Edible people

While human cannibalism has attracted considerable notice and controversy, certain aspects of the practice have received scant attention. These include the connection between cannibalism and xenophobia: the capture and consumption of unwanted strangers. Likewise ignored is the connection to sla...

Wilhelminism and its legacies

What was distinctive—and distinctively "modern"—about German society and politics in the age of Kaiser Wilhelm II? In addressing this question, these essays assemble cutting-edge research by fourteen international scholars. Based on evidence of an explicit and self-confidently "bourgeois" forma...

Healing and harm

Professor Mary Lindemann’s career inspired several generations of researchers in early modern German history and culture. In Healing and Harm, scholars at the height of the field speak to key continuations of subjects stemming from the marked breakpoints across Lindemann’s wide body of work.

U.s. foreign policy and the other

Investigates American identity and its effect on foreign relations. Systematic review of US foreign policy and their principal conceptions of the ‘Other’ that have animated US culture and discourse. Examines foreign relations over three centuries Excavates US cultural and diploma...

Germany and america

Leading experts on German-American relations, German politics and German Studies from both sides of the Atlantic are contributing to this volume in honor of Gerry Kleinfeld, founder and executive director of the German Studies Association, founder and long-time editor of the German Studies Revi...

Being-here

The book is the first in-depth anthropological exploration of the existential quality of place in the context of displacement. It’s experience-near perspective on displacement by zooming in on the life stories and experiences of three individuals. It revalidates the role of place in ...

Up, down, and sideways

It is the definitive work summarizing and applying Laura Nader’s anthropological theories. It provides contemporary anthropological examples of "studying up, down, and sideways". It demonstrates how anthropology can be used to address urgent 21st century challenges. It addresses ...

The concise cinegraph

This comprehensive guide is an ideal reference work for film specialists and enthusiasts. First published in 1984 but continuously updated ever since, CineGraph is the most authoritative and comprehensive encyclopedia on German-speaking cinema in the German language. This condensed and substant...

The chernobyl effect

Empirically rich, The Chernobyl Effect shows how the Chernobyl catastrophe sparked a new kind of protest against the communist authorities of Poland. Drawing on samizdat, archival sources, and open-ended interviews with participants the authors show how a qualitatively new phenomenon was create...

Postwall german cinema

An important contribution to the growing body of literature on contemporary German film Challenges previous paradigms, and highlights engagement with historiographic forms and with film history itself

Corporate scandal

When the Enron filed the biggest bankruptcy petition in the history of the United States, if not the world, the immediate response by most politicians and financiers was that this scandal was a “failure of regulatory institutions” that can be corrected and may possibly even be a purely North Am...

The brazilian truth commission

Urban dreams

This collection of Claudia Roth's work closely documents the livelihood strategies of members of various neighbourhoods in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. This collection focuses on notions of “the African family” as a solidary network, changing marriage and kinship relations, and increasingly pr...

The dream in islam

The first overview of historical and contemporary aspects of the true dream tradition in Islam. Covers: Sufism and dreaming; Islamic dream Incubation (Istikhara); militant Jihadist inspiration through dreams including al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders such as bin Laden and Mullah Omar; compar...

Vehicles

A collection of ethnographic essays on the metaphoric significance of vehicles in different cultures Examines key issues in the study of objects, material culture and techniques Provides a new perspective on how vehicles are understood in relation to the dynamics of culture, politics...

An anthropological trompe l'oeil for a common world

Explores key elements in early modern political philosophy Inquires into the cultural epistemology fuelling the aggrandizement and miniaturisation of description Charts an itinerary for an internal anthropology of theorizing

War, technology, anthropology

Technologies of the allied warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan, such as remote-controlled drones and night vision goggles, allow the user to “virtualize” human targets. This coincides with increased civilian casualties and a perpetuation of the very insecurity these technologies are meant to combat...

Shamanism

Shamanism has always been of great interest to anthropologists. More recently it has been "discovered" by westerners, especially New Age followers. This book breaks new ground byexamining pristine shamanism in Greenland, among people contacted late by Western missionaries and settlers. On the b...

Capricious borders

Detailed ethnographic study of the anthropology of Thrace in the Northern Greek-Turkish border areas. An exposition of the conflicted subjectivities of the Turkish minorities of contemporary Greece Examines the mechnanisms in place, which on the one hand, legalise the status of the m...

Gustav stresemann

Indigenous peoples, civil society, and the neo-liberal state in latin america

In recent years the concept and study of “civil society” has received a lot of attention from political scientists, economists, and sociologists, but less so from anthropologists. A ground-breaking ethnographic approach to civil society as it is formed in indigenous communities in Latin America...

Affective states

The volume enhances the anthropological understanding of the various ways through which the state comes to be experienced as a visceral presence in social life.

Sounds of modern history

Presents current research by mostly younger scholars in the field of sound history. Brings a thoroughly historical approach to the field of sound studies (in contrast to many collections/studies in the field of sound studies with a more contemporary or media studies approach). Advoca...

