Great expectations

The negotiation of expectations in tourism is a complex and dynamic process – one that is central to the imagination of cultural difference. Expectations not only affect the lives and experiences of tourists, but also their hosts, and play an important part in the success or failure of the over...

A walk to the river in amazonia

Our lives are mostly composed of ordinary reality — the flow of moment-to-moment existence — and yet it has been largely overlooked as a subject in itself for anthropological study. In this work, the author achieves an understanding of this part of reality for the Mehinaku Indians, an Amazonian...

Lost objects of desire

This first book-length critical study of Jeremy Irons concentrates on his key performances and acting style. Through the analysis of some of the major screen roles in Irons’s career, such as Brideshead Revisited, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Reversal of Fortune, Swann in Love, Dead Ringers an...

Returning life

The book centers on vernacular concepts and claims to investigate how ‘life’ is an effect of transfers and transformations of ‘life force’ that occur through parts of persons, houses, livestock, and crops in the activity of ‘dwelling’ and that afford and constitute the existence of beings of...

From hard rock to heavy metal

In North America metal use by hunter-gatherer populations began as early as 9,000 years ago and continued into modern times. The regional and cultural diversity of research in this volume contributes to how we conceptualize hunter-gatherer innovation, technological proficiency, and complex deci...

Women, power, and the academy

Many nations affirm the principle of gender equality. As women continue to advance in most walks of life, the impression that equality has been reached and that gender issues no longer pose real problems has naturally gained ground. Yet, many cultural, economic, and social barriers remain. Alth...

Women’s zionism worldwide, 1897–1948

Offering the first comprehensive historiographic exploration of women’s roles in the Zionist movement worldwide, this geographically wide-ranging study explores the ideologies, goals, strategies, activities, accomplishments and failures of women’s organizations and individuals in Europe, the Un...

Immigrants and bureaucrats

Chiasmus and culture

Uses the figure of chiasmus to model a broad array of phenomena, from human relations to artistic creation Provides first book-length study of chiastic thought Contributors explore what chiasmus reveals about the world, cultural patterns, human relations, psychology, and artistic an...

In the meantime

The “meantime” represents the gap between what is past and the unknown future. When considered as waiting, the meantime is defined as a period of suspension to be endured. By contrast, the contributors of this volume understand it as a space of “the possible” where calculation coexists with unc...

Music and manipulation

Since the beginning of human civilization, music has been used as a device to control social behavior, where it has operated as much to promote solidarity within groups as hostility between competing groups. Music is an emotive manipulator that influences attitude, motivation and behavior at ma...

Christian politics in oceania

Presents ethnographic and historical research in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and Fiji Argues that Christianity is always and inevitably political in the Pacific Islands Illuminates the ways in which Christian politics operate across a wide scale from interpersonal rel...

The imbalance of power

Demonstrates ethnographically that the Carib speaking indigenous societies of the Guiana region of Amazonia do not fit conventional characterizations of ‘simple’ political units with ‘egalitarian’ political ideologies and ‘harmonious’ relationships with nature. The author builds a persua...

Subjective realist cinema

Explores range of films which depict subjective experience and employ "subjective realist" narration Highlights examples of recent films, including Mulholland Drive and Memento Proposes that an understanding of narrative structures, enhances viewers' comprehension and enjoyment

Exploitation, resettlement, mass murder

Convinced before the onset of Operation "Barbarossa" in June 1941 of both the ease, with which the Red Army would be defeated and the likelihood that the Soviet Union would collapse, the Nazi regime envisaged a radical and far-reaching occupation policy which would result in the political, econ...

Conjuring hope

Notions of magic and healing have been changing over past years and are now understood as reflecting local ideas of power and agency, as well as structures of self, subjectivity and affect. This study focuses on contemporary urban Russia and, through exploring social conditions, conveys the exp...

Educational studies in europe

Civilizing nature

Explores the concept and expansion of the National Park from a global historical perspective, studying how a Western blueprint organised social and cultural relations to Nature into a multitude of ecological as well as political systems all over the world Situates the idea of confining n...

Visual interventions

Visual anthropology has proved to offer fruitful methods of research and representation to applied projects of social intervention. Through a series of case studies based on applied visual anthropological work in a range of contexts (health and medicine, tourism and heritage, social development...

‘you don’t know’

People employed at sites of precarious work such as call centres or retail warehouses often live precarious lives. Drawing on ethnographic research in a London hostel for precarious workers, the book explores the political, analytical and practical limitations of using traditional methods of tr...

Choreographies of landscape

This original and cross-disciplinary book studies the experiences of Yosemite park visitors in order to understand human connection with and within natural landscapes. It grounds a sophisticated semiotic analysis in the lived experiences of parkgoers, assembling a collective account that will b...

Embodiments of power

The period of the baroque (late sixteenth to mid-eighteenth centuries) saw extensive reconfiguration of European cities and their public spaces. Yet, this transformation cannot be limited merely to signifying a style of art, architecture, and decor. Rather, the dynamism, emotionality, and poten...

