Embodying borders

Based on extensive field research, the essays in this volume illuminate the experiences of migrants from their own point of view, providing a critical understanding of the complex social reality in which each experience is grounded.

Ultimate ambiguities

A volume on death, specifically addressing liminality. Inter-disciplinary in focus. Presents a range of case studies outlining emotional, artistic, cognitive, social and political implications.

Social dna

Social DNA presents a new synthesis of ideas on human social origins based upon the evolution of behavioral plasticity and the process of multilevel selection. What set our ancestors off on a separate evolutionary trajectory – what made them human – was the ability to flex their reproductive an...

Global migrants, global refugees

In recent years, several influential commentators have stated or strongly implied that the advanced industrial democracies are today being overwhelmed by a host of problems - including rapid population growth, the breakup of multi-ethnic states, environmental degredation, and increasing economi...

Czechs, germans, jews?

The phenomenon of national identities, always a key issue in the modern history of Bohemian Jewry, was particularly complex because of the marginal differences that existed between the available choices. Considerable overlap was evident in the programs of the various national movements and it w...

Adventures in aidland

Concerned with the construction and transmission of knowledge about global poverty and its reduction Describes the social life of development professionals, the capacity of ideas to mediate relationships, the networks of experts and communities of aid workers, and the dilemmas of maintai...

Authority, identity and the social history of the great war

The unprecedented scope and intensity of the First World War has prompted an enormous body of retrospective scholarship. However, efforts to provide a coherent synthesis about the war's impact and significance have remained circumscribed, tending to focus either on the operational outlines of m...

Basic and applied research

The book applies conceptual history to the analysis of science policy and public discourses on science, technology and innovation. The book demonstrates that and how concepts determine the conceptual space of science policy around the globe. The book is a unique contribution to both ...

Reconstructing obesity

Draws on ethnographic methods to consider the impact of cultural differences, embodiment and local knowledge on understanding obesity Reconstructs how obesity and fatness are studied Examines the understanding of obesity in a range of geographic locations including Australia, the Uni...

Anthropology and political science

Compares concepts and methodologies of the two disciplines Highlights the contributions of each discipline for the other Discusses previous troubled relationship Demonstrates "added value" of a convergent approach

Nourishing the nation

I thoroughly explore the connection between national identity (especially everyday nationalism) and food from an ethnographic perspective, a new approach in social sciences This is an in-depth ethnography into the contemporary situation in Catalonia, which gives greater, in-depth insight...

Imagining the post-apartheid state

The book offers an anthropological contribution to a wider, multi-disciplinary debate relating to ‘the state’ and state process. The book addresses and expands upon a new and growing area of anthropological interest by helping to define that which might constitute an ‘ethnography of the ...

How enemies are made

In popular perception cultural differences or ethnic affiliation are factors that cause conflict or political fragmentation although this is not borne out by historical evidence. This book puts forward an alternative conflict theory. The author develops a decision theory which explains the cond...

Imperial germany 1871-1918

A comprehensive history of German society in this period, providing a broad survey of its development. The volume is thematically organized and designed to give easy access to the major topics and issues of the Bismarkian and Wilhelmine eras. The statistical appendix contains a wide range of so...

Heritage under socialism

Heritage under Socialism enriches the conceptual, methodological and empirical scope of heritage studies. Its transnational approach highlights the socialist world’s diverse interpretations of heritage and its trajectories in post-socialist preservation practices, thus providing new perspective...

Dancing cultures

This volume introduces the reader to the anthropology of dance with a comprehensive introduction followed by a set of innovative and wide-ranging case studies.The introduction provides a very comprehensive review of the anthropology of dance since the early 20th century. This is the firs...

Vanished history

Comparative analysis of Czech and Slovak historical cultures. First analysis of the Holocaust Memory in Czech and Slovak historical cultures. New perspective on Oskar Schindler in the context of the “Sudeten German” minority in Czechoslovakia. View of a construction of ...

Death and euthanasia 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...

Shakespeare and money

Though better known for his literary merits, Shakespeare made money, wrote about money and enabled money-making by countless others in his name. With chapters by leading scholars on the economic, financial and commercial ramifications of his work, this multifaceted volume connects the Bard to b...

How materials matter

Explores how design and innovation shape people’s lives in the Pacific. Focusing on plant materials from the region, it reveals ways in which a variety of people – from craftswomen and scientists to architects and politicians – work with materials to transform worlds.

Global exchanges

The first comprehensive book on the history of scholarship programs A book which takes into account all geographic areas A book focusing on the human dimension of scholarship programs A book that investigates the political, economic, and cultural interests involved in exchanges

Black lambs and grey falcons

During the 19th century the Balkan countries became the subject of a rather romantic fascination for the public at large. This vision of the area has been created in large measure by the writing of women travelers such as those represented in this volume. The achievements of these women are qui...

