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Writing mothers and daughters
The psychoanalytic discovery of the importance of the pre-oedipal mother-daughter bond in the 1970s generated a vast amount of feminist theory attempting to identify the specificity of, and give value to, the daughter's relationship to her mother. At the same time women writers engaged in the c...
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An introduction to two theories of social anthropology
Louis Dumont, who died in 1998, was one of the most important figures in post-war French anthropology. He is well-known for his early work on India, which culminated in Homo Hierarchicus (1966; in English 1972, 1980), an anthropological account of the caste system. He later extended this work i...
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Visitors to the house of memory
It is deeply personal with the role of the researcher transparent and reflected throughout. It is pragmatic and takes a practice-oriented view of memory and memorialization. It accompanies the participants over time in and outside of the primary research site. The researcher live...
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The limits of loyalty
The overwhelming majority of historical work on the late Habsburg Monarchy has focused primarily on national movements and ethnic conflicts, with the result that too little attention has been devoted to the state and ruling dynasty. This volume is the first of its kind to concentrate on attempt...
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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...
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Understanding conflicts about wildlife
Conflicts about wildlife are usually portrayed as resulting from the negative impacts of wildlife on human livelihoods or property. However, deeper analysis reveals that these conflicts are often better understood as people-people conflicts. Understanding Conflicts About Wildlife unites academi...
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Changing the world, changing oneself
Offers new interpretation of Cold War and global relations in the 1960s and 70s through the perspective of the youth movements that shook the U.S. and Western Europe Presents transatlantic view of the ‘60s/’70s protest history Includes contemporaries’ views, as well as of both leadin...
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Honour and violence
Examines the central position of karo kari in the social, political and juridical structures in Upper Sindh, Pakistan. An exploration of how the state justice system and informal mediations inform each other in state responses to karo kari. An explanation of how modern law is implica...
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Driving modernity
Recounts the twisting fortunes of the autostrada, which Italian authorities hoped would spread an ideology of technological nationalism.. Explains how Italy ultimately failed to realize its mammoth infrastructural vision. Addresses the political and social conditions that made a cohe...
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Humour, comedy and laughter
An examination of the cognitive, social, and moral aspects of humour and its potential to bring about a sense of amity and mutual understanding, even among different and possibly hostile people. Describes how the positive aspects of humour far outweigh the danger of deepening divisions a...
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Flight of fantasy
During the Nazi era many German writers chose, or were forced into, exile. Many others stayed and, after the end of this period, claimed to have retreated into "Inner Emigration". The nature of this kind of emigration and the underlying motives of these writers have been hotly debated to this d...
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Documenting transnational migration
Most studies on transnational migration either stress assimilation, circulatory migration, or the negative impact of migration. This remarkable study, which covers migrants from one Jordanian village to 17 different countries in Europe, Asia, and North America, emphasizes the resiliency of tran...
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Conceiving kinship
Conceiving Kinship is an in-depth journey, the first of its kind, into how heterosexual, lesbian and gay couples using programmes of gamete donation conceptualize and make Italian kinship. It explores the provision of treatment in clinical and non-clinical settings at a time when Italy was cons...
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Territorial revisionism and the allies of germany in the second world war
The comprehensive approach to the German alliance system in WW2; The treatment of the competing goals pursued by the allies of Nazi Germany in the war, which attributed to its specific features; The autonomous relevance of ethno nationalism and territorial revisionism as main driving...
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Divining history
Combines a deep knowledge of theological motifs with theory of history, providing a unique exploration of how such motifs have shaped the Western view of history. Combines a deep knowledge of anti-Jewish theological motifs in the Christian tradition with extensive knowledge of contempora...
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From self-fulfilment to survival of the fittest
Explores European cinema after WWII through the lens of a Marxist perspective. Disputes the common assumption of the disparities between Eastern and Western European economies and cinemas. Special attention to British, former Yugoslav, Polish and French cinema. Compares and contr...
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Hunters, predators and prey
The text is a major contribution to the study of Inuit knowledge and tradition in relation to animals The compendium provides a unique perspective through its extensive use of Inuit quotes Examines key Inuit animals such as the raven, guirruit, dog, bear, caribou, seal and the whale ...
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Resisting radicalisation?
Offering a critical perspective on the concept of radicalisation, this volume views it from the perspective of social actors who engage in radicalising milieus but have not crossed the threshold into violent extremism. The volume brings together contributions based on extensive empirical resear...
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Powerless science?
Examines the historical, social and political dynamics of chemical contamination. Brings new insights into and analysis of how chemical substances regulation has over the last half century contributed to transform toxicants into a major threat for our health and environment. Investig...
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The global life of austerity
Austerity and structural adjustment programs are just the latest forms of neoliberal policy to have a profoundly damaging impact on the targeted populations. Yet, as the contributors to this collection argue, the recent austerity-related European crisis is not a breach of erstwhile development ...
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South africa's dreams
In the early sixties, many South African anthropologists supported ‘Grand Apartheid’ in Namibia. South Africa’s colonial policies in the country served as a testing ground for many key features of its repressive infrastructure, and strategies for countering anti-apartheid resistance. The book a...
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A new look at thai aids
Following the detection of the first HIV infections in the early 1980s, by the 1990s Thailand was routinely depicted as having the world’s fastest moving HIV/AIDS epidemic. However, by the early 2000’s the bulk of scholarly and medical AIDS literature portrayed the epidemic as being largely und...
