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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.
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Refugees on the move
Refugees on the Move highlights and explores the profound complexities of the current refugee issue by focusing specifically on Syrian refugees in Turkey and other European countries and responses from the host countries involved. The book examines the causes of the movement of refugee populati...
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Breathing hearts
Sufism is known as the mystical dimension of Islam. Nasima Selim explores this definition to find out what it means to ‘breathe well’ along the Sufi path in the context of anti-Muslim racism. Breathing Hearts is the first book-length ethnographic account of Sufi practices and politics in Berlin.
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The franco-mauritian elite
Focuses on the power of white elites still lingering on in postcolonial realities. Addresses anew how an elite group aims to prolong its position over time.
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Quotas
Quotas focuses on the ideologies and practices of quota regimes in Central and Eastern Europe from the late nineteenth century throughout the 20th century, covering their origins development, and impact particularly on limiting access to higher education.
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An australian indigenous diaspora
The first full-length ethnography applying the concept of diaspora to indigenous migration within the nation state. The first full-length account to provide a double perspective (both home and away) of the migration of Australian Indigenous people from remote settlements to towns and cit...
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Reflecting on reflexivity
Approaches the concept of reflexivity on two different yet related analytical planes. On the one plane, a collection of original and innovative ethnographically based essays is offered, each of which is devoted to ways in which reflexivity plays a fundamental role in human social life an...
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From eastern bloc to european union
It is the only book worldwide that comparatively analyzes all the former Soviet bloc countries which today are EU members. As the analysis shows, all the former communist EU states, including East Germany, share common characteristics and similar ways of development. They differ consider...
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Colonial collecting and display
First study dedicated to the historical collecting and display of the material cultures of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Critiques established conceptions of the act of collecting Queries the notion of a homogenous British approach to material culture from the Andaman and Nicobar I...
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The moral work of anthropology
Looking at anthropologists at work, this book investigates what kind of morality they perform in their occupations and the impact of this morality. The book includes ethnographic studies of anthropologists at work in four professional arenas: health care, business, management and interdisciplin...
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Tactical citizenships
Tactical Citizenships is a testament to the tenacity and resourcefulness of marginalized individuals in directing their relations with the state. It explores the troubled relationship between a state and its citizens across four different kinds of social spaces in Limassol, Cyprus.
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The politics of education
Although the early history of progressive education is often associated with John Dewey in America, the author argues convincingly that the pedagogues in the elementary schools in the big cities of Imperial Germany were in the avant garde of this movement on the European Continent. Far more tha...
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Politics of time
What has really happened in Poland since the election of 2005? After such spectacular events as the practice of lustration and the questioning of solidarity with the European Union, one has to ask: what is the nature of this newly emerging society? As with many of the recent developments in for...
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Italian neofascism
During the Cold War Italy witnessed the existence of an anomalous version of a civil conflict, defined as a 'creeping' or a 'low-intensity' civil war. Political violence escalated, including bomb attacks against civilians, starting with a massacre in Milan, on 12 December 1969, and culminating ...
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Concentrationary cinema
It is the first dedicated study of Alain Resnais’s benchmark film that draws together a range of authors across French, film and anti-colonial studies to analyse the political aesthetics of this film It proposes a new perspective on Alain Resnais’s film by shifting it from Holocaust stud...
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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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Governing migration through paperwork
Based on ethnographic studies in various geographical and bureaucratic contexts, this collection shows how civil servants produce statehood, restrict migrants’ movements and engage with migrants’ strategies to make themselves legible. It contributes to the study of the state as documentary prac...
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Sounds german
Sounds German surveys the sociopolitical impact of music on German national identity, gender and sexuality, and transnational cultural production and consumption, expanding on the ways in which sounds, technologies, media practices, and exchanges of popular music provide a unique glimpse into t...
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Transactions and creations
In the early 21st century, intellectual and cultural resources emerge on all sides as candidates for ownership claims. Members of an anthropological research team investigating emergent conomic relations in a part of the world renowned for its innovative approach to resources and transactions, ...
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From tax populism to ethnic nationalism
During the last 15-20 years a new party family of radical right-wing populism (RRP) has emerged in Western Europe, consisting of parties such as the French Front National and the Austrian Freedom's Party, among many others. Contrary to the situation in the other Scandinavian countries, such par...
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Ageing without children
Rapid fertility declines and improved longevity are now shifting the overall balance of population towards older ages in many parts of the world. Within this growing population of older people there are many groups with particular needs about which relatively little is known. This collection fo...
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Theorizing entrepreneurship for the future
Presenting a new interpretation of entrepreneurial behaviour, this book focuses on how entrepreneurs consider the future. The study theorizes entrepreneurial behaviour as ‘future-work’: the social practices, language and rituals through which entrepreneurs neutralize or smoothen future unknowns.
