History and belonging

One of the EU’s primary strategies in European unification has been to construct a common representation of European history, yet the question remains: is there an uncontested history of Europe? History and Belonging addresses this question along with many others related to the EU’s post-nation...

French foreign policy since 1945

Recounts France’s efforts to reconcile its proud history and global ambitions with a realistic appraisal of its capabilities, from the aftermath of World War II to the present. Provides insightful analysis of France's triumphs and setbacks through the years of decolonization, Cold War ma...

Matters of testimony

The first book-length examination of the significance of the Scrolls of Auschwitz as Holocaust testimony. Discusses the unique insights the Scrolls provide and challenges the idea that most significant Holocaust testimony was produced retrospectively. Examines testimony from both Eas...

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.

Textures of belonging

The longstanding European conception that Roma and non-Roma are separated by unambiguous socio-cultural distinctions has led to the construction of Roma as "non-belonging others." Challenging this conception, Textures of Belonging explores how Roma negotiate and feel belonging on the everyday l...

Integrating strangers

Drawing on an ethnography of Sherbro coastal communities in Sierra Leone, this book analyses the politics and practice of identity through the lens of the reciprocal relations that exist between socio-ethnic groups. Anaïs Ménard examines the implications of the social arrangement that binds lan...

All tomorrow's cultures

The first edition of All Tomorrow’s Cultures explored the legacy of futures-thinking in anthropology and marked the beginning of a resurgence of interest in anthropological futures.  The new edition has been updated to reflect some of the outpouring of work since then, particularly in science a...

Ethnographic practice in the present

In its assessment of the current "state of play" of ethnographic practice in social anthropology, this volume explores the challenges that changing social forms and changing understandings of "the field" pose to contemporary ethnographic methods. These challenges include the implications of the...

Differentiating development

Over the last two decades, anthropological studies have highlighted the problems of ‘development’ as a discursive regime, arguing that such initiatives are paradoxically used to consolidate inequality and perpetuate poverty. This volume constitutes a timely intervention in anthropological debat...

The state otherwise

The State Otherwise examines the difficult predicament of Beirut’s public green spaces from the vantage point of the civic campaign to reopen Horsh al Sanawbar, the city’s largest public park. It asks questions about the nature of privatisation of public property, civic society’s potential to m...

The myth of self-reliance

This book represents a pioneering attempt to reveal the diverse realities of refugees’ economic survival in a protracted refugee camp through the collation and analysis of original and up-to-date empirical materials. Based on multi-sited fieldwork in West Africa over several years, the b...

Black lisbon

The first book-length study to analyse the politics of anticolonialism in Portugal between 1910 and 1940. Reconstructs the culture of black anticolonial struggles particularly in Lisbon, a city crisscrossed by black Lusophone Africans from Portugal’s colonies. Illuminates the place o...

The romani movement

The collapse of communism and the process of state building that ensued in the 1990s have highlighted the existence of significant minorities in many European states, particularly in Central Europe. In this context, the growing plight of Europe’s biggest minority, the Roma (Gypsies), has been p...

Breast feeding and sexuality

Whereas in western countries breastfeeding is an uncontroversial, purely personal issue, in most parts of the world mother and baby form part of a network of interpersonal relations with its own rules and expectations. In this study, the author examines the cultural and social context of breast...

Divining history

Combines a deep knowledge of theological motifs with theory of history, providing a unique exploration of how such motifs have shaped the Western view of history. Combines a deep knowledge of anti-Jewish theological motifs in the Christian tradition with extensive knowledge of contempora...

Repressed, remitted, rejected

Greece and Poland have recently reignited debates on minimally settled reparations demands resulting from suffering under the terror of Nazi occupation during the Second World War. Using an international law perspective, this expansive volume reconstructs the German occupation of Poland and Gre...

The holocaust in bohemia and moravia

This book is the only recent account on the Holocaust in Bohemia Moravia (Last in English 15 years ago) Study is based on tons of new and unknown material , including weekly Jewish community reports to Eichmann, For the first time includes emphasis on individual and collective respon...

Women and modernity in weimar germany

This book focuses on the popular fiction of Weimar Germany and explores the relationship between women, the texts they read, and the society in which they lived. A complex picture emerges that shows women talking center stage, not only in the fiction but also in the reality that shaped its fict...

The brazilian truth commission

Contemporary pagan and native faith movements in europe

The first book to focus on modern Pagan and Native Faith movements throughout Europe, from the Irish Republic to Siberia, and from Scandinavia to Iberia. The first work of any kind to address the twin themes of neo-colonialism and neo-nationalism within these movements. Through detai...

The everyday politics of food co-ops

This book analyses how changing national politics impacted the practices of care, aid and community organizing within two London-based food co-ops at a time of rapid welfare withdrawal. It highlights the tensions between more radical and neoliberal imaginaries that played out within them.

Science, seti, and mathematics

Makes a complex subject accessible to the typical reader through a conversational tone An exploration of the scientific, historical, philosophical and psychological motivations behind the search for extraterrestrial intelligence Draws on the author’s extensive background in pure and ...

