Educational studies in europe

Rethinking atlantic empire

In recent years, the historiography of nineteenth-century Spain has been invigorated by interdisciplinary engagement with scholars working on topics such as empire, slavery, and race, exemplified by the work of Christopher Schmidt-Nowara. Rethinking Atlantic Empire places Schmidt-Nowara’s work ...

The island of the pope

This illuminating re-examination of Syros’s transition into a major commercial hub following the Greek War of Independence revises the conventional understanding of the island’s demographic history, highlighting how, rather than withdraw, the native Catholic community adjusted and integrated in...

Living translation

Examines the way American teachers and students of Chinese medicine search for resonance in translated texts and concepts. Traces the translation from text to practice and considers the social, political, historical, moral, and personal dimensions involved in the transnational production...

Ecological migrants

The first ethnography in English devoted solely to China’s only reindeer herders. Offers a typical case in China that combines the macro policy and the local practice of the ecological migration project. Reflects the mainstream discourse of modernization of China through the marginal...

Cash transfers in context

Students and scholars in Anthropology, Development studies, social policies, Latina American and African studies. Development practitioners, policy makers, humanitarian workers, international organizations and NGOs personnel. And, of course, cash transfer programs agents and staff…

Iron landscapes

Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the newly formed country of Czechoslovakia built an ambitious national rail network out of what remained of the obsolete Habsburg system. Drawing on evidence ranging from government documents to newsreels to train timetables, Iron Landscapes gives a nuanced accou...

Between blood and gold

A comparative study analyzing the debates within France and Great Britain relating to the question of compensation to former slaveholders. It lays out the philosophical, legal-political, and economic factors at play. It establishes a powerful new model for understanding the aftermath...

The search for normality

The Historikerstreit of the 1980s has ended inconclusively amidst heated debates on the nature and course of German national history. The author follows the debates beyond the unexpected reunification of the country in 1990 and analyzes the most recent trends in German historiography. Reunifica...

Military politics

Bringing together new research by leading scholars, this volume rethinks the role played by militaries in politics. The volume introduces new theories of military politics, arguing against the inherited theories and practices of civil-military relations, and presents rich new data on senior off...

Terrorism in question

Offers an original, new argument about the politics of terrorism, especially post-9/11 “new terrorism;” Provides a truly global methodological framework — weaving, for instance, poetry, imagination, and International Relations together — in a way that connects the “small place” to the la...

The greek war of independence

Sheds not only additional, but necessary, light on understudied aspects of the Greek Revolution. Places the Greek Revolution within both an Ottoman and European and, also, a larger historical and historiographical context. Examines the impact the Greek Revolution had in diverse case ...

Nationalism and the cinema in france

Original research informs each chapter, addressing film reception, including classics and popular culture often ignored. Re-reads work from major figures including: Truffaut, Godard, Lelouch, Sautet, Renoir, Pagnol and others. First sustained analysis of nationalism in French cinema ...

Business as usual

Examines continuities across 1945, so contextualizes the Nazi period in the longer arc of German history Offers a highly condensed social history of the period, drawing on source material that has received little attention to date. Attempts to dissolve the purportedly clear distincti...

After unity

The unification of Germany is the most important change in Central Europe in the last four decades. Understanding this rapid and unforeseen development has raised old fears as well as inspired new hopes. In order to make sense out of the bewildering process and to help both expert and lay reade...

Between marx and coca-cola

In the 1960s and 1970s, Western Europe's "Golden Age" (Eric Hobsbawm), a new youth consciousness emerged, which gave this period its distinctive character. Offering rich and new material, this volume moves beyond the easy conflation of youth culture and "Americanization" and instead sets out to...

Embodying exchange

Embodying Exchange addresses the infrastructural, legal and moral complexities in contemporary world trade through an ethnographic analysis of the interface of multinational brand manufacturers and popular traders in the Bolivian Andes.

Recovered territory

Describes how the borderland of Upper Silesia was at the centre of a conflict between Germany and Poland between 1919 and 1989. Explains how, in their interaction with — and mutual influence on — one another, political and cultural actors from both nations developed a transnational cultu...

At home in the okavango

First anthropological study of the white citizens of the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Rare insights into the controversial practice of safari hunting, which has since been banned in Botswana. Contribution to theory surrounding autochthony/indigeneity.

Globalization in southeast asia

The rapid postwar economic growth in the Southeast Asia region has led to a transformation of many of the societies there, together with the development of new types of anthropological research in the region. Local societies with originally quite different cultures have been incorporated into m...

At the edge of the wall

The neighboring boroughs of Friedrichschain and Kreuzberg shared a history and identity until their fortunes diverged dramatically following the construction of the Berlin Wall, which placed them within opposing political systems. This revealing account of the two towns during and after the Col...

Illness and irony

Theories of illness and therapy since Freud have included the possibility that sufferers are complicit in their conditions. The studies in this volume explore the ways in which illness and therapy may be characterized as sites at which ironies of the human condition are produced, encountered, a...

Coping with distances

The Nordic Atlantic area has seen remarkable examples of social formations in areas that many would perceive as too remote to allow the construction of functioning communities. But through innovations, networking and the formation of identities people have coped with distances, thus continuousl...

