Representations of “japanese nature”

“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 dim...

Becoming good women

This book illustrates that tuition space acts as an important site for identity formation and placemaking, where students play out their cosmopolitan aspirations whilst acquiring educational capital. It focuses on narratives of female Sinhalese students attending a national school in the Centra...

The policing of politics in the twentieth century

The role of the police has, from its beginnings, been ambiguous, even janus-faced. This volume focuses on one of its controversial aspects by showing how the police have been utilized in the past by regimes in Europe, the USA and the British Empire to check political dissent and social unrest. ...

Persistently postwar

Persistently Postwar approaches the topics of social memory and political discourse through an exploration of Japan’s post-war mass media. Diverse disciplinary backgrounds and contrasting perspectives offer a nuanced dialogue in which the functions of mass media are explored as more than a simp...

Language and identity politics

A sophisticated look at the complicated relationship between language and identity. Describes the growing political salience of questions relating to language. Considers both the inclusive and exclusive dimensions of linguistic identity across Europe and North America.

Politics of innocence

Based on thorough ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp in Tanzania this book provides a rich account of the benevolent “disciplining mechanisms” of humanitarian agencies, led by the UNHCR, and of the situated, dynamic, indeterminate, and fluid nature of identity (re)construction in the camp...

Figuration work

In drawing on the anthropology of policy and the work on ‘figures/figuration’ by feminist thinkers, the book offers a new way of conceptualizing large-scale processes of transformation. Offers perhaps the only ethnography of university reform addressing students’ shifting room for partic...

Europe facing east in the age of ottoman power

Bringing together his wealth of research on the Habsburg-Ottoman conflict over the kingdom of Hungary, historian James Tracy provides a comprehensive and exacting examination of the implications this battle had for notions of sovereignty, statehood, and civilization.

A sentimental economy

On the fringe of western Europe, yet fully integrated into the capitalist market, the rural economy of the west of Ireland seems to provide a fascinating object of analysis to the student of European folk cultures. This book concentrates on a particular aspect of that rural economy: the social ...

The rise of market society in england, 1066-1800

A case study of one of the most successful market societies, carving out both the merits and limits of markets with respect to economic development and the development of civil society. Draws comparisons between the rise of a market society and modern capitalism in England and the circum...

Mapping difference

Drawn from various disciplines and a broad spectrum of research interests, these essays reflect on the challenging issues confronting women in Ukraine today. The contributors are an interdisciplinary, transnational group of scholars from gender studies, feminist theory, history, anthropology, s...

Sociality

Develops new innovative theory of human sociality and re-sets framework of debate Introduces new possibilities for conceptualising other forms of sociality, such animals or materials Presents cases from Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe to explore the new directions of human soc...

Papua new guinea's last place

What kind of experience is incarceration? How should one define its constraints? The author, who conducted extensive fieldwork in a maximum-security jail in Papua New Guinea, seeks to address these questions through a vivid and sympathetic account of inmates' lives. Prison Studies is a growin...

New perspectives on moral change

The world we live in is constantly changing. Climate change, transforming gender conceptions, emerging issues of food consumption, novel forms of family life and technological developments are altering central areas of our forms of life. This raises questions of how to cope with and understand ...

Social limits to learning

At the heart of the historical and social sciences lies the remarkable gray area of learning processes. "Learning" is usually perceived as individual childhood development at home and at school and has been written about extensively. However, little is known about learning processes outside pri...

Border straddling heritages

In this geographically wide-ranging reassessment of the overlap between borders and heritage, Ali Mozaffari and David C. Harvey interrogate how “hyperglobalization” has simultaneously challenged and intensified notions of sovereignty and nationality, advancing a theory of heritage that recogniz...

Silences and divided memories

Dealing with the difficult, silenced past of the so called "Istrian exodus" after the Second World War, this book shifts the usual focus from migrants to those who stayed behind and to the new immigrants who came to the “emptied” towns.

The imaginary revolution

The events of 1968 have been seen as a decisive turning point in the Western world. The author takes a critical look at "May 1968" and questions whether the events were in fact as "revolutionary" as French and foreign commentators have indicated. He concludes the student movement changed little...

The southeast asia connection

Over world history, Southeast Asia’s contribution to the world economy (during the late prehistoric and early historic periods) has not been given much attention. This book attempts to recalibrate these interactions of Southeast Asia with other parts of the world economy, and gives the region i...

The plans that failed

Based on the literature of the GDR and supplemented with a number of so far unpublished documents The most comprehensive account of the GDR economy available in English An English translation of a bestselling German study

Durable solutions

Focusing on Georgia, this book presents a theoretical and empirical study on the implementation of durable solutions for internally displaced persons (IDPs). Building on extensive field research, it describes and explains the considerable problems which Georgia faces in establishing global norm...

