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Footprints in paradise
In Okinawa, ecotourism promises to provide employment for a dwindling population of rural youth while preserving the natural environment and bolstering regional pride. Footprints in Paradise explores how sense of place in Okinawa is transformed as language, landscapes, and wildlife are reconsti...
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Dismantling the dream factory
The history of postwar German cinema has most often been told as a story of failure, a failure paradoxically epitomized by the remarkable popularity of film throughout the late 1940s and 1950s. Through the analysis of 10 representative films, Hester Baer reassesses this period, looking in parti...
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Ethnographers before malinowski
At a time when anthropologists claim new ethnographic experiences, a second chance should be given to older ethnographic texts. Recovering monographs produced c.1870-1922 that dispute canonic models of writing culture, the present volume challenges the assumption that fieldwork carried out with...
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Theatres of violence
Covers the history of massacre and mass violence, which are under-researched areas Offers a wide range of case studies of massacre and mass killing from the ancient to the modern world The first book to build on Mark Levene and Penny Roberts' ground breaking 1999 study of massacre i...
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Understanding impoverishment
Infrastructure development projects are set to continue into the next century as developing country governments seek to manage population growth, urbanization and industrialization. The contributions in this volume raise many questions about 'development' and 'progress' in the late twentieth ce...
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Germany and america
Leading experts on German-American relations, German politics and German Studies from both sides of the Atlantic are contributing to this volume in honor of Gerry Kleinfeld, founder and executive director of the German Studies Association, founder and long-time editor of the German Studies Revi...
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Voyage through the twentieth century
The book is an interesting account of being a historian in Germany in the decades after 1945 The author searches for cohesiveness among the movements of the twenties and thirties The text is unique in its examination of the generation that came of age between the two world wars
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Engendering forced migration
At the turn of the new millenium, war, political oppression, desperate poverty, environmental degradation and disasters, and economic underdevelopment are sharply increasing the ranks of the world's twenty million forced migrants. In this volume, eighteen scholars provide a wide-ranging, interd...
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Race, ethnicity, and nation
Race, ethnicity and nation are all intimately linked to family and kinship, yet these links deserve closer attention than they usually get in social science, above all when family and kinship are changing rapidly in the context of genomic and biotechnological revolutions. Drawing on data from a...
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Un-settling middle eastern refugees
Since the Iraq war, the Middle East has been in continuous upheaval, resulting in the displacement of millions of people. Arriving from Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, and Syria in other parts of the world, the refugees show remarkable resilience and creativity amidst profound adversity. Through ...
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An enchantment of digital archaeology
The use of computation in archaeology is a kind of magic, a way of heightening the archaeological imagination. Agent-based modelling allows archaeologists to test the ‘just-so’ stories they tell about the past. These models are one end of a spectrum that ends with video games. This volume explo...
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Where humans and spirits meet
Zanzibar, an island off the East African coast, with its Muslim and Swahili population, offers rich material for this study of identity, religion, and multiculturalism. This book focuses on the phenomenon of spirit possession in Zanzibar Town and the relationships created between humans and spi...
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Domesticating youth
Introduces the discussion about youth bulge into social anthropology Offers a social anthropological approach to demographic and political dynamics Suggests a new way of thinking about social change in youth bulge societies
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Who owns the stock?
The issue of collective and multiple property rights in animals, such as cattle, camels or reindeers, among pastoralists has never been a subject of special cross-cultural and comparative study. Focusing on pastoralist societies in East and West Africa, the Far North and Siberia, and the Eurasi...
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The second berlusconi government
In 2002, the second Berlusconi government, given its parliamentary strength, should have been able to implement its ambitious reform program. This 18th edition of Italian Politics examines the events of that year in light of the opportunities and the domestic and international constraints faced...
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Friendship, descent and alliance in africa
Examines the way friendship is conceptualised and realised in Sub-Saharan Africa. Considers the relationship between friendship, descent and alliance, a previously understudied area. Western societies would also benefit from research that explores more systematically friendship in co...
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Set to see us fail
Examining the interaction between families and professionals in the child welfare system of New York, this book focuses on how inequalities are reproduced, measured, managed, and contested. The book describes how state institutions and neoliberal governance intersect police the groups which are...
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The history of labour intermediation
Investigates job search and placement practices in European countries, Australia, and India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Explores how looking for work becomes a means by which participants articulated specific interests, perspectives, and agendas. The chapters illustrat...
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Cash transfers in context
Students and scholars in Anthropology, Development studies, social policies, Latina American and African studies. Development practitioners, policy makers, humanitarian workers, international organizations and NGOs personnel. And, of course, cash transfer programs agents and staff…
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Healing roots
Detailed study, compiled by an accomplished anthropological scholar, of one of the oldest indigenous medicines in South Africa. Laplante situates African and Western knowledge systems against one another. The author follows the journey of the plant on its transition to the controlled...
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Silenced communities
Silenced Communities offers an ethnographic account of the failed demilitarization of the rural militia in the town of Santo Tomás Chichicastenango following the Guatemalan Civil War. Author Marcia Esparza explores how legacies of grassroots militarization affect indigenous communities exploite...
