Seekers and things

The study is dedicated to a hitherto largely ignored and understudied subject The voice is lent to actors, who are themselves critical of Pentecostalism Describes South-South transnationalism beyond the sphere of Pentecostalism A key example of globalisation ‘from below’

Enduring uncertainty

Original research on the lived experience of policies of deportation in the UK. Offers rich ethnographic data on the experience of border control. Original case study: Foreign-national offenders instead of other more studied groups such as undocumented, asylum seekers, etc. Inclu...

Barter and social regeneration in the argentinean andes

It provides a fine grained ethnography of barter interactions and regimes of value. It explores the social performativity of barter, stressing the role of instrumental transactions in the fabric of society. It demonstrates the usefulness of the concept of barter to anthropological th...

Modern babylon?

Child prostitution became one of the key concerns of the international community in the 1990s. World congresses were held, international and national laws were changed and concern over "cemmercially sexually exploited children" rose dramatically. Rarely, however, were the children who worked as...

Lessons of history

Focusing on how cataclysmic events within primarily Central and Eastern Europe have been transmitted across borders and generations, this volume interrogates how the theory of historical lessons has evolved, ultimately providing a useful framework for comprehending contemporary conflicts and is...

The enemy on display

Describes how Eastern European museums represent traumatic events of World War II in ways that depict the enemy in particular ways based on the interweaving of historical representations and cultural stereotypes and beliefs. Presents a useful methodology for examining museum images. ...

Fairies, ghosts, and santa claus

Investigating the politics of seeing and its effects, this book draws on Slavoj Žižek’s notion of fetish and Walter Benjamin’s notion of the optical unconscious to offer new concepts: “tinted glasses”, through which we see the world; “unit-thinking”, which renders the world as consisting of dis...

Imperial projections

The first in-depth analysis of colonial filmmaking in the Wilhelmine era. Describes how the beginning of film-making in the German Colonies addressed the demand for a new and positive image for Germany.

The engaged historian

Investigates relationship between historical scholarship and political engagement Wide global coverage Raises questions about professionalism and normativity in historical work Strong theoretical framework

Border interrogations

Under the current cartographies of globalism, where frontiers mutate, vacillate, and mark the contiguity of discourse, questioning the Spanish border seems a particularly urgent task. The volume engages a wide spectrum of ambivalent regions—subjects that currently are, or have been seen in the ...

Identities and place

With a focus on historic sites, this volume explores the recent history of non- heteronormative Americans from the early twentieth century onward and the places associated with these communities. Authors explore how queer identities are connected with specific places: places where people gather...

Invested narratives

Narratives of how nations survive, restructure or even fail during economic crisis not only inform future responses to crisis but also strengthen national theoretical, empirical, and analytical financial discourse. Invested Narratives brings together an interdisciplinary set of scholars to addr...

Invisible founders

Literal and metaphorical excavations at Sweet Briar College reveal how African American labor enabled the transformation of Sweet Briar Plantation into a private women’s college in 1906. Despite being built and maintained by African American families, the college did not integrate its student b...

Chicanery

Academic appointments can bring forth unexpected and unforeseen contests and tensions, cause humiliation and embarrassment for unsuccessful applicants and reveal unexpected allies and enemies. Chicanery deals with how the founding Chairs at Sydney, the Australian National University, Auckland a...

Centralizing fieldwork

Fieldwork is a central method of research throughout anthropology, a much-valued, much-vaunted mode of generating information. But its nature and process have been seriously understudied in biological anthropology and primatology. This book is the first ever comparative investigation, across pr...

Ultimate ambiguities

A volume on death, specifically addressing liminality. Inter-disciplinary in focus. Presents a range of case studies outlining emotional, artistic, cognitive, social and political implications.

Xenocracy

History of British colonialism in the Mediterranean New sources for the study of Greek history and history of colonialism Comparative perspective with other colonies A history of the Ionian State that is absent from historiography

Up, down, and sideways

It is the definitive work summarizing and applying Laura Nader’s anthropological theories. It provides contemporary anthropological examples of "studying up, down, and sideways". It demonstrates how anthropology can be used to address urgent 21st century challenges. It addresses ...

The lives of chinese objects

This is the biography of a set of rare Buddhist statues from China. Their extraordinary adventures take them from the Buddhist temples of fifteenth-century Putuo – China’s most important pilgrimage island – to their seizure by a British soldier in the First Opium War in the early 1840s, and on ...

Making ubumwe

Approaches post-genocide governance, citizenship and nation building through a unique lens – the local uses of the concept of ubumwe or unity. Outlines the productive ambiguity at the root of this concept by tracing its deployments in diverse arenas from rhetoric, office work, street tal...

Protest beyond borders

Analyses social movements in the past and in the present Features social movements in both the East and West (Global Europe) Examines social movements as relations between the local, national and global Conducts a transnational social movement analysis across disciplines

Stone tools and mobility in the illinois valley

A detailed comparative analysis of standardized lithic data from 10 Illinois Valley components spanning 7500 years from the Early Archaic through the Mississippian is presented in this volume. The results provide significant information on prehistoric mobility and technological organization in ...

