Culture in dark times

Explores how different groups fought over who could definitively claim to represent the authentically “great German culture” Analyzes the highly complex interconnections among the cultural-political concepts Asks why the most artistically ambitious art forms were viewed as politicall...

Leaving footprints in the taiga

Examines the strategies that Orochen reindeer herders of southeastern Siberia have developed to navigate recent environmental and social changes in post-Soviet Siberia. Describes strategies that play a central role in Orochen cosmology.

Turkish culture in german society

For many decades Germany has had a sizeable Turkish minority that lives in an uneasy co-existence with the Germans around them and as such has attracted considerable interest abroadwhere it tends to be seen as a measure of German tolerance. However, little is known about theactual situation of ...

Sex, thugs and rock 'n' roll

A fascinating and highly readable account of what it was like to be young and hip, growing up in East Germany in the 1950s and 1960s. Living on the frontline of the Cold War, young people were subject to a number of competing influences. For young men from the working class, in particular, a co...

Beyond the social contract

Tax and taxation are conventionally understood as the embodiment of social contract. This ground-breaking collection of essays challenges this truism, examining what tax might tell us about the limits of social-contract thinking.

Strangers either way

Croatia gained the world's attention during the break-up of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. In this context its image has been overshadowed by visions of ethnic conflict and cleansing, war crimes, virulent nationalism, and occasionally even emergent regionalism. Instead of the norm, this book of...

Cultural encounters

The 1930s were one of the most important decades in defining the history of the twentieth century. It saw the rise of right-wing nationalism, the challenge to established democracies and the full force of imperialist aggression. Cultural Encounters makes an important contribution to our underst...

Aging and the digital life course

In recent years there have been many books about aging populations. This book is unique in that it not only focuses on the role and design of technologies for older people around the world but it aims to situate this within local context. It is comprised of a carefully balanced mix...

Resistance in an amazonian community

Like many other indigenous groups, the Huaorani of eastern Ecuador are facing many challenges as they attempt to confront the globalization of capitalism in the 21st century. In 1991, they formed a political organization as a direct response to the growing threat to Huaorani territory posed by ...

Moral anthropology

It is a critical view of a new methodological and epistemological fashion in anthropology It is a collection of authors with different ethnographic expertise and well-developed theoretical positions It is a provocation to open up a debate that is important for anthropology but to the...

Enlightening encounters

Drawing on his research in five Latin American countries, Steve Gudeman describes his anthropological fieldwork, bringing to life the excitement of gaining an understanding of the practices and ideas of others as well as the frustrations. He weaves into the text some of his findings as well as ...

Women of prague

For many centuries Prague has exerted a particular fascination because of its beauty and therichness of its culture and history. Its famous group of German and Czech writers of mostly Jewish extraction in the earlier part of this century has deeply influenced Western culture.However, little att...

Migrants, refugees, and foreign policy

Foreign policies have always played an important role in the movements of migrants. A number of essays in this volume show how the foreign policies of the United States and Germany have directly or inadvertently contributed to the influx from the former Yugoslavia, Mexico, the Caribbean, and th...

Tuff city

The first ethnographic history of urban change in the historic centre of Naples. Innovative methodological approach to analyzing and interpreting the European city. In-depth analysis of the relationship between urban regeneration, public space and everyday experience and conflict. ...

Mobile farmers

Preservation and place

Historically significant archaeological sites affiliated with two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer history in the United States are examined in this unique volume. The importance of the preservation process in documenting and interpreting the lives and experiences of queer...

Views of violence

 Focus on WWII related memories in museum and memorials  International comparison (Germany and austria in the wider Wetern and Eastern European context + North America) Views of Violencepresents the first edited collection on the English-speaking market that targets the specific medi...

The helmand baluch

The late Ghulam Rahman Amiri accompanied a joint Aghan-US archaeological mission to the Sistan region of southwest Afghanistan in the 1970s and published the ethnography in Farsi in Kabul in 1987. This volume, the first English translation, describes the cultural, political, and economic system...

Who abolished slavery?

The past half-century has produced a mass of information regarding slave resistance, ranging from individual acts of disobedience to massive uprisings. Many of these acts of rebellion have been studied extensively, yet the ultimate goals of the insurgents remain open for discussion. Recently, s...

Peace at last?

Spanning more than thirty years, and costing over 3000 lives, the conflict in Northern Ireland has been one of the most protracted ethnic conflicts in Western Europe. After several failed attempts to resolve the fundamental differences over national belonging between the two communities in Nort...

Faithfully urban

Examines the lives of ordinary residents and mosque communities in Stuttgart  to analyze moments and spaces where Muslims and non-Muslims engage with each other and accommodate their respective needs. These accounts show that even in the face of resentment and discrimination, a pious Mus...

Arab spring

The events of the Arab Spring presented a dramatic reconstitution of politics and the public sphere through their aesthetic and performative uses of public space. Mass demonstrations have become a new global political form, grounded in the localization of globalizing processes, institutions, an...

