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The world of children
In an era of technological advances and rapidly increasing international exchange, how did young Germans come to understand the world beyond their doorstep? Bringing together contributions from specialists in historical, literary, and cultural studies, this is a fascinating kaleidoscopic explor...
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Civil society in the age of monitory democracy
seeks to compare and reassess the role of civil society in the rich West, the poorer South, and East in the context of the twenty-first century’s challenges addresses political activism and the state and nature of contemporary democracy in various different contexts presents a novel ...
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Recollections of france
Since the 1980s, France has experienced a vigorous revival of interest in its past and cultural heritage. This has been expressed as part of a movement of remembering through museums and festivals as well as via elaborate commemorations, most notably those held to celebrate the bi-centenary of ...
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Fate calculation experts
Reveal the fault-lines of contemporary politics and the types of anxieties that are generated in a society that is rapidly modernizing while reinventing strict codes of hierarchy, Given the popularity of divination in many modern societies, and the lack of anthropological studies on the ...
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The french exception
The notion of French exceptionalism is deeply embedded in the nation's self-image and in a range of political and academic discourses. Recently, the debate about whether France really is "exceptional" has acquired a critical edge. Against the background of introspection about the nature of "nat...
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Latin america facing china
The last quarter of the twentieth century was a period of economic crises, increasing indebtedness as well as financial instability for Latin America and most other developing countries; in contrast, China showed amazingly high growth rates during this time and has since become the third larges...
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Brewing socialism
Taking an uncommonly focused lens against the deep and active role coffee had in connecting East Germans to a global market, Brewing Socialism uncovers the significance of East German efforts to democratize coffee and how that focus on material cultural informed the everyday life of the Social ...
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The unhcr and the afghan crisis
Today the UNHCR is present in more than 130 countries and takes care of some 90 million people. This book looks at how it is deployed and who its agents are. By taking the reader through the offices in charge of the Afghan refugee crisis during the 2000s, in Geneva and in Kabul, the book shows ...
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Universities remembering europe
Higher education plays a vital role in the sharing of the identity and culture of Europe and therefore receives considerable attention from scholars and policy makers. This volume is different in that it brings a philosophical perspective to the debate on higher education in Europe. As a work o...
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The power of death
Multidisciplinary: humanities + social sciences. Death is analysed as a cultural event. Includes creative responses to death as well as academic essays.
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Bulldozer capitalism
Set in the resource frontier of northeastern Turkey, Bulldozer Capitalism studies the rise and decline of an anti-dam/anti-displacement campaign and the political responses to other extractive projects that it helped to shape in its aftermath.
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On the order of chaos
Over the past two decades, “chaos theory” – the perception of order previously hidden in phenomena of apparent randomness and disorder – has fundamentally transformed the natural sciences. In recent years, numerous scholars in the social sciences and humanities have attempted to adapt the insig...
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Lives in limbo
Lives in Limbo gives voice to the dreams of Syrian youth who have little hope of returning to their devastated homeland and explains why this generation’s future will shape how the region will develop. It explores how refugee youth create futures from the liminality of exile.
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The politics of egalitarianism
The essays assembled in this book exemplify the way political anthropologists address a range of problems that deeply affect people throughout the world. The authors draw their inspiration from the work of Canadian anthropologist Richard B. Lee, and, like him, they are concerned with understand...
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Lullabies and battle cries
No extensive studies published to date on republican parading or republican bands in Northern Ireland Very little published on republican culture and commemorations in Northern Ireland This book offers a unique perspective of parading in Northern Ireland that remains a mystery to mos...
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Pacific futures
Seeks to understand social life and culture the Pacific region in terms of the future, rather than reproducing cultural traditions of the past. Considers different aspects of Pacific culture from Christianity, marriage, and reflections on childhood fishing trips to military coups, gambli...
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Foucault's orient
Method: The book uses archival research supplemented by interviews Novelty of topic: Foucault’s view of the non-Western cultures has not been studied before. Range: The book covers three different countries. There were studies of Foucault’s view of Iran, but no book covers Iran, ...
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Alfred cort haddon
Using previously overlooked, primary sources Ciarán Walsh argues that Haddon, the grandson of anti-slavery activists, set out to revolutionize anthropology in the 1890s in association with a network of anarcho-utopian activists and philosophers. His book regards most of what has been written ab...
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Collective and state violence in turkey
Collective and State Violence in Turkey provides a wide range of case studies and historiographical reflections on the alarming recurrence of violence in Turkish history, as atrocities against varied ethnic-religious groups from the nineteenth century to today have propelled the nation’s very s...
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Bali and beyond
Based on field research carried out over two decades, the author surveys the development of the anthropology of tourism and its significance, using case studies drawn from Indonesia, New Guinea and Japan. He argues that tourism, once seen as rather peripheral by anthropologists, has to be treat...
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Of jaguars and butterflies
Jointly authored by an anthropologist and a philosopher, this book investigates some of the most puzzling ideas and practices reported in modern ethnography and ancient philosophy concerning topics such as humans, animals, persons, spirits, agency, selfhood, consciousness, nature, life, death, ...
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Le malaise creole
How does one explain the poverty and marginalization of a group that lives in a remarkably successful economy and peaceful society? A native anthropologist, the author provides critical insight into the dynamics of contemporary Mauritian society. In her meticulously researched study of ethnic, ...
