Self in the world

The eminent anthropologist Keith Hart reflects on a life of learning, sharing and remembering to offer readers the means of connecting life’s extremes – individual and society, local and global, personal and impersonal dimensions of existence and explores what it is that makes us fully human.

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...

Journeys through fascism

During the twenty years of Mussolini’s rule a huge number of travel texts were written of journeys made during the interwar period to the sacred sites of Fascist Italy, Mussolini’s newly conquered African empire, Spain during the Civil War, Nazi Germany, Communist Russia and the America of the ...

The ethos of history

This illuminating collective meditation on historical practice show how “ethos”— evoking a society’s “fundamental character” as well as knowledge and commitment—can serve as a conceptual lodestar for understanding as a narrative, a form of consciousness, and an ethical-political orientation.

Biopolitics, militarism, and development

Bringing together original, contemporary ethnographic research on the Northeast African state of Eritrea, this book shows how biopolitics - the state-led deployment of disciplinary technologies on individuals and population groups - is assuming particular forms in the twenty-first century. Once...

Peter lorre: face maker

Opens up a ‘star discourse’ around the figure of the character actor. A balanced examination of Lorre’s film career in both Germany and Hollywood. Considers the interplay between star image, screen performance, and the economic / labor position of a recognizable screen actor. Pro...

Migration by boat

The only edited volume to date to focus specifically on forced sea migrations and their memorializations. Covers a wide international (geographic) berth in terms of case studies, and therefore has international appeal. An excellent example of engaged social sciences regarding current...

Re-orienting cuisine

An analysis of food in a global context where tastes, lifestyles and imaginations cross boundaries. An exploration of food's social and cultural meanings and functions. 

Corporate scandal

When the Enron filed the biggest bankruptcy petition in the history of the United States, if not the world, the immediate response by most politicians and financiers was that this scandal was a “failure of regulatory institutions” that can be corrected and may possibly even be a purely North Am...

A world of populations

Regional diversity, emphasis on local situations The essays in this collection provide a new approach to demography: history of knowledge The text is among the few publications in the field that cover the whole 20th century

Comrades in arms

Children, families, and states

A comparative, interdisciplinary study Examines the development of ‘time policies’ in Europe Presents national case studies from large and small European countries such as Britain, France, Hungary and the Czech Republic Documents a wide range of thinking and practice about childr...

Sovereign forces

Sovereignty is a significant force regarding the ownership, use, protection and management of natural resources. By placing an emphasis on the complex intertwined relationship between natural resources and diverse claims to resource sovereignty, this book reveals the backstory of contemporary r...

Contemporary megaprojects

Contemporary “megaprojects” have evolved from the centralized, modernist projects undertaken in the past. With case studies ranging from mega-plantations in Southeast Asia to sports events, Contemporary Megaprojects explores the increasing ambition and pervasiveness of these projects, as well a...

Post-communist nostalgia

Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people’s lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all ...

Theoretical scholarship and applied practice

Investigates the ways in which theoretical research has been incorporated into recent applied practices across the social sciences and humanities. Advances our understanding of the ethics, values, opportunities and challenges that emerge in the making of engaged and interdisciplinary sch...

The arkansas regulators

Friedrich Gerstäcker’s The Arkansas Regulators is a rousing tale of frontier adventure, first published in German in 1846, but virtually lost to English readers for well over a century. This long-awaited translation and scholarly edition of the novel offers a startling rewriting of the frontier...

The aesthetics of rule and resistance

Through illuminating case studies of street art in Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Caracas, and Mexico City, The Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance explores the visual strategies of persuasion and meaning-making employed by both rulers and resisters to foster self-legitimization, identification, and mobi...

Pc worlds

This provocative work offers an anthropological analysis of the phenomenon of political correctness, both as a general phenomenon of communication, in which associations in space and time take precedence over the content of what is communicated, and as specific critical historical conjunctures ...

Archaeogaming

Video games exemplify contemporary material objects, resources, and spaces that people use to define their culture. This book serves as a general introduction to "archaeogaming"; it describes the intersection of archaeology and video games and applies archaeological method and theory into under...

The wheel of autonomy

Through the theoretical lens of rhetoric, this book offers an interactionalist analysis of how the Kara – a small population in southern Ethiopia – negotiate ethnic and non-ethnic differences among themselves, the relations with their various neighbors, and eventually their integration in the E...

Whose cosmopolitanism?

Whose Cosmopolitanism? examines cosmopolitanism’s possibilities, aspirations and applications—as well as its tensions, contradictions, and discontents—from a range of different disciplinary perspectives. The book investigates cosmopolitanism’s emergence as a contemporary social process, global ...

