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...

U.s. foreign policy and the other

Investigates American identity and its effect on foreign relations. Systematic review of US foreign policy and their principal conceptions of the ‘Other’ that have animated US culture and discourse. Examines foreign relations over three centuries Excavates US cultural and diploma...

The end of the berlusconi era?

While Italian politics may appear on the surface to be evolving towards a Westminster model with right- and left-wing blocs alternating in power, this impression is belied by the often nervous and disconnected way in which events unfolded in 2005. In some respects, 2005 was a classic pre-electo...

Changing sex and bending gender

Anthropologists and historians have shown us that 'male' and 'female' are variously defined historically and cross-culturally. The contributions to this volume focus on the voluntary and involuntary, temporary or permanent transformation of gender identity. Overall, this volume provides powerfu...

Invisible faces and hidden stories

Dealing with narratives of vulnerable populations, this book looks at how they deal with dimensions of their social life, especially in regards to health. It reflects the socio-political ecologies like public hostility and stereotyping, neglect of their unique health needs, their courage to ove...

Palimpsestic memory

Proposes a new model for understanding cultural memory based on the principle of the palimpsest which condenses different memory traces. Challenges the distinction between memories of the Holocaust and memories of colonialism. Offers new readings of familiar post-war novels and films...

Crisis and renewal in france, 1918-1962

Since 1914, the French state has faced a succession of daunting and at times almost insurmountable crises. The turbulent decades from 1914 to 1969 witnessed near-defeat in 1914, economic and political crisis in 1926, radical political polarization in the 1930s, military conquest in 1940, the de...

Themes in french culture

Margaret Mead collaborated with her long-time colleague Rhoda Métraux in this unique study of French culture. The Hoover Institute at Stanford University originally published this volume, which grew out of the Columbia University project on Research of Contemporary Cultures in 1954. It is one o...

The new face of political cinema

Since 1995 there has been a widespread return of commitment to French cinema taking it to a level unmatched since the heady days following 1968. But this new wave of political film is very different and urgently calls out for an analysis that will account for its development, its formal charact...

Young men in uncertain times

International range of cross cultural cases Context driven Ethnographically rich

Extremism, society, and the state

This collected volume brings together leading anthropologists and cultural analysts to offer a concise look at the narratives, symbolic, and metaphoric fields related to extremism, systemitizing an approach to contemporary extremism by placing these idealogies into historical, political, and ge...

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.

The indoctrination of the wehrmacht

Other studies look at the indoctrination of the Wehrmacht, and numerous studies look at the war crimes of the Wehrmacht.  However, this study is different in that it focuses much more closely on the indoctrination of the Wehrmacht than previous studies, but perhaps more importantly, it views...

Gray zones

Few essays about the Holocaust are better known or more important than Primo Levi’s reflections on what he called “the gray zone,” a reality in which moral ambiguity and compromise were pronounced. In this volume accomplished Holocaust scholars, among them Raul Hilberg, Gerhard L. Weinberg, Chr...

Immigration policy in the federal republic of germany

Up-to-date synthetic overview of modern German citizenship and migration policy Strong historical dimension Interdisciplinary (e.g. law, history, public policy & political science)

Theatre and war 1933-1945

On an April evening in 1934, on the River Arno in Florence, an air squadron, an infantry, a cavalry brigade, fifty trucks, four field and machine gun batteries, ten field radio stations, and six photoelectric units presented a piece of theatre. The mass spectacle, 18 BL involved over two thousa...

Islam and new kinship

Assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization have provoked global controversy and ethical debate. This book provides a groundbreaking investigation into those debates in the Islamic Middle East, simultaneously documenting changing ideas of kinship and the evolving role of r...

Final sale in berlin

The book has many unusual case studies but is not a case study in itself, it draws on a real mountain of material. The database the book is based on is accessible to all readers (www2.hu-berlin.de/djgb). For a German study it is – everyone says – really well written. The study ma...

Marxism and film activism

This collection examines how filmmakers have tried to change the world by engaging in emancipatory politics in their work, and how audiences have received them. It presents a wide spectrum of case studies, covering both film and digital technology. Discussions range from the classic ...

The long way home

Indigenous peoples have long sought the return of ancestral human remains and associated artifacts from western museums and scientific institutions. Since the late 1970s their efforts have led museum curators and researchers to re-evaluate their practices and policies in respect to the scientif...

A poet or nothing at all

The most original, new work on Hesse in many years and the definitive study of the young Herman Hesse, offering much previously unknown material such as his "neo-Romantic" poetry of which two dozen are published here for the first time in the original.

The state and the grassroots

First study of immigrant organizations conducted in the U.S. and Europe. First comparative study of immigrant organizations conducted with the same research methodology.       First study to focus explicitly on the relation between immigrant organizations and development in sending c...

