Terror from the sky

In this first interdisciplinary study of this contentious subject, leading experts in politics, history, and philosophy examine the complex aspects of the terror bombing of German cities during World War II. The contributors address the decision to embark on the bombing campaign, the moral issu...

Post-cosmopolitan cities

Examining the way people imagine and interact in their cities, this book explores the post-cosmopolitan city. The contributors consider the effects of migration, national, and religious revivals (with their new aesthetic sensibilities), the dispositions of marginalized economic actors, and glob...

France, germany, and nuclear deterrence

France, Germany, and the Nuclear Deterrence employs a multi-archival approach to the legacy of World War II and the bipolar division of Europe. The volume longitudinally covers the post-war, Cold War and post-Cold War eras and leads into the present day to focus on the history of Franco-German ...

The legacy of serbia's great war

In an expertly researched, original case study on the memory of the traumatic retreat of the Serbian army in 1915, The Legacy of Serbia’s Great War cuts past contemporary canonization of the retreat and links narratives of the past to political choices in the present.

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...

Mattering the invisible

Exploring how technological apparatuses “capture” invisible worlds, this book looks at how spirits, UFOs, discarnate entities, spectral energies, atmospheric forces and particles are mattered into existence by human minds. The book uses contemporary case studies where the realm of the invisible...

Post-war women's writing in german

Women in the Federal Republic, the former GDR, Switzerland and Austria have initiated a remarkable literary movement, especially after 1968, which is also attracting growing attention elsewhere. Informed by critical feminist and literary theory, this broad-ranging collection, the first of its k...

Neoliberalizing diversity in liberal arts college life

Far from being synonymous with race or other forms of social difference, diversity is a construct frequently contrasting with the reality of students’ lives. Neoliberalizing Diversity in Liberal Arts College Life focuses on how neoliberal diversity operates at one liberal arts college, explorin...

Capitalism and catastrophe

This book argues that disasters are intimately linked to historical processes that foster contemporary unequal relationships, and should therefore include both those commonly associated with nature as well as those we consider facets of history and social conflict, such as war and destitution.

Aspirations of young adults in urban asia

Comparing first-person ethnographic accounts of young people living, working, and creating relationships in cities across Asia, this volume explores their contemporary lives, pressures, ideals, and aspirations.

Max gluckman

A short biography of one of the most significant social anthropologists of the 20th century Max Gluckman was the founder of the Manchester School of Anthropology, which still retains an international influence with its emphasis on case studies and use of Marxist analysis Book is part...

Turkish german cinema in the new millennium

First book on Turkish German cinema An anthology featuring the main scholars working on the subject New methodologies to discuss the culture of migration Multiple approaches to minority cultural production in the contemporary European context

Mediated lives

Using the example of  Iraqi refugees in Jordan's capital of Amman, this book describes how information and communication technologies (ICTs) play out in the everyday experiences of urban refugees, geographically located in the Global South, and shows how interactions between online and offline ...

The ethics of seeing

The Ethics of Seeing brings together an international group of scholars to explore the complex relationship between the visual and the historic in German history. These revealing case studies illustrate photography’s multilayered role as a new form of representation, a means to subjective exper...

Digital flâneurs

Youth and digital media practices: The question of how (digital) media affect young people in particular is part of a longstanding and widespread discourse. Popular media accounts usually take an alarmist stance, while rarely involving young people and exploring their perspectives and agency...

Atlantic perspectives

Focusing on mobility, religion, and belonging, the volume contributes to transatlantic anthropology and history by bringing together religion, cultural heritage and placemaking in the Atlantic world. The entanglements of religion, cultural heritage and belonging are ethnographically scrutinized...

Dreaming and the imagination

Of all the human behaviors anthropologists consider, perhaps the most conceptually challenging are those that cannot by directly observed. This volume draws from rich ethnographic data to offer theoretical and methodological tools for mapping the intersections between two such behaviors: dreami...

From virtue to vice

Demonstrates how "The Recovered" possess the key to overcoming anorexia. Describes how activity disorders start as virtuous practices, but become addictive obsessions. Portrays developmental disorders, where those eager for challenge and change, get a distorted life instead.

Crime, jews and news

Crimes committed by Jews, especially ritual murders, have long been favorite targets in the antisemitic press. This book investigates popular and scientific conceptualizations of criminals current in Austria and Germany at the turn of the last century and compares these to those in the contempo...

Urban biopolitics

Urban biopolitics is a relatively new field of research that builds around a variety of what the Italian political philosopher Giorgio Agamben would have called “forms of life” in the city. The idea of urban biopolitics is heavily affected by neoliberal and post-political policies targeting ...

To see a moose

Guiding the reader through the development of sex education in Poland, Agnieszka Kościańska looks at how it has changed from the 19th century to the present day. The book also identifies the women and men who changed the way sex was written about in the country, and how they established the fie...

Fascist interactions

Differentiates and explores various modes of interaction—between fascists and conservatives in particular countries, between diverse fascist or quasi-fascist formations on the supranational level, between fascists and the liberal democracies, and between fascists and communists. Shows ho...

