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Person and place
Concerned with contemporary notions of personhood and the relationship between persons and places, this book, presents a detailed insight into the Vanua Lavan’s engagement with modernity, and examines how they relate to the past, make sense of the present and anticipate the future. Marilyn Stra...
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Multiple nature-cultures, diverse anthropologies
Over time, the role of nature in anthropology has evolved from being a mere backdrop for social and cultural diversity to being viewed as an integral part of the ontological entanglement of human and nonhuman agents. This transformation of the role of nature offers important insight into the re...
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Holding worlds together
Studies of globalization tend to foreground movements, mobilities or flows, while structures that remain stable and unchanged are often ignored. This volume foregrounds the latter. Discarding the term “globalization” for analytic purposes, this volume suggests that the significance of globalizi...
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Religious sensibilities in pursuit of sexual well-being
Through detailed ethnographic analysis, this book shows how religious sensibilities inform the health practices, issues of sexuality and well-being of the Ghanian-Dutch and Somali-Dutch communities residing in the Randstad area of the Netherlands.
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A single communal faith?
How could the Right transform itself from a politics of the nobility to a fatally attractive option for people from all parts of society? How could the Nazis gain a good third of the votes in free elections and remain popular far into their rule? A number of studies from the 1960s have dealt wi...
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Rebordering the mediterranean
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 immigrant...
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The greek exodus from egypt
First study covering the history of the Greeks in Egypt (the biggest foreign community in that country from the mid 19th to mid 20th centuries). Exhaustive archival research in several countries. Challenging the existing historical narrative claiming Greeks constituted a well off com...
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Urban sustainability in the arctic
Urban Sustainability in the Arctic advances our understanding of cities in the far north by applying elements of the international standard for urban sustainability (ISO 37120) to numerous Arctic cities. In delivering rich material about northern cities in Alaska, Canada, and Russia, the book e...
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Opening up the university
Including contributions from educators, administrators, practitioners, and students, Opening Up the University addresses specific points relating to the access and success of refugees in higher education. This expansive collected volume aims to inspire and question those who are considering cre...
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Re-turns, entanglements and collaborations
This collection marks the EASA Book Series’ 50th volume to celebrate collaborative forms of knowledge production in anthropology. It is organized around eight key themes and concepts that have marked anthropological debates in Europe over the past 20 years.
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Children in the holocaust and its aftermath
The interviews conducted with Holocaust child survivors and war children were done in the 80s and early 90s therefore these are the first interviews many gave The collection also includes interviews conducted immediately after liberation Various qualitative analytic methods are used ...
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Marketing hope
Looks at how get-rich-quick schemes manifest themselves in a Siberian town. By focusing on the social dynamics of these popular economies, Leonie Schiffauer provides insights into how capitalist logic is learned and negotiated, and how it affects local realities in a post-Soviet environment.
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Beyond conversion and syncretism
The globalization of Christianity, its spread and appeal to peoples of non- European origin, is by now a well-known phenomenon. Scholars increasingly realize the importance of natives rather than foreign missionaries in the process of evangelization. This volume contributes to the understanding...
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The ethics of the new eugenics
The first published volume that gives an extensive overview of all the different current practices in the new eugenics. The first book to examine the manner in which international law addresses the topic of eugenics and uses the example of the UK to study how a modern developed country i...
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Localizing the internet
Internet activism is playing a crucial role in the democratic reform happening across many parts of Southeast Asia. Focusing on Subang Jaya, a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, this study offers an in-depth examination of the workings of the Internet at the local level. In fact, Subang Jaya is regarded a...
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Between blood and gold
A comparative study analyzing the debates within France and Great Britain relating to the question of compensation to former slaveholders. It lays out the philosophical, legal-political, and economic factors at play. It establishes a powerful new model for understanding the aftermath...
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Themes in french culture
Margaret Mead collaborated with her long-time colleague Rhoda Métraux in this unique study of French culture. The Hoover Institute at Stanford University originally published this volume, which grew out of the Columbia University project on Research of Contemporary Cultures in 1954. It is one o...
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Sexual subordination and state intervention
One would expect a welfare state such as Sweden to compare favorably with the United States regarding implementation of public policies and programs. Surprisingly, the author comes to quite different conclusions: in studying the treatment of battered, raped and sexually-harassed women in the tw...
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Embodying exchange
Embodying Exchange addresses the infrastructural, legal and moral complexities in contemporary world trade through an ethnographic analysis of the interface of multinational brand manufacturers and popular traders in the Bolivian Andes.
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Children are everywhere
This book explores everyday experiences of parenting and childlessness of ‘ethnic’ Germans in Berlin, who came of age around the fall of the Berlin Wall, and brings them into conversation with theories on parenting, waithood, non-biological intimacies, and masculinities.
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Pacific spaces
Delving into Pacific spaces from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and interpretations, this book looks at how the anthropological and architectural can be connected.
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Refugee policy in sudan 1967-1984
Based on the work of Ahmed Karadawi, Refugee Policy in Sudan discusses Sudanese government policy towards the refugee flows from Ethiopia into the Eastern Region of Sudan in theperiod 1967 to 1984, arguing that there were two underlying assumptions behind successive governments' policies: that ...
