exploring the social relations between humans and non-human entities credited with human-like personhood (not only animals and plants, but also ‘things’ such as artifacts, trade items, or mineral resources) from a comparative perspective, this volume offers valuable insights into the constitutions of humanity and personhood characteristic of the two areas.

  Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

  
  
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  An Anthropological Toolkit

  Sixty Useful Concepts

  David Zeitlyn

  Presenting 60 theoretical ideas, David Zeitlyn asks, ‘How to write about anthropological theory without making a specific theoretical argument?’ and ‘Is it possible to practice anthropology without arguing for a single specific approach?’ To answer, he gives a series of mini-essays about an eclectic collection of theoretical concepts that over many years he has found helpful.

  Subject: Theory and Methodology

  
  
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  Anthropology and Political Science

  A Convergent Approach

  Myron J. Aronoff and Jan Kubik

  What can anthropology and political science learn from each other? The authors argue that collaboration, particularly in the area of concepts and methodologies, is tremendously beneficial for both disciplines, though they also deal with some troubling aspects of the relationship. Focusing on the influence of anthropology on political science, the book examines the basic assumptions the practitioners of each discipline make about the nature of social and political reality, compares some of the key concepts each field employs, and provides an extensive review of the basic methods of research that “bridge” both disciplines: ethnography and case study.

  Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology

  
  
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  An Anthropology of War

  Views from the Frontline

  Edited by Alisse Waterston

  As we move deeper into the twenty-first century, power, lethal force, and injustice continue to explode violently into war, and the prospects for lasting peace look even bleaker. The horrors of modern warfare - the death, dehumanization, and destruction of social and material infrastructures - have done little to bring an end to armed conflict.

  Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

  
  
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  The Anthroposcene of Weather and Climate

  Ethnographic Contributions to the Climate Change Debate

  Edited by Paul Sillitoe

  While it is widely acknowledged that climate change is among the greatest global challenges of our times, it has local implications too.  This volume forefronts these, giving anthropology a voice in this great debate, which natural scientists and policy makers have dominated thus far.

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Urban Studies Sustainable Development Goals

  
  
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  Anti-americanism in Latin America and the Caribbean

  Edited by Alan McPherson

  Whether rising up from fiery leaders such as Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Cuba’s Fidel Castro or from angry masses of Brazilian workers and Mexican peasants, anti U.S.

  Subject: History (General)

  
  
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  Applications of Anthropology

  Professional Anthropology in the Twenty-first Century

  Edited by Sarah Pink

  At the beginning of the twenty-first century the demand for anthropological approaches, understandings and methodologies outside academic departments is shifting and changing. Through a series of fascinating case studies of anthropologists’ experiences of working with very diverse organizations in the private and public sector this volume examines existing and historical debates about applied anthropology.

  Subjects: Applied Anthropology Medical Anthropology

  
  
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  Archaeogaming

  An Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games

  Andrew Reinhard

  Video games exemplify contemporary material objects, resources, and spaces that people use to define their culture. This book serves as a general introduction to "archaeogaming"; it describes the intersection of archaeology and video games and applies archaeological method and theory into understanding game-spaces as both site and artifact.

  Subject: Archaeology Heritage Studies Anthropology (General)

  
  
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  An Archaeology of Unchecked Capitalism

  From the American Rust Belt to the Developing World

  Paul A. Shackel

  By drawing parallels between the past and present – for example, the coal mines of the nineteenth-century northeastern Pennsylvania and the sweatshops of the twenty-first century in Bangladesh – we can have difficult conversations about the past and advance our commitment to address social justice issues.

  Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

  
  
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  Arctic Abstractive Industry

  Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North

  Edited by Arthur Mason

  Examining the processes at work in sites of industrial extraction and ecological vulnerability in the contemporary Arctic, this book looks at the displacements that conceal exploitation, on the one hand, and appropriations of value on the other.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Sustainable Development Goals

  
  
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  The Arts in Nazi Germany

  Continuity, Conformity, Change

  Edited by Jonathan Huener and Francis R. Nicosia

  Culture and the arts played a central role in the ideology and propaganda of National Socialism from the early years of the movement until the last months of the Third Reich in 1945. Hitler and his followers believed that art and culture were expressions of race, and that “Aryans” alone were capable of creating true art and preserving true German culture.

  Subjects: History: World War II Cultural Studies (General)

  
  
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  Austria, Germany, and the Cold War

  From the Anschluss to the State Treaty, 1938-1955

  Rolf Steininger

  In the 'Moscow Declaration' of 1943 the Allies officially propagated the notion of Austria as the first victim of Hitlerite aggression and announced their intention to set up a "free and independent Austria" after the war, which finally happened in 1955. By questioning why it took so long to get to this point, the author addresses issues such as the victim thesis, Austrians as perpetrators, Austrian anti-Semitism and official attempts to mitigate its effects after the war.

  Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

  
  
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  Authority, Identity and the Social History of the Great War

  Edited by Frans Coetzee and Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee

  The unprecedented scope and intensity of the First World War has prompted an enormous body of retrospective scholarship. However, efforts to provide a coherent synthesis about the war's impact and significance have remained circumscribed, tending to focus either on the operational outlines of military strategy and tactics or on the cultural legacy of the conflict as transmitted bythe war's most articulate observers.

  Subject: History: World War I

  
  
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  Autistic Dreaming

  Vibrant Memory, Activism, Environment

  Anna Reading

  An exacting reassessment of neurodiversity within activist and artistic communities, Autistic Dreaming illuminates how the integration of neurodivergent perspectives within critical memory studies has the opportunity to expand ideas about the relationship between the individual and collective, and reform our method of remembrance.

  Subjects: Memory Studies Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

  
  
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  Avant-garde to New Wave

  Czechoslovak Cinema, Surrealism and the Sixties

  Jonathan L. Owen

  The cultural liberalization of communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s produced many artistic accomplishments, not least the celebrated films of the Czech New Wave. This movement saw filmmakers use their new freedom to engage with traditions of the avant-garde, especially Surrealism.

  Subject: Film and Television Studies

  
  
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  Being a Sperm Donor

  Masculinity, Sexuality, and Biosociality in Denmark

  Sebastian Mohr

  Through ethnographic explorations of the everyday lives of Danish sperm donors, Being a Sperm Donor explores how masculinity and sexuality are reconfigured in a time in which the norms and logics of (reproductive) biomedicine have become ordinary, and examines how the latter’s socio-cultural and political dimensions become intertwined with men’s intimate sense of self.

  Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

  
  
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  A Belle Epoque?

  Women and Feminism in French Society and Culture 1890-1914

  Edited by Diana Holmes and Carrie Tarr

  The Third Republic, known as the ‘belle époque’, was a period of lively, articulate and surprisingly radical feminist activity in France, borne out of the contradiction between the Republican ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity and the reality of intense and systematic gender discrimination. Yet, it also was a period of intense and varied artistic production, with women disproving the critical nearconsensus that art was a masculine activity by writing, painting, performing, sculpting, and even displaying an interest in the new "seventh art" of cinema.

  Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century

  
  
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  Berlin Divided City, 1945-1989

  Edited by Philip Broadbent and Sabine Hake

  A great deal of attention continues to focus on Berlin’s cultural and political landscape after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but as yet, no single volume looks at the divided city through an interdisciplinary analysis. This volume examines how the city was conceived, perceived, and represented during the four decades preceding reunification and thereby offers a unique perspective on divided Berlin’s identities.

  Subjects: Urban Studies History: 20th Century to Present

  
  
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  The Best We Share

  Nation, Culture and World-Making in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena

  Christoph Brumann

  As the most ambitious study of the World Heritage arena so far, this volume dissects the inner workings of a prominent global body, demonstrating the power of ethnography in the highly formalised and diplomatic context of a multilateral organisation.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Museum Studies Cultural Studies (General)

  
  
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  Between Marx and Coca-Cola

  Youth Cultures in Changing European Societies, 1960-1980

  Edited by Axel Schildt and Detlef Siegfried

  In the 1960s and 1970s, Western Europe's "Golden Age" (Eric Hobsbawm), a new youth consciousness emerged, which gave this period its distinctive character. Offering rich and new material, this volume moves beyond the easy conflation of youth culture and "Americanization" and instead sets out to show, for the first time, how international developments fused with national traditions to produce specific youth cultures that became the leading trendsetters of emergent post-industrial Western societies.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

  
  
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  Beyond Filial Piety

  Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies

  Edited by Jeanne Shea, Katrina Moore and Hong Zhang

  This volume explores emerging cultural meanings and social responses to population aging in contemporary East Asian societies. Drawing on ethnographic, demographic, policy, archival, and media data, the authors trace both common patterns and diverging trends across China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, and Korea.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

  
  
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  Beyond Rationalism

  Rethinking Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery

  Edited by Bruce Kapferer

  This book seeks a reconsideration of the phenomenon of sorcery and related categories. The contributors to the volume explore the different perspectives on human sociality and social and political constitution that practices typically understood as sorcery, magic and ritual reveal.

  Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology of Religion

  
  
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  Big Capital in an Unequal World

  The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan

  Rosita Armytage

  Following the hidden lives of the global “1%”, this book examines the networks, social practices, marriages, and machinations of the elite in Pakistan. In doing so, it reveals the daily, even mundane, ways in which elites contribute to and shape the inequality that characterises the modern world.

  Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

  
  
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  Black Schoolgirls in Space

  Stories of Black Girlhoods Gathered on Educational Terrain

  Edited by Esther O. Ohito and Lucía Mock Muñoz de Luna

  Black Schoolgirls in Space is a theoretical turn that advances the growing interest in transnational girlhoods by focusing on the Black girls as actors and agents in the construction of not only girlhood but also the educational worlds in which girlhoods are contained.

  Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Development Studies Sociology

  
  
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  Bodies in Pain

  Emotion and the Cinema of Darren Aronofsky

  Tarja Laine

  The films of Darren Aronofsky invite emotional engagement by means of affective resonance between the film and the spectator’s lived body. Bodies in Pain analyses how Aronofsky’s films engage the spectator in an affective form of viewing that involves all the senses, ultimately engendering a process of (self) reflection through their emotional dynamics.

  Subject: Film and Television Studies

  
  
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  The Body of the Queen

  Gender and Rule in the Courtly World, 1500-2000

  Edited by Regina Schulte

  How many “bodies” does a queen have? What is the significance of multiple “bodies”? How has the gendered body been constructed and perceived within the context of the European courts during the course of the past five centuries? These are some of the questions addressed in this anthology, a contribution to the ongoing debate provoked by Ernst H. Kantorowicz in his seminal work from 1957, The King’s Two Bodies.

  Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

  
  
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  Border Aesthetics

  Concepts and Intersections

  Edited by Johan Schimanski and Stephen F. Wolfe

  The field of border studies has analyzed the legal, geographical, and historical aspects of borders extensively, but such studies have hardly exhausted their conceptual fertility. Organized around six key ideas—ecology, imaginary, in/visibility, palimpsest, sovereignty and waiting—the interlocking essays collected here provide theoretical starting points for an aesthetic understanding of borders.

  Subjects: Literary Studies Mobility Studies Anthropology (General)

  
  
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  Boro, L'Île d'Amour

  The Films of Walerian Borowczyk

  Edited by Kamila Kuc, Kuba Mikurda, and Michał Oleszczyk

  There has been a revival of interest in the work of Polish film director Walerian Borowczyk, a label-defying auteur and “escape artist” if there ever was one. This volume, markedly experimental in character, allows scholars to gain insight into previously unnoticed aspects of Borowczyk’s complex and ambiguous oeuvre.

  Subject: Film and Television Studies

  
  
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  The Brave New World of European Labor

  European Trade Unions at the Millennium

  Edited by Andrew Martin and George Ross

  European union movements played a central role in promoting a "Europeanmodel of society", a humane industrial relations system, high labor standards, generous welfare states, and collective political representation which reached its pinnacle in the post-World War II era. The recent shift to lower growth, rising unemployment, renewed European integration, neo-liberalism, and globalization has challenged this "European Model" and the unions' place in it.

  Subject: History (General)

  
  
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  Breaking Boundaries

  Varieties of Liminality

  Edited by Agnes Horvath, Bjørn Thomassen, and Harald Wydra

  Liminality has the potential to be a leading paradigm for understanding transformation in a globalizing world.  This book explores the methodological range and applicability of the concept to a variety of concrete social and political problems.

  Subject: Anthropology (General)

  
  
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  The Bressonians

  French Cinema and the Culture of Authorship

  Codruţa Morari

  With his meticulous approach to craft, formal innovations, and intensely personal style, Robert Bresson was in many ways the prototypical auteur. This strikingly original study of Bresson and his cinematic afterlives his influence in the work of French filmmakers such as Pialat, Eustache, and Rohmer—directors united by the “problem” of authorial style they inherited from Bresson.

  Subject: Film and Television Studies

  
  
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  Changing the World, Changing Oneself

  Political Protest and Collective Identities in West Germany and the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s

  Edited by Belinda Davis, Wilfried Mausbach, Martin Klimke, and Carla MacDougall

  A captivating time, the 60s and 70s now draw more attention than ever. The first substantial work by historians has appeared only in the last few years, and this volume offers an important contribution.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

  
  
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  Charismatic Leadership and Social Movements

  The Revolutionary Power of Ordinary Men and Women

  Edited by Jan Willem Stutje

  Much of the writing on charisma focuses on specific traits associated with exceptional leaders, a practice that has broadened the concept of charisma to such an extent that it loses its distinctiveness – and therefore its utility. More particularly, the concept’s relevance to the study of social movements has not moved beyond generalizations.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

  
  
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  Children and Youth on the Front Line

  Ethnography, Armed Conflict and Displacement

  Edited by Jo Boyden and Joanna de Berry

  War leads not just to widespread death but also to extensive displacement, overwhelming fear, and economic devastation. It weakens social ties, threatens household survival and undermines the family's capacity to care for its most vulnerable members.

  Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies

  
  
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  Children of Palestine

  Experiencing Forced Migration in the Middle East

  Edited by Dawn Chatty and Gillian Lewando Hundt

  Palestinian children and young people living both within and outside of refugee camps in the Middle East are the focus of this book. For more than half a century these children and their caregivers have lived a temporary existence in the dramatic and politically volatile landscape that is the Middle East.

  Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies

  
  
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  China in Oceania

  Reshaping the Pacific?

  Edited by Terence Wesley-Smith and Edgar A. Porter

  It is important to see China’s activities in the Pacific Islands, not just in terms of a specific set of interests, but in the context of Beijing’s recent efforts to develop a comprehensive and global foreign policy. China’s policy towards Oceania is part of a much larger outreach to the developing world, a major work in progress that involves similar initiatives in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East.

  Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology

  
  
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  Comics in French

  The European Bande Dessinée in Context

  Laurence Grove

  Whereas in English-speaking countries comics are for children or adults ‘who should know better’, in France and Belgium the form is recognized as the ‘Ninth Art’ and follows in the path of poetry, architecture, painting and cinema. The bande dessinée [comic strip] has its own national institutions, regularly obtains front-page coverage and has received the accolades of statesmen from De Gaulle onwards.

  Subject: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

  
  
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  Coming of Age in Times of Uncertainty

  Harry Blatterer
  Preface by Peter Beilharz

  Adulthood is taken for granted. It connotes the end of childhood, the resolution to the “storm and stress” period of adolescence.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

  
  
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  Communication

  A House Seen from Everywhere

  Igor E. Klyukanov

  Focusing on the scientific study of communication, this book is a systematic examination. To that end, the natural, social, cultural, and rational scientific perspectives on communication are presented and then brought together in one unifying framework of the semiotic square, showing how all four views are interconnected.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

  
  
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  Comrades in Arms

  Military Masculinities in East German Culture

  Tom Smith

  Without question, the East German National People’s Army sought to exemplify traditional masculine ideals of stoicism, sacrifice, and physical courage. Yet depictions of the military in East German film and literature were far more nuanced and ambivalent. Comrades in Arms shows how cultural works have portrayed violence, vulnerability, military theatricality, and a range of masculinities.

  Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality History: 20th Century to Present

  
  
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  Concentrationary Cinema

  Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais's Night and Fog

  Edited By Griselda Pollock and Max Silverman

  Since its completion in 1955, Alain Resnais’s Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) has been considered one of the most important films to confront the catastrophe and atrocities of the Nazi era. But was it a film about the Holocaust that failed to recognize the racist genocide? Or was the film not about the Holocaust as we know it today but a political and aesthetic response to what David Rousset, the French political prisoner from Buchenwald, identified on his return in 1945 as the ‘concentrationary universe’ which, now actualized, might release its totalitarian plague any time and anywhere? What kind of memory does the film create to warn us of the continued presence of this concentrationary universe? This international collection re-examines Resnais’s benchmark film in terms of both its political and historical context of representation of the camps and of other instances of the concentrationary in contemporary cinema.

  Subjects: Film and Television Studies Genocide History Cultural Studies (General)

  
  
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  The Concise Cinegraph

  Encyclopaedia of German Cinema

  General Editor: Hans-Michael Bock, CineGraph Hamburg
  Associate Editor: Tim Bergfelder, University of Southampton

  This comprehensive guide is an ideal reference work for film specialists and enthusiasts. First published in 1984 but continuously updated ever since, CineGraph is the most authoritative and comprehensive encyclopedia on German-speaking cinema in the German language.

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  Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe

  Edited by Pieter M. Judson and Marsha L. Rozenblit

  The hundred years between the revolutions of 1848 and the population transfers of the mid-twentieth century saw the nationalization of culturally complex societies in East Central Europe. This fact has variously been explained in terms of modernization, state building and nation-building theories, each of which treats the process of nationalization as something inexorable, a necessary component of modernity.

  Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

  
  
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  Contrarian Anthropology

  The Unwritten Rules of Academia

  Laura Nader

  Analyzing the workings of boundary maintenance in the areas of anthropology, energy, gender, and law, Nader contrasts dominant trends in academia with work that pushes the boundaries of acceptable methods and theories. Although the selections illustrate the history of one anthropologist’s work over half a century, the wider intent is to label a field as contrarian to reveal unwritten rules that sometimes hinder transformative thinking.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

  
  
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  Conversations on the Beach

  Fishermen's Knowledge, Metaphor and Environmental Change in South India

  Gotz Hoeppe

  Already on the margins of an agrarian society, the marine fisherfolk of the South Indian state of Kerala are faced with a severe environmental problem: overfishing. The actions of trawlers and industrial fishing ships, it seems, have caused the resources on which they depend to dwindle rapidly.

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

  
  
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  Correcting the Record

  Essays on the History of American Anthropology

  Herbert S. Lewis

  The critique of twentieth-century American anthropology often portrays anthropologists of the past as servants of colonialism who “extracted” information from indigenous peoples and published works causing them harm. This volume presents powerful refutations of these damaging myths.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Colonial History

  
  
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  Courage and Compassion

  A Jewish Boyhood in German-Occupied Greece

  Tony Molho

  Tony Molho tells a dramatic story of survival under the most adverse conditions during the Holocaust. A historian himself now telling his own story, Molho writes an autobiographical text that speaks of a Jewish childhood in Greece during World War II and the Axis Occupation.

  Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War II Genocide History

  
  
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  Critical Public Archaeology

  Confronting Social Challenges in the 21st Century

  Edited by V. Camille Westmont

  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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  Crossing the Aegean

  An Appraisal of the 1923 Compulsory Population Exchange between Greece and Turkey

  Edited by Renée Hirschon

  Following the defeat of the Greek Army in 1922 by nationalist Turkish forces, the 1923 Lausanne Convention specified the first internationally ratified compulsory population exchange. It proved to be a watershed in the eastern Mediterranean, having far-reaching ramifications both for the new Turkish Republic, and for Greece which hadto absorb over a million refugees.

  Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies History: 20th Century to Present

  
  
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  Crypto Crowds

  Singularities and Multiplicities on the Blockchain

  Edited by Matan Shapiro

  Discussing the notions around social dynamics, Crypto Crowds explores how crowd and community formations manifest empirically in cryptocurrency sociality online. Pioneering in its approach to the increasing digitalization and datafication of everyday life, the volume encourages scholars explore further how ‘decentralized’ and ‘trustless’ technologies take part in the construction of postmodern crowds.

  Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

  
  
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  Culture and the Changing Environment

  Uncertainty, Cognition, and Risk Management in Cross-Cultural Perspective

  Edited by Michael J. Casimir

  Today human ecology has split into many different sub-disciplines such as historical ecology, political ecology or the New Ecological Anthropology. The latter in particular has criticised the predominance of the Western view on different ecosystems, arguing that culture-specific world views and human-environment interactions have been largely neglected.

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Theory and Methodology

  
  
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  Cultures of Abortion in Weimar Germany

  Cornelie Usborne

  Abortion in the Weimar Republic is a compelling subject since it provoked public debates and campaigns of an intensity rarely matched elsewhere. It proved so explosive because populationist, ecclesiastical and political concerns were heightened by cultural anxieties of a modernity in crisis.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality Medical Anthropology

  
  
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  Daisy Wheel, Hexfoil, Hexafoil, Rosette

  Protective Marks in Gravestone Art

  Robyn S. Lacy

  Hexfoils have a history of use for personal protection and were carved both intentionally or graffitied into church pews and walls, bed frames, doors, and gravestones. This research sheds light on the use of this historic symbol to protect the bodies and souls of the deceased, across several thousand years and multiple countries.

