The precarity of masculinity

This book follows young Cameroonian men who aspire to migrate abroad and play football for a living while analyzing masculinities in West Africa. The book argues that the athletic aspirations of young Cameroonians and their propensity to consult with Pentecostal Men of God offer new insights ab...

A u-turn to the future

Unsustainable practices since the Industrial Revolution still impact our everyday lives. This book looks at how we can achieve sustainable urban mobility now and in the future by tapping into our knowledge of the historical trajectories leading up to the features of modern mobility in cities to...

Of life and health

An anthropological study of the health system of the Dagara people of northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso, Of Life and Health develops a cultural and epistemological lexicon of Dagara life by examining its religious, ritual, and artistic expressions, and gives a holistic account of the Dag...

An urban future for sápmi?

Presenting the political and cultural processes that occur within the indigenous Sámi people of North Europe as they undergo urbanization, this book examines how they have retained their sense of history and culture in this new setting. The book is written by a team of researchers, mostly Sámi,...

Melanesian mainstream

Based in extensive ethnographic research, Melanesian Mainstream provides a detailed representation of the roots, context, evolution, and impact of stringband music in the Melanesian Republic of Vanuatu.

The world of children

In an era of technological advances and rapidly increasing international exchange, how did young Germans come to understand the world beyond their doorstep? Bringing together contributions from specialists in historical, literary, and cultural studies, this is a fascinating kaleidoscopic explor...

The radical right in switzerland

There has been a tendency amongst scholars to view Switzerland as a unique case, and comparative scholarship on the radical right has therefore shown little interest in the country. Yet, as the author convincingly argues, there is little justification for maintaining the notion of Swiss excepti...

The dynamics of german industry

States of imitation

Religious plurality at princely courts

Examining previously neglected intersections and transformations in early modern European monarchical legitimization, Religious Plurality at Princely Courts works across multiple lenses of European studies to explore the effects of bi-confessional or multi-confessional intra-Christian settings ...

The man who invented aztec crystal skulls

Detailed are the travels, self-education, and archaeological explorations of Eugène Boban, an expert in the field of pre-Columbian studies and explores the circumstances that allowed him to sell fakes to museums that would remain undetected for over a century.

Differentiating development

Over the last two decades, anthropological studies have highlighted the problems of ‘development’ as a discursive regime, arguing that such initiatives are paradoxically used to consolidate inequality and perpetuate poverty. This volume constitutes a timely intervention in anthropological debat...

A border island on the crossroads of history

For some decades now, Lampedusa regularly appears in the news in regard to its devastating record of shipwrecks, deaths, and survivors. An ethnographic immersion takes the reader into the twists and turns of contemporary Lampedusan life, revealing a complex and contradictory microcosm. M...

Medieval intersections

With contributions on topics ranging from medieval gynecology to clerical masculinity, this interdisciplinary collection highlights the various ways “status” can be interpreted relative to gender, and what these two interlocked concepts can reveal about the construction of gendered identities i...

Subjects, citizens, and others

The work is the first to systematically compare the British and Habsburg empires The book challenges the alleged distinction between ‘Western’ modernity and ‘Eastern’ backwardness, primarily in terms of politically inclusive and ethnically exclusive versions of nationality. The work ...

Crafting chinese memories

Through an interdisciplinary conversation with contributors from social anthropology, religious studies, film studies, literary studies, cultural studies, and history, Crafting Chinese Memories is the first volume to address how works of art shape memories, and  offers new ways of conceptualisi...

Colonial seeds in african soil

Drawing upon the fields of environmental history and political ecology, Colonial Seeds in African Soil unravels the complex forest conservation history of Sierra Leone during the 20th century. It grounds a broader trans-national history of Empire Forestry with a case study focused on Sierra Leo...

Unsilencing the past

The Turkish-Armenian conflict has lasted for nearly a century and still continues in attenuated forms to poison the relationship between these two peoples. The author, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations and previously adviso...

German rule, african subjects

This classic study, now available for the first time in English, explains how German colonial ambitions foundered in present-day Namibia. As it shows, the highly rationalized planning of Wilhelmine authorities could not accommodate the practical, lived realities of both colonizer and colonized.

Transnational railway cultures

Spanning five continents and a diverse range of contexts, this collection offers an unprecedentedly broad survey of global representations of trains. From experimental novels to Hollywood blockbusters, the works studied here chart fascinating routes across a remarkably varied cultural landscape.

Playing with the past

Heritage is all around us, not just in monuments and museums, but in places that matter, the countryside and in collections and stories. It touches all of us. How do we decide what to preserve? And how do we make the case for heritage when there are so many other priorities? Playing with the Pa...

Guido goldman

Guido Goldman was one of the most distinguished protagonists of the reintegration of Germany into the international community after the defeat of Nazism in 1945. This biography looks at his remarkable life from his establishment of the German Marshall Fund to establishing the Center for Europea...

