Tourism and informal encounters in cuba

Explores touristic encounters and relationships from the perspectives both of locals and of tourists. Examines and compares a range of relationships, from tourism harassment to market exchange, hospitality, friendship, festive and sexual relationships. Reopens, in a new light, the ke...

Moving places

Explores spatial implications of movement that generate relative locations. Examines not only movement but also questions how movement and mobility perforce and relate to place and locationand how the latter are produced, defined and experienced through a complex set of relations and sep...

States of imitation

Anthropology and sexual morality

The history of sexual morality in Ireland has been traditionally associated with repression. In the last two decades, however, repression seems to have given way to its exact opposite. But where did this “repression” originate? And how can we account for this sudden and sweeping transformation ...

The spectral within

Through the analytical lens of hunting, this book examines the efforts of Latina’s inhabitants to see their city as a meaningful social space, as they navigate the city’s multiple histories and the absent presence of the contested past.

Out of albania

Analysing the dynamics of the post-1990 Albanian migration to Italy, this book is the first major study of one of Europe’s newest, most dramatic yet least understood migrations. It takes a close look at migrants’ employment, housing and social exclusion in Italy, as well as the process of retur...

Differentiating development

Over the last two decades, anthropological studies have highlighted the problems of ‘development’ as a discursive regime, arguing that such initiatives are paradoxically used to consolidate inequality and perpetuate poverty. This volume constitutes a timely intervention in anthropological debat...

Xenocracy

History of British colonialism in the Mediterranean New sources for the study of Greek history and history of colonialism Comparative perspective with other colonies A history of the Ionian State that is absent from historiography

Where is the good in the world?

Bringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic case studies from diverse settings, this volume explores how different disciplinary perspectives on the good might engage with and enrich each other. This is the first interd...

Four-color communism

As with all other forms of popular culture, comics in East Germany were tightly controlled by the state. Comics were employed as extensions of the regime’s educational system, delivering state ideology to develop the socialist personality among youth. The East German children who avidly read th...

Daily life in the abyss

There have been, to date, no other contributions to the field of late Ottoman studies and Armenian studies based on an approach of the kind I take in my book. I am not aware of any scholarly monograph or even essay that takes the Armenian Genocide as the object of a microhistorical study...

Crafting chinese memories

Through an interdisciplinary conversation with contributors from social anthropology, religious studies, film studies, literary studies, cultural studies, and history, Crafting Chinese Memories is the first volume to address how works of art shape memories, and  offers new ways of conceptualisi...

Antisemitism in galicia

Antisemitism in Galicia investigates the interaction of agitation, violence, and politics against Jews on the periphery of the Danube monarchy. In its comprehensive analysis of the functions and limitations of propaganda, rumors, and mass media, it shows just how significant antisemitism was to...

Folk healing and health care practices in britain and ireland

Folk, alternative and complementary health care practices in contemporary Western society are currently experiencing a renaissance, albeit with features that are unique to this historical moment. At the same time biomedicine is under scrutiny, experiencing a number of distinct and multifaceted ...

Jewish self-hate

This new edition makes Theodor Lessing’s seminal work Der Jüdische Selbsthaß accessible to English readers for the first time, supplemented with explanatory footnotes by translator Peter Appelbaum and illustrative essays by historian Sander L. Gilman and German scholar Paul Reitter.

Territory, state and nation

Rudolf Kjellén, regularly referred to as “the father of geopolitics”, developed in the first decade of the twentieth century an analytical model for calculating the capabilities of great-power states and promoting their interests in the international arena. Territory, State and Nation explores ...

Transnational railway cultures

Spanning five continents and a diverse range of contexts, this collection offers an unprecedentedly broad survey of global representations of trains. From experimental novels to Hollywood blockbusters, the works studied here chart fascinating routes across a remarkably varied cultural landscape.

Gender in germany and beyond

Jean Quataert’s former students, colleagues, and collaborators come together in Gender in Germany and Beyond to not only celebrate Quataert’s shaping of the field of modern German, Women’s and transnational history, but also to expand on that scholarship, setting a precedent for the future of t...

Heritage under socialism

Heritage under Socialism enriches the conceptual, methodological and empirical scope of heritage studies. Its transnational approach highlights the socialist world’s diverse interpretations of heritage and its trajectories in post-socialist preservation practices, thus providing new perspective...

‘you don’t know’

People employed at sites of precarious work such as call centres or retail warehouses often live precarious lives. Drawing on ethnographic research in a London hostel for precarious workers, the book explores the political, analytical and practical limitations of using traditional methods of tr...