  Subjects: Archaeology Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion

  
  
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  The Dark Side of Nation-States

  Ethnic Cleansing in Modern Europe

  Philipp Ther

  “Philipp Ther's newest contribution to the burgeoning literature on ethnic cleansing, forced deportation, and population transfer in the Twentieth Century is admirable in a number of ways. [It] is a genuinely comprehensive treatment of one of the most central problems of modern European history.”  ·  Norman Naimark, H-Soz-u-Kult

  “A groundbreaking study…based on an impressive amount of facts and balances… This analytically dense, well-written book is highly recommended for a broad audience.”  ·  Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

  Subjects: Genocide History History (General)

  
  
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  Deconstructing Dolls

  Girlhoods and the Meanings of Play

  Edited by Miriam Forman-Brunell

  Deconstructing Dolls explores the role of dolls in girlhood and young womanhood, seeking to understand the historical and contemporary significance of dolls particularly as they relate social meanings in the lives of girls.

  Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)

  
  
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  DEFA

  East German Cinema 1946-1992

  Edited by Seán Allan and John Sandford

  Western scholars have not lost any of their fascination for East German culture. Cinema in particular continues to attract interest.

  Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present

  
  
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  Democracy in Modern Europe

  A Conceptual History

  Edited by Jussi Kurunmäki, Jeppe Nevers, and Henk te Velde

  As one of the most influential ideas in modern European history, democracy has reshaped not only the landscape of government, but also fundamental social and political thought on a global level. Democracy in Modern Europe covers the history of democracy in modern Europe.

  Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

  
  
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  The Demons of Modernity

  Ingmar Bergman and European Cinema

  John Orr

  "On the evidence of this brilliantly allusive study of Ingmar Bergman, John Orr, had it not been for his premature passing, would have become one of the world's most influential of film analysts. Even beneath the shadow of the plethora of books on Bergman, Orr's approach is distinctive… He emphasizes the maestro's courageous leap into Modernism in the early 1960's, and the profound influence he exerted on his contemporaries. It is a pleasure to read Orr's elegant prose, which eschews the obtuse terminology of semiotics in favor of a lucid, almost passionate approach to the material.  Bergman, one feels, would have enjoyed this book."  ·  Peter Cowie, author of Ingmar Bergman, A Critical Biography.

  Subject: Film and Television Studies

  
  
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  Disaster Upon Disaster

  Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice

  Edited by Susanna M. Hoffman and Roberto E. Barrios

  A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies mandated to deal with the concern. Disaster Upon Disaster illuminates the numerous disjunctions between the suppositions, realities, agendas, and executions in the field and advances solutions and the matter of outcomes.

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Applied Anthropology

  
  
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  Dismantling the Dream Factory

  Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language

  Hester Baer

  The history of postwar German cinema has most often been told as a story of failure, a failure paradoxically epitomized by the remarkable popularity of film throughout the late 1940s and 1950s. Through the analysis of 10 representative films, Hester Baer reassesses this period, looking in particular at how the attempt to ‘dismantle the dream factory’ of Nazi entertainment cinema resulted in a new cinematic language which developed as a result of the changing audience demographic.

  Subjects: Film and Television Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

  
  
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  Dressing Up

  Menswear in the Age of Social Media

  Joshua M. Bluteau

  What does men’s fashion say about contemporary masculinity? How do these notions operate in an increasingly digitized world? To answer these questions, author Joshua M. Bluteau combines theoretical analysis with vibrant narrative, exploring men’s fashion in the online world of social media as well as the offline worlds of retail, production, and the catwalk.

  Subject: Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

  
  
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  Empire, Colony, Genocide

  Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History

  Edited by A. Dirk Moses

  In 1944, Raphael Lemkin coined the term “genocide” to describe a foreign occupation that destroyed or permanently crippled a subject population. In this tradition, Empire, Colony, Genocide embeds genocide in the epochal geopolitical transformations of the past 500 years: the European colonization of the globe, the rise and fall of the continental land empires, violent decolonization, and the formation of nation states.

  Subjects: Genocide History Colonial History

  
  
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  Enchanted by Cinema

  Wilhelm Thiele between Vienna, Berlin, and Hollywood

  Edited by Jan-Christopher Horak and Andréas-Benjamin Seyfert

  Enchanted by Cinema explores the films of the European music film pioneer William Thiele, as well as his career as an exile in Hollywood. Examining a wide range of the director’s filmography, the contributors address a variety of political, aesthetic and cross-cultural issues.

  Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present Jewish Studies

  
  
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  Engaging Environments in Tonga

  Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Relations in a Changing World

  Arne Aleksej Perminow

  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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  Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia

  Bioregionalism, Permaculture, and Ecovillages

  Edited by Joshua Lockyer and James R. Veteto

  In order to move global society towards a sustainable “ecotopia,” solutions must be engaged in specific places and communities, and the authors here argue for re-orienting environmental anthropology from a problem-oriented towards a solutions-focused endeavor. Using case studies from around the world, the contributors—scholar-activists and activist-practitioners— examine the interrelationships between three prominent environmental social movements: bioregionalism, a worldview and political ecology that grounds environmental action and experience; permaculture, a design science for putting the bioregional vision into action; and ecovillages, the ever-dynamic settings for creating sustainable local cultures.

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

  
  
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  Escape From Hell

  The True Story of the Auschwitz Protocol

  Alfred Wetzler

  A shocking account of Nazi genocide and the inhuman conditions in Auschwitz, but equally shocking is the initial disbelief with which the revelations were met.

  “Alfred Wetzler was a true hero.

  Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War II Literary Studies

  
  
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  Ethnographers Before Malinowski

  Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922

  Edited by Frederico Delgado Rosa and Han F. Vermeulen

  At a time when anthropologists claim new ethnographic experiences, a second chance should be given to older ethnographic texts. Recovering monographs produced c.1870-1922 that dispute canonic models of writing culture, the present volume challenges the assumption that fieldwork carried out within a single context by a single individual, with its corresponding output, the monograph, was a twentieth-century invention.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Colonial History

  
  
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  Ethnographies of Conservation

  Environmentalism and the Distribution of Privilege

  Edited by David G. Anderson and Eeva Berglund

  Anthropologists know that conservation often disempowers already under-privileged groups, and that it also fails to protect environments. Through a series of ethnographic studies, this book argues that the real problem is not the disappearance of "pristine nature" or even the land-use practices of uneducated people.

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

  
  
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  Europe in 1848

  Revolution and Reform

  Edited by Dieter Dowe, Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, Dieter Langewiesche and Jonathan Sperber

  The events of 1989/90 in Europe demonstrated the renewed relevance of the mid-nineteenth century uprisings: both by showing, once again, how a revolutionary initiative could quickly spread through different European countries, but also by calling into question the nature of revolution and the criteria for a revolution's success and failure. To commemorate the 1848 revolution in a spirit of renewed critical inquiry, an international team of prominent historians have come together to produce what must be the most comprehensive work on this topic to date and to offer a synthesis that sums up the current state of scholarly research, emphasizing the many new interpretations that have developed over several decades.

  Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

  
  
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  A European Memory?

  Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance

  Edited by Małgorzata Pakier and Bo Stråth

  An examination of the role of history and memory is vital in order to better understand why the grand design of a United Europe—with a common foreign policy and market yet enough diversity to allow for cultural and social differences—was overwhelmingly turned down by its citizens. The authors argue that this rejection of the European constitution was to a certain extent a challenge to the current historical grounding used for further integration and further demonstrates the lack of understanding by European bureaucrats of the historical complexity and divisiveness of Europe’s past.

  Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies

  
  
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  Evidence, History and the Great War

  Historians and the Impact of 1914-18

  Edited by Gail Braybon

  In the English-speaking world the Great War maintains a tenacious grip on the public imagination, and also continues to draw historians to an event which has been interpreted variously as a symbol of modernity, the midwife to the twentieth century and an agent of social change. Although much 'common knowledge' about the war and its aftermath has included myth, simplification and generalisation, this has often been accepted uncritically by popular and academic writers alike.

  Subject: History: World War I

  
  
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  Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema

  A Sartrean Perspective

  Edited by Jean-Pierre Boulé and Enda MacCaffrey

  At the heart of this volume is the assertion that Sartrean existentialism, most prominent in the 1940s, particularly in France, is still relevant as a way of interpreting the world today. Film, by reflecting philosophical concerns in the actions and choices of characters, continues and extends a tradition in which art exemplifies the understanding of existentialist philosophy.

  Subject: Film and Television Studies

  
  
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  Experiencing Archaeology

  A Laboratory Manual of Classroom Activities, Demonstrations, and Minilabs for Introductory Archaeology

  Lara Homsey-Messer, Tracy Michaud, Angela Lockard Reed, and Victoria Bobo

  This laboratory-style manual compiles a wide variety of uniquely designed, hands-on classroom activities to acquaint advanced high school and introductory college students to the field of archaeology. Ranging in length from five to thirty minutes, activities created by archaeologists are designed to break up traditional classroom lecture, engage students of all learning styles, and easily integrate into large classes and/or short class periods that do not easily accommodate traditional laboratory work.

  Subject: Archaeology

  
  
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  The Fateful Alliance

  German Conservatives and Nazis in 1933: The Machtergreifung in a New Light

  Hermann Beck

  
   

  Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

  
  
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  Fatness and the Maternal Body

  Women's Experiences of Corporeality and the Shaping of Social Policy

  Edited by Maya Unnithan-Kumar and Soraya Tremayne

  Obesity is a rising global health problem. On the one hand a clearly defined medical condition, it is at the same time a corporeal state embedded in the social and cultural perception of fatness, body shape and size.

  Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

  
  
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  Field Manual for the Archaeology of Ritual, Religion, and Magic

  C. Riley Augé

  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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  Fig Trees and Humans

  Ficus Ecology and Mutualisms across Cultures

  Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas and Martine Hossaert-McKey

  Fig Trees and Humans examines the interactions between the biology and ecology of the genus Ficus and how humans use and think of Ficus species across the tropics and in the Mediterranean region.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

  
  
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  Forging the Collective Memory

  Government and International Historians through Two World Wars

  Edited by Keith Wilson

  When studying the origins of the First World War, scholars have relied heavily on the series of key diplomatic documents published by the governments of both the defeated and the victorious powers in the 1920s and 1930s. However, this volume shows that these volumes, rather than dealing objectively with the past, were used by the different governments to project an interpretation of the origins of the Great War that was more palatable to them and their country than the truth might have been.

  Subjects: History: World War I History: World War II Memory Studies

  
  
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  France in the Era of Fascism

  Essays on the French Authoritarian Right

  Edited by Brian Jenkins

  France's response to the rise of European fascism during the 1930s, and subsequently to the Nazi occupation 1940-44, has been a difficult subject for the nation’s historians. The consensus amongst leading French authorities on the period has been the claim that France was largely 'immune' to fascism in the 1930s, and that the Vichy regime was an aberration produced by defeat and occupation.

