Regimes of ignorance

High-quality rich ethnographic examples set in comparative perspective. Contributors includesome of the brightest emerging scholars of their generation, as well as a number of senior, internationally recognised anthropologists. An important theoretical re-working of this emerging are...

Postwall german cinema

An important contribution to the growing body of literature on contemporary German film Challenges previous paradigms, and highlights engagement with historiographic forms and with film history itself

Czechs, germans, jews?

The phenomenon of national identities, always a key issue in the modern history of Bohemian Jewry, was particularly complex because of the marginal differences that existed between the available choices. Considerable overlap was evident in the programs of the various national movements and it w...

A venetian island

Since the extensive floods of 1966, inhabitants of Venice's laguna areas have come to share in, and reflect upon, concerns over pressing environmental problems. Evidence of damage caused by industrial pollution has contributed to the need to recover a common culture and establish a sense of con...

Out of albania

Analysing the dynamics of the post-1990 Albanian migration to Italy, this book is the first major study of one of Europe’s newest, most dramatic yet least understood migrations. It takes a close look at migrants’ employment, housing and social exclusion in Italy, as well as the process of retur...

Beyond the looking glass

Explores the movie screen as a medium of shared experience between spectator and star Evaluates the fan’s desire for a material connection to the performer Utilises scholarly and theoretical studies as well as reviews and accounts from popular culture Examines the importance of g...

Bush bound

Its empirical and theoretical treatment of immobility and sedentariness as neglected aspects in migration and mobility studies. No book-length work dedicated to immobility exists as yet. Unique in the analytical extent to which immobility and migration are shown to be intertwined and per...

Ethnographies of power

Energetic infrastructures are crucial to political organization. They shape the contours of states and international bodies, as well as corporations and communities, framing their material existence and their fears and idealisations of the future. Ethnographies of Power brings together ethnogra...

Clausewitz in his time

Written by an established and successful scholar of Clausewitz A collection of essays on a theorist whose ideologies remain largely significant in contemporary war studies The author provides a detailed volume of essays which detail Clausewitz's analytical methods for the study of wa...

Conservation and mobile indigenous peoples

Wildlife conservation and other environmental protection projects can have tremendous impact on the lives and livelihoods of the often mobile, difficult-to-reach, and marginal peoples who inhabit the same territory. The contributors to this collection of case studies, social scientists as well ...

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 ...

Urban violence in the middle east

Aims to foster a new understanding of violence beyond that of a meaningless and destructive social and political act, countering notions of a violent Middle East. Explores processes sparked by the transition from empires to the formation of nation states, and the resulting changes in cit...

Liberal imperialism in germany

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 ...

Poems in steel

The role of National Socialism in the development of German society remains a central question of historical inquiry. This study presents original answers by examining the politics of inventing, a crucial but long ignored problem at the intersection of the history of technology, legal, politica...

Weimar radicals

Offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between Communism and Fascism a key problem of twentieth-century German history. Reconsiders the fateful relationship between the two great ideological competitors of the Weimar Republic, while offering a challenging new interpretation of th...

Ethnobotany in the new europe

Tells the story of the on-going evolution of human-plant relations in one of the most bioculturally dynamic places on the planet Explores new approaches that link the re-evaluation of plant-based cultural heritage with the conservation and use of biocultural diversity.

The brave new world of european labor

European union movements played a central role in promoting a "Europeanmodel of society", a humane industrial relations system, high labor standards, generous welfare states, and collective political representation which reached its pinnacle in the post-World War II era. The recent shift to low...

The allure of capitalism

Provides a unique ethnography of "global management". One of the few in-depth ethnographies addressing the current financial and economic crisis. Unique in the way it provides an ethnographic extended case study, extending out of the field from corporate managerial practices to the g...

Françoise héritier

A great intellectual figure, Françoise Héritier succeeded Claude Lévi-Strauss as the Chair of Anthropology at the Collège de France in 1982. She was both an Africanist, author of magnificent works on the Samo population, the scientific progenitor of kinship studies, the creator of a theoretical...

A jewish understanding of the world

In this second volume of Liberal Jewish sermons spanning the greater part of the second half ofthe twentieth century, the author again combines a radically progressive stance with Jewish commitment and seeks to understand contemporary history from a "prophetic" point of view. His comments cover...

Comrades in arms

The french road movie

The only existing full-length study on the road movie in French cinema Argues for the importance to French cinema of this largely overlooked genre Challenges previous conceptions of the road movie within film history and theory, and offers new ways of understanding the genre Prov...

