Cold fusion

While historical and political aspects of the Russo-German relationship over the past three to four centuries have received due attention from scholars, the range of the far more diverse, important, and peculiar cultural relations still awaits full assessment. This volume shows how enriching th...

The franco-mauritian elite

Focuses on the power of white elites still lingering on in postcolonial realities. Addresses anew how an elite group aims to prolong its position over time.

Rising star (cross ups, book 3)

The continuing adventures of Jaden, Cali, and the Cross Ups crew. When Jaden gets a call inviting him to Comic Con to test out a new version of his favorite game, Cross Ups, he is thrilled . . . sort of. He’ll get to go with his best friend, Cali, they’ll be in New York City, and best of all, he’...

Desires for reality

A groundbreaking study providing a full account of the cinematic crises, innovations, and provocations of the era of protest in the late 1960s, as well as the social and aesthetic contexts in which they appeared. A fresh analysis of a contested period in which everything from the avant-g...

Cultural resource management

Stressing the interdisciplinary, public-policy oriented character of Cultural Resource Management (CRM), which is not merely “applied archaeology,” this short, relatively uncomplicated introduction is aimed at emerging archaeologists.

Portraits of hope

Elie Wiesel called the genocide of the Armenians during the First World War ‘the Holocaust before the Holocaust’. Around one and a half million Armenians - men, women and children – were slaughtered at the time of the First World War. This book outlines some of the historical facts and conseque...

Ernst l. freud, architect

Ernst L. Freud (1892–1970) was a son of Sigmund Freud and the father of painter Lucian Freud and the late Sir Clement Freud, politician and broadcaster. After his studies in Munich and Vienna, where he and his friend Richard Neutra attended Adolf Loos’s private Bauschule, Freud practiced in Ber...

Disrupted landscapes

An environmental history of postsocialism. An ethnography of the bureaucracy of Southeastern European countries. Portrays environmental changes in the postsocialist world. Discusses local political dynamics in the rural postsocialist world.

Permeable borders

This boldly interdisciplinary volume explores the ways that historical and contemporary actors in the U.S. have crossed such borders—whether national, cultural, ethnic, racial, or conceptual. These essays suggest new ways to understand borders while encouraging connection and exchange, even as ...

Migration by boat

The only edited volume to date to focus specifically on forced sea migrations and their memorializations. Covers a wide international (geographic) berth in terms of case studies, and therefore has international appeal. An excellent example of engaged social sciences regarding current...

Singing ideas

Singing Ideas: this is a highly original concept that echoes of A.B. Lord’s seminal work of oral theory entitled ‘The Singer of Tales’, but ultimately fuses oral theory and performance theory with social and anthropological theory which makes it very distinctive. This is the first full l...

Friendship and exchange along the north coast of new guinea

Anthropologists working in Papua New Guinea have typically focused on a single ethnic community and what goes on within that community. This study considers how people in more than one hundred villages interact with people in other communities up and down the coast. These communities spe...

The mole sisters and the blue egg

Look who’s back!   Everyone’s favorite moles are back, now in a sturdy board book format perfect for younger readers. Titles in this 4-book set commemorating the 20th anniversary of the classic series’ original publication date have been specially selected to appeal to younger readers. Sturdy ...

Sustainability and communities of place

The concept of sustainability holds that the social, economic, and environmental factors within human communities must be viewed interactively and systematically. Sustainable development cannot be understood apart from a community, its ethos, and ways of life. Although broadly conceived, the pu...

The roma and their struggle for identity in contemporary europe

Thirty years after the collapse of Communism, and at a time of radically diverse kinds of identity politics, including anti-migrant, anti-Roma, anti-Muslim and anti-establishment movements, this book analyses how Roma identity is expressed in contemporary Europe.

Jewish religious law

This is the first major work on the interrelationship between Liberal Judaism and Rabbinic Law (Halachah) ever to have been produced in Britain, and in Europe since the nineteenth century. It represents a plea for a positive yet forthrightly critical approach to Rabbinic Law in general aswell a...

Cultivating arctic landscapes

In the last two decades, there has been an increased awareness of the traditions and issues that link aboriginal people across the circumpolar North. One of the key aspects of the lives of circumpolar peoples, be they in Scandinavia, Alaska, Russia, or Canada, is their relationship to the wild ...

Artifak

Artifak investigates the meaning and value of (art) objects as commodities in Vanuatu, in differing states of transit and transition: in the local place, on the market, and in the museum. It provides an ethnographic account of commoditization in the context of revitalization of culture and the ...

Credit and debt in an unequal society

Investigates the political reasons for South Africa adopting an allegedly self-regulating market despite its disastrous effects and identifies the colonialist ideas of property rights as a mainstay of the existing social order.

Rethinking holocaust justice

In the past two decades, the subject of post-Holocaust justice has experienced a surge of interest among historians and legal scholars. Rethinking Holocaust Justice offers a multifaceted approach to post-Holocaust justice, bringing together leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to expl...

