Gendered money

As economic citizenship was a pre-condition of full citizenship, the lack of economic autonomy was an important motivation during the early stages of the women’s movement. Independent of their class background, women had less access to not only financial resources but also social and cultural c...

Central america in the new millennium

Study of transitions to democracy in a region known for political volatility Study of struggles of ordinary workers and peasants to survive in ongoing economic crisis Important situated research on globalisation processes Ethnographic "micro" approach to structural "macro" issues

Topographies of suffering

At the forefront of transcultural innovations in memory studies. Provides a new interdisciplinary approach to the study of Holocaust commemoration, combining approaches from literary ecocriticism, cultural geography and cultural studies. Sheds new light on transnational networks of H...

Cognition, risk, and responsibility in obstetrics

Volume 2 in this landmark 3-volume series on The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians looks at cognition, risk, and responsibility in obstetrics. This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to understand obstetricians' differin...

Ritual retellings

Explores the significance of Belian curing rituals in practice. Demonstrates the importance of understanding rituals as emergent within their specific historical and social settings. Offers an analysis of a number of concrete ritual performances, exemplifying a diversity of ritual ge...

Fishers and scientists in modern turkey

Through the ethnography and history of fish production, seafood consumption, state modernizing policies and marine science, this book analyzes the role of local knowledge in the management of marine resources on the Eastern Black Sea coast of Turkey. Fishing, science and other ways of knowing a...

Understanding business offenders

Focusing on understanding business offenders through an exploration of workplace deviance and crime, this book closely examines a number of illustrative contemporary case studies and underpins the analysis of original comparative fieldwork, with an interdisciplinary approach, which informs, dev...

Ecological nostalgias

Introducing the study of econostalgias through a variety of rich ethnographic cases, this volume argues that a strictly human centered approach does not account for contemporary longings triggered by ecosystem upheavals.

Languid bodies, grounded stances

it is a study of an embodied practice. it is an ethnography of odissi dance, last one was in 1985 and focused on a small subset. it is the study of an ancient form in a contemporary context.

Family upheaval

A focus on different generations within Pakistani migrant families A study of immigration, integration and securitization in Denmark The connections between integration policies and sorcery suspicions

Reparative citizenship for sephardi descendants

In 2015, both Portugal and Spain passed laws enabling descendants of Sephardi Jews to obtain citizenship, an historic offer of reconciliation. Drawing from scholarly and first-person essays, Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants analyzes the memory and afterlives of those who were wro...

Ibn khaldun

The first book to be published which specifically looks at Ibn Khaldun's influence on the development of anthropology. Ibn Khaldun is considered one of the fathers of the social sciences and retains a huge influence over 600 years after his death. Lawrence Rosen is a world renowned e...

Extreme heritage management

Conflicting and competing claims over the actual and imagined use of land and seascapes are exacerbated on islands with high population density. The management of culture and heritage is particularly tested in island environments where space is finite and the population struggles to preserve cu...

Commerce as politics

This is the first comprehensive economic history of the Basotho people of Southern Africa and spans from the 1820s to the present day. The book documents what the Basotho have done on their own account, focusing on their systematic exclusion from trade and their political efforts to insert them...

The science of state power in the habsburg monarchy, 1790-1880

The science of Statistik (statistics) by the Habsburg state in the long 19th century was adapted to the political growth of imperial power. The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880 connects the disciplinary history of German sciences of the state to the integration of terr...

Nighttime breastfeeding

In this updated edition, the author describes shifting medical guidance that increasingly supports breastfeeding yet remains largely separated from infant sleep guidance. The volume also provides a path towards more equitable approaches to nighttime infant care grounded in reproductive justice.

Who knows tomorrow?

This ethnography shows how Rashaida in north-eastern Sudan deal with unknowns from day to day unpredictability to life-threatening dangers. Demonstrates how uncertainty need not be seen as a debilitating problem but also as an opportunity to create other futures.

Nourishing life

The cultural politics of reproduction

Offers a detailed analysis of the social and cultural experiences of migrant communities Explores arguments seated at the heart of the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences Provides a comparative study of identity and a cultural understanding of the health care system, demonstra...

The sea commands

Azenha do Mar is a fishing community on the southwest coast of Portugal. It came into existence around forty years ago, as an outcome of the abandonment of work in the fields and of propitious ecological conditions. This book looks at the migration processes since the founding of the community ...

Politics of the dunes

Politics of the Dunes explores the ways in which the Open City’s architectural and urban practice is devoted to keeping open the utopian possibility for multiplicity, pluralism, and democratization in the face of authoritarianism, a powerful mode of postcolonial environmental urbanism that can ...

Demonstrating reconciliation

During the 1950s and early 1960s, the West German government refused to exchange ambassadors with Israel. It feared Arab governments might retaliate against such an acknowledgement of their political foe by recognizing Communist East Germany–West Germany’s own nemesis–as an independent state, a...

The french road movie

The only existing full-length study on the road movie in French cinema Argues for the importance to French cinema of this largely overlooked genre Challenges previous conceptions of the road movie within film history and theory, and offers new ways of understanding the genre Prov...