Maternalism reconsidered

Beginning in the late 19th century, competing ideas about motherhood had a profound impact on the development and implementation of social welfare policies. Calls for programmes aimed at assisting and directing mothers emanated from all quarters of the globe, advanced by states and voluntary or...

Divided, but not disconnected

It is one of the few studies that addresses the entanglement of the two Germanys during the Cold War at various levels including culture, society and politics. It comprises chapters from young researchers and established scholars from a plethora of subject areas who present original rese...

Labour, unions and politics under the north star

Includes material on all five Nordic countries, including Iceland. Combines studies of Nordic labour movements and labour politics with attention to work in historical perspective. Covers broad historical period, ranging from the early modern period to the present day. Sets Nordi...

Momentous mobilities

First in-depth (anthropological) discussion of various forms of contemporary mobilities. Coherent approach, with an introductory chapter and a conclusion. Agenda-setting volume for future research in mobility studies Experimental writing style, combining ethnography and memoir.

Travelling towards home

This collection brings ethnographic insight into the ever more topical question of homemaking, exploring a diverse range of socio-political contexts worldwide (from Jewish returnees from Israel to Ukraine to young gay South Asians in London) and provoking new understandings of the material and ...

The absent jews

Combines medieval and modern historiography. First comprehensive work about Jewish life in medieval Prussia. Unique method for criticism of ideology combining biographic and semantic approach.

Let them not return

The fist edited volume about the Assyrian genocide Focusing specifically on by far under-studied and denied genocide Authors from different disciplines

Politics of innocence

Based on thorough ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp in Tanzania this book provides a rich account of the benevolent “disciplining mechanisms” of humanitarian agencies, led by the UNHCR, and of the situated, dynamic, indeterminate, and fluid nature of identity (re)construction in the camp...

Children dancing in bali

An illuminating ethnographic study of Balinese dance traditions, Children Dancing in Bali examines how children navigate the nexus of power, practice, and performance through the medium of Balinese culture, in order to negotiate fluctuations in their identity and society.

Language and political subjectivity

Language and Political Subjectivity offers an innovative approach to stancemaking as a rhetorical semiotic process that produces truth, beliefs, and certainties about social realities and relations. It considers how Indigenous and diasporic communities, with their political subjectivities, expa...

The manchester school

Pioneered by Max Gluckman to demonstrate the way in which social practice and structure together constitute and are themselves constituted by the situational flow of social life, the extended case method became diagnostic of the Manchester School of Social Anthropology. Anticipating practice th...

Theatre and war 1933-1945

On an April evening in 1934, on the River Arno in Florence, an air squadron, an infantry, a cavalry brigade, fifty trucks, four field and machine gun batteries, ten field radio stations, and six photoelectric units presented a piece of theatre. The mass spectacle, 18 BL involved over two thousa...

The struggle for the past

Organized around Argentine “memory wars” since the 1970s, The Struggle for the Past undertakes an innovative exploration of memory’s dynamic social character. In addition to its analysis of how human rights movements have inflected public memory and democratization in Argentina, it also gives a...

Religion, politics, and globalization

Rethinks of sociological categories of religion and the secular Deepens the understanding of processes that shape the contemporary world Explores connections between religion and politics, and the ways in which globalization shapes these processes Utilizies historical analyses of...

Karl marx

A critical study on Marx, seeing him in a historical perspective as a figure from the past with great errors as well as path breaking ideas and achievements. A readable book, also for non-specialists. A key work both for understanding the origins of communism and the social democrati...

Empathy and history

establishes empathy’s origins and function in the practice, teaching and philosophy of history connects empathy’s use in school history to longstanding debates in the philosophy of history concerning the status of history in human knowledge establishes the link between R.G. Collingwo...

Understanding conflicts about wildlife

Conflicts about wildlife are usually portrayed as resulting from the negative impacts of wildlife on human livelihoods or property. However, deeper analysis reveals that these conflicts are often better understood as people-people conflicts. Understanding Conflicts About Wildlife unites academi...

Small town and village in bavaria

At the center of this investigation is the great modernization effort of a West German state, Bavaria, in the 1970s and 1980s, by means of a reform of the smaller units of local government. The reforms were meant to abolish all autonomous local governments serving populations of fewer than 3,00...

Dynamics of political domination in africa

Axel Sommerfelt has been an important influence on Norwegian and Scandinavian anthropology, but his contributions are almost unknown. This book brings together some of his critical writings, newly written articles and an interview positions him in the history of ‘North Sea’ social anthropology ...

