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France at war in the twentieth century
France experienced four major conflicts in the fifty years between 1914 and 1964: two world wars, and the wars in Indochina and Algeria. In each the role of myth was intricately bound up with memory, hope, belief, and ideas of nation. This is the first book to explore how individual myths were ...
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Between reform and revolution
The powerful impact of Socialism and Communism on modern German history is the theme which is explored by the contributors to this volume. Whereas previous investigations have tended to focus on political, intellectual and biographical aspects, this book captures, for the first time, the method...
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Europeanization in sweden
This volume brings together new empirical research into how the process of European integration has played out in Sweden. Europeanization in Sweden not only offers insights into how Europeanization is enacted on the ground, but also addresses the question of whether and how the “Swedish model” ...
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Celebrating ethnicity and nation
Arising out of the context of the re-configuration of Europe, new perspectives are applied by the authors of this volume to the process of nation-building in the United States. By focusing on a variety of public celebrations and festivities from the Revolution to the early twentieth century, th...
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Mitterrand, the end of the cold war, and german unification
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this important book explores the role of France in the events leading up to the end of the Cold War and German unification. Most accounts concentrate on the role of the United States and look at these events through the bipolar prism of Soviet-Ame...
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The herero genocide
Drawing on previously inaccessible and overlooked archival sources, The Herero Genocide undertakes a groundbreaking investigation into the war between colonizer and colonized in what was formerly German South West Africa and is today the nation of Namibia. The result is an indispensable account...
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Beyond habermas
A collection of essays on Habermas by a team of highly accomplished scholars Offers a detailed study of Habermas' early work The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere Explores the tension between politcal life and the emerging institutions of the Bourgeoisie of the 18th cen...
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Once upon a time is now
Fifty years after her first fieldwork with Ju/'hoan San hunter-gatherers, anthropologist Megan Biesele has written this exceptional memoir based on personal journals she wrote at the time.
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Deleuzian intersections
Science and technology studies, cultural anthropology and cultural studies deal with the complex relations between material, symbolic, technical and political practices. In a Deleuzian approach these relations are seen as produced in heterogeneous assemblages, moving across distinctions such as...
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Democracy in modern europe
As one of the most influential ideas in modern European history, democracy has reshaped not only the landscape of government, but also fundamental social and political thought on a global level. Democracy in Modern Europe covers the history of democracy in modern Europe.
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Race, color, identity
Contributes to the discussion over the attribution of inherent physiological traits to certain ethnic groups Opens up concepts of the relationship between the terms "color", "race" and "Jews" Addresses academic and social discourses that continue to place Jews and others in a race/co...
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History and belonging
One of the EU’s primary strategies in European unification has been to construct a common representation of European history, yet the question remains: is there an uncontested history of Europe? History and Belonging addresses this question along with many others related to the EU’s post-nation...
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Vehicles
A collection of ethnographic essays on the metaphoric significance of vehicles in different cultures Examines key issues in the study of objects, material culture and techniques Provides a new perspective on how vehicles are understood in relation to the dynamics of culture, politics...
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The world ahead
Born in the first year of the 20th century, it is fitting that Margaret Mead should have been one of the first anthropologists to use anthropological analysis to study the future course of human civilization. This volume collects, for the first time, her writings on the future of humanity and h...
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From weimar to hitler
This is the first edited volume on the Nazi seizure of power that spans the entire period from the end of the Brüning chancellorship in the late spring of 1932 though the Nazi consolidation of power in the Röhm purge of June 30, 1934. The essays offer a multitude of different perspective...
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Marriage and its obstacles 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...
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Made in egypt
A ground-breaking ethnography of an export-orientated factory in Egypt. Examines the dynamic relationships between the emergent Mubarak-bizniz (business) elites and the local realities of the daily lives of their young, educated, and mixed-gender labor force. Power, resistance, indiv...
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The problem of context
The apparently simple notion that it is contextualization and invocation of context that give form to our interpretations raises important questions about context definition. Moreover, different disciplines involved in the elucidation and interpretation of meanings construe context indifferent ...
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After corporate paternalism
In this ethnographic study of post-paternalist ruination and renovation, Christian Straube explores social change at the intersection of material decay and social disconnection in the former mine township Mpatamatu of Luanshya, one of the oldest mining towns on the Zambian Copperbelt.
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Cinema in service of the state
Comprehensive exploration of the postwar film cultures of both Czechoslovakia and the GDR. Situates these two national cinemas within the broader context of Eastern European film production as a whole. Uses a “stereoscopic” approach that traces their similarities and divergences to f...
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State, sovereignty, war
The very institution of the state is widely conceived of as inseparable from war. If it constitutes peace within the borders or order of its sovereignty, this very peace may be the condition for its potential for war with those other states and social formation outside it. This volume represent...
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Weimar radicals
Offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between Communism and Fascism a key problem of twentieth-century German history. Reconsiders the fateful relationship between the two great ideological competitors of the Weimar Republic, while offering a challenging new interpretation of th...
