Extinct monsters to deep time

Extinct Monsters to Deep Time is an ethnography that documents the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of the museum in the 21st century.

A history of oxford anthropology

Informative as well as entertaining, this volume offers many interesting facets of the first hundred years of anthropology at Oxford University.

Textures of belonging

The longstanding European conception that Roma and non-Roma are separated by unambiguous socio-cultural distinctions has led to the construction of Roma as "non-belonging others." Challenging this conception, Textures of Belonging explores how Roma negotiate and feel belonging on the everyday l...

Plants, health and healing

Plants have cultural histories, as their applications change over time and with place. Some plant species have affected human cultures in profound ways, such as the stimulants tea and coffee from the Old World, or coca and quinine from South America. Even though medicinal plants have always att...

Hitler's plans for global domination

A well researched study of Adolf Hitler’s goals of world domination and his plans to implement it The author presents new sources and information, including Hitler’s plan to attack New York City in December 1941 The text examines Nazi imperial architecture, armament and Hitler’s plan...

It happens among people

Written by eleven leading anthropologists from around the world, this volume extends the insights of Fredrik Barth, one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century, to push even further at the frontiers of anthropology.

Categories in context

Despite the wealth of empirical research into the interrelationships of gender and labor available, little is known about the forms of classification and categorization shaping these social phenomena. Categories in Context enriches our understanding of how cognitive categories such as status, l...

The annoying difference

Evaluates Denmark's transformation in a 15 years research perspective Explores ideas of cultural incompatibility and zero-tolerance A comprehensive study on the emergence of Danish national populism Offers a new perspective on the increased conflation of media and politics

Religion and science as forms of life

Explores the interface between science and religion in contemporary society. Details the contradictions between the two, particularly in an age of scientific knowledge. Draws on a range of ethnographic, empirical and theoretical sources. Explores the various social and cultural m...

Money at the margins

Technology for the Poor / in the developing world Social studies of monetary behavior Human Design centered with a focus on context Rethinking technological development / financial inclusion solutions

Reassessing the nuremberg military tribunals

For decades the history of the US Military Tribunals at Nuremberg (NMT) has been eclipsed by the first Nuremberg trial—the International Military Tribunal or IMT. The dominant interpretation—neatly summarized in the ubiquitous formula of “Subsequent Trials”—ignores the unique historical and leg...

Traditions of east asian travel

Although the topic of travel and travel writing by Chinese and Japanese writers has recently begun to attract more interest among scholars in the West, it remains largely virgin terrain with vast tracts awaiting scholarly examination. This book offers insights into how East Asians traveled in t...

Re-turns, entanglements and collaborations

This collection marks the EASA Book Series’ 50th volume to celebrate collaborative forms of knowledge production in anthropology. It is organized around eight key themes and concepts that have marked anthropological debates in Europe over the past 20 years.

The nuclear crisis

Provides a comprehensive survey of the “Euromissiles” crisis of 1983 as experienced by its various protagonists. Analyzes NATO’s diplomatic and military maneuvering. Traces the political, cultural, and moral discourses that surrounded the missiles’ deployment in East and West Germany.

The global idea of ‘the commons’

During the last three decades, corporations allied with scientists and universities, national and regional governments, and international financial institutions have, through a variety of mechanisms associated with neo-liberal globalization, acted to dispossess large proportions of the world’s ...

Pacific futures

Seeks to understand social life and culture the Pacific region in terms of the future, rather than reproducing cultural traditions of the past. Considers different aspects of Pacific culture from Christianity, marriage, and reflections on childhood fishing trips to military coups, gambli...

Germany and the black diaspora

Presents intersections of Black and German history over eight centuries Demonstrates how negative German perceptions of "blackness" proceeded from nineteenth-century racial theories Probes individual and collective responses to inter-cultural points of contact

Friendship without borders

Deleuzian intersections

Science and technology studies, cultural anthropology and cultural studies deal with the complex relations between material, symbolic, technical and political practices. In a Deleuzian approach these relations are seen as produced in heterogeneous assemblages, moving across distinctions such as...

Almost, but not quite bored in pula

Based on interviews and fieldwork conducted among residents of Pula – a coastal city in Northwestern Croatia, this study explores various aspects of a local feeling of boredom. This is mirrored in the term tapija, a word of Turkish origin describing a property deed.

Navigating colonial orders

First comprehensive study in English of Norwegian colonial aspirations and activities Original comparison Africa and Oceania Cross-disciplinary approach to study

The journey of g. mastorna

The only available English-language translation of the script for Federico Fellini’s celebrated unmade film The Journey of G. Mastorna Includes an in-depth analysis of the circumstances surrounding the non-making of the film and of the script within the context of Fellini’s career A...

Elusive promises

Focuses on the idea of the promise as a way to understand planning through time. Ethnographic accounts from highly-regarded anthropologists on planning. Comparative study of planning.

