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Mastering soldiers
Studies of the military that deal with the actual experience of troops in the field are still rare in the social sciences. In fact, this ethnographic study of an elite unit in the Israeli Defense Force is the only one of its kind. As an officer of this unit and a professional anthropologist, th...
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Witches and demons
The first published work on children accused of witchcraft in Europe. Based on ethnographic research. Comprehensive use of research data. The work uses research data. The chapters concern UK.
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The bressonians
In its methodology, the book combines an aesthetics of film authorship with a sociological approach. Takes into account the juridical dimension of film authorship. Provides an in-depth analysis of the work of renowned filmmakers Jean Eustache and Maurice Pialat, putting them in dialo...
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What is work?
Every society has a definition of what work is, and isn’t. What Is Work? offers a multi-disciplinary overview of work as it applies to the highly gendered realm of household economies, drawing from scholarship on gender history, economic sociology, family history, civil law, and feminist econom...
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Ultimate ambiguities
A volume on death, specifically addressing liminality. Inter-disciplinary in focus. Presents a range of case studies outlining emotional, artistic, cognitive, social and political implications.
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The women's liberation movement
This collection represents the first systematic reflection on the impact and outcomes of the women’s liberation movement in different areas and topics of Western societies. It systematically investigates movement outcomes in one country in the light of a reflective social movement theory and co...
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Imagining the post-apartheid state
The book offers an anthropological contribution to a wider, multi-disciplinary debate relating to ‘the state’ and state process. The book addresses and expands upon a new and growing area of anthropological interest by helping to define that which might constitute an ‘ethnography of the ...
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Israel and the diaspora in jewish law
THE FREEHOF INSTITUTE OF PROGRESSIVE HALAKHAH The Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah is a creative research center devoted to studying and defining the progressive character of the halakhah in accordance with the principles and theology of Reform Judaism. It seeks to establish the ideol...
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Innovation and implementation
Providing a comprehensive set of guidance to assist researchers wishing to carry out, curate and disseminate field research at a historic burial ground, chapters offer up to date methods for surface and subsurface survey and for the recording and archiving of burial monument data. Also included...
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Fate calculation experts
Reveal the fault-lines of contemporary politics and the types of anxieties that are generated in a society that is rapidly modernizing while reinventing strict codes of hierarchy, Given the popularity of divination in many modern societies, and the lack of anthropological studies on the ...
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Tropological thought and action
From twilight in the Himalayas to dream worlds in the Serbian state, this book provides a unique collection of anthropological and cross-cultural inquiry into the power of rhetorical tropes and their relevance to the formation and analysis of social thought and action through a series of ethnog...
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Planning for the planet
In the 1960s and 1970s, rapidly growing environmental awareness and concern not only led to widespread calls for new policies, but also created unprecedented demand for ecological expertise by the likes of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. This book explores how conservati...
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Racism in metropolitan areas
For several decades, a political discourse, which incites exclusion and hatred againt those who are perceived as different, has been gaining ground, most notably in affluent and developed countries. Focusing on the growth of racism in large cities and urban areas, this volume presents the views...
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Istanbul at the threshold of nation state
In 1920s and 30s Turkey, the rise of Christian exclusionary movements and policies were backed by nationalist labor and merchant federations. An Imperial Capital at the Threshold of Nation State traces these formations in political dissent and coalition to the faction split of Turkish national ...
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Fault lines
Explores plans for urban development in Sicily prior to 2 earthquakes, in 1908 and 1968, and compares them with the urbanism which materialised from the ruins. Provides an insight into the role of environmental forces in the history of human habitats.
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The spirit of affect
The book offers an ethnographically rich, original and so far unexplored examination of song-dance performances among rural Punu communities in Congo-Brazzaville. Building on the work of the influential anthropologist Tim Ingold, the book offers a critical engagement with affect theory, ...
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Maritime archaeology with compassionate community connection
Brings in voices from the Asia Pacific on the vibrant and critical developments in Maritime and Underwater Archaeology. These voices from Hawaii/Aotearoa, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Pacific, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam are exceptional in relaying the compassion implicit...
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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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Lost objects of desire
This first book-length critical study of Jeremy Irons concentrates on his key performances and acting style. Through the analysis of some of the major screen roles in Irons’s career, such as Brideshead Revisited, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Reversal of Fortune, Swann in Love, Dead Ringers an...
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The experience of neoliberal education
The college experience is increasingly positioned to demonstrate its value as a worthwhile return on investment. Specific, definable activities, such as research experience, first-year experience, and experiential learning, are marketed as delivering precise skill sets in the form of an individ...
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Creative land
What is creative in kinship? How are people connected to places? James Leach answers these questions through formulating “creativity” as an integral part of kinship on the north coast of Papua New Guinea. The book contains a new critique of the genealogical model of kinship, suggesting that thi...
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Social im/mobilities in africa
Grounded in both theory and ethnography, this volume insists on taking social positionality seriously when accounting for Africa’s current age of polarizing wealth. To this end, the notion of social im/mobilities emphasizes the complexities of current changes, taking us beyond the prism of a un...
