The rhetorical emergence of culture

“Just as rhetoric is founded in culture, culture is founded in rhetoric” - the first half of this central statement from the International Rhetoric Culture Project is abundantly evidenced. It is the latter half that this volume explores: how does culture emerge out of rhetorical action, out of ...

The german economy during the nineteenth century

In the 19th Century, economic growth was accompanied by large-scale structural change, known as industrialization, which fundamentally affected western societies. Even though industrialization is on the wane in some advanced economies and we are experiencing substantial structural changes again...

Growing artefacts, displaying relationships

Ethnographic study of artefacts from Papua New Guinea Provides detailed examination of how these artefacts acquire their specific properties Engages with contemporary anthropological topics such as aesthetics and rituals Provides detailed discussion of the study of "technology" i...

Nearly the new world

First comprehensive study of Jewish migration to the British West Indies during the Nazi era Combines refugee, West Indian, British, Governmental and NGO perspectives and very wide range of sources from the Caribbean, United States, Israel and the UK. Adds uniquely to the study of ...

Kubrick's mitteleuropa

Stanley Kubrick was arguably one of the most influential American directors of the post-World War II era, and his Central European Jewish heritage, though often overlooked, greatly influenced his oeuvre. Kubrick's Mitteleuropa explores this as well as providing important commentary on the recep...

French intellectuals against the left

In the latter half of the 1970s, the French intellectual Left denounced communism, Marxism, and revolutionary politics through a critique of left-wing totalitarianism that paved the way for today's postmodern, liberal, and moderate republican political options. Contrary to the dominant understa...

Sometime kin

Sometime Kin is the portrait of an Alpine settlement - its history, economy and culture - and its unusual resistance to outsiders and modernisation. Against this we see it embrace the ethnographer’s four small children. Sandra Wallman’s account reveals the distortion to ordinary life caused by ...

Towards an anthropology of psychology

Anthropology and psychology share a long history of rivalry, collaboration, and mutual disregard. This volume reconsiders psychology as a field of anthropological enquiry. In doing so, it takes an ethnographic approach to psychology, examining psychotherapeutic practices and models of mental he...

In god's name

Despite the widespread trends of secularization in the 20th century, religion has played an important role in several outbreaks of genocide since the First World War. And yet, not many scholars have looked either at the religious aspects of modern genocide, or at the manner in which religion ha...

Being a state and states of being in highland georgia

Explores questions of citizenship, belonging, and mobility in the Highland areas of Georgia. The author scrutinizes local encounters with the erratic Soviet and post-Soviet state and argues that citizenship is both a sought-after means of entitlement and a way of guarding against the sta...

The vienna gestapo, 1938-1945

The Vienna Gestapo was the most important instrument of Nazi terror on Austrian soil. Through expert historical analysis of the Vienna Gestapo in the years 1938-1945, this volume provides a comprehensive presentation of not only the victims of persecution but also of the structures, organizatio...

Metallic modern

Presents multi-scalar interconnected history from South Asia Focuses on modernity at an everyday level Research based on multiple archives in the USA, Sri Lanka and India

Between prague spring and french may

Uses a wide variety of disciplines including linguistic analysis Based on extensive research including case analyses A collaborative, comparative and international historical study

Wind over water

Investigates how migrants are changing the face of Asia, especially its cities: Beijing, Hong Kong, Hamamatsu, Osaka, Tokyo, Singapore Demonstrates how the crossing of geographical boundaries is also a crossing of cultural and social categories Reveals extraordinary variation among m...

Universities in the twenty-first century

On the eve of the twenty-first century, the United States and Germany face common but also separate challenges that will be met in part by significant activity at the university level. This volume offers views and expert opinions from leading American and German educators and university adminis...

Between marx and coca-cola

In the 1960s and 1970s, Western Europe's "Golden Age" (Eric Hobsbawm), a new youth consciousness emerged, which gave this period its distinctive character. Offering rich and new material, this volume moves beyond the easy conflation of youth culture and "Americanization" and instead sets out to...

Antisemitism in galicia

Antisemitism in Galicia investigates the interaction of agitation, violence, and politics against Jews on the periphery of the Danube monarchy. In its comprehensive analysis of the functions and limitations of propaganda, rumors, and mass media, it shows just how significant antisemitism was to...

Obstetricians speak

For the first time ever in a social science work, obstetricians tell their own stories of training, practice, fear, and transformation. This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to understand the ideologies and motives of individual ...

Economy, crime and wrong in a neoliberal era

Covers a wide range of industry practice and economic activity Challenges common views of neoliberalism Shows the difficulty of defining right and wrong and of assigning responsibility for wrongful activity

Public anthropology in a borderless world

Articulates how public engagement is transforming the discipline of anthropology. Includes perspectives from contributors on their personal and professional transformations.

Spirits and letters

Studies of religion have a tendency to conceptualise ‘the Spirit’ and ‘the Letter’ as mutually exclusive and intrinsically antagonistic. However, the history of religions abounds in cases where charismatic leaders deliberately refer to and make use of writings. This book challenges prevailing s...

