Disputed territories

Ethnic conflicts have shaped the 20th century in significant ways. While the legacy of the last century is primarily one of many unresolved conflicts, the author contends that Western Europe has a track record in containing and settling ethnic conflicts which provides valuable lessons for confl...

Fetishes and monuments

One hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candomblé were feared as sorcery and persecuted as crime. Its cult objects were fearsome fetishes. Nowadays, they are Afro-Brazilian cultural works of art, objects of museum display and public monuments. Focusing on the particular histories of obje...

The bounded field

Regionalism is one of the most debated issues in contemporary western Europe. Yet why the region, rather than the nation state, can have such a strong appeal for the construction of social and political identity remains largely unexplored. Drawing on data collected in the mountainous Trentino r...

Lessons in perception

It draws together cognitive film theory and avant-garde film theory. It is written in an intentionally accessible way. Particular films are analysed which haven’t been explored elsewhere. It also features (I think) the most detailed analysis of Robert Breer’s aesthetic to date. T...

Walls, borders, boundaries

Written by previously published scholars with expert knowledge in the fields of German studies, history and cultural geography Demonstrates the historical, cultural and political implications of walls and boundaries Explores walls not just as physical divisions, but as social, cultur...

Jewish explorations of sexuality

Every religious community has been affected by the "sexual revolution". The conflict between contemporary attitudes and traditional practices has led to major divisions and controversies, particularly when focused on issues such as homosexuality. This is the first attempt to take abroad look at...

Emerging themes and institutional responses

Italian politics continue to chart new institutional paths. As governments change without the apparent instability of previous decades, political parties transform themselves and personalist modes of governance emerge. New policy concerns - immigration and highway safety - join with perennial c...

Cultural borders of europe

The essays in this anthology address processes of defining European cultural borders, as well as their dependence on – and relation to – various kinds of European belonging and national identity. By proceeding from cultural borders as the object of investigation, we open the door to a range ...

Militant lactivism?

First in-depth academic study of attachment parenting and long-term breastfeeding in the UK or France A contribution to the nascent field of "Parenting Culture Studies" A theoretical focus on accountability and "identity-work", as part of a sociology of modernity A critique of co...

The meanings of a disaster

Focusing on the cases of Great Britain and France, this innovative study explores the discourses and narratives that arose in the wake of the incident among both state and nonstate actors. It gives a thorough account of the strategies that shaped Western European responses to the disaster as we...

Daisy wheel, hexfoil, hexafoil, rosette

Hexfoils have a history of use for personal protection and were carved both intentionally or graffitied into church pews and walls, bed frames, doors, and gravestones. This research sheds light on the use of this historic symbol to protect the bodies and souls of the deceased, across several th...

Mortuary dialogues

Presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Examines how funerals and death rituals give rise to discourse and debate about sustaining moral personhood and community amid modernity and its transformations. Describes the different genres of talk and e...

Tuff city

The first ethnographic history of urban change in the historic centre of Naples. Innovative methodological approach to analyzing and interpreting the European city. In-depth analysis of the relationship between urban regeneration, public space and everyday experience and conflict. ...

Encountering the global in early modern germany

An exacting re-examination of early modern Germany’s entanglement with European colonial projects, Encountering the Global in Early Modern Germany provides a much-needed global perspective on the colonial “cult of connections” that underpinned early modern Germany’s social, religious, and mater...

Crime and criminal justice in modern germany

Utilises a number of primary sources including archival material Includes essays written by more than a dozen of the leading, international mid-career historians of crime and criminal justice in Germany Appropriate for scholars and students new to this field as well as scholars alrea...

Braving the street

As homelessness continues to plague North America and also becomes more widespread in Europe, anthropologists turn their attention to solving the puzzle of why people in some of the most advanced technological societies in the world are found huddled in a subway tunnel, squatting in a vacant bu...

Space and spatiality in modern german-jewish history

This wide-ranging volume revisits both literal and metaphorical spaces in modern German history, working from an expansive concept of “the spatial” to examine the ways in which Jewishness has been attributed to them, and what the implications have been in different eras and social contexts.