In the meantime

The “meantime” represents the gap between what is past and the unknown future. When considered as waiting, the meantime is defined as a period of suspension to be endured. By contrast, the contributors of this volume understand it as a space of “the possible” where calculation coexists with unc...

One more for the road

One More for the Road recounts the life and career of Croatian filmmaker Rajko Grlić in the form of a film dictionary, tying cinematic terms to anecdotes spanning Grlić’s life. With a scholarly introduction by Aida Vidan, these personal stories combine to provide insight into the socialist film...

Multiple moralities and religions in post-soviet russia

By considering the centrality of religion in postsocialist Russian everyday life, and the various ways in which diverse religious traditions have engaged in explicit moral projects, this volume explores the as of yet understudied social phenomenon of the importance of religion in a former at...

Weather signs

The first book in the English language to deal with this research topic. Offers a rich bibliography useful for further research developments in the study of the human-climate relationship in rural Japan. Contributes to the anthropological reflection on human and non-human agency by f...

Contrarian anthropology

Allow people to think about censorship, self and other Being an “ist” (e.g. feminist, Marxist etc.) gets in the way of creativity How not to be a silo (e.g. specialized) anthropology –e.g. from law to energy renewal What we can learn from chronologies re: intellectual autobiog...

Germans against nazism

This re-issued volume examines opposition to National Socialism by Germans during the Third Reich in its broadest sense. It considers individual and organized nonconformity, opposition, and resistance. It looks at how disparate groups such as the Jewish community, churches, conservat...

Shakespeare's counternarrative against death

A new view of Shakespeare’s plays in their totality Attention to the beauty and power of Shakespeare’s assertion of the power of life An explicit spanning of the traditional dramatic genres and poetry

An earth-colored sea

Although the post-colonial situation has attracted considerable interest over recent years, one important colonial power – Portugal – has not been given any attention. This book is the first to explore notions of ethnicity, "race", culture, and nation in the context of the debate on colonialism...

Nourishing the nation

I thoroughly explore the connection between national identity (especially everyday nationalism) and food from an ethnographic perspective, a new approach in social sciences This is an in-depth ethnography into the contemporary situation in Catalonia, which gives greater, in-depth insight...

The changing faces of citizenship

In the mind's eye

This volume brings together the disciplines of palaeontology, psychology, anatomy, and primatology. Together, they address a number of issues, including the evolution of sex differences in spatial cognition, the role of archaeology in the cognitive sciences, the relationships between brain size...

Visions of humanity

Visions of Humanity focuses on the promises and problems, the successes and the failures of “humanity” as an idea since the 19th century. Through an international set of contributions, the volume examines the hopes and ambiguities involved in constructing, invoking, and instrumentalizing the “w...

Fixing motorcycles in post-repair societies

Taking motorcycling in Romania as an ethnographic entry point, this book documents how bikers handle the inevitable moment of malfunction and breakdown. Using both mobile and sedentary research methods, the book describes the joys and troubles experienced by amateur mechanics, professional mech...

Bestsellers of the third reich

Christian Adam examines how books came into being under the Nazis, how they became bestsellers—sometimes against the will of the rulers—and which books were actually read. He writes the history of the bestsellers in the darkest epoch of the German past, thus opening a new perspective on the men...

The archaeology of tribal societies

Anthropological archaeologists have long attempted to develop models that will let them better understand the evolution of human social organization. This volume explores social organization in tribal - or 'autonomous village' - societies from several different ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and ...

Fifty years of peasant wars in latin america

Informed by Eric Wolf’s Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, published in 1969, this book examines selected peasant struggles in seven Latin American countries during the last fifty years and suggests the continuing relevance of Wolf’s approach.

Reconceiving muslim men

Through anthropological accounts of Muslim men’s everyday lives in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and diasporic settings, Reconceiving Muslim Men explores the creative ways in which Muslim men care for and nurture their families and communities. By focusing on reproduction, love, and care, this...

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...

Music and postwar transitions in the 19th and 20th centuries

Music and Postwar Transitions takes a groundbreaking and much anticipated dive into the concept of postwar transitions and how these affect and are affected by the world of music. Leading scholars in the field explore new approaches to create a novel understanding of music and postwar periods.

The life of property

In Béarn, a region of south-west France, longstanding and resilient ideas of property and practices of inheritance control the destinies of those living in the foothills of the Pyrenees. Based on extensive fieldwork and archival research that combines ethnography and intellectual history, this ...

French intellectuals against the left

In the latter half of the 1970s, the French intellectual Left denounced communism, Marxism, and revolutionary politics through a critique of left-wing totalitarianism that paved the way for today's postmodern, liberal, and moderate republican political options. Contrary to the dominant understa...

Cesare lombroso’s legacy in latin america

The book differs from anything published so far because it focuses on Latin America, especially Cuba, Argentina and Brazil. The main focus is on the Brazilian context, which differs substantially from Cuba and Argentina because of the much lower intellectual density and absence of univer...