Traumatic pasts in asia

Traumatic Pasts in Asia extends Euro-American paradigms of traumatic experience to new sites of world-historical suffering and, in the process, explores how these new terrains of investigation inform and enrich earlier understandings.

Minority discourses in germany since 1990

Minorities and Minority Discourse in Germany since 1990 opens the question of why ethnic minorities in Germany are often discussed in isolation. Whereas most studies examine Black Germans, Jews in Germany, or Turkish Germans on their own terms vis-à-vis the majority German society, this volume ...

Theorising media and practice

Although practice theory has been a mainstay of social theory for nearly three decades, so far it has had very limited impact on media studies. This book draws on the work of practice theorists such as Wittgenstein, Foucault, Bourdieu, Barth and Schatzki and rethinks the study of media from the...

Pregnancy in practice

Examines everyday experiences that mark pregnancy in the United States today Brings into focus a topic that has been overlooked in the scholarship on reproduction Of interest to professionals and expectant parents alike

Vanished history

Comparative analysis of Czech and Slovak historical cultures. First analysis of the Holocaust Memory in Czech and Slovak historical cultures. New perspective on Oskar Schindler in the context of the “Sudeten German” minority in Czechoslovakia. View of a construction of ...

Cinema at the edges

The book considers the works of three popular Spanish film directors, Julio Medem, Juan José Bigas Luna, and José Luis Guerín. They are studied in relation to their engagement with alternative national and cinematic subjectivities. New readings engage with current debates in visual...

Arctic abstractive industry

Examining the processes at work in sites of industrial extraction and ecological vulnerability in the contemporary Arctic, this book looks at the displacements that conceal exploitation, on the one hand, and appropriations of value on the other.

Foodways and empathy

The first in-depth ethnography of a Lower Ramu River society. Provides a unique ethnographic example of kinship / relatedness. Shows the conceptual convergence of foodways with empathy. Provides an example of the cultural dimensions of empathy.

Germany and 'the west'

First comprehensive study of the conceptual history of ‘the West’ in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany Conceptual history approach Reflecting the importance of the nineteenth century in the history of ‘the West’ A historical contribution to the current debate about the me...

Searching for the dao of medicine

A deepened understanding of the history of medicine in late imperial China through an entirely new perspective on this history A completely new understanding of the place of medicine in the intellectual history of late imperial China A resolution to several conceptual problems that c...

Extraordinary encounters

Explores the theoretical and methodological challenges that the "Interview" brings to the discipline of "Ethnography". Argues that the interview should be seen as a special, productive site of ethnographic encounter, a site of a very particular and important kind of knowing. Contribu...

Ibn khaldun

The first book to be published which specifically looks at Ibn Khaldun's influence on the development of anthropology. Ibn Khaldun is considered one of the fathers of the social sciences and retains a huge influence over 600 years after his death. Lawrence Rosen is a world renowned e...

Social im/mobilities in africa

Grounded in both theory and ethnography, this volume insists on taking social positionality seriously when accounting for Africa’s current age of polarizing wealth. To this end, the notion of social im/mobilities emphasizes the complexities of current changes, taking us beyond the prism of a un...

Pedagogies of value

Original ethnography of global markets: Reveals how foreign intermediaries navigate China’s luxury markets, offering rare insights into value-making in transnational capitalism. Bridges disciplines: Connects anthropology, sociology, and business studies, appealing to both academic and pr...

Germany and the middle east

For more than a hundred years, persistent conflict in the Middle East has led global superpowers like Germany to become involved. Germany and the Middle East encounters in detail how the nation came to accept its historical responsibility towards newer states in the Middle East, and how major d...

Sites of modernity—places of risk

Institutions with long traditions of calculating risk such as insurance firms, policing authorities, and prisons are at the center of debates surrounding the fields of security, risk, and emergencies. Starting with the 1970s, Sites of Modernity—Places of Risk innovates against these sprawling a...

Almost, but not quite bored in pula

Based on interviews and fieldwork conducted among residents of Pula – a coastal city in Northwestern Croatia, this study explores various aspects of a local feeling of boredom. This is mirrored in the term tapija, a word of Turkish origin describing a property deed.

German rule, african subjects

This classic study, now available for the first time in English, explains how German colonial ambitions foundered in present-day Namibia. As it shows, the highly rationalized planning of Wilhelmine authorities could not accommodate the practical, lived realities of both colonizer and colonized.

Refugees on the move

Refugees on the Move highlights and explores the profound complexities of the current refugee issue by focusing specifically on Syrian refugees in Turkey and other European countries and responses from the host countries involved. The book examines the causes of the movement of refugee populati...

Breathing hearts

Sufism is known as the mystical dimension of Islam. Nasima Selim explores this definition to find out what it means to ‘breathe well’ along the Sufi path in the context of anti-Muslim racism. Breathing Hearts is the first book-length ethnographic account of Sufi practices and politics in Berlin.

