Coming home to germany?

The end of World War II led to one of the most significant forced population transfers in history: the expulsion of over 12 million ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1950 and the subsequent emigration of another four million in the second half of the twentieth cent...

The long shore

Authors investigate the multifaceted character of maritime landscapes and maritime oriented communities in California’s equally diverse cultural landscape; viewed through an archaeological lens, and emphasizing social behavior and community as material culture in order to reveal intersections a...

The potential for anthropology and urban community engagement

Going beyond traditional relationships between practicing anthropologists and urban communities, this develops the foundations to extend the current scope of applied anthropology to grassroots research and lasting community programs using two partnering Milwaukee organizations as examples.

Desert entanglements

The Sahrawi refugees in southwestern Algeria have struggled from exile for fifty years to reconfigure the animated desert they call badiya. They recovered camel husbandry and access to part of the former rangeland, and wove it back as seasonal nomadism. Desert Entanglements analyzes this proces...

The masculine woman in weimar germany

first comprehensive study of the "masculinized" modern woman in post-World War I Germany compares mainstream media and "queer" subcultural representations to showcase the significance and complexity of female masculinities within Weimar German culture an interdisciplinary cultural hi...

A precarious victory

The 2002 campaign and election was one of the most dramatic in the history of the Federal Republic. An unprecedented last minute swing narrowly re-elected the Social Democratic-Green government of Chancellor Schroeder. The campaign featured the first-ever American style television debate betwee...

Time work

Examining how people alter or customize various dimensions of their temporal experience, this volume discovers how we resist external sources of temporal constraint or structure. These ethnographic studies are international in scope and look at many different countries and continents.

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...

Free will, consciousness and self

What is it to be human? How do we relate to the world, to each other and to our self in a human – in everyday life and when faced with life’s big questions? In this book, the author develops a general theoretical model that might be able to offer a better understanding of the human condition an...

Women’s zionism worldwide, 1897–1948

Offering the first comprehensive historiographic exploration of women’s roles in the Zionist movement worldwide, this geographically wide-ranging study explores the ideologies, goals, strategies, activities, accomplishments and failures of women’s organizations and individuals in Europe, the Un...

All tomorrow's cultures

The first edition of All Tomorrow’s Cultures explored the legacy of futures-thinking in anthropology and marked the beginning of a resurgence of interest in anthropological futures.  The new edition has been updated to reflect some of the outpouring of work since then, particularly in science a...

A matter of belief

Explores Christian Conversion and Healing Examines the interplay of personal and communal ritual Describes religious resistance and nationalism among the Naga in North-Eastern India A focus on British colonialism and American Baptist missionaries

Americanization and anti-americanism

The ongoing discussions about globalization, American hegemony and September 11 and its aftermath have moved the debate about the export of American culture and cultural anti-Americanism to center stage of world politics. At such a time, it is crucial to understand the process of culture transf...

The children of gregoria

Obstetric violence and systemic disparities

The final volume in this landmark 3-volume series on The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians looks at the challenges, and even violence, that obstetricians face across the world. This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to ...

From triads to pentads

N.J. (‘Nick’) Allen had an extensive academic career, which for the most part was spent in Oxford. He passed away in 2020. This edited volume brings together a selection of his anthropological papers. It follows key areas of his research in which his contributions were novel, innovative, stimul...

Writing the dark side of travel

The travel experience filled with personal trauma; the pilgrimage through a war-torn place; the journey with those suffering: these represent the darker sides of travel. What is their allure and how are they represented? This volume takes an ethnographic and interdisciplinary approach to explor...

Merchant kings

Merchant Kings offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the rapid industrialization of the Netherlands and its colonial holdings in Java during the nineteenth century. By placing colony and metropole into a single analytical frame, it offers a bracing new approach to understanding the develop...

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.

Growing up in transit

Tanu offers the first ethnographic study of young people who experience high levels of international mobility while growing up, either moving across national borders or by attending international schools with trans-national student bodies.

Dynamics of memory and identity in contemporary europe

Combines theoretical sophistication with penetrating case studies. One of the first books to tackle Europeanization dynamics as they pertain to collective memories. A pan-European approach with cases from all regions of the continent. Takes the study of collective memory forward ...

Sexscapes of pleasure

Rather than focusing on a distinct, discreet sex market niche, the book unfolds across a continuum of sexscapes in which women consume and sell sexualized fantasies and/or sex acts: from pole dance schools, to strip clubs, to streets and private homes where women sell sex. There are to-d...

In memory of times to come

Drawing on twenty years of research, this book examines the historical perspective of a Pacific people who saw “globalization” come and go. It asks the question: What does it mean to claim that global connections are in the past rather than the present or the future?

