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Media and revolt
Specific focus on the interrelation of Social Movements and Mass Media Historical focus on the 1960s when new forms of interaction between social movements and mass media emerged Combines historical and systematic perspectives Special focus on framing theory
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German history 1789-1871
Offers a wide-ranging account of nineteenth-century Germany Skillfully combines narrative with analysis Ideal for all students of nineteenth-century Germany
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Urbanizing the future
Speaks to discussions on land and development in India and the global South The Amaravati ‘new city’ project exemplifies a model of development seen across much of the global South, as well as the hegemonic vision of India’s future that is promoted by the current regime and India’s capit...
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Iron in the soul
In his vivid, lively account of how Greek Cypriot villagers coped with a thirty-year displacement, Peter Loïzos follows a group of people whom he encountered as prosperous farmers in 1968, yet found as disoriented refugees when revisiting in 1975. By providing a forty year in-depth perspective ...
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Changing cultural tastes
Changing Cultural Tastes offers a critical survey of the taste wars fought over the past two centuries between the intellectual establishment and the common people in Germany. It charts the uneasy relationship of high and popular culture in Germany in the modern era. The impact of National Soci...
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Correcting the record
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.
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The german student movement and the literary imagination
Traces the cultural memory of the 1960s student movement in German fiction Provides a close reading of novels by Ulrike Kolb, Irmtraud Morgner, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Bernhard Schlink, Peter Schneider, and Uwe Timm Reveals layers of remembering and forgetting that go beyond conventiona...
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An urban future for sápmi?
Presenting the political and cultural processes that occur within the indigenous Sámi people of North Europe as they undergo urbanization, this book examines how they have retained their sense of history and culture in this new setting. The book is written by a team of researchers, mostly Sámi,...
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Mary douglas
This book’s main competitor is Fardon’s (1999) intellectual biography. The proposed book differs from Fardon’s in six key respects: Shorter Aimed at wider readership Deals with later works which appeared after Fardon's book Looks at work done by those who have drawn upon and ...
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Practicing public diplomacy
There is much discussion these days about public diplomacy—communicating directly with the people of other countries rather than through their diplomats—but little information about what it actually entails. This book does exactly that by detailing the doings of a US Foreign Service cultural of...
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Global sustainability and communities of practice
Using case-based and theoretical chapters that examine rural and urban communities of practice, this volume illustrates how participatory researchers and students as well as policy and community leaders find ways to engage with the broader public when it comes to global sustainability research ...
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William robertson smith
William Robertson Smith’s influence on anthropology ranged from his relationship with John Ferguson McLennan, to advising James George Frazer to write about “Totem” and “Taboo” for the Encyclopaedia Britannica that he edited. This biography places a special emphasis on the notes and observation...
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Time and history
This series aims at bridging the gap between historical theory and the study of historical memory as well as western and non-western concepts, for which this volume offers a particularly good example. It explores cultural differences in conceptualizing time and history in countries such as Chin...
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Critical theory
The retirement of the distinguished philosopher Jürgen Habermas from his chair at the University of Frankfurt signalled an important caesura in the history of Critical Theory: the transition from the Habermasian project, to different forms of inquiry in the work of the next generation. This cha...
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Voices of the dunera
Sheds new light on an infamous decision by the British government to deport German refugees (most of them Jewish) to Australia during WWII. Presents for the first hand first hand testimony from internees about their life and treatment. Has a contemporary relevance reflecting issues r...
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Refugee resettlement
The first of its kind, this volume explores refugee resettlement as a form of humanitarian governance; it offers a detailed understanding of resettlement practices, from the selection of refugees to their long-term integration in resettling states, and highlights the relevance of a lifespan app...
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France in the era of fascism
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 fa...
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We come as members of the superior race
We Come as Members of the Superior Race discusses the stereotype of Africans as “primitive” and “unintelligent,” exploring how this legacy has enforced contemporary educational and development discourses which view African societies as subordinated in a global geopolitical order, and how it con...
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Trieglaff
Follows the history of a village and family estate in what is now western Poland from Napoleon's occupation in 1807, to the Red Army's invasion in 1945, until the departure of the last family member is 1948 Intertwines family history withn the political history of Germany Examines th...
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Violent becomings
It is theoretically original in its insistence on radical reading of state formation as related to violence and irreducible to the formal state apparatus. It is a long-term study of transformations – building on fieldwork from 1998 onwards – which surpasses a number of other relevant stu...
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Citizens and aliens
From the last decade of the 18th century, European states began to define nationality more rigorously. Regulations covering matters as diverse as passports, residence permits, taxes, and admission to university examinations made clear that nationality mattered more than rank. Drawing on the fil...
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The origins of complex societies in late prehistoric iberia
A series of papers by a wide range of authors from different countries and backgrounds focuses firmly on the question of the origin and development of social complexity, from the Neolithic through the Bronze Age, in Iberia writ large. A wide range of specific topics is covered with this specifi...
