Powerless science?

Examines the historical, social and political dynamics of chemical contamination. Brings new insights into and analysis of how chemical substances regulation has over the last half century contributed to transform toxicants into a major threat for our health and environment. Investig...

Berlin divided city, 1945-1989

Presents an interdisciplinary analysis of Berlin’s cultural and political landscape after the fall of the Berlin Wall Addresses unique role of architecture and politicization of high and mass culture Examines how Berlin was conceived, perceived, and represented during the four decade...

Compliance

Exploring compliance from an anthropological perspective, this book offers a varied selection of chapters covering taxation, corporate governance, medicine, development, carbon offsetting, irregular migration and the building trade, compliance emerges as more than the opposite of resistance.

Sometime kin

Sometime Kin is the portrait of an Alpine settlement - its history, economy and culture - and its unusual resistance to outsiders and modernisation. Against this we see it embrace the ethnographer’s four small children. Sandra Wallman’s account reveals the distortion to ordinary life caused by ...

Losing place

Refugee flight, settlement, and repatriation are not static, self-contained, or singular events. Instead, they are three stages of an ongoing process made and mirrored in the lives of real people. For that reason, there is an evident need for historical and longitudinal studies of refugee popul...

Finding home in europe

Bringing together the voices of nine individuals from an archive of over 200 in-depth interviews with transnational migrants and refugees across five European countries, Finding Home in Europe critically engages with how home is experienced by those who move.

An anthropology of global immunization

Will develop a unique anthropological response to the question of global immunization, addressing issues from vaccine hesitancy and conspiracy theories, to local biopolitics and beyond. Explores some of the most pressing vaccine concerns of our time, from hpv to covid-19, one health, and...

Chicanery

Academic appointments can bring forth unexpected and unforeseen contests and tensions, cause humiliation and embarrassment for unsuccessful applicants and reveal unexpected allies and enemies. Chicanery deals with how the founding Chairs at Sydney, the Australian National University, Auckland a...

Greek whisky

An explanation of the social life of Scotch in Greece via the Greek culture industry, Athenian nightlife and North Aegean drinking habits An analysis of how Scotch has been championed as a "local" symbol in 2 widely different regions of Greece An illustration of how Scotch has become...

Recasting west german elites

The rapid shift of German elite groups' political loyalties away from Nazism and toward support of the fledgling democracy of the Federal Republic, in spite of the continuity of personnel and professional structures, has surprised many scholars of postwar Germany. The key, Hayse argues, lies in...

Health, risk, and adversity

Research on health involves evaluating the disparities that are systematically associated with the experience of risk, including genetic and physiological variation, environmental exposure to poor nutrition and disease, and social marginalization. This volume provides a unique perspective - a c...

Alternative exchanges

Exchanges have always had more than economic significance: values circulate and encounters become institutionalized. This volume explores the changing meaning of the circulation of second-hand goods from the Renaissance to today, and thereby examines the blurring of boundaries between market, g...

The right to memory

The Right to Memory looks beyond everyday memory and commemoration practices, focusing instead on how memory relates to human rights and socio-legal constructs in order to legitimize and protect groups and individuals.

Cinema of collaboration

Almost from their very inception, European cinemas frequently undertook collaborative ventures in an attempt to cultivate a transnational “Film-Europe.” And despite the significant obstacles that the East/West divide presented to achieving that ideal, in the postwar era it was DEFA, the state c...

Food preferences and taste

Food preferences and tastes are among the fundamentals affecting human existence; the sociocultural, physiological and neurological factors involved have therefore been widely researched and are well documented. However, information and debate on these factors are scattered across the academic ...

Sacred speakers

Historical memory in africa

Explores the inner dynamics of memory in all its variations, from its most destructive and divisive impact to its remarkable potential to heal and reconcile Addresses issues on both the conceptual and the pragmatic level and its theoretical observations and reflections are informed by fi...

Heirs of the greek catastrophe

Since its first publication in 1989, this classic study has remained in demand. The third edition of Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe includes updated material with a new Preface, Epilogue, and map of the study area.

Screening nostalgia

"In this fascinating in-depth study of the impact of nostalgia on contemporary American cinema, Christine Sprengler unpicks the history of the concept and explores its significance in theory and practice. She offers a lucid analysis of the development of nostalgia in American society and cultur...

