Cinema and the environment in eastern europe

Explores Eastern European cinema’s shift from socialist‑industrial landscapes to capitalist environmental crises. Applies eco‑critical film theory to formerly communist states, combining environmental studies and film studies. Shows how filmmakers in the Soviet bloc used cinema to cr...

Reflecting on reflexivity

Approaches the concept of reflexivity on two different yet related analytical planes. On the one plane, a collection of original and innovative ethnographically based essays is offered, each of which is devoted to ways in which reflexivity plays a fundamental role in human social life an...

The politics of personal information

This book gives a definitive account of the politics of personal information in West Germany during the 1970s and 1980s, highlighting the growing role of personal information as a tool for social governance.

Humboldt revisited

Humboldt Revisited offers a fresh perspective on the contemporary discourse surrounding reform of European universities. Drawing from a rich selection of historical sources, this volume challenges the conventional historical narratives on the Humboldt University, providing new insight into the ...

Democracy's paradox

Does populism indicate a radical crisis in Western democratic political systems? Is it a revolt by those who feel they have too little voice in the affairs of state or are otherwise marginalized or oppressed? Or are populist movements part of the democratic process?

Recognizing the past in the present

This interdisciplinary collection assembles a chain of documentation on the critical role of medicine in realizing the policies of Hitler’s regime. It traces the historical legacies of National Socialist medicine from their roots in the racial theories of the 1920s, through their manifestation ...

Sex and control

Describes the biopolitical approach taken by doctors to the perceived threat posed by venereal diseases in Germany’s colonies. Demonstrates how physicians increasingly relied on disciplinary measures beyond what was possible in Germany in order to enforce their policies. Explains how...

Rhetorical minds

As a meditation on the nature of human thought and action, this book starts with the proposition that human thinking is inherently and irreducibly social, and that the long rhetorical tradition in the West has been a neglected source for thinking about cognition.

Fierce medicines, fragile socialities

Comprehensive ethnographic case studies of people living with HIV and ARVs. In-depth observations of the infrastructural conditions and social dynamics shaping day-to-day work routines at Tanzanian HIV treatment centers. Focus on the financial and infrastructural fragilities of treat...

In the shadow of the great war

Whether victorious or not, Central European states faced fundamental challenges after the First World War as they struggled to contain ongoing violence and forge peaceful societies. This collection explores the various forms of violence these nations confronted during this period, which effecti...

Economy, crime and wrong in a neoliberal era

Covers a wide range of industry practice and economic activity Challenges common views of neoliberalism Shows the difficulty of defining right and wrong and of assigning responsibility for wrongful activity

Transforming author museums

Literary museums today must respond to new challenges; the traditional image of the author’s home museum as a sacred place of literary pilgrimage centered around a national hero has been questioned, and literary museums have begun to develop new strategies. The book addresses how literary museu...

Witchcraft, witches, and violence in ghana

Provides detailed account of Ghanaian witchcraft beliefs and practices. Examines their role in fuelling attacks by aggrieved individuals and vigilante groups. Empirical focus, reflected in the use of case studies.

An understanding of judaism

This is the first of two volumes of edited sermons spanning the greater part of the second half of the twentieth century, and the first major collection of sermons from a Liberal Jewish point ofview produced in Britain since Claude G. Montefiore's Truth in Religion of 1906. It combines forthrig...

Aging in today's world

Never before in human existence have the aged been so numerous — and for the most part — healthy. In this important new book, two professionals, an anthropologist and a physician, wrestle with the complex subject of aging. Is it inevitable? Is it a burden or gift? What is successful aging? Why ...

In fading light

The Amber Film collective has been part of the British and European documentary scene since the late 1960s. Situating the work within wider social, political and historical contexts, In Fading Light interrogates how their critically acclaimed body of work—which includes documentaries, feature f...

Remembering a vanished world

Theodore Hamerow, a prominent historian, was born in Warsaw in 1920 and spent his childhood in Poland and Germany. His parents were members of the best-known Yiddish theater ensemble, the Vilna Company. They were part of an important movement in the Jewish community of Eastern Europe which soug...

Zora neale hurston

Uniquely Positioned & Freshly Celebrated: Standing out as the only short biography dedicated to Zora Neale Hurston’s anthropological contributions, this accessible volume brings renewed visibility to a vital yet long overlooked figure in the social sciences. Courageous Trailbla...

Compliance

Exploring compliance from an anthropological perspective, this book offers a varied selection of chapters covering taxation, corporate governance, medicine, development, carbon offsetting, irregular migration and the building trade, compliance emerges as more than the opposite of resistance.

Post-ottoman topologies

With contributions from several of the Balkan countries that once were united under the aegis of the Ottoman Empire, this latest volume proposes new theoretical approaches to the experience and transmission of the past through time.

The language encounter in the americas, 1492-1800

The global pontificate of pius xii

Following Vatican archives opening up access to materials on the pontificate of Pius XII (1939-1958), the contributors to this volume were amongst the first to access these long-awaited records. They have analyzed them here to present a nuanced and revitalized approach to religious, modern post...

Resettlers and survivors

Resettlers and Survivors focuses on two groups of Bukovinians—ethnic Germans and German-speaking Jews—who navigated dramatically changed political and social circumstances in 1945. This study gives a nuanced account of how they dealt with the difficult legacies of World War II, while exploring ...