Fire on the island

In 2014, the island of Ahamb in Vanuatu became the scene of a startling Christian revival movement led by thirty children with ‘spiritual vision’. Based on twenty months of ethnographic fieldwork on Ahamb between 2010 and 2017, this book investigates how upheavals like the Ahamb revival can eme...

Subsistence-settlement systems and intersite variability in the moroiso phase of the early jomon period of japan

This book examines the settlement patterns and intersite variability in lithic assemblages of Early Jomon (ca. 5000 BP) hunter-gatherers in Japan. The results of this study suggest that the Early Jomon people were not sedentary, as previously assumed, but instead moved their residential basis s...

Modern babylon?

Child prostitution became one of the key concerns of the international community in the 1990s. World congresses were held, international and national laws were changed and concern over "cemmercially sexually exploited children" rose dramatically. Rarely, however, were the children who worked as...

Europe in 1848

The events of 1989/90 in Europe demonstrated the renewed relevance of the mid-nineteenth century uprisings: both by showing, once again, how a revolutionary initiative could quickly spread through different European countries, but also by calling into question the nature of revolution and the c...

Contested nationalism

"Only unity saves the Serbs" is the famous call for unity in the Serb nationalist doctrine. But even though this doctrine was ideologically adhered to by most of the Serb leaders in Croatia and Bosnia, disunity characterized Serb politics during the Yugoslav disintegration and war. Nationalism ...

Conceiving kinship

Conceiving Kinship is an in-depth journey, the first of its kind, into how heterosexual, lesbian and gay couples using programmes of gamete donation conceptualize and make Italian kinship. It explores the provision of treatment in clinical and non-clinical settings at a time when Italy was cons...

Thinking utopia

After the breakdown of socialist and communist systems in the East, it had become fashionable to declare the so-called "end of utopia" ("end of history," "end of narratives"). The authors of this volume do not share this view but think that it is time to rehabilitate utopian thought. The politi...

Elite malay polygamy

Ethnography of elite polygamy as lived practice. Exploring internal dynamics of elite kinship in Muslim Southeast Asia. Uncovering changing elite gender relations in Muslim Southeast Asia.

Who owns the stock?

The issue of collective and multiple property rights in animals, such as cattle, camels or reindeers, among pastoralists has never been a subject of special cross-cultural and comparative study. Focusing on pastoralist societies in East and West Africa, the Far North and Siberia, and the Eurasi...

Tourism imaginaries

First in-depth anthropological study of tourism imaginaries. Collection of the most innovative thinkers in the anthropology of tourism at the moment. Agenda-setting volume for future research in tourism studies. World-wide geographical coverage, especially ethnic/minority tourism...

The global life of mines

The Global Life of Mines provides a comprehensive framework examining the spatial and temporal relationships between mining and postmining as interrelated and coexisting features within the global minescape.

Headlines of nation, subtexts of class

Since 1989 neo-nationalism has grown as a volatile political force in almost all European societies in tandem with the formation of a neoliberal European Union and wider capitalist globalizations. Focusing on working classes situated in long-run localized processes of social change, including p...

Experiencing materiality

Representing a cutting-edge study on the junction between theoretical anthropology, material culture studies, religious studies and museum anthropology, this study highlights the contradictions of museum practices and, at the same time, the potentialities that contemporary museums could offer f...

Social democracy and monetary union

Since the late 1960s social democrats have become the dominant political force in the European Union. In fact, Social Democrats govern in no less than 11 of the 15 member states. Simultaneously, the EU has embarked on its most far-reaching project yet, namely Economic and Monetary Union (EMU); ...

Asian lives in anthropological perspective

Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective draws together essays that trace historical and contemporary realities in India and Vietnam about a variety of compelling topics such as the experience of the Indian caste system and the ethical challenges faced by Vietnamese working women.

A sea of transience

Transience is found in every meeting, encounter and form of coexistence between people and things that exist and live by, or move across or along, the Black Sea. With particular attention to poetics, politics and aesthetics, this volume focuses on the scales of transient moments and histories, ...

The rhythm of eternity

This study is one of the very few comprehensive studies of the history of the German youth movement in the English language. This book finally debunks the persistent myth that the German Youth Movement was a reactionary movement. This study bridges the gap between historiography and ...

Beyond the divide

Focus on transnational intra-European Cold War connections. Comprehensive approach towards culture as an area of Cold War beyond the US and USSR. Merging of national perspectives into a comprehensive picture of the European situation during the Cold War. East-West interaction dur...

Shaping the transnational sphere

An original and innovative collection exploring the role of the expert in shaping culture and society Spans from the second half of the 19th Century, over a variety of landscapes from Western Europe to North America Demonstrates the influence of industrialisation and nation-building ...

Opposing ostpolitik

Broadens our understanding of a crucial period of German foreign policy, namely the 1960s. Introduces a major political figure and makes an important contribution to our understanding of Strauss’s strategic thinking during the Cold War while also offering important insights for the conte...

Between mass death and individual loss

Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject in its own right is very much linked to its pre-eminent place in 20th-century history, and Germany, predictably, occupies a special place in these i...