Remembering and forgetting nazism

The Myth of Austrian victimization at the hands of both Nazi Germany and the Allies became the unifying theme of Austrian official memory and a key component of national identity as a new Austria emerged from the ruins. In the 1980s, Austria's myth of victimization came under intense scrutiny i...

History and belonging

One of the EU’s primary strategies in European unification has been to construct a common representation of European history, yet the question remains: is there an uncontested history of Europe? History and Belonging addresses this question along with many others related to the EU’s post-nation...

Lobbying hitler

Lobbying in the Third Reich. Office and Bureaucratic Management in Nazi Germany. A comparison of successful liberal and failed (suicidal) conservative business leaders’ experiences in Nazi Germany. A comparison of how skeptical businessmen came to support the Nazi regime.

Bread from the lion's mouth

This detailed study is written by a scholar of the Ottoman empire, in a time of increased interest in the historical guilds of Turkey Offers an archival history of craftspeople and their organizations from the late 15th to the beginning of the 20th century Documents shifts in the tra...

The culture of german environmentalism

Though much has been written about the Green Party in Germany, less is known about the changes in individuals' attitudes towards the environment that led to the rise of environmental movement, or of its cultural roots. This volume draws attention to the breadth of environmentalism in contempora...

Supervision and authority in industry

The number of studies discussing the labour relationship under industrial capitalism is overwhelming, but the literature on labour and its concrete, day-today shop-floor practices is much less abundant. How and by whom workers were supervised is one of the neglected aspects in the history of la...

Asymmetrical conversations

Explores the ways in which we sometimes attempt to bypass the dominant ideologies of health care in the medical institutions of our cultures. Case studies from India, the South Asian Diaspora, and Europe are used to understand the blurring of therapeutic boundaries. A combination of ...

Demography and national security

Political scientists, demographers, legal scholars, and historians have come together in this volume, under the direction of the late Myron Weiner, one of the leading scholars in this field, to address three of the major sets of questions in the field of political demography: How changes in dem...

Pilgrim voices

Research on pilgrimage has traditionally fallen across a series of academic disciplines - anthropology, archaeology, art history, geography, history and theology. To date, relatively little work has been devoted to the issue of pilgrimage as writing and specifically as a form of travel-writing....

An ethnographic chiefdom

The Czechoslovak academic discipline called ‘Ethnography and Folklore Studies’ was impacted and influenced by the daily realities of state socialism in 1969–1989. This book examines how state socialist features such as Marxist–Leninist ideology brought about the discipline’s epistemic stalling.

Engendering forced migration

At the turn of the new millenium, war, political oppression, desperate poverty, environmental degradation and disasters, and economic underdevelopment are sharply increasing the ranks of the world's twenty million forced migrants. In this volume, eighteen scholars provide a wide-ranging, interd...

Kin, gene, community

Israel is the only country in the world that offers free fertility treatments to nearly any woman who requires medical assistance. It also has the world's highest per capita usage of in-vitro fertilization. Examining state policies and the application of reproductive technologies among Jewish I...

Being bedouin around petra

Takes an ethnographic approach to understanding everyday life of the Bedouin as heritage in contemporary Jordan. Exemplifies the materiality of heritage proclamations and religious transformations. Demonstrates the complex entanglements of Islamic revival, tourism, heritage managemen...

War stories

Presented is a lexicon of imagery, conventions, and symbols used by Plains Indians to communicate their warfare and social narratives. Familiarity with the lexicon will enable interested scholars and laypersons to understand what are otherwise enigmatic rock art drawings found from Calgary, Alb...

Protest, youth and precariousness

After over a decade of austerity in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, what lies next for European societies? This edited collection brings together sociologists, social movement specialists, political scientists, and other scholars to look specifically at how Portuguese youth have navigate...

Property in east central europe

This comprehensive and wide-ranging study explores the historical and cultural trends of property ownership and policy throughout the 20th Century The first in its field to address land policy changes over such a wide time frame Compares the diverging experiences of various region...

The long way home

Indigenous peoples have long sought the return of ancestral human remains and associated artifacts from western museums and scientific institutions. Since the late 1970s their efforts have led museum curators and researchers to re-evaluate their practices and policies in respect to the scientif...

