The quest for economic empire

German unification evoked ambivalent reactions outside its borders: it revived disquietingmemories of attempts by German big business during the two world wars to build an economic empire in Europe in conjunction with the military and the government bureaucracy. But thereare also high hopes tha...

Beyond the lens of conservation

Truly dual-sited study giving equal weight to a society in the global North and the global South. Comparison of perceptions of non-experts both in the North and the South (as opposed to Northern experts vis-à-vis non-experts in the South as is usually the case). Focus on imaginations...

Indigeneity and the sacred

This important contribution presents current research in the political ecology of indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation of sacred natural sites in the Americas. The book explores how struggles for land, rights, and political power are embedded within physical landscapes, and ho...

Calibrated engagement

For decades, the heartland of Myanmar has been configured as a pacified space under military surveillance. A closer look reveals how politics is enacted at distance with the state. Calibrated Engagement weaves together ethnography and history to chronicle the transformation of rural politics in...

Food culture

Offers a comprehensive guide to methods used in the sociocultural, linguistic and historical research of food use. Unique in offering food-related research methods from multiple academic disciplines. Includes methods that bridge disciplines to provide a thorough review of best practi...

Fracturing resemblances

Western societies draw crucially on concepts of the 'individual' in constructing their images of the ethnic group and nation and define these in terms of difference. This study explores the implications of these constructs for Western understanding of social order and ethnic conflicts. Comparin...

Beyond the divide

Focus on transnational intra-European Cold War connections. Comprehensive approach towards culture as an area of Cold War beyond the US and USSR. Merging of national perspectives into a comprehensive picture of the European situation during the Cold War. East-West interaction dur...

Stategraphy

By exploring interactions and negotiations of local actors in different institutional settings, the contributors explore state transformations in relation to social security in a variety of locations spanning from Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans to the United Kingdom and France. Fusing ...

Playing different games

Focusing on ethnicity and its relation to conflict, this book goes beyond sterile debates about whether ethnic identities are ‘natural’ or ‘socially constructed’. Rather, ethnic identity takes different forms. Some ethnic boundaries are perceived by the actors themselves as natural, while other...

Monetising the dividual self

First book to focus on the emergence of microcelebrities/influencers in an Asian context. Anthropological ethnography that captures a unique and detailed historical account of when personal bloggers first began to monetise their online presence. This prefigured the current widespread use...

Current policies and practices in european social anthropology education

As Europe becomes more integrated at the economic and political level, attempts are being made to harmonize education policies as well. This volume offers an important contribution in that the authors examine, for the first time,the politics and practices of social anthropology education across...

Cryptopolitics

Focusing on African societies, Crypolitics brings together empirically grounded studies of digital media to draw out the significance of hidden information, double meanings, and the constant processes of encoding and decoding messages in negotiations of power relations.

Adventures in aidland

Concerned with the construction and transmission of knowledge about global poverty and its reduction Describes the social life of development professionals, the capacity of ideas to mediate relationships, the networks of experts and communities of aid workers, and the dilemmas of maintai...

The power of perspective

Focusing on different forms of agency in North Ambrym social life, the author demonstrates the potency of outsiders at different times and in different situations in Ambrym society. This model challenges the premises of much Western thinking about reciprocity, and suggests new directions in the...

Persecution and resistance of jehovah's witnesses during the nazi-regime

More than 50 years after the end of the Third Reich, Jehovah's Witnesses, like Sinti and Roma, continue to be forgotten victims in the broader public’s consciousness. Only recently have historians and concentration camp memorials increasingly focused on this category of inmates who were marked ...

The economy in jewish history

Jewish historiography tends to stress the religious, cultural, and political aspects of the past. By contrast the “economy” has been pushed to the margins of the Jewish discourse and scholarship since the end of the Second World War. This volume takes a fresh look at Jews and the economy, argui...

The trial of a nazi doctor

The Trial of a Nazi Doctor documents the career, crimes, and prosecution of Franz Bernhard Lucas (1911-1994), an SS camp doctor who tried to deflect his participation in the Nazi’s genocidal projects and juxtaposes them with a wide range of testimonials from witnesses including former camp inma...

Migration and health

Despite the centrality of migration in our contemporary world, scholarship on mobility and health frequently separates migrants according to legal status, country of origin, destination, or health concern. Yet people on the move and health systems face challenges and opportunities that transcen...

Taking our water for the city

Tap water enables the development of cities in locations with insufficient natural resources to support such populations. This archaeological examination of the New York City watershed reveals the cultural costs of urban water systems. Urban water systems do more than reroute water from one pla...

Two lives in uncertain times

Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Wilma and Georg Iggers came from different backgrounds, Wilma from a Jewish farming family from the German-speaking border area of Czechoslovakia, Georg from a Jewish business family from Hamburg. They both escape...

Remembering a vanished world

Theodore Hamerow, a prominent historian, was born in Warsaw in 1920 and spent his childhood in Poland and Germany. His parents were members of the best-known Yiddish theater ensemble, the Vilna Company. They were part of an important movement in the Jewish community of Eastern Europe which soug...

