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On the order of chaos
Over the past two decades, “chaos theory” – the perception of order previously hidden in phenomena of apparent randomness and disorder – has fundamentally transformed the natural sciences. In recent years, numerous scholars in the social sciences and humanities have attempted to adapt the insig...
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Israeli identities
Examines the attitude of Jewish and Arab Israelis towards the Holocaust. Describes the attitude of Jewish and Arab Israelis towards the Nakba. A unique research into the inter-relations between Jewish and Arab Israeli students.
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Identities and place
With a focus on historic sites, this volume explores the recent history of non- heteronormative Americans from the early twentieth century onward and the places associated with these communities. Authors explore how queer identities are connected with specific places: places where people gather...
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We are all africans here
This book looks critically at racialization of mobility in Europe, anchoring the discussion in the aspiration of precarious migrants from Niger in Belgium and Italy. The book contextualizes their experiences within the ongoing securitization of mobility in their home country and the persistent ...
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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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Trees, knots, and outriggers
The book is combination of structuralist and ecological work to a classic area for the discipline, the Kula Ring. Although structuralist or structuralist-inspired work is common in this area, ecological work is not. The book is the product of engaged interdisciplinary research: social an...
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Exchanging objects
As an historical account of the exchange of “duplicate specimens” between anthropologists at the Smithsonian Institution and museums, collectors, and schools around the world in the late nineteenth century, this book reveals connections between both well-known museums and little-known local ins...
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Museum times
Museums flourished in post-apartheid South Africa. In older museums, there were renovations on the go, and at least fifty new museums opened. Most sought to depict violence and suffering under apartheid and the growth of resistance. These unlikely journeys are tracked as museums became a primar...
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The agendas of tibetan refugees
Comprehensive and exhaustive history of the installation in exile of the Tibetan refugees. New light on the relationship between the Tibetan Refugees and their Western patrons. Explains its success through the negotiation, strategies and work of the Tibetan Refugees. Description of a...
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Metaphors of spain
Brings together leading historians to examine Spanish nationalism through its diverse and complementary cultural artefacts. Addresses “formal” representations such as the flag to music, bullfighting, and other more diffuse examples. Describes a nationalism that is constantly evolving...
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The right to memory
The Right to Memory looks beyond everyday memory and commemoration practices, focusing instead on how memory relates to human rights and socio-legal constructs in order to legitimize and protect groups and individuals.
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Substitute parents
From a comparative perspective, human life histories are unique and raising offspring is unusually costly: humans have relatively short birth intervals compared to other apes, childhood is long, mothers care simultaneously for many dependent children (other apes raise one offspring at a time), ...
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Irish/ness is all around us
A detailed ethnography of Irish-speaking and Irish-speakers in contemporary west Belfast Sheds new light on the issues attending language revivalism in Ireland and its intersection with historic conflict in N.Ireland Explores the complexities of changing and contradictory senses of I...
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Divided, but not disconnected
It is one of the few studies that addresses the entanglement of the two Germanys during the Cold War at various levels including culture, society and politics. It comprises chapters from young researchers and established scholars from a plethora of subject areas who present original rese...
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A dramatic reinvention
A Dramatic Revinvention sheds new light on how Germans rebuilt their moral and intellectual world after the Nazi catastrophe. The book argues that television emerged as one of the most important mediums for presenting, discussing, and working through the question of how to re-moralize Germany.
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Israel and the diaspora in jewish law
THE FREEHOF INSTITUTE OF PROGRESSIVE HALAKHAH The Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah is a creative research center devoted to studying and defining the progressive character of the halakhah in accordance with the principles and theology of Reform Judaism. It seeks to establish the ideol...
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Landscape, process and power
In recent years, the field of study variously called local, indigenous or traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) has experienced a crisis brought about by the questioning of some of its basic assumptions. This has included reassessing notions that scientific methods can accurately elicit and...
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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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The engaged historian
Investigates relationship between historical scholarship and political engagement Wide global coverage Raises questions about professionalism and normativity in historical work Strong theoretical framework
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Stategraphy
By exploring interactions and negotiations of local actors in different institutional settings, the contributors explore state transformations in relation to social security in a variety of locations spanning from Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans to the United Kingdom and France. Fusing ...
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The making of the greek genocide
Provides a much-needed analysis of the Greek genocide during and after World War 1 (when over one million Ottoman Greeks were expelled from Turkey) as cultural trauma. Sjöberg irecounts how it emerged as a meaningful but contested collective memory with both nationalist and cosmopolitan ...
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Grazing communities
The present critical discourse on sustainable and responsible development implies a change of practices, a huge socio-economic transformation, and the return of new shepherds and herders in different European regions. This book is an occasion to reconsider grazing communities’ frictions in the ...
