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Deterritorialized youth
Compares and contrasts humanitarian assistance among Sahrawi youth with self-sufficiency of Afghan refugee youth in Iran Offers methodological approach and rich qualitative data Examines refugee communities closely linked with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees and other...
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Against exoticism
Offers a re-evaluation of the role of the exotic in anthropology. Introduces the notion of counter-exoticisation, a conceptual tool to aid analysis. Extends the academic critique of Orientalism to de-territorialise the exotic and de-centre Euro-centrism. Presents a new interventi...
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Redescribing relations
A tribute to Marilyn Strathern, among the most creative and celebrated contemporary anthropologists. Brings some of Strathern’s most committed and renowned readers into conversations in her honour. Deepens the understanding of Strathern’s work, and offers models of how to extend her ...
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Whose cosmopolitanism?
Contributors from different disciplines and theoretical backgrounds examine cosmopolitanism’s possibilities, aspirations and applications The book investigates when, where and how cosmopolitanism emerges as a contemporary social process
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Beyond writing culture
The only serious and sustained analysis of the intersections between epistemology and representational practice Represents the collection of a number of recent arguments regarding the future of ethnography Offers transdisciplinary perspectives as well as a clear critique
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Anthropology and public service
Demonstrates how anthropologists can set new agendas, and revise old ones in the public sector. Explains how anthropology scholars provide a much-needed social dimension to government thinking and practice. Includes discussions of anthropologists’ work with the UK Department for Inte...
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The nanking atrocity, 1937-1938
First published in 2007, The Nanking Atrocity remains an essential resource for understanding the massacre. This second edition includes an extensive new introduction reflecting on the historiographical developments of the last decade, making this even more relevant as we approach the 80th anni...
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Materialising exile
Focusing on the highly diverse Karenni refugee population living in camps on the Thai-Burma border, this innovative book explores materiality, embodiment, memory, imagination, and identity among refugees, providing new and important ways of understanding how refugees make sense of experience, s...
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Abortion in asia
Presents abortion case studies from Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and India Illustrates the conditions and hard choices faced by women and the circumstances surrounding unplanned pregnancies Explores the connections among poverty, violence, barriers to ac...
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America observed
Essays offering a critique on the absence of fieldwork done on the United States by anthropologists from abroad. Explores its likely reasons while also illustrating the advantages of studying fieldwork-based anthropological projects conducted by colleagues from outside the U.S. Suita...
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Social quality theory
The meta theory and the interdisciplinary approach. The contribution to current debates on reorientation in social and economic policies. The new thinking of development economics. The measurement of social progress and global development. The comparative studies of social de...
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Searching for a cultural diplomacy
International panel of distinguished scholars Perspective from the outside in: foreign scholars offer their interpretation of emotions in American history Focuses on an innovative field of study and one that also appeals to the broader public Brings together different disciplines...
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The political economy of border drawing
Interconnects capitalism, the welfare regime and citizenship to the field of migration studies. Compares and contrasts the divergent conditions of entry for non-EU migrant workers in Britain, France and Germany. Explores the economic, social and cultural rationales in determining mig...
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Rethinking the informal city
Latin American cities have always been characterized by a strong tension between what is vaguely described as their formal and informal dimensions. However, the terms formal and informal refer not only to the physical aspect of cities but also to their entire socio-political fabric. Informal ci...
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Property and equality
The ethnography of egalitarian social systems was first met with sheer disbelief. Today it is still hotly debated in a number of fields and has gained sophistication as well as momentum. This collection of essays on "property and equality" acknowledges this diversification by presenting researc...
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Russia before the 'radiant future'
One of the major historians of prerevolutionary Russia has collected in this volume some of his most important essays. Written over a number of years, these pioneering works have been revised and updated and are complemented by others being published for the first time. Thematically, they cover...
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Different germans, many germanies
Complicating academic discourses and scholarly analyses of Germany Pluralizing popular perceptions of Germany Contributing new knowledge on postwar Germany Combining historical with political and cultural approaches to Germany
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Remembering violence
Psychologists have done a great deal of research on the effects of trauma on the individual, revealing the paradox that violent experiences are often secreted away beyond easy accessibility, becoming impossible to verbalize explicitly. However, comparatively little research has been done on the...
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Documenting socialism
More than 30 years after the collapse of the German Democratic Republic, its cinema continues to attract scholarly attention. Documenting Socialism brings a fresh introduction to the field of documentary cinema and the complexities of diversity under socialism in the GDR.
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Willing seduction
Josef von Sternberg’s 1930 film The Blue Angel (Der blaue Engel) is among the best known films of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933). A significant landmark as one of Germany’s first major sound films, it is known primarily for launching Marlene Dietrich into Hollywood stardom and for initiating t...
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Atlantic automobilism
Offers a study of the persitence of the car through a transatlantic perspective Delves into the motives behind early car users Explores the psychological and social reasoning behind our attachment to the vehicle, utilising material such as poems, popular music and films
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The land is dying
Explores conflicts and concerns about personhoood, gender relations, memory and sociality that take shape under the shadow of the HIV/AIDS epidemic but that have deeper historical roots relating to Christianity, neo-traditionalism, and growing economic inequality. Links study of ritual a...
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Whatever happened to asylum in britain?
