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Militant around the clock?
This book is the first study of the impact of left-wing political activism on the leisure pursuits and sexual behavior of Greek youth in the 1970s. Aanalyzes the cultural politics of left-wing organizations alongside the actual practices of their members. Demonstrates that left-wing ...
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Rhodes scholars, oxford, and the creation of an american elite
Each year thirty-two seniors at American universities are awarded Rhodes Scholarships, which entitle them to spend two or three years studying at the University of Oxford. The program, founded by the British colonialist and entrepreneur Cecil Rhodes and established in 1903, has become the world...
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Pilgrim voices
Research on pilgrimage has traditionally fallen across a series of academic disciplines - anthropology, archaeology, art history, geography, history and theology. To date, relatively little work has been devoted to the issue of pilgrimage as writing and specifically as a form of travel-writing....
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Science, seti, and mathematics
Makes a complex subject accessible to the typical reader through a conversational tone An exploration of the scientific, historical, philosophical and psychological motivations behind the search for extraterrestrial intelligence Draws on the author’s extensive background in pure and ...
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Lurking cold war
Lasting traces of the Cold War continue to shape the social landscape in Italy and Greece. Lurking Cold War critiques the connections between global categories and individual experiences, foregrounding Cold War resonances through materiality, imagination, speculation, and affect – in literature...
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The state and the arts
Judith Kapferer and her collaborators present an insightful volume that interrogates relations between the state and the arts in diverse national and cultural settings. The authors critique the taken-for-granted assumption about the place of the arts in liberal or social democratic states and t...
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Being bedouin around petra
Takes an ethnographic approach to understanding everyday life of the Bedouin as heritage in contemporary Jordan. Exemplifies the materiality of heritage proclamations and religious transformations. Demonstrates the complex entanglements of Islamic revival, tourism, heritage managemen...
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The third world in the global 1960s
the first book to analyze the 1960s from a Third World perspective. contains a wide geographical scope, and contains essays on Latin America, Africa and Asia. attempts to uncover everyday people and their struggle with the geopolitics of the Cold War, and analyzes the Cold War from ...
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Beyond the border
Beyond the Border reconstructs the experiences of minority youths living in the Danish-German borderlands from the 1950s to the 1970s. Drawing on a remarkable variety of archival and oral sources, author Tobias Haimin Wung-Sung provides a rich and fine-grained analysis that encompasses politica...
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A human garden
A Human Garden explains the longevity of the Ungemach Gardens, an experimental eugenic city that survived on the outskirts of Strasbourg from the 1920s to the 1980s. He reveals the inheritance of eugenics, examining ways in which eugenics have come to influence social, health, and educational p...
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Sustainable development
Focus on sustainable development in the Middle East region. Utilises the wide range of contributors’ disciplinary backgrounds. The interdisciplinary integration across the volume, is essential to meaningful discussion of sustainable development.
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Marriage and its obstacles 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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Young men in uncertain times
International range of cross cultural cases Context driven Ethnographically rich
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A durkheimian quest
The book is a thorough and unpretentious reading of Durkheim The book undertakes detailed, up-to-date investigations of Durkheim’s work in an effort to restore its freshness and reveal it as originally created Reconstructs Durkheim’s concern with a modern world in crisis and his hope...
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The european puzzle
The twin concepts of “Culture” and “Identity” are inescapable in any discussion of European Integration and yet over the last ten years their meaning has become increasingly contested. By combining an anthropological and political perspective, the authors challenge the traditional boundaries wi...
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Conservation and mobile indigenous peoples
The second edition of this remarkable book updates the immense advances in policy and soft international law with regards to the rights of mobile indigenous peoples in conservation.
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The spirit of the laws
Examines the confiscation of Armenian properties during the Genocide and subsequent attempts to retain seized Armenian wealth. Reveals that decrees issued during the Genocide constitute central pillars of the Turkish system of property rights, retaining their legal validity. Demonstr...
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Protest, youth and precariousness
After over a decade of austerity in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, what lies next for European societies? This edited collection brings together sociologists, social movement specialists, political scientists, and other scholars to look specifically at how Portuguese youth have navigate...
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Civil society in the age of monitory democracy
seeks to compare and reassess the role of civil society in the rich West, the poorer South, and East in the context of the twenty-first century’s challenges addresses political activism and the state and nature of contemporary democracy in various different contexts presents a novel ...
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Arts initiatives by refugees for refugees
It is imperative that people learn more about the humans encompassed in this statistic so that they can be welcomed and incorporated productively in host countries. The book’s focus on the creativity and agency of displaced people should inform host communities to take advantage of and...
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Public engagement and education
Public Engagement and Education shares effective approaches for engaging and educating learners of all ages about archaeology and how one can encourage them to become stewards of the past. Offered are applied examples that are not bound to specific geographies or cultures, but rather, are appro...
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Peter lilienthal
Peter Lilienthal is the first comprehensive study of Lilienthal’s life and career, highlighting the distinctively cross-cultural and transnational dimensions of his oeuvre, and exploring his role as an early exemplar of a more vibrant and inclusive European film culture.
