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Democratic eco-socialism as a real utopia
Develops critical anthropology of the future Proposes an alternative to the existing world system based upon social parity, democratic processes, environmental sustainability, and a safe climate Argues that the notion of socialism needs to be revisited and reformulated to include dem...
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Reconceiving muslim men
Through anthropological accounts of Muslim men’s everyday lives in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and diasporic settings, Reconceiving Muslim Men explores the creative ways in which Muslim men care for and nurture their families and communities. By focusing on reproduction, love, and care, this...
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The frightful stage
In nineteenth-century Europe the ruling elites viewed the theater as a form of communication which had enormous importance. The theater provided the most significant form of mass entertainment and was the only arena aside from the church in which regular mass gatherings were possible. Therefore...
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Do not forget me
Following the Axis invasion of Greece, the Nazis began persecuting the country’s Jews as they had across occupied Europe, beginning with small indignities and culminating in mass imprisonment and deportations. Among the many Jews confined to the Thessaloniki ghetto during this period were Sarin...
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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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The political economy of german unification
Although German unification has had a profound impact on European integration and economic development, very few studies of the East German economy exist. The editors of this volume have therefore brought together specialists in economics and politics who analyze such important issues as privat...
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Cosmos and colonialism
Alexander von Humboldt explored the Spanish Empire on the verge of its collapse (1799–1804). He is the most significant German travel writer and the most important mediator between Europe and the Americas of the nineteenth century. His works integrated knowledge from two dozen domains. Today, h...
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Saltwater sociality
The inhabitants of Pororan Island, a small group of ‘saltwater people’ in Papua New Guinea, are intensely interested in the movements of persons across the island and across the sea, both in their everyday lives as fishing people and on ritual occasions. From their observations of human movemen...
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Mixed harvest
After millennia of wandering the earth with little impact, a universal, if inadvertent transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and pastoralism was complete within a period of a few thousand years. Mixed Harvest tells the story of the Sedentary Divide, the most significant event sin...
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After difference
The first major English-language ethnography of LGBT life in Italy An account of how understandings of ‘difference’ have become vital both to contemporary forms of political activism and to social scientific knowledge practice A uniquely critical perspective on ethnography as a metho...
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Repair, brokenness, breakthrough
We are all repairers. Exploring some of the ways in which repair practices and perceptions of brokenness vary culturally Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough argues that repair is an attempt to extend the life of things as well as an answer to failures, gaps, wrongdoings and leftovers.
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Dreaming and the imagination
Of all the human behaviors anthropologists consider, perhaps the most conceptually challenging are those that cannot by directly observed. This volume draws from rich ethnographic data to offer theoretical and methodological tools for mapping the intersections between two such behaviors: dreami...
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Unforgotten
Offers a rich ethnographic account of how middle-class families in urban India care for their relatives with dementia. It is unique in its insights into the intimate experiences of dementia and dementia care from insiders’ perspectives, particularly from within the intimate spaces of the hom...
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Moral power
Neither power nor morality but both. Moral power is what Sukuma farmers in Tanzania in times of crisis attribute to an unknown figure they call their witch. A universal process is involved, as much bodily as social, which obstructs the patient’s recovery. Healers turn the table on the witch thr...
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Hierarchy and value
Globalization promised to bring about a golden age of liberal individualism, breaking down hierarchies of kinship, caste, and gender around the world and freeing people to express their true, authentic agency. But in some places globalization has spurred the emergence of new forms of hierarchy—...
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The anatomy of murder
This is the first comprehensive account of “Anatomy in National Socialism”. Traces the gradual escalation of ethical transgressions in anatomy during National Socialism from the traditional anatomical work with the dead to human experimentation, and points to the need for vigilance again...
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Beyond caligari
While the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari became an international film classic, its director, Robert Wiene, was disparaged and even forgotten. Wiene's oeuvre, however, exhibits a surprising versatility and quality, featuring Raskolnikov, an expressionist adaptation of Dostoevsky's novel, INRI, a monume...
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Shakespeare and stratford
As the site of literary pilgrimage since the eighteenth century, the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the topic of hundreds of imaginary portrayals, Stratford is ripe for analysis, both in terms of its factual existence and its fictional afterlife.
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Occupied istanbul
The first major English-Language edited collection dedicated to the occupation of Istanbul. Contributions from established and emerging scholars show the breadth of the occupation’s impact across politics, policing, commerce, fashion, the press, labour, infrastructure, justice, and housi...
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Engaging environments in tonga
On March 11, 2011, a tsunami warning was issued for Tonga in Polynesia. On the low and small island of Kotu, people were unperturbed in the face of pending catastrophe. The book is an ethnography of the relationship between people and their environment based on fieldwork over three decades.
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At home in the hills
To most outsiders, the hills of the Scottish Borders are a bleak and foreboding space - usually made to represent the stigmatized Other, Ad Finis, by the centers of power in Edinburgh, London, and Brussels. At a time when globalization seems to threaten our sense of place, people of the Scottis...
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Magical house protection
First world-wide survey of this topic in book form. The latest theories and thoughts about magical house protection archaeology. The result of 20 years research on the topic. Contains a gazeteer of discoveries in Britain and America showing the geographical distribution of th...