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Indigenous peoples and demography
Interdisciplinary examination of the historical and contemporary construct of indigenous people An international examination of indigenous people Relies on historical and demographical evidence to show how indigenous populations vary between countries
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Picturing pity
Picturing Pity is the first full length monograph on missionary photography. Empirically, it is based on an in-depth analysis of the published photographs taken by Norwegian evangelical missionaries in Northern Cameroon from the early nineteen twenties, at the beginning of their activities in t...
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Encounters with modernity
First book-length study that charts the Catholic Church in West Germany and its pastoral practice during the first three decades of the post-war period. Major reconsideration and historical reflection of the case in favour of secularization theory. New approach to 20th century German...
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Whose memory? which future?
A unique approach to the history of ethnic cleansing with focus not on victims or policies but on the present-day remembrance of the people that took the place of the expelled and murdered. In-depth studies of a number cities that experienced ethnic cleansing and expulsions. Comparis...
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Identity matters
In response to the attacks of September 11, 2001 and war in Afghanistan, the Fulbright New Century Scholars program brought together social scientists from around the world to study sectarian, ethnic, and cultural conflict within and across national borders. As one result of their year of inten...
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Race in france
Scholars across disciplines on both sides of the Atlantic have recently begun to open up, as never before, the scholarly study of race and racism in France. These original essays bring together in one volume new work in history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and legal studies. Eac...
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Routes into the abyss
Offers a global comparative perspective and gives insight into the contemporary global recession Compares the answers to the economic crisis of Germany, Italy, Austria, and Spain with an opposite European perspective—the Swedish example—but also to other global perspectives and their pol...
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Exploring gypsiness
Romania has a larger Gypsy population than most other countries but little is known about the relationship between this group and the non-Gypsy Romanians around them. This book focuses on a group of Rom Gypsies living in a village in Transylvania and explores their social life and cosmology. Be...
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Factions, friends and feasts
Explores social influence of the Mediterranean climate and the legacy of ethnic and religious conflict over the last 50 years Via case studies, illiustrates complexity of daily life in the region through analysis of the effects of family loyalty, emigration, and the social consequences o...
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Through the water and the storm
Drawing on quantitative, socio-economic and legal methodologies, this book examines the features of Mediterranean seaborne trade through the maritime Average procedures drafted or sent to Genoa, a small but wealthy Italian maritime republic, between 1590 and 1700.
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Household archaeology on the northwest coast
Since the late 1970s, household archaeology has become a key theoretical and methodological framework for research on the development of permanent social inequality and complexity, as well as for understanding the social, political and economic organization of chiefdoms and states. This volume ...
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Heirs of the bamboo
Heirs of the Bamboo is about the Macanese who left Macao and now live in Portugal and looks at their interactions with their counterparts in Macao and elsewhere in the diaspora, using the Internet.
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France in the age of organization
Offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between science, culture and politics in interwar France A detailed yet accessible study of France between World Wars 1 and 2 The author offers a reinterpretation of a wide array of published and unpublished sources
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Where saints show respect
This book draws on three decades of ethnographic research to explore the penetration of mafia values in Sicilian society. By exploring rituals through which local society learns deep respect for those values, this study aims to offer a critical perspective on Sicilian modernity.
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On the death of jews
In this trenchant meditation on photographs from an atrocity in Latvia during the Holocaust, Nadine Fresco argues for the vital importance of photographs—and nontraditional sources more broadly—for understanding the Holocaust. She confronts charged questions around guilt and testimony while tea...
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Rationed life
Effectively combines various methodological approaches from cultural history, anthropology and labor studies. Engages the literature on the Bohemian Lands as well as broader, thematic literatures on labor, gender relations, late 19th century scientism, Habsburg rule, and the experiences ...
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Food health
Provides in-depth analysis and comprehensive review of methods necessary to design, plan, implement and analyze public health programming using anthropological best practices. Each chapter elaborates a case study from the author's own work, showing why particular methods were adopted in ...
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Playing the hand we are dealt
The relationship between literature and life can be construed as a counterpoint of fate and freewill. Rather than equating fate to the ‘hand we are dealt’ which is reducible to the social or familial environments into which we are born, this book explores the idea of fate through the books that...
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The ethos of history
This illuminating collective meditation on historical practice show how “ethos”— evoking a society’s “fundamental character” as well as knowledge and commitment—can serve as a conceptual lodestar for understanding as a narrative, a form of consciousness, and an ethical-political orientation.
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More than a music box
Since the rise of television, much radio consists of 'capsule' news and music formats which are heard as background to other activities. However the medium offers a great deal more. This collection of essays shows how in North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and the South Pacific...
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Myth and modernity
In interpreting its own age art often turns to the past. At the beginning of the twentieth century one of these encounters between present and past was prompted by the interest a major figure in German modernism, the sculptor Ernst Barlach, came to take in the medieval epic The Song of the Nibe...
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Practices of care in an italian eating disorder clinic
The first book-length qualitative study of eating disorder treatment in a European country with a national healthcare system. The first book-length ethnography that brings together the voices of patients, healthcare professionals and families during and after treatment. The first eth...
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Bruno kreisky’s foreign policy
An enlightening and geographically wide-ranging reappraisal of the life and legacy of the Austrian politician, Bruno Kreisky, this volume seeks to reinstate Kreisky’s centrality to Cold War history and Austria’s postwar recovery, highlighting how profoundly he reshaped the modern, geopolitical ...
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