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Strike action and nation building
Situates and analyses the phenomenon of strike action in Israel and Palestine in a historical context. Describes the relationship between labour and nationalism.
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Issues in medical research ethics
With the advances of medicine, questions of medical ethics have become more urgent and are now considered of great social and political significance. An innovatively designed, activity-based workbook, this text was prepared using papers and case studies collected from several countries in the E...
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The hunted
A ground-level history of the Holocaust, told through the voices of twenty European Jews. Drawing from diaries and memoirs, it reveals a multiplicity of experiences across countries, classes, and religious backgrounds. Each chapter traces a single year in the protagonists’ lives, placing person...
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Conflicted memories
Despite the growing interest in general European history, the European dimension is surprisingly absent from the writing of contemporary history. In most countries, the historiography on the 20th century continues to be dominated by national perspectives. Although there is cross-national work o...
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Borders of belonging
Describes how identity struggles, around the idea of the nation as an entity, unfold at a symbolic battelfield site in the Danish/German borderland Comprises ethnology of a conventional museum and that of an experience-based heritage center Promotes analysis of the practice and negot...
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The ethics of the new eugenics
The first published volume that gives an extensive overview of all the different current practices in the new eugenics. The first book to examine the manner in which international law addresses the topic of eugenics and uses the example of the UK to study how a modern developed country i...
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Re-imagining defa
International experts take stock of the renaissance of interest in East German cinema and plot an ambitious course for future research. Considers other cinematic traditions, brings genre and popular works into the fold, and encompasses DEFA’s complex post-unification “afterlife.”
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Out of the study and into the field
Outside France, French anthropology is conventionally seen as being dominated by grand theory produced by writers who have done little or no fieldwork themselves, and who may not even count as anthropologists in terms of the institutional structures of French academia. This applies to figures f...
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Unsafe motherhood
Follows the global policies that have been implemented in Sololá, Guatemala in order to decrease high rates of maternal mortality among indigenous Mayan women. Examines the diverse meanings and understandings of motherhood, pregnancy, birth and birth-related death among the biomedical pe...
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Theorizing relations in indigenous south america
Whether invented, discovered, implicit, or directly addressed, relations remain the main focus of most anthropological inquiries. These relations, once conceptualized in ethnographic fieldwork as self-evident connections between discrete social units, have been increasingly explored through loc...
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Women and the city, women in the city
The collection fills an important gap in the literature on gender in the city in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman world The essays draw on diverse theoretical backgrounds and a variety of source material to examine the central role of women in the public sphere The book reconstructs the ...
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Making ubumwe
Approaches post-genocide governance, citizenship and nation building through a unique lens – the local uses of the concept of ubumwe or unity. Outlines the productive ambiguity at the root of this concept by tracing its deployments in diverse arenas from rhetoric, office work, street tal...
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God-botherers and other true-believers
When reason fails to guide us in our everyday lives, we turn to faith, to religion; we close our minds; we reject austere reasoning. This rejection, which is a faith-based social and intellectual malignancy, has two unfortunate consequences: it blocks the way to knowledge that might enhance the...
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Dynamic belonging
World Jewry today is concentrated in the US and Israel, and while distinctive Judaic approaches and practices have evolved in each society, parallels also exist. This volume offers studies of substantive and creative aspects of Jewish belonging. While research in Israel on Judaism has stressed ...
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Moving frames
Through an intermedial approach combining studies on cinema and photography, Moving Frames addresses precise historical moments uniquely in a German context. Across films both in and outside the canon, this volume tackles those specific historical moments experienced in media forms to gauge the...
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Beyond pain
Through thirteen years of fieldwork, an experimental practice-based methodology, and a new theoretical approach to harmonize online and offline data, Beyond Pain provides a wholly unique ethnographical exploration of the misunderstood world of body suspensions.
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Europeanizing contention
A study on the Europeanization of a specific social movement, using a cross-national comparative perspective. A longitudinal research design based on qualitative methods. A theoretical approach on the political sociology of Europe. A focus on a movement which remains under-resear...
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Berlin divided city, 1945-1989
Presents an interdisciplinary analysis of Berlin’s cultural and political landscape after the fall of the Berlin Wall Addresses unique role of architecture and politicization of high and mass culture Examines how Berlin was conceived, perceived, and represented during the four decade...
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Protest beyond borders
Analyses social movements in the past and in the present Features social movements in both the East and West (Global Europe) Examines social movements as relations between the local, national and global Conducts a transnational social movement analysis across disciplines
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Contested holdings
Covering a range of case studies and a global geography, authors aim to historicize and bring depth to contemporary debates in relation to both the return of material culture and human remains. Defined as contested holdings, differing museum collections ranging from fine arts to physical anthro...
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Heading for the scene of the crash
Applies cultural anthropology to major events or cultural productions, rather than to quasi-exotic or small-scale, topical subjects Uses an approach based on Nietzsche, rarely done in anthropology Discusses difficult subjects in informal, fairly accessible writing, rather than academ...
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Viktor frankl's search for meaning
First objective look at Viktor Frankl’s life. Covers his entire life from 1905 to 1996. Has original biographical information and incorporates official biographies. Insight into the Holocaust as well as the history of psychology.
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France and the construction of europe, 1944-2007
In the second half of the twentieth century France played the greatest role - even greater than Germany’s - in shaping what eventually became the European Union. By the early twenty-first century, however, in a hugely transformed Europe, this era had patently come to an end. This comprehensive ...
