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Law, history, and justice
Takes a long-term perspective on the problem of German state crimes (First World War, Second World War, GDR). Exemplifies the potential of legal cultural approach. Demonstrates the complex entanglements of legal theory, historical trauma, criminal prosecution, historiography, and pol...
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Sweden after nazism
At the centre of this study is neutral Sweden, a country that in many ways escaped the horrors of Nazism and the Second World War. Claims that the Nazi experience was of fundamental importance for postwar Sweden, although in a more subtle and complex way than in war-ridden countries. ...
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France after 2012
Details the French presidential and parlimentary elections of May 2012. Explores the principal challenges facing the elected Socialist president Francois Hollande and the new government of Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault. Assesses the success of their first year in office and how ef...
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Innovation and implementation
Providing a comprehensive set of guidance to assist researchers wishing to carry out, curate and disseminate field research at a historic burial ground, chapters offer up to date methods for surface and subsurface survey and for the recording and archiving of burial monument data. Also included...
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Europe’s disappearing waste
Theoretical elaboration of the tension between disappearance and (re)appearance; Analysis of a unique transformation in the history of waste management (to be able to understand the change, author conducted research in the field over the course of the last ten years); Reinforcement o...
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In fading light
The Amber Film collective has been part of the British and European documentary scene since the late 1960s. Situating the work within wider social, political and historical contexts, In Fading Light interrogates how their critically acclaimed body of work—which includes documentaries, feature f...
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Civilizations beyond earth
Presents empirical and theoretical research on the societal dimensions of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Interdisciplinary effort encompassing fields such as archaeology, sociology, mathematics and religious studies Academically rigorous yet accessible collection...
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A narrow bridge to life
By 1944 a large part of Eastern Europe had already been liberated by the Red Army, and the Allied forces were continuing to move in from the west after success at Normandy. Yet, in Lower Silesia, Germany more than sixty new forced labor camps were established, adding to the approximately forty ...
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An anthropology of global immunization
Will develop a unique anthropological response to the question of global immunization, addressing issues from vaccine hesitancy and conspiracy theories, to local biopolitics and beyond. Explores some of the most pressing vaccine concerns of our time, from hpv to covid-19, one health, and...
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Sexual self-fashioning
Focusing on premarital sex, homosexuality, and cohabitation outside marriage, this book provides an ethnographic account of sexuality among the Iranian Dutch. It argues that by embracing, rejecting, and questioning modernity in stories about sexuality, the Iranian Dutch actively engage in proce...
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The political economy of border drawing
Interconnects capitalism, the welfare regime and citizenship to the field of migration studies. Compares and contrasts the divergent conditions of entry for non-EU migrant workers in Britain, France and Germany. Explores the economic, social and cultural rationales in determining mig...
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Muted memories
This book examines the centrality of the East African Caravan Trade to Bagamoyo, a Tanzanian port town on the Indian Ocean, and explores the way that this history was silenced when Bagamoyo was instead branded as a slave route town in 2006 in an attempt to qualify it for the UNESCO World Herita...
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Echoes of surrealism
Echoes of Surrealism surveys areas of surrealist art throughout the entire lifespan of the GDR and explores analyses of the interaction and reciprocal influences of various art forms. Focusing on individual authors, visual artists, film directors and musicians who have taken a surrealist perspe...
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Becoming a subject
Focusing on the Greek Civil War (1946-1949), the last major conflict in Europe before the end of the Cold War, this study examines the political prisoners whose fate encapsulates the dramatic conflicts and contradictions of that dark era. New sources such as prisoners' letters, memoirs, and off...
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Voices in the dark
In refugee camps all over the world, refugees are forced to secure their own access to energy and are provided with limited cooking resources and minimal electricity. Voices in the Dark draws upon a decade of original research to provide evidence on the energy lives of refugees.
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Cars
Through developing an original analytical framework that, for the first time, systematically relates productive, market and financial variables, the authors are able to rewrite the history of the car business since Henry Ford.
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Selling the economic miracle
Through an examination of election campaign propaganda and various public relations campaigns, reflecting new electioneering techniques borrowed from the United States, this work explores how conservative political and economic groups sought to construct and sell a political meaning of the Soci...
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Deadly contradictions
A compelling account of the American empire. An explanation of how contemporary forms of violence exercised by American elites in the colonies, client state, and regions of interest have deferred imperial problems, but not without raising their own set of deadly contradictions. Can b...
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Categories and classifications
Marcel Mauss (1872-1950), Durkheim's nephew, was a key figure among Durkheimians and helped to found the distinctive French tradition in the social sciences at the start of the 20th century. He dominated the teaching of social anthropology in Paris between the Wars, and his Essay on the Gift (1...
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Political fellini
Political reading of Fellini’s theme and image through a close examination of papers, publicity files and debates (in contrast with the notorious self-referential interpretation of his films) and historical reconstruction of his clash with Silvio Berlusconi during the 80’s. Analysis of ...
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Modernity and secession
The northern Italian, ‘Padanian’ identity, fostered by the Lega Nord, is rooted in the long-standing tradition, in political and scholarly discourse, of casting regional differences within Italy in terms of a North-South geographic divide. Trying to come to terms, in the late 1980s and 1990s, w...