Re-imagining defa

International experts take stock of the renaissance of interest in East German cinema and plot an ambitious course for future research. Considers other cinematic traditions, brings genre and popular works into the fold, and encompasses DEFA’s complex post-unification “afterlife.”

Sight and sound entwined

Notwithstanding the economic hardship Russian people are experiencing, their cultural life is as rich and alive as ever, as Gerald Janecek shows us in this collection of his articles on contemporary Russian poetry, which are especially written for this publication or so far only available in Ru...

Living kinship in the pacific

Provides strong accounts of contemporary understandings of kinship in the Pacific. The ethnographic focus is on transformation and continuity over time. Describes how kinship is constituted in day-to-day ritual and ritualized behavior.

Sartre, self-formation and masculinities

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-co...

Empathy and healing

Ruptures in the everyday

As either an alternative or a complement to the typical survey of major figures, institutions, and groups, this book tells stories of modern Germany from the perspective of ordinary Germans “on the ground,” making the material more accessible and relevant to the reader. Broadly interdisc...

Blood and kinship

Attempt to follow the use of blood in mapping family and kinship relations in European culture from the ancient world to the present Explores how “Blood” has come and gone in European culture, just as kinship has constantly been reconfigured Questions the development of European unde...

Cosmos, gods and madmen

Introduction of cosmology into medical anthropology as a useful concept through which to examine mental illness and health, a concept that also bridges some of the divisions between what is considered ‘medical’ and ‘religious’. Range of ethnographic examples based on original research da...

The ethnographic self as resource

Timely discussion of memory in relation to social research given the current boom in memory studies. For anthropology, a serious and critical attempt to move beyond self-reflexivity. Authors analyze impact of their own experiences on their fieldwork. This is rarely offered perspectiv...

Business and industry in nazi germany

During the past decade, the role of Germany's economic elites under Hitler has once again moved into the limelight of historical research and public debate. This volume brings together a group of internationally renowned scholars who have been at the forefront of recent research. Their articles...

Anthropology and sexual morality

The history of sexual morality in Ireland has been traditionally associated with repression. In the last two decades, however, repression seems to have given way to its exact opposite. But where did this “repression” originate? And how can we account for this sudden and sweeping transformation ...

Hitler's plans for global domination

A well researched study of Adolf Hitler’s goals of world domination and his plans to implement it The author presents new sources and information, including Hitler’s plan to attack New York City in December 1941 The text examines Nazi imperial architecture, armament and Hitler’s plan...

The dynamics of german industry

Louis dumont and hierarchical opposition

The work of Louis Dumont, who died in 1998, on India and modern individualism represented certain theoretical advances on the earlier structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss. One such advance is Dumont's idea of hierarchical opposition, which he proposed as a truer representation of indigenous ide...

Entangled reactionaries

A transnational perspective of the construction of pre-fascist conservative identities in Spain at the beginning of the 20th century in relation to the European and Latin American contexts Explains the process of nationalization of the masses and the construction of political and social ...

Nazi labour camps in paris

First account on the three Paris labor camps that were lost from collective memory and nearly forgotten by historians An important chapter of the Holocaust in France Offers an authoritative account of a much neglected subject

Hitler's dancers

The Nazis burned books and banned much modern art. However, few people know the fascinating story of German modern dance, which was the great exception. Modern expressive dance found favor with the regime and especially with the infamous Dr. Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda. How mode...

A sealed and secret kinship

Adoption has long been a controversial subject in the United States as well as in other western countries, but never more so than in the past three decades. Why that is and how public attention affects the decisions made by those who arrange, legalize, and experience adoptive kinship constitute...

Politics and government in germany, 1944-1994

This revised and enlarged edition brings the successful original volume of 1984 right up to date, taking into account the most recent developments. Each section begins with an introduction that provides the context for the following documents. There is no comparable volume of its kind available...

Search after method

Reigniting a tradition of learning by experience, Search After Method is a plea for more lively forms of anthropology. The chapters relate the contributor’s first experiences of working in the field and use their experiences to link their work to the discipline of Anthropology, along with other...

France and the german question, 1945–1990

This book revisits France’s attitude towards the German question as it existed and evolved during the post-World War Two and the Cold War eras in order to shed light on previously neglected aspect of the history of the Cold War, of Germany, and of Europe in the second half of the twentieth cent...

The history of the stasi

Most comprehensive study of the East German Stasi. Major contribution to the History of Post War Germany/Europe. Based on archival studies and a broad range of literature.

Towards emancipation