Diversity and dissent

Early modern Central Europe was the continent’s most decentralized region politically and its most diverse ethnically and culturally. With the onset of the Reformation, it also became Europe’s most religiously divided territory and potentially its most explosive in terms of confessional conflic...

The legacies of a hawaiian generation

A perspective on North American imperialism derived from three generations of Native Hawaiians who have been subject to imperial policies. The combination of anthropological fieldwork, archival resources, and “kitchen table” conversations gives the book a unique quality. Provides ins...

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.

Performing place, practising memories

First published ethnography from this region of tropical Northern Australia in which is located the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area The only study focusing on relationships between indigenous Australians and the wave of "counter-culture" people who moved into rural communities during the...

The transnational condition

During the last two decades Europe has experienced a rise in transnational contention. Citizens are crossing borders to advance alternative visions of Europe. They spread protest concepts and tactics and explore new ways of organizing dissent. Far from being a recent phenomenon, transnational p...

Applications of anthropology

At the beginning of the twenty-first century the demand for anthropological approaches, understandings and methodologies outside academic departments is shifting and changing. Through a series of fascinating case studies of anthropologists’ experiences of working with very diverse organizations...

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...

Affective states

The volume enhances the anthropological understanding of the various ways through which the state comes to be experienced as a visceral presence in social life.

Reproducing class

Death, commemoration, and cultural meaning

An overview of grieving and memorialization – from a diverse, international group of academics – ranging from traditional modes of expression to contemporary modes that revolve around the digital world.

Power and magic in italy

Based on vivid and colorful case studies about Mafiosi, priests, mothers, and migrants, the author offers new perspectives on the anthropology of religion and magic through categories of landscape, the body, human practice, and material experience. The focus on women as religious practitioners ...

Living translation

Examines the way American teachers and students of Chinese medicine search for resonance in translated texts and concepts. Traces the translation from text to practice and considers the social, political, historical, moral, and personal dimensions involved in the transnational production...

Keys to the 21st century

Are we prepared for the 21st century? There is room for doubt. The future seems increasingly uncertain, hard to decipher, ambiguous in its very indeterminism, sometime frankly illegible. If it is impossible to predict the future, one can at least help to shape it. To respond in a timely manner ...

Crafting as world making

Crafting as Worldmaking: Relationality, Language, and Knowledge Sharing intentionally opens up the limits of what crafting as a concept provides for anthropological theory. Through utilizing examples from various different time periods and across global landscapes, it reimagines questions of be...

Culture, rhetoric and the vicissitudes of life

Inspired by the Rhetoric Culture Project, this volume focuses on the use of imagery, narrative, and cultural schemes to deal with predicaments that arise during the course of life. The contributors explore how people muster their resources to understand and deal with emergencies such as illness...

The nuclear crisis

Provides a comprehensive survey of the “Euromissiles” crisis of 1983 as experienced by its various protagonists. Analyzes NATO’s diplomatic and military maneuvering. Traces the political, cultural, and moral discourses that surrounded the missiles’ deployment in East and West Germany.

Paths to inclusion

The series is rounded off by this volume which focuses on "immigrant" policy, i.e., the ensemble of institutions, laws and social practices that are designed to facilitate the integration of immigrants and refugees into the receiving countries after they arrive. The chapters bring both theoreti...

Lurking cold war

Lasting traces of the Cold War continue to shape the social landscape in Italy and Greece. Lurking Cold War critiques the connections between global categories and individual experiences, foregrounding Cold War resonances through materiality, imagination, speculation, and affect – in literature...

Immigration admissions

There is general agreement today that traditional approaches to immigration admissions in the major receiving countries of the West have serious shortcomings either in concept or implementation, or at times in both. These essays, all written by leading immigration experts, consider the philosop...

Changing identifications and alliances in north-east africa

A useful guide to ethnographical approaches applied by international scholarship Draws on the expertise of historians, anthropologists and geographers Provides a thorough introduction to the region and its people

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...

The politics of german defence and security

The post-Cold War era has witnessed a dramatic transformation in the German political consensus about the legitimacy of the use of force. However, in comparison with its EU and NATO partners, Germany has been reticent to transform its military to meet the challenges of the contemporary security...