The franco-mauritian elite

Focuses on the power of white elites still lingering on in postcolonial realities. Addresses anew how an elite group aims to prolong its position over time.

Quotas

Quotas focuses on the ideologies and practices of quota regimes in Central and Eastern Europe from the late nineteenth century throughout the 20th century, covering their origins development, and impact particularly on limiting access to higher education.

An australian indigenous diaspora

The first full-length ethnography applying the concept of diaspora to indigenous migration within the nation state. The first full-length account to provide a double perspective (both home and away) of the migration of Australian Indigenous people from remote settlements to towns and cit...

Reflecting on reflexivity

Approaches the concept of reflexivity on two different yet related analytical planes. On the one plane, a collection of original and innovative ethnographically based essays is offered, each of which is devoted to ways in which reflexivity plays a fundamental role in human social life an...

From eastern bloc to european union

It is the only book worldwide that comparatively analyzes all the former Soviet bloc countries which today are EU members. As the analysis shows, all the former communist EU states, including East Germany, share common characteristics and similar ways of development. They differ consider...

Colonial collecting and display

First study dedicated to the historical collecting and display of the material cultures of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Critiques established conceptions of the act of collecting Queries the notion of a homogenous British approach to material culture from the Andaman and Nicobar I...

The moral work of anthropology

Looking at anthropologists at work, this book investigates what kind of morality they perform in their occupations and the impact of this morality. The book includes ethnographic studies of anthropologists at work in four professional arenas: health care, business, management and interdisciplin...

Tactical citizenships

Tactical Citizenships is a testament to the tenacity and resourcefulness of marginalized individuals in directing their relations with the state. It explores the troubled relationship between a state and its citizens across four different kinds of social spaces in Limassol, Cyprus.

The politics of education

Although the early history of progressive education is often associated with John Dewey in America, the author argues convincingly that the pedagogues in the elementary schools in the big cities of Imperial Germany were in the avant garde of this movement on the European Continent. Far more tha...

Politics of time

What has really happened in Poland since the election of 2005? After such spectacular events as the practice of lustration and the questioning of solidarity with the European Union, one has to ask: what is the nature of this newly emerging society? As with many of the recent developments in for...

Italian neofascism

During the Cold War Italy witnessed the existence of an anomalous version of a civil conflict, defined as a 'creeping' or a 'low-intensity' civil war. Political violence escalated, including bomb attacks against civilians, starting with a massacre in Milan, on 12 December 1969, and culminating ...

Concentrationary cinema

It is the first dedicated study of Alain Resnais’s benchmark film that draws together a range of authors across French, film and anti-colonial studies to analyse the political aesthetics of this film It proposes a new perspective on Alain Resnais’s film by shifting it from Holocaust stud...

Childbirth, midwifery and concepts of time

All cultures are concerned with the business of childbirth, so much so that it can never be described as a purely physiological or even psychological event. This volume draws together work from a range of anthropologists and midwives who have found anthropological approaches useful in their wor...

Governing migration through paperwork

Based on ethnographic studies in various geographical and bureaucratic contexts, this collection shows how civil servants produce statehood, restrict migrants’ movements and engage with migrants’ strategies to make themselves legible. It contributes to the study of the state as documentary prac...

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...

Transactions and creations

In the early 21st century, intellectual and cultural resources emerge on all sides as candidates for ownership claims. Members of an anthropological research team investigating emergent conomic relations in a part of the world renowned for its innovative approach to resources and transactions, ...

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...

Ageing without children

Rapid fertility declines and improved longevity are now shifting the overall balance of population towards older ages in many parts of the world. Within this growing population of older people there are many groups with particular needs about which relatively little is known. This collection fo...

Theorizing entrepreneurship for the future

Presenting a new interpretation of entrepreneurial behaviour, this book focuses on how entrepreneurs consider the future. The study theorizes entrepreneurial behaviour as ‘future-work’: the social practices, language and rituals through which entrepreneurs neutralize or smoothen future unknowns.

Entangled entertainers

Viennese popular culture at the turn of the twentieth century was shaped jointly by Jews and non-Jews alike, though their relationship was not immune to bouts of anti-Semitism. The case studies in this book provide new findings in understanding what it meant to be Jewish among artists, performe...

Ordinary lives and grand schemes

The volume looks at the experience of religion in the intersection of existential ends and grand schemes in everyday practice. Focussing on different religious traditions around the world, the volume offers a comparative and global perspective to living with greater powers that looks bey...

Quo vadis?

2004 was a year that threw into sharp relief the principal features of the present political conjuncture, that is, one in which the Italian political transition shows few signs of coming to a conclusion. 2004 was, therefore, a year of limited change, one in which reforms were announced but not ...