The rite of urban passage

This book investigates the dynamics of religious rituals as part of urban processes, offering a substantial contribution to ritual and urban studies. This book offers an interdisciplinary approach entwining ritual, urban and spatial theories. Although the book makes a substantial con...

Terror from the sky

In this first interdisciplinary study of this contentious subject, leading experts in politics, history, and philosophy examine the complex aspects of the terror bombing of German cities during World War II. The contributors address the decision to embark on the bombing campaign, the moral issu...

Time and history

This series aims at bridging the gap between historical theory and the study of historical memory as well as western and non-western concepts, for which this volume offers a particularly good example. It explores cultural differences in conceptualizing time and history in countries such as Chin...

Liminal moves

Liminal Moves explores the (im)mobilities of three groups of people - street monkey performers in Japan, adolescents writing about migrants in Italy, and men accompanying their partners in Switzerland for work. The book explores how, for these ‘travelers’, the interplay of mobility and immobili...

German elementary education from 1890 to 1945

Analyzing the correlation between the educational system and ideas about religion, community, and nationhood, German Elementary Education from 1890 to 1945 highlights how an investment in children’s moral and national education united the Wilhelmine, Weimar, and Nazi eras, providing a vital len...

Rabbinic - lay relations 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 legacy of serbia's great war

In an expertly researched, original case study on the memory of the traumatic retreat of the Serbian army in 1915, The Legacy of Serbia’s Great War cuts past contemporary canonization of the retreat and links narratives of the past to political choices in the present.

Wolf conflicts

To our knowledge, this is the first comprehensive analysis of conflicts over large carnivores that see these controversies primarily as social conflicts embedded in deeper tensions in contemporary societies, and not so much as conflicts between animals and people. The book points out that wo...

Methodologies of mobility

Research into mobility is an exciting challenge for the social sciences that raises novel socio-cultural, ethical, and methodological questions. Speaking beyond disciplinary boundaries to the challenges of engaging with a world on the move, Methodologies of Mobility traces innovative strategies...

Histories of a radical book

This collected volume explores the complex impact of E.P. Thompson’s monumental book, The Making of the English Working Class, both as an intellectual project and material object, relating it to the social and cultural history of the book form itself—an enduring artifact of English history.

Max gluckman

A short biography of one of the most significant social anthropologists of the 20th century Max Gluckman was the founder of the Manchester School of Anthropology, which still retains an international influence with its emphasis on case studies and use of Marxist analysis Book is part...

Russian culture

This volume brings together two classic works on the culture of the Russian people which have been long out of print. Gorer's Great Russian Culture and Mead's Soviet Attitudes towards Authority: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Problems of Soviet Character were among the first attempts by anthr...

Born a slave, died a pioneer

Few people in the history of the United States embody ideals of the American Dream more than Nathan Harrison. His is a story with prominent themes of overcoming staggering obstacles, forging something-from-nothing, and evincing gritty perseverance. This book uses spectacular recent discoveries ...

New hong kong cinema

Advocates the model of ‘Cinema of Transitions’ to study Hong Kong-related, Chinese-language films that are concerned with Hong Kong’s sovereignty transfer. Intervenes in the studies of Hong Kong cinema from a combined perspective of Diaspora and East Asian Studies, rather than situating ...

Dreaming and the imagination

Of all the human behaviors anthropologists consider, perhaps the most conceptually challenging are those that cannot by directly observed. This volume draws from rich ethnographic data to offer theoretical and methodological tools for mapping the intersections between two such behaviors: dreami...

Protests, land rights, and riots

Explores the impact of neoliberal policies of the 1980's on the rights of the Australian Aboriginal population Details the political riots of the 1970's and the Aborigine struggle for postcolonial rights Explores how the neoliberal policies underpinned such efforts and pushed the abo...

Wrestling with hope in urban senegal

Wrestling with Hope in Urban Senegal follows the journey of football players and wrestlers in Dakar as they confront the realities of their sporting aspirations. It grapples with themes of masculinity, belief systems and economic survival whilst navigating the complexities of a neoliberal lands...

Engaging with chaucer

This collected volume represents an homage to a toweringly great poet, as well as an acknowledgement of the intellectual excitement, challenges, and pleasure that readers owe to him as even today, his poems have the capacity to change the way we engage with fundamental questions of knowledge, u...

