Reparative citizenship for sephardi descendants

In 2015, both Portugal and Spain passed laws enabling descendants of Sephardi Jews to obtain citizenship, an historic offer of reconciliation. Drawing from scholarly and first-person essays, Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants analyzes the memory and afterlives of those who were wro...

Judging 'privileged' jews

The first study to focus directly on the issue of how ‘privileged’ Jews are judged and represented. Offers a multi-disciplinary examination of Holocaust representation across different media/genres. Explores seminal Holocaust texts (the writings of Primo Levi and Raul Hilberg, along ...

Challenging modernity

When Dada burst onto the European stage in 1916, it shocked and scandalized the public of its day with art forms, ideas, and attitudes which were so revolutionary that it is only in recent decades that they have begun to find recognition within the broad cultural movement known as postmodernism...

Conservation’s roots

Planning for the planet

In the 1960s and 1970s, rapidly growing environmental awareness and concern not only led to widespread calls for new policies, but also created unprecedented demand for ecological expertise by the likes of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. This book explores how conservati...

Journeys through fascism

During the twenty years of Mussolini’s rule a huge number of travel texts were written of journeys made during the interwar period to the sacred sites of Fascist Italy, Mussolini’s newly conquered African empire, Spain during the Civil War, Nazi Germany, Communist Russia and the America of the ...

Constructing industrial pasts

The contributions in this volume demonstrate that even as forms of industrial heritage provide anchors of identity for local populations, their meanings remain deeply contested, as both radical and conservative varieties of nostalgia intermingle with critical approaches as well as straightforwa...

The challenges of globalization

Describes the interpenetration of the German economy with an emerging global economy before the First World War. Demonstrates the huge challenge posed by globalization to the society and politics of the German empire. Articulates how and why the German government found it increasingl...

From village commons to public goods

Illuminating the complex processes of China’s uneven urbanization through the lens of the transition from village commons to public goods, this book is set in three urbanized villages in Shenzhen, Chengdu, and Xi’an, which have experienced similar demographic explosions and dramatic changes to ...

Tailoring truth

The author provides an innovative, multi-faceted study on the nature of memory and collective consciousness. Offers a historical account of Germany, in addition to an understanding of the contemporary state. Details the efforts of the GDR in constructing a collective memory through i...

Crossing the aegean

Following the defeat of the Greek Army in 1922 by nationalist Turkish forces, the 1923 Lausanne Convention specified the first internationally ratified compulsory population exchange. It proved to be a watershed in the eastern Mediterranean, having far-reaching ramifications both for the new Tu...

Rethinking social movements after '68

With a focus on West Germany and Europe, Social Movements after ’68 bridges the 1970s and 1980s as a vital period of European political development and social change. Looking past the known ruptures and changes in the history of European social movements, this volume brings together interconnec...

Enlightening encounters

Drawing on his research in five Latin American countries, Steve Gudeman describes his anthropological fieldwork, bringing to life the excitement of gaining an understanding of the practices and ideas of others as well as the frustrations. He weaves into the text some of his findings as well as ...

Recasting west german elites

The rapid shift of German elite groups' political loyalties away from Nazism and toward support of the fledgling democracy of the Federal Republic, in spite of the continuity of personnel and professional structures, has surprised many scholars of postwar Germany. The key, Hayse argues, lies in...

Going first class?

People travel as never before. However, anthropological research has tended to focus primarily on either labor migration or on tourism. In contrast, this collection of essays explores a diversity of circumstances and impetuses towards contemporary mobility. It ranges from expatriates to peripat...

Weary warriors

A history of military psychiatry from the American Civil War to the latest Afghanistan conflict. Explores the psychological and emotional trauma soldiers suffer and develops an extensive account of the emergence, diagnosis, and treatment of soldiers’ “invisible wounds”. Takes into ac...

Anti-americanism in latin america and the caribbean

Whether rising up from fiery leaders such as Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Cuba’s Fidel Castro or from angry masses of Brazilian workers and Mexican peasants, anti U.S. sentiment in Latin America and the Caribbean today is arguably stronger than ever. It is also a threat to U.S. leadership in the...

Tourism and informal encounters in cuba

Explores touristic encounters and relationships from the perspectives both of locals and of tourists. Examines and compares a range of relationships, from tourism harassment to market exchange, hospitality, friendship, festive and sexual relationships. Reopens, in a new light, the ke...

Helsinki 1975 and the transformation of europe

It was in Europe that the Cold War reached a decisive turning point in the 1960s, leading to the era of détente. The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), with its Final Act in Helsinki in August 1975, led to a rapprochement between East and West in the fields of security, ec...

The politics of appointment

Offers new insights into the general history of Habsburg Central Europe during a time of great political, economic, and social change Analyses the relation between state administration and national political parties on various levels Demonstrates, based on archival research, the syst...

Love, loyalty and deceit

How much do we really know about our parents’ lives? What secrets lie in plain sight? This is the true story of hidden love within a small circle of some of the most acclaimed anthropologists of the 20th century.

Nothing new in europe?

Anti-Semitism’s recent rise in Europe and Germany has manifested in verbal hostility and attacks. Through fifteen interviews with Jewish Israelis and contextual essays, Nothing New in Europe? provides an opportunity to reflect on current anti-Semitic discourse under a more educated and objectiv...

