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Forging architectural tradition
During the nineteenth century, a change developed in the way architectural objects from the distant past were viewed by contemporaries. Architectural heritage often was (and still is) an important element of nation building. Authors address the process of building national myths around certain ...
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Anxious histories
This book explores Holocaust pedagogy in Jewish schools in Melbourne and New York. Demonstrates that an anxious thread runs throughout these narratives, as the pedagogy negotiates feelings of simultaneous belonging and not-belonging in the West and in Zionism. Opens up once again for...
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Out of albania
Analysing the dynamics of the post-1990 Albanian migration to Italy, this book is the first major study of one of Europe’s newest, most dramatic yet least understood migrations. It takes a close look at migrants’ employment, housing and social exclusion in Italy, as well as the process of retur...
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Imperial germany revisited
International selection of Authors, all leading experts in the field of the history of the German Empire Gives good overview of the “state of the art” and raises important questions for future research Volume shows a much more “modern” and pluralistic picture of Imperial Germany than...
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Toward a global civil society
The demise of Communism has not only affected Eastern Europe but also the countries of the West where a far-reaching examination of political and economic systems has begun. This collection of essays by internationally renowned scholars of political theory from Europe and the United States expl...
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Colette's republic
In France’s Third Republic, secularism was, for its adherents, a new faith, a civic religion founded on a rabid belief in progress and the Enlightenment conviction that men (and women) could remake their world. And yet with all of its pragmatic smoothing over of the supernatural edges of Cathol...
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Thinking through sociality
Combines a review of classical theories with recent theoretical innovations across a wide range of issues and domains An international group of contributors examine concepts of disjuncture and social space
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Anthropologies of education
Only source of state-of-the art analyses on ethnography of education in different world regions, covering 5 continents Most chapters authored by senior scholars, leaders in their fields Compares perspectives from sociology of education (e.g., in France & West Africa) with anthrop...
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At home in a nursing home
Focusing on contemporary ideas about how aged care is provided, this book poses the question: How can people who are aged and frail live out the final phase of their lives with dignity? In seeking answers, the author examines what it means to be ‘at home’ in residential care in a novel and comp...
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The crisis of the german left
Using Nietzsche's categories of monumentalist, antiquarian and critical history, the author examines the historical and theoretical contexts of the collapse of the GDR in 1989 and looks at the positive and negative legacies of the GDR for the PDS (the successor party to the East German Communis...
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A reversal of fortunes?
German unification brought fundamental, often traumatic changes for the people in eastern Germany. Women as a group were arguably more deeply affected by the changes than any other, and in one area in particular: that of work, which had far-reaching effects on them and their families' economic ...
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Memory and change in europe
Offers a reflection on memory from an Eastern European historical perspective, one that can be measured against, or applied to, historical experience in other parts of Europe. The authors situate studies on memory in Eastern Europe within the broader debate on European memory.
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Pacific automobilism
In this expansive volume, historian Gijs Mom explores how contemporary mobility has been impacted by social, political, and economic forces on a global scale, as in light of local mobility cultures, the car as an ‘adventure machine’ seems to lose cultural influence in favor of the car’s status ...
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The social origins of thought
The volume does not focus on Durkheim or Mauss, but understands the Durkheimian School as a collective enterprise that cannot be dealt with by solely focusing upon individual scholars. The “Category Project” is dealt with for the first time systematically as a collective enterprise of th...
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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 ...
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Red america
Socialism, Communism, and Anarchism were integral components of 19th and 20th century immigrant life. Red America explores the relationship between the immigrant experience in the United States and political radicalism, especially as it relates to the lesser explored Greek American experience i...
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Distributed objects
The first cross-disciplinary exploration of Art and Agency by leading scholars in their fields. Examines the reception and influence of a highly influential and still controversial theory 15 years after its publication. Includes a hitherto unpublished essay by Gell (‘The Network of S...
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Morality, crisis and capitalism
With the growing numbers of displaced populations and the rise in the politics of fear and hate, we are facing challenges to our very ‘species-being’. Papers in the volume include ethnographic studies on the ‘refugee crisis’, the ‘financial crisis’ and the ‘rule of law’ crisis in the Mediterran...
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The rise and demise of german statism
German statism as a political ideology has been the subject of many historical studies. Whereas most of these focus on theoretical texts, cultural works, and vague "traditions", this study understands German statism as a functioning logic of political membership, a logic that has helped to dete...
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Gender in germany and beyond
Jean Quataert’s former students, colleagues, and collaborators come together in Gender in Germany and Beyond to not only celebrate Quataert’s shaping of the field of modern German, Women’s and transnational history, but also to expand on that scholarship, setting a precedent for the future of t...
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The persistence of race
In histories of the Third Reich, race is a ubiquitous topic, but German society produced a much more complex variety of racial representations over the first part of the twentieth century. This volume explores the hateful depictions of the Nazi era alongside Wilhelmine images of indigenous peop...
