Re-presenting the shoah for the 21st century

Despite Adorno's famous dictum, the memory of the Shoah features prominently in the cultural legacy of the 20th century and beyond. It has led to a proliferation of works of representation and re-memorialization which have brought in their wake concerns about a 'holocaust industry' and banaliza...

Ethics and genetics

Genetic information plays an increasingly important role in ourlives. As a result of the Human Genome Project, knowledge ofthe genetic basis of various diseases is growing, withimportant consequences for the role of genetics in clinicalpractice, health care systems and for society at large. In ...

The faltering transition

In 1999, Italy experienced another year of political uncertainty. The centre-left coalition government was weakened by infighting throughout the year and paid a high electoral price for its failure to present a common front to the electorate. In June, Silvio Berlusconi's Liberty Pole coalition ...

Microhistories of memory

Microhistories of Memory takes the culturally significant West German novel, radio play, and television series Through the Night (originally Am grünen Strand der Spree, 1955-1960), depicting the mass shootings of Jews in the occupied Soviet Union during World War II, and provides an in-depth lo...

The colours of the empire

Investigates how the different populations under Portuguese rule were represented within the Colonial Empire Examines the relationship between representations and meanings attached to the notion of ‘race’ Analyzes government documents, colonial propaganda materials, and interviews w...

Biomedical entanglements

An ethnographic study of the Giri people of Papua New Guinea. Focuses on the indigenous population’s interaction with modern medicine. Bridges medical anthropology and global health, exploring how the ‘biomedical’ is imbued with social meaning and how biomedicine affects Giri ways of...

To the bomb and back

The first English-language account of Finland’s children evacuees during World War II. Describes their experiences, told through the survivors’ own words. Testifies to the often lifelong traumas endured by youthful survivors of war.

Mitterrand, the end of the cold war, and german unification

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this important book explores the role of France in the events leading up to the end of the Cold War and German unification. Most accounts concentrate on the role of the United States and look at these events through the bipolar prism of Soviet-Ame...

The third world in the global 1960s

the first book to analyze the 1960s from a Third World perspective. contains a wide geographical scope, and contains essays on Latin America, Africa and Asia. attempts to uncover everyday people and their struggle with the geopolitics of the Cold War, and analyzes the Cold War from ...

The subject of sovereignty

Exploring the themes of nature, race, and the divine, this book identifies the more realistic alternative in the “relational subject”: a subject that is inseparable from the global field of relations through which it emerges and yet distinct from that field because it lives a life that no one e...

Lewis henry morgan's comparisons

Georg Pfeffer re-examines the work of Lewis Henry Morgan on relationship terminologies, societal forms, and ideas of property and the relationship between these three domains. He concludes that reciprocal affinal relations determine most ‘classificatory’ terminologies and regulate many non-stat...

The hidden minority

The Russian minority in Finland is imbued with ’being hidden‘ or ’hiding oneself‘. The book explores informants’ reflections, together with the author, on the mental and physical crossing of national borders. Perceptions of belonging and/or Otherness and lived experience reveal a complex relati...

Blurring timescapes, subverting erasure

What happens when we blur time and allow ourselves to haunt or to become haunted by the ghosts of the past? The authors draw on archaeological, historical, and ethnographic data to imagine timescapes that transcend our temporality. This volume demonstrates the value of conceiving of ghosts not ...

Humanitarianism and media

Covers humanitarianism & media for the whole of the 20th century up to the present Combines analysis of visual imagery with study of media organizations (broadcasting corporations, publishing and marketing companies or press offices of humanitarian organizations themselves) Cr...

Sustaining indigenous songs

Coping with the nazi past

Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Based on careful, intensive research in primary sources, many of these essays break new ground in our understanding of a crucial and tumultuous period. The contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, offe...

Theorising media and time

Digital media perpetrate every aspect of our lives, including our temporal perceptions. Time and attention have become one of the most precious resources, for users as well as corporate businesses. This book sheds light on these critical connections and how they influence not only our daily ...

France and america in the revolutionary era

This is the first detailed study account of the life and career of Chaumont whose chief claim to fame was the fact that from 1777 to 1785 Benjamin Franklin lived in his home in the Parisian suburb of Passy. Basing his work on documents from two dozen archives in the United States and France, Sc...

The emperor's old clothes

Constitutional history as history of rituals. History of German political culture and its changes 1500-1800. Symbolic communication in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Micro-historical perspective on early modern political history.

The gaddi beyond pastoralism

Takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the social and religious landscapes as seen by the Gaddi people of Himachal Pradesh Paints a picture of contemporary Gaddi life that moves beyond their customary occupation as nomadic herders of sheep and goats Analyses religious prac...

Fig trees and humans

Fig Trees and Humans examines the interactions between the biology and ecology of the genus Ficus and how humans use and think of Ficus species across the tropics and in the Mediterranean region.

The social life of achievement

Innovatively explains the multiple effects of "achievement" Brings together cutting-edge insights into politics, psychology, ethics and materiality Advances a new agenda for the study of achievement within anthropology Promotes "achievement" as a moment of cultural invention, and...