Travelling with the argonauts

New theoretical and methodological approach that moves away from vertical perspectives in studying the social. Creating conceptual space for studying form-free social phenomena such as informal networks. Critique of conventional methods of studying informal social relations. Flat...

Poland daily

Polish cinema has inescapably been shaped by the nation’s succession of different economic and ideological regimes over the last century. This volume is the first to analyze the entirety of the nation’s film history—from independence in 1918 to today—through the lenses of political economy and ...

In the meantime

The “meantime” represents the gap between what is past and the unknown future. When considered as waiting, the meantime is defined as a period of suspension to be endured. By contrast, the contributors of this volume understand it as a space of “the possible” where calculation coexists with unc...

Between bombs and good intentions

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have highlighted again the precarious situation aid agencies find themselves in, caught as they are between the firing lines of the hostile parties, as they are trying to alleviate the plight of the civilian populations. This book offers an illuminating case stu...

The nature of sociology

Having taken over the leadership of the French school of sociology after the death of his uncle, Emile Durkheim, in 1917, Mauss, celebrated author of The Gift, re-launched the flagship journal, the Année sociologique. Here are two of Mauss's most significant statements on the social sciences. T...

Mirrors of passing

Mirrors of Passing explores the relationship between death, materiality, and temporality, drawing from the fields of archaeology, cultural anthropology, political science, and media studies to explore fundamental questions about the relationship between death and our perception of time.

Border straddling heritages

In this geographically wide-ranging reassessment of the overlap between borders and heritage, Ali Mozaffari and David C. Harvey interrogate how “hyperglobalization” has simultaneously challenged and intensified notions of sovereignty and nationality, advancing a theory of heritage that recogniz...

Spanish comics

Spanish Comics offers an overview on contemporary scholarship on Spanish comics, focusing on a wide range of comics dating from early comics history in 1875-1939; the Francoist dictatorship, 1939-1975; the Political Transition, 1970-1985; and Democratic Spain from the early 1980s, and themes of...

Shaping taxpayers

Ethnography up-close of a successful revenue authority. Fiscal anthropology in a modern / developed country. Application of tax law in practice. Knowledge making in a modern bureaucracy.

Bruno kreisky’s foreign policy

An enlightening and geographically wide-ranging reappraisal of the life and legacy of the Austrian politician, Bruno Kreisky, this volume seeks to reinstate Kreisky’s centrality to Cold War history and Austria’s postwar recovery, highlighting how profoundly he reshaped the modern, geopolitical ...

Fixing motorcycles in post-repair societies

Taking motorcycling in Romania as an ethnographic entry point, this book documents how bikers handle the inevitable moment of malfunction and breakdown. Using both mobile and sedentary research methods, the book describes the joys and troubles experienced by amateur mechanics, professional mech...

The anthropology of retirement

Experience of retirement varies considerably across the globe, from areas where most people cannot afford to retire to places where a multitude of new possibilities are being developed for retirees. This book is an anthropological approach to consider the range of contexts and consequences that...

Theatres of violence

Covers the history of massacre and mass violence, which are under-researched areas Offers a wide range of case studies of massacre and mass killing from the ancient to the modern world The first book to build on Mark Levene and Penny Roberts' ground breaking 1999 study of massacre i...

Music and postwar transitions in the 19th and 20th centuries

Music and Postwar Transitions takes a groundbreaking and much anticipated dive into the concept of postwar transitions and how these affect and are affected by the world of music. Leading scholars in the field explore new approaches to create a novel understanding of music and postwar periods.

Collective and state violence in turkey

Collective and State Violence in Turkey provides a wide range of case studies and historiographical reflections on the alarming recurrence of violence in Turkish history, as atrocities against varied ethnic-religious groups from the nineteenth century to today have propelled the nation’s very s...

Challenging modernity

When Dada burst onto the European stage in 1916, it shocked and scandalized the public of its day with art forms, ideas, and attitudes which were so revolutionary that it is only in recent decades that they have begun to find recognition within the broad cultural movement known as postmodernism...

Comrades of color

Combination of primary and secondary sources. Global range of perspectives from Cuba to South Africa to North Korea. Gives attention to question of race and racism in the Soviet bloc. Transnational study that puts East Germany into a global context beyond Europe.

Heirs of the bamboo

Heirs of the Bamboo is about the Macanese who left Macao and now live in Portugal and looks at their interactions with their counterparts in Macao and elsewhere in the diaspora, using the Internet.