Starstruck

We live in an era of exploding scientific knowledge about the universe, and our place and future within it. Much of this new knowledge conflicts with earlier wisdom, and some has frightening implications. Cosmic evolution, space exploration, the search for extraterrestrial life, and concerns ab...

House of the waterlily

House of the Waterlily is a historical novel set in the world of the Late Classic Period Maya of the Southern Lowlands. Through the story of Lady Winik, a young Maya noble girl, the reader is immersed in the everyday world of the Maya

Participating in the global enterprise

Viewed through an anthropological lens, Automobili Lamborghini, the renowned Italian factory of super cars, presents a compelling case study. As an ethnography spanning three years, the book focuses on the different perspectives of the managers and the workers and the effects of the organizatio...

The making and unmaking of the ukrainian working class

The industrial workers of Ukraine have a contradictory and complex political lifeworld. Based on three years of fieldwork in the city of Kryvyi Rih, this book focuses on the everyday politics and moral economy that constitute the working-class and structures its relations with other social groups.

On the margins of religion

Focusing on places, objects, bodies, narratives and ritual spaces where religion may be found or inscribed, the authors reveal the role of religion in contesting rights to places, to knowledge and to property, as well as access to resources. Through analyses of specific historical processes in ...

Crude domination

Deeply ethnographic New "domination" theoretical approach Geographically broad (Africa, Latin America, Eurasia) Examines global/local connections in novel manner

Social dna

Social DNA presents a new synthesis of ideas on human social origins based upon the evolution of behavioral plasticity and the process of multilevel selection. What set our ancestors off on a separate evolutionary trajectory – what made them human – was the ability to flex their reproductive an...

Sacrifice and rebirth

The first book of its kind to analyze how the Great War was interpreted, commemorated, or forgotten across all the ex-Habsburg territories. Each of the book’s twelve chapters focuses on a separate region, studying how the transition to peacetime was managed either by the state, by war ve...

Edges of noir

Edges of Noir addresses film studies’ neglect of 1960s experimental noir films that have resisted easy classification against more popularly regarded late noir films and responds to the interpretive dilemmas and anxieties of the time to which the films provided expression.

Bloom and bust

These essays provide a fresh study of the urban landscape in the former German Democratic Republic Constructs a view of the urban environment by shifting focus away from Berlin and exploring an area of East Germany overlooked by most other studies Explores two decades of social, cult...

Nourishing the nation

I thoroughly explore the connection between national identity (especially everyday nationalism) and food from an ethnographic perspective, a new approach in social sciences This is an in-depth ethnography into the contemporary situation in Catalonia, which gives greater, in-depth insight...

Thinking europe

This title assesses the idea of Europe through its intellectual history. Exploring the concept of integration and the relationship between this and arguments for division and borders it reveals their interplay in the composition of the contemporary European identity.

Food connections

Food Connections follows the movement of food from its production sites in West Africa to its final spaces of consumption in Europe. It is an ethnographic study of economic and social life amongst a close-knit community of food producers, traders andconsumers and a wide range of small intermedi...

Legal entanglements

Drawing on wide-ranging archival research and recently declassified documents, Legal Entanglements follows the politicians, intellectuals, and other historical actors on both sides of the Berlin Wall who helped their nation to navigate volatile and uncertain legal circumstances.

Slavery and antislavery in spain's atlantic empire

Most comprehensive study of slavery in the Spanish Empire. Comparative and Atlantic-world perspectives. International group of authors (US, Latin America, Europe). Approaches subject from a variety of methods, including social, intellectual, legal, and economic history.

Property in east central europe

This comprehensive and wide-ranging study explores the historical and cultural trends of property ownership and policy throughout the 20th Century The first in its field to address land policy changes over such a wide time frame Compares the diverging experiences of various region...

Sustaining russia's arctic cities

One of the first books to deal with urban sustainability in the Arctic Careful analysis of the development of the Russian Arctic and the consequences of that development model A multi-disciplinary analysis of Arctic urban development Integrative analysis of Arctic resource develo...

Mimesis and pacific transcultural encounters

The book offers a new theory of what mimesis is and how it operates and theorizes mimesis in new contexts: in relation to history, historiography, cultural psychology, art production, tourism, colonialism, and other transcultural encounters. The book offers a unified view of mimesis in e...

The great immigration

More than 750,000 Russian Jews arrived in Israel between 1988 and 1996. However, this Great Immigration, as it has been called, has gone largely unnoticed in Israeli public life. Information about this significant event has been sketchy and largely characterized by stereotypes and simplistic ge...

Constitutionalism and transitional justice in south africa

Over the last fifteen years, the South African postapartheid Transitional Amnesty Process – implemented by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) – has been extensively analyzed by scholars and commentators from around the world and from almost every discipline of human sciences. Lawyers...

Mobile pastoralist households

Mobile pastoralist activities occur at different scales across the landscape, including local, regional, and supra-regional scales. This research brings together the work of archaeologists currently engaged in mobile pastoralist household research in different regions of the world to highlight ...

On the nervous edge of an impossible paradise