Politics of scale

The volume develops research in Critical Heritage Studies by: Providing a multi/interdisciplinary point of view to politics of scale and heritage-scale relationship. Contributors to the volume have their disciplinary background in: geography, cultural studies, art history, museum studies, ...

Indigenous peoples and demography

Interdisciplinary examination of the historical and contemporary construct of indigenous people An international examination of indigenous people Relies on historical and demographical evidence to show how indigenous populations vary between countries

After the 'socialist spring'

Historical analysis of the German Democratic Republic has tended to adopt a top-down model of the transmission of authority. However, developments were more complicated than the standard state/society dichotomy that has dominated the debate among GDR historians. Drawing on a broad range of arch...

Becoming east german

innovative focus on subjective experiences of ordinary East Germans. New approaches to study of everyday life beyond the Iron Curtain. International group of scholars from Europe and North America Powerful critique/reappraisal of mainstream scholarly/popular interpretations of Ea...

The benefit of the gift

Archaeological data from the Late Archaic (4000-2000 years ago) in the Western Great Lakes are analyzed to understand the production and movement of copper and lithic exchange materials. Also considered in this volume are access to and benefits from exchange networks, as well as social changes ...

Security and development

Since 9/11 ideas of security have focused in part on the development of ungovernable spaces. Important debates are now being had over the nature, impacts, and outcomes of the numerous policy statements made by northern governments, NGOs, and international institutions that view the merging of s...

Economic persuasions

In god's name

Despite the widespread trends of secularization in the 20th century, religion has played an important role in several outbreaks of genocide since the First World War. And yet, not many scholars have looked either at the religious aspects of modern genocide, or at the manner in which religion ha...

Conceptualizing the world

This innovative and interdisciplinary volume explores the central paradox of globalization and illuminates historical moments that range from antiquity to the era of Google Earth through contributions that trace the emergence of the world in multitudinous representations, practices, and human e...

Engaging with chaucer

This collected volume represents an homage to a toweringly great poet, as well as an acknowledgement of the intellectual excitement, challenges, and pleasure that readers owe to him as even today, his poems have the capacity to change the way we engage with fundamental questions of knowledge, u...

Marking evil

Addresses manifestations of Holocaust-engendered global discourse by critically examining their function and inherent dilemmas. Investigates the ways in which Holocaust related matters still instigate public debate and academic deliberation. Contends that the contradiction between th...

Living on a time bomb

Providing a holistic understanding of extensive oil extraction in rural Mexico, this book focuses on a campesino community, where oil extraction is deeply inscribed into the daily lives of the community members. The book shows how oil shapes the space where it is extracted in every aspect and p...

A taste for oppression

Very few up-to-date qualitative studies are available on locked societies (such as north Korea or Belarus), thus this book fills an important gap in our understanding of existing authoritarian regimes. An inside look at daily lives of people in a country that is often referred to as “the...

Being human, being migrant

Unique in its focus on how ethnographic face-to-face studies of migration display a specific way of being human as it highlights being between cultural truths and familiar contexts for relations of self, others and the world. Employs and develops novel concepts that contribute to our und...

Living under austerity

Since its sovereign debt crisis in 2009, Greece has been living under austerity. This volume explores the effects of austerity policies on politics, health care, education, media, and other areas, and examines the crisis as the context for changing attitudes in Greek society regarding immigrati...

Cosmopolitan refugees

Exploring the dynamics of identity formation processes in diasporic spaces, this book analyses how gender, cultural and religious practices are renegotiated in a situation of displacement. The author presents the comparative case study of Somali migrant women in Nairobi and Johannesburg:  two c...

Citizens into dishonored felons

Throughout the long nineteenth century felony disenfranchisement affected the moral fabric of German society and coincided with a history of honor in German legal thought. Citizens into Dishonored Felons uses uncommonly extensive archival materials to address the emotional and symbolic impact o...

Experiencing wages

When discussing wages, historians have traditionally concentrated on the level of wages, much less on how people were paid for their work. Important aspects were thus ignored such as how frequently were wages actually paid, how much of the wage was paid in non-monetary form - whether as traditi...

Ritual

Designed for both academic and lay audiences, this book identifies the characteristics of ritual and, via multiple examples, details how ritual works on the human body and brain to produce its often profound effects. These include enhancing courage, effecting healing, and generating group cohes...

Indigeneity and the sacred

This important contribution presents current research in the political ecology of indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation of sacred natural sites in the Americas. The book explores how struggles for land, rights, and political power are embedded within physical landscapes, and ho...

Nimby is beautiful

Offers new perspective on "Not in my Back Yard" protests. Demonstrates that NIMBY protests, although always arising from a local concern in a particular community, often result in broader political, social, and technological change. Argues that NIMBY movements can have a positive and...

The making of the pentecostal melodrama

How religion, gender, and urban sociality are expressed in and mediated via television drama in Kinshasa is the focus of this ethnographic study. Influenced by Nigerian films and intimately related to the emergence of a charismatic Christian scene, these teleserials integrate melodrama, convers...