The state otherwise

The State Otherwise examines the difficult predicament of Beirut’s public green spaces from the vantage point of the civic campaign to reopen Horsh al Sanawbar, the city’s largest public park. It asks questions about the nature of privatisation of public property, civic society’s potential to m...

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...

Pathways to heaven

How does global Christianity relate to processes of globalisation and modernization and what form does it take in different local settings? These questions have lately proved to be of increasing interest to many scholars in the social sciences and humanities. This study examines the tensions, a...

Remembering resistance

The existence and achievements of Jewish “self-rescuers” within Nazi-occupied Hungary remains, in spite of their significance, historically underexplored. In this illuminating chronicle of the life and work of a Jewish couple, László and Eugenia Szamosi, Remembering Resistance seeks to address ...

Access to assisted reproductive technologies

Despite France and Belgium sharing and interacting constantly, access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies are strikingly different. The contributors to this volume are social scientists from France, Belgium, England and the United States and represent different disciplines. Each author has at...

European perspectives on transition

Offering a pioneering conceptual history of transition from a comparative perspective, this volume brings together eight case studies, ranging from the Third Wave of Southern Europe to the regime changes of Central and Eastern Europe, in order to rethink how we approach questions of temporality...

Telling children about the past

This book brings together archeologists, historians, psychologists, and educators from different countries and academic traditions to address the many ways that we tell children about the (distant) past. The contributors both examine the ways in which children come to grips with the past and cr...

Two against the tide

When Charles Seligman invited his wife, Brenda, to share his tent in 1907, he sanctioned a professional place for female fieldworkers in anthropology. Two Against the Tide explores how as wealthy Anglo-Jews, Charles and Brenda Seligman built a shared career through secret benevolence and silent...

Floating economies

In the Himalayas of the Indian part of Kashmir three communities depend on the ecology of the Dal lake: market gardeners, houseboat owners and fishers.  Floating Economies describes for the first time the complex intermeshing economy, social structure and ecology of the area against the backgro...

A jewish understanding of the world

In this second volume of Liberal Jewish sermons spanning the greater part of the second half ofthe twentieth century, the author again combines a radically progressive stance with Jewish commitment and seeks to understand contemporary history from a "prophetic" point of view. His comments cover...

The creation of the modern german army

Civil-military relations have been a consistent theme of the history of the Weimar Republic. This study focuses on the career of General Walther Reinhardt, the last Prussian Minister of War and the First Head of the Army Command in the Weimar Republic. Though less well known than his great riva...

Culture change and ex-change

Biography&Relationship: I was born in PNG in 1972, lived there until I was 5 and thus have a very personal relationship to people and place. It is my home. Although not old-childhood friends of mine, Bena people adopted me more than 23 years ago into their community. The long-term relati...

Time and the field

Radically rethinks the notion of the 'field' in terms of time rather than space. By considering the field in terms of time, the relationship between field and fieldsite is destabilized and emerges as a dynamic and ever-shifting constellation. Updates the discussion of contemporary re...

Religion and pride

Through the examination of religious practices and public performance, the author offers a compelling study of how the Hindu community in the French territory of La Réunion assert pride in their religion as a means of gaining recognition as a religious minority.

With a penetrating gaze from the sidelines

Offers a critical assessment of seven decades of Holocaust research and identifies the tasks ahead. The first comprehensive assessment of Raul Hilberg’s work, the most important Holocaust historian of his generation. A line-up of some of the most prominent Holocaust historians in the...

The holocaust and historical methodology

In the last two decades our empirical knowledge of the Holocaust has been vastly expanded. Yet this empirical blossoming has not been accompanied by much theoretical reflection on the historiography. This volume argues that reflection on the historical process of (re)constructing the past is as...

Authoritarianism, displacement and syrian family life

First ethnographic monograph to examine the interconnections of authoritarianism and displacement from the point of view of political subjectivity. While the focus of most monographs coming out about the Arab Spring is change in political subjectivity, this book highlights continuity and...

Brazilian steel town

Volta Redonda is a Brazilian steel town founded in the 1940s by dictator Getúlio Vargas on an ex-coffee valley as a powerful symbol of Brazilian modernization. Brazilian Steel-Town tells the story of the people tied to this ailing giant – of their fears, hopes, and everyday struggles.

Practicing public diplomacy

There is much discussion these days about public diplomacy—communicating directly with the people of other countries rather than through their diplomats—but little information about what it actually entails. This book does exactly that by detailing the doings of a US Foreign Service cultural of...

A magpie’s tale

Telling the story of the author's time living with a Kazakh family in a small village in western Mongolia, this book contextualizes the family’s personal stories within the broader history of the region.

Yearnings in the meantime

The first study to explicitly link up an interest in hope (through the concept of yearning) with a political economic analysis of the state. The first study to intervene conceptually in such work through an ethnographic analysis of everyday secular (rather than transcendent) hope as it a...