Trusting and its tribulations

Ethnographic approach to theorizing the relationship between trust, intimacy and sociality. Ethnographic engagements with the interdisciplinary field of trust research. Comparative explorations of the relationship between trust, intimacy and sociality. Problematizes the notion th...

Thinking russia's history environmentally

Thinking Russia’s History Environmentallybrings together an international set of scholars to showcase the contribution that the study of Russian environments makes to the global environmental field. It challenges the stereotypes of Russian history, highlighting lesser-known features of the nati...

Shaping the novel

The dialogue between form and message is intrinsic to the novel as genre. Yet the strength of that discourse has been shaken in the twentieth century by an increasing doubt about affirmations of any kind and a growing awareness of the relativity of knowledge and perception. The novel reflects t...

Cattle poetics

Loving cows, then killing them. The relation with cattle in Mursi country is shaped by the dichotomy between the value given to it during life and the death imposed upon it. This book investigates the link between the nurturing and killing of cattle, and its accompanying aesthetics, with Mursi ...

The island of the pope

This illuminating re-examination of Syros’s transition into a major commercial hub following the Greek War of Independence revises the conventional understanding of the island’s demographic history, highlighting how, rather than withdraw, the native Catholic community adjusted and integrated in...

Defiance and compliance

The gap between rich and poor is widening in most countries, putting more pressure on women in particular who often find themselves with the ultimate responsibility to provide for their families, especially their children, in the face of economic and political discrimination. Based on participa...

Contesting deregulation

Across thirteen case studies, this volume investigates the 1970s/80s “deregulatory moment” from a variety of historical perspectives, including transnational, comparative, pan-European, and national approaches. Collectively, they challenge an interpretive framework that treats individual decade...

Culture in dark times

Explores how different groups fought over who could definitively claim to represent the authentically “great German culture” Analyzes the highly complex interconnections among the cultural-political concepts Asks why the most artistically ambitious art forms were viewed as politicall...

Memoirs of a mbororo

This remarkable book recounts the life of Ndudi Umaru, a pastoral nomadic Fulani, who was born in the Nigeria-Cameroon border zone, but spent most of his life in Cameroon where he was treated for leprosy. Left to his own devices at an early age—his illness having separated him from his kith and...

Popular historiographies in the 19th and 20th centuries

Opens up new field of study (popular histories) which promises to contribute in major way to investigation of broader historical cultures Intertextuality and interdisciplinarity point the way for future research in the area Explores popular histories in different media and popular hi...

Ambassadors of realpolitik

Reveals the pragmatic side of Swedish foreign policy in the 1970s. Contributes to the history of multilateral summitry in general and the CSCE in particular. Draws upon a wealth of previously unresearched archival material from five countries. Demonstrates the obstacles met by Eu...

The devil's riches

Interdisciplinary Accessible Focuses on the modern period (1400-present) Oriented around religion, economics, and health as three ways that humans have sought to understand greed

Dressing up

Social media is an important and increasingly salient topic, which we'll be seeing a lot more of in the future. Though much has been written about men's fashion, this book is one of the first volumes to offer an anthropological approach to contemporary notions of masculinity through men'...

Historical reenactment

The increasing number of historical reenactments, along with their growing popularity, are catching both attention in popular culture and in multiple academic disciplines. Historical Reenactment takes a transdisciplinary and global approach to define and theorize reenactments as an embedded cul...

Belonging in unhomely homelands

Belonging in Unhomely Lands takes a feminist approach to examine the intricate dynamics of gender, national affiliation and belonging in the context of internal displacement and territorial disputes faced by Kosovo Serbs since the ethnic conflict and tensions two decades ago.

Between tradition and modernity

Aby Warburg (1866-1929), founder of the Warburg Institute, was one of the most influential cultural historians of the twentieth century. Focusing on the period 1896-1918, this is the first in-depth, book-length study of his response to German political, social and cultural modernism. It analyse...

Cultural diversity in russian cities

Case studies of qualitative ethnographic research on cultural practices and their spatial manifestations in several Russian cities (Moscow, St.Petersburg, Sochi, Novosibirsk) Issues of Racism and Homophobia in Russia Self-Representations of transnational labour migrants, sub-cultural...

