Being bedouin around petra

Takes an ethnographic approach to understanding everyday life of the Bedouin as heritage in contemporary Jordan. Exemplifies the materiality of heritage proclamations and religious transformations. Demonstrates the complex entanglements of Islamic revival, tourism, heritage managemen...

The changing meanings of the welfare state

The Nordic concept of “the welfare state” is a well-worn analytical idea that has yet to receive much exploration beyond its postwar emergence. This volume chronicles “the welfare state” from its historical origins to its interpretations, values, and challenges over time in Denmark, Finland, Sw...

Stories from an ancient land

The Wa people have a rich civilization of their own and a deep history in the mountains of Southeast Asia. This book introduces aspects of Wa culture, including their approach to the world’s troubles, and the lessons others might learn from it.

Witchcraft, witches, and violence in ghana

Provides detailed account of Ghanaian witchcraft beliefs and practices. Examines their role in fuelling attacks by aggrieved individuals and vigilante groups. Empirical focus, reflected in the use of case studies.

German television

First edited volume in English on its topic. Brings together scholars from US, UK and Germany. Combines historical with theoretical perspectives, history of technology with program content and economics, auteur directors and popular mainstream TV series.

Red america

Socialism, Communism, and Anarchism were integral components of 19th and 20th century immigrant life. Red America explores the relationship between the immigrant experience in the United States and political radicalism, especially as it relates to the lesser explored Greek American experience i...

The patient multiple

Investigates the complex web of healing practices engaged by people in Bhutan as they seek cures for their ailments. Examines all options in the context of patients’ daily lives and decision-making processes. Describes how these unique mountain cultures are finding new paths to good ...

Balkan departures

In writings about travel, the Balkans appear most often as a place travelled to. Western accounts of the Balkans revel in the different and the exotic, the violent and the primitive − traits that serve (according to many commentators) as a foil to self-congratulatory definitions of the West as ...

Indigenous experiences with collaborative governance

This volume highlights the importance of authentic Indigenous inclusion in governance processes at national and subnational levels worldwide. Through case studies and best-practice models, it examines the opportunities and barriers Indigenous peoples face in collaborative governance. In doing s...

News as culture

Explains the social relevance of news by discussing the relation between media related practices and dynamic cultural repertoires Moves beyond the dichotomy of reader and write in news relations to show how social interactions across these categories interactively create news texts and s...

Care across distance

Geographic scope: While the majority of other works focus on one or two regions of the world (e.g., India; Peru and Italy; Australia), this volume is uniquely ambitious in its vast geographical reach, since it includes in-depth, ethnographically collected data from five different (sub-)conti...

Europe in exile

During World War II, London was transformed into a European city, as it unexpectedly became a place of refuge for many thousands of European citizens who through choice or the accidents of war found themselves seeking refuge in Britain from the military campaigns on the Continent of Europe. In ...

Toward a global civil society

The demise of Communism has not only affected Eastern Europe but also the countries of the West where a far-reaching examination of political and economic systems has begun. This collection of essays by internationally renowned scholars of political theory from Europe and the United States expl...

The art of resistance

multi-genre approach; comprehensive cover of phenomenon of protest art in Austria accessibly written but with specialist analysis, too – political context explained translations of cited materials, but original German quotations provided wide-ranging in scope; not just the most f...

Order and disorder

Disorder and instability are matters of continuing public concern. Terrorism, as a threat to global order, has been added to preoccupations with political unrest, deviance and crime. Such considerations have prompted the return to the classic anthropological issues of order and disorder. Examin...

Spanish comics

Spanish Comics offers an overview on contemporary scholarship on Spanish comics, focusing on a wide range of comics dating from early comics history in 1875-1939; the Francoist dictatorship, 1939-1975; the Political Transition, 1970-1985; and Democratic Spain from the early 1980s, and themes of...

Pursuits of happiness

Humour, comedy and laughter

An examination of the cognitive, social, and moral aspects of humour and its potential to bring about a sense of amity and mutual understanding, even among different and possibly hostile people. Describes how the positive aspects of humour far outweigh the danger of deepening divisions a...

Atlantic perspectives

Focusing on mobility, religion, and belonging, the volume contributes to transatlantic anthropology and history by bringing together religion, cultural heritage and placemaking in the Atlantic world. The entanglements of religion, cultural heritage and belonging are ethnographically scrutinized...

Europe's new racism

Europe has seen a tremendous rise in popularity of new rightist political parties in the last two decades or so, claiming cultural supremacy of the so-called native Europeans over foreign immigrants. In this volume, European scholars from Russian to Britain have come together to examine the med...

Wrestling with hope in urban senegal

Wrestling with Hope in Urban Senegal follows the journey of football players and wrestlers in Dakar as they confront the realities of their sporting aspirations. It grapples with themes of masculinity, belief systems and economic survival whilst navigating the complexities of a neoliberal lands...

African crossroads

Cameroon is characterized by an extraordinary geographical, cultural, and linguistic diversity. This collection of essays by eminent historians and anthropologists summarizes three generations of research in Cameroon that began with the collaboration of Phyllis Kaberry and E. M. Chilver soon af...