The ways of friendship

Reassess the view that friendship is best understood within wider ideologies of kinship. Contributors engage in productive theoretical conversation with recent anthropological work on relatedness, personhood and individualism. Illustrates that the power of friendship in many cultures...

Burgundy

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Georgian women on the move

Makes excellent use of ethnographic research, written by an author who is intimately familiar with the history of the places she depicts and the theoretical concepts from which she draws. Timely focus on Georgian migrant women in Greece, and their struggle with the long-term economic cri...

Policy worlds

There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy making has progressively reached into the structure and fabric of everyday life. An instrument of modern government, policy and its processes provide an analytical window into systems of ...

The northern ireland conflict on the margins of history

In thisexacting re-examination of paramilitary violence upon border Protestants within Northern Ireland, The Northern Ireland Conflict on the Margins of History illuminates the understudied impact the Troubles had upon the Protestant community’s physical, economic, and cultural presence within ...

Audiences of nazism

Innovating against the considerable gap in research surrounding historical media reception within Nazi Germany, Audiences of Nazism finds sources of actual audience responses to critically engage with the Third Reich’s media production legacy.

Torn is the curtain

Re-examining film’s potential as both an artistic and ideological discipline, Torn is the Curtain interrogates the relationship between early film cultures within Istanbul and ever-changing ideas of social transformation, highlighting how emergent ideas of post-colonialism, Orientalism, and fem...

Risk on the table

From the proliferation of synthetic additives to the threat posed by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the chapters in Risk on the Table zero in on key historical cases in North America and Europe that illuminate the history of food safety, highlighting the powerful tension that exists between pol...

Tropical nature

An insightful and wide-ranging study of the colonial history of conservation projects, Tropical Nature seeks to provide a much-needed history of the Global South from its own perspective. In doing so, this volume collection spotlights a “small-scale global history” that deciphers the relations ...

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 ...

Funerals in africa

Unique collection of essays on contemporary African funerals A collection of essays showing how funerals are a key scene of African social change A collection reintroducing funerals in the picture of African social change

The making of modern eating

Offers an important contribution to the history of food and food practices in German-speaking countries during the long 19th Century. Reveals fresh insights into the development of the middle classes in Europe. Integrates the development of German food into transnational narratives f...

The respectable career of fritz k.

Provides an insight into understanding the political upheavals in the 20th Century in Germany. Facilitates understanding of the workings of the corrupt Nazi system. Analyses the "Coming to Terms" with National Socialism in the Federal Republic.

Austria, germany, and the cold war

In the 'Moscow Declaration' of 1943 the Allies officially propagated the notion of Austria as the first victim of Hitlerite aggression and announced their intention to set up a "free and independent Austria" after the war, which finally happened in 1955. By questioning why it took so long to ge...

Social history of german jews

Social History of German Jews traces the social history of modern German Jews from the end of the 18th century up to the aftermath of World War II, and focusses on the ascent of German Jews into the middle and upper-middle classes through both adversity and manifold forms of Jewish self-assertion.

Modernity and the unmaking of men

Responding to the renewed emphasis on the significance of village studies, this book focuses on aging bachelorhood as a site of intolerable angst when faced with rural depopulation and social precarity. Based on ongoing ethnographic fieldwork in contemporary Macedonian society, the book explore...

White eagle, black eagle

Studying the German-Polish ethnic relations, this book analyses the people and region through their respective borderlands, migration, official cooperation and unofficial suspicions across the border.

The configuration of the spanish public sphere

This volume brings together leading scholars in Spanish and Latin American studies to explore the concept of the Spanish “public sphere” and its relation to society and political power over time. It offers a long-term, panoramic view—spanning from the Enlightenment to current developments in th...

United in discontent

Offers multi-disciplinary interpretations of cosmopolitanism and globlisation. Assumes an analytical and critical stance towards the concepts of parochialism and localism. Explains reservation towards the sincerity of international politics, reliance on conspiracy theories or nationa...

Playing the marginality game

In Guinea, situated in the background of central government struggles, rural elites, through the use of identity politics, employ history and contemporary political reforms to maintain their privileges and perpetuate a generation-old local social contract that bridges ethnic and religious divides.

The viennese café and fin-de-siècle culture

The first study to consider the Viennese café in the wider context of the social, literary, visual and material culture of fin-de-siècle Vienna and the Dual Monarchy. Unique assessment of the café within its broader cultural context. Offers a new inter-disciplinary perspective on tur...