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Hunters, predators and prey
The text is a major contribution to the study of Inuit knowledge and tradition in relation to animals The compendium provides a unique perspective through its extensive use of Inuit quotes Examines key Inuit animals such as the raven, guirruit, dog, bear, caribou, seal and the whale ...
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Deconstructing dolls
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.
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Possessing the world
Based on an impressive body of information and data, this volume recounts the history of five continents over a long stretch of time and in a comparative approach. From the beginning of European expansion the question was posed: what were the "empire tools" that gave Europe its military superio...
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The anthropology of the fetus
As a biological, cultural, and social entity, the human fetus is a multifaceted subject which calls for equally diverse perspectives to fully understand. Anthropology of the Fetus seeks to achieve this by bringing together specialists in biological anthropology, archaeology, and cultural anthro...
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Institutionalised dreams
How do states become donors? Why do individuals decide to share their wealth with others through foreign aid? Using examples from Poland, Elżbieta Drążkiewicz demonstrates how the concept of foreign aid requires the establishment of a specific moral economy which links national ideologies and l...
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All or none
All or None is a social history and anthropological study of the world’s oldest voluntary collective farms in Ravenna, Italy, addressing the question of the viability of cooperative enterprise as a potential solution for displaced workers, and as a more humane alternative to capitalist agribusi...
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Peaceful selves
With its focus on personhood and self-making, it investigates gaps in understanding left behind by dominant frameworks for analyzing life in post-conflict societies, such as reconciliation, justice, and commemoration politics The argument is built around fundamental tensions in Rwandan c...
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Articulate necrographies
Wide range of cross-cultural perspective Dynamic view on death, not a static, one-dimensional phenomenon Theoretical sophistication and ethnographic rigurosity Non-reductionist
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Inward looking
Inward Looking seeks to understand the relationship between Romani identity, performance and migration. Particularly, it studies the idea of ‘Romanipe’ under the prism of the personal accounts of Romani migrants. The findings are based on qualitative data gathered from Romani migrants from thre...
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Reproductive agency, medicine and the state
Recent years have seen many changes in human reproduction resulting from state and medical interventions in childbearing processes. Based on empirical work in a variety of societies and countries, this volume considers the relationship between reproductive processes (of fertility, pregnancy, ch...
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Embodying borders
Based on extensive field research, the essays in this volume illuminate the experiences of migrants from their own point of view, providing a critical understanding of the complex social reality in which each experience is grounded.
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Terrorism in question
Offers an original, new argument about the politics of terrorism, especially post-9/11 “new terrorism;” Provides a truly global methodological framework — weaving, for instance, poetry, imagination, and International Relations together — in a way that connects the “small place” to the la...
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History of the low countries
The history of the smaller European countries is rather neglected in the teaching of European history at university level. We are therefore pleased to announce the publication of the first comprehensive history of the Low Countries - in English - from Roman Times to the present. Remaining polit...
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The burden of german history
The Burden of Germany History is Konrad H Jarausch’s much anticipated transatlantic autobiography set against the development and transformation of German studies over the past half-century. Using his life story, Jarausch’s concurrent life in the US and Germany brings us a self-critical histori...
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Creativity in transition
Describes how in an era of intensifying globalization and transnational connectivity, the dynamics of cultural production and the very notion of creativity is in transition. Highlights the spread of modernist discourses of creativity. The contributions are based on a long term collab...
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Spanish lessons
Addresses not just film (already much studied) but also TV series (more popular in Spain but unknown to outsiders) Has chapter on self-fashioning of Spain's best known auteur, Pedro Almodóvar, a new approach to an acclaimed director Deals with audiovisual works in Catalan as well as ...
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The mirror of the medieval
One unique aspect of this book is its approach to interdisciplinary work. While many earlier works have sought to bring anthropological approaches to the study of the medieval past, what is different about this book is its emphasis on the value of disciplinary borrowing in both directions; i...
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Margaret mead
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 m...
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Dynamics of memory and identity in contemporary europe
Combines theoretical sophistication with penetrating case studies. One of the first books to tackle Europeanization dynamics as they pertain to collective memories. A pan-European approach with cases from all regions of the continent. Takes the study of collective memory forward ...
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Reconstructing education
After the unification of Germany had first been greeted with euphoria on both sides of the Wall, it did not take long for disillusion to set in when it became obvious that structures, mentality, values and outlook were very different in the Old and New Bundesländer. Moreover, whereas during the...
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Multiple moralities and religions in post-soviet russia
By considering the centrality of religion in postsocialist Russian everyday life, and the various ways in which diverse religious traditions have engaged in explicit moral projects, this volume explores the as of yet understudied social phenomenon of the importance of religion in a former at...
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Whatever happened to asylum in britain?
Refugees and asylum-seekers are high up on many people's political agenda. Even so, there is a remarkable lack of information. Who are these asylum-seekers? Aren't they almost all "bogus"? How do western immigration authorities decide whether or not they are genuine? Is the UN convention on Ref...