Beyond 'hellenes' and 'barbarians'

Surveying a variety of significant asymmetrical conceptualizations, Beyond 'Hellenes' and 'Barbarians' extends our current breadth of understanding of how ascriptive terms such as ‘civilization’ vs. ‘barbarity,’ or ‘order’ vs. ‘chaos’ functioned and continue to function in political, scientific...

Marriage and its obstacles in jewish law

THE FREEHOF INSTITUTE OF PROGRESSIVE HALAKHAH The Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah is a creative research center devoted to studying and defining the progressive character of the halakhah in accordance with the principles and theology of Reform Judaism. It seeks to establish the ideol...

Sartre against stalinism

Most critics of the political evolution of Jean-Paul Sartre have laid emphasis on his allegedly sympathetic and uncritical attitude to Stalinist Communism due, to a large extent, to their equation of Marxism with Stalinism. It is true that Sartre was guilty of many serious misjudgements with re...

Transnational families, migration and gender

By linking the experiences of immigrant families with the increased reliance on cheap and flexible workers for care and domestic work in Southern Europe, this study documents the lived experiences of neglected actors of globalization — migrant women — as well as the transformations of Western f...

Cooperation and empire

Treats the issue of cooperation and collaboration in a much a wider perspective than existing studies Covers all major European empires in a long time frame (c. 1500-1960) Creatively melds imperial history with newer approaches of postcolonial and transnational history

Corporate scandal

When the Enron filed the biggest bankruptcy petition in the history of the United States, if not the world, the immediate response by most politicians and financiers was that this scandal was a “failure of regulatory institutions” that can be corrected and may possibly even be a purely North Am...

Beyond conversion and syncretism

The globalization of Christianity, its spread and appeal to peoples of non- European origin, is by now a well-known phenomenon. Scholars increasingly realize the importance of natives rather than foreign missionaries in the process of evangelization. This volume contributes to the understanding...

The merkel republic

Bringing together German politics experts from both sides of the Atlantic, this volume addresses the campaign, results, and consequences of the 2013 Bundestag election. Chapters delve into a diverse array of themes, including immigrant-origin and women candidates, the fate of the small parties,...

Cinema in service of the state

Comprehensive exploration of the postwar film cultures of both Czechoslovakia and the GDR. Situates these two national cinemas within the broader context of Eastern European film production as a whole. Uses a “stereoscopic” approach that traces their similarities and divergences to f...

Germany and america

Leading experts on German-American relations, German politics and German Studies from both sides of the Atlantic are contributing to this volume in honor of Gerry Kleinfeld, founder and executive director of the German Studies Association, founder and long-time editor of the German Studies Revi...

Concepts of culture

Examines what happens when conceptual history is introduced into an ongoing scholarly discourse or debate. Offers an interdisciplinary approach to conceptual history that aims to broaden the scope of this influential theoretical tradition. Includes contributions written by authors fr...

Inconceivable iran

This book offers a much-needed analysis of shifting reproductive policies and practices in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a society that is usually represented as either “revolutionary” or “oppressive.” Instead, Tremayne reflects on more than four decades of research to argue that changing repro...

From tax populism to ethnic nationalism

During the last 15-20 years a new party family of radical right-wing populism (RRP) has emerged in Western Europe, consisting of parties such as the French Front National and the Austrian Freedom's Party, among many others. Contrary to the situation in the other Scandinavian countries, such par...

Theorising media and conflict

Theorising Media and Conflict brings together anthropologists as well as media and communication scholars to collectively address the elusive and complex relationship between media and conflict. Practitioners, policymakers, students and scholars who wish to understand the lived realities and dy...

Explorations in psychoanalytic ethnography

Changing cultural tastes

Changing Cultural Tastes offers a critical survey of the taste wars fought over the past two centuries between the intellectual establishment and the common people in Germany. It charts the uneasy relationship of high and popular culture in Germany in the modern era. The impact of National Soci...

Modeling the past

Using this handbook, researchers learn to develop historical and archaeological research questions anchored in dynamic network analysis (DYRA). Undergraduate and graduate students, as well as professional historians and archaeologists can consult on issues that range from hypothesis-driven rese...

The dream in islam

The first overview of historical and contemporary aspects of the true dream tradition in Islam. Covers: Sufism and dreaming; Islamic dream Incubation (Istikhara); militant Jihadist inspiration through dreams including al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders such as bin Laden and Mullah Omar; compar...

