German public policy and federalism

Since unification German society and institutions have been challenged by various transformations and the need to adjust to changing conditions. While much has been accomplished, many political, legal, and institutional problems remain. This volume deals with selected aspects of domestic and Eu...

Kinship and beyond

The genealogical model has a long-standing history in Western thought. The contributors to this volume consider the ways in which assumptions about the genealogical model—in particular, ideas concerning sequence, essence, and transmission—structure other modes of practice and knowledge-making i...

Transactions and creations

In the early 21st century, intellectual and cultural resources emerge on all sides as candidates for ownership claims. Members of an anthropological research team investigating emergent conomic relations in a part of the world renowned for its innovative approach to resources and transactions, ...

Policy worlds

There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy making has progressively reached into the structure and fabric of everyday life. An instrument of modern government, policy and its processes provide an analytical window into systems of ...

A living past

First (and only) synthesis of modern (19c/20c) Latin American/Caribbean Environmental History. Brings together authors from 7 countries of the Americas (Canada, US, Mexico, Cuba, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador). Combines diverse frameworks/approaches: History, Geography, History of Scienc...

Risk on the table

From the proliferation of synthetic additives to the threat posed by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the chapters in Risk on the Table zero in on key historical cases in North America and Europe that illuminate the history of food safety, highlighting the powerful tension that exists between pol...

Nature wars

Made up of 10 of Roy Ellen’s finest articles along with a new introduction linking them together, this book looks back at his ideas about nature before taking the arguments forward. Many of the chapters focus on research the author has conducted amongst the Nuaulu people of eastern Indonesia.

Conceptual history in the european space

The volume is the first comprehensive revisiting of conceptual history on a European scale It is also the first volume to consider the spatial and temporal dimensions of making comparisons of concepts across the whole of Europe. The volume also brings to bear diverse methods of analy...

Culture wars

The relationship between anthropologists’ ethnographic investigations and the lived social worlds in which these originate is a fundamental issue for anthropology. Where some claim that only native voices may offer authentic accounts of culture and hence that ethnographers are only ever interpr...

The neoliberal landscape and the rise of islamist capital in turkey

The contributors to this volume offer a detailed history on the Turkish economy and the rise of Islamist capitalism. This study explores the underlying tensions behind the Taksim Square conflicts. Argues that capitalism is the driving force behind the division of the Turkish Bourgeoi...

Ethical consumption

Increasingly, consumers in North America and Europe see their purchasing as a way to express to the commercial world their concerns about trade justice, the environment and similar issues. This ethical consumption has attracted growing attention in the press and among academics. Extending beyon...

Puzzling stories

Many films and novels defy our ability to make sense of the plot. Puzzling Stories offers the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and trans-medial approach to the question of cognitive challenge in narrative art, bringing together psychological, philosophical, formal-historical, and empiric...

Communities of complicity

A description of everyday life in contemporary rural China based on 18 months of observation, surveys, and interviews Illustrates how people construct their own senses of their lives and futures through their work, celebrating marriages and funerals , and building their houses Descri...

The event of charlie hebdo

Investigates how the attacks unveil themselves in the field of representations, and which material consequences these representations may bring about. Looks at how an event is produced, and how it can achieve a wide resonance. Critically addresses egalitarian concepts such as democra...

Kingdom on mount cameroon

The Bakweri people of Mount Cameroon, an active volcano on the coast of West Africa a few degrees north of the equator, have had a varied and at times exciting history which has brought them into contact, not only with other West African peoples, but with merchants, missionaries, soldiers and a...

Nameless relations

Based on the author's fieldwork at assisted conception clinics in England in the mid-1990s, this is the first ethnographic study of the new procreative practices of anonymous ova and embryo donation. Giving voice to both groups of women participating in the demanding donation experience – the d...

Ownership and nurture

The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia. Sets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about the region and about property in general. Demonstrates that property relations are of central importance in A...

Two lives in uncertain times

Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Wilma and Georg Iggers came from different backgrounds, Wilma from a Jewish farming family from the German-speaking border area of Czechoslovakia, Georg from a Jewish business family from Hamburg. They both escape...

Constructing risk

Reviewing current policies and practices, the book assesses the financial, economic and physical risk of building in hazardous areas, and looks at how societies are trying to create a more resilient built environment in spite of the dangers.

Godless intellectuals?

Establishes connection between Durkheimian sociology and poststructuralism both textually and sociologically Presents a revolutionary re-reading of an important part of 20th century French intellectual history Provides a sociological theory for understanding intellectual work and liv...

Dynamics of memory and identity in contemporary europe

Combines theoretical sophistication with penetrating case studies. One of the first books to tackle Europeanization dynamics as they pertain to collective memories. A pan-European approach with cases from all regions of the continent. Takes the study of collective memory forward ...