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Contrarian anthropology
Allow people to think about censorship, self and other Being an “ist” (e.g. feminist, Marxist etc.) gets in the way of creativity How not to be a silo (e.g. specialized) anthropology –e.g. from law to energy renewal What we can learn from chronologies re: intellectual autobiog...
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Can academics change the world?
Moshe Shokeid narrates his experiences as a member of AD KAN (NO MORE), a protest movement of Israeli academics at Tel Aviv University, who fought against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, founded during the first Palestinian intifada/uprising (1987-1993).
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After liberation
This collection gathers together, for the first time in English, some of H.G. Adler’s most important scholarly essays on the Shoah and connected themes. Spanning his thought across three decades they focus on the fate of the ‘coerced’ human being and reflect on freedom, enslavement, terror, dre...
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Pepsi and the pill
With the reintroduction of many important debates surrounding reproductive rights, migration and nationalism, Pepsi and the Pill brings to the fore examples and critical historical and media analysis of British and French films in the popular culture and political discourses of 1960s Western Eu...
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Becoming east german
innovative focus on subjective experiences of ordinary East Germans. New approaches to study of everyday life beyond the Iron Curtain. International group of scholars from Europe and North America Powerful critique/reappraisal of mainstream scholarly/popular interpretations of Ea...
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Beyond filial piety
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, Sin...
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Reconstructing the house of culture
Notions of culture, rituals and their meanings, the workings of ideology in everyday life, public representations of tradition and ethnicity, and the social consequences of economic transition— these are critical issues in the social anthropology of Russia and other postsocialist countries. Eng...
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Class, contention, and a world in motion
Addresses the question of migrant agency in the context of globalisation and capitalist change Focuses on class in the study of migration and migrant politics Addresses gender and ethnicity in study of migration politics Presents analysis of conditions which enable and disable po...
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Beyond the border
Beyond the Border reconstructs the experiences of minority youths living in the Danish-German borderlands from the 1950s to the 1970s. Drawing on a remarkable variety of archival and oral sources, author Tobias Haimin Wung-Sung provides a rich and fine-grained analysis that encompasses politica...
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Subject lessons
Life histories are a class of oral data distinct from memoirs, autobiography, and conventional history in multiple ways.Subject Lessons examines the use of and value in using one’s life history as research within the social sciences.
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Politics of scale
The volume develops research in Critical Heritage Studies by: Providing a multi/interdisciplinary point of view to politics of scale and heritage-scale relationship. Contributors to the volume have their disciplinary background in: geography, cultural studies, art history, museum studies, ...
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Rebellious families
Why do people rebel? This is one of the most important questions historians and social scientists have been grappling with over the years. It is a question to which no satisfactory answer has been found, despite more than a century of research. However, in most cases the research has focused on...
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Our common denominator
A re-assertion of the importance of "universals" or cross-cultural commonalities in anthropological research. Poses the question of how anthropology can help mankind approach humanity from a vantage point open to commonalities.
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Viktor frankl's search for meaning
First objective look at Viktor Frankl’s life. Covers his entire life from 1905 to 1996. Has original biographical information and incorporates official biographies. Insight into the Holocaust as well as the history of psychology.
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Migration, memory, and diversity
Explores the complex history of migration and diversity in Germany from 1945 to today. Shows how conceptions of “otherness” developed while memories of the Nazi era were still fresh. Identifies the continuities and transformations they exhibited through the Cold War and reunification...
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Istanbul at the threshold of nation state
In 1920s and 30s Turkey, the rise of Christian exclusionary movements and policies were backed by nationalist labor and merchant federations. An Imperial Capital at the Threshold of Nation State traces these formations in political dissent and coalition to the faction split of Turkish national ...
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Global migrants, global refugees
In recent years, several influential commentators have stated or strongly implied that the advanced industrial democracies are today being overwhelmed by a host of problems - including rapid population growth, the breakup of multi-ethnic states, environmental degredation, and increasing economi...
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Boaters of london
London and the Southeast of England is home to many people living along rivers and canals. Boaters of London delves into the process of becoming a ‘boater’ and the political impact of the travelling population on the state. It examines an alternative style of living and the potential of a life ...
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The body in balance
Offers new perspectives for studying the so-called "humoral medical traditions" over the last 2,000 years Re-visits "harmony" and "holism" as main characteristics of these traditions Asks how "balance" is defined, by whom, for whom, and in what circumstances
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Screening nature
The first comprehensive work that groups together concerns in the field of cinema and the environment with a specific emphasis on “posthuman cinema” An extensive resource for teachers, undergraduate students, and more advanced scholars on the intersections between film and the natural wo...
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John f. kennedy’s hidden diary, europe 1937
Presenting the 1937 diaries of John F. Kennedy's tour of Europe alongside the "Scrapbook" of his travel companion, Lem Billings, John F. Kennedy’s Hidden Diary, Europe 1937 offers insights into Kennedy's early experiences on a continent under the shadow of Nazism.
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Russian culture
This volume brings together two classic works on the culture of the Russian people which have been long out of print. Gorer's Great Russian Culture and Mead's Soviet Attitudes towards Authority: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Problems of Soviet Character were among the first attempts by anthr...
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