Refugees welcome?

Situates the 2015-16 ‘refugee crisis’ in Germany within the wider German history of responding politically to difference and diversity.

Politics of the dunes

Politics of the Dunes explores the ways in which the Open City’s architectural and urban practice is devoted to keeping open the utopian possibility for multiplicity, pluralism, and democratization in the face of authoritarianism, a powerful mode of postcolonial environmental urbanism that can ...

Sound matters

The sounds of music and the German language have played a significant role in the developing symbolism of the German nation. In light of the historical division of Germany into many disparate political entities and regional groups, German artists and intellectuals of the 19th and early 20th cen...

In the shadow of auschwitz

An in-depth analysis of German massacres in Poland over the whole period of German occupation during the Second World War, this innovative study recounts the widely forgotten ethnic Polish civilian victims. Using both German and Polish sources, In the Shadow of Auschwitz uncovers for the first ...

Out of place

The Kakoli of the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG), the focus of this study, did not traditionally have a concept of mental illness. They classified madness according to social behaviour, not mental pathology. Moreover, their conception of the person did not recognise the same physic...

At home in a nursing home

Focusing on contemporary ideas about how aged care is provided, this book poses the question: How can people who are aged and frail live out the final phase of their lives with dignity? In seeking answers, the author examines what it means to be ‘at home’ in residential care in a novel and comp...

Dust inside

Toxic production, disrupted lives and contaminated bodies. Care for unacknowledged suffering, incurable cancers, and immeasurable losses. This book bears witness to the invisible disasters provoked by the asbestos market worldwide and gives a voice to the communities of survivors who struggle d...

Samizdat, tamizdat, and beyond

Comparative history of samizdat and tamizdat Multi-disciplinary approach to to dissident media, including art, music and film First scholarly treatment of cultural cross-border activities during the Cold War Comparative framework of socialist and post-socialist media in Eastern E...

'aryanisation' in hamburg

Much has been written about Nazi anti-Jewish policies, about atrocities of the Wehrmacht, and about the life of the Jews during the Third Reich. However, relatively little is known about the behavior of non-Jewish Germans. This book, published to wide acclaim in its original edition, shows how ...

The origins of prejudice

The series layout provides an accessible and overarching approach to some complex topics which may appeal to the more general reader. This series is designed to demonstrate how S.T.E.M. education must include the social sciences if we are to deal successfully with the risks and uncertain...

The attempt to stay

The construction of the Merowe Dam along the Nile in northern Sudan flooded local villages and forced thousands of inhabitants to flee to higher ground. This book follows the Manasir people’s attempts to resist state-run resettlement schemes, preserve their homeland, and try out meaningful ways...

Basic and applied research

The book applies conceptual history to the analysis of science policy and public discourses on science, technology and innovation. The book demonstrates that and how concepts determine the conceptual space of science policy around the globe. The book is a unique contribution to both ...

Amnesia remembered

Our modern culture is increasingly expressed in the form of digital artifacts, yet archaeology is in its infancy when it comes to researching and understanding them. The study and reverse engineering of digital artifacts is no longer the exclusive domain of computer scientists. Presented by way...

A matter of belief

Explores Christian Conversion and Healing Examines the interplay of personal and communal ritual Describes religious resistance and nationalism among the Naga in North-Eastern India A focus on British colonialism and American Baptist missionaries

Responsible history

“I can warmly recommend Responsible History to any concerned historian in need of a reliable compass for responsible conduct. I endorse Voltaire’s words quoted in this book: ‘Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.’ Responsible conduct is necessary because ir...

Beyond inclusion and exclusion

Moves away from the notion of a singular Jewish war experience, and examines the diverse experiences of Jewish men and women during World War I. Broadens the approach to central European Jewish history by highlighting complex interactions between ordinary Jewish and non-Jewish soldiers a...

From weimar to hitler

This is the first edited volume on the Nazi seizure of power that spans the entire period from the end of the Brüning chancellorship in the late spring of 1932 though the Nazi consolidation of power in the Röhm purge of June 30, 1934. The essays offer a multitude of different perspective...

Toward a global community of historians

Globalization presents major challenges to scholars of history. Different variants of global history and world history compete with, and transform, more traditional approaches of national, regional, and local scope, accompanied by new forms of international and transcultural cooperation. Howeve...

Delta life

Proposing a series of innovative steps towards better understanding human lives at the interstices of water and land, this volume includes eight ethnographies from deltas around the world. The book presents ‘delta life’ with intimate descriptions of the predicaments, imaginations and activities...

A long journey home

A Long Journey Home examines the experiences of those whose sense of home has been disrupted by decades of conflict and violence. It highlights the profound feelings of loss and the enduring struggle of living without a home – an experience that can last for years or even decades.

200 years of peace

In the wake of Sweden’s anniversary of 200 years of peace in 2014, this volume brings for the first time a targeted approach to the concept of claimed Swedish exceptionality. Taking on the nation’s policies of neutrality, 200 Years of Peace centers discussion around what it means for a nation t...