Conceptualizing religion

How might we transform a folk category - in this case religion - into a analytical category suitable for cross-cultural research? In this volume, the author addresses that question. He critically explores various approaches to the problem of conceptualizing religion, particularly with respect t...

Class and other identities

With the onset of a more conservative political climate in the 1980s, social and especially labour history saw a decline in the popularity that they had enjoyed throughout the 1960s and 1970s. This led to much debate on its future and function within the historical discipline as a whole. Some c...

Crude domination

Deeply ethnographic New "domination" theoretical approach Geographically broad (Africa, Latin America, Eurasia) Examines global/local connections in novel manner

Researching food habits

The term 'Anthropology of Food' has become an accepted abbreviation for the study of anthropological perspectives on food, diet and nutrition, an increasingly important subdivision of anthropology that encompasses a rich variety of perspectives, academic approaches, theories, and methods. Its m...

The hidden history of crime, corruption, and states

No other volume covers the collusion of lawmakers and lawbreakers in state formation over 300 years touching on each continent. Contributing scholars meld history and anthropology. Introduction offers a political economy theoretical perspective.  The topic is very timely. 

Hitler's war in the east, 1941-1945. (3rd edition)

This volume provides a guide to the extensive literature on the war in the East, including largely unknown Soviet writing on the subject. Indispensable for military historians, but also for all scholars who approach this crucial period in world history from a socio-economic or cultural perspect...

Anthropology and public service

Many anthropologists are now finding jobs in commercial organizations or in government. This volume shows how anthropologists can set new agendas, and revise old ones in the public sector. Included are discussions of anthropologists’ work with the Department for International Development, the M...

Sacred places, emerging spaces

‘Folk’ sacred places (informality, hybridity) Contemporary multi-religious / multi-ethnic societies in the Caucasus Social meaning of pilgrimage and its transformation Practices of Sharing and Non-Sharing Diversity of field sites: rural & urban; North and South Caucasus (...

The spirit of the laws

Examines the confiscation of Armenian properties during the Genocide and subsequent attempts to retain seized Armenian wealth. Reveals that decrees issued during the Genocide constitute central pillars of the Turkish system of property rights, retaining their legal validity. Demonstr...

Care across distance

Geographic scope: While the majority of other works focus on one or two regions of the world (e.g., India; Peru and Italy; Australia), this volume is uniquely ambitious in its vast geographical reach, since it includes in-depth, ethnographically collected data from five different (sub-)conti...

A fragmented landscape

A comprehensive, interdisciplinary survey of the struggles over abortion rights in Europe since 1945. An analysis of the strategies and discourses of groups seeking to liberalize or restrict reproductive rights.

Witches and demons

The first published work on children accused of witchcraft in Europe. Based on ethnographic research. Comprehensive use of research data. The work uses research data. The chapters concern UK.

Race in france

Scholars across disciplines on both sides of the Atlantic have recently begun to open up, as never before, the scholarly study of race and racism in France. These original essays bring together in one volume new work in history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and legal studies. Eac...

Globalization

The effects of globalization have led to accentuated social inequality in most first-world countries, above all the U.S. and U.K. International trade and capital flows have tended to redistribute income in ways that aggravate inequality in advanced industrialized nations where relative income l...

States of imitation

Changes in the air

It’s the first “hurricane history” of New Orleans It covers all three of the city’s historical eras: French (1718-1762), Spanish (1762-1800) and American (1803-present) based on primary sources It features the first comprehensive history of the New Orleans levees from the French colo...

Cinemas of boyhood

Drawing from political sociology, pop psychology, and film studies, Cinemas of Boyhood features an eclectic range of films from British and Indian cinemas to silent Hollywood and the new Hollywood of the 1980s, culminating in a comprehensive overview of the diverse concerns surrounding represen...

Rethinking migration

With the increasing worldwide problems of migration, research into its causes and effects become ever more urgent. This volume takes stock of recent advancements that social science research in both Europe and the United States has made to understanding central aspects of international migratio...

Representing 21st-century migration in europe

The 21st century has witnessed some of the largest human migrations in history. Europe in particular has seen a major influx of refugees, redefining notions of borders and national identity. This interdisciplinary volume offers innovative interpretations of contemporary migration to Europe, eng...

Michael haneke's cinema

Existing critical traditions fail to fully account for the impact of Austrian director, and 2009 Cannes Palm d'Or winner, Michael Haneke’s films, situated as they are between intellectual projects and popular entertainments. In this first English-language introduction to, and critical analysis ...

Violent becomings

It is theoretically original in its insistence on radical reading of state formation as related to violence and irreducible to the formal state apparatus. It is a long-term study of transformations – building on fieldwork from 1998 onwards – which surpasses a number of other relevant stu...

European products

Illuminates how heritage management has provided  inroads for the Europeanization of societies in southern Europe - this is unique and has hardly been tackled, neither in European Studies nor in Heritage Studies. Does not only address the notion that "heritage" is the outcome of processe...