Law, history, and justice

Takes a long-term perspective on the problem of German state crimes (First World War, Second World War, GDR). Exemplifies the potential of legal cultural approach. Demonstrates the complex entanglements of legal theory, historical trauma, criminal prosecution, historiography, and pol...

Sweden after nazism

At the centre of this study is neutral Sweden, a country that in many ways escaped the horrors of Nazism and the Second World War. Claims that the Nazi experience was of fundamental importance for postwar Sweden, although in a more subtle and complex way than in war-ridden countries. ...

France after 2012

Details the French presidential and parlimentary elections of May 2012. Explores the principal challenges facing the elected Socialist president Francois Hollande and the new government of Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault. Assesses the success of their first year in office and how ef...

Innovation and implementation

Providing a comprehensive set of guidance to assist researchers wishing to carry out, curate and disseminate field research at a historic burial ground, chapters offer up to date methods for surface and subsurface survey and for the recording and archiving of burial monument data. Also included...

Europe’s disappearing waste

Through ethnographic research conducted among landfill workers and waste pickers, Europe’s Disappearing Waste explores the inner workings of the Czech waste management system that is underpinned by the belief that waste should disappear.

In fading light

The Amber Film collective has been part of the British and European documentary scene since the late 1960s. Situating the work within wider social, political and historical contexts, In Fading Light interrogates how their critically acclaimed body of work—which includes documentaries, feature f...

Civilizations beyond earth

Presents empirical and theoretical research on the societal dimensions of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Interdisciplinary effort encompassing fields such as archaeology, sociology, mathematics and religious studies Academically rigorous yet accessible collection...

A narrow bridge to life

By 1944 a large part of Eastern Europe had already been liberated by the Red Army, and the Allied forces were continuing to move in from the west after success at Normandy. Yet, in Lower Silesia, Germany more than sixty new forced labor camps were established, adding to the approximately forty ...

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...

Sexual self-fashioning

Focusing on premarital sex, homosexuality, and cohabitation outside marriage, this book provides an ethnographic account of sexuality among the Iranian Dutch. It argues that by embracing, rejecting, and questioning modernity in stories about sexuality, the Iranian Dutch actively engage in proce...

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...

Muted memories

This book examines the centrality of the East African Caravan Trade to Bagamoyo, a Tanzanian port town on the Indian Ocean, and explores the way that this history was silenced when Bagamoyo was instead branded as a slave route town in 2006 in an attempt to qualify it for the UNESCO World Herita...

Echoes of surrealism

Echoes of Surrealism surveys areas of surrealist art throughout the entire lifespan of the GDR and explores analyses of the interaction and reciprocal influences of various art forms. Focusing on individual authors, visual artists, film directors and musicians who have taken a surrealist perspe...

Becoming a subject

Focusing on the Greek Civil War (1946-1949), the last major conflict in Europe before the end of the Cold War, this study examines the political prisoners whose fate encapsulates the dramatic conflicts and contradictions of that dark era. New sources such as prisoners' letters, memoirs, and off...

Voices in the dark

In refugee camps all over the world, refugees are forced to secure their own access to energy and are provided with limited cooking resources and minimal electricity. Voices in the Dark draws upon a decade of original research to provide evidence on the energy lives of refugees.

Cars

Through developing an original analytical framework that, for the first time, systematically relates productive, market and financial variables, the authors are able to rewrite the history of the car business since Henry Ford.

Selling the economic miracle

Through an examination of election campaign propaganda and various public relations campaigns, reflecting new electioneering techniques borrowed from the United States, this work explores how conservative political and economic groups sought to construct and sell a political meaning of the Soci...

Deadly contradictions

A compelling account of the American empire. An explanation of how contemporary forms of violence exercised by American elites in the colonies, client state, and regions of interest have deferred imperial problems, but not without raising their own set of deadly contradictions. Can b...

Categories and classifications

Marcel Mauss (1872-1950), Durkheim's nephew, was a key figure among Durkheimians and helped to found the distinctive French tradition in the social sciences at the start of the 20th century. He dominated the teaching of social anthropology in Paris between the Wars, and his Essay on the Gift (1...