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Borders in east and west
The different ways of understanding borders, through culture, politics, or even religion, is transforming and requires multi-disciplinary approaches the complexity of interactions and tensions that may arise. Borders in East and West focuses on the relationships between Europe and East Asia thr...
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Staying at home
A migration study that focuses on those who do not migrate. Explains a malleability attaching to ethnicity through people’s daily lives. Disentangles the notion of diaspora from its inherent attachment to ‘homeland’. Combines a fertile mix of qualitative and quantitative approach...
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The categorical impulse
Classification, as an object of recent anthropological scrutiny came to prominence during the 1960s, exemplified in the British (constructionist) tradition by the writings of Mary Douglas, and in the American ethno-semantics (cognitive) tradition by the likes of Harold Conklin and Brent Berlin....
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Of hoarding and housekeeping
Of Hoarding and Housekeeping provides an anthropological, global, and comparative angle to the understanding of hoarding and decluttering. Focusing on the house, with careful attention to material flows in and out, this book examines practices of accumulation, storage, decluttering, and waste a...
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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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A prophetic trajectory
The first in-depth study of religious movements in colonial and postcolonial Angola. Contributes to the growing field of Lusophone studies. Is concerned with faith, mobility and belonging in the Atlantic space, rethinking current theories of religion and globalization. Updates th...
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Momentous mobilities
First in-depth (anthropological) discussion of various forms of contemporary mobilities. Coherent approach, with an introductory chapter and a conclusion. Agenda-setting volume for future research in mobility studies Experimental writing style, combining ethnography and memoir.
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Nordic war stories
Nordic War Stories explores the commonalities and divergences among the five Nordic countries, examining formal and informal national historiographies alongside representations of the second world war in canonical literary works, memoirs, and films. Together, they comprise a valuable companion ...
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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...
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Reynard the fox
There are many stories featuring the villainous hero Reynard the Fox in many languages told over many centuries, goingback as far as the early 12th century. All these stories are comic and much of the humour depends on parody and satire resulting in mockery, sometimes the subversion of certain ...
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Transatlantic parallaxes
Volume is the product of a novel encounter of American anthropologists of France and French anthropologists of the United States. Scholars from France and the United States offer novel insights into each other’s societies, juxtaposing glimpses of ourselves and a familiar “other” that pro...
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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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Politics of innocence
Based on thorough ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp in Tanzania this book provides a rich account of the benevolent “disciplining mechanisms” of humanitarian agencies, led by the UNHCR, and of the situated, dynamic, indeterminate, and fluid nature of identity (re)construction in the camp...
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Reversible america
Reversible America negotiates the spectacle of Rodeo, cattle ranching, and bullfighting as it has manifested in California through cross border convergences of Iberian bullfighting, Native American hunting methods, and ethics in human and non-human relationships.
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Spanish laughter
Exploring various forms of humor in Modern Spain since their entry into the eighteenth-century public sphere, Spanish Laughter takes on the comforting, transgressive, conservative, rebellious, and other dynamic forms of humor as they have changed and contributed to the building of Spain’s cultu...
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East german film and the holocaust
By combining close analyses of five films made between 1947 and 1988 with extensive archival research, this book unravels the complex status of films dealing with Jewish persecution produced in a country that consistently privileged narratives of political persecution above racial victimhood.
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Ritual
Designed for both academic and lay audiences, this book identifies the characteristics of ritual and, via multiple examples, details how ritual works on the human body and brain to produce its often profound effects. These include enhancing courage, effecting healing, and generating group cohes...
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Figuration work
In drawing on the anthropology of policy and the work on ‘figures/figuration’ by feminist thinkers, the book offers a new way of conceptualizing large-scale processes of transformation. Offers perhaps the only ethnography of university reform addressing students’ shifting room for partic...
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Green encounters
Since the 1970s and 1980s, Monte Verde, Costa Rica has emerged as one of the most renowned sites of nature conservation and ecotourism in Costa Rica, and some would argue, Latin America. It has received substantial attention in literature and media on tropical conservation, sustainable developm...
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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...
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The manchester school
Pioneered by Max Gluckman to demonstrate the way in which social practice and structure together constitute and are themselves constituted by the situational flow of social life, the extended case method became diagnostic of the Manchester School of Social Anthropology. Anticipating practice th...
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A history shared and divided
Divided History uniquely explores how East and West Germany responded to the new challenges and crises of the 1970s, and reunification. Topics range from political, labor, and business issues to migration and environmental issues, showing how the two German states remained inextricably connecte...
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More than mere spectacle
More than Mere Spectacle brings together new research on the numerous coronations and inaugurations in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Habsburg Monarchy, examining why so many of them still took place, what political, legal, social, and cultural significance they bore, and how they adapt...
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