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Hunters and gatherers in the modern world
In an age of heightened awareness of the threat that western industrialized societies pose to the environment, hunters and gatherers attract particularly strong interest because they occupy the ecological niches that are constantly eroded. Despite the denial of sovereignty, the world's more tha...
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Keywords of mobility
First in-depth anthropological) discussion of the keywords used in mobility studies. Coherent approach, with an introductory chapter and two concluding afterwords. Agenda-setting volume for future research in mobility studies. Collection of the most innovative thinkers in the ant...
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Morals of legitimacy
With the growing fragmentation of western societies and disillusionment with the political process, the question of legitimacy has become one of the key issues of contemporary politics and is examined in this volume in depth for the first time. Drawing on ethnographic material from the U.S., Eu...
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The study of culture at a distance
The United States on the eve of the Second World War was still a society largely isolated from the world. Facing enemies with unfamiliar cultural traditions, the U.S. government turned to anthropologists for insight. The result was a research effort that continued long after the war, aimed, in ...
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Life as a hunt
Addresses the global conundrum of how to promote ‘sustainable conservation and biological diversity, especially under ‘weak governments. Portrays three generations of rural cultivators as they narrate their livelihoods’ struggles. Explains how they cope with changing bureaucratic re...
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Contemporary religiosities
The last decade has seen an unexpected return of the religious, and with it the creation of new kinds of social forms alongside new fusions of political and religious realms that high modernity kept distinct. For a fuller understanding of what this means for society in the context of globalizat...
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Probing the limits of categorization
This volume discusses a number of case studies addressing the history of bystanding during and after the Nazi era. Combining historiographical, conceptual and empirical contributions, Probing the Limits of Categorization explores the roles and experiences of individuals caught up in the dynamic...
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Cooling down
Climate change is a slowly advancing crisis sweeping over the planet and affecting different habitats in strikingly diverse ways. While nations have signed treaties and implemented policies, most actual climate change assessments, adaptations, and countermeasures take place at the local level. ...
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Jesus reclaimed
In this cross-cultural study the author compares Jewish and Christian discourses. Offers a historical account of Jewish perspectives on the Nazarene and the potential reasons for the recent increased interest in Jesus. Contrasts the Jewish quest for a historical Jesus against the har...
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Money in a human economy
Money is both a human universal and yet incredibly diverse, not one thing, but many The book combines ethnography, history, sociology and heterodox economics from multiple theoretical angles A human economy approach links people and their societies to the world; solutions to our main...
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Bush bound
Its empirical and theoretical treatment of immobility and sedentariness as neglected aspects in migration and mobility studies. No book-length work dedicated to immobility exists as yet. Unique in the analytical extent to which immobility and migration are shown to be intertwined and per...
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Waterworlds
The book sees the making and unmaking of people’s lives through the shared lens of water, yielding great comparative potential across different regions and approaches. Through the notion of waterworlds, the book addresses human and non-human actors as mutually constitutive. The book ...
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Travelling towards home
This collection brings ethnographic insight into the ever more topical question of homemaking, exploring a diverse range of socio-political contexts worldwide (from Jewish returnees from Israel to Ukraine to young gay South Asians in London) and provoking new understandings of the material and ...
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The journey of g. mastorna
The only available English-language translation of the script for Federico Fellini’s celebrated unmade film The Journey of G. Mastorna Includes an in-depth analysis of the circumstances surrounding the non-making of the film and of the script within the context of Fellini’s career A...
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Managing sacralities
What happens when religious sites, objects and practices become cultural heritage? Case studies from Denmark, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and the United Kingdom present an analysis of the paradoxes and challenges that arise when religious sites are transformed into heritage.
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Latin america and refugee protection
Looking at refugee protection in Latin America, this landmark edited collection assesses what the region has achieved in recent years. The book analyses Latin America’s main documents in refugee protection, evaluates the particular aspects of different regimes, and reviews their emergence, deve...
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Postwall german cinema
An important contribution to the growing body of literature on contemporary German film Challenges previous paradigms, and highlights engagement with historiographic forms and with film history itself
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Fierce medicines, fragile socialities
Comprehensive ethnographic case studies of people living with HIV and ARVs. In-depth observations of the infrastructural conditions and social dynamics shaping day-to-day work routines at Tanzanian HIV treatment centers. Focus on the financial and infrastructural fragilities of treat...
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Productive men and reproductive women
The debate on the origins of modern gender norms continues unabated across the academic disciplines. This book adds an important and hitherto neglected dimension. Focusing on rural life and its values, the author argues that the modern ideal of separate spheres originated in the era of the Enli...
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The kings and the pawns
The most encompassing representation of the phenomenon of Byelorussian collaboration during World War II Illumination of virtually unknownaspects in modern East European history Study basing on multiple sources in different languages
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Patrons of women
Assuming that women’s empowerment would accelerate the pace of social change in rural Nepal, the World Bank urged the Nepali government to undertake a “Gender Activities Project” within an ongoing long-term water-engineering scheme. The author, an anthropologist specializing in bureaucratic org...
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Identities
"Identity" has become a core concept of the social and cultural sciences. Bringing together perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, and literary criticism, this book offers a comprehensive and critical overview on how this concept is currently used and how it relates to ...
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