The camino de santiago

Comprises an interpretative synthesis of heritage planning and management and gives critical attention to the contributions of church, state and civil society in this endeavour. The author is very well-known among Camino enthuisiasts and has walked every route that leads to Santiago (Fra...

The cracked art world

This book presents a nuanced view of Northern Ireland, a place at once deeply mired in its past and seeking to forge a new future for itself as a ‘post-post-conflict’ place within the context of a changing United Kingdom, a disintegrating Europe, and a globalized world.

Health, risk, and adversity

Research on health involves evaluating the disparities that are systematically associated with the experience of risk, including genetic and physiological variation, environmental exposure to poor nutrition and disease, and social marginalization. This volume provides a unique perspective - a c...

War stories

This collection of essays is one of the first to explore the modern war memoir. Reveals the genre’s capacity for breadth and sophistication while remaining sensitive to the challenges it poses for scholars. Considers how memoirs have been used to transmit particular views of war even...

Development-induced displacement

Some ten million people worldwide are displaced or resettled every year, due to development projects, such as the construction of dams, irrigation schemes, urban development, transport, conservation or mining projects. The results have usually been very negative for most of those people who hav...

Big capital in an unequal world

Following the hidden lives of the global “1%”, this book examines the networks, social practices, marriages, and machinations of the elite in Pakistan. In doing so, it reveals the daily, even mundane, ways in which elites contribute to and shape the inequality that characterises the modern world.

Hierarchy and value

Globalization promised to bring about a golden age of liberal individualism, breaking down hierarchies of kinship, caste, and gender around the world and freeing people to express their true, authentic agency. But in some places globalization has spurred the emergence of new forms of hierarchy—...

Critical junctions

The “cultural turn” has been a multifarious and pervasive phenomenon in Western universities and modes of social knowledge since the early 1980s. This volume focuses on the conjunction of two disciplines where both the analytic promises as well as the difficulties involved in the meeting of h...

Not the troubles

Not the Troubles shifts the academic focus from the perception of Belfast as a divided society and reveals alternative narratives of city life. Using storytelling as a leitmotif, it explores the epistemological validity of engaging with strangers in a range of settings, such as street corners, ...

Greek whisky

An explanation of the social life of Scotch in Greece via the Greek culture industry, Athenian nightlife and North Aegean drinking habits An analysis of how Scotch has been championed as a "local" symbol in 2 widely different regions of Greece An illustration of how Scotch has become...

Engaging evil

Exploring the anthropology of evil as an empirical human phenomenon, this volume attempts to show the usefulness of treating evil as a descriptive reality where concepts such as violence, criminality, and hatred fall short of capturing the darkest side of human existence.

Germany and the middle east

For more than a hundred years, persistent conflict in the Middle East has led global superpowers like Germany to become involved. Germany and the Middle East encounters in detail how the nation came to accept its historical responsibility towards newer states in the Middle East, and how major d...

Building a european identity

Offers a unique combination of multiarchival diplomatic history and analysis of political language Skillfully examines the interplay between transatlantic relations, the Middle East and the makings of a united Europe Reappraises the significance of the post-de Gaulle era in the histo...

Troubles with turtles

The people of Vassilikos, farmers and tourist entrepreneurs on the Greek island of Zakynthos, are involved in a bitter environmental dispute concerning the conservation of sea turtles. Against the environmentalists' practices and ideals they set their own culture of relating to the land, cultiv...

Lobbying hitler

Lobbying in the Third Reich. Office and Bureaucratic Management in Nazi Germany. A comparison of successful liberal and failed (suicidal) conservative business leaders’ experiences in Nazi Germany. A comparison of how skeptical businessmen came to support the Nazi regime.

Civil enculturation

For several years now, the concepts of 'civil culture' and 'civil society' have been widely discussed in the social sciences. Theoretically innovative and empirically rich, this volume is one of few studies that offer solid and focused ethnographic research on how the tenets and assumptions of ...

Roman polanski after the pianist

Focuses on the work of one of the most famous and controversial filmmakers of all time Covers his most recent films in relation to recent cultural debates Examines his public persona and its assessment by the media

The spirit of the berlin republic

The "Berlin Republic" has become the key concept of post-Cold War Germany and as such has been widely discussed inside as well as outside Germany. Symbolized by the move of the government from Bonn to Berlin it signals all the tangible and intangible changes in Germany's position in the world t...

Subjective realist cinema

Explores range of films which depict subjective experience and employ "subjective realist" narration Highlights examples of recent films, including Mulholland Drive and Memento Proposes that an understanding of narrative structures, enhances viewers' comprehension and enjoyment

Institutionalised dreams

How do states become donors? Why do individuals decide to share their wealth with others through foreign aid? Using examples from Poland, Elżbieta Drążkiewicz demonstrates how the concept of foreign aid requires the establishment of a specific moral economy which links national ideologies and l...

Nationalism's bloody terrain

As many scholars have argued, racism and its passions are created by and subordinated to the nation. This volume places the practices of racism at the center of analysis of so-called post-racist or multi cultural nation-states. This way, each contributor analytically treats racism and its relat...