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Entangled entertainers
Viennese popular culture at the turn of the twentieth century was shaped jointly by Jews and non-Jews alike, though their relationship was not immune to bouts of anti-Semitism. The case studies in this book provide new findings in understanding what it meant to be Jewish among artists, performe...
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Ordinary lives and grand schemes
The volume looks at the experience of religion in the intersection of existential ends and grand schemes in everyday practice. Focussing on different religious traditions around the world, the volume offers a comparative and global perspective to living with greater powers that looks bey...
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Quo vadis?
2004 was a year that threw into sharp relief the principal features of the present political conjuncture, that is, one in which the Italian political transition shows few signs of coming to a conclusion. 2004 was, therefore, a year of limited change, one in which reforms were announced but not ...
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Migration as anchorage
A Palestinian family, stranded in London during Israel’s 2008 war on Gaza, opens a café and adapts to uncertainty. This ethnography follows their efforts to recreate home, introducing the concept of ‘anchoring’ to explore migration, home and place, highlighting the fluidity, temporariness and s...
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A year of revolutions
Lewald (1811-1889), the best-selling German woman writer in the nineteenth century, proved akeen and perceptive observer of the social, artistic, and political life of her times, of which these Recollections offer an excellent example. Written from a woman's perspective, this first-hand account...
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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...
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The challenge of globalization for germany's social democracy
"Modell Deutschland," once admired worldwide, has lost much of its shine, due to a number of internal and external factors. This important and timely volume deals with the economic and political pressures and challenges of globalization and is particularly concerned with their effect on social ...
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Fifty years of peasant wars in latin america
Informed by Eric Wolf’s Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, published in 1969, this book examines selected peasant struggles in seven Latin American countries during the last fifty years and suggests the continuing relevance of Wolf’s approach.
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Slipping away
During the 1990s, the Eastern Caribbean was caught in a bitter trade dispute between the US and EU over the European banana market. When the World Trade Organization rejected preferential access for Caribbean growers in 1998 the effect on the region’s rural communities was devastating. This vol...
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Entrepreneurs of identity
Understanding the Islamic State’s ideologues as ‘entrepreneurs of identity’, this book explores how the group defined categories of social identity and used these categories as tools of communicative and cognitive structuring.
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Racism in metropolitan areas
For several decades, a political discourse, which incites exclusion and hatred againt those who are perceived as different, has been gaining ground, most notably in affluent and developed countries. Focusing on the growth of racism in large cities and urban areas, this volume presents the views...
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Archaeogaming
Video games exemplify contemporary material objects, resources, and spaces that people use to define their culture. This book serves as a general introduction to "archaeogaming"; it describes the intersection of archaeology and video games and applies archaeological method and theory into under...
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Japanese tourism
An in-depth historical, geographical, economic, and social analysis of the changing patterns of Japanese tourism since the late 19th century Uses the Meiji Restoration of 1868 as a case study for the changing face of global tourism from the 19th to the 21st century Discusses tourism ...
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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...
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Resettled iraqi refugees in the united states
The American war against Iraq has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and displaced millions of people. Between 2003 and 2017, more than 172,000 Iraqis resettled in the United States. This book explores the experiences of fifteen of them and presents insights into the core experience of life...
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The social construction of diversity
Though the composition of the populace of industrial nations has changed dramatically since the 1950s, public discourse and scholarship, however, often remain welded to traditional concepts of national cultures, ignoring the multicultural realities of most of today's western societies. Through ...
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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 ...
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A history of the i.g. farben trial
In this exacting examination of the history of the I.G. Farben trial, Stephan H. Lindner charts the build up and aftermath of this watershed event, in order to highlight its implications for understanding the complexities of corporate social responsibility and of putting the military-industrial...
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Democracy struggles
Theoretical contribution: the book unpacks culturally-framed and locally-circumscribed phenomena through looking at structural inequalities and through embedding them in global historical processes of political and economic shifts. Substantial ethnographic material and thick description ...
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Germany and the black diaspora
Presents intersections of Black and German history over eight centuries Demonstrates how negative German perceptions of "blackness" proceeded from nineteenth-century racial theories Probes individual and collective responses to inter-cultural points of contact
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Management by seclusion
Assessing the World Bank’s attempts to combat global poverty over the past 50 years, anthropologist and former World Bank Advisor Glynn Cochrane argues that instead of the Bank’s prevailing strategy of “management by seclusion,” poverty alleviation requires personal engagement with the poorest ...
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Empathy and history
establishes empathy’s origins and function in the practice, teaching and philosophy of history connects empathy’s use in school history to longstanding debates in the philosophy of history concerning the status of history in human knowledge establishes the link between R.G. Collingwo...
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