Civil society and gender justice

Civil society and civic engagement have increasingly become topics of discussion at the national and international level. The editors of this volume ask, does the concept of “civil society” include gender equality and gender justice? Or, to frame the question differently, is civil society a fem...

Courage and compassion

Tony Molho tells a dramatic story of survival under the most adverse conditions during the Holocaust. A historian himself now telling his own story, Molho writes an autobiographical text that speaks of a Jewish childhood in Greece during World War II and the Axis Occupation.

Anti-americanism in latin america and the caribbean

Whether rising up from fiery leaders such as Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Cuba’s Fidel Castro or from angry masses of Brazilian workers and Mexican peasants, anti U.S. sentiment in Latin America and the Caribbean today is arguably stronger than ever. It is also a threat to U.S. leadership in the...

The decolonial mandela

A significant contribution to the emerging literature on decolonial studies. Lays out a groundbreaking interpretation of the “Mandela phenomenon.” The author identifies transformative political justice and a reimagined social order as key features of Nelson Mandela’s legacy.

After the pink tide

The left-wing Pink Tide movement that swept across Latin America seems to now be overturned, as a new wave of free-market thinkers emerge across the continent. This book analyses the emergence of corporate power within Latin America and the response of egalitarian movements across the continent...

A goddess in motion

Shedding light on the role of visual creativity in religion, Canals explores the current practice of the cult of María Lionza, one of the most important and yet unexplored religious practices in Venezuela.

Exceptional experiences

Looking at encounters that can puncture or jolt us, this volume uses art as a lens through which to register and understand exceptional experiences. The volume also includes the fieldworker’s experience of unexpected events that can lead to key understandings, as well as revelatory moments that...

Trusting and its tribulations

Ethnographic approach to theorizing the relationship between trust, intimacy and sociality. Ethnographic engagements with the interdisciplinary field of trust research. Comparative explorations of the relationship between trust, intimacy and sociality. Problematizes the notion th...

Party, society, government

According to received wisdom parties have played a mainly destructive role in French political development. Of questionable legitimacy, pursuing narrow sectarian goals, often corruptly, they have brought about division, weakness and the collapse of regimes. A proper reading of history suggests ...

The future of indigenous museums

Indigenous museums and cultural centres have sprung up across the developing world, and particularly in the Southwest Pacific. They derive from a number of motives, ranging from the commercial to the cultural political (and many combine both). A close study of this phenomenon is not only valuab...

Desires for reality

A groundbreaking study providing a full account of the cinematic crises, innovations, and provocations of the era of protest in the late 1960s, as well as the social and aesthetic contexts in which they appeared. A fresh analysis of a contested period in which everything from the avant-g...

The end of the refugee cycle?

At the start of the 1990s, there was great optimism that the end of the Cold War might also mean the end of the "refugee cycle" - both a breaking of the cycle of violence, persecution and flight, and the completion of the cycle for those able to return to their homes. The 1990s, it was hoped, w...

Beyond caligari

While the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari became an international film classic, its director, Robert Wiene, was disparaged and even forgotten. Wiene's oeuvre, however, exhibits a surprising versatility and quality, featuring Raskolnikov, an expressionist adaptation of Dostoevsky's novel, INRI, a monume...

The mind of the nation

The first comprehensive study of the topic. Follows the reception and impact of Völkerpsychologie, both in Germany and abroad. Traces the genealogy of concepts currently used in the social sciences and humanities, e.g. ‘identity’, and explains the circumstances of their inception. ...

The categorical impulse

Classification, as an object of recent anthropological scrutiny came to prominence during the 1960s, exemplified in the British (constructionist) tradition by the writings of Mary Douglas, and in the American ethno-semantics (cognitive) tradition by the likes of Harold Conklin and Brent Berlin....

Of jaguars and butterflies

Jointly authored by an anthropologist and a philosopher, this book investigates some of the most puzzling ideas and practices reported in modern ethnography and ancient philosophy concerning topics such as humans, animals, persons, spirits, agency, selfhood, consciousness, nature, life, death, ...

Music and international history in the twentieth century

Brings together scholars from fields of musicology and international history. Investigates significance of music to foreign relations. Asks how we can understand music as an instrument of power and influence. Examines how cultural encounters fostered by music change ideas about i...

Secret spaces, forbidden places

In this highly original approach to the study of the construction of culture, this collection of previously unpublished essays explore the topography of the secret and the forbidden, focusing on specific moments in recent cultural and political history. By bringing together writers from differe...

Mirrors of passing

Mirrors of Passing explores the relationship between death, materiality, and temporality, drawing from the fields of archaeology, cultural anthropology, political science, and media studies to explore fundamental questions about the relationship between death and our perception of time.

Wilhelminism and its legacies

What was distinctive—and distinctively "modern"—about German society and politics in the age of Kaiser Wilhelm II? In addressing this question, these essays assemble cutting-edge research by fourteen international scholars. Based on evidence of an explicit and self-confidently "bourgeois" forma...

Food and the status quest

The use of food to negotiate status is found in all human societies. Here, for the first time, a single book brings together contributions from different disciplines to investigate, from ethological and anthropological perspectives, behavior that appears to have biological roots such as the ten...