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Losing place
Refugee flight, settlement, and repatriation are not static, self-contained, or singular events. Instead, they are three stages of an ongoing process made and mirrored in the lives of real people. For that reason, there is an evident need for historical and longitudinal studies of refugee popul...
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The journalism of milena jesenská
Milena Jesenská, born in Prague in 1896, is most famous as one of Franz Kafka's great loves. Although their relationship lasted only a short time, it won the attention of the literary world with the 1952 publication of Kafka's letters to Milena. Her own letters did not survive. Later biographie...
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Learning senegalese sabar
Explores Sabar from the research position of a Dance student Provides comparative analysis of the pedagogical techniques used in dance classes in New York and Dakar Discusses how the "cultural flow" of the dances is punctuated by national borders and socio-economic relationships ...
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The making of anthropology in east and southeast asia
CHOICE OUTSTANDING BOOK OF THE YEAR 2005 Despite the growth of interest in the history of anthropology as a over the last two decades, surprisingly little has been published in English on the development of anthropology in East and Southeast Asia and its relationship to the rest of the academ...
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Taboo, truth and religion
Franz Steiner's study of Taboo is internationally recognized as a classic in its field. In a newly researched introductory chapter, based on a thorough study of Steiner's unpublished papers, this edition for the first time places the book in its context and offers a new reading of the text. Mor...
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Remaking the human
The technological capacity to transform biology - repairing, reshaping and replacing body parts, chemicals and functions – is now a part of our lives. This collection focuses on why people find these practices so seductive, and provides ethnographic insights into people’s motives and aspiration...
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After auschwitz
This provocative collection reflects on the heretofore ignored or repressed aspects of German mainstream society—including right-wing extremism, anti-Semitism and racism—to call for an ambitious renewal of historical research and political education to place East Germany in its proper historica...
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Switzerland: national socialism and the second world war
In continuation of a long-standing national self-image, Switzerland saw itself after 1945 as a "small neutral state," which because of its will to resist and a clever policy managed not to be drawn into the Second World War. However, this self-image has been the subject of an increasingly heate...
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Unveiling the whale
Whaling has become one of the most controversial environmental issues. It is not that all whale species are at the brink of extinction, but that whales have become important symbols to both pro- and anti-whaling factions and can easily be appropriated as the common heritage of humankind. This b...
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The culture of german environmentalism
Though much has been written about the Green Party in Germany, less is known about the changes in individuals' attitudes towards the environment that led to the rise of environmental movement, or of its cultural roots. This volume draws attention to the breadth of environmentalism in contempora...
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Villages in the steppe
In this book, Akkermans provides a systematic overview of the Halaf culture in the Syrian portion of the valley of the Balikh River, a tributary of the Euphrates.
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Lands of the future
Rangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people who have lived there for centuries, outside commercial interests have displaced indigenous dwel...
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Globalizing automobilism
Why has “car society” proven so durable, even in the face of mounting environmental and economic crises? In this follow-up to his magisterial Atlantic Automobilism, Gijs Mom traces the global spread of the automobile in the postwar era and investigates why adopting more sustainable forms of mob...
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Labour, unions and politics under the north star
Includes material on all five Nordic countries, including Iceland. Combines studies of Nordic labour movements and labour politics with attention to work in historical perspective. Covers broad historical period, ranging from the early modern period to the present day. Sets Nordi...
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Jesus reclaimed
In this cross-cultural study the author compares Jewish and Christian discourses. Offers a historical account of Jewish perspectives on the Nazarene and the potential reasons for the recent increased interest in Jesus. Contrasts the Jewish quest for a historical Jesus against the har...
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Children of the dictatorship
Traces the dissent and activism of anti-regime students during the dictatorship of the Colonels in Greece from 1967-1974 Effectively relates the Greek activists of the ‘Long 1960s’ to the youth culture of the last third of the 20th century without losing touch with the Greek cultural and...
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Foodscapes, foodfields, and identities in the yucatán
The state of Yucatán has its own distinct culinary tradition, and local people are constantly thinking and talking about food. They use it as a vehicle for social relations but also to distinguish themselves from “Mexicans.” This book examines the politics surrounding regional cuisine, as the a...
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Making bodies kosher
Integrates archival and ethnographic material to explore healthcare concerns over time Original study of Haredi Jews in the UK, whereas most focus on Israel or the USA Explores the continuum of maternity care & child health in a ‘hard to reach’ minority
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Moving places
Explores spatial implications of movement that generate relative locations. Examines not only movement but also questions how movement and mobility perforce and relate to place and locationand how the latter are produced, defined and experienced through a complex set of relations and sep...
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Children of the camp
This is one of the very few books published focusing on refugee youth and the only one focusing on Somali refugee youth in protracted exile; The use of photography teaching as a research method is rather unusual and gives an insight into the visual world of young refugees in camps; T...
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Between mass death and individual loss
Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject in its own right is very much linked to its pre-eminent place in 20th-century history, and Germany, predictably, occupies a special place in these i...
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Simulated dreams
At the core of the author's concern stands the question of cultural transmutation in an era riddled with media channels and all-embracing messages. Fragments of the Israeli experience are pieced together in this provocative essay to provide a socio-anthropological agenda for some of the issues ...
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