Weaponizing the past

Theorizing and explaining the process of collective memory of Poland’s communist past, Weaponizing the Past explores contemporary politicizations of the past, national belonging and the production of anti-Semitism.

Gendering post-1945 german history

The russian cold

Cold has long been a fixture of Russian identity both within and beyond the nation, even as the ongoing effects of climate change complicate its meaning and cultural salience. The Russian Cold assembles fascinating new contributions from a variety of scholarly traditions, offering new perspecti...

Silent dilemmas of project managers

A fastidious investigation into the nature of self-identity, Silent Dilemmas of Project Managers uses the context of project management to challenge the perceived separation of objective experience from subjective perception, highlighting how these adopted self-notions act as the object of exis...

Asymmetrical conversations

Explores the ways in which we sometimes attempt to bypass the dominant ideologies of health care in the medical institutions of our cultures. Case studies from India, the South Asian Diaspora, and Europe are used to understand the blurring of therapeutic boundaries. A combination of ...

Making better lives

In this ethnographic study, Johannes Lenhard observes the daily practices, routines and techniques of people who are sleeping rough on the streets of Paris. The book focusses on their survival practises, their short-term desires and hopes, how they earn money through begging, how they choose th...

Everyday invisibility

In the wake of Greece’s 2008 economic collapse, African women in Athens navigated intensified discrimination shaped by the intersecting forces of gender, race and migration status. This book argues that gendered racialization renders these women not only invisible but also hyper-visible in ster...

Meaning and representation in history

History has always been more than just the past. It involves a relationship between past and present, perceived, on the one hand, as a temporal chain of events and, on the other, symbolically as an interpretation that gives meaning to these events through varying cultural orientations, charging...

Bigger fish to fry

What defines cooking as cooking, and why does cooking matter to the understanding of society, cultural change and everyday life? This book explores these questions by proposing a new theory of the meaning of cooking as a willingness to put oneself and one’s meals at risk on a daily basis, with ...

Property and equality

The ethnography of egalitarian social systems was first met with sheer disbelief. Today it is still hotly debated in a number of fields and has gained sophistication as well as momentum. This collection of essays on "property and equality" acknowledges this diversification by presenting researc...

Management and morality

Drawing on extended ethnographic studies of management consultancies in the Oslo region of Norway, this book seeks to find a richer understanding of their role in contemporary work life and the attraction their practices exert on people. The author shows that management consultancy is an arena ...

Breaking rocks

This book presents an ethnography of spectacle and deceit. It provides a vivid description of life and meaning in one of the fastest growing mega cities in Africa/the global south. It makes a series of innovative connections between power, economics and culture.

The wars of yesterday

Together comprising one of the first modern conflicts of the twentieth century, the Balkan Wars (1912–13) served as precursors of the bloody wars to follow. This volume offers a fascinating exploration of the wars’ history, with a central focus on the experiences of both combatants and civilians.

Unearthing the past to forge the future

During the 1800s, the East India Company consolidated its rule in India. In desperate need of knowledge about this territory and its population, the company appointed Colin Mackenzie as the first Surveyor General of India. Unearthing the Past to Forge the Future explores the life and career of ...

Transforming author museums

Literary museums today must respond to new challenges; the traditional image of the author’s home museum as a sacred place of literary pilgrimage centered around a national hero has been questioned, and literary museums have begun to develop new strategies. The book addresses how literary museu...

Embracing landscape

Examining human-animal relations among the reindeer hunting and herding Dukha community in northern Mongolia, this book focuses on concepts such as domestication and wildness from an indigenous perspective. By looking into hunting rituals and herding techniques, the ethnography questions the dy...

German public policy and federalism

Since unification German society and institutions have been challenged by various transformations and the need to adjust to changing conditions. While much has been accomplished, many political, legal, and institutional problems remain. This volume deals with selected aspects of domestic and Eu...

The forest people without a forest

Examines how the Baka, who live in Eastern Cameroon, assert forms of belonging in order to participate in development interventions. Investigates how community life is shaped and reshaped through these interventions.

Austrian women in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

This volume, the first of its kind in English, brings together scholars from different disciplines who address the history of women in Austria, as well as their place in contemporary Austrian society, from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, thus shedding new light on cont...

Beyond 1989

With the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, four decades of separation seemed to have been brought to an end. In the literary arena as in many others, this seemed to be the surprising but ultimately logical end to the situation in which, after the extreme separation of the two Germanies'...

Raccomandazione

It looks at Italian clientelism in a holistic cultural contest, not just within limited sectors of the society (which is the tendency of political science and sociological approaches). It approaches Italian clientelism from a deeply emic perspective, that is, from the point of view of...

Transregional and transnational families in europe and beyond

While the current discussion of ethnic, trade, and commercial diasporas, global networks, and transnational communities constantly makes reference to the importance of families and kinship groups for understanding the dynamics of dispersion, few studies examine the nature of these families in a...