The trial of a nazi doctor

The Trial of a Nazi Doctor documents the career, crimes, and prosecution of Franz Bernhard Lucas (1911-1994), an SS camp doctor who tried to deflect his participation in the Nazi’s genocidal projects and juxtaposes them with a wide range of testimonials from witnesses including former camp inma...

Sacral kingship between disenchantment and re-enchantment

A major contribution to the study of early modern monarchy A well organised study focusing on the interaction between ideas of monarchy and images of power in France and England A new perspective on the sacred role that churches and religion bestowed on monarchs

Unlocking the love-lock

A padlock is a mundane object, designed to fulfil a specific – and secular – purpose. A contemporary custom has given padlocks new significance155. This custom is ‘love-locking’, where padlocks are engraved with names and attached to bridges in declaration of romantic commitment. This book expl...

The politics of appointment

Offers new insights into the general history of Habsburg Central Europe during a time of great political, economic, and social change Analyses the relation between state administration and national political parties on various levels Demonstrates, based on archival research, the syst...

The duty of memory

An illuminating investigation into the evolution of the phrase “duty of memory”, this volume spotlights how this theory of memory has been historicized and transmitted throughout French society, highlighting how its trajectory offers a lens for understanding contemporary societies’ relationship...

Entangled reactionaries

A transnational perspective of the construction of pre-fascist conservative identities in Spain at the beginning of the 20th century in relation to the European and Latin American contexts Explains the process of nationalization of the masses and the construction of political and social ...

In the event

Explains how to analyze generative moments through events that hold the key to understanding larger social situations. Based on ethnographic studies from around the world.

Understanding social images

Marcus Banks was one of the scholars who changed the way visual anthropology and visual methods were regarded in social and cultural anthropology. This collection of Banks’ essays considers the role of collaboration in the making of ethnographic films and makes the case for slow research.

The marseille mosaic

Moving across disciplines, The Marseille Mosaic integrates a diverse range of sources and methods to reveal France’s second city in the national imagination as a critical site for postcolonial memory and urban transformation as they crucially interact with debates in contemporary French society.

Going forward by looking back

Catastrophes are on the rise due to climate change, as is their toll in terms of lives and livelihoods as world populations rise and people locate into hazardous places. This book catalogues a wide and diverse range of case studies of such disasters and human responses. This heritage of past di...

Silence, screen, and spectacle

Takes on an innovative focus on “spectacular memory,” asking how spectacle functions in processes of memory, countermemory, and silencing. Breaks new ground in the discussion of absence, both in terms of the ‘absent,’ missing dialogues, texts, monuments and communities, as well as the “d...

Rhetoric and social relations

Rhetoric and Social Relations addresses the use and embeddedness of rhetoric in social life and social interaction. It explores the constitutive role of rhetoric in socio-cultural relations, where discursive persuasion is so important, and contains both theoretical chapters as well as fascinati...

Voices of the dunera

Sheds new light on an infamous decision by the British government to deport German refugees (most of them Jewish) to Australia during WWII. Presents for the first hand first hand testimony from internees about their life and treatment. Has a contemporary relevance reflecting issues r...

New imaginaries

A unique approach to studying gender that offers a portrait of Ukrainian society as seen through the eyes of a new generation of feminist scholars. In displacing the Soviet legacy of prescribed thought and practices, this volume’s female contributors have infused their work with Western ...

Struggles for home

Based on anthropological studies across the globe, this book explores the social practice of home-making amongst people whose lives are characterized by movement and violence. Social scientific and policy understandings of home and migration tend to focus on territory, culture and nation, often...

Revolution and counterrevolution

Why did the most unruly proletariat of the Twentieth Century come to tolerate the ascendancy of a political and economic system that, by every conceivable measure, proved antagonistic to working-class interests? Revolution and Counterrevolution is at the center of the ongoing discussion about c...

The death of the big men and the rise of the big shots

An important insight into the radical cultural changes following on from demographic change, land-conflicts and economic scarcity An analysis of how people re-make sociality in an era of post-colonial neo-liberalism Contributes to the understanding of the problems of post-disaster r...

An improbable war?

The First World War has been described as the "primordial catastrophe of the twentieth century." Arguably, Italian Fascism, German National Socialism and Soviet Leninism and Stalinism would not have emerged without the cultural and political shock of World War I. The question why this catastrop...

Where are all our sheep?

Describes the path of economic and political liberalization chosen by post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan and its eventual dependence on the outside world, particularly on international aid. Explains how the Kyrgyz have turned this economic “opening up” into a subtle strategy to capture all manner of...

Je t’aime... moi non plus

A series of limiting definitions have tended to delineate the Franco-British cinematic relationship. As this collection of essays reveals, there is much more to it than simple oppositions between British critical esteem for the films of France and French dismissal of ‘le cinéma British’, or the...

Mass communication in israel

This text documents the long-standing relationship between mass communication and the construction of nation states The author examines the impact of the media at both cultural and institutional levels Soffer positions Israel as a unique case study, drawing parallels between techno...