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Mountainscapes
Innovatively bringing together scholars from geography, sociology, history, and more, Mountainscapes re-examines the dynamics of mountain mobilities and the impact of tourism, migration and pastoralism on mountain communities. Ranging from the Swiss Alps to the Chilean Andes, this volume illumi...
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The germans and the holocaust
Up-to-Date: Features cutting-edge scholarship about a compelling and very important aspect of the Holocaust. Eminent Authors: All of the chapters have been written by highly accomplished senior scholars who are internationally known in this field of Research Focus on Sources: Several...
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Working the fabric
Trademark-protected since 1910, the famous woollen cloth known as Harris Tweed can only be produced in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland – yet it is exported to over 50 countries around the world. Examining contemporary experiences of work and life, this book is the first in-depth anthropological ...
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Ethnography and the corporate encounter
Businesses and other organizations are increasingly hiring anthropologists and other ethnographically-oriented social scientists as employees, consultants, and advisors. The nature of such work, as described in this volume, raises crucial questions about potential implications to disciplines of...
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Diaspora online
Chronicles the online cultural and political expressions of the Romanian diaspora post-1989 Describes its politicization and the paths taken leading to the gradual institutionalization of informal communication Analysis underpinned by interviews with politicans, migrants and poets
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Destination london
The legacy of emigrés in the British film industry, from the silent film era until after the Second World War, has been largely neglected in the scholarly literature. Destination London is the first book to redress this imbalance. Focusing on areas such as exile, genre, technological transfer, ...
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Waithood
The concept of “Waithood” was developed by political scientist Diane Singerman to describe the expanding period of time between adolescence and full adulthood as young people wait to secure steady employment and marry. The contributors to this volume employ the waithood concept as a frame for r...
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Aging and the digital life course
In recent years there have been many books about aging populations. This book is unique in that it not only focuses on the role and design of technologies for older people around the world but it aims to situate this within local context. It is comprised of a carefully balanced mix...
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A foreign affair
With six Academy Awards, four entries on the American Film Institute’s list of 100 greatest American movies, and more titles on the National Historic Register of classic films deemed worthy of preservation than any other director, Billy Wilder counts as one of the most accomplished filmmakers e...
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Narrating the city
Case studies include no less than nine different urban settings; they explore the relationship between narration and the urban experience in richer and more varied fashion. Chapters engage the political as mediated through the daily, lived experiences of individual women and men in disti...
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Women in contemporary russia
The position of Russia has always been difficult. In spite of the Revolution in 1917, the legal, economic, social and political inequalities between men and women have remained severe. For more than seventy years the official propaganda of the Soviet system deliberately concealed from the publi...
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Women and the politics of military confrontation
As the crisis in Israel does not show any signs of abating, this remarkable collection, edited by an Israeli and a Palestinian scholar and with contributions by Palestinian and Israeli women, offers a vivid and harrowing picture of the conflict and of its impact on daily life, especially as it ...
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Archaeogaming as scholarly play
Mainstream Cultural Relevance: Uses world-famous franchises like Zelda, Fallout, and The Elder Scrolls to make complex archaeological theories accessible and engaging for a global gaming audience. Innovative Educational Toolkit: Provides practical, modern strategies for using video game...
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Traveling models and practical norms
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.
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Gender in georgia
Gender in Georgia is the first edited volume that brings together an international group of feminist scholars to explore the political, economic, social and cultural conditions that have shaped gender dynamics in Georgia from the late 19th century to the present. The majority of contribu...
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Waiting for elijah
Rare long-term ethnographic study of Bosnian sacral landscapes and the first anthropological exploration of syncretism in Bosnia A seminal anthropological study of time and waiting Develops an analytical framework for approaching shared landscapes and syncretism Investigates pa...
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A creole nation
Compilation of interdisciplinary scholarly perspectives. State-of-the-art research on current debates in creolization, ethnicity, and nation-building discourses. New Perspectives beyond a primarily historical focus on creolization and creole identity and nation-building “from below” ...
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Educating anthropologists in the contemporary world
Expansive volume with a wide geographical + anthropological range, which was commented on very positively in the reviews. Well-connected and active volume editors, with access to a range of different professional networks. From peer review: "By focusing on aspects of education and te...
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Reconstructing homes
Reconstructing Homes takes on a multidisciplinary approach of sensory ethnography, visual methods, and autoethnography methodologies to explore affective engagements with materiality in the context of home and the idea of belonging.
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Shaping taxpayers
Ethnography up-close of a successful revenue authority. Fiscal anthropology in a modern / developed country. Application of tax law in practice. Knowledge making in a modern bureaucracy.
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Postsocialist europe
Now that nearly twenty years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet bloc there is a need to understand what has taken place since that historic date and where we are at the moment. Bringing together authors with different historical, cultural, regional and theoretical backgrounds, this vo...
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Nationalism and the cinema in france
Original research informs each chapter, addressing film reception, including classics and popular culture often ignored. Re-reads work from major figures including: Truffaut, Godard, Lelouch, Sautet, Renoir, Pagnol and others. First sustained analysis of nationalism in French cinema ...
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