Dark trophies

The only comparative and historical study of the use of human body parts as trophies by military personnel in modern warfare Argues that these deviant practices represent important evidence of the power of metaphor in structuring human social behaviour An exploration of the close col...

Changing properties of property

As an important contribution to debates on property theory and the role of law in creating, disputing, defining and refining property rights, this volume provides new theoretical material on property systems, as well as new empirically grounded case studies of the dynamics of property transform...

Managing northern europe's forests

First and only comprehensive collection of forest histories from the North of Europe Thorough and critical examination of a region where a number of distinguished and influential ideas of global resource management originated from (scientific forestry, sustainability, close-to-nature-for...

Language and identity politics

A sophisticated look at the complicated relationship between language and identity. Describes the growing political salience of questions relating to language. Considers both the inclusive and exclusive dimensions of linguistic identity across Europe and North America.

The afterlives of tamil tigers

Based on fifteen years of in-depth ethnography among the Sri Lankan Tamil community in Paris and a series of field investigations in Sri Lanka and London. Seeks to understand, on one hand, how a revolutionary organization attempts to produce its members; on the other, the impact of this ...

Ordinary lives and grand schemes

The volume looks at the experience of religion in the intersection of existential ends and grand schemes in everyday practice. Focussing on different religious traditions around the world, the volume offers a comparative and global perspective to living with greater powers that looks bey...

Expanding suburbia

During the last few decades suburbia has grown enormously and become a phenomenon attracting the attention of scholars as well as practitioners by whom it is seen as an increasingly significant and complex area of modern life. The essays in this volume consider a range of representations of sub...

The aesthetics of rule and resistance

Through illuminating case studies of street art in Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Caracas, and Mexico City, The Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance explores the visual strategies of persuasion and meaning-making employed by both rulers and resisters to foster self-legitimization, identification, and mobi...

Sovereign forces

Sovereignty is a significant force regarding the ownership, use, protection and management of natural resources. By placing an emphasis on the complex intertwined relationship between natural resources and diverse claims to resource sovereignty, this book reveals the backstory of contemporary r...

Beyond inclusion and exclusion

Moves away from the notion of a singular Jewish war experience, and examines the diverse experiences of Jewish men and women during World War I. Broadens the approach to central European Jewish history by highlighting complex interactions between ordinary Jewish and non-Jewish soldiers a...

Meaningful inconsistencies

School differentiates students-and provides differential access to various human and material resources-along a range of axes: from elected subjects and academic "achievement" to ethnicity, age, gender, or the language they speak. These categorizations, affected throughout the world by neoliber...

The making of the pentecostal melodrama

How religion, gender, and urban sociality are expressed in and mediated via television drama in Kinshasa is the focus of this ethnographic study. Influenced by Nigerian films and intimately related to the emergence of a charismatic Christian scene, these teleserials integrate melodrama, convers...

Evidence and meaning

Comprehensive theory of historical studies, covering the whole field of metahistory, methodology of historical research, theory of historical culture and history didactics

A lover's quarrel with the past

Although not a professional historian, the author raises several issues pertinent to the state of history today. Qualifying the ‘non-historian’ as an ‘able’ interventionist in historical studies, the author explores the relationship between history and theory within the current epistemological ...

Anthropology and law

The relationship between Law and Anthropology can be considered as having been particularly intimate. In this book the authors defend their assertion that the two fields co-exist in a condition of "balanced reciprocity" wherein each makes important contributions to the successful practice and t...

Dreams of germany

Diversity of disciplines and author team (senior and junior; gender; national perspective). Range of iconic case studies: Bruckner and Wagner through to the Beatles and Kraftwerk. Represents the cream of upcoming scholars alongside more established scholarly voices. Revisits and...

The death in their eyes

Perpetrator images — those that embody the point of view of the perpetrators or their accomplices during acts of violence — from Abu Ghraib, the Auschwitz Album, and of illegal prisoners captured during the fiercest dictatorships, are analyzed under a new methodology in The Death in their Eyes ...

Civil society revisited

We challenge, or in other instances qualify, dominant claims about civil society in Poland as weak and bureaucratized, showing the potential for grassroots mobilization and collective action. Thus, even though the volume was submitted for publication before 2015 elections, our analysis helps to...

Cultures of technology and the quest for innovation

Underlying the current dynamics of technological developments, their divergence or convergence and the abundance of options, promises and risks they contain, is the quest for innovation, the contributors to this volume argue. The seemingly insatiable demand for novelty coincides with the rise o...

The anthropology of the fetus

Draws from recent and continuing field research on an important, relevant, and challenging topic. Brings together perspectives from across the four fields of anthropology. Written clearly and accessibly to engage non-specialists in archaeology, bioarchaeology, biological anthropology...

Embers of empire

Examines how political elites and ordinary people processed the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy and its familiar governing structures in 1918 Explores the diverse and important ways in which the Empire’s successor states drew upon its practices and traditions Discusses continuities...