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Nearly the new world
First comprehensive study of Jewish migration to the British West Indies during the Nazi era Combines refugee, West Indian, British, Governmental and NGO perspectives and very wide range of sources from the Caribbean, United States, Israel and the UK. Adds uniquely to the study of ...
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Globalized fatherhood
The only volume to examine fatherhood around the globe. The only volume to offer a theoretical vocabulary for studying “emergent fatherhood” in the new millennium. Broad global coverage of issues facing fathers in different regions of the world. Based on contemporary, cutting-edg...
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The many faces of clio
Born in Germany, Georg Iggers escaped from Nazism to the United States in his adolescence where he became one of the most distinguished scholars of European intellectual history and the history of historiography. In his lectures, delivered all over the world, and in his numerous books, translat...
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The polynesian iconoclasm
An ethnographic examination of the Polynesian iconoclasm The book seeks answers to why Polynesian inhabitants destroyed and desecrated all of the temples in the early nineteenth century The authors employ concepts of habitus, improvisation and practical logic to explore the dramatic ...
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On the origin of tourist experiences
Author places the key emphasis on the content of the stories in a historical longitudinal perspective with a phenomenological approach. Work has been fully revised form the Dutch version to better suit English readers.
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International organizations and environmental protection
Historical overview of international organizations and environmental policy until Stockholm 1972. First treatment of diversity of international organisations’ involvement in environmental policy. International organisations and the pre-history of the climate change negotiations. ...
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United germany
Provides a balance sheet of successes and failures of German unification during the first quarter century after the fall of the Berlin Wall Broad inter-disciplinary mix of contributors Perspective derived from West Germany, East Germany and the United States The most up-to-date a...
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Between the avant-garde and the everyday
The wave of anti-authoritarian political activity associated with the term “1968” can by no means be confined under the rubric of “protest,” understood narrowly in terms of street marches and other reactions to state initiatives. Indeed, the actions generated in response to “1968” frequently in...
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Anthropology and political science
Compares concepts and methodologies of the two disciplines Highlights the contributions of each discipline for the other Discusses previous troubled relationship Demonstrates "added value" of a convergent approach
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Gender history of german jews
Gender History of German Jews is a concise overview of German-Jewish gender agency and change against the “dawn of modernity” across both men and women who dealt with histories of status change, discrimination, persecution, and deportation.
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Insiders and outsiders
The indigenous population of Deià has lived side by side with increasing numbers of foreigners over the past century, and what has occurred there over this period offers an example of how the population of one Mediterranean village has gained full advantage from the economic opportunities opene...
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The state we're in
Investigates the reasons behind the current disillisionment in democratic statecraft. Explores the relations between democracy, subjectivity and sociality. A must-read for all political theorists, scholars of democracy, and readers concerned for the future of the democratic ideal.
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Intellectuals and (counter-) politics
Starts from the position that we need to ask what kind of work academics/intellectuals should be doing; and how this might affect the design of the research projects. This is not at all common in books of a similar kind. Vital theoretical issues are addressed at length and in a highly pr...
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From storeroom to stage
It is an ample study of the ‘folk’ idiom which has not been researched in Romania in this way It draws some comparison between Romanian and British museological practices It follows a class of objects through different spheres of cultural production, some of which have been unexplore...
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Narratives in the making
Compares the production of narratives at two very different types of institutions. Based on original participant observation in these institutions’ day-to-day work. Explores the production of representations of the East German past at a unique historical moment – in the run up to the...
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Women’s empowerment and son preference in india
This book reviews the feminist, ethical and legal discourse on sex selective abortions and draws on women’s empowerment as an analytical lens to examine the son preference expressed in the notion of Vansh (lineage) among pregnant women.
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The demons of modernity
First book length study of Ingmar Bergman in a specific European context – political, philosophical and aesthetic. Dispels commonly held myth of Bergman as a culturally isolated Swedish auteur. Use of the unusual concept of demonic materialism to distinguish and discuss Bergman’s key...
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Reluctant skeptic
Discusses Kracauer from the perspective of the history of religion in modern Germany Seeks to give more emphasis to the importance of the history of religious thought in modern German cultural and intellectual history Approaches Kracauer on the basis of some of his earlier, less know...
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Care across distance
Geographic scope: While the majority of other works focus on one or two regions of the world (e.g., India; Peru and Italy; Australia), this volume is uniquely ambitious in its vast geographical reach, since it includes in-depth, ethnographically collected data from five different (sub-)conti...
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The respectable career of fritz k.
Provides an insight into understanding the political upheavals in the 20th Century in Germany. Facilitates understanding of the workings of the corrupt Nazi system. Analyses the "Coming to Terms" with National Socialism in the Federal Republic.
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Flexible firm
An imaginative use of ethnopgraphic reflexivity and classical anthropological theories and imagination to get a fresh, critical perspective on corporate organisations. A rare anthropological analysis of human resource consultancy—the work-area of a growing number of anthropologists. ...
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The vampire
Drawing on a wealth of heretofore neglected sources from multiple languages, this book gives a fascinating account of how vampires—whose various incarnations originally developed within the folk traditions of societies throughout the world—came to be inextricably tied to Eastern Europe in the p...
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The dark side of nation-states
An encompassing, comparative study of all major cases of ethnic cleansing in modern Europe and contains case studies from global history. Not only covers Eastern Europe, but also the motivation of western countries and statesmen and their involvement in large scale population removals. ...