Jewish life in nazi germany

German Jews faced harsh dilemmas in their responses to Nazi persecution, partly a result of Nazi cruelty and brutality but also a result of an understanding of their history and rightful place in Germany. This volume addresses the impact of the anti-Jewish policies of Hitler’s regime on Jewish ...

Swedish ventures in cameroon, 1883-1923

The 1880s were a critical time in Cameroon. A German warship arrived in the Douala estuary and proclaimed Cameroon a protectorate. At that time, two Swedes, Knutson and Waldau, were living on the upper slopes of the Cameroon Mountain. Very little is known about their activities. One, Knutson, w...

What we now know about race and ethnicity

Explains how the idea of race became so important in the USA. Reviews references to “race,” “racism,” and “ethnicity” in sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and comparative politics.

The making of the greek genocide

Provides a much-needed analysis of the Greek genocide during and after World War 1 (when over one million Ottoman Greeks were expelled from Turkey) as cultural trauma. Sjöberg irecounts how it emerged as a meaningful but contested collective memory with both nationalist and cosmopolitan ...

Migration in the making of the gulf space

Combining visual and literary analyses and original ethnographic studies as part of a more general political reflection, Migration in the Making of Gulf Space examines the role of migrants and non-citizens in the processes of settling in the Arab States of the Gulf region.

Points of passage

A major contribution to the understanding of the European Jewish migration to late 19th to early 20th century America Provides rich detail about what trans-Atlantic migration felt like to those involved Investigates various aspects of transmigration including medical controls, travel...

Matsutake worlds

Matsutake Worlds explores matsutake mushrooms through the lens of multispecies encounters, to explore the mushroom’s success on the world stage. This success cannot be accounted for by any one cultural or economic process—rather, the matsutake has flourished due to many different processes, cul...

Fear in bongoland

Spurred by wars and a drive to urbanize, Africans are crossing borders and overwhelming cities in unprecedented numbers. At the center of this development are young refugee men who migrate to urban areas. This volume, the first full-length study of urban refugees in hiding, tells the story of...

Post-cosmopolitan cities

Examining the way people imagine and interact in their cities, this book explores the post-cosmopolitan city. The contributors consider the effects of migration, national, and religious revivals (with their new aesthetic sensibilities), the dispositions of marginalized economic actors, and glob...

The discipline of leisure

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

German security policy in the 21st century

"Berlin, 12 January 2030 – The crisis worsens. The Chancellor reaches for the telephone. He instructs his anteroom to put through a call to Germany's most important ally in order to discuss the situation and determine a further course of action." With whom would the chancellor speak? With the A...

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...

Pacific realities

The reconsideration of the notions of resilience and resistance in the light of social change Tackling resilience and resistance as complementary processes Relocating social change in terms of resilience from a system perspective back to the actor-perspective

Indeterminacy

What happens to people, places, and things that do not fit the progressive, ordering narratives of capitalism and modernity? This volume explores the indeterminacy left behind by conventional understandings of progress and shows how totalizing forward movement may be resisted by fragments, open...

Shaping the transnational sphere

An original and innovative collection exploring the role of the expert in shaping culture and society Spans from the second half of the 19th Century, over a variety of landscapes from Western Europe to North America Demonstrates the influence of industrialisation and nation-building ...

International organizations revisited

Thoroughly revised and based on current management research, this follow-up to Rethinking International Organizations provides a wealth of both empirical and theoretical insights to the management of the United Nations and international NGOs, along with practical recommendations for how these o...

Microhistories of the holocaust

Micro perspectives on the Holocaust. Individual and Family narratives. Methodological Reflections about the Holocaust History.

Out of the study and into the field

Outside France, French anthropology is conventionally seen as being dominated by grand theory produced by writers who have done little or no fieldwork themselves, and who may not even count as anthropologists in terms of the institutional structures of French academia. This applies to figures f...

The jacobin clubs in the french revolution, 1793-1795

A pendant to two well-received books by the same author on the departmental clubs during the early years of the Revolution, this book is the product of thirty years of scholarly study, including archival research in Paris and in more than seventy departments in France. It focuses on the twenty-...

