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Between the forest and the road
During the past two decades Ecuadorians have engaged in a national debate around Buen Vivir (living well). This ethnography discusses one of the ways in which people experience well-being or aspire to live well in Ecuadorian Amazonia. Waponi Kewemonipa (living well) is a Waorani notion that emb...
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Working in greece and turkey
The studies in Working in Greece and Turkey provide an overdue exploration of labour history on both sides of the Aegean, before as well as after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Deploying the approaches of global labour history as a framework, this volume presents transnational, transcontinenta...
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Ritual, rapture and rebellion
This book is an anthropological account of a group of middle and upper-class Gitanos and their ways of creating a ‘society within society’ based upon distinct cultural, moral and ideological values, notions and practices.
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Estates and constitution
Estates and Constitution provides a rich account of Hungarian politics during the eighteenth century, restoring the Diet to its rightful place as one of the era’s major innovations in government. István M. Szijártó traces the religious, economic, and partisan forces that shaped the Diet, puttin...
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An anthropology of intellectual exchange
This volume advocates for an analytical focus on intellectual exchange, as well as producing an ethnographically informed framework for its study across cultures and contexts.
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Atlantic perspectives
Focusing on mobility, religion, and belonging, the volume contributes to transatlantic anthropology and history by bringing together religion, cultural heritage and placemaking in the Atlantic world. The entanglements of religion, cultural heritage and belonging are ethnographically scrutinized...
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Political friendship
Political Friendship demonstrates the central role of the German liberal elite’s interpersonal relationships in the uncertain path to unification and 19th century Germany political culture.
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Fixing motorcycles in post-repair societies
Taking motorcycling in Romania as an ethnographic entry point, this book documents how bikers handle the inevitable moment of malfunction and breakdown. Using both mobile and sedentary research methods, the book describes the joys and troubles experienced by amateur mechanics, professional mech...
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De-commemoration
In the wake of recent protests against police violence and racism, calls to dismantle problematic memorials have reverberated around the globe. This is not a new phenomenon, however, nor is it limited to the Anglo-Saxon world. De-Commemoration focuses on the concept of de-commemoration as it re...
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Modeling the past
Using this handbook, researchers learn to develop historical and archaeological research questions anchored in dynamic network analysis (DYRA). Undergraduate and graduate students, as well as professional historians and archaeologists can consult on issues that range from hypothesis-driven rese...
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Modern lusts
Detlef Siegfried’s long-awaited English translation chronicles Ernest Borneman’s journey from his days as a young Jewish Communist in Berlin to his ventures in England and Canada, and ultimately, to his endeavors as the most prominent sexologist spearheading the sexual revolution in West German...
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Inconceivable iran
This book offers a much-needed analysis of shifting reproductive policies and practices in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a society that is usually represented as either “revolutionary” or “oppressive.” Instead, Tremayne reflects on more than four decades of research to argue that changing repro...
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Technology and the common good
Building on the work of Elinor Ostrom (Governing the Commons) the author examines how the different shared goods of a democratic society are shaped by technology and demonstrates how club goods, common pool resources, and public goods are supported, enhanced, and disrupted by technology.
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Edges, fringes, frontiers
Based on an ethnographic account of subsistence forest use by Wapishana people in Guyana and developing an original analytical framework, Edges, Frontiers, Fringes examines the social, cultural and behavioral bases for sustainability and resilience in indigenous resource use.
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The revolt of the provinces
It is the first in-depth ethnographic monograph on the New Right in Central and Eastern Europe. It is based on an innovative relational and process-oriented methodology that combines case studies with an analysis of events in the political public sphere.It is also original in combining a...
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Elite malay polygamy
Ethnography of elite polygamy as lived practice. Exploring internal dynamics of elite kinship in Muslim Southeast Asia. Uncovering changing elite gender relations in Muslim Southeast Asia.
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Capturing quicksilver
Capturing Quicksilver considers the use, promotion, and legislation of Chinese medicine in Singapore in relation to government policies favoring international investment, urban redevelopment, healthcare regulation, “multiracial” nationalism, and the management of history and heritage. Theoretic...
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Emerging technologies and museums
Emerging technologies in museums have the potential to reveal unheard or silenced stories, challenge preconceptions, encourage emotional responses, introduce the unexpected, and overall provide alternative experiences. By examining varied theoretical approaches and case studies, authors demonst...
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Metaphors of spain
The history of twentieth-century Spanish nationalism is a complex one, placing a set of famously distinctive regional identities against a backdrop of religious conflict, separatist tensions, and the autocratic rule of Francisco Franco. Metaphors of Spain brings together leading historians to e...
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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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Opposing ostpolitik
Broadens our understanding of a crucial period of German foreign policy, namely the 1960s. Introduces a major political figure and makes an important contribution to our understanding of Strauss’s strategic thinking during the Cold War while also offering important insights for the conte...
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Finding home in europe
Bringing together the voices of nine individuals from an archive of over 200 in-depth interviews with transnational migrants and refugees across five European countries, Finding Home in Europe critically engages with how home is experienced by those who move.
