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Militant lactivism?
First in-depth academic study of attachment parenting and long-term breastfeeding in the UK or France A contribution to the nascent field of "Parenting Culture Studies" A theoretical focus on accountability and "identity-work", as part of a sociology of modernity A critique of co...
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Turning the kaleidoscope
Far from being a blank space on the Jewish map, or a void in the Jewish cultural world, post-Shoah Europe is a place where Jewry has continued to develop, even though it is facing different challenges and opportunities than elsewhere. Living on a continent characterized by highly diverse patter...
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Going forward by looking back
Catastrophes are on the rise due to climate change, as is their toll in terms of lives and livelihoods as world populations rise and people locate into hazardous places. This book catalogues a wide and diverse range of case studies of such disasters and human responses. This heritage of past di...
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Driving germany
Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Hitler's autobahn was more than just the pet project of an infrastructure-friendly dictator. It was supposed to revolutionize the transportation sector in Germany, connect the metropoles with the countryside, and ...
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Learning under neoliberalism
The contributors of this volume explore the emerging corporality of the education system worldwide and the impact of this new governance on education practices. Explores changes in University regulations against the backdrop of neoliberal trends toward public-private partnerships. De...
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Political demography, demographic engineering
"Over the past decade, the impacts of demographic trends on international security and on peaceful relations between and within states have come to the fore in ways not seen since the aftermath of World War II. An evolving and more complex set of changes in the size, distribution, and compositi...
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Music and manipulation
Since the beginning of human civilization, music has been used as a device to control social behavior, where it has operated as much to promote solidarity within groups as hostility between competing groups. Music is an emotive manipulator that influences attitude, motivation and behavior at ma...
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Regimes of ignorance
High-quality rich ethnographic examples set in comparative perspective. Contributors includesome of the brightest emerging scholars of their generation, as well as a number of senior, internationally recognised anthropologists. An important theoretical re-working of this emerging are...
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Land and the mortgage
The mortgaging of land is not just economic and legal but also social and cultural. Here, anthropologists, historians, and economists explore origins, variations, and meanings of the land mortgage, and the risks to homes and livelihoods.
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Durkheim today
There has been a growing interest in Durkheim, founding father of sociology, since the 1970s. This volume takes a look at the current stage of Durkheimian studies, pointing out paths scholars are now following as they examine the various themes of study that Durkheim opened up to the academic w...
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A history shared and divided
Divided History uniquely explores how East and West Germany responded to the new challenges and crises of the 1970s, and reunification. Topics range from political, labor, and business issues to migration and environmental issues, showing how the two German states remained inextricably connecte...
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Ecological migrants
This ethnography details changing Ewenki ways of life brought China’s recent ecological migration policies, which aim to preserve and restore the badly damaged ecologies of western China. This ethnography examines these policies and their effects on Aoluguya Ewenki hunters, who have been reloca...
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Japanese tourism
An in-depth historical, geographical, economic, and social analysis of the changing patterns of Japanese tourism since the late 19th century Uses the Meiji Restoration of 1868 as a case study for the changing face of global tourism from the 19th to the 21st century Discusses tourism ...
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Vienna is different
First comprehensive study of Viennese Jewish literature from the 19th century to the present Interdisciplinary approach to history and literature
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Latin america facing china
The last quarter of the twentieth century was a period of economic crises, increasing indebtedness as well as financial instability for Latin America and most other developing countries; in contrast, China showed amazingly high growth rates during this time and has since become the third larges...
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The greek military dictatorship
From 1967 to 1974, the military junta ruling Greece attempted a dramatic reshaping of the nation, implementing ideas and policies that, for better or for worse, left an indelible mark on both domestic affairs and international relations. Bringing together leading scholars from a range of discip...
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The arts in nazi germany
Culture and the arts played a central role in the ideology and propaganda of National Socialism from the early years of the movement until the last months of the Third Reich in 1945. Hitler and his followers believed that art and culture were expressions of race, and that “Aryans” alone were ca...
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State and civil society in northern europe
In the current neo-liberal political and economic climate, it is often suggested that a large and strong state stands in opposition to an autonomous and vibrant civil society. However, the simultaneous presence in Sweden of both a famously large public sector and an unusually vital civil societ...
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War magic
Investigates spiritual warfare in religion, magic, sorcery and shamanism. Reveals war magic and warrior religion in contemporary and historical circumstances. Shows the broad, international appeal of symbolic and ritual violence, in the east and west. Research into embodied perfo...
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One hundred years of argonauts
Malinowski’s pioneering work remains critical for anthropology in a postcolonial age. This volume uses ethnographic studies from around the world to contextualize the work politically and intellectually, examining its gestation and influence from multiple perspectives.
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Europe in exile
During World War II, London was transformed into a European city, as it unexpectedly became a place of refuge for many thousands of European citizens who through choice or the accidents of war found themselves seeking refuge in Britain from the military campaigns on the Continent of Europe. In ...
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A venetian island
Since the extensive floods of 1966, inhabitants of Venice's laguna areas have come to share in, and reflect upon, concerns over pressing environmental problems. Evidence of damage caused by industrial pollution has contributed to the need to recover a common culture and establish a sense of con...
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Hotbeds of licentiousness
By focusing on a series of colorful filmmakers whose work, while omnipresent during the 1970s, now remains critically ignored, Hotbeds of Licentiousness explores pornography as a lens through which to view radical changes in British society.