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Jewish religious law
This is the first major work on the interrelationship between Liberal Judaism and Rabbinic Law (Halachah) ever to have been produced in Britain, and in Europe since the nineteenth century. It represents a plea for a positive yet forthrightly critical approach to Rabbinic Law in general aswell a...
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Science, seti, and mathematics
Makes a complex subject accessible to the typical reader through a conversational tone An exploration of the scientific, historical, philosophical and psychological motivations behind the search for extraterrestrial intelligence Draws on the author’s extensive background in pure and ...
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Wind over water
Investigates how migrants are changing the face of Asia, especially its cities: Beijing, Hong Kong, Hamamatsu, Osaka, Tokyo, Singapore Demonstrates how the crossing of geographical boundaries is also a crossing of cultural and social categories Reveals extraordinary variation among m...
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Taking on technocracy
Taking on Technocracy addresses changing attitudes towards nuclear energy in the age of global warming. The German decision to abandon nuclear power is placed in a historical context, including popularization of science, new social movements, media, policing, gender, and the history of emotions.
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The second generation
Combines biographical and autobiographical treatments of some of the most important historians of the postwar era. A massive data base on the second generation of German speaking émigrés. An essential addition to the work on émigré historians, in the collection edited by Lehmann and ...
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Still waiting for the transformation
Italy in 2013 seemed to be continually on the cusp of substantive reform and forward motion, but never quite achieved it. The previous two years had seen the fall of the Berlusconi government and the beginning of the end of the Second Republic, followed by the predominance of technocrats in off...
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Articulate necrographies
Wide range of cross-cultural perspective Dynamic view on death, not a static, one-dimensional phenomenon Theoretical sophistication and ethnographic rigurosity Non-reductionist
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Sibling relations and the transformations of european kinship, 1300-1900
Includes a broad range of historical evidence such as personal documents, letters, memoirs and genealogies Essays are written by established scholars Serves as an introduction to the current research trends of family and kinship studies
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Making better lives
In this ethnographic study, Johannes Lenhard observes the daily practices, routines and techniques of people who are sleeping rough on the streets of Paris. The book focusses on their survival practises, their short-term desires and hopes, how they earn money through begging, how they choose th...
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The great train race
From their origins, railways produced an intense competition between the two major continental systems in France and Germany. Fitting a new technology into existing political institutions and social habits, these two nations became inexorably involved in industrial and commercial rivalry that e...
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The ethnographic experiment
Concentrates on the neglected work by two such important early 20th-century scholars as Rivers and Hocart in Solomon Islands and elsewhere in Island Melanesia. Examines a little-known research effort that was to provide major foundations for the development of cross-cultural method and a...
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The dream in islam
The first overview of historical and contemporary aspects of the true dream tradition in Islam. Covers: Sufism and dreaming; Islamic dream Incubation (Istikhara); militant Jihadist inspiration through dreams including al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders such as bin Laden and Mullah Omar; compar...
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Migration, memory, and diversity
Explores the complex history of migration and diversity in Germany from 1945 to today. Shows how conceptions of “otherness” developed while memories of the Nazi era were still fresh. Identifies the continuities and transformations they exhibited through the Cold War and reunification...
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Critical public archaeology
Critical approaches to public archaeology have been in use since the 1980s, however only recently have archaeologists begun using critical theory in conjunction with public archaeology to challenge dominant narratives of the past. This volume brings together current work on the theory and pract...
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At home in the hills
To most outsiders, the hills of the Scottish Borders are a bleak and foreboding space - usually made to represent the stigmatized Other, Ad Finis, by the centers of power in Edinburgh, London, and Brussels. At a time when globalization seems to threaten our sense of place, people of the Scottis...
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The spirit of matter
A range of meaningful objects—exhibits of human remains or live people, fetishes, objects in a Catholic Museum, exotic photographs, commodities, and computers—demonstrate a subordinate modern consciousness about powerful objects and their “life”. The Spirit of Matter discusses these objects tha...
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Economy and ritual
An innovative contribution to the thinking about economic anthropology. The ethnographies illiuminate economic and ritual changes in countries emerging from socialism and re-entering market society. Pioneering investigations of transformations of the domestic economy in postsocia...
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Max liebermann and international modernism
Although Max Liebermann (1847–1935) began his career as a realist painter depicting scenes of rural labor, Dutch village life, and the countryside, by the turn of the century, his paintings had evolved into colorful images of bourgeois life and leisure that critics associated with French impres...
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Samizdat, tamizdat, and beyond
Comparative history of samizdat and tamizdat Multi-disciplinary approach to to dissident media, including art, music and film First scholarly treatment of cultural cross-border activities during the Cold War Comparative framework of socialist and post-socialist media in Eastern E...
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Domesticating youth
Introduces the discussion about youth bulge into social anthropology Offers a social anthropological approach to demographic and political dynamics Suggests a new way of thinking about social change in youth bulge societies
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The return of jazz
Jazz has had a peculiar and fascinating history in Germany. The influential but controversial German writer, broadcaster, and record producer, Joachim-Ernst Berendt (1922–2000), author of the world’s best-selling jazz book, labored to legitimize jazz in West Germany after its ideological renunc...
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The riddle of intelligence
There is little agreement today on what it takes to be intelligent. Yet this word is widely believed to be about something real, mostly biological, and important. Looked at closely, it turns out this word belongs more in the realm of traditional folklore than modern science.
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