The ethics of knowledge creation

This volume focuses on how knowledge is relationally created, how local knowledge can be transmuted into ‘universal knowledge’, and how transactions and consumption of knowledge monitors knowledge. The Ethics of Knowledge Creation examines how these transactions are then situated according to b...

Things of the house

Focusing on the life stories of a group of European and Catholic Brahmin Goan families of the colonial elite who left Mozambique after their independence in 1975, the book shows how material culture interferes with structuring dimensions of migratory experiences, in the management of family tie...

Coming home to germany?

The end of World War II led to one of the most significant forced population transfers in history: the expulsion of over 12 million ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1950 and the subsequent emigration of another four million in the second half of the twentieth cent...

Human diet and nutrition in biocultural perspective

Integration of studies on human diet and nutrition from both the past and present Use of the biocultural perspective by the authors to explore questions relating to human nutrition, past and present food and nutrition Organised around central themes in anthropology in a wide variety ...

The romance of crossing borders

Explores the complicated and often fraught desires to study and volunteer abroad. Sheds light on how affect is managed by educators and mobilized by students and volunteers themselves. Explains how these structures of feeling relate to broader social and economic forces.

Girl making

Through the innovative methodology of asking them to record their experiences on videotape, this book offers an evocative and fascinating cross-cultural exploration into the everyday lives of a number of teenage girls from their own broad social, cultural and ethnic perspectives. The use of the...

Rethinking antifascism

Provides, for the first time in English, virtually global coverage of antifascism and revisionism. Offers a long term view of antifascism by highlighting its origins in the 1920s and its persistence after 1945. Combines attention to the historical, historiographical and memorial dime...

The great train race

From their origins, railways produced an intense competition between the two major continental systems in France and Germany. Fitting a new technology into existing political institutions and social habits, these two nations became inexorably involved in industrial and commercial rivalry that e...

Debating authenticity

All contributions are based on field research in Europe, Africa, Arabic Peninsula, Latin America, North America Authenticity is debated in various subfields, in particular: visual arts, popular culture, material culture, music, tourism, religion, colonial history. Scholars with affil...

A belle epoque?

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 discriminat...

Kingdom on mount cameroon

The Bakweri people of Mount Cameroon, an active volcano on the coast of West Africa a few degrees north of the equator, have had a varied and at times exciting history which has brought them into contact, not only with other West African peoples, but with merchants, missionaries, soldiers and a...

Blood and fire

A collection of highly original pieces that make an important contribution to the anthropology of labor Evaluates the prevalence of insecure and informal labor in the twenty-first century Compares the interrelation between class, spatiality, violence and history Utilises key case...

Money counts

Multicultural dialogue

As cross-cultural migration increases democratic states face a particular challenge: how to grant equal rights and dignity to individuals while recognizing cultural distinctiveness. In response to the greater number of ethnic and religious minority groups, state policies seem to focus on managi...

Relative points of view

The relationship between language and various kinds of non-linguistic behavior has been of great fascination for many of those working in the fields of cultural anthropology, linguistics, and philosophy, or, broadly understood, cultural studies. The authors in this volume explore this relations...

Changing identifications and alliances in north-east africa

Draws on the expertise of historians, anthropologists and geographers Illustrates the way identities are formed and change over time Relies on the expertise of a number of experienced and knowledgeable scholars working on this region

Deleuzian intersections

Science and technology studies, cultural anthropology and cultural studies deal with the complex relations between material, symbolic, technical and political practices. In a Deleuzian approach these relations are seen as produced in heterogeneous assemblages, moving across distinctions such as...

Learning under neoliberalism

The contributors of this volume explore the emerging corporality of the education system worldwide and the impact of this new governance on education practices. Explores changes in University regulations against the backdrop of neoliberal trends toward public-private partnerships. De...

Migration without borders

International migration is high on the public and political agenda of many countries, as the movement of people raises concerns while often eluding states’ attempts at regulation. In this context, the ‘Migration Without Borders’ scenario challenges conventional views on the need to control and ...

Supervision and authority in industry

The number of studies discussing the labour relationship under industrial capitalism is overwhelming, but the literature on labour and its concrete, day-today shop-floor practices is much less abundant. How and by whom workers were supervised is one of the neglected aspects in the history of la...

The soul of the nation

Religion and politics have historically clashed in modern Spain, particularly following the crisis of 1808 when the Catholica Monarchy put the role of the Church at the heart of political cultural Debates. The Soul of the Nation seeks to unravel this complex and oppositional history between Cat...

Elusive promises

Focuses on the idea of the promise as a way to understand planning through time. Ethnographic accounts from highly-regarded anthropologists on planning. Comparative study of planning.

Island historical ecology

Island Historical Ecology addresses Caribbean island ecologies from the perspective of social and cultural intervention, focusing on selected islands between Venezuela and Puerto Rico. This volume goes on to compare these ecologies with well-documented patterns in the Mediterranean and Pacific ...

