Godless intellectuals?

Establishes connection between Durkheimian sociology and poststructuralism both textually and sociologically Presents a revolutionary re-reading of an important part of 20th century French intellectual history Provides a sociological theory for understanding intellectual work and liv...

In the absence of the gift

Rethinks remittance motivations among work migrants by focusing on notions of sharing. An elaborate focus on practices of sharing and demand sharing in a Melanesian context. Focuses on those ‘development projects’ people initiate and conduct themselves in a country otherwise often su...

Where is the good in the world?

Bringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic case studies from diverse settings, this volume explores how different disciplinary perspectives on the good might engage with and enrich each other. This is the first interd...

Literature, the 'volk' and the revolution in mid-19th century germany

Between the revolutions of 1830 and 1848, poverty reached new extremes in Germany, as in other European countries, and gave rise to a class of disaffected poor, leading to the widespread expectation of a social revolution. Whether welcomed or feared, it dominated private and public debate to a ...

Nazism in central germany

Most studies on the spread of Nazism in German society before and after 1933 concentrate on the country's western parts. As a result, so the author claims, our overall picture of the situation has been distorted since the eastern areas contained a substantial portion of the population. Neglecti...

Screening the east

a comprehensive and detailed analysis of German post-unification film an insightful account of the representation of east Germans since the collapse of Communism a useful contribution to the current debates about German identity

The rite of urban passage

This book investigates the dynamics of religious rituals as part of urban processes, offering a substantial contribution to ritual and urban studies. This book offers an interdisciplinary approach entwining ritual, urban and spatial theories. Although the book makes a substantial con...

Yiddish transformed

Yiddish Transformed explores Jewish reading practices alongside the rise of Yiddish in Eastern Europe between 1860 and 1914 by delving into publishing policies of Yiddish books and newspapers, popular literary genres of the time, the development of Jewish public libraries, as well as reflection...

The environment and sustainable development in the new central europe

With the enlargement of the European Union, the accession countries are coming under pressure to develop and meet EU standards for environmental protection and sustainable development. In this ongoing process, global economic liberalization, regulatory policy, conservation, and lifestyle issues...

Nordic paths to modernity

Explores the "Nordic model" of the welfare state through a long-term historical-sociological perspective Traces the transformative movements from a military state to a democratic one Details the significant features which set the five Nordic countries (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finlan...

Dreams of germany

Diversity of disciplines and author team (senior and junior; gender; national perspective). Range of iconic case studies: Bruckner and Wagner through to the Beatles and Kraftwerk. Represents the cream of upcoming scholars alongside more established scholarly voices. Revisits and...

Haunting futures

The 2008 economic collapse in Iceland sent its residents into a destabilising crisis with far-reaching, temporal and affective consequences. Haunting Futures explores how the complex relationships of this unstable past and the anticipatory modes of the ongoing present keep Icelanders and the Po...

The economic diplomacy of ostpolitik

Despite the consensus that economic diplomacy played a crucial role in ending the Cold War, very little research has been done on the economic diplomacy during the crucial decades of the 1970s and 1980s. This book fills the gap by exploring the complex interweaving of East–West political and ec...

Peace at all costs

Peace at All Costs reconsiders postwar Polish-German relations as an interdisciplinary case study of reconciliation and follows an influential network of non-state peace activists, major players in print and audiovisual media, as they attempted to establish dialogue in the 1950s and 1960s.

The death in their eyes

Perpetrator images — those that embody the point of view of the perpetrators or their accomplices during acts of violence — from Abu Ghraib, the Auschwitz Album, and of illegal prisoners captured during the fiercest dictatorships, are analyzed under a new methodology in The Death in their Eyes ...

The france of the little-middles

Makes a significant contribution to social class analysis by introducing the “little middle” class category, typified by neighborhood residents, and their particular experience of class mobility. In complement to the substantial social science literature analyzing the experience of immig...

Transatlantic echoes

Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) was a world traveler, bestselling writer, and versatile researcher, a European salon sensation, and global celebrity. Yet the enormous literary echo he generated has remained largely unexplored. Humboldt inspired generations of authors, from Goethe and Byron t...

Palimpsestic memory

Proposes a new model for understanding cultural memory based on the principle of the palimpsest which condenses different memory traces. Challenges the distinction between memories of the Holocaust and memories of colonialism. Offers new readings of familiar post-war novels and films...

Poetics of animation

A general introduction to animation aesthetics which is accessible to both undergraduate animation students, and also informative to animation theorists and practitioners. Possible adoption potential? Broad in scope, offering an overview of some of the major trends in commercial animatio...

A border island on the crossroads of history

For some decades now, Lampedusa regularly appears in the news in regard to its devastating record of shipwrecks, deaths, and survivors. An ethnographic immersion takes the reader into the twists and turns of contemporary Lampedusan life, revealing a complex and contradictory microcosm. M...

