Raising citizens in the 'century of the child'

Brings a transatlantic perspective to the history of child-rearing and education Applies T.H. Marshall’s concept of citizenship to the history of child-rearing and education Takes a long-term view in exploring the complex relationship between the family, experts, and the state from t...

Order and disorder

Disorder and instability are matters of continuing public concern. Terrorism, as a threat to global order, has been added to preoccupations with political unrest, deviance and crime. Such considerations have prompted the return to the classic anthropological issues of order and disorder. Examin...

Making ubumwe

Approaches post-genocide governance, citizenship and nation building through a unique lens – the local uses of the concept of ubumwe or unity. Outlines the productive ambiguity at the root of this concept by tracing its deployments in diverse arenas from rhetoric, office work, street tal...

Breast feeding and sexuality

Whereas in western countries breastfeeding is an uncontroversial, purely personal issue, in most parts of the world mother and baby form part of a network of interpersonal relations with its own rules and expectations. In this study, the author examines the cultural and social context of breast...

Indigenous resurgence

Indigenous peoples around the world are standing up and speaking out against global capitalism to protect the land, water, and air. By placing Indigenous politics, histories, and ontologies at the center of our social movements for environmental justice, Indigenous Resurgence positions environm...

Dynamics of identification and conflict

Dealing with the dynamics of identification and conflict, this book uses theoretical orientations ranging from political ecology to rational choice theory, interpretive approaches, Marxism and multiscalar analysis. Case studies set in Africa, Europe and Central Asia are grouped in three section...

Balkan departures

In writings about travel, the Balkans appear most often as a place travelled to. Western accounts of the Balkans revel in the different and the exotic, the violent and the primitive − traits that serve (according to many commentators) as a foil to self-congratulatory definitions of the West as ...

New austrian film

First English language study on New Austrian Film 1990s to the present A collection of critical essays on New Austrian  filmmakers and films by international cinema and culture scholars Introduces and examines New Austrian Film in cinematic, cultural, theoretical and film historical ...

Children of palestine

Palestinian children and young people living both within and outside of refugee camps in the Middle East are the focus of this book. For more than half a century these children and their caregivers have lived a temporary existence in the dramatic and politically volatile landscape that is the M...

French women in politics: writing power

Although more women in France have entered political life than ever before, the fact remains that there are fewer women representatives in the French parliament than there were after the Second World War. In a new and original approach, the author presents an overview and analysis of the emergi...

In the absence of the gift

Rethinks remittance motivations among work migrants by focusing on notions of sharing. An elaborate focus on practices of sharing and demand sharing in a Melanesian context. Focuses on those ‘development projects’ people initiate and conduct themselves in a country otherwise often su...

Marginal at the center

A self-proclaimed guerrilla fighter for ideas, Baruch Kimmerling was an outspoken critic, a prolific writer, and a “public” sociologist. While he lived at the center of the Israeli society in which he was involved as both a scientist and a concerned citizen, he nevertheless felt marginal becaus...

Silence, screen, and spectacle

Takes on an innovative focus on “spectacular memory,” asking how spectacle functions in processes of memory, countermemory, and silencing. Breaks new ground in the discussion of absence, both in terms of the ‘absent,’ missing dialogues, texts, monuments and communities, as well as the “d...

Migration, development, and transnationalization

The girl in the text

How are girls represented in written and graphic texts, and how do these representations inform our understanding of girlhood? In this volume, contributors examine the girl in the text in order to explore a range of perspectives on girlhood across borders and in relation to their positionality.

Love, loyalty and deceit

How much do we really know about our parents’ lives? What secrets lie in plain sight? This is the true story of hidden love within a small circle of some of the most acclaimed anthropologists of the 20th century.

'for their own good'

The first broad, comparative study of civilian evacuations in Germany and France during World War II. Shows how policies in each country were shaped by events in the other. A truly cross-national comparison in a field dominated by accounts of one country or the other Unique in th...

All tomorrow's cultures

The first edition of All Tomorrow’s Cultures explored the legacy of futures-thinking in anthropology and marked the beginning of a resurgence of interest in anthropological futures.  The new edition has been updated to reflect some of the outpouring of work since then, particularly in science a...

Managing northern europe's forests

First and only comprehensive collection of forest histories from the North of Europe Thorough and critical examination of a region where a number of distinguished and influential ideas of global resource management originated from (scientific forestry, sustainability, close-to-nature-for...

Unsafe motherhood

Follows the global policies that have been implemented in Sololá, Guatemala in order to decrease high rates of maternal mortality among indigenous Mayan women. Examines the diverse meanings and understandings of motherhood, pregnancy, birth and birth-related death among the biomedical pe...

Working the fabric

The first in-depth anthropological study of the Harris Tweed industry, complementing and updating existing historical and ethnographic research.  Offers an intimate account of industry workers’ lived experiences, but it also draws on these insights to advance wider debates in anthropolog...