Political fellini

Political reading of Fellini’s theme and image through a close examination of papers, publicity files and debates (in contrast with the notorious self-referential interpretation of his films) and historical reconstruction of his clash with Silvio Berlusconi during the 80’s. Analysis of ...

Modernity and secession

The northern Italian, ‘Padanian’ identity, fostered by the Lega Nord, is rooted in the long-standing tradition, in political and scholarly discourse, of casting regional differences within Italy in terms of a North-South geographic divide. Trying to come to terms, in the late 1980s and 1990s, w...

Sex, thugs and rock 'n' roll

A fascinating and highly readable account of what it was like to be young and hip, growing up in East Germany in the 1950s and 1960s. Living on the frontline of the Cold War, young people were subject to a number of competing influences. For young men from the working class, in particular, a co...

Anthropology as ethics

Anthropology as Ethics is concerned with rethinking anthropology by rethinking the nature of reality. It develops the ontological implications of a defining thesis of the Manchester School: that all social orders exhibit basically conflicting underlying principles. Drawing especially on Contine...

The global pontificate of pius xii

Following Vatican archives opening up access to materials on the pontificate of Pius XII (1939-1958), the contributors to this volume were amongst the first to access these long-awaited records. They have analyzed them here to present a nuanced and revitalized approach to religious, modern post...

The participants

Although the Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942 is today understood as a signal episode in the history of the Holocaust, many of its attendees remain relatively unknown to nonspecialists. Combining accessible prose with scholarly rigor, The Participants presents fascinating profiles of the ...

Building social worlds

This collection draws on ethnography across Africa, Europe, Oceania and the Americas, and uses Goody’s ideas to expand contributors understanding of the nature of relationships, communication, intimacy, resistance and resilience with a particular focus on rich ethnographies of childhood and lea...

Sisters in arms

Up to now, studies of feminist activism have focused almost exclusively on protest that was commonly understood as peaceful. This study shows that there was considerable disagreement over the question of which tactics were appropriate and necessary in feminist struggles, and that some groups...

Anthropology now and next

The work provides an enormously valuable perspective on some key ideas from the career of Ulf Hannerz The collection offers essays about current and future anthropological practice The volume addresses the theoretical, epistemological, ethical and methodological challenges facing ant...

The european way

A good social history of Europe has yet to be written though, given the developments over the last few decades, this seems more urgent than ever before. This volume presents an important step forward in that it brings together eight internationally known social historians from Europe and Israel...

Jewish histories of the holocaust

Examines unique Jewish perspectives concerning the Holocaust. Examines approaches to Jewish History of the Holocaust. Includes variety of leading scholars from North America, Europe, Israel. Examines variety of topics ranging from Jewish leadership to resistance to memory.

The kings and the pawns

The most encompassing representation of the phenomenon of Byelorussian collaboration during World War II Illumination of virtually unknownaspects in modern East European history Study basing on multiple sources in different languages

Sacred places, emerging spaces

‘Folk’ sacred places (informality, hybridity) Contemporary multi-religious / multi-ethnic societies in the Caucasus Social meaning of pilgrimage and its transformation Practices of Sharing and Non-Sharing Diversity of field sites: rural & urban; North and South Caucasus (...

Banned in berlin

Imperial Germany’s governing elite frequently sought to censor literature that threatened established political, social, religious, and moral norms in the name of public peace, order, and security. It claimed and exercised a prerogative to intervene in literary life that was broader than that o...

Escapees

Escapes from deportation trains: First study of the phenomenon as Jewish resistance to National Socialistic persecution More than 750 escapees in Western Europe show various forms of motives and implementation (agency) First study of deportation train guards (who they were and how th...

Post-ottoman topologies

With contributions from several of the Balkan countries that once were united under the aegis of the Ottoman Empire, this latest volume proposes new theoretical approaches to the experience and transmission of the past through time.

When women held the dragon's tongue

Challenges the dominant culturalist approach associated with Clifford Geertz and Marshall Sahlins Bridges the current gap between approaches to studies of peasant society and popular culture Presents a critical rethinking of the philosophical anthropologies found in specific historie...

