European foundations of the welfare state

Sets out a theory of the welfare state Portrays the welfare state as a political project embedded in European culture Disentangles the interaction of politics, economy and households in social welfare Assesses the welfare state's achievements and current challenges

The force of comparison

Drawing on a range of multidisciplinary perspectives, this volume investigates the concepts and practices of comparison from the early modern period to the present. Each contribution demonstrates how comparison has helped to drive the seemingly irresistible dynamism of the modern world, with a ...

Productive men and reproductive women

The debate on the origins of modern gender norms continues unabated across the academic disciplines. This book adds an important and hitherto neglected dimension. Focusing on rural life and its values, the author argues that the modern ideal of separate spheres originated in the era of the Enli...

Coming of age

A focus on juvenile delinquency and not simply on youth cultures. A history of everyday life/ bottom up history – not top-down approach Focuses on constructions of youth as deviant, and how such constructs are used to control society as a whole.

Timber, sail, and rail

Strangers either way

Croatia gained the world's attention during the break-up of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. In this context its image has been overshadowed by visions of ethnic conflict and cleansing, war crimes, virulent nationalism, and occasionally even emergent regionalism. Instead of the norm, this book of...

Culture, suicide, and the human condition

Articulates how suicide should be understood as a form of human action rather than as a separate realm of pathological behaviour Demonstrates how cultural narratives enable the community to make sense of self-inflicted death Argues that these narratives also constitute a blueprint de...

The feeling of the fall

As an inquiry into engagements with forces of loss and threat, this work explores experimental ways to write about climate crisis in anthropology. From Belize to Ontario and back, this ambitious piece of ethnographic writing set during a time “beyond ruin” in a fictional, ecotourist community i...

Transformation of the german political party system

Using German political parties as a prism with which to view institutional change, this collection transcends a single country focus and places the German experience in a comparative and historical framework. Evaluation the performance of the German parties and party system in dealing with prob...

Materialising exile

Focusing on the highly diverse Karenni refugee population living in camps on the Thai-Burma border, this innovative book explores materiality, embodiment, memory, imagination, and identity among refugees, providing new and important ways of understanding how refugees make sense of experience, s...

When they came for me

Whilst a student in South Africa, John Schlapobersky was arrested for opposing apartheid and tortured, detained and deported. In this volume, apartheid and its resistance come to life in personal stories that make this a vital historical document - one of its time and one for our own.

Europe at the seaside

Mass tourism is one of the most striking developments in postwar western societies, involving economic, social, cultural, and anthropological factors. For many countries it has become a significant, if not the primary, source of income for the resident population. The Mediterranean basin, which...

The marseille mosaic

Moving across disciplines, The Marseille Mosaic integrates a diverse range of sources and methods to reveal France’s second city in the national imagination as a critical site for postcolonial memory and urban transformation as they crucially interact with debates in contemporary French society.

Islands in the interior

In this book, Veth develops a model of settlement and subsistence in the Western Desert of Australia, drawing on his own archaeological investigations, as well as ethnographic and environmental data. Building on this model, he concludes with a plausible reconstruction of the colonization of the...

Visions of the end of the cold war in europe, 1945-1990

This is the first book to systematically investigate the visions of the end of the Cold War that have existed throughout the period. Beyond its specific topic, the volume may serve as a useful introduction to the Cold War as a whole. It is also a contribution to the understanding of ...

The helmand baluch

The late Ghulam Rahman Amiri accompanied a joint Aghan-US archaeological mission to the Sistan region of southwest Afghanistan in the 1970s and published the ethnography in Farsi in Kabul in 1987. This volume, the first English translation, describes the cultural, political, and economic system...

Civil–military entanglements

A unique set of ethnographic material and anthropological perspectives in contrast to previous work that has been in other disciplines (primarily sociology and political science). Explicit addition of transnational communities and non-Western cases in addition to Western cases, as well...

Existentialism and contemporary cinema

Makes groundbreaking contribution to Beauvoir studies, applying the work of this innovative philosopher to contemporary screen culture Brings together international experts on Beauvoir and Cinema, who provide innovative existentialist readings of a variety of contemporary films from seve...

Mixed matches

This collection of essays explores discourses and practices surrounding a wide variety of transgressive unions in early modern Germany The text addresses the historical complexity of the socio-cultural institution of marriage The collection provides a new perspective into the shiftin...

Comical modernity

Comical Modernity is the first book-length study on popular humour in late nineteenth-century Vienna. The research findings suggest that humour provided a significant means of interpreting and discussing modernity in an era of radical change. This book combines humour research with u...

Kin, gene, community

Israel is the only country in the world that offers free fertility treatments to nearly any woman who requires medical assistance. It also has the world's highest per capita usage of in-vitro fertilization. Examining state policies and the application of reproductive technologies among Jewish I...

Life with durham cathedral

An ethnographic account of daily life in Durham Cathedral, this book examines the processes of negotiation and change between a community and their cathedral.

Sexual knowledge

Explores the cultural history of public forms of sexual knowledge in early 20th century Vienna. A study of Viennese intellectual, political, and religious traditions. Examines "sexual knowledge" as a social reform movement intended for workers, women, and children.