Vertiginous life

Through individual stories from crisis Greece, this book explores the everyday effects of vertigo: nausea, dizziness, breathlessness, the sense of falling, and unknowingness of Self. Being lost in time, caught in the spin-cycle of crisis, people reflect on belonging to modern Europe, neoliberal...

Postsocialism

In many parts of post-socialist Europe the tumultuous political and economic developments have generated strong emotions, ranging from hope and euphoria to disappointment, envy, disillusionment, sorrow, loneliness, and hatred. Yet these aspects have been largely neglected in analyses of the pro...

Globalized fatherhood

The only volume to examine fatherhood around the globe. The only volume to offer a theoretical vocabulary for studying “emergent fatherhood” in the new millennium. Broad global coverage of issues facing fathers in different regions of the world. Based on contemporary, cutting-edg...

Anxious histories

This book explores Holocaust pedagogy in Jewish schools in Melbourne and New York. Demonstrates that an anxious thread runs throughout these narratives, as the pedagogy negotiates feelings of simultaneous belonging and not-belonging in the West and in Zionism. Opens up once again for...

Toward a social history of knowledge

One of the foremost historians of intellectual life and education in Germany, Fritz Ringer has brought together in this volume several of his articles, most of which are not easily available are published here in English for the first time. They focus on a whole range of contemporary and histor...

Russia before the 'radiant future'

One of the major historians of prerevolutionary Russia has collected in this volume some of his most important essays. Written over a number of years, these pioneering works have been revised and updated and are complemented by others being published for the first time. Thematically, they cover...

The precarity of masculinity

This book follows young Cameroonian men who aspire to migrate abroad and play football for a living while analyzing masculinities in West Africa. The book argues that the athletic aspirations of young Cameroonians and their propensity to consult with Pentecostal Men of God offer new insights ab...

Fascism without borders

An expansive collection examining fascism’s transnational dimension. Investigates the movements inspired by the early example of Fascist Italy. Explores the international antifascist organizations that emerged in subsequent years.

Contested holdings

Covering a range of case studies and a global geography, authors aim to historicize and bring depth to contemporary debates in relation to both the return of material culture and human remains. Defined as contested holdings, differing museum collections ranging from fine arts to physical anthro...

The good holiday

Explores tourists as (nongovernmental) governors (to the best of my knowledge, this is the first book that interprets and analyses tourists as a sort of participants in [nongovernmental] governance). Heterogeneous perspective (it engages ethnographically on both destination people and to...

The politics of european citizenship

As the European Union faces the ongoing challenges of legitimacy, identity, and social cohesion, an understanding of the social purpose and direction of EU citizenship becomes increasingly vital. This book is the first of its kind to map the development of EU citizenship and its relation to var...

The right to memory

The Right to Memory looks beyond everyday memory and commemoration practices, focusing instead on how memory relates to human rights and socio-legal constructs in order to legitimize and protect groups and individuals.

Dignity for the voiceless

Brings together, for the first time, the hitherto scattered work of a renown and prolific scholar, Willem Assies. Interdisciplinary approach: while anthropological, also connects to political sciences, law, agricultural sciences Addresses theoretical debates, but always closely linke...

Immigration controls

Some of the most pressing questions in immigration law and policy today concern the problem of immigration controls. How are immigration laws administered, and how are they enforced against those who enter and remain in a receiving country without legal permission? Comparing the United States a...

The persistence of race

In histories of the Third Reich, race is a ubiquitous topic, but German society produced a much more complex variety of racial representations over the first part of the twentieth century. This volume explores the hateful depictions of the Nazi era alongside Wilhelmine images of indigenous peop...

Urban natures

Urban Natures explores the diversity, abundance, and impact of the conventional and future framings of urban natures. Recognizing a green resurgence in cities is underway, this volume applies a critical approach to examine urban greening histories, politics, discourses and ecologies

Nordic war stories

Nordic War Stories explores the commonalities and divergences among the five Nordic countries, examining formal and informal national historiographies alongside representations of the second world war in canonical literary works, memoirs, and films. Together, they comprise a valuable companion ...

Autonomy

The question of individuality in non-European, and especially South Asian societies is a controversial one. Studies in anthropology and psychology undertaken in recent years on concepts of person and self approach the problem by concentrating on ideologies; the question of practice remains larg...

Who knows tomorrow?

This ethnography shows how Rashaida in north-eastern Sudan deal with unknowns from day to day unpredictability to life-threatening dangers. Demonstrates how uncertainty need not be seen as a debilitating problem but also as an opportunity to create other futures.

Vehicles

A collection of ethnographic essays on the metaphoric significance of vehicles in different cultures Examines key issues in the study of objects, material culture and techniques Provides a new perspective on how vehicles are understood in relation to the dynamics of culture, politics...

Urban dreams

This collection of Claudia Roth's work closely documents the livelihood strategies of members of various neighbourhoods in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. This collection focuses on notions of “the African family” as a solidary network, changing marriage and kinship relations, and increasingly pr...

The state and the social

Analyses the transformation of modern Botswana from the perspective of precolonial and colonial genealogies as well as the rise of structures of domination propelled by changing global forces An ethnographic and anthropological study of the unique formation of postcolonial Botswana T...