Sugarlandia revisited

Sugar was the single most valuable bulk commodity traded internationally before oil became the world’s prime resource. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, cane sugar production was pre-eminent in the Atlantic Islands, the Caribbean, and Brazil. Subsequently, cane sugar industries in t...

Playing with languages

Playing with Languages is the first book-length exploration of everyday social interaction, language shift and revitalization, and children's play in Dominica The book offers much needed insight into Caribbean children's agency and their roles in cultural and linguistic transmission and ...

Political demography, demographic engineering

"Over the past decade, the impacts of demographic trends on international security and on peaceful relations between and within states have come to the fore in ways not seen since the aftermath of World War II. An evolving and more complex set of changes in the size, distribution, and compositi...

The nature of german imperialism

Provides the first full account of Tanzanian wildlife conservation up until World War I. Focuses upon elephant hunting and the ivory trade as vital factors in a shift from exploitation to preservation that increasingly excluded indigenous Africans. Situates East African wildlife poli...

Blood and kinship

Attempt to follow the use of blood in mapping family and kinship relations in European culture from the ancient world to the present Explores how “Blood” has come and gone in European culture, just as kinship has constantly been reconfigured Questions the development of European unde...

The unsettled clock

Counters the narrative of uniform progress in timekeeping by showing the persistence of multiple timescales serving different human needs. Offers a political and historical analysis of how timekeeping has been shaped, challenged, and manipulated. Provides a clear account of current d...

Spanish lessons

Addresses not just film (already much studied) but also TV series (more popular in Spain but unknown to outsiders) Has chapter on self-fashioning of Spain's best known auteur, Pedro Almodóvar, a new approach to an acclaimed director Deals with audiovisual works in Catalan as well as ...

Consuming the inedible

Everyday, millions of people eat earth, clay, nasal mucus, and similar substances. Yet food practices like these are strikingly understudied in a sustained, interdisciplinary manner. This book aims to correct this neglect. Contributors, utilizing anthropological, nutritional, biochemical, psych...

Europe in crisis

The volume shows how conceptions of and projects for Europe were transformed by contemporaries’ experiences of crisis between 1917 and 1957. It investigates the ideas of a wide range of intellectuals from across the continent. It examines the relationship between ideas of Europe and ...

Beyond habermas

A collection of essays on Habermas by a team of highly accomplished scholars Offers a detailed study of Habermas' early work The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere Explores the tension between politcal life and the emerging institutions of the Bourgeoisie of the 18th cen...

Being godless

Drawing on ethnographic inquiry and the anthropological literature on doubt and atheism, this volume explores people's reluctance to pursue religion. The contributors capture the experiences of godless people and examine their perspectives on the role of religion in their personal and public li...

The new face of political cinema

Since 1995 there has been a widespread return of commitment to French cinema taking it to a level unmatched since the heady days following 1968. But this new wave of political film is very different and urgently calls out for an analysis that will account for its development, its formal charact...

Things fall apart?

Presents an in-depth historical and ethnographic study of forestry in Nigeria's Edo State Challenges the routine linking of governance failure and corruption with tropical deforestation Reveals the roots of many of Nigeria's current problems with forest management Highlights the ...

Culture, creation, and procreation

As reproduction is seen as central to kinship and the biological link as the primary bond between parents and their offspring, Western perceptions of kin relations are primarily determined by ideas about "consanguinity," "genealogical relations," and "genetic connections." Advocates of cultural...

The total work of art

Demonstrates how the lineage and legacies of Gesamtkunstwerk (the ideal of the "total work of art") extend well beyond German Romanticism. Eleven compact essays trace the idea’s evolution in German-speaking Europe. Provides a broad perspective on a distinctively modern cultural form.

Environmental organizations in modern germany

Political theory and australian multiculturalism

Multiculturalism has been one of the dominant concerns in political theory over the last decade. To date, this inquiry has been mostly informed by, or applied to, the Canadian, American, and increasingly, the European contexts. This volume explores for the first time how the Australian experien...

Coming of age in times of uncertainty

Adulthood is taken for granted. It connotes the end of childhood, the resolution to the “storm and stress” period of adolescence. This conception is strongly entrenched in the sociology of youth and the sociology of the life course as well as in the policy arena. At the same time, adulthood its...

Managing ambiguity

First ethnographic study of favors in a former Yugoslav country; First ethnographic study of a welfare system in a former Yugoslav country; It explores how the same people pursue favors across several fields (social protection, healthcare, humanitarianism), rather than just to focus ...

Professional identities

In both professional and academic fields, there is increasing interest in the way in which white-collar workers engage with institutions and networks which are complex social constructions. Covering a wide variety of countries and types of organization, this volume examines the diverse ways in ...

Nimby is beautiful

Offers new perspective on "Not in my Back Yard" protests. Demonstrates that NIMBY protests, although always arising from a local concern in a particular community, often result in broader political, social, and technological change. Argues that NIMBY movements can have a positive and...

Jewish refugees in shanghai

The first comprehensive book on Shanghai Jews since the 1970s, Hochstadt incorporates research and historiographic developments of the last fifty years. Includes qualitative assessment of the period that will open up future avenues of research.