  Subject: History: World War II

  
  
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  French Foreign Policy since 1945

  An Introduction

  Frédéric Bozo

  This compact and engaging history recounts France’s efforts to reconcile its proud history and global ambitions with a realistic appraisal of its capabilities following World War II. It provides insightful analysis of decolonization, the Cold War, and European unification, always attentive to the challenges posed by an increasingly multipolar, interconnected world.

  Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

  
  
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  The Frightful Stage

  Political Censorship of the Theater in Nineteenth-Century Europe

  Edited by Robert Justin Goldstein

  In nineteenth-century Europe the ruling elites viewed the theater as a form of communication which had enormous importance. The theater provided the most significant form of mass entertainment and was the only arena aside from the church in which regular mass gatherings were possible.

  Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Performance Studies Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

  
  
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  Futurism and Politics

  Between Anarchist Rebellion and Fascist Reaction, 1909-1944

  Günter Berghaus

  "Futurism was the state of the Fascist regime" - this is the view one encounters in most books written on Futurist art and literature. Whilst there can be no doubt about Futurist involvement with the founding of the fascist movement, little is known about the internal relationship between Futurists and Fascists in the years 1918-22, nor about the reasons for the Futurists' departure from the Fascist movement in 1920, or about Futurist opposition to (and even armed struggle against) the Fascist regime after 1924.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

  
  
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  Gardening the World

  Agency, Identity and the Ownership of Water

  Veronica Strang

  Around the world, intensifying development and human demands for fresh water are placing unsustainable pressures on finite resources. Countries are waging war over transboundary rivers, and rural and urban communities are increasingly divided as irrigation demands compete with domestic desires.

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies

  
  
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  Gender in Georgia

  Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation, and History in the South Caucasus

  Edited by Maia Barkaia and Alisse Waterston
  Afterword by Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

  As Georgia seeks to reinvent itself in the post-Soviet period, Georgian women are maneuvering to adjust to the new economic, social and political order. Gender in Georgia brings together an international group of feminist scholars to explore the socio-political conditions that have shaped gender dynamics in Georgia from the late 19th century to the present.

  Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

  
  
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  Genocide and Settler Society

  Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History

  Edited by A. Dirk Moses

  Colonial Genocide has been seen increasingly as a stepping-stone to the European genocides of the twentieth century, yet it remains an under-researched phenomenon. This volume reconstructs instances of Australian genocide and for the first time places them in a global context.

  Subjects: Genocide History Colonial History

  
  
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  German History 1789-1871

  From the Holy Roman Empire to the Bismarckian Reich

  Eric Dorn Brose

  During recent years, there has been a noticeable increase in interest in the nineteenth century, resulting in many fine monographs. However, these studies often gravitate toward Prussia or treat Germany's southern and northern regions as separate entities or else are thematically compartmentalized.

  Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

  
  
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  The Germans and the Holocaust

  Popular Responses to the Persecution and Murder of the Jews

  Edited by Susanna Schrafstetter and Alan E. Steinweis

  For decades, historians have debated how and to what extent the Holocaust penetrated the German national consciousness between 1933 and 1945. This compact volume brings together six historical investigations into the subject from leading scholars, employing newly accessible and previously underexploited evidence.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Jewish Studies Genocide History

  
  
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  Girls in Global Development

  Figurations of Gendered Power

  Edited by Heather Switzer, Karishma Desai, and Emily Bent

  Slating new directions in conversations surrounding gender, development, human rights, investment, and equality, Girls in Global Development theorizes the intersection of girlhood and global development through the novel concept of “Girls in Development” or GID.

  Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Development Studies Sociology Sustainable Development Goals

  
  
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  Girls Take Action

  Activism Networks by, for, and with Girls and Young Women

  Edited by Catherine Vanner

  An illuminating examination of activism networks run for, by, and with girls and young women globally, Girls Take Action highlights the myriad ways girls and young women are exercising their agency in the face of injustice, considering especially the role collaboration plays in creating a more transnational understanding of girlhood.

  Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

  
  
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  Groundwater Politics

  Advanced Extractivism and Slow Resistance

  Sally Babidge

  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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  Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe

  The Social Life of Asia Minor Refugees in Piraeus

  Renée Hirschon

  Since its first publication in 1989, this classic study has remained in demand. The third edition of Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe includes updated material with a new Preface, Epilogue, and map of the study area.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies History: 20th Century to Present

  
  
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  The Herero Genocide

  War, Emotion, and Extreme Violence in Colonial Namibia

  Matthias Häussler

  Drawing on previously inaccessible and overlooked archival sources, The Herero Genocide undertakes a groundbreaking investigation into the war between colonizer and colonized in what was formerly German South West Africa and is today the nation of Namibia. The result is an indispensable account of a genocide that has been neglected for too long.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History

  
  
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  History

  Narration, Interpretation, Orientation

  Jörn Rüsen

  Without denying the importance of the postmodernist approach to the narrative form and rhetorical strategies of historiography, the author, one of Germany's most prominent cultural historians, argues here in favor of reason and methodical rationality in history. He presents a broad variety of aspects, factors and developments of historical thinking from the 18th century to the present, thus continuing, in exemplary fashion, the tradition of critical self-reflection in the humanities and looking at historical studies as an important factor of cultural orientation in practical life.

  Subject: History (General)

  
  
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  The History of the Stasi

  East Germany's Secret Police, 1945-1990

  Jens Gieseke

  A well-balanced and detailed look at the East German Ministry for State Security, the secret police force more commonly known as the Stasi.

  “This is an excellent book, full of careful, balanced judgements and a wealth of concisely-communicated knowledge.

  Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

  
  
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  How is a Man Supposed to be a Man?

  Male Childlessness – a Life Course Disrupted

  Robin A. Hadley

  The global trend of declining fertility rates and an increasingly ageing population has serious implications for individuals and institutions alike. Childless men are mostly excluded from ageing, social science and reproduction scholarship and almost completely absent from most national statistics. This book examines the lived experiences of a hidden and disenfranchised population: men who wanted to be fathers.

  Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

  
  
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  Identity Politics and the New Genetics

  Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging

  Edited by Katharina Schramm, David Skinner and Richard Rottenburg

  Racial and ethnic categories have appeared in recent scientific work in novel ways and in relation to a variety of disciplines: medicine, forensics, population genetics and also developments in popular genealogy. Once again, biology is foregrounded in the discussion of human identity.

  Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

  
  
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  Immigrant Industry

  Building Postwar Australia

  Anoma Pieris, Mirjana Lozanovska, Alexandra Dellios, Andrew Saniga, and David Beynon

  After the end of the Second World War, major federally funded industries in Australia depended on the employment of large numbers of refugees displaced by the war. This book aims to bring to the foreground post-war industry and immigration to comprehensively document a uniquely Australian shaping of the built environment.

  Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

  
  
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  Imperial Germany 1871-1918

  Economy, Society, Culture and Politics

  Volker R. Berghahn

  A comprehensive history of German society in this period, providing a broad survey of its development. The volume is thematically organized and designed to give easy access to the major topics and issues of the Bismarkian and Wilhelmine eras.

  Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

  
  
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  Impotent Warriors

  Perspectives on Gulf War Syndrome, Vulnerability and Masculinity

  Susie Kilshaw

  From September 1990 to June 1991, the UK deployed 53,462 military personnel in the Gulf War. After the end of the conflict anecdotal reports of various disorders affecting troops who fought in the Gulf began to surface.

  Subjects: Medical Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

  
  
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  An Improbable War?

  The Outbreak of World War I and European Political Culture before 1914

  Edited by Holger Afflerbach and David Stevenson

  The First World War has been described as the "primordial catastrophe of the twentieth century." Arguably, Italian Fascism, German National Socialism and Soviet Leninism and Stalinism would not have emerged without the cultural and political shock of World War I.

  Subject: History: World War I

  
  
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  Ingmar Bergman Out of Focus

  Film Cultures and International Reception

  Edited by Jono Van Belle, Fernando Ramos Arenas, María Paz Peirano

  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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  Insidious Capital

  Frontlines of Value at the End of a Global Cycle

  Edited by Don Kalb

  In a global perspective of fast transforming social spaces that moves from East to West, Insidious Capital explores the struggles around the exploitation and valuation of labor, environmental politics, expansion of the ground rent, new hierarchies, the contradictions of higher education, the off-shoring of ‘immaterial’ labor, the illiberal right, and the mobilizations against it.

  Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Sustainable Development Goals

  
  
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  An Invitation to Anthropology

  The Structure, Evolution and Cultural Identity of Human Societies

  Josep R. Llobera

  Synthesizing British, French and American traditions, this stimulating and accessible text presents a comprehensive and fascinating introduction to social and cultural anthropology. It offers an original approach through integrating knowledge produced from a variety of perspectives, placing cultural and social anthropology in a wider context including macro-sociological concepts and reference to biological evolution.

  Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

  
  
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  Islam and New Kinship

  Reproductive Technology and the Shariah in Lebanon

  Morgan Clarke

  Assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization have provoked global controversy and ethical debate. This book provides a groundbreaking investigation into those debates in the Islamic Middle East, simultaneously documenting changing ideas of kinship and the evolving role of religious authority in the region through a combination of in-depth field research in Lebanon and an exhaustive survey of the Islamic legal literature.

  Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion Gender Studies and Sexuality

  
  
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  Israel-Palestine

  Lands and Peoples

  Edited by Omer Bartov
  Afterword by Alon Confino

  The conflict between Israel and Palestine has raised a plethora of unanswered questions, generated seemingly unreconcilable narratives, and profoundly transformed the land’s physical and political geography. This volume seeks to provide a deeper understanding of the links between the region that is now known as Israel and Palestine and its peoples—both those that live there as well as those who relate to it as a mental, mythical, or religious landscape.

  Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

  
  
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  Jewish Histories of the Holocaust

  New Transnational Approaches

  Edited by Norman J. W. Goda

  For many years, histories of the Holocaust focused on its perpetrators, and only recently have more scholars begun to consider in detail the experiences of victims and survivors, as well as the documents they left behind. This volume contains new research from internationally established scholars. It provides an introduction to and overview of Jewish narratives of the Holocaust.

  Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies

  
  
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  Jewish Life in Nazi Germany

  Dilemmas and Responses

  Edited by Francis R. Nicosia and David Scrase

  German Jews faced harsh dilemmas in their responses to Nazi persecution, partly a result of Nazi cruelty and brutality but also a result of an understanding of their history and rightful place in Germany. This volume addresses the impact of the anti-Jewish policies of Hitler’s regime on Jewish family life, Jewish women, and the existence of Jewish organizations and institutions and considers some of the Jewish responses to Nazi anti-Semitism and persecution.

  Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War II Genocide History

  
  
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  The Journalism of Milena Jesenská

  A Critical Voice in Interwar Central Europe

  Edited, with an Introduction by Kathleen Hayes

  Milena Jesenská, born in Prague in 1896, is most famous as one of Franz Kafka's great loves. Although their relationship lasted only a short time, it won the attention of the literary world with the 1952 publication of Kafka's letters to Milena.

  Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Literary Studies Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present

  
  
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  Judgment At Istanbul

  The Armenian Genocide Trials

  Vahakn N. Dadrian and Taner Akçam

  Turkey’s bid to join the European Union has lent new urgency to the issue of the Armenian Genocide as differing interpretations of the genocide are proving to be a major reason for the delay of the its accession. This book provides vital background information and is a prime source of legal evidence and authentic Turkish eyewitness testimony of the intent and the crime of genocide against the Armenians.

  Subject: Genocide History

  
  
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  Kristeva in Focus

  From Theory to Film Analysis

  Katherine J. Goodnow

  Dealing with some of the major themes in film narratives, this book draws on the theories of French psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva. It looks at how narratives have changed over time, and considers the sources of our variable reactions to themes and representations of horror, strangers, and love.

  Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

  
  
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  Kubrick's Mitteleuropa

  The Central European Imaginary in the Films of Stanley Kubrick

  Edited by Nathan Abrams and Jeremi Szaniawski

  Stanley Kubrick was arguably one of the most influential American directors of the post-World War II era, and his Central European Jewish heritage, though often overlooked, greatly influenced his oeuvre. Kubrick's Mitteleuropa explores this as well as providing important commentary on the reception of his films in countries across Eastern Europe.

  Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)

  
  
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  Landscape, Process and Power

  Re-evaluating Traditional Environmental Knowledge

  Edited by Serena Heckler

  In recent years, the field of study variously called local, indigenous or traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) has experienced a crisis brought about by the questioning of some of its basic assumptions. This has included reassessing notions that scientific methods can accurately elicit and describe TEK or that incorporating it into development projects will improve the physical, social or economic well-being of marginalized peoples.

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)

  
  
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  The Law in Nazi Germany

  Ideology, Opportunism, and the Perversion of Justice

  Edited by Alan E. Steinweis and Robert D. Rachlin

  While we often tend to think of the Third Reich as a zone of lawlessness, the Nazi dictatorship and its policies of persecution rested on a legal foundation set in place and maintained by judges, lawyers, and civil servants trained in the law. This volume offers a concise and compelling account of how these intelligent and welleducated legal professionals lent their skills and knowledge to a system of oppression and domination.

  Subjects: History: World War II History: 20th Century to Present

  
  
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  The Limits of Meaning

  Case Studies in the Anthropology of Christianity

  Edited by Matthew Engelke and Matt Tomlinson

  Too often, anthropological accounts of ritual leave readers with the impression that everything goes smoothly, that rituals are "meaningful events." But what happens when rituals fail, or when they seem "meaningless"? Drawing on research in the anthropology of Christianity from around the globe, the authors in this volume suggest that in order to analyze meaning productively, we need to consider its limits.

  Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

  
  
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  Liquid Bread

  Beer and Brewing in Cross-Cultural Perspective

  Edited by Wulf Schiefenhövel and Helen Macbeth

  “This important volume sheds new light on the social, political, and economic role of beer in society..

  Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

  
  
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  Living Like a Girl

  Agency, Social Vulnerability and Welfare Measures in Europe and Beyond

  Edited by Maria A. Vogel and Linda Arnell

  With a particular focus on girls who have experienced interventions by social services, the contributions in Living Like a Girl expand our understanding of contemporary European girlhood by demonstrating how social problems are managed in different cultural contexts, political and social systems.

  Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology Cultural Studies (General) Sustainable Development Goals

  
  
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  Local Science Vs Global Science

  Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge in International Development

  Edited by Paul Sillitoe

  While science has achieved a remarkable understanding of nature, affording humans an astonishing technological capability, it has led, through Euro-American global domination, to the muting of other cultural views and values, even threatening their continued existence. There is a growing realization that the diversity of knowledge systems demand respect, some refer to them in a conservation idiom as alternative information banks.

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)

  
  
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  Losing Heaven

  Religion in Germany since 1945

  Thomas Großbölting†

  The religious landscape of modern Germany is one that would scarcely be recognizable to earlier generations. This groundbreaking survey of German postwar religious life depicts a profoundly changed society that has almost entirely shed its Christian character despite a booming market for syncretistic, individualistic forms of “popular religion.”

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Anthropology of Religion

  
  
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  Machine-Created Culture

  Essays on the Archaeology of Digital Things and Places

  Andrew Reinhard

  Machine-Created Culture offers archaeologists of any level new ways of interpreting electronic and digital artifacts, sites, and landscapes. Playfully told through the misadventures of a reluctant digital archaeologist, this book gently leads readers into emerging topics including quantum archaeology, entropy, psychogeography, complexity science, and more.

  Subject: Archaeology

  
  
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  Magical House Protection

  The Archaeology of Counter-Witchcraft

  Brian Hoggard

  Belief in magic and particularly the power of witchcraft was a deep and enduring presence in popular culture; people created and concealed many objects to protect themselves from harmful magic.  Detailed are the principal forms of magical house protection in Britain and beyond from the fourteenth century to the present day.

  Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology of Religion

  
  
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  The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class

  Everyday Politics and Moral Economy in a Post-Soviet City

  Denys Gorbach

  The industrial workers of Ukraine have a contradictory and complex political lifeworld. Based on three years of fieldwork in the city of Kryvyi Rih, this book focuses on the everyday politics and moral economy that constitute the working-class and structures its relations with other social groups.

  Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Urban Studies

  
  
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  Making Bodies Kosher

  The Politics of Reproduction among Haredi Jews in England

  Ben Kasstan

  Analyses the ways in which Haredi Jews negotiate healthcare services using theoretical perspectives in political philosophy. This is the first archival and ethnographic study of Haredi Jews in the UK, and will allow readers to understand how reproductive care issues affect this growing minority population.

  Subjects: Medical Anthropology Jewish Studies Anthropology of Religion

  
  
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  The Manual of Ethnography

  Marcel Mauss

  Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) was the leading social anthropologist in Paris between the world wars, and his Manuel d’ethnographie, dating from that period, is the longest of all his texts. Despite having had four editions in France, the Manuel has hitherto been unavailable in English.

  Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

  
  
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  Margaret Mead

  Paul Shankman

  Tracing Mead’s career as an ethnographer, as the early voice of public anthropology, and as a public figure, this  elegantly written biography links the professional and personal sides of her career. This short volume is an ideal starting point for anyone wanting to learn about, arguably, the most famous anthropologist of the twentieth century.

  Subject: Anthropology (General)

  
  
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  Mary Douglas

  Paul Richards and Perri 6

  This handy, concise biography covers the life of Mary Douglas, one of the most important anthropologists of the second half of the 20th century. It offers an introduction to how her distinctive approach developed across a long and productive career and how it applies to current pressing issues of social conflict and planetary survival.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

  
  
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  Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany

  Origins, Practices, Legacies

  Edited by Francis R. Nicosia and Jonathan Huener

  The participation of German physicians in medical experiments on innocent people and mass murder is one of the most disturbing aspects of the Nazi era and the Holocaust. Six distinguished historians working in this field are addressing the critical issues raised by these murderous experiments, such as the place of the Holocaust in the larger context of eugenic and racial research, the motivation and roles of the German medical establishment, and the impact and legacy of the eugenics movements and Nazi medical practice on physicians and medicine since World War II.

  Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History

  
  
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  Memory Unbound

  Tracing the Dynamics of Memory Studies

  Edited by Lucy Bond, Stef Craps, Pieter Vermeulen

  Increasingly, scholars understand memory to be a fluid, dynamic process, rather than a reified object. Embodying this elastic approach, this state-of-the-field collection systematically explores the transcultural, transgenerational, transmedial, and transdisciplinary dimensions of memory—four key concepts that have sometimes been studied in isolation but never in such an integrated manner.

  Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies

  
  
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  The Men We Loved

  Male Friendship and Nationalism in Israeli Culture

  Danny Kaplan

  Some semi-public, exclusive male settings, most noticeably in the military, encourage the production of intimacy and desire. Yet whereas in most instances this desire is displaced through humor and aggressive gestures, it becomes acknowledged and outright declared once associated with sites of heroic death.

  Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)

  
  
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  The Men with the Movie Camera

  The Poetics of Visual Style in Soviet Avant-Garde Cinema of the 1920s

  Philip Cavendish

  Unlike previous studies of the Soviet avant-garde during the silent era, which have regarded the works of the period as manifestations of directorial vision, this study emphasizes the collaborative principle at the heart of avant-garde filmmaking units and draws attention to the crucial role of camera operators in creating the visual style of the films, especially on the poetics of composition and lighting. In the Soviet Union of the 1920s and early 1930s, owing to the fetishization of the camera as an embodiment of modern technology, the cameraman was an iconic figure whose creative contribution was encouraged and respected.

  Subject: Film and Television Studies

  
  
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  Michael Haneke's Cinema

  The Ethic of the Image

  Catherine Wheatley

  Existing critical traditions fail to fully account for the impact of Austrian director, and 2009 Cannes Palm d'Or winner, Michael Haneke’s films, situated as they are between intellectual projects and popular entertainments. In this first English-language introduction to, and critical analysis of, his work, each of Haneke’s eight feature films are considered in detail.

  Subject: Film and Television Studies

  
  
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  The Migration-Displacement Nexus

  Patterns, Processes, and Policies

  Edited by Khalid Koser and Susan Martin

  The “migration-displacement nexus” is a new concept intended to capture the complex and dynamic interactions between voluntary and forced migration, both internally and internationally. Besides elaborating a new concept, this volume has three main purposes: the first is to focus empirical attention on previously understudied topics, such as internal trafficking and the displacement of foreign nationals, using case studies including Afghanistan and Iraq; the second is to highlight new challenges, including urban displacement and the effects of climate change; and the third is to explore gaps in current policy responses and elaborate alternatives for the future.

  Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies

  
  
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  Mobile Pastoralist Households

  Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives

  Edited by Jean-Luc Houle

  Mobile pastoralist activities occur at different scales across the landscape, including local, regional, and supra-regional scales. This research brings together the work of archaeologists currently engaged in mobile pastoralist household research in different regions of the world to highlight the importance of household studies and the utility of both archaeological and ethnoarchaeological approaches in understanding mobile pastoralist household formation, continuity, and adaptation to environmental, social, economic, and political change.

