Advocacy and archaeology

Inspired by the idea of revolution and excitement about the ways archaeology is being used in social justice arenas, this volume seeks to visualize archaeology as part of a movement by redefining what archaeology is and does for the greater good.

Houses transformed

Houses Transformed explores the intersection of house biographies and social change, the politics of housing design, the social fabrication of aspirational houses, the domestication of concrete and the intersection of materiality and ontology, and the rhetoric of the vernacular.

People, money and power in the economic crisis

Based on empirical research. Combines empirical research with an analysis of wider processes of social, economic and political change. Comes out of an innovative network of scholars associated with the Human Economy Programme.

When will we talk about hitler?

Observation of history classes to analyze student’s relationship to German history Adolescents appropriation of history within peer groups Taking adolescents political position seriously Analyzing schools, families and peer groups together, overstepping disciplinary frontiers ...

Peter lorre: face maker

Opens up a ‘star discourse’ around the figure of the character actor. A balanced examination of Lorre’s film career in both Germany and Hollywood. Considers the interplay between star image, screen performance, and the economic / labor position of a recognizable screen actor. Pro...

Comical modernity

Comical Modernity is the first book-length study on popular humour in late nineteenth-century Vienna. The research findings suggest that humour provided a significant means of interpreting and discussing modernity in an era of radical change. This book combines humour research with u...

Camorra networks

Vox Populist will be one of the first ethnographic monographs originally illustrating the cultural and political life of current Italian organized crime, as well as its complex relationship with state power, through first-hand collected qualitative insights emerging from the live voice of Ne...

The environment and sustainable development in the new central europe

With the enlargement of the European Union, the accession countries are coming under pressure to develop and meet EU standards for environmental protection and sustainable development. In this ongoing process, global economic liberalization, regulatory policy, conservation, and lifestyle issues...

Shakespeare and creative criticism

What kinds of critical insights are made possible only or especially via creative strategies? This volume examines how creative modes of writing might facilitate or inform new ways to critically engage with Shakespeare.

Israeli identities

Examines the attitude of Jewish and Arab Israelis towards the Holocaust. Describes the attitude of Jewish and Arab Israelis towards the Nakba. A unique research into the inter-relations between Jewish and Arab Israeli students.

The art of fate calculation

The Art of Fate Calculationexplores how conceptions of fate circulate in Chinese and Taiwanese societies while resisting uniformization and institutionalization. This is not only due to the stigma of “superstition” but also to the internal dynamic of fate calculation practice and learning.

The forgotten majority

Assesses the causes of the migration of German merchants to London between the end of the Hanseatic League and the end of the Napoleonic Wars, as well as the establishment of their businesses and the global reach of their enterprises. Investigates trhe commercial function of British natu...

We are all africans here

This book looks critically at racialization of mobility in Europe, anchoring the discussion in the aspiration of precarious migrants from Niger in Belgium and Italy. The book contextualizes their experiences within the ongoing securitization of mobility in their home country and the persistent ...

Shakespeare and the ethics of war

How does Shakespeare represent war? This volume reviews scholarship to date on the question and introduces new perspectives, looking at contemporary conflict through the lens of the past.

Masks and staffs

It’s the first in-depth study on Cameroon that integrates the three ethnic groups (Grassfields societies, Mbororo and Hausa) in its historical and contemporary analyses. The book stands out by its methodological approach of integrating performative and narrative dimensions in its analyse...

Hannah arendt and the uses of history

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) first argued that there were continuities between the age of European imperialism and the age of fascism in Europe in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951). She claimed that theories of race, notions of racial and cultural superiority, and the right of ‘superior races’...

Evil spirits and rocket debris

The Altai Republic in southern Siberia is renowned for excavations of frozen mummies. It also hosts fallout zones for the second stages of rockets launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome. Local inhabitants blame ‘evil spirits’ released by archaeological work and toxic fuel from rocket debris for ...

The problem of context

The apparently simple notion that it is contextualization and invocation of context that give form to our interpretations raises important questions about context definition. Moreover, different disciplines involved in the elucidation and interpretation of meanings construe context indifferent ...

Pacific realities

The reconsideration of the notions of resilience and resistance in the light of social change Tackling resilience and resistance as complementary processes Relocating social change in terms of resilience from a system perspective back to the actor-perspective

We the cosmopolitans

Explores the meaning of cosmopolitanism in the eyes of leading anthropologists Advances existential critique of abstract globalization discourse Enriches inter-disciplinary debates about neglected aspects of contemporary cosmopolitanism as a political and moral project

Anthropology, nationalism and colonialism

One of the first in-depth analyses of the Porto School of Anthropology and the work of its central figure – Mendes Correia – during the first half of the twentieth century. There is no single-authored book on this phase of anthropology in Portugal that takes into account aspects of the i...