Public anthropology in a borderless world

Articulates how public engagement is transforming the discipline of anthropology. Includes perspectives from contributors on their personal and professional transformations.

The horse in my blood

Building upon Indigenous research epistemologies, Victoria Peemot engages with the study of how the human-horse relationships interact with each other, experience injustices and develop resilience strategies as multispecies unions.

The resonance of joseph conrad in contemporary culture

Innovatively bringing together scholars of various nationalities and communities, The Resonance of Joseph Conrad in Contemporary Culture seeks to provide a holistic assessment of the afterlife of Conrad’s work, highlighting how his approach to questions of moral ambiguity and colonialism influe...

The german economy during the nineteenth century

In the 19th Century, economic growth was accompanied by large-scale structural change, known as industrialization, which fundamentally affected western societies. Even though industrialization is on the wane in some advanced economies and we are experiencing substantial structural changes again...

Continental encampment

During the past decade, Syria’s displacement crisis has made the Middle East one of the world’s foremost refugee-hosting regions. The volume explores responses to mass migration and traces the genealogy of humanitarian containment from the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of the first refugee c...

New austrian film

First English language study on New Austrian Film 1990s to the present A collection of critical essays on New Austrian filmmakers and films by international cinema and culture scholars Introduces and examines New Austrian Film in cinematic, cultural, theoretical and film historical ...

The road to war

How did France become embroiled in Vietnam, in the first of long wars of decolonization? And why did the French colonial administration, in late 1946, having negotiated with Ho Chi Minh for a year, adopt a warlike stance towards Ho's régime which ran counter to the liberal colonial doctrine of ...

German literature in a new century

While the first decade after the fall of the Berlin wall was marked by the challenges of unification and the often difficult process of reconciling East and West German experiences, many Germans expected that the “new century” would achieve “normalization.” The essays in this volume take a clos...

Resisting persecution

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.

Critique of identity thinking

Michael Jackson’s response to our beleaguered age is to ask what forms of speech and action are called for in ‘dark times’. He argues that experiences that fall outside the concepts and categories we habitually deploy in rendering life manageable and intelligible have both critical and redempti...

Hunters in the barrens

Healing roots

Detailed study, compiled by an accomplished anthropological scholar, of one of the oldest indigenous medicines in South Africa. Laplante situates African and Western knowledge systems against one another. The author follows the journey of the plant on its transition to the controlled...

New perspectives on moral change

The world we live in is constantly changing. Climate change, transforming gender conceptions, emerging issues of food consumption, novel forms of family life and technological developments are altering central areas of our forms of life. This raises questions of how to cope with and understand ...

Nationalism and internationalism intertwined

Understanding the dynamics between nationalisms and internationalisms allows evaluating ongoing processes and intervening in current debates. Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined, uses a multidisciplinary approach to a long term and macro-level history of international projects since th...

Holocaust monuments and national memory

Since 1989, two sites of memory with respect to the deportation and persecution of Jews in France and Germany during the Second World War have received intense public attention: the Vélo d'Hiver (Winter Velodrome) in Paris and the Monument for the Murdered Jews of Europe or Holocaust Monument i...

State, sovereignty, war

The very institution of the state is widely conceived of as inseparable from war. If it constitutes peace within the borders or order of its sovereignty, this very peace may be the condition for its potential for war with those other states and social formation outside it. This volume represent...

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...

Beyond pleasure

Asceticism, so it is argued in this volume, is a modern category. The ubiquitous cult of the body, of fitness and diet equally evokes the ongoing success of ascetic practices and beliefs. Nostalgic memories of hardship and discipline in the army, youth movements or boarding schools remain as pr...

Between prague spring and french may

Uses a wide variety of disciplines including linguistic analysis Based on extensive research including case analyses A collaborative, comparative and international historical study

Kubrick's mitteleuropa

Stanley Kubrick was arguably one of the most influential American directors of the post-World War II era, and his Central European Jewish heritage, though often overlooked, greatly influenced his oeuvre. Kubrick's Mitteleuropa explores this as well as providing important commentary on the recep...

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...

Cultures of exile

Exile is the dominant theme of our times. It can be found in the forced migration of populations but also in the temporal, cultural and physical alienation of the individual's experiences of the postmodern world. This is a world of unstable, shifting identities dominated, and perhaps most acute...