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Space, place and identity
Known as highly mobile cattle nomads, the Wodaabe in Niger are today increasingly engaged in a transformation process towards a more diversified livelihood based primarily on agro-pastoralism and urban work migration. This book examines recent transformations in spatial patterns, notably in the...
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Memory unbound
Studies memory as complex social, cultural, and medial processes. The first book to explore the transcultural, transgenerational, transmedial, and transdisciplinary dimensions of memory in an integrated way . Places leading researchers in conversation with emerging voices to reshape...
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Weimar publics/weimar subjects
Interdisciplinary: features essays by scholars in the fields of Art History, German Literature, Film Studies, and History. Examines the important connections between political and cultural change during the Weimar era when politics were mediated increasingly through culture and when new ...
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Environmental anthropology engaging ecotopia
Contributions from scholar-activists and activist-practitioners Covers seldom examined dialogue around 3 main areas: Bioregionalism, Permaculture and Ecovillages Advocates a re-orientation of environmental anthropology from a problem-oriented towards a solutions-focused endeavour
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Coping with distances
The Nordic Atlantic area has seen remarkable examples of social formations in areas that many would perceive as too remote to allow the construction of functioning communities. But through innovations, networking and the formation of identities people have coped with distances, thus continuousl...
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Animism in rainforest and tundra
Unique comparative study of native peoples of Amazonia and Siberia Important contribution to the study of animism Major contribution to the ethnography of shamanism and shamanic societies
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Honour and violence
Examines the central position of karo kari in the social, political and juridical structures in Upper Sindh, Pakistan. An exploration of how the state justice system and informal mediations inform each other in state responses to karo kari. An explanation of how modern law is implica...
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‘i am here’, abraham said
One of the most significant philosophical voices of the twentieth century – the philosopher of ‘the Other’ – Emmanuel Levinas’s work offers a challenge to the discipline of anthropology that claims knowledge of the human. This book endeavours to take Levinasian and anthropological precepts on ‘...
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Challenging norms
An enlightening and geographically wide-ranging re-examination of family planning in twentieth-century Eastern Europe, Challenging Norms interrogates the correlation between social attitudes to family planning and social, economic, and political modernization. In doing so, this volume highlight...
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Reproductive disruptions
Nominated for the 2007 Book Prize by the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (AAA) Reproductive disruptions, such as infertility, pregnancy loss, adoption, and childhood disability, are among the most distressing experiences in people’s lives. Based on research by leading medical anthrop...
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Prophetic histories
On Malaita in Solomon Islands, an evangelical Israelite-inspired movement centers on a distinctive time-consciousness that reads the historical past and present as prophetic signs of an imminent future. This book examines how these ‘prophetic histories’ interweave biblical narrative, theologica...
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Unexpected encounters
Exploring different dimensions of the intersection of migration and tourism in the Mediterranean, this book is the result of extensive ethnographic research carried out over a decade in the Mediterranean region. It shows how migration and tourism play complementary roles in boosting the global ...
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Dictatorship as experience
A decade after the collapse of communism, this volume presents a historical reflection on the perplexing nature of the East German dictatorship. In contrast to most political rhetoric, it seeks to establish a middle ground between totalitarianism theory, stressing the repressive features of the...
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Migrations in the german lands, 1500-2000
A collection of essays reconstructing the experiences of vagrants, laborers, religious exiles, refugees, and other migrants to, from and within German-speaking lands during the last five hundred years. The volume identifies revealing commonalities shared by different eras while also plac...
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A u-turn to the future
Unsustainable practices since the Industrial Revolution still impact our everyday lives. This book looks at how we can achieve sustainable urban mobility now and in the future by tapping into our knowledge of the historical trajectories leading up to the features of modern mobility in cities to...
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Artisanal and small-scale mining formalization in ghana
The main key benefit of this book is its use of decoloniality in the examination of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) formalization. While there have been many cross-disciplinary explorations of formalization as a concept, the originality of this book lies not only in its interpretation...
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Japan and germany in the modern world
First study of the fascinating parallelism that characterizes developments in Japan and Germany by one of Germany's leading Japan specialists. With the founding of their respective national states, the Meiji Empire in 1869 and the German Reich in 1871, Japan and Germany entered world politics...
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The man from the third row
The first book in English about Hasse Ekman. Discusses 1940s Swedish cinema, which has previously been overlooked outside of Sweden. The first book, in any language, that discusses the whole of Ekman’s career and places it in a social and political context.
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Creation and creativity in indigenous lowland south america
Investigating local Indigenous processes of creation and creativity, this book uses ethnographic and comparative anthropological perspectives to enquire about creative transformative practices in lowland South America.
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The end of the refugee cycle?
At the start of the 1990s, there was great optimism that the end of the Cold War might also mean the end of the "refugee cycle" - both a breaking of the cycle of violence, persecution and flight, and the completion of the cycle for those able to return to their homes. The 1990s, it was hoped, w...
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An archaeology of unchecked capitalism
By drawing parallels between the past and present – for example, the coal mines of the nineteenth-century northeastern Pennsylvania and the sweatshops of the twenty-first century in Bangladesh – we can have difficult conversations about the past and advance our commitment to address social just...
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Encounter, transformation, and identity
Bringing together key historical and innovative ethnographic materials on the peoples of the South-West Province of Cameroon and the Nigerian borderlands, this volume presents critical and analytical approaches to the production of ethnic, political, religious, and gendered identities in the re...
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