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Bodies of evidence
In the course of hostilities between Greek and Turkish Cypriots between 1963 and 1974, over 2000 persons, both Greek and Turkish Cypriots, went "missing" in Cyprus, an island in the Mediterranean with a population distribution of 80% Greeks and 18% Turks. This represents a significant number fo...
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Berlin, alexanderplatz
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the city administration bureaus, developers’ offices and citizen groups Presents multiple perspectives with a clear focus Relies on numerous sources such as personal narratives, plans, timetables, and other documents and files
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Coping with tourists
Once content to sunbathe and follow guides and established itineraries, tourists are increasingly seeking authentic culture. This is taking them into the private areas and zones to which the locals retire in order to escape the tourist gaze, creating tensions between the two groups. Based on re...
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The russian cold
Cold has long been a fixture of Russian identity both within and beyond the nation, even as the ongoing effects of climate change complicate its meaning and cultural salience. The Russian Cold assembles fascinating new contributions from a variety of scholarly traditions, offering new perspecti...
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France in the age of organization
Offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between science, culture and politics in interwar France A detailed yet accessible study of France between World Wars 1 and 2 The author offers a reinterpretation of a wide array of published and unpublished sources
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From legacies to futures
Through ninety-four ethnographic case studies of community dwelling older adults in Europe before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, this book highlights the importance of agency, friction between self-perceptions on age and outside impositions and the need to deconstruct old age as a homogenizi...
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Racism in the modern world
Features historians from various regional specialisations Explores racism from comparative and transnational perspectives Seeks to answer questions relating to the diffusion of racial belief systems around the globe
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Blood and oranges
A compelling account of the intersection of globalization and neo-racism in a rural Greek community, this book describes the contradictory political and economic development of the Greek countryside since its incorporation into the European Union, where increased prosperity and social liberaliz...
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Dreams, gender, and artisanal mining in papua new guinea
Dreams, Gender, and Artisanal Mining in Papua New Guinea uses dreams to explore the value of gold in a multigenerational community of New Guinean migrant miners. It broadens research on Melanesian mining ontologies and women’s role in mining. It explores how women creatively use dreams to chall...
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The great train race
From their origins, railways produced an intense competition between the two major continental systems in France and Germany. Fitting a new technology into existing political institutions and social habits, these two nations became inexorably involved in industrial and commercial rivalry that e...
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Being and becoming
An important contribution to phenomenological anthropology, hunter-gatherer studies, and to Southeast Asian ethnography more generally. A rich ethnography of the Orang Rimba, about whom little published material is available.
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Globalization
The effects of globalization have led to accentuated social inequality in most first-world countries, above all the U.S. and U.K. International trade and capital flows have tended to redistribute income in ways that aggravate inequality in advanced industrialized nations where relative income l...
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Aesthetics in performance
In various ways, the essays presented in this volume explore the structures and aesthetic possibilities of music, dance and dramatic representation in ritual and theatrical situations in a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. Each essay enters into a disc...
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Helsinki 1975 and the transformation of europe
It was in Europe that the Cold War reached a decisive turning point in the 1960s, leading to the era of détente. The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), with its Final Act in Helsinki in August 1975, led to a rapprochement between East and West in the fields of security, ec...
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Neo-nationalism in europe and beyond
By the early twenty-first century neo-nationalist forces have established themselves in a number of the world’s large regions and subcontinents. From Australia to South Asia, in Eastern and Western Europe, comparable parties and movements have positioned themselves in national parliaments and g...
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The historical practice of diversity
While multicultural composition of nations has become a catchword in public debates, few educators, not to speak of the general public, realize that cultural interaction was the rule throughout history. Starting with the Islam-Christian-Jewish Mediterranean world of the early modern period, thi...
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Going first class?
People travel as never before. However, anthropological research has tended to focus primarily on either labor migration or on tourism. In contrast, this collection of essays explores a diversity of circumstances and impetuses towards contemporary mobility. It ranges from expatriates to peripat...
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From the bonn to the berlin republic
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the unification of East and West Germany in 1989/90 were events of world-historical significance. The twentieth anniversary of this juncture represents an excellent opportunity to reflect upon the evolution of the new Berlin Republic. Given the on-going significa...
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Cinematically transmitted disease
The roots of German National Socialist policies have strong connections to Weimar era circulation of medical hygiene propaganda films that conveyed strong connections between scientific legitimacy between racial superiority, genetically spread “incurable” diseases, and the degradation of the Ge...
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Samizdat, tamizdat, and beyond
Comparative history of samizdat and tamizdat Multi-disciplinary approach to to dissident media, including art, music and film First scholarly treatment of cultural cross-border activities during the Cold War Comparative framework of socialist and post-socialist media in Eastern E...
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Ethnographic practice in the present
In its assessment of the current "state of play" of ethnographic practice in social anthropology, this volume explores the challenges that changing social forms and changing understandings of "the field" pose to contemporary ethnographic methods. These challenges include the implications of the...
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Grassroots memorials
Grassroots memorials have become major areas of focus during times of trauma, danger, and social unrest. These improvised memorial assemblages continue to display new and more dynamic ways of representing collective and individual identities and in doing so reveal the steps that shape the natio...