Living on thin ice

Longitudinal study conducted over 15 years. Interdisciplinary in both methodologies and content. Primary qualitative and quantittative data used has never been published before.

The politics of education reform in the middle east

Education systems and textbooks in selected countries of the Middle East are increasingly the subject of debate. This volume presents and analyzes the major trends as well as the scope and the limits of education reform initiatives undertaken in recent years. In curricula and teaching materials...

Networks of nazi persecution

The persecution and mass-murder of the Jews during World War II would not have been possible without the modern organization of division of labor. Moreover, the perpetrators were dependent on human and organizational resources they could not always control by hierarchy and coercion. Instead, th...

Ruptures in the everyday

As either an alternative or a complement to the typical survey of major figures, institutions, and groups, this book tells stories of modern Germany from the perspective of ordinary Germans “on the ground,” making the material more accessible and relevant to the reader. Broadly interdisc...

German scholars and ethnic cleansing, 1919-1945

Recently, there has been a major shift in the focus of historical research on World War II towards the study of the involvements of scholars and academic institutions in the crimes of the Third Reich. The roots of this involvement go back to the 1920s. At that time right-wing scholars participa...

A walk to the river in amazonia

Our lives are mostly composed of ordinary reality — the flow of moment-to-moment existence — and yet it has been largely overlooked as a subject in itself for anthropological study. In this work, the author achieves an understanding of this part of reality for the Mehinaku Indians, an Amazonian...

Sisters in arms

Up to now, studies of feminist activism have focused almost exclusively on protest that was commonly understood as peaceful. This study shows that there was considerable disagreement over the question of which tactics were appropriate and necessary in feminist struggles, and that some groups...

The limits of meaning

Too often, anthropological accounts of ritual leave readers with the impression that everything goes smoothly, that rituals are "meaningful events." But what happens when rituals fail, or when they seem "meaningless"? Drawing on research in the anthropology of Christianity from around the globe...

Up close and personal

Combines rich personal accounts from twelve veteran anthropologists with reflexive analyses of the state of anthropology today Is a treatise on theory and method offering fresh insights into the production of anthropological knowledge, from the creation of key concepts to major paradigm ...

Honour and violence

Examines the central position of karo kari in the social, political and juridical structures in Upper Sindh, Pakistan. An exploration of how the state justice system and informal mediations inform each other in state responses to karo kari. An explanation of how modern law is implica...

Learning from the children

Children and youth, regardless of their ethnic backgrounds, are experiencing lifestyle choices their parents never imagined and contributing to the transformation of ideals, traditions, education and adult–child power dynamics. As a result of the advances in technology and media as well as the ...

Indigenist mobilization

Indigenist Mobilization explores the history of the dynamics between the Communist party in Kerala and indigenist activists, and the subtle ways in which global capitalist restructuring leads to a resonance of indigenist visions in the changed the everyday working lives and future aspirations o...

What now

Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork undertaken since 2006, the book addresses some of the most topical aspects of remote Aboriginal life in Australia. This includes the role of kinship and family, relationships to land and sea, and cross-cultural relations with non-Aboriginal residents.

Culture and rhetoric

While some scholars have said that there is no such thing as culture and have urged to abandon the concept altogether, the contributors to this volume overcome this impasse by understanding cultures and their representations for what they ultimately are – rhetorical constructs. These senior, in...

Space and spatiality in modern german-jewish history

This wide-ranging volume revisits both literal and metaphorical spaces in modern German history, working from an expansive concept of “the spatial” to examine the ways in which Jewishness has been attributed to them, and what the implications have been in different eras and social contexts.

Exploring gypsiness

Romania has a larger Gypsy population than most other countries but little is known about the relationship between this group and the non-Gypsy Romanians around them. This book focuses on a group of Rom Gypsies living in a village in Transylvania and explores their social life and cosmology. Be...

Existentialism and contemporary cinema

Makes groundbreaking contribution to Beauvoir studies, applying the work of this innovative philosopher to contemporary screen culture Brings together international experts on Beauvoir and Cinema, who provide innovative existentialist readings of a variety of contemporary films from seve...

The mirror of the medieval

One unique aspect of this book is its approach to interdisciplinary work. While many earlier works have sought to bring anthropological approaches to the study of the medieval past, what is different about this book is its emphasis on the value of disciplinary borrowing in both directions; i...

Smoke and mirrors

Providing the first comprehensive account of the Yenidze Tobacco factory in Dresden, designed by the architect Martin Hammitzsch for the flamboyant Dresden tobacco personality Hugo Zietz, this unique addition to Dresden’s skyline was a formative addition to the development of the modernist aest...

Edges of noir

Edges of Noir addresses film studies’ neglect of 1960s experimental noir films that have resisted easy classification against more popularly regarded late noir films and responds to the interpretive dilemmas and anxieties of the time to which the films provided expression.

Ownership and nurture

The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia. Sets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about the region and about property in general. Demonstrates that property relations are of central importance in A...

Invisible faces and hidden stories

Dealing with narratives of vulnerable populations, this book looks at how they deal with dimensions of their social life, especially in regards to health. It reflects the socio-political ecologies like public hostility and stereotyping, neglect of their unique health needs, their courage to ove...