European memories of the second world war

During the fifty years since the end of hostilities, European literary memories of the war have undergone considerable change, influenced by the personal experiences of writers as well as changing political, social, and cultural factors. This volume examines changing ways of remembering the war...

The state we're in

Investigates the reasons behind the current disillisionment in democratic statecraft. Explores the relations between democracy, subjectivity and sociality. A must-read for all political theorists, scholars of democracy, and readers concerned for the future of the democratic ideal.

About the hearth

Addresses a major theme in anthropological theory. Has a full circumpolar range of examples. Is an interdisciplinary collection. Addresses the complexity of northern indigenous architectural design.

The surplus woman

The first German women’s movement embraced the belief in a demographic surplus of unwed women, known as the Frauenüberschuß, as a central leitmotif in the campaign for reform. Proponents of the female surplus held that the advances of industry and urbanization had upset traditional marriage pat...

Transnational railway cultures

Spanning five continents and a diverse range of contexts, this collection offers an unprecedentedly broad survey of global representations of trains. From experimental novels to Hollywood blockbusters, the works studied here chart fascinating routes across a remarkably varied cultural landscape.

Israel-palestine

The conflict between Israel and Palestine has raised a plethora of unanswered questions, generated seemingly unreconcilable narratives, and profoundly transformed the land’s physical and political geography. This volume seeks to provide a deeper understanding of the links between the region tha...

On the edges of whiteness

From 1942 to 1950, nearly twenty thousand Poles found refuge from the horrors of World War II in camps within Britain’s African colonies, including Uganda, Tanganyika, and Kenya. On the Edges of Whiteness tells their improbable story, tracing the manifold, complex relationships that developed a...

The gift of european thought and the cost of living

Uncovers the complicity of postcolonial criticism with what it criticizes Shows that Enlightenment ideas such as thinking for oneself and becoming autonomous are untenable Expands the notion of ‘the cost of living’ to include a cost of thinking and doing

Narration, identity, and historical consciousness

A generally acknowledged characteristic of modern life, namely the temporalization of experience, inextricable from our intensified experience of contingency and difference, has until now remained largely outside psychology’s purview. Wherever questions about the development, structure, and fun...

Social policy in the smaller european union states

In Europe and around the world, social policies and welfare services have faced increasing pressure in recent years as a result of political, economic, and social changes. Just as Europe was a leader in the development of the welfare state and the supportive structures of corporatist politics f...

Temple tracks

The notions of labour, mobility and piety have a complex and intertwined relationship. Using ethnographic methods and a historical perspective, Temple Tracks critically outlines the interlink of railway construction in colonial and post-colonial Asia, as well as the anthropology of infrastructu...

History

Without denying the importance of the postmodernist approach to the narrative form and rhetorical strategies of historiography, the author, one of Germany's most prominent cultural historians, argues here in favor of reason and methodical rationality in history. He presents a broad variety of a...

Dark trophies

The only comparative and historical study of the use of human body parts as trophies by military personnel in modern warfare Argues that these deviant practices represent important evidence of the power of metaphor in structuring human social behaviour An exploration of the close col...

Conflict, domination, and violence

It offers a unique long-term historical perspective. It deals with different social movements. It deals with several regions of Mexico. It deals with different forms of violence.

Navigating colonial orders

First comprehensive study in English of Norwegian colonial aspirations and activities Original comparison Africa and Oceania Cross-disciplinary approach to study

Exceptional experiences

Looking at encounters that can puncture or jolt us, this volume uses art as a lens through which to register and understand exceptional experiences. The volume also includes the fieldworker’s experience of unexpected events that can lead to key understandings, as well as revelatory moments that...

Landscapes of relations and belonging

Wogeo Island is well-known to anthropologists of Papua New Guinea through the work of Ian Hogbin. Based on substantial fieldwork, the author builds on and expands previous research by showing how Wogeos establish and maintain social relationships and identities connected to place and movement i...

Tax justice and the political economy of global capitalism, 1945 to the present

An informed review of the exisitng literature on political economy Explains the intellectual accomplishments of the great early and mid-20th century writers on global economic justice Links together the questions of tax, justice and development Discusses the contradictory effects...

Ingmar bergman out of focus

An exacting re-examination of Ingmar Bergman’s cultural heritage, Ingmar Bergman Out Of Focus digs into the perceived “familiarity” of Bergman’s films by analyzing how the Swedish director’s film aesthetics simultaneously shaped modern culture and were themselves reshaped by contemporary cultur...

The forgotten majority

Assesses the causes of the migration of German merchants to London between the end of the Hanseatic League and the end of the Napoleonic Wars, as well as the establishment of their businesses and the global reach of their enterprises. Investigates trhe commercial function of British natu...

Soup, love, and a helping hand

In-depth study of social relations in contemporary urban China. Examining different scales of social relations, from the interpersonal (family) to the neighborhood, to social institutions and organizations. A combined focus on social relations, help/ support, and morality in differen...