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 ...

Evil eye in christian orthodox society

Evil eye is a phenomenon observed globally and has to do with the misfortune and calamities that we can cause to someone else out of jealousy of their possessions. The book engages with evil eye beliefs in Corfu and investigates the Christian Orthodox influences on the phenomenon and how it aff...

Madness, bureaucracy and gender in mumbai, india

Regional mental hospitals in India are perceived as colonial artefacts in need of reformation. In the last two decades, there has been discussion around the maltreatment of patients, corruption and poor quality of mental health treatment in these institutions. This ethnography scrutinizes burea...

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.

Explorations in economic anthropology

At a time of rising global economic precarity and social inequality, the field of economic anthropology offers solutions through the study of local and contextualized economic practices. This book is made up of an exciting collection of succinct essays authored by leading scholars primarily fro...

Bedouin century

The Bedouin in the Negev region have undergone a remarkable change of life style in the course of the 20th century: within a few generations they changed from being nomads to an almost sedentary and highly educated population. The author, who is a Bedouin himself and has worked in the Israeli M...

Soldiering under occupation

Focuses on young Israeli combat soldiers during the Al-Aqsa intifada Demonstrates the need to look at misbehaviour of soldiers from a structural viewpoint Describes how processes of numbing at different levels influence their moral behaviour

Taking on technocracy

Taking on Technocracy addresses changing attitudes towards nuclear energy in the age of global warming.  The German decision to abandon nuclear power is placed in a historical context, including popularization of science, new social movements, media, policing, gender, and the history of emotions.

The arkansas regulators

Friedrich Gerstäcker’s The Arkansas Regulators is a rousing tale of frontier adventure, first published in German in 1846, but virtually lost to English readers for well over a century. This long-awaited translation and scholarly edition of the novel offers a startling rewriting of the frontier...

Arctic silk roads

As climate change accelerates, melting sea ice is fueling the global imagination and geopolitical anticipation of the Arctic region’s accessible transport routes and possibilities for resource extraction. Arctic Silk Roads examines the different conditions under which top-down infrastructural d...

Carnivalizing reconciliation

This book analyzes, within the realms of national literature and film, recent Australian and Canadian attempts to reconcile with Indigenous populations in the wake of forced child removal. As Hanna Teichler demonstrates, their systematic emphasis on the subjectivity of the victim is carnivalesq...

Reading germany

By closely examining the interaction between intellectual and material culture in the period before the Nazis came to power in Germany, the author comes to the conclusion that, contrary to widely held assumptions, consumer culture in the Weimar period, far from undermining reading, used reading...

Crime, jews and news

Crimes committed by Jews, especially ritual murders, have long been favorite targets in the antisemitic press. This book investigates popular and scientific conceptualizations of criminals current in Austria and Germany at the turn of the last century and compares these to those in the contempo...

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

Food, culture and society in india

Bringing together empirical research from across India, this volume examines how food intersects with identity, migration, livelihood and media. It offers interdisciplinary insights into the cultural, political and social dimensions of food in contemporary Indian life.

Identity and networks

Cycling and recycling

Describes how environmental activists, researchers, and policymakers have increasingly turned to mobilizing older technologies in their pursuit of sustainability. Explores the historical fortunes of bicycling and waste recycling. Traces their development over time and provides valuab...

Financialization

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...

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 ...

Mitteleuropa

German unification and the political and economic transformations in central Europe signal profound political changes that pose many questions. Will post-Communism push ahead with the task of institutionalizing a democratic capitalism? How will that process be aided or disrupted by internationa...

After society

In the early 1980s, when the contributors to this volume completed their graduate training at Oxford, the conditions of practice in anthropology were undergoing profound change. Here self-ethnography is used to portray the contributors’ anthropological trajectories, showing how analytical and a...

Investigating online heritage crime

Serves as an excellent introduction to the world of cultural heritage trafficking, which will appeal to academics as well as practitioners in the field. Explores the subject through digital platforms, making for a very timely and forward-looking approach. This title is an under-rese...