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The ethics of knowledge creation
This volume focuses on how knowledge is relationally created, how local knowledge can be transmuted into ‘universal knowledge’, and how transactions and consumption of knowledge monitors knowledge. The Ethics of Knowledge Creation examines how these transactions are then situated according to b...
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Day of the dead
The Day of the Dead is the most important annual celebration in Oaxaca, Mexico. Skillfully combining textual information and photographic imagery, this book begins with a discussion of the people of Oaxaca, their way of life, and their way of looking at the world. It then takes the reader throu...
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Knowing how to know
This volume examines some crucial issues in the conduct of fieldwork and ethnography and provides new insights into the problems of constructing anthropological knowledge. How is anthropological knowledge created from fieldwork, whose knowledge is this, who determines what is of significance in...
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Who owns the past?
In the decades since the collapse of socialism in eastern Europe, time has been a central resource under negotiation. Focusing on a local community that was considered a "model" in the socialist period, the author explores a variety of state-sponsored and unofficial pasts - history, folklore, a...
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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, ...
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Franz baermann steiner
Franz Baermann Steiner (1909-52) provided the vital link between the intellectual culture of central Europe and the Oxford Institute of Anthropology in its post-Second World War years. This book demonstrates his quiet influence within anthropology, which has extended from Mary Douglas to Davi...
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Sinti and roma
According to opinion polls, Germans are less favorably disposed towards the Sinti and Roma than towards any other ethnic group, despite the fact that few Germans have any personal knowledge of them or even realize that the Sinti and Roma in Germany include both Germans and non-Germans. The imag...
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Machine-created culture
Machine-Created Culture offers archaeologists of any level new ways of interpreting electronic and digital artifacts, sites, and landscapes. Playfully told through the misadventures of a reluctant digital archaeologist, this book gently leads readers into emerging topics including quantum archa...
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Fatness and the maternal body
Obesity is a rising global health problem. On the one hand a clearly defined medical condition, it is at the same time a corporeal state embedded in the social and cultural perception of fatness, body shape and size. Focusing specifically on the maternal body, contributors to the volume examine...
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Boro, l'île d'amour
An introduction and guide to the complex work of Polish film director Walerian Borowczyk. Allows scholars to gain access to previously unnoticed aspects of Borowczyk's body of work.
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Illness and enlightenment
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the Tibetan region of Amdo in northwest China, Illness and Enlightenment examines Tibetan medical and religious texts, to explore the multi-faceted concept of nyoné through key Tibetan concepts of wind, heart, and mind, as well as human-spirit relationships.
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Moving subjects, moving objects
A new perspective on how emotions can be theorized and used to understand the mobility of humans, objects and images Examines how migrants and migrant artists express their emotions through objects and images in translational contexts Draws on diverse, ethnographically rich and theor...
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Transnational struggles for recognition
This interdisciplinary collection focuses on both the subject's theoretical and empirical dimensions to examine the pursuit of recognition against a transnational backdrop. A special emphasis on the efforts of women’s and Jewish organizations in 20th-century Europe. Shows how recog...
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Gypsy economy
An explanation of the relationship between the economic arrangements of members of Roma communities and their social position. An exploration of how economic exchanges forge key social relationships of gender and ethnicity, and how economic opportunities are constructed and seized. A...
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The hidden history of crime, corruption, and states
No other volume covers the collusion of lawmakers and lawbreakers in state formation over 300 years touching on each continent. Contributing scholars meld history and anthropology. Introduction offers a political economy theoretical perspective. The topic is very timely.
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Centennial fever
Hispanic commemorations that shaped the major elements of Spanish identity at the beginning of the 20th century, and their persistence to the present day, from the “discovery” of America to the publication of Don Quixote of la Mancha, are truly global and transnational events that have created ...
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Writing holocaust history
Exemplifies some of the major trends in the writing of Holocaust history in the 21st century, with a particular focus on local Holocaust history in Eastern Europe and the biographies of low-level participants. Collects scattered, recent contributions of a senior Holocaust historian that ...
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A history of the i.g. farben trial
In this exacting examination of the history of the I.G. Farben trial, Stephan H. Lindner charts the build up and aftermath of this watershed event, in order to highlight its implications for understanding the complexities of corporate social responsibility and of putting the military-industrial...
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Iron in the soul
In his vivid, lively account of how Greek Cypriot villagers coped with a thirty-year displacement, Peter Loïzos follows a group of people whom he encountered as prosperous farmers in 1968, yet found as disoriented refugees when revisiting in 1975. By providing a forty year in-depth perspective ...
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The state and the grassroots
First study of immigrant organizations conducted in the U.S. and Europe. First comparative study of immigrant organizations conducted with the same research methodology. First study to focus explicitly on the relation between immigrant organizations and development in sending c...
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Critical public archaeology
Critical approaches to public archaeology have been in use since the 1980s, however only recently have archaeologists begun using critical theory in conjunction with public archaeology to challenge dominant narratives of the past. This volume brings together current work on the theory and pract...
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Vladimir odoevsky and romantic poetics
Vladimir Odoevsky (1804-1869) was a fascinating and encyclopedic figurein nineteenth-century Russian culture, who in his day was mentioned in the same breath as Pushkin and Gogol. Thinker, pedagogue, musicologist, amateur scientist and public servant, he is now undergoing a revival as a virtual...
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