The masculine woman in weimar germany

first comprehensive study of the "masculinized" modern woman in post-World War I Germany compares mainstream media and "queer" subcultural representations to showcase the significance and complexity of female masculinities within Weimar German culture an interdisciplinary cultural hi...

Water, life, and profit

Water, Life, and Profit offers a holistic analysis of the people, economies, cultural symbolism, and material culture involved in the management, production, distribution, and consumption of drinking water in the urban context of Niamey, Niger. Keough and Youngstedt offer new insights into the ...

Panamanian museums and historical memory

Panama is an ethnically diverse country with a recent history of political conflict which makes the representation of historical memory an especially complex and important task for the country’s museums. This book studies new museum projects in Panama with the aim of identifying the dominant na...

Identifying with freedom

Identity matters

In response to the attacks of September 11, 2001 and war in Afghanistan, the Fulbright New Century Scholars program brought together social scientists from around the world to study sectarian, ethnic, and cultural conflict within and across national borders. As one result of their year of inten...

Obstetric violence and systemic disparities

The final volume in this landmark 3-volume series on The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians looks at the challenges, and even violence, that obstetricians face across the world. This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to ...

Imagining bosnian muslims in central europe

As a Slavic-speaking religious and ethnic “Other” living just a stone’s throw from the symbolic heart of the continent, the Muslim peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina have long occupied a liminal space in the European imagination. This volume assembles contributions from historians, anthropologis...

Advancing refugee protection in south africa

Divided into three thematic parts to guide the reader, this important volume documents the development and implementation of refugee policy in South Africa over a 10-year period from 1996 until 2006. In doing so, it addresses issues of detention, gender, children and health as well as welfare p...

Becoming a subject

Focusing on the Greek Civil War (1946-1949), the last major conflict in Europe before the end of the Cold War, this study examines the political prisoners whose fate encapsulates the dramatic conflicts and contradictions of that dark era. New sources such as prisoners' letters, memoirs, and off...

Wine is our bread

Based on ethnographic work in a Moldovan winemaking village, Wine Is Our Bread shows how workers in a prestigious winery have experienced the country’s recent entry into the globalized wine market and how their productive activities at home and in the winery contribute to the value of commercia...

Environment and citizenship in latin america

Alternative approach to the links between environment and citizenship, with a focus on identity, power relations, popular mobilization and social justice.   Unique perspective on environmental citizenship from Latin America. Widely interdisciplinary approach, including contributors from Ant...

Empire, global coloniality and african subjectivity

Grounded in critical decolonial theory Inter-and trans-disciplinary Deals with empire and global coloniality from the vantage point of its arrival in Africa Is empirically grounded, with specific case studies

Culture, creation, and procreation

As reproduction is seen as central to kinship and the biological link as the primary bond between parents and their offspring, Western perceptions of kin relations are primarily determined by ideas about "consanguinity," "genealogical relations," and "genetic connections." Advocates of cultural...

On violence in history

Is global violence on the decline? Steven Pinker’s highly-publicized argument that human violence across the world has been dramatically abating continues to influence discourse among academics and the general public alike.

Suffering and evil

Until recently the subject of suffering and evil was neglected in the sociological world and was almost absent in Durkheimian studies as well. This book aims to fill the gap, with particular reference to the Durkheimian tradition, by exploring the different meanings that the concepts of evil an...

Archives, ancestors, practices

In line with the resurgence of interest in the history of archaeology manifested over the past decade, this volume aims to highlight state-of-the art research across several topics and areas, and to stimulate new approaches and studies in the field. With their shared historiographical commitmen...

Whose memory? which future?

A unique approach to the history of ethnic cleansing with focus not on victims or policies but on the present-day remembrance of the people that took the place of the expelled and murdered. In-depth studies of a number cities that experienced ethnic cleansing and expulsions. Comparis...

French film in britain

First study of French cinema in the British context. Rethinking of French cinema which considers the ways in which it is transformed as it moves outside France. History of the place for ‘Continental’ and ‘specialist’ cinema in Britain. Draws extensively on archival sources to pro...

German division as shared experience

German Division as Shared Experience shows the extent to which the story of East and West Germany was one of mutual entanglement after 1945. By subsuming political considerations into the historical domain of the social and cultural, each of the innovative studies presented here analyzes moment...

Exiles from european revolutions

Studies on exile in the 19th century tend to be restricted to national histories. This volume is the first to offer a broader view by looking at French, Italian, Hungarian, Polish, Czech and German political refugees who fled to England after the European revolutions of 1848/49. The contributor...

Media, anthropology and public engagement

This is the first book to explore how anthropologists are engaging with publics through media – it is an essential up date to existing work on public anthropology. The book explores a range of different ways in which anthropologists can engage with publics through media – from blogs to t...

Cinema of choice

How movies engender closed-mindedness or optional thinking in viewers. Close analysis of branching narrative movies (Sliding Doors, Rashomon, etc.) An in-depth study of cognitive-affective engagement in movies.