  Subjects: Archaeology Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

  
  
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  Modeling the Past

  Archaeology, History, and Dynamic Networks

  John Terrell, Mark Golitko, Helen Dawson, and Marc Kissel

  Using this handbook, researchers learn to develop historical and archaeological research questions anchored in dynamic network analysis (DYRA). Undergraduate and graduate students, as well as professional historians and archaeologists can consult on issues that range from hypothesis-driven research to critiquing dominant historical narratives, especially those that have tended ignore the diversity of the archaeological record.

  Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology (General)

  
  
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  Money at the Margins

  Global Perspectives on Technology, Financial Inclusion, and Design

  Edited by Bill Maurer, Smoki Musaraj, and Ivan V. Small

  Mobile money, e-commerce, cash cards, retail credit cards, and more — as new monetary technologies become increasingly available, the global South has embraced these mediums as a simple solution to the issue of financial inclusion. Money at the Margins is a groundbreaking exploration of the uses and socio-cultural impact of new forms of money and financial services.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General)

  
  
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  Music and Manipulation

  On the Social Uses and Social Control of Music

  Edited by Steven Brown and Ulrik Volgsten

  Since the beginning of human civilization, music has been used as a device to control social behavior, where it has operated as much to promote solidarity within groups as hostility between competing groups. Music is an emotive manipulator that influences attitude, motivation and behavior at many levels and in many contexts.

  Subject: Cultural Studies (General) Sociology Anthropology (General)

  
  
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  Narration, Identity, and Historical Consciousness

  Edited by Jürgen Straub

  A generally acknowledged characteristic of modern life, namely the temporalization of experience, inextricable from our intensified experience of contingency and difference, has until now remained largely outside psychology’s purview. Wherever questions about the development, structure, and function of the concept of time have been posed – for example by Piaget and other founders of genetic structuralism – they have been concerned predominantly with concepts of "physical", chronometrical time, and related concepts (e.

  Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

  
  
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  National Socialist Extermination Policies

  Contemporary German Perspectives and Controversies

  Edited by Ulrich Herbert

  Moving beyond the well-established problems and public discussions of the Holocaust, this collection of essays, written by some of the leading German historians of the younger generation, leaves behind the increasingly agitated arguments of the last years and substantially broadens, and in many areas revises, our knowledge of the Holocaust. Unlike previous studies, which have focused on whether the Holocaust could best be understood as the "fulfilment of a world view or as a process of "cumulative radicalisation," these articles provide an overview of how situational elements and gradual processes of radicalisation were variously combined with ever-changing objectives and fundamental ideological convictions.

  Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History Jewish Studies

  
  
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  Nazi Paris

  The History of an Occupation, 1940-1944

  Allan Mitchell

  Basing his extensive research into hitherto unexploited archival documentation on both sides of the Rhine, Allan Mitchell has uncovered the inner workings of the German military regime from the Wehrmacht’s triumphal entry into Paris in June 1940 to its ignominious withdrawal in August 1944. Although mindful of the French experience and the fundamental issue of collaboration, the author concentrates on the complex problems of occupying a foreign territory after a surprisingly swift conquest.

  Subject: History: World War II

  
  
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  The New Age in Glastonbury

  The Construction of Religious Movements

  Ruth Prince and David Riches

  The New Age movement is a twentieth-century socio-cultural phenomenon in the Western world with Glastonbury as one of its major centers. Through experimenting with a number of ways of analyzing this movement, the authors were able to develop a novel theory of social religious movements of broad applicability.

  Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Sociology

  
  
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  Not Born a Refugee Woman

  Contesting Identities, Rethinking Practices

  Edited by Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed, Nazilla Khanlou and Helene Moussa

  Not Born a Refugee Woman is an in-depth inquiry into the identity construction of refugee women. It challenges and rethinks current identity concepts, policies, and practices in the context of a globalizing environment, and in the increasingly racialized post-September 11th context, from the perspective of refugee women.

  Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

  
  
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  Not Even Past

  How the United States Ends Wars

  Edited by David Fitzgerald, David Ryan, and John M. Thompson

  This volume brings together international experts on American history and foreign affairs to assess the cumulative impact of the United States’ efforts to end wars. It offers essential perspectives on both the Cold War and post-9/11 eras and demonstrates just how high the stakes are as the US confronts the possibility of war without end.

  Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies History: 20th Century to Present History (General)

  
  
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  Obstetric Violence and Systemic Disparities

  Can Obstetrics Be Humanized and Decolonized?

  Edited by Robbie Davis-Floyd and Ashish Premkumar

  The final volume in this landmark 3-volume series on The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians looks at the challenges, and even violence, that obstetricians face across the world. This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to understand the diverse challenges that obstetricians must overcome.

  Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Sustainable Development Goals

  
  
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  Of Hoarding and Housekeeping

  Material Kinship and Domestic Space in Anthropological Perspective

  Edited by Sasha Newell

  Of Hoarding and Housekeeping provides an anthropological, global, and comparative angle to the understanding of hoarding and decluttering. Focusing on the house, with careful attention to material flows in and out, this book examines practices of accumulation, storage, decluttering, and waste as practices of kinship and the objects themselves as material kin.

  Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Cultural Studies (General)

  
  
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  Organic Cinema

  Film, Architecture, and the Work of Béla Tarr

  Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

  What might the “organic” mean in the context of film studies? This innovative volume locates one instance of organicity in the work of Béla Tarr, the renowned Hungarian filmmaker “slow cinema” pioneer. It analyzes Tarr’s long take and other signature techniques, establishes links between the seemingly remote spheres of film and architecture.

  Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)

  
  
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  Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline

  Ben Lewis

  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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  Other People's Anthropologies

  Ethnographic Practice on the Margins

  Edited by Aleksandar Boškovic

  Anthropological practice has been dominated by the so-called "great" traditions (Anglo-American, French, and German). However, processes of decolonization, along with critical interrogation of these dominant narratives, have led to greater visibility of what used to be seen as peripheral scholarship.

  Subject: Theory and Methodology

  
  
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  The Paris Peace Conference of 1919

  The Challenge of a New World Order

  Edited by Laurence Badel, Eckart Conze, and Axel Dröber

  An illuminating and geographically wide-ranging reassessment of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, this volume reconsiders how this watershed treaty gave rise to new dynamics of global power and politics, reshaping the ideas of imperiality and nationality that have continued to shape the geopolitical landscape.

  Subjects: History: World War I Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies

  
  
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  The Path to the Berlin Wall

  Critical Stages in the History of Divided Germany

  Manfred Wilke

  The long path to the Berlin Wall began in 1945, when Joseph Stalin instructed the Communist Party to take power in the Soviet occupation zone while the three Western Allies secured their areas of influence. When Germany was split into separate states in 1949, Berlin remained divided into four sectors, with West Berlin surrounded by the GDR but lingering as a captivating showcase for Western values and goods. Following a failed Soviet attempt to expel the allies from West Berlin with a blockade in 1948–49, a second crisis ensued from 1958–61, during which the Soviet Union demanded once and for all the withdrawal of the Western powers and the transition of West Berlin to a “Free City.” Ultimately Nikita Khrushchev decided to close the border in hopes of halting the overwhelming exodus of East Germans to the West.

  Tracing this path from a German perspective, Manfred Wilke draws on recently published conversations between Khrushchev and Walter Ulbricht, head of the East German state, in order to reconstruct the coordination process between these two leaders and the events that led to building the Berlin Wall.

  Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

  
  
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  Places of Pain

  Forced Displacement, Popular Memory and Trans-local Identities in Bosnian War-torn Communities

  Hariz Halilovich

  This compelling and intimate description of places of pain and (be)longing that were lost during the 1992–95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as of survivors’ places of resettlement in Australia, Europe and North America, serves as a powerful illustration of the complex interplay between place, memory and identity.

  Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Memory Studies

  
  
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  Planning for the Planet

  Environmental Expertise and the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 1960–1980

  Simone Schleper

  In the 1960s and 1970s, rapidly growing environmental awareness and concern not only led to widespread calls for new policies, but also created unprecedented demand for ecological expertise by the likes of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. This book explores how conservation experts confronted new challenges tied to rival scientific approaches, Cold War politics, decolonization, and more.

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present Sustainable Development Goals

  
  
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  Playing with the Past

  Exploring Values in Heritage Practice

  Kate Clark

  Heritage is all around us, not just in monuments and museums, but in places that matter, the countryside and in collections and stories. It touches all of us. How do we decide what to preserve? And how do we make the case for heritage when there are so many other priorities? Playing with the Past is designed to make the case for heritage. It is the first ever action-learning book about heritage.

  Subjects: Museum Studies Heritage Studies Archaeology

  
  
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  Poland under German Occupation, 1939-1945

  New Perspectives

  Edited by Jonathan Huener and Andrea Löw

  Poland under German Occupation, 1939-1945 explores questions of Polish-Jewish life that are rarely discussed and new methodological directions to advance debates on the complicity of Polish citizens during the mass murder of Jews under the nation’s Nazi occupation.

  Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History Jewish Studies

  
  
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  Policy Worlds

  Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power

  Edited by Cris Shore, Susan Wright, and Davide Però

  There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy making has progressively reached into the structure and fabric of everyday life. An instrument of modern government, policy and its processes provide an analytical window into systems of governance themselves, opening up ways to study power and the construction of regimes of truth.

  Subjects: Theory and Methodology Applied Anthropology Sociology

  
  
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  Polish Cinema

  A History

  Marek Haltof

  This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Marek Haltof’s seminal survey takes stock of dramatic shifts in Polish society and to provide an essential account of the nation’s cinema from the nineteenth century to today. It covers such renowned figures as Kieślowski and Wajda along with vastly expanded coverage of documentaries, animation, and television.

  Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

  
  
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  Political Fellini

  Journey to the End of Italy

  Andrea Minuz

  Federico Fellini is often considered a disengaged filmmaker, more interested in self-referential dreams and grotesquerie than contemporary politics. This book challenges that myth.

  Subject: Film and Television Studies

  
  
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  The Politics of Making Kinship

  Historical and Anthropological Perspectives

  Edited by Erdmute Alber, David Warren Sabean, Simon Teuscher, and Tatjana Thelen

  Leading us beyond current narratives on the decline of kinship which assume kinship’s existence since the dawn of civilization, The Politics of Making Kinship interrogates kinship’s geneses, constructions, elaborations, implementations, and enforcing agents across a long view of European history, and demonstrates how kinship is woven through modern societies.

  Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

  
  
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  Post-communist Nostalgia

  Edited by Maria Todorova and Zsuzsa Gille

  Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people’s lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across Eastern Europe.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies

  
  
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  Postcolonial Migrants and Identity Politics

  Europe, Russia, Japan and the United States in Comparison

  Edited by Ulbe Bosma, Jan Lucassen, and Gert Oostindie

  These transfers of sovereignty resulted in extensive, unforeseen movements of citizens and subjects to their former countries. The phenomenon of postcolonial migration affected not only European nations, but also the United States, Japan and post-Soviet Russia.