Experiencing wages

When discussing wages, historians have traditionally concentrated on the level of wages, much less on how people were paid for their work. Important aspects were thus ignored such as how frequently were wages actually paid, how much of the wage was paid in non-monetary form - whether as traditi...

Shamanism

Shamanism has always been of great interest to anthropologists. More recently it has been "discovered" by westerners, especially New Age followers. This book breaks new ground byexamining pristine shamanism in Greenland, among people contacted late by Western missionaries and settlers. On the b...

I dreamed the animals

This is Kaniuekutat's book. In it, he tells the story of his life and that of Innu culture in the northern parts of Labrador. The pages of this book are filled with the voice of Kaniuekutat giving his account of an Innu hunter's life and the problems and distress that have been caused by sedent...

At home in the okavango

First anthropological study of the white citizens of the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Rare insights into the controversial practice of safari hunting, which has since been banned in Botswana. Contribution to theory surrounding autochthony/indigeneity.

Transatlantic parallaxes

Volume is the product of a novel encounter of American anthropologists of France and French anthropologists of the United States. Scholars from France and the United States offer novel insights into each other’s societies, juxtaposing glimpses of ourselves and a familiar “other” that pro...

Living under austerity

Since its sovereign debt crisis in 2009, Greece has been living under austerity. This volume explores the effects of austerity policies on politics, health care, education, media, and other areas, and examines the crisis as the context for changing attitudes in Greek society regarding immigrati...

And keep your powder dry

Margaret Mead wrote this comprehensive sketch of the culture of the United States - the first since de Tocqueville - in 1942 at the beginnning of the Second World War, when Americans were confronted by foreign powers from both Europe and Asia in a particularly challenging manner. Mead's work be...

'city of the future'

First ethnographic monograph of Astana; Bringing together a focus on the materiality of the built environment with attention to the workings of discourses and representations; hence, combining materialist and ideationalist (‘social-constructivist’) approaches to place and space in social...

Under siege

Studies on the First World War are plentiful but most tend to focus on the combatants. This volume offers a new and highly original perspective that shows the reader the civilian side of this protracted and destructive war through a succession of "snapshots": 130 excerpts from leading American ...

Abortion in post-revolutionary tunisia

Reassessing the nuremberg military tribunals

For decades the history of the US Military Tribunals at Nuremberg (NMT) has been eclipsed by the first Nuremberg trial—the International Military Tribunal or IMT. The dominant interpretation—neatly summarized in the ubiquitous formula of “Subsequent Trials”—ignores the unique historical and leg...

The candle and the guillotine

Using Lyon as a lens for understanding the politics of revolutionary France, this book reveals the widespread enthusiasm for judicial change in Lyon at the time of the Revolution, as well as the conflicts that ensued between elected magistrates in the face of radical democratization.

Bridging divides

No comparable historical account of recent Russian Sami history has been produced, and the book in addition features a thorough summary of Soviet Sami history One of the few English language volumes which focuses on border-transcending Western-Russian ethnic activism Based on thoroug...

Stories make the world

Today, at a time when we are seeking to orient ourselves within a flood of raw information and conflicting narratives, an understanding of storytelling is of vital importance for making sense of the world. In this book, award-winning screenwriter Stephen Most offers a captivating, refreshingly ...

Skilled visions

Most arguments for a rediscovery of the body and the senses hinge on a critique of “visualism” in our globalized, technified society. This approach has led to a lack of actual research on the processes of visual “enskillment.” Providing a comprehensive spectrum of case studies in relevant conte...

In the best interests of the child

Introducing Ophir’s moral philosophy into the field of adoption by applying the distinction made by him between damage and loss.The book presents the distinction between the conceptualization of adoption as compensation for the damage inflicted on the child by removing him from his birth par...

A taste for oppression

Very few up-to-date qualitative studies are available on locked societies (such as north Korea or Belarus), thus this book fills an important gap in our understanding of existing authoritarian regimes. An inside look at daily lives of people in a country that is often referred to as “the...

Negotiating identity in scandinavia

Focuses on immigration and the concept of diaspora through the experiences of women living in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Examines the novel ways in which diasporic communities create gendered forms of belonging that transcend the nation state. The multifaceted nature of the interac...

European anthropologies

By assessing the diversity of European intellectual histories within sociocultural anthropology, this volume aims to sketch its intellectual and institutional portrait. It will be a useful reading for the students of anthropology, ethnology, history and philosophy of science, research and scien...

Nursing stories

At a time, when the section of the older population is increasing in all western societies, more and more attention needs to be paid to the growing number of people who live with and die of drawn-out terminal illnesses, cancer being one of the most common ones. This study focuses on terminally ...

Visions of humanity

Visions of Humanity focuses on the promises and problems, the successes and the failures of “humanity” as an idea since the 19th century. Through an international set of contributions, the volume examines the hopes and ambiguities involved in constructing, invoking, and instrumentalizing the “w...

Crown, church and constitution

Studies popular conservatism prior to 1867; analyses political attitudes of non-voters in a time where popular conservatism is often thought of as non-existing. Links debates on popular loyalism in the late 18th century with debates on popular conservatism in the late 19th century; and c...