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Cryptopolitics
Focusing on African societies, Crypolitics brings together empirically grounded studies of digital media to draw out the significance of hidden information, double meanings, and the constant processes of encoding and decoding messages in negotiations of power relations.
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Bodies, gods and other imponderables
A dialogue between a philosopher and an anthropologist, one a specialist in ancient Greek and Chinese thought, the other in Amazonian Indigenous peoples. Lloyd and Vilaça revise our understanding of ideas about the body and its antitheses, dreams, sickness, gods, and the narratives and myths wh...
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Shakespeare's counternarrative against death
A new view of Shakespeare’s plays in their totality Attention to the beauty and power of Shakespeare’s assertion of the power of life An explicit spanning of the traditional dramatic genres and poetry
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Punks and skins united
Germany has one of the most lively and well-developed punk scenes in the world. However, punk in this country is not just a style-based music community. This book provides an anthropological examination of how punk reflects the larger changes and contradictions in post-reunification Germany.
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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...
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Brewing socialism
Taking an uncommonly focused lens against the deep and active role coffee had in connecting East Germans to a global market, Brewing Socialism uncovers the significance of East German efforts to democratize coffee and how that focus on material cultural informed the everyday life of the Social ...
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In the shadow of auschwitz
An in-depth analysis of German massacres in Poland over the whole period of German occupation during the Second World War, this innovative study recounts the widely forgotten ethnic Polish civilian victims. Using both German and Polish sources, In the Shadow of Auschwitz uncovers for the first ...
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The origins of prejudice
The series layout provides an accessible and overarching approach to some complex topics which may appeal to the more general reader. This series is designed to demonstrate how S.T.E.M. education must include the social sciences if we are to deal successfully with the risks and uncertain...
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Embracing landscape
Examining human-animal relations among the reindeer hunting and herding Dukha community in northern Mongolia, this book focuses on concepts such as domestication and wildness from an indigenous perspective. By looking into hunting rituals and herding techniques, the ethnography questions the dy...
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Other worlds, other bodies
This book proposes a sensory ethnography of healing with a focus on ethnographic knowing as embedded in an embodied epistemology of healing. Epistemological embodiment signals that personal scholarly experience of the “unknown”—be it in the form of trance, or as the embodiment of an “other”—sha...
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A creole nation
Compilation of interdisciplinary scholarly perspectives. State-of-the-art research on current debates in creolization, ethnicity, and nation-building discourses. New Perspectives beyond a primarily historical focus on creolization and creole identity and nation-building “from below” ...
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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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Reading hitler’s victims
An original study exploring previously undiscovered archival sources and literary texts by neglected refugee authors and translators, including women. Significant to contemporary understanding and memory of the Holocaust – it illuminates Britian’s chronology of knowledge regarding the Ho...
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Educating otherwise
A focus on anthropological education; offering both critique and examples of how anthropology can be taught differently. Capturing the state of the art of theory, research, pedagogy and practice of anthropological education in 2024. Contributions in different formats that can be enga...
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Writing holocaust history
Exemplifies some of the major trends in the writing of Holocaust history in the 21st century, with a particular focus on local Holocaust history in Eastern Europe and the biographies of low-level participants. Collects scattered, recent contributions of a senior Holocaust historian that ...
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The body swap film
First book-length study of body swap cinema – Offers the only comprehensive account of a globally popular tradition, from Freaky Friday to Miss Granny and beyond. Interdisciplinary appeal – Bridges film studies with gender, race, disability, trans, and media theory, making it relevant to...
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Girls take action
An illuminating examination of activism networks run for, by, and with girls and young women globally, Girls Take Action highlights the myriad ways girls and young women are exercising their agency in the face of injustice, considering especially the role collaboration plays in creating a more ...
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Sense and essence
Contrary to popular perceptions, cultural heritage is not given, but constantly in the making, subject to dynamic processes of (re)inventing culture within particular social formations and via particular forms of mediation. Through the heuristic concepts of the "politics of authentication" and ...
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Avant-garde to new wave
The cultural liberalization of communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s produced many artistic accomplishments, not least the celebrated films of the Czech New Wave. This movement saw filmmakers use their new freedom to engage with traditions of the avant-garde, especially Surrealism. This book ex...
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Maritime archaeology with compassionate community connection
Brings in voices from the Asia Pacific on the vibrant and critical developments in Maritime and Underwater Archaeology. These voices from Hawaii/Aotearoa, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Pacific, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam are exceptional in relaying the compassion implicit...
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A fatal balancing act
First comprehensive study on the German-Jewish leadership during the Holocaust Gives a new perspective on the persecution of Jews in Germany Presents different inner-Jewish perspectives on the years 1939-1945
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The silk roads
Towards the middle of the 20th century, scholarly research revealed that the fabled Silk Roads, far from being mere trade routes, were cultural highways that played a pivotal role in linking east and west, intermittently bringing together nomads and city dwellers, pastoral peoples and farmers, ...
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