Substitute parents

From a comparative perspective, human life histories are unique and raising offspring is unusually costly: humans have relatively short birth intervals compared to other apes, childhood is long, mothers care simultaneously for many dependent children (other apes raise one offspring at a time), ...

Moral engines

What fundamentally drives human beings to strive for moral perfection? Is it care of the self?  Is it care for others? Is it inextricably wedded to politics? Moral Engines includes some of the foremost voices in the anthropology of morality, representing a unique interdisciplinary conversation ...

Conceptual history in the european space

The volume is the first comprehensive revisiting of conceptual history on a European scale It is also the first volume to consider the spatial and temporal dimensions of making comparisons of concepts across the whole of Europe. The volume also brings to bear diverse methods of analy...

Fellow tribesmen

Provides a German image of Native Americans covering c.150 years. Emphasis on nationalism and national identity. Provices an overview of the German print media landscape. Covers a broad range of sources (news media, magazines, fiction, academic, government documents).

Genocide in the ottoman empire

It deals with the genocide of the Assyrians. It deals with the genocide of the Greeks. It deals in a comparative manner with the genocide of the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks. The contributors are of many nationalities—not only of those discussed in the book—and represent pers...

Making scenes

In this unique volume examining the nature of scenes in rock art, researchers examine what defines a scene, what are the necessary elements of a scene, and what can the evolutionary history tell us about storytelling, sequential memory and cognitive evolution among ancient and living cultures?

Engaging the spirit world

In many parts of the contemporary world, spirit beliefs and practices have taken on a pivotal role in addressing the discontinuities and uncertainties of modern life. The myriad ways in which devotees engage the spirit world show the tremendous creative potential of these practices and their in...

Non-humans in amerindian south america

It focuses only on South America. It embraces both its Highlands and Lowlands. All their chapters are fieldwork-based. It critically addresses currently debated issues linked to Anthropology, Anthropocene, Climate Change, Ontologies and Non-Humans.

Perestroika and the party

While studies of the impact of Gorbachev-era reforms have overwhelmingly focused on the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc nations, this ambitious collection assesses their historical trajectories on both sides of the Iron Curtain. It moves beyond domestic politics and narrowly defined foreign relat...

Rationed life

Effectively combines various methodological approaches from cultural history, anthropology and labor studies. Engages the literature on the Bohemian Lands as well as broader, thematic literatures on labor, gender relations, late 19th century scientism, Habsburg rule, and the experiences ...

Homo itinerans

This book builds on more than two decades of ethnographic itinerancy in some twenty countries, bringing the readers from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran to Europe, North America and Australia. It describes the everyday life and transnational circulations of Afghan refugees and expatriates.

Latin america facing china

The last quarter of the twentieth century was a period of economic crises, increasing indebtedness as well as financial instability for Latin America and most other developing countries; in contrast, China showed amazingly high growth rates during this time and has since become the third larges...

A world of populations

Regional diversity, emphasis on local situations The essays in this collection provide a new approach to demography: history of knowledge The text is among the few publications in the field that cover the whole 20th century

The moral work of anthropology

Looking at anthropologists at work, this book investigates what kind of morality they perform in their occupations and the impact of this morality. The book includes ethnographic studies of anthropologists at work in four professional arenas: health care, business, management and interdisciplin...

Beyond posthumanism

Against the background of debates about a revival of humanist values, this volume seeks to recast the question of the viability of the humanities by analyzing their long-disputed premises in German literature and philosophy. It emphasizes the importance of the humanities’ original mission of es...

On the death of jews

In this trenchant meditation on photographs from an atrocity in Latvia during the Holocaust, Nadine Fresco argues for the vital importance of photographs—and nontraditional sources more broadly—for understanding the Holocaust. She confronts charged questions around guilt and testimony while tea...

New regionalism and asylum seekers

Taking the context of forced migration, this book addresses the role that regional, in contrast to national or global, institutions and relationships play in shaping asylum policies and procedures. It examines the causes of forced migration movements; the direction of forced migration flows and...

Death of the public university?

Continuous government reforms to make universities ‘world class’, entrepreneurial and drivers of the knowledge economy, are transforming the traditional mission and meaning of the public university and its ability to act as ‘critic and conscience’ of society. This collection explores the new la...

Microhistories of the holocaust

Micro perspectives on the Holocaust. Individual and Family narratives. Methodological Reflections about the Holocaust History.

The limits of loyalty

The overwhelming majority of historical work on the late Habsburg Monarchy has focused primarily on national movements and ethnic conflicts, with the result that too little attention has been devoted to the state and ruling dynasty. This volume is the first of its kind to concentrate on attempt...

Contesting deregulation

The collection will differ from the books, because one focus is on the history of the European Economic Community and compare developments in the West (EEC and US) on different international levels. The 13 case studies show that the change to new forms of regulation cannot be reduced to ...

Between two worlds

Jews have been well represented in the cinema industry from the beginning of the film era: behind the screen, as producers, distributors, directors, script-writers, composers, set designers; and on the screen, as Jewish actors and as named Jewish characters in the film's plot. Some of these cha...