  Subjects: History (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

  
  
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  Postsocialism

  Politics and Emotions in Central and Eastern Europe

  Edited by Maruška Svašek

  In many parts of post-socialist Europe the tumultuous political and economic developments have generated strong emotions, ranging from hope and euphoria to disappointment, envy, disillusionment, sorrow, loneliness, and hatred. Yet these aspects have been largely neglected in analyses of the profound transformations that have taken place in Central and Eastern Europe since 1990.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

  
  
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  Poverty Archaeology

  Architecture, Material Culture and the Workhouse under the New Poor Law

  Charlotte Newman and Katherine Fennelly

  The Poor Laws in the United Kingdom left a built and material legacy of over two centuries of legislative provision for the poor and infirm. Workhouses represent the first centralized, state-organized system for welfare. This volume forms a social archaeology of the lived experience of poverty and health in the nineteenth century.

  Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

  
  
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  The Power of Law in a Transnational World

  Anthropological Enquiries

  Edited by Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann and Anne Griffiths

  How is law mobilized and who has the power and authority to construct its meaning? This important volume examines this question as well as how law is constituted and reconfigured through social processes that frame both its continuity and transformation over time. The volume highlights how power is deployed under conditions of legal pluralism, exploring its effects on livelihoods and on social institutions, including the state.

  Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)

  
  
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  Powerless Science?

  Science and Politics in a Toxic World

  Edited by Soraya Boudia and Nathalie Jas

  In spite of decades of research on toxicants, along with the growing role of scientific expertise in public policy and the unprecedented rise in the number of national and international institutions dealing with environmental health issues, problems surrounding contaminants and their effects on health have never appeared so important, sometimes to the point of appearing insurmountable. This calls for a reconsideration of the roles of scientific knowledge and expertise in the definition and management of toxic issues, which this book seeks to do.

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Medical Anthropology

  
  
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  Powers of Good and Evil

  Social Transformation and Popular Belief

  Edited by Paul Clough and Jon P. Mitchell

  A key theme in the anthropology of beliefs is the relationship between socio-economic change and changes in the belief system. It has been widely argued that rapid economic change, particularly the introduction of capitalism, leads to an increase in beliefs in, and representations of, evil and the devil.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Political and Economic Anthropology

  
  
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  Practical Archaeogaming

  Andrew Reinhard

  As a sequel to Archaeogaming: an Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games, the author focuses on the practical and applied side of the discipline, collecting recent digital fieldwork together in one place for the first time to share new methods in treating interactive digital built environments as sites for archaeological investigation.

  Subject: Archaeology Anthropology (General)

  
  
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  Practicing the Faith

  The Ritual Life of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christians

  Edited by Martin Lindhardt

  Over the past decades, Pentecostal-charismatic Christianity has arguably become the fastest growing religious movement in the world. Distinguishing features of this variant of Christianity include formal ritual activities as well as informal, experiential, and ecstatic forms of worship.

  Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

  
  
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  The Precarity of Masculinity

  Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon

  Uroš Kovač

  This book follows young Cameroonian men who aspire to migrate abroad and play football for a living while analyzing masculinities in West Africa. The book argues that the athletic aspirations of young Cameroonians and their propensity to consult with Pentecostal Men of God offer new insights about the nature of social mobility in the neoliberal age.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Gender Studies and Sexuality

  
  
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  Protest in Hitler's “National Community”

  Popular Unrest and the Nazi Response

  Edited by Nathan Stoltzfus and Birgit Maier-Katkin
  Afterword by David Clay Large

  That Hitler’s Gestapo harshly suppressed any signs of opposition inside the Third Reich is a common misperception. This book presents studies of public dissent that examine circumstances under which “racial” Germans were motivated to protest, as well as the conditions determining the regime’s response.

  Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

  
  
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  Race, Ethnicity, and Nation

  Perspectives from Kinship and Genetics

  Edited by Peter Wade

  Race, ethnicity and nation are all intimately linked to family and kinship, yet these links deserve closer attention than they usually get in social science, above all when family and kinship are changing rapidly in the context of genomic and biotechnological revolutions. Drawing on data from assisted reproduction, transnational adoption, mixed race families, Basque identity politics and post-Soviet nation-building, this volume provides new and challenging ways to understand race, ethnicity and nation.

  Subject: Medical Anthropology

  
  
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  Rebordering the Mediterranean

  Boundaries and Citizenship in Southern Europe

  Liliana Suárez-Navaz

  Offering a rich ethnographic account, this book traces the historical processes by which Andalusians experienced the shift from being poor emigrants to northern Europe to becoming privileged citizens of the southern borderland of the European Union, a region where thousands of African immigrants have come in search of a better life. It draws on extended ethnographic fieldwork in Granada and Senegal, exploring the shifting, complementary and yet antagonistic relations between Spaniards and African immigrants in the Andalusian agrarian work place.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Refugee and Migration Studies

  
  
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  Reconceiving the Second Sex

  Men, Masculinity, and Reproduction

  Edited by Marcia C. Inhorn, Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, Helene Goldberg and Maruska la Cour Mosegaard

  Extensive social science research, particularly by anthropologists, has explored women’s reproductive lives, their use of reproductive technologies, and their experiences as mothers and nurturers of children. Meanwhile, few if any volumes have explored men’s reproductive concerns or contributions to women’s reproductive health: Men are clearly viewed as the “second sex” in reproduction.

  Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

  
  
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  The Reluctant Revolutionary

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Collision with Prusso-German History

  John A. Moses

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a uniquely reluctant and distinctly German Lutheran revolutionary. In this volume, the author, an Anglican priest and historian, argues that Bonhoeffer’s powerful critique of Germany’s moral derailment needs to be understood as the expression of a devout Lutheran Protestant.

  Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

  
  
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  Representations of “Japanese Nature”

  A Historical Overview

  Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney

  “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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  Reproductive Disruptions

  Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium

  Edited by Marcia C. Inhorn

  Nominated for the 2007 Book Prize by the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (AAA)

  Reproductive disruptions, such as infertility, pregnancy loss, adoption, and childhood disability, are among the most distressing experiences in people’s lives. Based on research by leading medical anthropologists from around the world, this book examines such issues as local practices detrimental to safe pregnancy and birth; conflicting reproductive goals between women and men; miscommunications between pregnant women and their genetic counselors; cultural anxieties over gamete donation and adoption; the contested meanings of abortion; cultural critiques of hormone replacement therapy; and the globalization of new pharmaceutical and assisted reproductive technologies.

  Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

  
  
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  Rethinking International Organizations

  Pathology and Promise

  Edited by Dennis Dijkzeul and Yves Beigbeder

  The management of international organizations is attracting growing attention. Most of this attention is highly critical of both the UN system and International NGOs.

  Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

  
  
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  Rethinking Migration

  New Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

  Edited by Alejandro Portes and Josh DeWind

  With the increasing worldwide problems of migration, research into its causes and effects become ever more urgent. This volume takes stock of recent advancements that social science research in both Europe and the United States has made to understanding central aspects of international migration.

  Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Theory and Methodology Development Studies Sociology

  
  
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  The Riddle of Intelligence

  It’s Not What You Think

  John Terrell, Eugene Anderson, Foreman Bandama, Abhik Ghosh, and Marcia Leenen-Young

  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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  The Rise and Demise of German Statism

  Loyalty and Political Membership

  Gregg Kvistad

  German statism as a political ideology has been the subject of many historical studies. Whereas most of these focus on theoretical texts, cultural works, and vague "traditions", this study understands German statism as a functioning logic of political membership, a logic that has helped to determine who is "in" and who is "out" with regard to the German political community.

  Subject: History (General)

  
  
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  Ritual

  What It Is, How It Works, and Why

  Robbie Davis-Floyd and Charles D. Laughlin

  Designed for both academic and lay audiences, this book identifies the characteristics of ritual and, via multiple examples, details how ritual works on the human body and brain to produce its often profound effects. These include enhancing courage, effecting healing, and generating group cohesion by enacting cultural—or individual—beliefs and values. It also shows what happens when ritual fails.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Anthropology of Religion

  
  
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  The Road to War

  France and Vietnam 1944-1947

  Martin Shipway

  How did France become embroiled in Vietnam, in the first of long wars of decolonization? And why did the French colonial administration, in late 1946, having negotiated with Ho Chi Minh for a year, adopt a warlike stance towards Ho's régime which ran counter to the liberal colonial doctrine of liberated France? Based on French archival sources, almost all of them previously unavailable to the English-speaking reader, the author assesses the policy that emerged from the 1944 Brazzaville conference; and the doomed attempt to apply that policy in Indo-China.

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  Subject: Colonial History

  
  
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  Sartre, Self-formation and Masculinities

  Jean-Pierre Boulé

  Published on the occasion of Sartre's Centenary, this book helps to understand the man behind the work, offering a psycho-social analysis of Jean-Paul Sartre with an emphasis on his masculinity. It sets out to contextualize Sartre in terms of his psycho-sexual formation and processes of self-constitution in view of his childhood.

  Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

  
  
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  Searching for a Cultural Diplomacy

  Edited by Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht and Mark C. Donfried

  Recent studies on the meaning of cultural diplomacy in the twentieth century often focus on the United States and the Cold War, based on the premise that cultural diplomacy was a key instrument of foreign policy in the nation’s effort to contain the Soviet Union. As a result, the term “cultural diplomacy” has become one-dimensional, linked to political manipulation and subordination and relegated to the margin of diplomatic interactions.

  Subject: History (General)

  
  
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  Sexscapes of Pleasure

  Women, Sexuality and the Whore Stigma in Italy

  Elena Zambelli

  Drawing from ethnographic research, this book brings together the narratives of Italian and migrant women pole dancing for leisure, women pole and lap dancing for work, as well as women selling sex. By tracing commonalities in women’s processes of subjectivation and othering across the non/sex working women divide, the book foregrounds the intersecting structures of oppression under which women negotiate selfhood.

  Subjects: Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

  
  
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  Sexuality and German Fascism

  Edited by Dagmar Herzog

  The interrelationship of fascism and sexuality has attracted a great deal of interest for some time now. This collection offers fresh perspectives by leading scholars on the history of sexuality under national socialism on such topics as the persecution of Jewish-gentile sex in the "race defilement" trials, homophobic propaganda and the prosecution of same-sex activity within the Wehrmacht and SS, representations of female sexuality in film, prostitution on home and battle fronts, sexual relations between Germans and foreign forced laborers, and reproductive practices among Jewish survivors.

