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Postmodernism in the cinema
Although "Postmodernism" has been a widely used catch word and its concept extensively discussed in philosophy, political thought, and the arts, many scholars still feel uneasy about it Despite the fact that the concept can be traced back to Arnold Toynbee's 1939 edition of A Study of History...
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Inclusion, transformation, and humility in north american archaeology
In a dynamic near half-century career of insight, engagement, and instruction, Kent G. Lightfoot transformed North American archaeology through his innovative ideas, robust collaborations, thoughtful field projects, and mentoring of numerous students. Authors emphasize the multifarious ways Lig...
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Democracy in europe
Since the beginning of the European Community students of international politics and of international, resp. Constitutional law, have been wondering what kind of animal it is, and will be, once integration has been completed. Whereas the EC Treaty of 1957 stressed the economic aspects and envis...
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(un)settling place
An illuminating ethnographic study of placemaking, (Un)Settling Place examines the nature of places that are remote, peripheral, and “along-the-way” of migrant journeys, highlighting the key role they play in the shaping of people’s mobilities and identities.
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Melanesian mainstream
Based in extensive ethnographic research, Melanesian Mainstream provides a detailed representation of the roots, context, evolution, and impact of stringband music in the Melanesian Republic of Vanuatu.
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Western historical thinking
What is history – a question historians have been asking themselves time and again. Does "history" as an academic discipline, as it has evolved in the West over the centuries, represent a specific mode of historical thinking that can bedefined in contrast to other forms of historical consciousn...
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The aesthetics of rule and resistance
Through illuminating case studies of street art in Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Caracas, and Mexico City, The Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance explores the visual strategies of persuasion and meaning-making employed by both rulers and resisters to foster self-legitimization, identification, and mobi...
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The greater german reich and the jews
Details the various European states and territories annexed into the German Reich between the period of 1935 and 1940. Analyzes the diverse attitudes of non-Jews, Germans and indigenous populations. Challenges the common assumption that one unified movement ran through the territorie...
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Money games
It is the only book about gambling in the Pacific It is the only monograph concerning a locale where gambling was adopted in living memory It is one of only a handful of ethnographies of an urban locale in Highland Papua New Guinea It uses uncommonly expansive cross-cultural ...
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The dance of nurture
Holistic approach to infant feeding Combines biological and cultural approaches to infant feeding in a single frame Integrates issues from the global north and south Provides ethnographic insight into advocacy work on infant feeding
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Life as a hunt
Addresses the global conundrum of how to promote ‘sustainable conservation and biological diversity, especially under ‘weak governments. Portrays three generations of rural cultivators as they narrate their livelihoods’ struggles. Explains how they cope with changing bureaucratic re...
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Invisible labours
Invisible Labours traces women’s experiences of miscarriage and termination for foetal anomaly in the second trimester before legal viability and shows how such events are positioned as less ‘real’ or significant when the foetal being does not, or will not, survive. It describes the reproductiv...
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Spaces of solidarity
Exploring notions of activism and space as narrated by Karen displaced persons and refugees in the Thai-Burma borderlands, this book looks beyond refugees as passive victims or a ‘humanitarian case’. Instead, the book examines the active engagement the Karen have with their persecution and disp...
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Partners in production?
In Ireland, family farming retains enormous ideological and cultural significance. As a social form it is one of the last preserves of male dominance in which women's contributions and concerns are largely overlooked. This book breaks new ground as the first major study of Irish farm families i...
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German–jewish studies
Applying current and evolving interdisciplinary scholarship to bring an original and comprehensive assessment of why German-Jewish studies as a field is vital to further our understanding of antisemitism, racism, and coloniality, German-Jewish Studies: Next Generations grounds the field’s neces...
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Work in a modern society
No other new studies on the history of work and labour in the German speaking world available Documents recent original research by German speaking scholars whose work is not easily accessible in English Relates historical findings to the present in which the restructuring of the wor...
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Being human, being migrant
Unique in its focus on how ethnographic face-to-face studies of migration display a specific way of being human as it highlights being between cultural truths and familiar contexts for relations of self, others and the world. Employs and develops novel concepts that contribute to our und...
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Reconceiving the second sex
Extensive social science research, particularly by anthropologists, has explored women’s reproductive lives, their use of reproductive technologies, and their experiences as mothers and nurturers of children. Meanwhile, few if any volumes have explored men’s reproductive concerns or contributio...
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Conversion after socialism
The large and sudden influx of missionaries into the former Soviet Union after seventy years of militant secularism has been controversial, and the widespread occurrence of conversion has led to anxiety about social and national disintegration. Although these concerns have been vigorously discu...
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Reconstruction of the pakhtun code of life in a changing pakistan
Since the 1970s, the transformation of Pakhtun areas has brought far-reaching changes to all aspects of society. This book investigates evolving patterns of social relations among Pakhtuns, focusing on the practice of gham khadee (participation in sorrows and joys) as a key mode of social and p...
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Envisioning eden
Based on more than two years of fieldwork in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and Arusha, Tanzania offers an in-depth investigation of the local-to-global dynamics of contemporary tourism illustrates how tour guide narratives and practices are informed by widely circulating imaginaries of the p...
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Transformations and crises
The Left in the 1960s and 1970s has a powerful, almost mythical, place in the history of the 20th century. It was during these decades that the radical Left managed to renew the language of socialism as an alternative to communism and liberalism alike, but also when radicalism often led to extr...