Consuming the inedible

Everyday, millions of people eat earth, clay, nasal mucus, and similar substances. Yet food practices like these are strikingly understudied in a sustained, interdisciplinary manner. This book aims to correct this neglect. Contributors, utilizing anthropological, nutritional, biochemical, psych...

Germany and the middle east

  Traces 130 years of German–Middle Eastern relations from Kaiser Wilhelm II to Angela Merkel. Connects German foreign policy with Middle Eastern history in one accessible overview. Based on rich archival and diplomatic primary sources. Clear, concise, and ideal for teaching or...

At home on the waves

This collection explores the variety of ways in which people have long made themselves at home at sea, bringing together both ethnographic and archaeological research – much of it with an explicit Ingoldian approach – on a wide range of geographical areas and historical periods.

Field manual for the archaeology of ritual, religion, and magic

By bringing together in one place specific objects, materials, and features indicating ritual, religious, or magical belief used by people around the world and through time, this tool will assist archaeologists in identifying evidence of belief-related behaviors and broadening their understandi...

Jewish explorations of sexuality

Every religious community has been affected by the "sexual revolution". The conflict between contemporary attitudes and traditional practices has led to major divisions and controversies, particularly when focused on issues such as homosexuality. This is the first attempt to take abroad look at...

Contemplating historical consciousness

 This proposed volume draws on three decades of applied research into historical consciousness—comparative, national, and focused—to tease out what has been learned from the field.  It asks leading scholars from around the world to reflect on their research and their practice—as historia...

The practice of war

The fact is that war comes in many guises and its effects continue to be felt long after peace is proclaimed. This challenges the anthropologists who write of war as participant observers. Participant observation inevitably deals with the here and now, with the highly specific. It is only over ...

Culture and international history

Women and socialism - socialism and women

Until recently, histories of women tended to be segregated from the larger historical context. This pioneering volume places the role of women within the history of the interwar years, whenboth the women's and socialist movements became prominent, and raises the key question of how power was di...

People, money and power in the economic crisis

Based on empirical research. Combines empirical research with an analysis of wider processes of social, economic and political change. Comes out of an innovative network of scholars associated with the Human Economy Programme.

Back to the postindustrial future

First ethnography solely focused on the future One of the first ethnographies solely focused on a postindustrial city Theoretical contribution to anthropology of time (presentism) First English language ethnography of a shrinking city

The americanization of europe

Recent tensions between the U.S. and Europe seem to have opened up an insuperable rift, while Americanization, deplored by some, welcomed by others, seems to progress unabated. This volume explores, for the first time and in a comparative manner, the role American culture and anti-Americanism p...

Trapped in the gap

A forensic analysis of the dilemmas of well intentioned white development workers in Australia. Explores what happens when well-meaning people, supported by the state, find themselves trapped by endless ambiguities and contradictions — a microcosm of the broader dilemmas of postcolonial ...

Designing worlds

Designing Worlds responds to the growing literature on global design history and national identity in design, and furthers the debate on this central issue. Designing Worlds contributes an original and innovative reassessment of the role of national histories within a global context. ...

Difficult folk?

Transcultural montage

Asserts that the destabilisation of commonsense perception is the very precondition for transcending social and cultural categories Contributors explore the use of montage as a heuristic tool for comparative analysis in anthropological, film and exhibition making

The shaping of environmental policy in france

Drawing on an extensive range of political, legal and sociological materials, the author presents and evaluates environmental policy-making in France at a time when environmental problems are growing in complexity and gravity.

Stories make the world

Examines the ideas and principles that guide the art of documentary storytelling. About the world as well as about nonfiction film. It explores subjects ranging from cosmology to architecture, environmental history to struggles for human rights. Looks at the process of transforming v...

It happens among people

Written by eleven leading anthropologists from around the world, this volume extends the insights of Fredrik Barth, one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century, to push even further at the frontiers of anthropology.

Thinking europe

This title assesses the idea of Europe through its intellectual history. Exploring the concept of integration and the relationship between this and arguments for division and borders it reveals their interplay in the composition of the contemporary European identity.

Configuring contagion

Expanding our understanding of contagion further than typical notions of infection and pandemics, this book widens the field to include biosocial epidemics. The chapters propose varied and detailed answers to questions about the epidemic and contagious potential of specific infections and non-i...

The nuclear crisis

Provides a comprehensive survey of the “Euromissiles” crisis of 1983 as experienced by its various protagonists. Analyzes NATO’s diplomatic and military maneuvering. Traces the political, cultural, and moral discourses that surrounded the missiles’ deployment in East and West Germany.

The social life of achievement

Innovatively explains the multiple effects of "achievement" Brings together cutting-edge insights into politics, psychology, ethics and materiality Advances a new agenda for the study of achievement within anthropology Promotes "achievement" as a moment of cultural invention, and...