Assembling financialisation

Farmers, Indigenous organisations, government and private-sector intermediaries from remote Northern Australia often negotiate with private finance capital to gain funds for agricultural development.This book demonstrates that while financialisation is a useful signifier of patterns of global c...

Configuring contagion

Expanding our understanding of contagion further than typical notions of infection and pandemics, this book widens the field to include biosocial epidemics. The chapters propose varied and detailed answers to questions about the epidemic and contagious potential of specific infections and non-i...

Rethinking the historiography of the soviet bloc

Brings together Historians and philosophers to analyse the totalitarian idea and its broader application. Highlights the reasons why totalitarianism is still an attractive model in political science born out of the cold war. Revisits ideas about totalitarianism and knowledge producti...

Crafting 'the indian'

In Europe, Indian hobbyism, or Indianism, has developed out of a strong fascination with Native American life in the 18th and 19th centuries. “Indian hobbyists” dress in homemade replicas of clothing, craft museum-quality replicas of artifacts, meet in fields dotted with tepees and reenact aspe...

Digital archives and collections

Museums and archives all over the world digitize their collections and provide online access to heritage material. But what factors determine the content, structure and use of these online inventories? This book turns to India and Europe to answer this question. It explains how museums and arch...

Assisted reproductive technologies in the third phase

Highlights the opening up of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) to new constituencies in terms of ethnicity, geography, education, and class.

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 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

Shakespeare and biography

Edible people

While human cannibalism has attracted considerable notice and controversy, certain aspects of the practice have received scant attention. These include the connection between cannibalism and xenophobia: the capture and consumption of unwanted strangers. Likewise ignored is the connection to sla...

The german right in the weimar republic

Examines a crucial episode in the demise of the Weimar Republic and the rise of National Socialism. Based upon extensive primary research in a wide range of archival collections. Employs a variety of methodological approaches in the study of the German Right. Approaches the issue...

Heritage movements in asia

Refugees from nazi germany and the liberal european states

Focuses on one of the most dramatic refugee movements in contemporary European and world history. Takes a comparative approach in which each of the national cases is illuminated and enriched by comparison. The analysis shows the interplay between different national immigration policies a...

Memory and change in europe

Offers a reflection on memory from an Eastern European historical perspective, one that can be measured against, or applied to, historical experience in other parts of Europe. The authors situate studies on memory in Eastern Europe within the broader debate on European memory.

Terrorism and the pandemic

The global pandemic has offered extraordinary opportunities for extremists and terrorists to mobilize themselves and revive as more powerful actors in the security landscape. But could these threat groups actually capitalize on the coronavirus crisis and advance their malevolent agendas? This b...

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...

The armenian genocide

Illustrates how the Ottoman Empire adopted a programme geared to the destruction of an identifiable group of its own citizens Demonstrates how German diplomatic documents reveal the shared responsibilty of the Kaiserreich and its willful acquiescence during the genocide An important...

Engaging the spirit world

In many parts of the contemporary world, spirit beliefs and practices have taken on a pivotal role in addressing the discontinuities and uncertainties of modern life. The myriad ways in which devotees engage the spirit world show the tremendous creative potential of these practices and their in...

Curating live arts

Situated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation has grown in recent years to become a vibrant interdisciplinary project. Curating Live Arts brings together innovative essays from international theorist-practitioners to pose vital questions...

The hunted

A ground-level history of the Holocaust, told through the voices of twenty European Jews. Drawing from diaries and memoirs, it reveals a multiplicity of experiences across countries, classes, and religious backgrounds. Each chapter traces a single year in the protagonists’ lives, placing person...

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...

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...

A world of populations

Regional diversity, emphasis on local situations The essays in this collection provide a new approach to demography: history of knowledge The text is among the few publications in the field that cover the whole 20th century

The world beyond the west

Exploring the evolution of Eastern European discourses in Asia, Africa and Latin America in nineteenth and twentieth century, this volume locates the mechanisms and strategies that diverse Eastern European social actors adopted when discussing the non-European world. The Eastern European perspe...