Sounds german

Sounds German surveys the sociopolitical impact of music on German national identity, gender and sexuality, and transnational cultural production and consumption, expanding on the ways in which sounds, technologies, media practices, and exchanges of popular music provide a unique glimpse into t...

Crafting co-ops in denmark

Tinkering toward Transformation provides a vivid look at the conundrums of capitalism in the contemporary Danish Welfare state. This makes the book interesting to a broad range of scholars and students concerned with the political and social history as well as the present trajectory of this ...

Former neighbors, future allies?

Former Neighbors, Future Allies is a key bridge into the research and perspectives needed to nurture ethnography’s growing role in German studies. This volume creates a space for dialogue between North American Germanists and ethnographers in and of the German-speaking world, enriching both fie...

Searching for a better life

It is the only book (in English) dedicated to the study of Thai youth growing up in poverty. It contributes to debates on agency and structure by suggesting a conceptual framework for understanding agency in a holistic way and recognizing the unintended consequences that can ensue when e...

Vision and change in institutional entrepreneurship

Sheltered for a long time within the public sector environment with high job security and professional research autonomy, defense R&D organizations faced unprecedented challenges when government support was being withdrawn and closure threatening. They needed to be led by a suitable vision ...

Ambiguous childhoods

linguistic ethnographic observations, recordings and analyses of children’s everyday interactions and learning trajectories in a rural postcolonial setting “multi-site” observations and recordings of children interacting across homes, fields, classrooms, and the marketplace interdi...

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. ...

Memorializing the gdr

Since unification, eastern Germany has witnessed a rapidly changing memorial landscape. Memorializing the GDR provides the first in-depth study of this key topic, investigating the individuals and groups involved in the creation or destruction of memorials while addressing the subject’s complex...

Power and architecture

Explores the way capital cities provide a symbol for the state and contribute to the “invention” of nation. Addresses the reciprocal relationships between identity, regime formation and political ideology in urban planning and public architecture in the Western world. Variety of auth...

The 'conservative revolutionaries'

During the forty years of division, the Protestant and Catholic churches in Germany were the only organizations to retain strong ties and organizational structures: they embodied continuity in a country marked by discontinuity. As such, the churches were both expected to undergo smooth and rapi...

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...

Policy worlds

There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy making has progressively reached into the structure and fabric of everyday life. An instrument of modern government, policy and its processes provide an analytical window into systems of ...

The image that never ends

This book explores the relationship between images and anthropology, offering a deeper understanding of how visual culture shapes our world. It addresses how anthropology can help us reflect on the role of images in daily life and reconsiders classic anthropological themes—ritual, kinship, and ...

Children in the holocaust and its aftermath

The interviews conducted with Holocaust child survivors and war children were done in the 80s and early 90s therefore these are the first interviews many gave The collection also includes interviews conducted immediately after liberation Various qualitative analytic methods are used ...

Screening the east

a comprehensive and detailed analysis of German post-unification film an insightful account of the representation of east Germans since the collapse of Communism a useful contribution to the current debates about German identity

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...

Regimes of responsibility in africa

How have African moral worlds changed since the 1990s? Regimes of Responsibility in Africa analyses the transformations that discourses and practices of responsibility have undergone in Africa. The work enters into a dialogue with the emerging corpus of studies in the field of ethics, providing...

We come as members of the superior race

We Come as Members of the Superior Race discusses the stereotype of Africans as “primitive” and “unintelligent,” exploring how this legacy has enforced contemporary educational and development discourses which view African societies as subordinated in a global geopolitical order, and how it con...

Back to the postindustrial future

First ethnography solely focused on the future One of the first ethnographies solely focused on a postindustrial city Theoretical contribution to anthropology of time (presentism) First English language ethnography of a shrinking city

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...

The amazonian puzzle

By examining the multiple cultural and ethnic threads that traverse this landscape, The Amazonian Puzzle sets out to show how the category of caboclo (a powerful spiritual entity to some, and to others a despised peasant of mixed ancestry) reveals deep currents of ethnic recompositions, religio...

The great reimagining

A relevant and thorough examination of how urban space is constructed and contested in "post-conflict" Northern Ireland. Examines the official effort to produce new civic images against the backdrop of ongoing political and social struggle. Sheds light on the contested nature of seem...

Estates and constitution

Estates and Constitution provides a rich account of Hungarian politics during the eighteenth century, restoring the Diet to its rightful place as one of the era’s major innovations in government. István M. Szijártó traces the religious, economic, and partisan forces that shaped the Diet, puttin...