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Managing ambiguity
First ethnographic study of favors in a former Yugoslav country; First ethnographic study of a welfare system in a former Yugoslav country; It explores how the same people pursue favors across several fields (social protection, healthcare, humanitarianism), rather than just to focus ...
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Medieval intersections
With contributions on topics ranging from medieval gynecology to clerical masculinity, this interdisciplinary collection highlights the various ways “status” can be interpreted relative to gender, and what these two interlocked concepts can reveal about the construction of gendered identities i...
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Multicultural dialogue
As cross-cultural migration increases democratic states face a particular challenge: how to grant equal rights and dignity to individuals while recognizing cultural distinctiveness. In response to the greater number of ethnic and religious minority groups, state policies seem to focus on managi...
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The retreat of the social
The powerful individualist and subjectivist turn in anthropology - a turn that cannot be easily separated from larger political processes of neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism - is one factor resulting in notions of the social and of society as becoming little else than empty shells of small o...
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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...
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New imaginaries
A unique approach to studying gender that offers a portrait of Ukrainian society as seen through the eyes of a new generation of feminist scholars. In displacing the Soviet legacy of prescribed thought and practices, this volume’s female contributors have infused their work with Western ...
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Social quality theory
The meta theory and the interdisciplinary approach. The contribution to current debates on reorientation in social and economic policies. The new thinking of development economics. The measurement of social progress and global development. The comparative studies of social de...
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Encounters with emotions
Spanning Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Encounters with Emotions investigates experiences of face-to-face transcultural encounters from the seventeenth century to the present. The case-studies presented in this volume explore the cultural aspects of nature and the bodily dimensions of nurture in...
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Remembering violence
Psychologists have done a great deal of research on the effects of trauma on the individual, revealing the paradox that violent experiences are often secreted away beyond easy accessibility, becoming impossible to verbalize explicitly. However, comparatively little research has been done on the...
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Evidence, history and the great war
In the English-speaking world the Great War maintains a tenacious grip on the public imagination, and also continues to draw historians to an event which has been interpreted variously as a symbol of modernity, the midwife to the twentieth century and an agent of social change. Although much 'c...
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Xenocracy
History of British colonialism in the Mediterranean New sources for the study of Greek history and history of colonialism Comparative perspective with other colonies A history of the Ionian State that is absent from historiography
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Germany and 'the west'
First comprehensive study of the conceptual history of ‘the West’ in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany Conceptual history approach Reflecting the importance of the nineteenth century in the history of ‘the West’ A historical contribution to the current debate about the me...
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The logic of environmentalism
Although modernity’s understanding of nature and culture has now been superseded by that of environmentalism, the power to define the meaning of both, and hence the meaning of the world itself, remains in the same (Western) hands. This bold argument is at the center of this provocative book tha...
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Peripheries at the centre
Peripheries at the Centre reveals how Prussia, and later the German Empire, used educational policy to promote national identity along its geographical margins. It shows how policymakers sought to cultivate ideal German students who, it was hoped, would help to usher in a new, peaceful era in E...
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Tibetans in nepal
Based on eighteen months of field research conducted in exile carpet factories, settlement camps, monasteries, and schools in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal, as well as in Dharamsala, India and Lhasa, Tibet, this book offers an important contribution to the debate on the impact of international ...
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The men with the movie camera
The second scholarly study in English to consider the creative role of the camera operator in the film-making process Represents the first scholarly study to offer a detailed analysis of the films of the Soviet avant-garde in their totality Crosses disciplinary boundaries and examine...
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International organizations and environmental protection
Historical overview of international organizations and environmental policy until Stockholm 1972. First treatment of diversity of international organisations’ involvement in environmental policy. International organisations and the pre-history of the climate change negotiations. ...
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Witchcraft, witches, and violence in ghana
Provides detailed account of Ghanaian witchcraft beliefs and practices. Examines their role in fuelling attacks by aggrieved individuals and vigilante groups. Empirical focus, reflected in the use of case studies.
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Sentient ecologies
Employing methodological perspectives from the fields of political geography, environmental studies, anthropology, and their cognate disciplines, this volume explores alternative logics of sentient landscapes as racist, xenophobic, and right-wing.
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Performing place, practising memories
First published ethnography from this region of tropical Northern Australia in which is located the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area The only study focusing on relationships between indigenous Australians and the wave of "counter-culture" people who moved into rural communities during the...
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War of extermination
Among the many myths about the relationship of Nazism to the mass of the German population, few proved more powerful in postwar West Germany than the notion that the Wehrmacht had not been involved in the crimes of the Third Reich. Former generals were particularly effective in spreading, throu...
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The respectable career of fritz k.
Provides an insight into understanding the political upheavals in the 20th Century in Germany. Facilitates understanding of the workings of the corrupt Nazi system. Analyses the "Coming to Terms" with National Socialism in the Federal Republic.
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