To see a moose

Guiding the reader through the development of sex education in Poland, Agnieszka Kościańska looks at how it has changed from the 19th century to the present day. The book also identifies the women and men who changed the way sex was written about in the country, and how they established the fie...

Shakespeare and the arab world

Conceptual history in the european space

The volume is the first comprehensive revisiting of conceptual history on a European scale It is also the first volume to consider the spatial and temporal dimensions of making comparisons of concepts across the whole of Europe. The volume also brings to bear diverse methods of analy...

Ethnographies of deservingness

Claims around 'who deserves what and why' moralise inequality in the current global context of unprecedented wealth and its ever more selective distribution. Ethnographies of Deservingness explores this seeming paradox and the role of moralized assessments of distribution by reconnecting dispar...

Contested mediterranean spaces

The indoctrination of the wehrmacht

Other studies look at the indoctrination of the Wehrmacht, and numerous studies look at the war crimes of the Wehrmacht. However, this study is different in that it focuses much more closely on the indoctrination of the Wehrmacht than previous studies, but perhaps more importantly, it views...

Women, family and society in medieval europe

Until his untimely death in 1991, David Herlihy, Professor of History at Brown University, was one of the most prolific and best-known American historians of the European Middle Ages. Author of books on the history of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy, Herlihy published, in 1978, his bes...

Gulag memories

This book shows how the memory of the Soviet repressions was shaped in Russia in the 90’s, beginning of 21st century - at a time when the state no longer made memory of the repressions a taboo topic, but had not yet become actively involved in shaping it. It is an ethnographic descriptio...

Houses transformed

Houses Transformed explores the intersection of house biographies and social change, the politics of housing design, the social fabrication of aspirational houses, the domestication of concrete and the intersection of materiality and ontology, and the rhetoric of the vernacular.

Incarceration and regime change

Focus on the impact of regime change and war on practices of incarceration. Focus on multiple punitive regimes (imprisonment, internment, and detention). Broad range of European countries and examples from European colonies. Discussion on the prisoners’ experiences and agency. ...

Political demography, demographic engineering

"Over the past decade, the impacts of demographic trends on international security and on peaceful relations between and within states have come to the fore in ways not seen since the aftermath of World War II. An evolving and more complex set of changes in the size, distribution, and compositi...

Mythology and symbolism of eurasia and indigenous americas

There is a continuity of a cohesive system of symbols and patterns from the Paleolithic and the Neolithic that survives in present-day imagery. The understanding of commonalities underlying these seemingly distant cultures demonstrates that, despite appearances, there is more that unites us tha...

The devil's captain

Written by a Choice Academic Book of the Year award winner Uses Ernst Jünger’s journals and correspondence to investigate his professional and personal experiences Analyses Nazi Paris through Jünger’s experiences in order to better understand the France of this period

Citizens into dishonored felons

Throughout the long nineteenth century felony disenfranchisement affected the moral fabric of German society and coincided with a history of honor in German legal thought. Citizens into Dishonored Felons uses uncommonly extensive archival materials to address the emotional and symbolic impact o...

Images from paradise

the recent transformation of the ideology of European federalism into a political soteriology the palingenetic myth that drives supranational institutions’ federalist agenda the visualization of the EU’s promise of a new era the use of old and new symbols and rituals aimed at rei...

The new australian military sociology

In exploring the insights that the Australian case has for theorising civil-military relations, the book serves as a model for other country case studies. This antipodean contribution to the field includes analysis of the changing demographics, new domestic and international responsibilities, I...

God-botherers and other true-believers

When reason fails to guide us in our everyday lives, we turn to faith, to religion; we close our minds; we reject austere reasoning. This rejection, which is a faith-based social and intellectual malignancy, has two unfortunate consequences: it blocks the way to knowledge that might enhance the...

An ordinary country

Disputing the notion of a 'miracle' transition in South Africa, the author argues that the new South Africa had to happen as it did because of the socio-historical make-up of the country and the leading players involved.He identifies and explains some of the turning points at which critical cho...

Turning the kaleidoscope

Far from being a blank space on the Jewish map, or a void in the Jewish cultural world, post-Shoah Europe is a place where Jewry has continued to develop, even though it is facing different challenges and opportunities than elsewhere. Living on a continent characterized by highly diverse patter...

The best we share

As the most ambitious study of the World Heritage arena so far, this volume dissects the inner workings of a prominent global body, demonstrating the power of ethnography in the highly formalised and diplomatic context of a multilateral organisation.

The society of the cincinnati

In 1783, the officers of the Continental Army created the Society of the Cincinnati. This veterans’ organization was founded in order to preserve the memory of the revolutionary struggle and pursue the officers' common interest in outstanding pay and pensions. Henry Knox and Frederick Steuben w...

Luso-tropicalism and its discontents

The Portuguese-speaking Global South, especially Brazil, often envisions itself as exceptional in its racial conceptions and politics. Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents reassesses Gilberto Freyre’s influential claims that Portuguese colonialism produced what came to be called “racial democra...

Subjects, citizens, and others

The work is the first to systematically compare the British and Habsburg empires The book challenges the alleged distinction between ‘Western’ modernity and ‘Eastern’ backwardness, primarily in terms of politically inclusive and ethnically exclusive versions of nationality. The work ...