Choreographies of landscape

Offers an ethnographic and performative study of visitors to Yosemite National Park in order to understand human connection with and within natural landscapes. Assembles a collective account that will be of interest to disciplines ranging from performance studies to cultural geography.

Empire and eduards volters

The book addresses topical issues such as imperialism, war, decolonialism, and teaches about modern man. Eduards Volters’ ethnography of Lithuania and Latvia is a new page in the history of European anthropology, interesting from a theoretical point of view. It retells the story of h...

Health and difference

Advances new understandings of the materiality of colonial institutional life and governance. Follows scientists’ and administrators’ interests in innovating styles and tools for making and circulating documents, and in reshaping landscapes and environments.

Historical concepts between eastern and western europe

More than a decade after the breakdown of the Soviet Empire and the reunification of Europe historiographies and historical concepts still are very much apart. Though contacts became closer and Russian historians joined their Polish colleagues in the effort to take up western discussions and me...

The anatomy of the holocaust

Historian Raul Hilberg produced a variety of archival research, personal essays, and other works over a career that spanned half a century. The Anatomy of the Holocaust collects some of Hilberg’s most essential and groundbreaking writings—many of them published in obscure journals or otherwise ...

Parliament and parliamentarism

This cross-disciplinary collection locates the essence of parliamentarism in four key aspects—deliberation, representation, responsibility, and sovereignty. Explores the different ways in which they have been contested, reshaped, and implemented in a series of representative national and...

The gaddi beyond pastoralism

Takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the social and religious landscapes as seen by the Gaddi people of Himachal Pradesh Paints a picture of contemporary Gaddi life that moves beyond their customary occupation as nomadic herders of sheep and goats Analyses religious prac...

The wars of yesterday

Together comprising one of the first modern conflicts of the twentieth century, the Balkan Wars (1912–13) served as precursors of the bloody wars to follow. This volume offers a fascinating exploration of the wars’ history, with a central focus on the experiences of both combatants and civilians.

The 1926/27 soviet polar census expeditions

Utilizes primary sources from recently opened archives as well as interviews with descendents of the expeditions The first book-size effort to address the status of the Siberian indigenous people The culmination of eight years of work with primary record cards and sources

European products

Illuminates how heritage management has provided inroads for the Europeanization of societies in southern Europe - this is unique and has hardly been tackled, neither in European Studies nor in Heritage Studies. Does not only address the notion that "heritage" is the outcome of processe...

Amnesia remembered

Our modern culture is increasingly expressed in the form of digital artifacts, yet archaeology is in its infancy when it comes to researching and understanding them. The study and reverse engineering of digital artifacts is no longer the exclusive domain of computer scientists. Presented by way...

Culture, catastrophe, and rhetoric

It develops the concept of political culture through case studies of communicative action. It introduces the concept of the texture of political action, which refers to how social context operates on the surface of an event to shape political experience. It focuses on thecatastrophic...

The paris peace conference of 1919

An illuminating and geographically wide-ranging reassessment of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, this volume reconsiders how this watershed treaty gave rise to new dynamics of global power and politics, reshaping the ideas of imperiality and nationality that have continued to shape the geopo...

Expeditionary anthropology

Fills a gap in the history of anthropology by examining the role of expeditions in structuring both anthropological inquiry and its antecedent forms of human research. It does this by providing a long-term historical perspective, beginning in the seventeenth century and following it through ...

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.

The discipline of leisure

The burgeoning social scientific study of tourism has emphasized the effects of the post-industrial economy on travel and place. However, this volume takes some of these issues into a different area of leisure: the spare-time carved out by people as part of their everyday lives - time that is m...

The hidden minority

The Russian minority in Finland is imbued with ’being hidden‘ or ’hiding oneself‘. The book explores informants’ reflections, together with the author, on the mental and physical crossing of national borders. Perceptions of belonging and/or Otherness and lived experience reveal a complex relati...

Empire of pictures

Based on multi-lingual sources (German, Spanish, and English) and multi-archival research conducted in six different countries around the world. At the cutting edge of new research trends in the field of international/global history. The first work to analyze the important history of...

The origins of cultural customs

Written in an accessible style. Explores the theme of ‘origin’ and examines how people view thinks from their beginning. Examines why an engaging story that is false is more commonly believed than a bland story that is the truth.

Colonial collecting and display

First study dedicated to the historical collecting and display of the material cultures of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Critiques established conceptions of the act of collecting Queries the notion of a homogenous British approach to material culture from the Andaman and Nicobar I...

Sofia coppola

Not born a refugee woman

Not Born a Refugee Woman is an in-depth inquiry into the identity construction of refugee women. It challenges and rethinks current identity concepts, policies, and practices in the context of a globalizing environment, and in the increasingly racialized post-September 11th context, from the pe...

Modern germany in transatlantic perspective

Includes chapters by major scholars. Deals with central historiographical questions in German history.

Vienna is different

First comprehensive study of Viennese Jewish literature from the 19th century to the present Interdisciplinary approach to history and literature