Hunting the gatherers

Between the 1870s and the 1930s competing European powers carved out and consolidated colonies in Melanesia, the most culturally diverse region of the world. As part of this process, great assemblages of ethnographic artefacts were made by a range of collectors whose diversity is captured in th...

Youth gangs and street children

Presents an original and powerful ethnographic examination of children’s childhood with a focus on the child’s active participation in and acquisition of, cultural practices Describes how the phenomenon that at times children themselves end up parenting their parents, generates contradi...

Politics and government in germany, 1944-1994

This revised and enlarged edition brings the successful original volume of 1984 right up to date, taking into account the most recent developments. Each section begins with an introduction that provides the context for the following documents. There is no comparable volume of its kind available...

Unusual death and memorialization

Most cultures and societies have their own customs and traditions of treating their dead. In the past, some deceased received a burial that deviated from tradition. The reasons for unusual burial could result from reasons such as outbreaks of epidemics or wars, or from premature births, distinc...

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...

Children, families, and states

A comparative, interdisciplinary study Examines the development of ‘time policies’ in Europe Presents national case studies from large and small European countries such as Britain, France, Hungary and the Czech Republic Documents a wide range of thinking and practice about childr...

Conceptualizing the world

This innovative and interdisciplinary volume explores the central paradox of globalization and illuminates historical moments that range from antiquity to the era of Google Earth through contributions that trace the emergence of the world in multitudinous representations, practices, and human e...

Creating wilderness

First comprehensive history of the Swiss National Park Enhancing (American) national park history by a transnational perspective Study of the prime example of a “scientific national park” worldwide A new perspective on wilderness

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 ...

Torn is the curtain

Re-examining film’s potential as both an artistic and ideological discipline, Torn is the Curtain interrogates the relationship between early film cultures within Istanbul and ever-changing ideas of social transformation, highlighting how emergent ideas of post-colonialism, Orientalism, and fem...

The price of exclusion

"The failure of Liberalism" in Germany and its responsibility for the rise of Nazism has been widely discussed among scholars inside and outside Germany. This author argues that German liberalism failed because of the irreconcilable conflict between two competing visions of German identity. In ...

Finding europe

In the last decade or so, many books have been devoted to the history of Europe.Two conceptual axes predominate in a large number of these accounts: a discourse focusing on Europe’s values, and another discourse, fashioned largely in opposition to the first, which emphasizes the process of Euro...

Aging and the aged in jewish law

THE FREEHOF INSTITUTE OF PROGRESSIVE HALAKHAH The Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah is a creative research center devoted to studying and defining the progressive character of the halakhah in accordance with the principles and theology of Reform Judaism. It seeks to establish the ideol...

The environment in jewish law

Environmental concerns are at the top of the agenda around the world. Judaism, like the other world religions, only rarely raised issues concerning the environment in the past. This means that modern Judaism, the halakhic tradition no less than others, must build on a slim foundation in its eff...

Learning senegalese sabar

Explores Sabar from the research position of a Dance student Provides comparative analysis of the pedagogical techniques used in dance classes in New York and Dakar Discusses how the "cultural flow" of the dances is punctuated by national borders and socio-economic relationships ...

Emplaced belief

An innovative interdisciplinary volume that explores the conceptual and lived relations between the academic fields of religion and heritage. A wholistic approach is taken to considering emplacement — a broad interrelation of objects, peoples, histories and places — in the analysis of relations...

Women and socialism - socialism and women

Until recently, histories of women tended to be segregated from the larger historical context. This pioneering volume places the role of women within the history of the interwar years, whenboth the women's and socialist movements became prominent, and raises the key question of how power was di...

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...

This horrible uncertainty

Through her diary and other personal effects, Vera Conrad story contextualizes women’s roles and a story of personal pain shared by millions of German women who grappled with accommodating the political expectations and norms of Nazi society.

Mastering soldiers

Studies of the military that deal with the actual experience of troops in the field are still rare in the social sciences. In fact, this ethnographic study of an elite unit in the Israeli Defense Force is the only one of its kind. As an officer of this unit and a professional anthropologist, th...

French women in politics: writing power

Although more women in France have entered political life than ever before, the fact remains that there are fewer women representatives in the French parliament than there were after the Second World War. In a new and original approach, the author presents an overview and analysis of the emergi...

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 ...