Peripheries at the centre

Peripheries at the Centre reveals how Prussia, and later the German Empire, used educational policy to promote national identity along its geographical margins. It shows how policymakers sought to cultivate ideal German students who, it was hoped, would help to usher in a new, peaceful era in E...

The devil's wheels

Motorization: Focuses on the motorcycle not the car as the most important cultural commodity of early motorization in Germany. Gender and Consumption: Focuses on masculinity not only femininity in exploring how motorization as a practice of consumption shaped gender. Extends and amen...

Bodies in pain

This study of Darren Aronofsky's films goes deeper than the auteur direction, but rather focuses on the spectator and the senses employed in a viewing of his work. The study is deeply concerned with his audio-visual style and the subsequent emotions provoked in the audience. Explores...

Organic cinema

Presents conceptual parallels between modern cinema and modern architecture. Approaches director Béla Tarr through the particularities of Hungarian culture. Develops the theoretical discourse on Slow Cinema or “Contemplative Cinema” emergent in contemporary philosophy of film.

Playing politics with history

At home on the waves

This collection explores the variety of ways in which people have long made themselves at home at sea, bringing together both ethnographic and archaeological research – much of it with an explicit Ingoldian approach – on a wide range of geographical areas and historical periods.

Social bonds as freedom

Articulates how social bonds uniting groups underpin concepts of freedom instead of creating obstacles, to achieve the universal. Describes ways to conceive liberal democracy in the light of globalization.

The train journey

Deportations by train were critical in the Nazis’ genocidal vision of the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question.” Historians have estimated that between 1941 and 1944 up to three million Jews were transported to their deaths in concentration and extermination camps. In his writings on the “Fin...

Transnational families, migration and gender

By linking the experiences of immigrant families with the increased reliance on cheap and flexible workers for care and domestic work in Southern Europe, this study documents the lived experiences of neglected actors of globalization — migrant women — as well as the transformations of Western f...

Children and youth on the front line

War leads not just to widespread death but also to extensive displacement, overwhelming fear, and economic devastation. It weakens social ties, threatens household survival and undermines the family's capacity to care for its most vulnerable members. Every year it kills and maims countless numb...

Women in israel

This book is a comprehensive feminist examination of women's diverse experience in Israeli society over four decades and analyzes society during this time. As an ethnography, the book emphasizes a commitment to social justice and equality, and challenges prevailing social and gender research ap...

The reluctant revolutionary

Combines a historical and theological analysis of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s life and work Utilises a large amount of secondary literature Coincides with the ongoing publication of Bonhoeffer’s complete works in English

Mad mädchen

The last two decades have been frequently discordant for German feminism, as a new cohort of activists has come of age and challenged many of the movement’s strategic and philosophical orthodoxies. This book offers an incisive cultural analysis of these trans-generational debates, identifying c...

Modern crises and traditional strategies

The 1990s have seen a growing interest in the role of local ecological knowledge in the context of sustainable development, and particularly in providing a set of responses to which populations may resort in times of political, economic and environmental instability. The period 1996-2003 in isl...

The heritage arena

Demonstrates how a production and communication strategiy has been devised to establish an Italian cheese s as a resource for local development. Explores how the reinvention of cheese as a form of heritage is an ongoing and dynamic process rife with conflict and drama.

Problems of conception

The Biotechnology Act in Norway, one of the most restrictive in Europe, forbids egg donation and surrogacy and has rescinded the anonymity clause with respect to donor insemination. Thus, it limits people’s choice as to how they can procreate within the boundaries of the nation state. The autho...

General de gaulle's cold war

The most comprehensive account written in English of General de Gaulle’s foreign policy. Based on extensive multi-national archival research. Explores the connections and linkages between different policy spheres, such as international economics, security, European Integration and the Cold ...

The anthroposcene of weather and climate

While it is widely acknowledged that climate change is among the greatest global challenges of our times, it has local implications too.  This volume forefronts these, giving anthropology a voice in this great debate, which natural scientists and policy makers have dominated thus far.

Gray zones

Few essays about the Holocaust are better known or more important than Primo Levi’s reflections on what he called “the gray zone,” a reality in which moral ambiguity and compromise were pronounced. In this volume accomplished Holocaust scholars, among them Raul Hilberg, Gerhard L. Weinberg, Chr...

Ӧmie sex affiliation

The practice of affiliating the female child with the mother and the male child with the father was considered a rare and inexplicable practice in Papua New Guinean ethnography at the time the original data was collected some forty years ago. Marta Rohatynskyj undertakes a shift in her analytic...

Critical public archaeology

Critical approaches to public archaeology have been in use since the 1980s, however only recently have archaeologists begun using critical theory in conjunction with public archaeology to challenge dominant narratives of the past. This volume brings together current work on the theory and pract...

Variations on uzbek identity

Combines a historical analysis with ethnographic field research Analyzes decision making processes by Uzbeks Examines ethnic groups in varying regions of contemporary Uzbekistan