The amazonian puzzle

By examining the multiple cultural and ethnic threads that traverse this landscape, The Amazonian Puzzle sets out to show how the category of caboclo (a powerful spiritual entity to some, and to others a despised peasant of mixed ancestry) reveals deep currents of ethnic recompositions, religio...

Making a difference?

A collection of detailed and informative essays and case studies. Explores the emerging and important field of social assessment practices, including displacement and resettlement, in China. Utilises real-life experiences from the various contributors to highlight development policie...

Remembering karelia

In June 1944, after two wars with the Soviet Union, the Finnish region of Karelia was ceded to the Soviet Union. As a result, the Finnish population of Karelia, nearly 11% of the Finnish population, was moved across the new border. The war years, the loss of territory, the resettlement of the K...

Remembering and forgetting nazism

The Myth of Austrian victimization at the hands of both Nazi Germany and the Allies became the unifying theme of Austrian official memory and a key component of national identity as a new Austria emerged from the ruins. In the 1980s, Austria's myth of victimization came under intense scrutiny i...

On the path to genocide

First book to focus predominantly on the issue of the timing of genocide. Presents a full history of the long-term and intervening factors that led to the Armenian and Rwandan genocides. Explores pre-genocidal massacres in Ottoman Armenia and Rwanda. Explores constraints that inh...

Alsace to the alsatians?

Demonstrates the importance of overlapping forms of community in the creation of identity. Argues that the character of Alsatian regionalism points to the ambiguous role of regional identity in both fostering and inhibiting loyalty to the nation. Author uses the case of Alsace to exp...

Heart of lightness

"Edith and Victor Turner were among the most influential researchers and teachers and social and cultural anthropology in the twentieth century. Together they, and Edie alone after Vic's death, raised the idea of participant observation (and indeed of team learning) to heights and depth most an...

Transitions and transformations

illustrates how population ageing has become embedded within individual, social and cultural life courses introduces a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches to studying life course transitions in conjunction with broader sociocultural transformations explores the overl...

Poverty in transition and transition in poverty

Poverty is an issue facing countries around the globe, yet it is a multi-dimensional phenomenon caused by a variety of factors, differing from context with no linear chain of cause and effect. The occurrence and persistence of poverty is influenced by an interrelated web of economic, social, ps...

In search of worldviews

Provides information on a part of the world –the Middle East--that is important today and is not well-understood. Available information is misleading at best. The book’s chapters answer important questions through-field based anthropological  methods. The case study format and cl...

An understanding of judaism

This is the first of two volumes of edited sermons spanning the greater part of the second half of the twentieth century, and the first major collection of sermons from a Liberal Jewish point ofview produced in Britain since Claude G. Montefiore's Truth in Religion of 1906. It combines forthrig...

Political friendship

Political Friendship demonstrates the central role of the German liberal elite’s interpersonal relationships in the uncertain path to unification and 19th century Germany political culture.

Voices of long-term care workers

Based on extensive narrative interviews, this collection of essays reflects on the participants’ individual experiences and represents the voices of staff and caregivers working in long-term residential care communities, in-home and community-based programs, as well as regional aging service pr...

Wolf conflicts

To our knowledge, this is the first comprehensive analysis of conflicts over large carnivores that see these controversies primarily as social conflicts embedded in deeper tensions in contemporary societies, and not so much as conflicts between animals and people. The book points out that wo...

Modern lusts

Detlef Siegfried’s long-awaited English translation chronicles Ernest Borneman’s journey from his days as a young Jewish Communist in Berlin to his ventures in England and Canada, and ultimately, to his endeavors as the most prominent sexologist spearheading the sexual revolution in West German...

Achieving procreation

This book explores infertility and assisted reproductive technologies within a secular Muslim population in northwestern Turkey. Based on ethnographic research gathered from two IVF clinics and in two villages. Investigates the experience of infertility through various perspectives, ...

Polarized pasts

When questions of belonging enter the forefront of political debates, so too does heritage. From different ends at the political spectrum, people invoke the past to validate their stance on immigration, equality and security. Together, the texts pave the way for a better understanding of the ro...

Border aesthetics

A pioneering collection on the aesthetics of borders. Organized around six key ideas—ecology, imaginary, in/visibility, palimpsest, sovereignty and waiting. A theoretical starting point for an aesthetic understanding of borders, developed in detail through interdisciplinary analyses ...

Christianity, colonialism and indigenous history in french polynesia

The first English monograph on Christianity in the French Pacific. Offers a new perspective on religious syncretism by demonstrating its temporal aspect. Illustrates the contemporary Indigenous take on colonialism and social change in French Polynesia.

Cultures of abortion in weimar germany

Abortion in the Weimar Republic is a compelling subject since it provoked public debates and campaigns of an intensity rarely matched elsewhere. It proved so explosive because populationist, ecclesiastical and political concerns were heightened by cultural anxieties of a modernity in crisis. Ba...

Educational histories of european social anthropology

Aimed at professional anthropologists, their students and academic policy-makers, the contributions to this volume provide an unprecedented array of insights into the current teaching and learning of social anthropology across Europe. With case-studies from eighteen different countries this vol...

Critical junctions

The “cultural turn” has been a multifarious and pervasive phenomenon in Western universities and modes of social knowledge since the early 1980s. This volume focuses on the conjunction of two disciplines where both the analytic promises as well as the difficulties involved in the meeting of h...