The legacies of a hawaiian generation

A perspective on North American imperialism derived from three generations of Native Hawaiians who have been subject to imperial policies. The combination of anthropological fieldwork, archival resources, and “kitchen table” conversations gives the book a unique quality. Provides ins...

The american impact on postwar germany

It is only with the benefit of hindsight that the Germans have become acutely aware of how profound and comprehensive was the impact of the United States on their society after 1945.This volume reflect the ubiquitousness of this impact and examines the German responses to it. Contributions by...

What now

Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork undertaken since 2006, the book addresses some of the most topical aspects of remote Aboriginal life in Australia. This includes the role of kinship and family, relationships to land and sea, and cross-cultural relations with non-Aboriginal residents.

Risky transactions

Trust is a central feature of relationships within the Mafia, oppressed minorities, kin groups everywhere, among dissidents, nationalist freedom fighters, ethnic tourists, ethnic middlemen, exchange networks of Kalahari Bushmen, and families subjected to Stalinist social control. Each of these ...

Heirs of the greek catastrophe

Since its first publication in 1989, this classic study has remained in demand. The third edition of Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe includes updated material with a new Preface, Epilogue, and map of the study area.

Animals, plants and afterimages

From quaggas to thylacine to dinosaurs, Animals, Plants and Afterimages brings together leading scholars in the humanities and life sciences to explore how extinct species are represented in media, art, literature and elsewhere, crossing academic boundaries to explore how portrayals of disappea...

Crime, jews and news

Crimes committed by Jews, especially ritual murders, have long been favorite targets in the antisemitic press. This book investigates popular and scientific conceptualizations of criminals current in Austria and Germany at the turn of the last century and compares these to those in the contempo...

Discerning palates of the past

Françoise héritier

A great intellectual figure, Françoise Héritier succeeded Claude Lévi-Strauss as the Chair of Anthropology at the Collège de France in 1982. She was both an Africanist, author of magnificent works on the Samo population, the scientific progenitor of kinship studies, the creator of a theoretical...

The social construction of diversity

Though the composition of the populace of industrial nations has changed dramatically since the 1950s, public discourse and scholarship, however, often remain welded to traditional concepts of national cultures, ignoring the multicultural realities of most of today's western societies. Through ...

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.

I dreamed the animals

This is Kaniuekutat's book. In it, he tells the story of his life and that of Innu culture in the northern parts of Labrador. The pages of this book are filled with the voice of Kaniuekutat giving his account of an Innu hunter's life and the problems and distress that have been caused by sedent...

Escapees

Escapes from deportation trains: First study of the phenomenon as Jewish resistance to National Socialistic persecution More than 750 escapees in Western Europe show various forms of motives and implementation (agency) First study of deportation train guards (who they were and how th...

At home in postwar france

Examines key groups of actors involved in the development of the modern mass home in France after World War II,  and argus that modernizers looked to the home as a site for social engineering and nation-building, while designers and advocates of the modern home contributed to the democratiza...

Children and youth on the front line

War leads not just to widespread death but also to extensive displacement, overwhelming fear, and economic devastation. It weakens social ties, threatens household survival and undermines the family's capacity to care for its most vulnerable members. Every year it kills and maims countless numb...

Fascism without borders

An expansive collection examining fascism’s transnational dimension. Investigates the movements inspired by the early example of Fascist Italy. Explores the international antifascist organizations that emerged in subsequent years.

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.

Nature knowledge

Numerous scholars, in particular anthropologists, historians, economists, linguists, and biologists, have, over the last few years, studied forms of knowledge and use of nature, and of the ways nature can be protected and conserved. Some of the most prominent scholars have come together in this...

The decisionist imagination

This is the first volume to explore decisionism beyond the thought of Carl Schmitt. This is the first volume to trace how decisionism impacted the social sciences in the trans-Atlantic context of the United States and Europe. This is the first volume to explore decisionism from an in...

Masculinities in polish, czech and slovak cinema

Gender, especially masculinity, is a perspective rarely applied in discourses on cinema of Eastern/Central Europe. Masculinities in Polish, Czech and Slovak Cinema exposes an English-speaking audience to a large proportion of this region’s cinema that previously remained unknown, focusing on th...

A u-turn to the future

Unsustainable practices since the Industrial Revolution still impact our everyday lives. This book looks at how we can achieve sustainable urban mobility now and in the future by tapping into our knowledge of the historical trajectories leading up to the features of modern mobility in cities to...

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...

Thinking utopia

After the breakdown of socialist and communist systems in the East, it had become fashionable to declare the so-called "end of utopia" ("end of history," "end of narratives"). The authors of this volume do not share this view but think that it is time to rehabilitate utopian thought. The politi...

Border aesthetics

A pioneering collection on the aesthetics of borders. Organized around six key ideas—ecology, imaginary, in/visibility, palimpsest, sovereignty and waiting. A theoretical starting point for an aesthetic understanding of borders, developed in detail through interdisciplinary analyses ...