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Sex, thugs and rock 'n' roll
A fascinating and highly readable account of what it was like to be young and hip, growing up in East Germany in the 1950s and 1960s. Living on the frontline of the Cold War, young people were subject to a number of competing influences. For young men from the working class, in particular, a co...
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Anthropology as ethics
Anthropology as Ethics is concerned with rethinking anthropology by rethinking the nature of reality. It develops the ontological implications of a defining thesis of the Manchester School: that all social orders exhibit basically conflicting underlying principles. Drawing especially on Contine...
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The global pontificate of pius xii
Following Vatican archives opening up access to materials on the pontificate of Pius XII (1939-1958), the contributors to this volume were amongst the first to access these long-awaited records. They have analyzed them here to present a nuanced and revitalized approach to religious, modern post...
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The participants
Although the Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942 is today understood as a signal episode in the history of the Holocaust, many of its attendees remain relatively unknown to nonspecialists. Combining accessible prose with scholarly rigor, The Participants presents fascinating profiles of the ...
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Building social worlds
This collection draws on ethnography across Africa, Europe, Oceania and the Americas, and uses Goody’s ideas to expand contributors understanding of the nature of relationships, communication, intimacy, resistance and resilience with a particular focus on rich ethnographies of childhood and lea...
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Sisters in arms
Up to now, studies of feminist activism have focused almost exclusively on protest that was commonly understood as peaceful. This study shows that there was considerable disagreement over the question of which tactics were appropriate and necessary in feminist struggles, and that some groups...
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Anthropology now and next
The work provides an enormously valuable perspective on some key ideas from the career of Ulf Hannerz The collection offers essays about current and future anthropological practice The volume addresses the theoretical, epistemological, ethical and methodological challenges facing ant...
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The european way
A good social history of Europe has yet to be written though, given the developments over the last few decades, this seems more urgent than ever before. This volume presents an important step forward in that it brings together eight internationally known social historians from Europe and Israel...
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Jewish histories of the holocaust
Examines unique Jewish perspectives concerning the Holocaust. Examines approaches to Jewish History of the Holocaust. Includes variety of leading scholars from North America, Europe, Israel. Examines variety of topics ranging from Jewish leadership to resistance to memory.
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The kings and the pawns
The most encompassing representation of the phenomenon of Byelorussian collaboration during World War II Illumination of virtually unknownaspects in modern East European history Study basing on multiple sources in different languages
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Sacred places, emerging spaces
‘Folk’ sacred places (informality, hybridity) Contemporary multi-religious / multi-ethnic societies in the Caucasus Social meaning of pilgrimage and its transformation Practices of Sharing and Non-Sharing Diversity of field sites: rural & urban; North and South Caucasus (...
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Banned in berlin
Imperial Germany’s governing elite frequently sought to censor literature that threatened established political, social, religious, and moral norms in the name of public peace, order, and security. It claimed and exercised a prerogative to intervene in literary life that was broader than that o...
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Escapees
Escapes from deportation trains: First study of the phenomenon as Jewish resistance to National Socialistic persecution More than 750 escapees in Western Europe show various forms of motives and implementation (agency) First study of deportation train guards (who they were and how th...
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Post-ottoman topologies
With contributions from several of the Balkan countries that once were united under the aegis of the Ottoman Empire, this latest volume proposes new theoretical approaches to the experience and transmission of the past through time.
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When women held the dragon's tongue
Challenges the dominant culturalist approach associated with Clifford Geertz and Marshall Sahlins Bridges the current gap between approaches to studies of peasant society and popular culture Presents a critical rethinking of the philosophical anthropologies found in specific historie...
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Assembling financialisation
Farmers, Indigenous organisations, government and private-sector intermediaries from remote Northern Australia often negotiate with private finance capital to gain funds for agricultural development.This book demonstrates that while financialisation is a useful signifier of patterns of global c...
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Configuring contagion
Expanding our understanding of contagion further than typical notions of infection and pandemics, this book widens the field to include biosocial epidemics. The chapters propose varied and detailed answers to questions about the epidemic and contagious potential of specific infections and non-i...
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Rethinking the historiography of the soviet bloc
Brings together Historians and philosophers to analyse the totalitarian idea and its broader application. Highlights the reasons why totalitarianism is still an attractive model in political science born out of the cold war. Revisits ideas about totalitarianism and knowledge producti...
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Crafting 'the indian'
In Europe, Indian hobbyism, or Indianism, has developed out of a strong fascination with Native American life in the 18th and 19th centuries. “Indian hobbyists” dress in homemade replicas of clothing, craft museum-quality replicas of artifacts, meet in fields dotted with tepees and reenact aspe...
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Digital archives and collections
Museums and archives all over the world digitize their collections and provide online access to heritage material. But what factors determine the content, structure and use of these online inventories? This book turns to India and Europe to answer this question. It explains how museums and arch...
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Assisted reproductive technologies in the third phase
Highlights the opening up of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) to new constituencies in terms of ethnicity, geography, education, and class.
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Language and political subjectivity
Language and Political Subjectivity offers an innovative approach to stancemaking as a rhetorical semiotic process that produces truth, beliefs, and certainties about social realities and relations. It considers how Indigenous and diasporic communities, with their political subjectivities, expa...
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The future of memory
Presents a survey of theories and case studies Addresses the ‘big issues’ of memory studies, including witnessing, trauma and memorials Analyses several diverse but interconnected phenomena such as the Rwanda and 9/11 memorials
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