Patrons of women

Assuming that women’s empowerment would accelerate the pace of social change in rural Nepal, the World Bank urged the Nepali government to undertake a “Gender Activities Project” within an ongoing long-term water-engineering scheme. The author, an anthropologist specializing in bureaucratic org...

Gender, power, and non-governance

Using Sherry Ortner’s analogy of Female/Nature, Male/Culture, this volume interrogates the gendered aspects of governance by exploring the NGO/State relationship. By examining how NGOs/States perform gendered roles and actions and the gendered divisions of labor involved in different types of i...

Dynamics of emigration

In the dictatorships of the twentieth century, historians have frequently been exiled from both fascist and communist regimes. This book discusses the experience of exile and asks why some of them were successful in establishing themselves in their new host countries while others failed.

Party responses to social movements

Focusing on Italy and the Netherlands since the 1970s, Party Responses to Social Movements demonstrates how political parties have incorporated the demands of social movements to a surprising extent, even as both have grappled with fundamental and inevitable tension between their respective rol...

What is history for?

Johann Gustav Droysen’s historical theory is a central reference for everyone who attempts to understand 19th century philosophy of the human sciences. Until now, Droysen’s work remains widely understudied outside Germany. English readers who seek to get in touch with Droysen’s works cou...

Revolution and counterrevolution

Why did the most unruly proletariat of the Twentieth Century come to tolerate the ascendancy of a political and economic system that, by every conceivable measure, proved antagonistic to working-class interests? Revolution and Counterrevolution is at the center of the ongoing discussion about c...

Archeologies of confession

Can one give voice to those whom history has forgotten? The essays collected here examine the formation of religious identities during the Reformation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Germany through case studies of remembering and forgetting—instances in which patterns and practices of re...

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...

Judgment at istanbul

Turkey’s bid to join the European Union has lent new urgency to the issue of the Armenian Genocide as differing interpretations of the genocide are proving to be a major reason for the delay of the its accession. This book provides vital background information and is a prime source of legal evi...

Remaking home

Rather than emphasising boundaries and territories by examining the ‘integration’ and ‘acculturation’ of the immigrant or the refugee, this book offers insights into the ideas and practices of individuals settling into new societies and cultures. It analyses their ideas of connecting and belong...

Having and belonging

Examines the connection between the material culture of the private and public, homes and museums. Investigates the connection between heritage and nation building. Shows that existing museum theories, based on nations living in relative peace, cannot indiscriminately be applied in I...

Ethical practice in participatory visual research with girls

Girls and young women from rural and indigenous communities around the world  face some of the most adverse social issues in the world despite the existence of protective laws and treaties. This collected volume explores the potential of participatory visual method (PVM) for girls and young wom...

Settlement, economy, and cultural change at the end of the european iron age

This volume presents preliminary results of excavation at the Late Iron Age oppidum settlement of Kelheim. The volume addresses some major questions about late prehistoric Europe from the perspective of these excavations and the analytical results. It presents investigations into ritual behavio...

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...

Soho on screen

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...

Being a sperm donor

First book length ethnography on (Danish) sperm donors Bringing medical anthropology/sociology in dialogue with queer-feminist analyses of gender and sexuality In depth insights into the interplay between male identity and (reproductive) biomedicine

Manufacturing tibetan medicine

Describes how the Tibetan medicine industry has become central to the debate about Tibet's future Explains how considerations of profit and capital have transformed the industry into producing commodities for the Chinese national market

God in the machine

Enlarges the scope of discussion, about creativity in science and art, about the philosophy of experience in general, but also about the way humanities can take up and take on the experimental aspect of their practice. The book demonstrates clearly how it is no longer just a matter of th...

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...

The power of the story

Can a novel cause riots, start a war, free serfs or slaves, break up marriages, drive readers to suicide, close factories, bring about law change, swing an election, or serve as a weapon in a national or international struggle? The author explores this question in the form of a theoretical essa...

Precious pills

Through an ethnography of the social and medical worlds of a community of Tibetan refugees in India, this book addresses two main questions: first, how has the prolonged displacement of Tibetan refugees affected concepts of health in the exile community? Second, how has exile changed traditiona...