Assembling financialisation

Farmers, Indigenous organisations, government and private-sector intermediaries from remote Northern Australia often negotiate with private finance capital to gain funds for agricultural development.This book demonstrates that while financialisation is a useful signifier of patterns of global c...

Maternalism reconsidered

Beginning in the late 19th century, competing ideas about motherhood had a profound impact on the development and implementation of social welfare policies. Calls for programmes aimed at assisting and directing mothers emanated from all quarters of the globe, advanced by states and voluntary or...

The girl in the text

How are girls represented in written and graphic texts, and how do these representations inform our understanding of girlhood? In this volume, contributors examine the girl in the text in order to explore a range of perspectives on girlhood across borders and in relation to their positionality.

A revolution of perception?

Details the protest movement of 1968 that challenged the institutions of Western democracies Evaluates the effects the protest movement had on the political, social and symbolic order of the societies that were challenged Examines the consequences of 1968 from a number of different p...

From fidelity to history

Approaches “literature to film” debates in a new way, focusing upon the historical dimensions of adaptation. Considers historical adaptations as a special kind of reception. Offers rich case studies of historical and transnational film adaptations such as The Third Man (1949) and Sen...

Jewish self-hate

This new edition makes Theodor Lessing’s seminal work Der Jüdische Selbsthaß accessible to English readers for the first time, supplemented with explanatory footnotes by translator Peter Appelbaum and illustrative essays by historian Sander L. Gilman and German scholar Paul Reitter.

Rethinking international organizations

The management of international organizations is attracting growing attention. Most of this attention is highly critical of both the UN system and International NGOs. Sometimes, this criticism lacks depth or reflects insufficient understanding of these organizations, or is based on narrow, and ...

Jane ellen harrison

Very little has been written before about Harrison's ideas before. Harrison is a well-known and impactful figure in the LGBTQ movement. She transformed the study of Ancient Greek religion in the early 20th Century.

Conflict, domination, and violence

It offers a unique long-term historical perspective. It deals with different social movements. It deals with several regions of Mexico. It deals with different forms of violence.

The struggle for the past

Organized around Argentine “memory wars” since the 1970s, The Struggle for the Past undertakes an innovative exploration of memory’s dynamic social character. In addition to its analysis of how human rights movements have inflected public memory and democratization in Argentina, it also gives a...

Decentering anthropology by way of malinowski

The proposed book tackles a wide range of issues in anthropology: from disciplinary trajectories in Global South areas to relations of power within the discipline, to research and teaching methodology. The book brings together voices from outside the discipline’s dominant Anglo-American ...

Rethinking a radical reputation

This book explores the neighbourhood of Exarcheia in Athens through its tensions and contradictions and how they coexist to maintain particular historical and political narratives through an ethnographic study of stories and discussions with residents of the area.

The good holiday

Explores tourists as (nongovernmental) governors (to the best of my knowledge, this is the first book that interprets and analyses tourists as a sort of participants in [nongovernmental] governance). Heterogeneous perspective (it engages ethnographically on both destination people and to...

Small town and village in bavaria

At the center of this investigation is the great modernization effort of a West German state, Bavaria, in the 1970s and 1980s, by means of a reform of the smaller units of local government. The reforms were meant to abolish all autonomous local governments serving populations of fewer than 3,00...

Powers of good and evil

A key theme in the anthropology of beliefs is the relationship between socio-economic change and changes in the belief system. It has been widely argued that rapid economic change, particularly the introduction of capitalism, leads to an increase in beliefs in, and representations of, evil and ...

Risky transactions

Trust is a central feature of relationships within the Mafia, oppressed minorities, kin groups everywhere, among dissidents, nationalist freedom fighters, ethnic tourists, ethnic middlemen, exchange networks of Kalahari Bushmen, and families subjected to Stalinist social control. Each of these ...

Braving the street

As homelessness continues to plague North America and also becomes more widespread in Europe, anthropologists turn their attention to solving the puzzle of why people in some of the most advanced technological societies in the world are found huddled in a subway tunnel, squatting in a vacant bu...

Liminal moves

Liminal Moves explores the (im)mobilities of three groups of people - street monkey performers in Japan, adolescents writing about migrants in Italy, and men accompanying their partners in Switzerland for work. The book explores how, for these ‘travelers’, the interplay of mobility and immobili...

Assisting reproduction, testing genes

Following the routinization of assisted reproduction in the industrialized world, technologies such as in vitro fertilization, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, and DNA-based paternity testing have traveled globally and are now being offered to couples in numerous non-Western countries. This v...

Preserving order amid chaos

Conflict and violence in the lake chad basin

This volume analyses conflicts in the Lake Chad Basin based on insights into local dynamics and the lived world of the people themselves.

Histories of a radical book

This collected volume explores the complex impact of E.P. Thompson’s monumental book, The Making of the English Working Class, both as an intellectual project and material object, relating it to the social and cultural history of the book form itself—an enduring artifact of English history.