Shakespeare and the arab world

Dark traces of the past

The relationship between historical studies and psychoanalysis remains an open debate that is full of tension, in both a positive and a negative sense. In particular, the following question has not been answered satisfactorily: what distinguishes a psychoanalytically oriented study of historica...

Stories make the world

Examines the ideas and principles that guide the art of documentary storytelling. About the world as well as about nonfiction film. It explores subjects ranging from cosmology to architecture, environmental history to struggles for human rights. Looks at the process of transforming v...

Postsocialism

In many parts of post-socialist Europe the tumultuous political and economic developments have generated strong emotions, ranging from hope and euphoria to disappointment, envy, disillusionment, sorrow, loneliness, and hatred. Yet these aspects have been largely neglected in analyses of the pro...

Children of the dictatorship

Traces the dissent and activism of anti-regime students during the dictatorship of the Colonels in Greece from 1967-1974 Effectively relates the Greek activists of the ‘Long 1960s’ to the youth culture of the last third of the 20th century without losing touch with the Greek cultural and...

Hunters, predators and prey

The text is a major contribution to the study of Inuit knowledge and tradition in relation to animals The compendium provides a unique perspective through its extensive use of Inuit quotes Examines key Inuit animals such as the raven, guirruit, dog, bear, caribou, seal and the whale ...

Silences and divided memories

Dealing with the difficult, silenced past of the so called "Istrian exodus" after the Second World War, this book shifts the usual focus from migrants to those who stayed behind and to the new immigrants who came to the “emptied” towns.

What is existential anthropology?

Anthropologists from both sides of the Atlantic address the meaning of "Existential Anthropology". Explores how various approaches to the human condition might be brought together on the levels of method and of theory.

Tuff city

The first ethnographic history of urban change in the historic centre of Naples. Innovative methodological approach to analyzing and interpreting the European city. In-depth analysis of the relationship between urban regeneration, public space and everyday experience and conflict. ...

World heritage on the ground

Among the growing number of World Heritage site studies, this is the first edited volume to be based on the in-depth knowledge of anthropologists who did long-term ethnographic fieldwork in the specific sites. The book does not rely on the official discourses and the established professi...

Revisiting austria

A stranger in paris

In this compact and tightly argued essay, the author maintains that the French Third Republic - and European history during this period in general - can only be understood if particular attention is paid to the special relationship that existed between France and Germany. The experience of the ...

Dance circles

Focuses on a selected range of performance practices in Senegal Explores the connections between European colonialism and later influence on the choreographic production and arts markets in urban Senegal Works to contextualize dance in Senegal within an environment of economic uncert...

Working with spirit

Regimes of ignorance

High-quality rich ethnographic examples set in comparative perspective. Contributors includesome of the brightest emerging scholars of their generation, as well as a number of senior, internationally recognised anthropologists. An important theoretical re-working of this emerging are...

Emptiness and fullness

As critical voices question the quality, authenticity, and value of people, goods, and words in post-Mao China, accusations of emptiness render things open to new investments of meaning, substance, and value. Exploring the production of lack and desire through fine-grained ethnography, this vol...

Set to see us fail

Examining the interaction between families and professionals in the child welfare system of New York, this book focuses on how inequalities are reproduced, measured, managed, and contested. The book describes how state institutions and neoliberal governance intersect police the groups which are...

Being human, being migrant

Unique in its focus on how ethnographic face-to-face studies of migration display a specific way of being human as it highlights being between cultural truths and familiar contexts for relations of self, others and the world. Employs and develops novel concepts that contribute to our und...

Recalling the belgian congo

When the author embarked on her study, her aim was to approach former colonial officers with a view to analyzing processes of domination in the ex-Belgian Congo. However, after establishing a rapport with some of these officers, the author was soon forced to revise her initial assumptions, wide...

Haunted by history

Europe is a continent weighed down by the shadows of its past, its wars, the traditional enmities, the suspicions of neighbours fuelled by historical memories. This has immediate consequences for the understanding and representation of the past: journalists, politicians, historians often apply ...

The making of the greek genocide

Provides a much-needed analysis of the Greek genocide during and after World War 1 (when over one million Ottoman Greeks were expelled from Turkey) as cultural trauma. Sjöberg irecounts how it emerged as a meaningful but contested collective memory with both nationalist and cosmopolitan ...

Meaning and representation in history

History has always been more than just the past. It involves a relationship between past and present, perceived, on the one hand, as a temporal chain of events and, on the other, symbolically as an interpretation that gives meaning to these events through varying cultural orientations, charging...

Crafting 'the indian'

In Europe, Indian hobbyism, or Indianism, has developed out of a strong fascination with Native American life in the 18th and 19th centuries. “Indian hobbyists” dress in homemade replicas of clothing, craft museum-quality replicas of artifacts, meet in fields dotted with tepees and reenact aspe...