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German minorities in europe
The study of ethnic minorities and their role in the domestic politics of their host states has long attracted scholars from a wide range of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. By contrast, national (or external) minorities, have been under-represented in the literature on ethnic...
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The anthroposcene of weather and climate
While it is widely acknowledged that climate change is among the greatest global challenges of our times, it has local implications too. This volume forefronts these, giving anthropology a voice in this great debate, which natural scientists and policy makers have dominated thus far.
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Democracy's paradox
Does populism indicate a radical crisis in Western democratic political systems? Is it a revolt by those who feel they have too little voice in the affairs of state or are otherwise marginalized or oppressed? Or are populist movements part of the democratic process?
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Screening nature
The first comprehensive work that groups together concerns in the field of cinema and the environment with a specific emphasis on “posthuman cinema” An extensive resource for teachers, undergraduate students, and more advanced scholars on the intersections between film and the natural wo...
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The participants
While the Wannsee-Conference is widely seen to be a turning point in holocaust history, its participants have been often overlooked Unique glimpse of the individual Nazi perpetrators Sociology of Nazi administration, its networks and deadlocks
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Cultural borders of europe
The essays in this anthology address processes of defining European cultural borders, as well as their dependence on – and relation to – various kinds of European belonging and national identity. By proceeding from cultural borders as the object of investigation, we open the door to a range ...
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Nationalism and the cinema in france
Original research informs each chapter, addressing film reception, including classics and popular culture often ignored. Re-reads work from major figures including: Truffaut, Godard, Lelouch, Sautet, Renoir, Pagnol and others. First sustained analysis of nationalism in French cinema ...
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Political graffiti in critical times
With a particular eye to the demographic, ecological, and economic crises of today, this volume provides a wide-ranging exploration of urban space and visual protest during periods of social and political upheaval. Assembling case studies that cover topics such as gentrification in Cyprus and t...
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The politics of egalitarianism
The essays assembled in this book exemplify the way political anthropologists address a range of problems that deeply affect people throughout the world. The authors draw their inspiration from the work of Canadian anthropologist Richard B. Lee, and, like him, they are concerned with understand...
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The massacre in history
The role of massacre in history has been given little focused attention either by historians or academics in related fields. This is surprising as its prevalence and persistence surely demands that it should be a subject of serious and systematic exploration. What exactly is a massacre? When - ...
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Blood and oranges
A compelling account of the intersection of globalization and neo-racism in a rural Greek community, this book describes the contradictory political and economic development of the Greek countryside since its incorporation into the European Union, where increased prosperity and social liberaliz...
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Going first class?
People travel as never before. However, anthropological research has tended to focus primarily on either labor migration or on tourism. In contrast, this collection of essays explores a diversity of circumstances and impetuses towards contemporary mobility. It ranges from expatriates to peripat...
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Beyond rationalism
This book seeks a reconsideration of the phenomenon of sorcery and related categories. The contributors to the volume explore the different perspectives on human sociality and social and political constitution that practices typically understood as sorcery, magic and ritual reveal. In doing so ...
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Multiple medical realities
Nowadays a plethora of treatment technologies is available to the consumer, each employing a variety of concepts of the body, self, sickness and healing. This volume explores the options, strategies and consequences that are both relevant and necessary for patients and practitioners who are man...
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Sense and essence
Contrary to popular perceptions, cultural heritage is not given, but constantly in the making, subject to dynamic processes of (re)inventing culture within particular social formations and via particular forms of mediation. Through the heuristic concepts of the "politics of authentication" and ...
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Living before dying
In-depth life in a nursing home Researcher worked alongside care assistants Long-term observation of people with dementia Insight into residential care for people with dementia and their relatives
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France and the construction of europe, 1944-2007
In the second half of the twentieth century France played the greatest role - even greater than Germany’s - in shaping what eventually became the European Union. By the early twenty-first century, however, in a hugely transformed Europe, this era had patently come to an end. This comprehensive ...
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Shakespeare and creative criticism
What kinds of critical insights are made possible only or especially via creative strategies? This volume examines how creative modes of writing might facilitate or inform new ways to critically engage with Shakespeare.
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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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Sustainability and communities of place
The concept of sustainability holds that the social, economic, and environmental factors within human communities must be viewed interactively and systematically. Sustainable development cannot be understood apart from a community, its ethos, and ways of life. Although broadly conceived, the pu...
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Making bodies kosher
Integrates archival and ethnographic material to explore healthcare concerns over time Original study of Haredi Jews in the UK, whereas most focus on Israel or the USA Explores the continuum of maternity care & child health in a ‘hard to reach’ minority
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Alsace to the alsatians?
Demonstrates the importance of overlapping forms of community in the creation of identity. Argues that the character of Alsatian regionalism points to the ambiguous role of regional identity in both fostering and inhibiting loyalty to the nation. Author uses the case of Alsace to exp...
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Selling the economic miracle
Through an examination of election campaign propaganda and various public relations campaigns, reflecting new electioneering techniques borrowed from the United States, this work explores how conservative political and economic groups sought to construct and sell a political meaning of the Soci...