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Big capital in an unequal world
Following the hidden lives of the global “1%”, this book examines the networks, social practices, marriages, and machinations of the elite in Pakistan. In doing so, it reveals the daily, even mundane, ways in which elites contribute to and shape the inequality that characterises the modern world.
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Kinship and beyond
The genealogical model has a long-standing history in Western thought. The contributors to this volume consider the ways in which assumptions about the genealogical model—in particular, ideas concerning sequence, essence, and transmission—structure other modes of practice and knowledge-making i...
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Mary douglas
This handy, concise biography covers the life of Mary Douglas, one of the most important anthropologists of the second half of the 20th century. It offers an introduction to how her distinctive approach developed across a long and productive career and how it applies to current pressing issues ...
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The sound of silence
Combining Sámi perspectives and other Indigenous archaeologies Offers new perspectives for understanding the role of material culture in transformation of indigenous cultures in colonial contact Emphasizes local and indigenous histories and interpretations over Eurocentric ones
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Communities of complicity
A description of everyday life in contemporary rural China based on 18 months of observation, surveys, and interviews Illustrates how people construct their own senses of their lives and futures through their work, celebrating marriages and funerals , and building their houses Descri...
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Anarchism, revolution and reaction
The period from 1898 to 1923 was a particularly dramatic one in Spanish history; it culminated in the violent Barcelona “labor wars” and was only brought to a close with the coup d’état launched by the Barcelona Captain General, Miguel Primo de Rivera, in September 1923. In his detailed examina...
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Suffering and evil
Until recently the subject of suffering and evil was neglected in the sociological world and was almost absent in Durkheimian studies as well. This book aims to fill the gap, with particular reference to the Durkheimian tradition, by exploring the different meanings that the concepts of evil an...
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Global fluids
Embedded in feminist communication, sociological, and anthropological scholarship, Global Fluids examines the ways in which women’s body products (such as urine, eggs, and placentas) become valuable ingredients in the fertility and cosmetics industries, and develops cultural politics of reusabi...
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South africa's dreams
In the early sixties, many South African anthropologists supported ‘Grand Apartheid’ in Namibia. South Africa’s colonial policies in the country served as a testing ground for many key features of its repressive infrastructure, and strategies for countering anti-apartheid resistance. The book a...
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The many faces of clio
Born in Germany, Georg Iggers escaped from Nazism to the United States in his adolescence where he became one of the most distinguished scholars of European intellectual history and the history of historiography. In his lectures, delivered all over the world, and in his numerous books, translat...
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Struggles for home
Based on anthropological studies across the globe, this book explores the social practice of home-making amongst people whose lives are characterized by movement and violence. Social scientific and policy understandings of home and migration tend to focus on territory, culture and nation, often...
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Science on screen and paper
Scientific discovery and discourse were central in the making of Cold War. Spanning various media, Science on Screen and Paper seeks to embrace the medial differences during the Cold War period through intersectional themes and strategies for the representation of science’s central role.
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Resituating crisis
Crisis is not just a situation twisting normality but can become constitutive of normality itself. In exploring transformative and constructive elements to being in crisis, it resituates crisis in everyday life to foster critical and nuanced examination of discourses on and experiences of it.
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Escape from hell
A shocking account of Nazi genocide and the inhuman conditions in Auschwitz, but equally shocking is the initial disbelief with which the revelations were met. “Alfred Wetzler was a true hero. His escape from Auschwitz, and the report he helped compile, telling for the first time the truth a...
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Europe in crisis
The volume shows how conceptions of and projects for Europe were transformed by contemporaries’ experiences of crisis between 1917 and 1957. It investigates the ideas of a wide range of intellectuals from across the continent. It examines the relationship between ideas of Europe and ...
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The paris peace conference of 1919
An illuminating and geographically wide-ranging reassessment of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, this volume reconsiders how this watershed treaty gave rise to new dynamics of global power and politics, reshaping the ideas of imperiality and nationality that have continued to shape the geopo...
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Stars and stardom in brazilian cinema
First book-length broad study of stardom in Brazilian cinema in either Portuguese or English. Its historical scope makes it particularly important – the chapters cover the evolution of stardom as a phenomenon in Brazilian cinema from the silent era to the present day. Its combination...
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Remapping knowledge
The growing interdependence of the local and the global demand innovative approaches to human development. Such approaches, the author argues, ought to be based on the emerging ethics of global intelligence, defined as the ability to understand, respond to, and work toward what will benefit all...
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Anglo-american relations and the transmission of ideas
With a central objective to interrogate the notion of a shared Anglo-American political tradition, Anglo-American Relations and the Transmission of Ideas opens up new debate on the nature of the ‘first principles’ that were to frame the development of Anglo-American ideas embedded in our everyd...
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Education for the new europe
Up to now European unification has primarily been considered a matter of political and economic concern. Very little attention has been paid to education and training, although many resolutions of various treaties, especially regarding the labor market, would remain ineffectual without any sync...
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The hadrami diaspora
In-depth assessment of Hadrami identity, social order and religious change Provides detailed analysis of Hadrami communities both within and outside Yemen Highlights the complexity of the diasporic process Describes links betwen Hadrami migrants from Yemen and from the Indian Oce...
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Medicine and medical ethics in nazi germany
The participation of German physicians in medical experiments on innocent people and mass murder is one of the most disturbing aspects of the Nazi era and the Holocaust. Six distinguished historians working in this field are addressing the critical issues raised by these murderous experiments, ...
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