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The ethnographic experiment
Concentrates on the neglected work by two such important early 20th-century scholars as Rivers and Hocart in Solomon Islands and elsewhere in Island Melanesia. Examines a little-known research effort that was to provide major foundations for the development of cross-cultural method and a...
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Concepts of culture
Examines what happens when conceptual history is introduced into an ongoing scholarly discourse or debate. Offers an interdisciplinary approach to conceptual history that aims to broaden the scope of this influential theoretical tradition. Includes contributions written by authors fr...
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Caring for the 'holy land'
In Israel, as in numerous countries of the global North, Filipina women have been recruited in large numbers for domestic work, typically as live-in caregivers for the elderly. The case of Israel is unique in that the country has a special significance as the ‘Holy Land’ for the predominantly d...
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A fatal balancing act
First comprehensive study on the German-Jewish leadership during the Holocaust Gives a new perspective on the persecution of Jews in Germany Presents different inner-Jewish perspectives on the years 1939-1945
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The indoctrination of the wehrmacht
Other studies look at the indoctrination of the Wehrmacht, and numerous studies look at the war crimes of the Wehrmacht. However, this study is different in that it focuses much more closely on the indoctrination of the Wehrmacht than previous studies, but perhaps more importantly, it views...
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Trapped in the gap
A forensic analysis of the dilemmas of well intentioned white development workers in Australia. Explores what happens when well-meaning people, supported by the state, find themselves trapped by endless ambiguities and contradictions — a microcosm of the broader dilemmas of postcolonial ...
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Working in greece and turkey
The studies in Working in Greece and Turkey provide an overdue exploration of labour history on both sides of the Aegean, before as well as after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Deploying the approaches of global labour history as a framework, this volume presents transnational, transcontinenta...
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Theorising media and conflict
Theorising Media and Conflict brings together anthropologists as well as media and communication scholars to collectively address the elusive and complex relationship between media and conflict. Practitioners, policymakers, students and scholars who wish to understand the lived realities and dy...
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Passing misery
An illuminating translation of the journal of Jean Louis Mary Pasquiers, a former teacher and forced laborer, Passing Misery documents Pasquiers’ life within war-torn Europe, in unwilling service to the Nazi regime. In doing so, this book offers an unrivalled insight into the reality of collabo...
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Rethinking and unthinking development
Title calls readers to rethink conventional development practices It encourages readers to unthink/unlearn conventional development practices in order to explore now practices relevant to the communities Title exposes the coloniality of long-established development practices taken ...
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Transregional and transnational families in europe and beyond
While the current discussion of ethnic, trade, and commercial diasporas, global networks, and transnational communities constantly makes reference to the importance of families and kinship groups for understanding the dynamics of dispersion, few studies examine the nature of these families in a...
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Mapping difference
Drawn from various disciplines and a broad spectrum of research interests, these essays reflect on the challenging issues confronting women in Ukraine today. The contributors are an interdisciplinary, transnational group of scholars from gender studies, feminist theory, history, anthropology, s...
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Teaching modernization
Amid the Cold War and global student protests, transnational forces significantly shaped the modernization of educational systems in Spain and Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s. Each study sheds new light on the transnational circulation of modernization discourses, practices, and ideolo...
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Transcultural montage
Asserts that the destabilisation of commonsense perception is the very precondition for transcending social and cultural categories Contributors explore the use of montage as a heuristic tool for comparative analysis in anthropological, film and exhibition making
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Public anthropology in a borderless world
Articulates how public engagement is transforming the discipline of anthropology. Includes perspectives from contributors on their personal and professional transformations.
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Extinct monsters to deep time
Extinct Monsters to Deep Time is an ethnography that documents the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of the museum in the 21st century.
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A history of oxford anthropology
Informative as well as entertaining, this volume offers many interesting facets of the first hundred years of anthropology at Oxford University.
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Textures of belonging
The longstanding European conception that Roma and non-Roma are separated by unambiguous socio-cultural distinctions has led to the construction of Roma as "non-belonging others." Challenging this conception, Textures of Belonging explores how Roma negotiate and feel belonging on the everyday l...
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Plants, health and healing
Plants have cultural histories, as their applications change over time and with place. Some plant species have affected human cultures in profound ways, such as the stimulants tea and coffee from the Old World, or coca and quinine from South America. Even though medicinal plants have always att...
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Hitler's plans for global domination
A well researched study of Adolf Hitler’s goals of world domination and his plans to implement it The author presents new sources and information, including Hitler’s plan to attack New York City in December 1941 The text examines Nazi imperial architecture, armament and Hitler’s plan...
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It happens among people
Written by eleven leading anthropologists from around the world, this volume extends the insights of Fredrik Barth, one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century, to push even further at the frontiers of anthropology.
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Categories in context
Despite the wealth of empirical research into the interrelationships of gender and labor available, little is known about the forms of classification and categorization shaping these social phenomena. Categories in Context enriches our understanding of how cognitive categories such as status, l...
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