The decolonial mandela

A significant contribution to the emerging literature on decolonial studies. Lays out a groundbreaking interpretation of the “Mandela phenomenon.” The author identifies transformative political justice and a reimagined social order as key features of Nelson Mandela’s legacy.

The nomads of mykonos

Globalizing automobilism

Multi-award winning titles that reveals how automobilism became a global force shaping modern mobility cultures. 'Magisterial in its account of car society and "layered mobility" across Africa, Asia, and Latin America’. (WHBP Committee) Introduces the concept of “layered mobility” to...

Civil society and gender justice

Civil society and civic engagement have increasingly become topics of discussion at the national and international level. The editors of this volume ask, does the concept of “civil society” include gender equality and gender justice? Or, to frame the question differently, is civil society a fem...

Music and nineteenth-century liberalism in the ibero-american atlantic space

Highlights the cultural transfer associated with the circulation of liberal ideas in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America by using snapshots that represent how different aspects of liberalism were created, staged and internalized across space and time. Features original research from ...

Europe in exile

During World War II, London was transformed into a European city, as it unexpectedly became a place of refuge for many thousands of European citizens who through choice or the accidents of war found themselves seeking refuge in Britain from the military campaigns on the Continent of Europe. In ...

The spectral within

Through the analytical lens of hunting, this book examines the efforts of Latina’s inhabitants to see their city as a meaningful social space, as they navigate the city’s multiple histories and the absent presence of the contested past.

Subjectivity at latin america's urban margins

Subjectivity at Latin America's Urban Margins investigates how margins are actively produced, upheld, and challenged through the process of subject-making and margin-drawing by a multiplicity of actors affecting Latin American cities today.

Centralizing fieldwork

Fieldwork is a central method of research throughout anthropology, a much-valued, much-vaunted mode of generating information. But its nature and process have been seriously understudied in biological anthropology and primatology. This book is the first ever comparative investigation, across pr...

Indigenous peoples and demography

Interdisciplinary examination of the historical and contemporary construct of indigenous people An international examination of indigenous people Relies on historical and demographical evidence to show how indigenous populations vary between countries

Archaeologies of rules and regulation

How can we study the impact of rules on the lives of past people using archaeological evidence? To answer this question, Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation presents case studies drawn from across Europe and the United States, exploring the use of archaeological evidence in understanding the ...

Sensitive pasts

Combination of heritage studies and history education Application of critical historical thinking to the use of heritage in educational settings Pedagogical dealings with sensitive topics of the past (transatlantic slave trade; Holocaust)

Rethinking jewishness in weimar cinema

The film industry in the Weimar Republic was a major site for German-Jewish experience that provided a sphere for Jewish "outsiders" to shape mainstream culture. The essays in Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema offer new historical, theoretical, and methodological approaches to the signific...

Driving germany

Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Hitler's autobahn was more than just the pet project of an infrastructure-friendly dictator. It was supposed to revolutionize the transportation sector in Germany, connect the metropoles with the countryside, and ...

Social torture

As Director of the Refugee Law Project at the University of Makerere, Kampala, Uganda, Dolan offers a behind-the-scenes, cross-disciplinary study of one of Africa's longest running and most intractable conflicts. This book shows how, alongside the activities of the Lord's Resistance Army, gover...

Four-color communism

As with all other forms of popular culture, comics in East Germany were tightly controlled by the state. Comics were employed as extensions of the regime’s educational system, delivering state ideology to develop the socialist personality among youth. The East German children who avidly read th...

In search of legitimacy

Unique in proposing a model for how individuals engaged in a particular body-culture use travel as a way of signaling their commitment to the genre. The approach in describing how non-Brazilians position themselves to claim legitimacy within the field of capoeira on Brazilians’ ‘home tur...

Images from paradise

the recent transformation of the ideology of European federalism into a political soteriology the palingenetic myth that drives supranational institutions’ federalist agenda the visualization of the EU’s promise of a new era the use of old and new symbols and rituals aimed at rei...

Fetishes and monuments

One hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candomblé were feared as sorcery and persecuted as crime. Its cult objects were fearsome fetishes. Nowadays, they are Afro-Brazilian cultural works of art, objects of museum display and public monuments. Focusing on the particular histories of obje...

Legends of people, myths of state

The civil war in Sri Lanka and the part that nationalism seemed to play in it inspired the writing of this book some twenty-three years ago. The argument was developed through a comparative analysis of nationalism in Sri Lanka with the author’s native Australia. At the time this constituted an ...

Folk healing and health care practices in britain and ireland

Folk, alternative and complementary health care practices in contemporary Western society are currently experiencing a renaissance, albeit with features that are unique to this historical moment. At the same time biomedicine is under scrutiny, experiencing a number of distinct and multifaceted ...

Reconceiving the second sex

Extensive social science research, particularly by anthropologists, has explored women’s reproductive lives, their use of reproductive technologies, and their experiences as mothers and nurturers of children. Meanwhile, few if any volumes have explored men’s reproductive concerns or contributio...