  Subjects: History: World War II Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

  
  
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  Sibling Relations and the Transformations of European Kinship, 1300-1900

  Edited by Christopher H. Johnson and David Warren Sabean

  “In all cases, the research is solid, not drawing from a single source, such as a series of   letters, but including a broad range of historical evidence. The analyses themselves are nicely nuanced and all connect with the main theoretical issues of the field, providing a lively discussion and indicating new directions for research. Scholars from many fields focusing on family and kinship, as well as general readers with an interest in family relations, will enjoy and find stimulation in this volume.”  ·  Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

  Subjects: History (General) Sociology

  
  
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  Sinister and Righteous

  Interpreting Left and Right in the Archaeological Record

  C. Riley Augé

  This research demonstrates the ubiquitous, but often overlooked, occurrence of material culture meaningfully arranged according to deeply entrenched left and right concepts and is the first to bring together and expand upon these cultural ideologies.

  Subjects: Archaeology Cultural Studies (General)

  
  
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  Social Bodies

  Edited by Helen Lambert and Maryon McDonald

  A proliferation of press headlines, social science texts and “ethical” concerns about the social implications of recent developments in human genetics and biomedicine have created a sense that, at least in European and American contexts, both the way we treat the human body and our attitudes towards it have changed.

  This volume asks what really happens to social relations in the face of new types of transaction – such as organ donation, forensic identification and other new medical and reproductive technologies - that involve the use of corporeal material.

  Subject: Medical Anthropology

  
  
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  Socialist Escapes

  Breaking Away from Ideology and Everyday Routine in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989

  Edited by Cathleen M. Giustino, Catherine J. Plum, and Alexander Vari

  During much of the Cold War, physical escape from countries in the Eastern Bloc was a nearly impossible act. There remained, however, possibilities for other socialist escapes, particularly time spent free from party ideology and the mundane routines of everyday life.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

  
  
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  Sofia Coppola

  The Politics of Visual Pleasure

  Anna Backman Rogers

  Sofia Coppola: The Politics of Visual Pleasure interprets Coppola’s oeuvre to date from a resolutely feminist and philosophical perspective. Using the work of a range of feminist theorists, Backman Rogers situates Coppola’s work as a critique of postfeminist lifestyles that offer the viewer a feminist and feminine philosophy through beguilement, mood and surface.

  Subjects: Film and Television Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)

  
  
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  Sound Matters

  Essays on the Acoustics of German Culture

  Edited by Nora M. Alter and Lutz Koepnick

  The sounds of music and the German language have played a significant role in the developing symbolism of the German nation. In light of the historical division of Germany into many disparate political entities and regional groups, German artists and intellectuals of the 19th and early 20th centuries conceived of musical and linguistic dispositions as the nation's most palpable common ground.

  Subject: Cultural Studies (General)

  
  
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  The State and the Grassroots

  Immigrant Transnational Organizations in Four Continents

  Edited by Alejandro Portes and Patricia Fernández-Kelly

  Whereas most of the literature on migration focuses on individuals and their families, this book studies the organizations created by immigrants to protect themselves in their receiving states. Comparing eighteen of these grassroots organizations formed across the world, researchers focus on the internal structure and activities of these organizations as they relate to developmental initiatives.

  Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies

  
  
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  Suffering and Evil

  The Durkheimian Legacy

  Edited by W. S. F. Pickering and Massimo Rosati
  Published in Association with the Durkheim Press

  Until recently the subject of suffering and evil was neglected in the sociological world and was almost absent in Durkheimian studies as well. This book aims to fill the gap, with particular reference to the Durkheimian tradition, by exploring the different meanings that the concepts of evil and suffering have in Durkheim's works, together with the general role they play in his sociology.

  Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

  
  
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  Supercinema

  Film-Philosophy for the Digital Age

  William Brown

  Drawing on a variety of popular films, including Avatar, Enter the Void, Fight Club, The Matrix, Speed Racer, X-Men and War of the Worlds, Supercinema studies the ways in which digital special effects and editing techniques require a new theoretical framework in order to be properly understood. Here William Brown proposes that while analogue cinema often tried to hide the technological limitations of its creation through ingenious methods, digital cinema hides its technological omnipotence through the use of continued conventions more suited to analogue cinema, in a way that is analogous to that of Superman hiding his powers behind the persona of Clark Kent.

  Subject: Film and Television Studies

  
  
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  Sustainability and Communities of Place

  Edited by Carl A. Maida

  The concept of sustainability holds that the social, economic, and environmental factors within human communities must be viewed interactively and systematically. Sustainable development cannot be understood apart from a community, its ethos, and ways of life.

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General) Sustainable Development Goals

  
  
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  Toward Engaged Anthropology

  Edited by Sam Beck and Carl A. Maida

  By working with underserved communities, anthropologists may play a larger role in democratizing society. The growth of disparities challenges anthropology to be used for social justice.

  Subject: Applied Anthropology

  
  
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  Transitions and Transformations

  Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course

  Edited by Caitrin Lynch and Jason Danely
  Afterword by Jennifer Cole, University of Chicago

  Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating the multiple ways it is embedded within individual, social, and cultural life courses.

  Subject: Medical Anthropology

  
  
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  Traveling Models and Practical Norms

  The Misadventures of Social Engineering in Africa and Beyond

  Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan

  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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  Tropical Nature

  Colonial and Post-Colonial Conservation in Africa and Asia

  Edited by Guillaume Blanc, Mathieu Guérin, and Grégory Quenet

  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.

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  Troubles with Turtles

  Cultural Understandings of the Environment on a Greek Island

  Dimitrios Theodossopoulos

  The people of Vassilikos, farmers and tourist entrepreneurs on the Greek island of Zakynthos, are involved in a bitter environmental dispute concerning the conservation of sea turtles. Against the environmentalists' practices and ideals they set their own culture of relating to the land, cultivation, wild and domestic animals.

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Sustainable Development Goals

  
  
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  Ultimate Ambiguities

  Investigating Death and Liminality

  Edited by Peter Berger and Justin Kroesen

  Although dying can be seen as the paradigm of liminality, because periods of transition are often associated with death, many volumes on death in the social sciences do not specifically address liminality. This book investigates these “ultimate ambiguities” as crucial periods of creativity, change, and emergent aspects of social and religious life.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

  
  
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  Unforgotten

  Love and the Culture of Dementia Care in India

  Bianca Brijnath

  Though the number of people living with dementia in India will rise with increased life expectancy, little is known about how people in India cope with dementia. Unforgotten offers a rich ethnographic account of how middle-class families in urban India care for their relatives with dementia—illuminating idioms on dementia and aging, the experience of care-giving, and the social and cultural barriers in accessing support.

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  Uniting Germany

  Documents and Debates

  Konrad Jarausch and Volker Gransow

  The unification of Germany is the most important change in Central Europe in the last four decades. Understanding this rapid and unforeseen development has raised old fears as well as inspired new hopes.

  Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

  
  
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  Urban Natures

  Living the More-than-Human City

  Edited by Ferne Edwards, Lucia Alexandra Popartan and Ida Nilstad Pettersen

  Urban Natures explores the diversity, abundance, and impact of the conventional and future framings of urban natures. Recognizing a green resurgence in cities is underway, this volume applies a critical approach to examine urban greening histories, politics, discourses and ecologies

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Sustainable Development Goals

  
  
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  The Viennese Café and Fin-de-Siècle Culture

  Edited by Charlotte Ashby, Tag Gronberg and Simon Shaw-Miller

  The Viennese café was a key site of urban modernity around 1900. In the rapidly growing city it functioned simultaneously as home and workplace, affording opportunities for both leisure and intellectual exchange.

  Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Literary Studies

  
  
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  Viktor Frankl's Search for Meaning

  An Emblematic 20th-Century Life

  Timothy Pytell

  Viktor Frankl was a psychiatrist and philosopher who survived the Holocaust and went on to found the third school of Viennese psychotherapy. By critically examining the details of his intellectual life, including some previously unknown biographical details, we can begin to see the fascinating ambiguities and contradictions in Frankl’s thought.

  Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

  
  
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  What is Work?

  Gender at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present

  Edited by Raffaella Sarti, Anna Bellavitis, and Manuela Martini

  Every society has a definition of what work is, and isn’t. What Is Work? offers a multi-disciplinary overview of work as it applies to the highly gendered realm of household economies, drawing from scholarship on gender history, economic sociology, family history, civil law, and feminist economics.

  Subjects: History (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

  
  
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  Who are 'We'?

  Reimagining Alterity and Affinity in Anthropology

  Edited by Liana Chua and Nayanika Mathur
  Afterword by Mwenda Ntarangwi

  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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  Women and Socialism - Socialism and Women

  Europe Between the World Wars

  Edited by Helmut Gruber and Pamela Graves

  Until recently, histories of women tended to be segregated from the larger historical context. This pioneering volume places the role of women within the history of the interwar years, whenboth the women's and socialist movements became prominent, and raises the key question of how power was distributed between the genders in a historical setting.

  Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: 20th Century to Present

  
  
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  Women and the City, Women in the City

  A Gendered Perspective on Ottoman Urban History

  Edited by Nazan Maksudyan

  Accessing court records, state archives, oral sources, literary material, memoirs, and newspapers, the contributors to this volume reconstruct women’s lives in the Ottoman Empire, from Aleppo to Sofia, and from Jeddah to Istanbul. The seven chapters offer a wide panorama of the Ottoman urban geography, with a specific concern for gender roles.

  Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Urban Studies History (General)

  
  
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  Women, Family and Society in Medieval Europe

  Historical Essays, 1978-1991

  David Herlihy
  Edited and with an introduction by Anthony Molho

  Until his untimely death in 1991, David Herlihy, Professor of History at Brown University, was one of the most prolific and best-known American historians of the European Middle Ages. Author of books on the history of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy, Herlihy published, in 1978, his best-known work in collaboration with Christine Klapisch-Zuber, Les Toscans et leurs familles (Translated into English in 1985, and Italian in 1988).

  Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: Medieval/Early Modern

  
  
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  The Women's Liberation Movement

  Impacts and Outcomes

  Edited by Kristina Schulz

  This collection represents the first systematic reflection on the impact and outcomes of the women’s liberation movement in different areas and topics of Western societies. It systematically investigates movement outcomes in one country in the light of a reflective social movement theory and compares them to developments in other countries.

  Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: 20th Century to Present

  
  
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  Working with Spirit

  Experiencing Izangoma Healing in Contemporary South Africa

  Jo Thobeka Wreford

  In the current model of health dispensation in South Africa there are two major paradigms, the spirit-inspired tradition of izangoma sinyanga and biomedicine. These operate at best in parallel, but more often than not are at odds with one another.

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  Writing Mothers and Daughters

  Renegotiating the Mother in Western European Narratives by Women

  Edited by Adalgisa Giorgio

  The psychoanalytic discovery of the importance of the pre-oedipal mother-daughter bond in the 1970s generated a vast amount of feminist theory attempting to identify the specificity of, and give value to, the daughter's relationship to her mother. At the same time women writers engaged in the complex task of representing this highly conflictual relationship which had been largely absent in women's narrative until then.

  Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)

  
  
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