Ways of knowing

European kinship in the age of biotechnology

Interest in the study of kinship, a key area of anthropological enquiry, has recently reemerged. Dubbed ‘the new kinship’, this interest was stimulated by the ‘new genetics’ and revived interest in kinship and family patterns. This volume investigates the impact of biotechnology on contemporary...

Evidence, ethos and experiment

Medical research has been central to biomedicine in Africa for over a century, and Africa, along with other tropical areas, has been crucial to the development of medical science. At present, study populations in Africa participate in an increasing number of medical research projects and clinic...

24 bars to kill

Contrary to persistent depictions of an ethnically and economically homogeneous Japan, “ghetto” or “gangsta” J-hop music gives voice to the suffering, deprivation, and social exclusion experienced by many modern Japanese. 24 Bars to Kill gives a fascinating ethnographic account of this music as...

Writing democracy

The text was inspired by the 2014 bicentenary of the Norwegian Constitution which is the oldest functioning constitution in Europe The volume examines the framing of the Norwegian Constitution, its transformations, and its interpretations during the last two centuries The collection ...

The decolonial mandela

This concise, forcefully argued volume lays out a groundbreaking interpretation of the “Mandela phenomenon.” Contrary to a neoliberal social model that privileges adversarial criminal justice and a rationalistic approach to warmaking, Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni elevates transformative political ...

Archaeologies of rules and regulation

How can we study the impact of rules on the lives of past people using archaeological evidence? To answer this question, Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation presents case studies drawn from across Europe and the United States, exploring the use of archaeological evidence in understanding the ...

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

Techniques, technology and civilization

Marcel Mauss's writings on techniques and technology are at the forefront of an important anthropological and sociological research tradition, and they also highlight the theoretical and ideological challenges surrounding this field of study. A selection of Mauss's texts — including his major s...

Punks and skins united

A rare ethnographic insight into Eastern German punk and skinhead scenes: The book offers a uniquely in-depth anthropological study of punk and skinhead communities in eastern Germany, based on fieldwork and close observation of everyday life in the subculture. It is one of a very small hand...

Healing and harm

Professor Mary Lindemann’s career inspired several generations of researchers in early modern German history and culture. In Healing and Harm, scholars at the height of the field speak to key continuations of subjects stemming from the marked breakpoints across Lindemann’s wide body of work.

Common destiny

Although the Socialist or Social Democractic parties played a key role in West European politics during the quarter century after the Second World War, they have been studied far less than their political rivals, the Christian Democrats. The story of West European Social Democracy after 1945 be...

Migration, dictatorship, and identity in twentieth-century europe

The lived experiences of two authors, Siegfried von Vegesack and Werner Bergengruen, provide a fascinating lens into the reality of migration and identity in twentieth-century Europe. Forced to leave their Baltic homeland and forge new lives in Germany, both authors contended with life under th...

Ownership and nurture

The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia. Sets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about the region and about property in general. Demonstrates that property relations are of central importance in A...

New imaginaries

A unique approach to studying gender that offers a portrait of Ukrainian society as seen through the eyes of a new generation of feminist scholars. In displacing the Soviet legacy of prescribed thought and practices, this volume’s female contributors have infused their work with Western ...

Anthropology and ethnography are not equivalent

Tim Ingold has raised many questions which are crucial for anthropology as a discipline, such as whether ethnography is central to the subject, and how imagination, reality and truth are joined in anthropological enterprises. His interventions have impacted anthropologists and scholars at large...

That sinking feeling

Focusing on the emotions and affective states of students from poor migrant families, That Sinking Feeling presents a uniquely multi-layered ethnography on this under-represented area in the social and cultural sciences.

After socialism

The collapse of Soviet influence and the disillusionment with socialism in the early 1990s led to ambitious programs of economic reform throughout Eastern Europe. The papers in this volume, written by anthropologists and sociologists with detailed first-hand knowledge of the rural areas concern...

Engaging with chaucer

This collected volume represents an homage to a toweringly great poet, as well as an acknowledgement of the intellectual excitement, challenges, and pleasure that readers owe to him as even today, his poems have the capacity to change the way we engage with fundamental questions of knowledge, u...

World heritage on the ground

Among the growing number of World Heritage site studies, this is the first edited volume to be based on the in-depth knowledge of anthropologists who did long-term ethnographic fieldwork in the specific sites. The book does not rely on the official discourses and the established professi...

New uses of bourdieu in film and media studies

A collection of essays demonstrating the enormous relevance of the key concepts of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu in the field of media studies. Demonstrates how they have been deployed as powerful tools of analysis, forging new avenues of inquiry in the process. Topics range fro...

Mattering the invisible

Exploring how technological apparatuses “capture” invisible worlds, this book looks at how spirits, UFOs, discarnate entities, spectral energies, atmospheric forces and particles are mattered into existence by human minds. The book uses contemporary case studies where the realm of the invisible...

Imperial culture and colonial projects

In a series of illuminating case studies, Curto follows the history and perception of major Portuguese colonial initiatives while integrating the complex perspectives of participating agents to show how the empire’s life and culture were richly inflected by the operations of imperial expansion.