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Towards a british natyam
An illuminating investigation into the ‘professionalization’ of classical Indian dance forms in Britain, Towards a British Natyam critically analyzes the cultural, social, and political frameworks that make a ‘profession’ within the arts possible, highlighting the transformational power of clas...
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To the bomb and back
The first English-language account of Finland’s children evacuees during World War II. Describes their experiences, told through the survivors’ own words. Testifies to the often lifelong traumas endured by youthful survivors of war.
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Europe facing east in the age of ottoman power
Bringing together his wealth of research on the Habsburg-Ottoman conflict over the kingdom of Hungary, historian James Tracy provides a comprehensive and exacting examination of the implications this battle had for notions of sovereignty, statehood, and civilization.
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Border aesthetics
A pioneering collection on the aesthetics of borders. Organized around six key ideas—ecology, imaginary, in/visibility, palimpsest, sovereignty and waiting. A theoretical starting point for an aesthetic understanding of borders, developed in detail through interdisciplinary analyses ...
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From antiquities to heritage
A historical perspective on cultural heritage. The book combines investigations of eighteenth century antiquarianism with contemporary heritage studies. Presents Norwegian material to an international readership. Discusses issues related changes in the modern experience of temporalit...
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Ignaz maybaum
Ignaz Maybaum (1897-1976) is widely recognized as one of the foremost Jewish theologians of the post-Holocaust era. Although he is mentioned in most treatments of post-Holocaust Jewish theology, his works are out of print and are only accessible to a small readership. Nicholas de Lange (who w...
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Visual interventions
Visual anthropology has proved to offer fruitful methods of research and representation to applied projects of social intervention. Through a series of case studies based on applied visual anthropological work in a range of contexts (health and medicine, tourism and heritage, social development...
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The many faces of germany
With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the shifting of American foreign policy away from "old" Europe, long-established patterns of interaction between Germany and the U.S. have come under review. Although seemingly disconnected from the cultural and intellectual world, political developments wer...
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Negotiating identity in scandinavia
Focuses on immigration and the concept of diaspora through the experiences of women living in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Examines the novel ways in which diasporic communities create gendered forms of belonging that transcend the nation state. The multifaceted nature of the interac...
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Towards an anthropology of psychology
Challenging contemporary enthusiasm for interdisciplinarity, the book calls for rethinking ‘psychology’ as an anthropological inquiry. It provides ethnographic studies of talking therapies, subjects, institutions, professionals and psychological persuasions, suggesting how anthropology can impr...
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Anthropology and ethnography are not equivalent
Tim Ingold has raised many questions which are crucial for anthropology as a discipline, such as whether ethnography is central to the subject, and how imagination, reality and truth are joined in anthropological enterprises. His interventions have impacted anthropologists and scholars at large...
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The sound of silence
Combining Sámi perspectives and other Indigenous archaeologies Offers new perspectives for understanding the role of material culture in transformation of indigenous cultures in colonial contact Emphasizes local and indigenous histories and interpretations over Eurocentric ones
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The scope of anthropology
The volume brings together world-class scholars Sophisticated discussions of Maurice Godelier’s work and approach The text contains theoretical propositions applicable in a wide scope of social sciences
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Fascist europe
Examining the unexplored project for a new European order developed by Italian intellectuals, Fascist Europe reconstructs the theoretical debates that shaped relationships between Fascist Italy, the Nazi Reich, and other Axis nations. In doing so it sheds light on how much the order may have pr...
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Migrations in the german lands, 1500-2000
A collection of essays reconstructing the experiences of vagrants, laborers, religious exiles, refugees, and other migrants to, from and within German-speaking lands during the last five hundred years. The volume identifies revealing commonalities shared by different eras while also plac...
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The making of turkish contemporary history
Tackles the methodological and conceptual issues of a research field – namely contemporary history of Turkey – which is dramatically under-researched so far. Contribute to its advancement and professionalization by discussing its scientific and science policy framework, defining scholarl...
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Indeterminacy
What happens to people, places, and things that do not fit the progressive, ordering narratives of capitalism and modernity? This volume explores the indeterminacy left behind by conventional understandings of progress and shows how totalizing forward movement may be resisted by fragments, open...
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Things of the house
Focusing on the life stories of a group of European and Catholic Brahmin Goan families of the colonial elite who left Mozambique after their independence in 1975, the book shows how material culture interferes with structuring dimensions of migratory experiences, in the management of family tie...
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History and historiography in greece
A comprehensive and temporally wide-ranging reassessment, History and Historiography in Greece examines how historical scholarship in Greece is evolving by reviewing the ideas, methods, and schools of history shaping the field, how this juxtaposes with international trends, and whether Greek hi...
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Culture figures
Employing ‘rhetorical reading,' Culture Figures dissects descriptive ethnography and theoretical texts, spanning classical monographs to recent texts representing various approaches in cultural anthropology. The book demonstrates how processes of using tropes and modes of persuasion underlie th...
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Foodscapes, foodfields, and identities in the yucatán
The state of Yucatán has its own distinct culinary tradition, and local people are constantly thinking and talking about food. They use it as a vehicle for social relations but also to distinguish themselves from “Mexicans.” This book examines the politics surrounding regional cuisine, as the a...
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