Refugees and asylum-seekers are high up on many people's political agenda. Even so, there is a remarkable lack of information. Who are these asylum-seekers? Aren't they almost all "bogus"? How do western immigration authorities decide whether or not they are genuine? Is the UN convention on Ref...
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Breaking rocks
This book presents an ethnography of spectacle and deceit. It provides a vivid description of life and meaning in one of the fastest growing mega cities in Africa/the global south. It makes a series of innovative connections between power, economics and culture.
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Power and society in the gdr, 1961-1979
Detailed examination of the social history of the GDR in the 1960s and 1970s Portrays a society beyond the Berlin Wall, Soviet tanks and state security police Describes increasing accommodation to dominant norms and conceptions of socialist "normality"
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The early morning phonecall
Offers valuable insights into remittance dynamics in conflict-affected settings, a rarely studied area A perspective on everyday life in the Somali regions and the diaspora Features a transnational view encompassing three contrasting locations A multi-method, interdisciplinary ap...
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Waterworlds
The book sees the making and unmaking of people’s lives through the shared lens of water, yielding great comparative potential across different regions and approaches. Through the notion of waterworlds, the book addresses human and non-human actors as mutually constitutive. The book ...
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Music and international history in the twentieth century
Brings together scholars from fields of musicology and international history. Investigates significance of music to foreign relations. Asks how we can understand music as an instrument of power and influence. Examines how cultural encounters fostered by music change ideas about i...
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The ways of friendship
Reassess the view that friendship is best understood within wider ideologies of kinship. Contributors engage in productive theoretical conversation with recent anthropological work on relatedness, personhood and individualism. Illustrates that the power of friendship in many cultures...
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Sociality
Develops new innovative theory of human sociality and re-sets framework of debate Introduces new possibilities for conceptualising other forms of sociality, such animals or materials Presents cases from Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe to explore the new directions of human soc...
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Rivers, memory, and nation-building
Written by a UNESCO-published author A clear and concise comparitive study of the Volga and Mississipi rivers The author expertly details the cultural and historical significance of the two rivers in shaping Russian and American communities Provides significant insights into how...
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The forest people without a forest
Examines how the Baka, who live in Eastern Cameroon, assert forms of belonging in order to participate in development interventions. Investigates how community life is shaped and reshaped through these interventions.
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Moral power
Neither power nor morality but both. Moral power is what Sukuma farmers in Tanzania in times of crisis attribute to an unknown figure they call their witch. A universal process is involved, as much bodily as social, which obstructs the patient’s recovery. Healers turn the table on the witch thr...
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The german-american encounter
While Germans, the largest immigration group in the United States, contributed to the shaping of American society and left their mark on many areas from religion and education to food, farming, political and intellectual life, Americans have been instrumental in shaping German democracy after W...
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Scandinavia. Populism. Nationalism. Identity.
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Contemporary pagan and native faith movements in europe
The first book to focus on modern Pagan and Native Faith movements throughout Europe, from the Irish Republic to Siberia, and from Scandinavia to Iberia. The first work of any kind to address the twin themes of neo-colonialism and neo-nationalism within these movements. Through detai...
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The future of memory
Presents a survey of theories and case studies Addresses the ‘big issues’ of memory studies, including witnessing, trauma and memorials Analyses several diverse but interconnected phenomena such as the Rwanda and 9/11 memorials
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Theater and political process
The Argonauts in the Pacific, famous through Malinowski's work, have not been exempt from general historical developments in the world around them. By focusing on two plays performed by the Tokelau Te Ata, a theater group, the author reveals the self-perceptions of the Tokelau and highlights th...
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Indoctrinability, ideology and warfare
Violent ethno-nationalist conflicts continue to mar the history of the twentieth century; yet no satisfactory answer to the question of why humans are susceptible to indoctrination by ideologies that lead to inter-group hostility has so far been found. In this volume an international team of le...
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Danica dela torre, certified sleuth
Harriet the Spy meets Small Spaces in this heartfelt new paranormal mystery series for middle grade readers.Danica and her partner Jack are Renley Crow’s best kid detectives. Well, they’re the only kid detectives . . . until Kennedy Fang moves to town. Kennedy’s convinced his new house is haunted...
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The gate to perfection
A timely book: as Israelis and Arabs are moving towards a settlement, this study offers a valuable historical dimension, from the Jewish point of view, to the main issue involved, i.e., the idea of peace. The authors maintain that peace has always played an important role in Jewish thought, tha...
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Narrating the future in siberia
The first full-length ethnographic study among the adolescence of Siberian indigenous people Important contribution to the study of childhood and adolescence Welcome contribution to the anthropology of Siberia Highly innovative study of the contemporary situation of Eveny society...
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Adoption, emotion, and identity
Exploring adoption in the Pacific, this book goes beyond the commonplace structural-functional analysis of adoption as a positive “transaction in parenthood.” It examines the effects it has on adoptees inner sense of self, their conflicted emotional lives, and familial relationships that are af...
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Television broadcasting in contemporary france and britain
The importance of contemporary television broadcasting for the shaping and development of national cultures and identities is increasingly evident. Television as the privileged medium for the dissemination of information and for mass entertainment has irreversibly altered the manner in which na...
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