Free will, consciousness and self

What is it to be human? How do we relate to the world, to each other and to our self in a human – in everyday life and when faced with life’s big questions? In this book, the author develops a general theoretical model that might be able to offer a better understanding of the human condition an...

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...

Engendering forced migration

At the turn of the new millenium, war, political oppression, desperate poverty, environmental degradation and disasters, and economic underdevelopment are sharply increasing the ranks of the world's twenty million forced migrants. In this volume, eighteen scholars provide a wide-ranging, interd...

The 'final solution' in riga

Ghetto, forced labor camp, concentration camp: All of the elements of the National Socialists’ policies of annihilation were to be found in Riga. This first analysis of the Riga ghetto and the nearby camps of Salaspils and Jungfernhof addresses all aspects of German occupation policy during t...

Economy's tension

Presents small ethnographic contexts and global financial markets to show that economy is made up of two value realms, mutuality and impersonal trade Explains how capital and derivatives can control an economy Offers an approach for dealing with environmental devastation Examines...

Management by seclusion

Assessing the World Bank’s attempts to combat global poverty over the past 50 years, anthropologist and former World Bank Advisor Glynn Cochrane argues that instead of the Bank’s prevailing strategy of “management by seclusion,” poverty alleviation requires personal engagement with the poorest ...

Gender, violence, refugees

The book links forced migration, violence and gender relations. Most studies have a particular focus on sexual violence in refugee camps and/or situations. Many chapters cover different countries and offer original empirical research. The volume offers innovative conceptual appro...

Nazi paris

Basing his extensive research into hitherto unexploited archival documentation on both sides of the Rhine, Allan Mitchell has uncovered the inner workings of the German military regime from the Wehrmacht’s triumphal entry into Paris in June 1940 to its ignominious withdrawal in August 1944. Alt...

Nazi labour camps in paris

First account on the three Paris labor camps that were lost from collective memory and nearly forgotten by historians An important chapter of the Holocaust in France Offers an authoritative account of a much neglected subject

Religion and nation

An estimated 75,000 Iranians emigrated to Britain after the 1979 revolution and the establishment of the Islamic Republic. They are politically, religiously, socio-economically and ethnically heterogeneous, and have found themselves in the ongoing process of settlement. The aim of this book is ...

Making multiple babies

Human beings have been producing more twins, triplets, and quadruplets than ever before, due to the expansion of medically assisted conception. This book analyzes the anticipatory regimes of making multiple babies. With archival documents, participant observation, in-depth interviews, and regis...

Time and the field

Radically rethinks the notion of the 'field' in terms of time rather than space. By considering the field in terms of time, the relationship between field and fieldsite is destabilized and emerges as a dynamic and ever-shifting constellation. Updates the discussion of contemporary re...

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...

Civil society

At the moment, no other European city attracts so much fascination as the city of Berlin. An unrivalled symbol of modern urban life, Berlin is a dynamic city whose inhabitants, in the course of the past two centuries, have lived through both the rapid growth and the violent destruction of the i...

Sex, risk, and society

When is sex abnormal and when is it dangerous? A multi-disciplinary approach that includes sociology, anthropology, history, and philosophy provides an understanding of how cultural norms have shifted over time and the implications of these shifts. Proposed definitions of “abnormal” and “danger...

Understanding multiculturalism

Offers a comparative, critical analysis of muticulturalism as a concept for understanding pluricultural societies and offers historical studies of the Central European experience to show how pluricultural situations can be effectively analyzed and interpreted. Critically analyzes the con...

The virago story

The Virago Story provides a comprehensive history of classic feminist publisher Virago, along with an up-to-date analysis of the four waves of feminism, new strands of feminist analysis and praxis, and publishing trends.

Men under fire

In historical writing on World War I, Czech-speaking soldiers serving in the Austro-Hungarian military are primarily studied as Czechs, rarely as soldiers, and never as men. Men under Fire provides a groundbreaking analysis of this oft-overlooked cohort, drawing on a wealth of soldiers’ private...

Women as sacred custodians of the earth?

Literature on women, development and environment is abundant. The relationship between women and ecology has been analyzed by various disciplines, by specialists from the North as well as the South. This book offers a new perspective, specifically to challenge the assumption that women have a s...

Germans no more

Most books on Nazi Germany focus on the war years. Much less is known about the preceding years although these give important clues with regard to the events after November 1938, which culminated in the Holocaust. This book is based on eyewitness accounts chosen from the many memoirs that Harva...

In the event

Explains how to analyze generative moments through events that hold the key to understanding larger social situations. Based on ethnographic studies from around the world.

Women and men in love

It has often been assumed that Europeans invented and had the exclusive monopoly over courtly and romantic love, commonly considered to be the highest form of relations between men and women. This view was particularly prevalent between 1770 and the mid-twentieth century, but was challenged in ...