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Barter and social regeneration in the argentinean andes
It provides a fine grained ethnography of barter interactions and regimes of value. It explores the social performativity of barter, stressing the role of instrumental transactions in the fabric of society. It demonstrates the usefulness of the concept of barter to anthropological th...
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Walls, borders, boundaries
Written by previously published scholars with expert knowledge in the fields of German studies, history and cultural geography Demonstrates the historical, cultural and political implications of walls and boundaries Explores walls not just as physical divisions, but as social, cultur...
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Taking sides
Concerns with research ethics have intensified over recent years, in large part as a symptom of "audit cultures" (M. Strathern) but also as a serious matter of engagement with the ethical complexities in contemporary research fields. This volume, written by a new generation of scholars engaged ...
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The anthropology of corporate social responsibility
The first and only edited volume on the anthropology of corporate social responsibility. Offers a critical, comprehensive overview charting the anthropological contribution to the analysis of corporate social responsibility. Draws together work of key thinkers/anthropologists work...
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Exploring gypsiness
Romania has a larger Gypsy population than most other countries but little is known about the relationship between this group and the non-Gypsy Romanians around them. This book focuses on a group of Rom Gypsies living in a village in Transylvania and explores their social life and cosmology. Be...
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Patterns of provocation
Over the past thirty years social scientists and particularly social historians have stressed the need to take popular protest seriously. The corollary of this, the need to take the policing of protest seriously, seems to have been less well acknowledged. The aim of this volume is to redress th...
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Non-humans in amerindian south america
It focuses only on South America. It embraces both its Highlands and Lowlands. All their chapters are fieldwork-based. It critically addresses currently debated issues linked to Anthropology, Anthropocene, Climate Change, Ontologies and Non-Humans.
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Modern babylon?
Child prostitution became one of the key concerns of the international community in the 1990s. World congresses were held, international and national laws were changed and concern over "cemmercially sexually exploited children" rose dramatically. Rarely, however, were the children who worked as...
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Weary warriors
A history of military psychiatry from the American Civil War to the latest Afghanistan conflict. Explores the psychological and emotional trauma soldiers suffer and develops an extensive account of the emergence, diagnosis, and treatment of soldiers’ “invisible wounds”. Takes into ac...
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Cousin marriages
Engaging and multi-disciplinary (sociological, historical, clinical, political) reflection on cousin marriages. Offers a cross-cultural exploration of kinship and the social and ethical issues raised. Explores the impact of new genetic understandings and potential health risks. R...
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Reproductive disruptions
Nominated for the 2007 Book Prize by the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (AAA) Reproductive disruptions, such as infertility, pregnancy loss, adoption, and childhood disability, are among the most distressing experiences in people’s lives. Based on research by leading medical anthrop...
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'brothers' or others?
Muslim Arab Sudanese in Cairo have played a fundamental role in Egyptian history and society during many centuries of close relations between Egypt and Sudan. Although the government and official press describes them as "brothers" in a united Nile Valley, recent political developments in Egypt ...
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Intellectuals and (counter-) politics
Starts from the position that we need to ask what kind of work academics/intellectuals should be doing; and how this might affect the design of the research projects. This is not at all common in books of a similar kind. Vital theoretical issues are addressed at length and in a highly pr...
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Anthropology and nostalgia
Gathers important anthropological insight into nostalgia as a social practice. Addresses nostalgic expression in a wide range of cultural settings. Reflexively points out the influence of nostalgia in anthropological writing. Based on thorough ethnographic studies, in combination...
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Coming home to germany?
The end of World War II led to one of the most significant forced population transfers in history: the expulsion of over 12 million ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1950 and the subsequent emigration of another four million in the second half of the twentieth cent...
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Kristeva in focus
Accessible and up to date review of Julia Kristeva's theories Clear application of Kristeva's theories to film analysis An insightful analysis of some of the major themes in film narratives: horror, strangers and love
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Anxious histories
This book explores Holocaust pedagogy in Jewish schools in Melbourne and New York. Demonstrates that an anxious thread runs throughout these narratives, as the pedagogy negotiates feelings of simultaneous belonging and not-belonging in the West and in Zionism. Opens up once again for...
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Settling for less
The resettlement of the Negev Bedouin (Israel) has been wrought with controversy since its inception in the 1960s. Presenting evidence from a two-decade period, the author addresses how the changes that took place over the past sixty to seventy years have served the needs and interests of the S...
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Carnage and care on the eastern front
First-hand account of the plight of Jewish civilians and also the-stab-in-the-back legend by the home front. Addition of photographs by the author, Bernhard Bardach First-ever detailed eye-witness account of the 1916 Brusilov Offensive Detailed day-by-day account of the entire w...
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Communist parties revisited
Drawing from perspectives from within the everyday life of basic organizations and the practices of the party apparatuses, Communist Parties Revisited sheds light on the inner workings the Eastern Bloc, and the effects of state socialist policy on a micro historical level.
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Mythology, spirituality, and history
The Arakmbut are an indigenous people who live in the Madre de Dios region of thesoutheastern Peruvian rain forest. Since their first encounters with missionaries in the 1950s,they have shown resilience and a determination to affirm their identity in the face of many difficulties. During the la...
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