Evidence, ethos and experiment

Medical research has been central to biomedicine in Africa for over a century, and Africa, along with other tropical areas, has been crucial to the development of medical science. At present, study populations in Africa participate in an increasing number of medical research projects and clinic...

Contemporary religiosities

The last decade has seen an unexpected return of the religious, and with it the creation of new kinds of social forms alongside new fusions of political and religious realms that high modernity kept distinct. For a fuller understanding of what this means for society in the context of globalizat...

The resonance of joseph conrad in contemporary culture

Innovatively bringing together scholars of various nationalities and communities, The Resonance of Joseph Conrad in Contemporary Culture seeks to provide a holistic assessment of the afterlife of Conrad’s work, highlighting how his approach to questions of moral ambiguity and colonialism influe...

German history 1789-1871

Offers a wide-ranging account of nineteenth-century Germany Skillfully combines narrative with analysis Ideal for all students of nineteenth-century Germany

Humanism revisited

As heirs of a ‘heteronomic’ tradition, we are still stuck in Eurocentrism (often racism), and now even threaten to ruin nature by destroying biodiversity and causing the climate to warm up dangerously. Applied through an anthropological perspective, this book calls for a NEED-humanism: Not-Euro...

Mixed matches

This collection of essays explores discourses and practices surrounding a wide variety of transgressive unions in early modern Germany The text addresses the historical complexity of the socio-cultural institution of marriage The collection provides a new perspective into the shiftin...

Migration in the making of the gulf space

Combining visual and literary analyses and original ethnographic studies as part of a more general political reflection, Migration in the Making of Gulf Space examines the role of migrants and non-citizens in the processes of settling in the Arab States of the Gulf region.

Staging citizenship

The book shows the connections between the cultural and social dimensions of citizenship and, focusing on the Roma, demonstrates “why culture matters” in contemporary debates about exclusion, nationalism and national, European and minority belonging in post-1989 Europe. It draws on long-...

Arab spring

The events of the Arab Spring presented a dramatic reconstitution of politics and the public sphere through their aesthetic and performative uses of public space. Mass demonstrations have become a new global political form, grounded in the localization of globalizing processes, institutions, an...

Practices of care in an italian eating disorder clinic

The first book-length qualitative study of eating disorder treatment in a European country with a national healthcare system. The first book-length ethnography that brings together the voices of patients, healthcare professionals and families during and after treatment. The first eth...

New austrian film

First English language study on New Austrian Film 1990s to the present A collection of critical essays on New Austrian filmmakers and films by international cinema and culture scholars Introduces and examines New Austrian Film in cinematic, cultural, theoretical and film historical ...

An anthropology of war

As we move deeper into the twenty-first century, power, lethal force, and injustice continue to explode violently into war, and the prospects for lasting peace look even bleaker. The horrors of modern warfare - the death, dehumanization, and destruction of social and material infrastructures - ...

Encounters of body and soul in contemporary religious practices

Social scientists and philosophers confronted with religious phenomena have always been challenged to find a proper way to describe the spiritual experiences of the social group they were studying. The influence of the Cartesian dualism of body and mind (or soul) led to a distinction between no...

Modern crises and traditional strategies

The 1990s have seen a growing interest in the role of local ecological knowledge in the context of sustainable development, and particularly in providing a set of responses to which populations may resort in times of political, economic and environmental instability. The period 1996-2003 in isl...

German migrant historians in north america

The experiences of German born historians who started emigrating to North America in the 1950s has had a unique impact on the practice and project of Central European History. German Migrant Historians in North America intimately reviews these historians’ experiences, career paths, scholarship,...

The challenge of epistemology

Epistemology poses particular problems for anthropologists whose task it is to understand manifold ways of being human. Through their work, anthropologists often encounter people whose ideas concerning the nature and foundations of knowledge are at odds with their own. Going right to the heart ...

Healing roots

Detailed study, compiled by an accomplished anthropological scholar, of one of the oldest indigenous medicines in South Africa. Laplante situates African and Western knowledge systems against one another. The author follows the journey of the plant on its transition to the controlled...

The politics of making kinship

Leading us beyond current narratives on the decline of kinship which assume kinship’s existence since the dawn of civilization, The Politics of Making Kinship interrogates kinship’s geneses, constructions, elaborations, implementations, and enforcing agents across a long view of European histor...

Minority discourses in germany since 1990

Minorities and Minority Discourse in Germany since 1990 opens the question of why ethnic minorities in Germany are often discussed in isolation. Whereas most studies examine Black Germans, Jews in Germany, or Turkish Germans on their own terms vis-à-vis the majority German society, this volume ...

On prayer

Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) never completed his Doctoral thesis on prayer. Yet his scarcely mentioned introduction (Books I and II) of 176 pages and privately printed in 1909, can be seen as some of his most important work. His argument that much of prayer is a social act will be of great interest...

Images of power and the power of images

Real places and events are constructed and used to symbolize abstract formulations of power and authority in politics, corporate practice, the arts, religion, and community. By analyzing the aesthetics of public space in contexts both mundane and remarkable, the contributors examine the social ...