Shakespeare and biography

Edible people

While human cannibalism has attracted considerable notice and controversy, certain aspects of the practice have received scant attention. These include the connection between cannibalism and xenophobia: the capture and consumption of unwanted strangers. Likewise ignored is the connection to sla...

The german right in the weimar republic

Examines a crucial episode in the demise of the Weimar Republic and the rise of National Socialism. Based upon extensive primary research in a wide range of archival collections. Employs a variety of methodological approaches in the study of the German Right. Approaches the issue...

Refugees from nazi germany and the liberal european states

Focuses on one of the most dramatic refugee movements in contemporary European and world history. Takes a comparative approach in which each of the national cases is illuminated and enriched by comparison. The analysis shows the interplay between different national immigration policies a...

Memory and change in europe

Offers a reflection on memory from an Eastern European historical perspective, one that can be measured against, or applied to, historical experience in other parts of Europe. The authors situate studies on memory in Eastern Europe within the broader debate on European memory.

Terrorism and the pandemic

The global pandemic has offered extraordinary opportunities for extremists and terrorists to mobilize themselves and revive as more powerful actors in the security landscape. But could these threat groups actually capitalize on the coronavirus crisis and advance their malevolent agendas? This b...

Heritage movements in asia

Understanding conflicts about wildlife

Conflicts about wildlife are usually portrayed as resulting from the negative impacts of wildlife on human livelihoods or property. However, deeper analysis reveals that these conflicts are often better understood as people-people conflicts. Understanding Conflicts About Wildlife unites academi...

The armenian genocide

Illustrates how the Ottoman Empire adopted a programme geared to the destruction of an identifiable group of its own citizens Demonstrates how German diplomatic documents reveal the shared responsibilty of the Kaiserreich and its willful acquiescence during the genocide An important...

Engaging the spirit world

In many parts of the contemporary world, spirit beliefs and practices have taken on a pivotal role in addressing the discontinuities and uncertainties of modern life. The myriad ways in which devotees engage the spirit world show the tremendous creative potential of these practices and their in...

Curating live arts

Situated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation has grown in recent years to become a vibrant interdisciplinary project. Curating Live Arts brings together innovative essays from international theorist-practitioners to pose vital questions...

The hunted

A ground-level history of the Holocaust, told through the voices of twenty European Jews. Drawing from diaries and memoirs, it reveals a multiplicity of experiences across countries, classes, and religious backgrounds. Each chapter traces a single year in the protagonists’ lives, placing person...

Beyond pleasure

Asceticism, so it is argued in this volume, is a modern category. The ubiquitous cult of the body, of fitness and diet equally evokes the ongoing success of ascetic practices and beliefs. Nostalgic memories of hardship and discipline in the army, youth movements or boarding schools remain as pr...

Regimes of responsibility in africa

How have African moral worlds changed since the 1990s? Regimes of Responsibility in Africa analyses the transformations that discourses and practices of responsibility have undergone in Africa. The work enters into a dialogue with the emerging corpus of studies in the field of ethics, providing...

A world of populations

Regional diversity, emphasis on local situations The essays in this collection provide a new approach to demography: history of knowledge The text is among the few publications in the field that cover the whole 20th century

The world beyond the west

Exploring the evolution of Eastern European discourses in Asia, Africa and Latin America in nineteenth and twentieth century, this volume locates the mechanisms and strategies that diverse Eastern European social actors adopted when discussing the non-European world. The Eastern European perspe...

Patrons of women

Assuming that women’s empowerment would accelerate the pace of social change in rural Nepal, the World Bank urged the Nepali government to undertake a “Gender Activities Project” within an ongoing long-term water-engineering scheme. The author, an anthropologist specializing in bureaucratic org...

Gender, power, and non-governance

Using Sherry Ortner’s analogy of Female/Nature, Male/Culture, this volume interrogates the gendered aspects of governance by exploring the NGO/State relationship. By examining how NGOs/States perform gendered roles and actions and the gendered divisions of labor involved in different types of i...

Dynamics of emigration

In the dictatorships of the twentieth century, historians have frequently been exiled from both fascist and communist regimes. This book discusses the experience of exile and asks why some of them were successful in establishing themselves in their new host countries while others failed.

Party responses to social movements

Focusing on Italy and the Netherlands since the 1970s, Party Responses to Social Movements demonstrates how political parties have incorporated the demands of social movements to a surprising extent, even as both have grappled with fundamental and inevitable tension between their respective rol...

What is history for?

Johann Gustav Droysen’s historical theory is a central reference for everyone who attempts to understand 19th century philosophy of the human sciences. Until now, Droysen’s work remains widely understudied outside Germany. English readers who seek to get in touch with Droysen’s works cou...

Revolution and counterrevolution

Why did the most unruly proletariat of the Twentieth Century come to tolerate the ascendancy of a political and economic system that, by every conceivable measure, proved antagonistic to working-class interests? Revolution and Counterrevolution is at the center of the ongoing discussion about c...