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An anthropology of global immunization
Will develop a unique anthropological response to the question of global immunization, addressing issues from vaccine hesitancy and conspiracy theories, to local biopolitics and beyond. Explores some of the most pressing vaccine concerns of our time, from hpv to covid-19, one health, and...
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Anti-americanism in latin america and the caribbean
Whether rising up from fiery leaders such as Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Cuba’s Fidel Castro or from angry masses of Brazilian workers and Mexican peasants, anti U.S. sentiment in Latin America and the Caribbean today is arguably stronger than ever. It is also a threat to U.S. leadership in the...
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Constitutional courts in comparison
A side-by-side comparison between the U.S. Supreme Court and the German Federal Constitutional Court. Provides a novel socio-legal approach in studying constitutional litigation. Focuses on conditions of mobilisation, decision-making and implementation.
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Constructing charisma
Examines the origins and nature of modern mass media and the culture of celebrity and fame they helped to create Presents multidisciplinary approach: history, art history, literature, sociology Focuses on arts celebrities (Sarah Bernhardt, Byron and Liszt); charismatic political figu...
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Hindi is our ground, english is our sky
A critical, ethnographically rich study of education, language, and social class in India. A theoretically grounded study of language use, language ideology, and globalization. Demonstrates the necessity of sustained fieldwork in studies of social change and globalization. Shows ...
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Screening art
First monograph to explore connections between East German film and other art forms such as painting, sculpture and music Explores a range of films that have only recently become available in (English) subtitled versions (including films by Jürgen Böttcher) Transnational dimension:...
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The world beyond the west
Exploring the evolution of Eastern European discourses in Asia, Africa and Latin America in nineteenth and twentieth century, this volume locates the mechanisms and strategies that diverse Eastern European social actors adopted when discussing the non-European world. The Eastern European perspe...
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That sinking feeling
Focusing on the emotions and affective states of students from poor migrant families, That Sinking Feeling presents a uniquely multi-layered ethnography on this under-represented area in the social and cultural sciences.
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Silent dilemmas of project managers
A fastidious investigation into the nature of self-identity, Silent Dilemmas of Project Managers uses the context of project management to challenge the perceived separation of objective experience from subjective perception, highlighting how these adopted self-notions act as the object of exis...
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Russian postmodernism
A unique theoretical approach, which includes transcultural critique of late Soviet and post-Soviet culture instituted by M. Epstein; a phenomenological critique of Soviet and post-Soviet literary texts which relies on post-structural theory of literature and culture (Foucault, Derrida, Bata...
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Decolonizing ourselves
A memoir, by a woman anthropologist, appealing to those who want to read about interesting women’s lives, their chronology. Portrays the changes in global expectations, assumptions, and interests in development as these have evolved over time. Most fundamentally, and pragmatically, ...
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Alternative exchanges
Exchanges have always had more than economic significance: values circulate and encounters become institutionalized. This volume explores the changing meaning of the circulation of second-hand goods from the Renaissance to today, and thereby examines the blurring of boundaries between market, g...
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Substantial justice
Papua New Guinea's village court system was introduced in 1974, partly in an effort to overcome the legal, geographical, and social distance between village societies and the country's formal courts. There are now more than 1100 village courts all over PNG, hearing thousands of cases each week....
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The gift of european thought and the cost of living
Uncovers the complicity of postcolonial criticism with what it criticizes Shows that Enlightenment ideas such as thinking for oneself and becoming autonomous are untenable Expands the notion of ‘the cost of living’ to include a cost of thinking and doing
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Rampart nations
Rampart Nations delves deeper into the bulwark (antemurale) myth and uncovers the stories that have helped to spread it within Eastern Europe. Through perspectives that range from Eastern European art history to theology, with a concentration on the nexus of political, social, and religious his...
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Scientific internationalism in cold war central and eastern europe
Brings together eminent experts in the history of science of East Central Europe. Challenges the dominant perception of state institutions and international projects as the driving forces of scientific cooperation. Contributes to a more complex understanding of socialist hierarchies ...
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A policy travelogue
It is the first full-length ethnographic study of policy movement that combines both horizontal (across states) and vertical (within states) movement. It complements the focus on key players (e.g., the United States) by focusing on players not considered central (e.g., Aotearoa/New Zeala...
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Taking sides
Concerns with research ethics have intensified over recent years, in large part as a symptom of "audit cultures" (M. Strathern) but also as a serious matter of engagement with the ethical complexities in contemporary research fields. This volume, written by a new generation of scholars engaged ...
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Historical memory in africa
Explores the inner dynamics of memory in all its variations, from its most destructive and divisive impact to its remarkable potential to heal and reconcile Addresses issues on both the conceptual and the pragmatic level and its theoretical observations and reflections are informed by fi...
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Conversion after socialism
The large and sudden influx of missionaries into the former Soviet Union after seventy years of militant secularism has been controversial, and the widespread occurrence of conversion has led to anxiety about social and national disintegration. Although these concerns have been vigorously discu...
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Framing the fifties
The demise of the New German Cinema and the return of popular cinema since the 1990s have led to a renewed interest in the postwar years and the complicated relationship between East and West German cinema in particular. A survey of the 1950s, as offered here for the first time, is therefore lo...
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