Frontiers of civil society

Frontiers of Civil Society is a historical anthropological analysis of the roles of ‘civil society’ in Serbia’s postsocialist and postauthoritarian transformation, focusing mainly on a set of interventions through which various civil society forces supported neoliberalization and transnational ...

Working in greece and turkey

The studies in Working in Greece and Turkey provide an overdue exploration of labour history on both sides of the Aegean, before as well as after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Deploying the approaches of global labour history as a framework, this volume presents transnational, transcontinenta...

Beyond prison

“This is an exceptional personal testimony and story of achievement – Ahmed Othmani tells of his own appalling treatment when in detention and how it informed and inspired a lifetime vocation to struggle for the rights of all prisoners everywhere. As the story demonstrates, Othmani is one of th...

Two sides of one river

compares topographic and ethnographic descriptions of Galicia and Portugal during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries demonstrates how the integration in different states and the existence of a specific nationalist discourse marked differences in the ways that two bordering regions ha...

Irish/ness is all around us

A detailed ethnography of Irish-speaking and Irish-speakers in contemporary west Belfast Sheds new light on the issues attending language revivalism in Ireland and its intersection with historic conflict in N.Ireland Explores the complexities of changing and contradictory senses of I...

Shaping tomorrow's world

Shaping Tomorrow’s World is an award-winning volume that documents the history of futures studies using extensive archival material and rich analysis of the debates surrounding the limits of fields growth.

Uniting germany

The unification of Germany is the most important change in Central Europe in the last four decades. Understanding this rapid and unforeseen development has raised old fears as well as inspired new hopes. In order to make sense out of the bewildering process and to help both expert and lay reade...

These were people once

People buy and sell human remains online. Most of this trade these days is over social media. In a study of this ‘bone trade’, how it works, and why it matters, the authors review and use a variety of methods drawn from the digital humanities to analyze the sheer volume of social media posts in...

Diasporic generations

Interpretations of the background to the Cuban diaspora – a political revolution and the subsequent radical transformation of the society and economy towards socialism – are politicised and highly contested. The Miami-based Cuban diaspora has had extraordinary success in putting its case high o...

Who owns the past?

In the decades since the collapse of socialism in eastern Europe, time has been a central resource under negotiation. Focusing on a local community that was considered a "model" in the socialist period, the author explores a variety of state-sponsored and unofficial pasts - history, folklore, a...

Groundwater politics

The expanding mining industry in the Indigenous Atacameño-Likanantay territories in the hyper-arid Salar de Atacama in Chile are linked to the ecological harm to groundwater. The book addresses recent socioeconomic and political conditions it calls ‘advanced extractivism’ and asks how both eco...

Radical ethnic movements in contemporary europe

Nation states and minorities resort more and more to violence when safeguarding their political interests. Although the violence in the Middle East has been dominating world politics for some time now, European governments have had their share of ethnic violence to contend with as this volume d...

Spain in international context, 1936-1959

This collection of articles covers a crucial period of Spain's history, from the rise of Franco to the crucial Stabilization Plan of 1959. Separated into four chronologically divided sections, it focuses largely on the international reactions to and the involvement of other powers in the Spanis...

Hannah arendt and the uses of history

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) first argued that there were continuities between the age of European imperialism and the age of fascism in Europe in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951). She claimed that theories of race, notions of racial and cultural superiority, and the right of ‘superior races’...

Substantial justice

Papua New Guinea's village court system was introduced in 1974, partly in an effort to overcome the legal, geographical, and social distance between village societies and the country's formal courts. There are now more than 1100 village courts all over PNG, hearing thousands of cases each week....

Living before dying

In-depth life in a nursing home Researcher worked alongside care assistants Long-term observation of people with dementia Insight into residential care for people with dementia and their relatives

In memory of times to come

Drawing on twenty years of research, this book examines the historical perspective of a Pacific people who saw “globalization” come and go. It asks the question: What does it mean to claim that global connections are in the past rather than the present or the future?

Boro, l'île d'amour

An introduction and guide to the complex work of Polish film director Walerian Borowczyk. Allows scholars to gain access to previously unnoticed aspects of Borowczyk's body of work.