Culture and politics

With "race" being discredited as a rallying cry for populist movements because of the atrocities committed in its name during World War II, "culture" has been adopted by right-wing groups instead, but used in the same exclusionary manner as racism was. This volume examines the essentialism, whi...

Launching the grand coalition

This edited volume, which brings together the leading experts in German politics from around the US and Germany, combines rich descriptive data with insightful analyses regarding one of the most dramatic and important election years in postwar Germany. A variety of more specialized issues and p...

Coping with the nazi past

Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Based on careful, intensive research in primary sources, many of these essays break new ground in our understanding of a crucial and tumultuous period. The contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, offe...

The politics of education

Although the early history of progressive education is often associated with John Dewey in America, the author argues convincingly that the pedagogues in the elementary schools in the big cities of Imperial Germany were in the avant garde of this movement on the European Continent. Far more tha...

Genocide and settler society

Colonial Genocide has been seen increasingly as a stepping-stone to the European genocides of the twentieth century, yet it remains an under-researched phenomenon. This volume reconstructs instances of Australian genocide and for the first time places them in a global context. Beginning with th...

Voices on war and genocide

The world of children

In an era of technological advances and rapidly increasing international exchange, how did young Germans come to understand the world beyond their doorstep? Bringing together contributions from specialists in historical, literary, and cultural studies, this is a fascinating kaleidoscopic explor...

European foundations of the welfare state

Sets out a theory of the welfare state Portrays the welfare state as a political project embedded in European culture Disentangles the interaction of politics, economy and households in social welfare Assesses the welfare state's achievements and current challenges

Gendering modern german history

Writing on the history of German women has - like women's history elsewhere - undergone remarkable expansion and change since it began in the late 1960s. Today Women's history still continues to flourish alongside gender history but the focus of research has increasingly shifted from women to g...

Dreams made small

Dreams Made Small offers an in-depth, ethnographic look at journeys of education among young Papuans under Indonesian rule, ultimately revealing how dreams of transformation, equality, and belonging are shaped and reshaped in the face of multiple constraints.

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...

Ethnoarchaeology of andean south america

The papers in this volume present detailed studies of highland and lowland pastoralists and horticulturalists in Andean South America, including taphonomy and sacred landscapes. This volume will be of use to anyone who studies human adaptations to highland or arid environments, and to those int...

The france of the little-middles

Makes a significant contribution to social class analysis by introducing the “little middle” class category, typified by neighborhood residents, and their particular experience of class mobility. In complement to the substantial social science literature analyzing the experience of immig...

Theatres of violence

Covers the history of massacre and mass violence, which are under-researched areas Offers a wide range of case studies of massacre and mass killing from the ancient to the modern world The first book to build on Mark Levene and Penny Roberts'  ground breaking 1999 study of massacre i...

The limits of meaning

Too often, anthropological accounts of ritual leave readers with the impression that everything goes smoothly, that rituals are "meaningful events." But what happens when rituals fail, or when they seem "meaningless"? Drawing on research in the anthropology of Christianity from around the globe...

Planning for the planet

In the 1960s and 1970s, rapidly growing environmental awareness and concern not only led to widespread calls for new policies, but also created unprecedented demand for ecological expertise by the likes of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. This book explores how conservati...

Being a sperm donor

First book length ethnography on (Danish) sperm donors Bringing medical anthropology/sociology in dialogue with queer-feminist analyses of gender and sexuality In depth insights into the interplay between male identity and (reproductive) biomedicine

Boro, l'île d'amour

An introduction and guide to the complex work of Polish film director Walerian Borowczyk. Allows scholars to gain access to previously unnoticed aspects of Borowczyk's body of work.

Re-imagining defa

International experts take stock of the renaissance of interest in East German cinema and plot an ambitious course for future research. Considers other cinematic traditions, brings genre and popular works into the fold, and encompasses DEFA’s complex post-unification “afterlife.”

Oligarchs and oligopolies

As corporate practices are becoming more fused with state processes, the state itself is increasingly taking on a corporate structure, as well as a more overt oligarchic character. Evidence of this can be seen in the growing domination of political organizations and institutions by close-knit s...

Food health

Provides in-depth analysis and comprehensive review of methods necessary to design, plan, implement and analyze public health programming using anthropological best practices. Each chapter elaborates a case study from the author's own work, showing why particular methods were adopted in ...

Velvet retro

This innovative study develops the concept of “retro” to describe the nuanced and ironic depiction of the past as seen in Czech popular culture. It locates a distinctively retro aesthetic in Czech literature, film, and other cultural forms, enriching our understanding of not only the nation’s m...

Moral engines

What fundamentally drives human beings to strive for moral perfection? Is it care of the self?  Is it care for others? Is it inextricably wedded to politics? Moral Engines includes some of the foremost voices in the anthropology of morality, representing a unique interdisciplinary conversation ...