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The holy roman empire, reconsidered
Major revision of the history of the Holy Roman Empire Studies in Early Modern European political communication Studies in Early Modern European symbolic systems Political cultures of Early Modern Germany
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Courage and compassion
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.
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Conflict, catastrophe and continuity
Bringing together some of the most prominent contemporary historians of modern Germany alongside innovative newcomers to the field, this volume offers new perspectives on key debates surrounding Germany’s descent into, and emergence from, the Nazi catastrophe. It explores the intersections betw...
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Beyond ethics and pragmatism
Based on several long-term fieldwork projects in Israel and the U.S., this book brings together a repertoire of subjective and professional experiences of an anthropologist who attended various theoretical and methodological tutoring settings.
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Multiple medical realities
Nowadays a plethora of treatment technologies is available to the consumer, each employing a variety of concepts of the body, self, sickness and healing. This volume explores the options, strategies and consequences that are both relevant and necessary for patients and practitioners who are man...
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Crossroads of heritage and religion
Looking at the crossroads between heritage and religion through the case study of Moravian Christiansfeld, designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in July 2015, this anthology reaches back to the eighteenth century when the church settlement was founded, examines its legacy within Danish cul...
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The body of the queen
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 con...
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One sound, two worlds
Through extensive archival research and conversations with renowned publicists, musicians and insiders, author Michael Rauhut examines more than fifty texts to give an in-depth overview of the historical development of blues music in East and West Germany during the postwar period.
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Children of palestine
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 M...
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The spirit of the berlin republic
The "Berlin Republic" has become the key concept of post-Cold War Germany and as such has been widely discussed inside as well as outside Germany. Symbolized by the move of the government from Bonn to Berlin it signals all the tangible and intangible changes in Germany's position in the world t...
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Transgressive sex
Sex is often regarded as a dangerous business that must be rigorously controlled, regulated, and subjected to rules. Sexual acts that defy acceptable practices may be seen as variously defiling, immoral, and even unnatural. They may challenge and subvert both cultural preconceptions and the soc...
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After the history of sexuality
Michel Foucault’s seminal The History of Sexuality (1976–1984) has since its publication provided a context for the emergence of critical historical studies of sexuality. This collection reassesses the state of the historiography on sexuality—a field in which the German case has been traditiona...
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Bourdieu and social space
French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu’s relevance for studies of spatiality and mobility has received less attention than other aspects of his work. Here, Deborah Reed-Danahay argues that the concept of social space, central to Bourdieu’s ideas, addresses the structured inequal...
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An earth-colored sea
Although the post-colonial situation has attracted considerable interest over recent years, one important colonial power – Portugal – has not been given any attention. This book is the first to explore notions of ethnicity, "race", culture, and nation in the context of the debate on colonialism...
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An ethnographic chiefdom
The Czechoslovak academic discipline called ‘Ethnography and Folklore Studies’ was impacted and influenced by the daily realities of state socialism in 1969–1989. This book examines how state socialist features such as Marxist–Leninist ideology brought about the discipline’s epistemic stalling.
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Voices from the void
Liumilla Petrushevskaia is one of the best known writers in Russia today, recognized for her versatility as a dramatist, scriptwriter, and author of harrowing contemporary stories and even fairy tales. Acclaimed for her shocking portraits of the pain and loss that distinguish the life of women ...
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Medicine between science and religion
Offers a sustained exploration of ‘religion’, ‘science’ and ‘medicine’ in Western and Tibetan medical contexts. Discusses the situated confluence and/or friction of medicine between religious and scientific world views in various contexts of healing . Offers original ethnographic ex...
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Documenting socialism
More than 30 years after the collapse of the German Democratic Republic, its cinema continues to attract scholarly attention. Documenting Socialism brings a fresh introduction to the field of documentary cinema and the complexities of diversity under socialism in the GDR.
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Heading for the scene of the crash
Applies cultural anthropology to major events or cultural productions, rather than to quasi-exotic or small-scale, topical subjects Uses an approach based on Nietzsche, rarely done in anthropology Discusses difficult subjects in informal, fairly accessible writing, rather than academ...
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Lela in bali
Lela in Bali tells the story of an annual festival of eighteenth-century kingdoms in Northern Cameroon that was swept up in the migrations of marauding slave-raiders during the nineteenth century and carried south towards the coast. Lela was transformed first into a mounted durbar, like those o...
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Supercinema
An innovative perspective on cinema in the digital age Studies the way in which digital special effects and editing techniques require a new theoretical framework in order to be properly understood Looks at the relationship betwen the spectator, and film which utilises digital techno...
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Life as a migrant muslim woman in sectarian northern ireland
The lives of migrant Muslim women in divided, post-conflict Northern Ireland, both before and after the pandemic, are full of diverse stories and experiences of belonging. This book explores how women strive to belong and create a home despite pervasive hatred, sexism and racism.
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