Cosmos, gods and madmen

Introduction of cosmology into medical anthropology as a useful concept through which to examine mental illness and health, a concept that also bridges some of the divisions between what is considered ‘medical’ and ‘religious’. Range of ethnographic examples based on original research da...

Plants, health and healing

Plants have cultural histories, as their applications change over time and with place. Some plant species have affected human cultures in profound ways, such as the stimulants tea and coffee from the Old World, or coca and quinine from South America. Even though medicinal plants have always att...

Imperial projections

The first in-depth analysis of colonial filmmaking in the Wilhelmine era. Describes how the beginning of film-making in the German Colonies addressed the demand for a new and positive image for Germany.

The quest for economic empire

German unification evoked ambivalent reactions outside its borders: it revived disquietingmemories of attempts by German big business during the two world wars to build an economic empire in Europe in conjunction with the military and the government bureaucracy. But thereare also high hopes tha...

Parliament and parliamentarism

This cross-disciplinary collection locates the essence of parliamentarism in four key aspects—deliberation, representation, responsibility, and sovereignty. Explores the different ways in which they have been contested, reshaped, and implemented in a series of representative national and...

Eastern europe unmapped

Arguably more than any other world regions, the area known as Eastern Europe has been defined by its location on the map. Rather than expound on borders and neighbors, Eastern Europe Unmapped raises questions about the meaning and relevance of the area’s non-contiguous, frequently global or ext...

Indigenous medicine among the bedouin in the middle east

First native anthropologist to discover tribal secrets of traditional medicine. Unique data on medicine among pastoral-nomadic, semi-nomadic, and settled tribes. Healers and clients tell their stories. Synthesis between traditional and bio-medicine to/for their reciprocal enrichm...

Explorations in psychoanalytic ethnography

Evidence and meaning

Comprehensive theory of historical studies, covering the whole field of metahistory, methodology of historical research, theory of historical culture and history didactics

From fidelity to history

Approaches “literature to film” debates in a new way, focusing upon the historical dimensions of adaptation. Considers historical adaptations as a special kind of reception. Offers rich case studies of historical and transnational film adaptations such as The Third Man (1949) and Sen...

The surplus woman

The first German women’s movement embraced the belief in a demographic surplus of unwed women, known as the Frauenüberschuß, as a central leitmotif in the campaign for reform. Proponents of the female surplus held that the advances of industry and urbanization had upset traditional marriage pat...

The camino de santiago

Comprises an interpretative synthesis of heritage planning and management and gives critical attention to the contributions of church, state and civil society in this endeavour. The author is very well-known among Camino enthuisiasts and has walked every route that leads to Santiago (Fra...

The kinning of foreigners

Since the late nineteen sixties, transnational adoption has emerged as a global phenomenon. Due to a sharp decline in infants being made available for adoption locally, involuntarily childless couples in Western Europe and North America who wish to create a family, have to look to look to count...

Coping with tourists

Once content to sunbathe and follow guides and established itineraries, tourists are increasingly seeking authentic culture. This is taking them into the private areas and zones to which the locals retire in order to escape the tourist gaze, creating tensions between the two groups. Based on re...

Italian neofascism

During the Cold War Italy witnessed the existence of an anomalous version of a civil conflict, defined as a 'creeping' or a 'low-intensity' civil war. Political violence escalated, including bomb attacks against civilians, starting with a massacre in Milan, on 12 December 1969, and culminating ...

Religion and science as forms of life

Explores the interface between science and religion in contemporary society. Details the contradictions between the two, particularly in an age of scientific knowledge. Draws on a range of ethnographic, empirical and theoretical sources. Explores the various social and cultural m...

From clans to co-ops

One of the 3-4 monographs in anthropology specifically on cooperatives and cooperative labour. The first ethnography of the agrarian antimafia movement. The first study to offer an account of antimafia cooperatives. An economic anthropology that explores cooperation in labour and coo...

European memories of the second world war

During the fifty years since the end of hostilities, European literary memories of the war have undergone considerable change, influenced by the personal experiences of writers as well as changing political, social, and cultural factors. This volume examines changing ways of remembering the war...

Affective states

The volume enhances the anthropological understanding of the various ways through which the state comes to be experienced as a visceral presence in social life.

Debating authenticity

All contributions are based on field research in Europe, Africa, Arabic Peninsula, Latin America, North America Authenticity is debated in various subfields, in particular: visual arts, popular culture, material culture, music, tourism, religion, colonial history. Scholars with affil...

Judging 'privileged' jews

The first study to focus directly on the issue of how ‘privileged’ Jews are judged and represented. Offers a multi-disciplinary examination of Holocaust representation across different media/genres. Explores seminal Holocaust texts (the writings of Primo Levi and Raul Hilberg, along ...

Conflicted memories

Despite the growing interest in general European history, the European dimension is surprisingly absent from the writing of contemporary history. In most countries, the historiography on the 20th century continues to be dominated by national perspectives. Although there is cross-national work o...