Political violence in the weimar republic, 1918-1933

A comprehensive analysis of political violence in Weimar Germany with particular emphasis on the political culture from which it emerged. “Today’s readers, living in what Charles Maier calls ‘a new epoch of vanished reassurance’, will find this book absorbing and troubling.”—The Historian T...

New austrian film

First English language study on New Austrian Film 1990s to the present A collection of critical essays on New Austrian filmmakers and films by international cinema and culture scholars Introduces and examines New Austrian Film in cinematic, cultural, theoretical and film historical ...

Bread from the lion's mouth

This detailed study is written by a scholar of the Ottoman empire, in a time of increased interest in the historical guilds of Turkey Offers an archival history of craftspeople and their organizations from the late 15th to the beginning of the 20th century Documents shifts in the tra...

Care in a time of humanitarianism

Care in a Time of Humanitarianism presents complex histories of forced migration and humanitarianism in an accessible way. It adopts a comparative approach to highlight the diverse cultural and religious traditions of care that are adopted across the Global South for the “distant others”.

A new african elite

Focusing on a sub-set of the Dagomba of northern Ghana, this book looks at the first generation to go through secondary school in the north. This book charts their path into elite status and argues that this generation uses the tools gained through education and social connections to influence ...

The anthropology of moralities

The authors observe, describe and assess values cross-culturally A valuable guide for students of anthropology, sociology and cultural studies Proposes methodological approaches to the study of moralities

In the mind's eye

This volume brings together the disciplines of palaeontology, psychology, anatomy, and primatology. Together, they address a number of issues, including the evolution of sex differences in spatial cognition, the role of archaeology in the cognitive sciences, the relationships between brain size...

Adoption, emotion, and identity

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 af...

Caring for the 'holy land'

In Israel, as in numerous countries of the global North, Filipina women have been recruited in large numbers for domestic work, typically as live-in caregivers for the elderly. The case of Israel is unique in that the country has a special significance as the ‘Holy Land’ for the predominantly d...

Housing and belonging in latin america

The theme connects ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ sides of housing and urban planning. The book covers a range of different cities, geographically diverse. Methodologically, several chapters are based on long-term investigations and underscoring the current debate about the methodological risks o...

Turkish culture in german society

For many decades Germany has had a sizeable Turkish minority that lives in an uneasy co-existence with the Germans around them and as such has attracted considerable interest abroadwhere it tends to be seen as a measure of German tolerance. However, little is known about theactual situation of ...

Servants of culture

Using a wide range of material including legal, criminal, literary, and political sources, Servants of Culture brings forward the previously neglected history of a mass migration of women from the Habsburg Empire’s countryside to work as servants for bourgeois households, inns and hotels during...

Taking sides

Concerns with research ethics have intensified over recent years, in large part as a symptom of "audit cultures" (M. Strathern) but also as a serious matter of engagement with the ethical complexities in contemporary research fields. This volume, written by a new generation of scholars engaged ...

Culture and rhetoric

While some scholars have said that there is no such thing as culture and have urged to abandon the concept altogether, the contributors to this volume overcome this impasse by understanding cultures and their representations for what they ultimately are – rhetorical constructs. These senior, in...

Shedding light on the darkness

Increasingly, German Studies programs include courses on the Holocaust, but suitable course materials are often difficult to find. Teachers in higher education will therefore very much welcome this volume that examines and reflects both the practical and theoretical aspects of teaching about th...

On retaliation

The book constitutes a unique interdisciplinary approach. It brings together contributions from psychologies, economic science, legal history, international law, criminology, social anthropology. The book forges a bridge from the fundamental analysis of the concept and theories of re...

America observed

Essays offering a critique on the absence of fieldwork done on the United States by anthropologists from abroad. Explores its likely reasons while also illustrating the advantages of studying fieldwork-based anthropological projects conducted by colleagues from outside the U.S. Suita...

European regions and boundaries

References to regional differences remain central to cultural and political discourse all over the European continent. This collection presents a synoptic view of these regional concepts together with the historical and disciplinary contexts where they had emerged by bringing together prominent...

The populist challenge

During the last decade and a half a new political party family, the extreme Right-wing populist (ERP) parties, has established itself in a variety of West European democracies. These parties represent a monist politics based on ethnic nationalism and xenophobia as well as an opposition against ...

Mediated lives

Using the example of  Iraqi refugees in Jordan's capital of Amman, this book describes how information and communication technologies (ICTs) play out in the everyday experiences of urban refugees, geographically located in the Global South, and shows how interactions between online and offline ...

The nature of german imperialism

Provides the first full account of Tanzanian wildlife conservation up until World War I. Focuses upon elephant hunting and the ivory trade as vital factors in a shift from exploitation to preservation that increasingly excluded indigenous Africans. Situates East African wildlife poli...