Narratives in the making

Compares the production of narratives at two very different types of institutions. Based on original participant observation in these institutions’ day-to-day work. Explores the production of representations of the East German past at a unique historical moment – in the run up to the...

When they came for me

Whilst a student in South Africa, John Schlapobersky was arrested for opposing apartheid and tortured, detained and deported. In this volume, apartheid and its resistance come to life in personal stories that make this a vital historical document - one of its time and one for our own.

The political economy of border drawing

Interconnects capitalism, the welfare regime and citizenship to the field of migration studies. Compares and contrasts the divergent conditions of entry for non-EU migrant workers in Britain, France and Germany. Explores the economic, social and cultural rationales in determining mig...

Globalized fatherhood

The only volume to examine fatherhood around the globe. The only volume to offer a theoretical vocabulary for studying “emergent fatherhood” in the new millennium. Broad global coverage of issues facing fathers in different regions of the world. Based on contemporary, cutting-edg...

Against better judgment

Anthropologists have long explained social behaviour as if people always do what they think is best. But what if most of these explanations only work because they are premised upon ignoring what philosophers call 'akrasia' – that is, the possibility that people might act against their better ju...

Culture and the changing environment

Today human ecology has split into many different sub-disciplines such as historical ecology, political ecology or the New Ecological Anthropology. The latter in particular has criticised the predominance of the Western view on different ecosystems, arguing that culture-specific world views and...

The nature of german imperialism

Provides the first full account of Tanzanian wildlife conservation up until World War I. Focuses upon elephant hunting and the ivory trade as vital factors in a shift from exploitation to preservation that increasingly excluded indigenous Africans. Situates East African wildlife poli...

Managing uncertainty

In 2009 the political and social life of Italy featured high levels of uncertainty. Lackluster economic performance was the most obvious source of anxiety, but Silvio Berlusconi’s center-right coalition also had to contend with a series of sensational revelations about the prime minister’s pers...

Cyborg mind

In the mind's eye

This volume brings together the disciplines of palaeontology, psychology, anatomy, and primatology. Together, they address a number of issues, including the evolution of sex differences in spatial cognition, the role of archaeology in the cognitive sciences, the relationships between brain size...

The origins of complex societies in late prehistoric iberia

A series of papers by a wide range of authors from different countries and backgrounds focuses firmly on the question of the origin and development of social complexity, from the Neolithic through the Bronze Age, in Iberia writ large. A wide range of specific topics is covered with this specifi...

Kinship in europe

Since the publication of Philippe Ariès’s book, Centuries of Childhood, in the early 1960s, there has been great interest among historians in the history of the family and the household. A central aspect of the debate relates the story of the family to implicit notions of modernization, with th...

Children in the holocaust and its aftermath

The interviews conducted with Holocaust child survivors and war children were done in the 80s and early 90s therefore these are the first interviews many gave The collection also includes interviews conducted immediately after liberation Various qualitative analytic methods are used ...

Managing the unknown

Argues that deficient knowledge of the environment is a far more pervasive challenge in resource history than conventional readings suggest Makes significant contribution to the inter-disciplinary debate about the production and resilience of ignorance Combines insights from differen...

Mary douglas

This book’s main competitor is Fardon’s (1999) intellectual biography. The proposed book differs from Fardon’s in six key respects: Shorter Aimed at wider readership Deals with later works which appeared after Fardon's book Looks at work done by those who have drawn upon and ...

'city of the future'

First ethnographic monograph of Astana; Bringing together a focus on the materiality of the built environment with attention to the workings of discourses and representations; hence, combining materialist and ideationalist (‘social-constructivist’) approaches to place and space in social...

Anthropology and ethnography are not equivalent

Tim Ingold has raised many questions which are crucial for anthropology as a discipline, such as whether ethnography is central to the subject, and how imagination, reality and truth are joined in anthropological enterprises. His interventions have impacted anthropologists and scholars at large...

Chinese medicine in east africa

Based on fieldwork conducted between 2001-2008 in urban East Africa, this book explores who the patients, practitioners and paraprofessionals doing Chinese medicine were in this early period of renewed China-Africa relations.

Beyond the lens of conservation

Truly dual-sited study giving equal weight to a society in the global North and the global South. Comparison of perceptions of non-experts both in the North and the South (as opposed to Northern experts vis-à-vis non-experts in the South as is usually the case). Focus on imaginations...

Being-here

The book is the first in-depth anthropological exploration of the existential quality of place in the context of displacement. It’s experience-near perspective on displacement by zooming in on the life stories and experiences of three individuals. It revalidates the role of place in ...

Subjects, citizens, and others

The work is the first to systematically compare the British and Habsburg empires The book challenges the alleged distinction between ‘Western’ modernity and ‘Eastern’ backwardness, primarily in terms of politically inclusive and ethnically exclusive versions of nationality. The work ...

Transforming study abroad

An accessible introduction of current theoretical debates on common study abroad concepts (“culture,” “global citizen,” “immersion,” “host family,” etc.) for study abroad practitioners. A myth-buster of common study abroad discourses. Concrete suggestions for how to incorporate theoretic...

Mobility and migration in indigenous amazonia

Examines with the relationship between indigenous migration and human-environment relations Utilizes a wide range of historical time frames (from pre-conquest times to the present) and ethnographic contexts Explores the complex and important links between migration and the classifica...