Archeologies of confession

Can one give voice to those whom history has forgotten? The essays collected here examine the formation of religious identities during the Reformation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Germany through case studies of remembering and forgetting—instances in which patterns and practices of re...

Theatre and war 1933-1945

On an April evening in 1934, on the River Arno in Florence, an air squadron, an infantry, a cavalry brigade, fifty trucks, four field and machine gun batteries, ten field radio stations, and six photoelectric units presented a piece of theatre. The mass spectacle, 18 BL involved over two thousa...

Judgment at istanbul

Turkey’s bid to join the European Union has lent new urgency to the issue of the Armenian Genocide as differing interpretations of the genocide are proving to be a major reason for the delay of the its accession. This book provides vital background information and is a prime source of legal evi...

Remaking home

Rather than emphasising boundaries and territories by examining the ‘integration’ and ‘acculturation’ of the immigrant or the refugee, this book offers insights into the ideas and practices of individuals settling into new societies and cultures. It analyses their ideas of connecting and belong...

Having and belonging

Examines the connection between the material culture of the private and public, homes and museums. Investigates the connection between heritage and nation building. Shows that existing museum theories, based on nations living in relative peace, cannot indiscriminately be applied in I...

Ethical practice in participatory visual research with girls

Girls and young women from rural and indigenous communities around the world  face some of the most adverse social issues in the world despite the existence of protective laws and treaties. This collected volume explores the potential of participatory visual method (PVM) for girls and young wom...

Settlement, economy, and cultural change at the end of the european iron age

This volume presents preliminary results of excavation at the Late Iron Age oppidum settlement of Kelheim. The volume addresses some major questions about late prehistoric Europe from the perspective of these excavations and the analytical results. It presents investigations into ritual behavio...

Emplaced belief

An innovative interdisciplinary volume that explores the conceptual and lived relations between the academic fields of religion and heritage. A wholistic approach is taken to considering emplacement — a broad interrelation of objects, peoples, histories and places — in the analysis of relations...

Soho on screen

From storeroom to stage

It is an ample study of the ‘folk’ idiom which has not been researched in Romania in this way It draws some comparison between Romanian and British museological practices It follows a class of objects through different spheres of cultural production, some of which have been unexplore...

Being a sperm donor

First book length ethnography on (Danish) sperm donors Bringing medical anthropology/sociology in dialogue with queer-feminist analyses of gender and sexuality In depth insights into the interplay between male identity and (reproductive) biomedicine

Manufacturing tibetan medicine

Describes how the Tibetan medicine industry has become central to the debate about Tibet's future Explains how considerations of profit and capital have transformed the industry into producing commodities for the Chinese national market

God in the machine

Enlarges the scope of discussion, about creativity in science and art, about the philosophy of experience in general, but also about the way humanities can take up and take on the experimental aspect of their practice. The book demonstrates clearly how it is no longer just a matter of th...

Reluctant skeptic

Discusses Kracauer from the perspective of the history of religion in modern Germany Seeks to give more emphasis to the importance of the history of religious thought in modern German cultural and intellectual history Approaches Kracauer on the basis of some of his earlier, less know...

The power of the story

Can a novel cause riots, start a war, free serfs or slaves, break up marriages, drive readers to suicide, close factories, bring about law change, swing an election, or serve as a weapon in a national or international struggle? The author explores this question in the form of a theoretical essa...

Precious pills

Through an ethnography of the social and medical worlds of a community of Tibetan refugees in India, this book addresses two main questions: first, how has the prolonged displacement of Tibetan refugees affected concepts of health in the exile community? Second, how has exile changed traditiona...

Bringing culture to the masses

Cultural life in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) was strictly controlled by the ruling party, the SED, who attempted to dictate how people spent their free time by prohibiting privately organized leisure time pursuits and offering instead cultural activities in state institutions an...

Disputed territories

Ethnic conflicts have shaped the 20th century in significant ways. While the legacy of the last century is primarily one of many unresolved conflicts, the author contends that Western Europe has a track record in containing and settling ethnic conflicts which provides valuable lessons for confl...

Fetishes and monuments

One hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candomblé were feared as sorcery and persecuted as crime. Its cult objects were fearsome fetishes. Nowadays, they are Afro-Brazilian cultural works of art, objects of museum display and public monuments. Focusing on the particular histories of obje...

The bounded field

Regionalism is one of the most debated issues in contemporary western Europe. Yet why the region, rather than the nation state, can have such a strong appeal for the construction of social and political identity remains largely unexplored. Drawing on data collected in the mountainous Trentino r...

Lessons in perception

It draws together cognitive film theory and avant-garde film theory. It is written in an intentionally accessible way. Particular films are analysed which haven’t been explored elsewhere. It also features (I think) the most detailed analysis of Robert Breer’s aesthetic to date. T...

Walls, borders, boundaries

Written by previously published scholars with expert knowledge in the fields of German studies, history and cultural geography Demonstrates the historical, cultural and political implications of walls and boundaries Explores walls not just as physical divisions, but as social, cultur...