Shakespeare and social engagement

Shakespeare’s roots in applied and participatory performance practices have been recently explored within a wide variety of educational, theatrical and community settings. Shakespeare and Social Engagement explores these settings, as well as audiences who have largely been excluded from existin...

Border interrogations

Under the current cartographies of globalism, where frontiers mutate, vacillate, and mark the contiguity of discourse, questioning the Spanish border seems a particularly urgent task. The volume engages a wide spectrum of ambivalent regions—subjects that currently are, or have been seen in the ...

Knowing how to know

This volume examines some crucial issues in the conduct of fieldwork and ethnography and provides new insights into the problems of constructing anthropological knowledge. How is anthropological knowledge created from fieldwork, whose knowledge is this, who determines what is of significance in...

African political systems revisited

Reexamining a classical work of Social Anthropology, African Political Systems (1940), edited by Fortes and Evans-Pritchard, this book looks at the colonial and academic context from which the work arose, as well as its reception and its subject matter and looks at how the work can help with an...

Resettlers and survivors

Resettlers and Survivors focuses on two groups of Bukovinians—ethnic Germans and German-speaking Jews—who navigated dramatically changed political and social circumstances in 1945. This study gives a nuanced account of how they dealt with the difficult legacies of World War II, while exploring ...

Creativity in transition

Describes how in an era of intensifying globalization and transnational connectivity, the dynamics of cultural production and the very notion of creativity is in transition. Highlights the spread of modernist discourses of creativity. The contributions are based on a long term collab...

Berlin, alexanderplatz

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the city administration bureaus, developers’ offices and citizen groups Presents multiple perspectives with a clear focus Relies on numerous sources such as personal narratives, plans, timetables, and other documents and files 

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 ...

Rhodes scholars, oxford, and the creation of an american elite

Each year thirty-two seniors at American universities are awarded Rhodes Scholarships, which entitle them to spend two or three years studying at the University of Oxford. The program, founded by the British colonialist and entrepreneur Cecil Rhodes and established in 1903, has become the world...

The dance of nurture

Holistic approach to infant feeding Combines biological and cultural approaches to infant feeding in a single frame Integrates issues from the global north and south Provides ethnographic insight into advocacy work on infant feeding

Bodies in pain

This study of Darren Aronofsky's films goes deeper than the auteur direction, but rather focuses on the spectator and the senses employed in a viewing of his work. The study is deeply concerned with his audio-visual style and the subsequent emotions provoked in the audience. Explores...

A european memory?

An examination of the role of history and memory is vital in order to better understand why the grand design of a United Europe—with a common foreign policy and market yet enough diversity to allow for cultural and social differences—was overwhelmingly turned down by its citizens. The authors a...

The politics of making kinship

Leading us beyond current narratives on the decline of kinship which assume kinship’s existence since the dawn of civilization, The Politics of Making Kinship interrogates kinship’s geneses, constructions, elaborations, implementations, and enforcing agents across a long view of European histor...

A jewish understanding of the world

In this second volume of Liberal Jewish sermons spanning the greater part of the second half ofthe twentieth century, the author again combines a radically progressive stance with Jewish commitment and seeks to understand contemporary history from a "prophetic" point of view. His comments cover...

Going to pentecost

This is an experimental approach to Pentecostalism, departing from previous studies;  It is explicitly comparative, with very close collaboration amongst the three authors;  It offers new possibilities for the study of religion in global context

Weimar publics/weimar subjects

Interdisciplinary: features essays by scholars in the fields of Art History, German Literature, Film Studies, and History. Examines the important connections between political and cultural change during the Weimar era when politics were mediated increasingly through culture and when new ...

An australian indigenous diaspora

The first full-length ethnography applying the concept of diaspora to indigenous migration within the nation state. The first full-length account to provide a double perspective (both home and away) of the migration of Australian Indigenous people from remote settlements to towns and cit...

Globalizing automobilism

Multi-award winning titles that reveals how automobilism became a global force shaping modern mobility cultures. 'Magisterial in its account of car society and "layered mobility" across Africa, Asia, and Latin America’. (WHBP Committee) Introduces the concept of “layered mobility” to...

Hunters, gatherers, and practitioners of powerlessness

A dramatic account of the socio-economic transformations of the 1990s in Poland. Tracks the experiences of unemployed miners, scrap collectors, and poverty-stricken village residents. Traces the ways in which people actively reconfigure their lives.

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.

The long aftermath

This broadly interdisciplinary volume investigates Europeans’ individual and collective memories of the "Long Second World War" and the ways in which they have shaped the continent’s cultural heritage. Offers thoroughly contextualized explorations of novels, memoirs, films, and other cul...

Sisters in arms

Up to now, studies of feminist activism have focused almost exclusively on protest that was commonly understood as peaceful. This study shows that there was considerable disagreement over the question of which tactics were appropriate and necessary in feminist struggles, and that some groups...