The ju/’hoan san of nyae nyae and namibian independence

Demonstrates how a group of former hunter-gatherers, speaking an exotic click language, formed a grassroots movement that led them to become a dynamic part of the new nation of Namibia Discredits the images and myths of the Ju/’hoan and other San (previously called “Bushmen”) as either n...

Cinema of choice

How movies engender closed-mindedness or optional thinking in viewers. Close analysis of branching narrative movies (Sliding Doors, Rashomon, etc.) An in-depth study of cognitive-affective engagement in movies.

Melanesian odysseys

Technologized images, technologized bodies

The modern world is saturated with images. Scientific knowledge of the human body (in all its variety) is highly dependent on the technological generation of visual data – brain and body scans, x-rays, diagrams, graphs and charts. New technologies afford scientists and medical experts new possi...

Food and the status quest

The use of food to negotiate status is found in all human societies. Here, for the first time, a single book brings together contributions from different disciplines to investigate, from ethological and anthropological perspectives, behavior that appears to have biological roots such as the ten...

How kinship systems change

Using some of his landmark publications on kinship, along with a new introduction, chapter and conclusion, Robert Parkin discusses here the changes in kinship terminologies and marriage practices, as well as the dialectics between them.

The jews and the expansion of europe to the west, 1450-1800

Jews and Judaism played a significant role in the history of the expansion of Europe to the west as well as in the history of the economic, social, and religious development of the New World. They played an important role in the discovery, colonization, and eventually exploitation of the resour...

Time work

Examining how people alter or customize various dimensions of their temporal experience, this volume discovers how we resist external sources of temporal constraint or structure. These ethnographic studies are international in scope and look at many different countries and continents.

Evidence and meaning

Comprehensive theory of historical studies, covering the whole field of metahistory, methodology of historical research, theory of historical culture and history didactics

Momentous mobilities

First in-depth (anthropological) discussion of various forms of contemporary mobilities. Coherent approach, with an introductory chapter and a conclusion. Agenda-setting volume for future research in mobility studies Experimental writing style, combining ethnography and memoir.

Profiles of anthropological praxis

The book Profiles of Anthropological Praxis is something of a sequel to Anthropological Praxis: Translating Knowledge into Action, published in 1987 (Westview Press).  As a casebook of anthropological projects, the new version shares a fascinating breadth of award-winning projects undertaken by...

Made in sheffield

In 1900, Sheffield was the tenth largest city in the world. Cutlery “made in Sheffield” was used across the globe, and the city built armored plate for the navy in the run-up to the First World War. Today, however, Sheffield’s derelict Victorian shop floors and industrial buildings are hidden b...

Gender politics in the expanding european union

In May 2004, after bringing their legislation into accordance with EU regulations, ten more countries joined the European Union. The contributors to this volume assess the impact of this historical development on gender relations in the new and old EU member states. Instead of focusing on eithe...

The girl in the pandemic

The early and critical stages of the pandemic presented exacerbated risks to the lives of girls and young women. The Girl in the Pandemic takes a diverse range of scholars across the world, particularly from the Global South, to document and contribute to a large narrative of what a post-pandem...

Protest in hitler's “national community”

Presents studies of public dissent inside the Third Reich. Examines circumstances under which “racial” Germans were motivated to protest, as well as the conditions determining the regime’s response.

Crisis of the state

Ecological nostalgias

Introducing the study of econostalgias through a variety of rich ethnographic cases, this volume argues that a strictly human centered approach does not account for contemporary longings triggered by ecosystem upheavals.

Maternalism reconsidered

Beginning in the late 19th century, competing ideas about motherhood had a profound impact on the development and implementation of social welfare policies. Calls for programmes aimed at assisting and directing mothers emanated from all quarters of the globe, advanced by states and voluntary or...

The social origins of thought

The Social Origins of Thought explores the Durkheim School’s ambitious critique of philosophical interpretations of the genesis and constitution of the categories of thought. With contributions from philosophy, sociology, anthropology, media studies, and sinology, this volume illustrates the in...

Public engagement and education

Public Engagement and Education shares effective approaches for engaging and educating learners of all ages about archaeology and how one can encourage them to become stewards of the past. Offered are applied examples that are not bound to specific geographies or cultures, but rather, are appro...

Cultures of exile

Exile is the dominant theme of our times. It can be found in the forced migration of populations but also in the temporal, cultural and physical alienation of the individual's experiences of the postmodern world. This is a world of unstable, shifting identities dominated, and perhaps most acute...

Selfishness and selflessness

We are said to be suffering a narcissism epidemic when the need for collective action seems more pressing than ever. Selfishness and selflessness address the ‘proper’ and ‘improper’ relationship between one’s self and others. The work they do during periods of social instability and cultural ch...

Heirs of the greek catastrophe

Since its first publication in 1989, this classic study has remained in demand. The third edition of Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe includes updated material with a new Preface, Epilogue, and map of the study area.