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The bounded field
Regionalism is one of the most debated issues in contemporary western Europe. Yet why the region, rather than the nation state, can have such a strong appeal for the construction of social and political identity remains largely unexplored. Drawing on data collected in the mountainous Trentino r...
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The southeast asia connection
Over world history, Southeast Asia’s contribution to the world economy (during the late prehistoric and early historic periods) has not been given much attention. This book attempts to recalibrate these interactions of Southeast Asia with other parts of the world economy, and gives the region i...
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Shakespeare and stratford
As the site of literary pilgrimage since the eighteenth century, the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the topic of hundreds of imaginary portrayals, Stratford is ripe for analysis, both in terms of its factual existence and its fictional afterlife.
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The challenge of epistemology
Epistemology poses particular problems for anthropologists whose task it is to understand manifold ways of being human. Through their work, anthropologists often encounter people whose ideas concerning the nature and foundations of knowledge are at odds with their own. Going right to the heart ...
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A social history of europe, 1945-2000
Focuses on the fundamental challenges European societies underwent in the second half of the twentieth century Explores what divides Europeans, what unites them, and what sets them apart from the rest of the world An important addition for library collections and an important volume ...
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Symbiosis and ambivalence
In Poland and elsewhere there has been a noticeable increase of interest in various aspects of the Polish-Jewish past which can be explained, the author argues, in terms of a broader intellectual need to explore the "blank spots" of Poland's national history. This quest begins and ends with Pol...
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Agent of change
Drawn from across the U.S. and Mesoamerica, the chapters in this volume explore the use, meanings, and cross-cultural patterns present in the use of ash. and highlight the importance of ash in ritual closure, social memory, and cultural transformation.
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A new african elite
Focusing on a sub-set of the Dagomba of northern Ghana, this book looks at the first generation to go through secondary school in the north. This book charts their path into elite status and argues that this generation uses the tools gained through education and social connections to influence ...
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Nation branding in modern history
New theme: nation branding and history New approach: introduces a new way of thinking about nation self-projection in the international arena Comparison: a comparative book on the history of nation branding – there is none to date Intercontinental approach: that comparison reache...
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The emperor's old clothes
Constitutional history as history of rituals. History of German political culture and its changes 1500-1800. Symbolic communication in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Micro-historical perspective on early modern political history.
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Up, down, and sideways
It is the definitive work summarizing and applying Laura Nader’s anthropological theories. It provides contemporary anthropological examples of "studying up, down, and sideways". It demonstrates how anthropology can be used to address urgent 21st century challenges. It addresses ...
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Anthropology, nationalism and colonialism
One of the first in-depth analyses of the Porto School of Anthropology and the work of its central figure – Mendes Correia – during the first half of the twentieth century. There is no single-authored book on this phase of anthropology in Portugal that takes into account aspects of the i...
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The hadrami diaspora
In-depth assessment of Hadrami identity, social order and religious change Provides detailed analysis of Hadrami communities both within and outside Yemen Highlights the complexity of the diasporic process Describes links betwen Hadrami migrants from Yemen and from the Indian Oce...
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The greek exodus from egypt
First study covering the history of the Greeks in Egypt (the biggest foreign community in that country from the mid 19th to mid 20th centuries). Exhaustive archival research in several countries. Challenging the existing historical narrative claiming Greeks constituted a well off com...
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Theorising media and conflict
Theorising Media and Conflict brings together anthropologists as well as media and communication scholars to collectively address the elusive and complex relationship between media and conflict. Practitioners, policymakers, students and scholars who wish to understand the lived realities and dy...
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Property and equality
The ethnography of egalitarian social systems was first met with sheer disbelief. Today it is still hotly debated in a number of fields and has gained sophistication as well as momentum. This collection of essays on "property and equality" acknowledges this diversification by presenting researc...
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Contemporary pagan and native faith movements in europe
The first book to focus on modern Pagan and Native Faith movements throughout Europe, from the Irish Republic to Siberia, and from Scandinavia to Iberia. The first work of any kind to address the twin themes of neo-colonialism and neo-nationalism within these movements. Through detai...
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The sound of silence
Combining Sámi perspectives and other Indigenous archaeologies Offers new perspectives for understanding the role of material culture in transformation of indigenous cultures in colonial contact Emphasizes local and indigenous histories and interpretations over Eurocentric ones
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Immigration admissions
There is general agreement today that traditional approaches to immigration admissions in the major receiving countries of the West have serious shortcomings either in concept or implementation, or at times in both. These essays, all written by leading immigration experts, consider the philosop...
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Playing with the past
Heritage is all around us, not just in monuments and museums, but in places that matter, the countryside and in collections and stories. It touches all of us. How do we decide what to preserve? And how do we make the case for heritage when there are so many other priorities? Playing with the Pa...
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The myth of self-reliance
This book represents a pioneering attempt to reveal the diverse realities of refugees’ economic survival in a protracted refugee camp through the collation and analysis of original and up-to-date empirical materials. Based on multi-sited fieldwork in West Africa over several years, the b...
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