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Childbirth, midwifery and concepts of time
All cultures are concerned with the business of childbirth, so much so that it can never be described as a purely physiological or even psychological event. This volume draws together work from a range of anthropologists and midwives who have found anthropological approaches useful in their wor...
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Beyond 1989
With the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, four decades of separation seemed to have been brought to an end. In the literary arena as in many others, this seemed to be the surprising but ultimately logical end to the situation in which, after the extreme separation of the two Germanies'...
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How materials matter
Explores how design and innovation shape people’s lives in the Pacific. Focusing on plant materials from the region, it reveals ways in which a variety of people – from craftswomen and scientists to architects and politicians – work with materials to transform worlds.
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Biography between structure and agency
While bookstore shelves around the world have never ceased to display best-selling “life-and-letters” biographies in prominent positions, the genre became less popular among academic historians during the Cold War decades. Their main concern then was with political and socioeconomic structures,...
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Evidence, history and the great war
In the English-speaking world the Great War maintains a tenacious grip on the public imagination, and also continues to draw historians to an event which has been interpreted variously as a symbol of modernity, the midwife to the twentieth century and an agent of social change. Although much 'c...
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The power of entrepreneurs
Although Spain is an important member of the EU, relatively little is known about its economy and its interrelationship with political forces. This book, the first of its kind, offers a long-term view and analyzes this ever-changing relationship throughout the 20th century with its various uphe...
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Everyday invisibility
In the wake of Greece’s 2008 economic collapse, African women in Athens navigated intensified discrimination shaped by the intersecting forces of gender, race and migration status. This book argues that gendered racialization renders these women not only invisible but also hyper-visible in ster...
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Encounters with emotions
Spanning Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Encounters with Emotions investigates experiences of face-to-face transcultural encounters from the seventeenth century to the present. The case-studies presented in this volume explore the cultural aspects of nature and the bodily dimensions of nurture in...
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Turning the tune
Argues traditional Irish music represents an increasingly important identity marker both in Ireland and abroad. Focuses on a small village in County Clare, a pilgrimage site for those interested in experiencing traditional music. Explores the commercialization of music and culture, ...
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Identities
"Identity" has become a core concept of the social and cultural sciences. Bringing together perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, and literary criticism, this book offers a comprehensive and critical overview on how this concept is currently used and how it relates to ...
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Ambiguous transitions
Ambiguous Transitions provides an accessible, intimate exploration of gender and citizenship in socialist Romania. Author Jill M. Massino connects women’s everyday lives to larger political, economic, and social processes, challenging conventional understandings of life in socialist Romania as ...
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Virtualism, governance and practice
Explores the relationship between conservation design and conservation execution Analyzes environmentalist visions and organizational policies and programs Justifies critics' concerns regarding organizations' impositions in different parts of the world Disproves critics by showca...
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Enhancing democracy
This volume provides a comprehensive framework of the democratic movements in Chile since the end of the Pinochet regime Uses empirical data to form an overview of the country's political sphere Expertly adds to the debate on the relationship between politics and civil society in C...
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Forging the collective memory
When studying the origins of the First World War, scholars have relied heavily on the series of key diplomatic documents published by the governments of both the defeated and the victorious powers in the 1920s and 1930s. However, this volume shows that these volumes, rather than dealing objecti...
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Struggling for recognition
As a religious and cultural minority in Turkey, the Alevis have suffered a long history of persecution and discrimination. In the late 1980s they started a movement for the recognition of Alevi identity in both Germany and Turkey. Today, they constitute a significant segment of Germany’s Turkis...
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Gardening the world
Offers multi-group comparative ethnography within river catchment area. Provides new theoretical insights into why societies use resources unsustainably. Eludicates complex social and cultural dynamics of water use and management. Considers what water means to different groups of...
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Objects and imagination
An exciting and innovative addition to the study of material culture, art and aethetics. Comprised by accomplished, previously published scholars in the field of art history and social anthropology. Explores how we conceptualise our social surroundings through the framework of the im...
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The anthropology of moralities
The authors observe, describe and assess values cross-culturally A valuable guide for students of anthropology, sociology and cultural studies Proposes methodological approaches to the study of moralities
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Picturing pity
Picturing Pity is the first full length monograph on missionary photography. Empirically, it is based on an in-depth analysis of the published photographs taken by Norwegian evangelical missionaries in Northern Cameroon from the early nineteen twenties, at the beginning of their activities in t...
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Alterity and human evolution
Engaging critically with concepts of race, species, and otherness, this book contributes to current debates on human evolution. In a political climate marked by movements such as Black Lives Matter and policies like Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14168 against ‘gender ideology’, this volume bri...
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Debating authenticity
All contributions are based on field research in Europe, Africa, Arabic Peninsula, Latin America, North America Authenticity is debated in various subfields, in particular: visual arts, popular culture, material culture, music, tourism, religion, colonial history. Scholars with affil...
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Chiasmus and culture
Uses the figure of chiasmus to model a broad array of phenomena, from human relations to artistic creation Provides first book-length study of chiastic thought Contributors explore what chiasmus reveals about the world, cultural patterns, human relations, psychology, and artistic an...
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