Migration as anchorage

A Palestinian family, stranded in London during Israel’s 2008 war on Gaza, opens a café and adapts to uncertainty. This ethnography follows their efforts to recreate home, introducing the concept of ‘anchoring’ to explore migration, home and place, highlighting the fluidity, temporariness and s...

A year of revolutions

Lewald (1811-1889), the best-selling German woman writer in the nineteenth century, proved akeen and perceptive observer of the social, artistic, and political life of her times, of which these Recollections offer an excellent example. Written from a woman's perspective, this first-hand account...

Colonial seeds in african soil

Drawing upon the fields of environmental history and political ecology, Colonial Seeds in African Soil unravels the complex forest conservation history of Sierra Leone during the 20th century. It grounds a broader trans-national history of Empire Forestry with a case study focused on Sierra Leo...

The challenge of globalization for germany's social democracy

"Modell Deutschland," once admired worldwide, has lost much of its shine, due to a number of internal and external factors. This important and timely volume deals with the economic and political pressures and challenges of globalization and is particularly concerned with their effect on social ...

Fifty years of peasant wars in latin america

Informed by Eric Wolf’s Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, published in 1969, this book examines selected peasant struggles in seven Latin American countries during the last fifty years and suggests the continuing relevance of Wolf’s approach.

Slipping away

During the 1990s, the Eastern Caribbean was caught in a bitter trade dispute between the US and EU over the European banana market. When the World Trade Organization rejected preferential access for Caribbean growers in 1998 the effect on the region’s rural communities was devastating. This vol...

Entrepreneurs of identity

Understanding the Islamic State’s ideologues as ‘entrepreneurs of identity’, this book explores how the group defined categories of social identity and used these categories as tools of communicative and cognitive structuring.

Racism in metropolitan areas

For several decades, a political discourse, which incites exclusion and hatred againt those who are perceived as different, has been gaining ground, most notably in affluent and developed countries. Focusing on the growth of racism in large cities and urban areas, this volume presents the views...

Archaeogaming

Video games exemplify contemporary material objects, resources, and spaces that people use to define their culture. This book serves as a general introduction to "archaeogaming"; it describes the intersection of archaeology and video games and applies archaeological method and theory into under...

Japanese tourism

An in-depth historical, geographical, economic, and social analysis of the changing patterns of Japanese tourism since the late 19th century Uses the Meiji Restoration of 1868 as a case study for the changing face of global tourism from the 19th to the 21st century Discusses tourism ...

Being godless

Drawing on ethnographic inquiry and the anthropological literature on doubt and atheism, this volume explores people's reluctance to pursue religion. The contributors capture the experiences of godless people and examine their perspectives on the role of religion in their personal and public li...

Resettled iraqi refugees in the united states

The American war against Iraq has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and displaced millions of people. Between 2003 and 2017, more than 172,000 Iraqis resettled in the United States. This book explores the experiences of fifteen of them and presents insights into the core experience of life...

The social construction of diversity

Though the composition of the populace of industrial nations has changed dramatically since the 1950s, public discourse and scholarship, however, often remain welded to traditional concepts of national cultures, ignoring the multicultural realities of most of today's western societies. Through ...

Risky transactions

Trust is a central feature of relationships within the Mafia, oppressed minorities, kin groups everywhere, among dissidents, nationalist freedom fighters, ethnic tourists, ethnic middlemen, exchange networks of Kalahari Bushmen, and families subjected to Stalinist social control. Each of these ...

A history of the i.g. farben trial

In this exacting examination of the history of the I.G. Farben trial, Stephan H. Lindner charts the build up and aftermath of this watershed event, in order to highlight its implications for understanding the complexities of corporate social responsibility and of putting the military-industrial...

Democracy struggles

Theoretical contribution: the book unpacks culturally-framed and locally-circumscribed phenomena through looking at structural inequalities and through embedding them in global historical processes of political and economic shifts. Substantial ethnographic material and thick description ...

Germany and the black diaspora

Presents intersections of Black and German history over eight centuries Demonstrates how negative German perceptions of "blackness" proceeded from nineteenth-century racial theories Probes individual and collective responses to inter-cultural points of contact

Management by seclusion

Assessing the World Bank’s attempts to combat global poverty over the past 50 years, anthropologist and former World Bank Advisor Glynn Cochrane argues that instead of the Bank’s prevailing strategy of “management by seclusion,” poverty alleviation requires personal engagement with the poorest ...

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...

Constructing nationalities in east central europe

The hundred years between the revolutions of 1848 and the population transfers of the mid-twentieth century saw the nationalization of culturally complex societies in East Central Europe. This fact has variously been explained in terms of modernization, state building and nation-building theori...

The 1840 rhodes blood libel

Based on newly discovered Ottoman and Jewish sources and using a legal lens on Levantine practices, The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel argues that the acquittal of Rhodian Jews following a ritual murder charge is only adequately understood in the context of the Tanzimat and the Sublime Porte’s foreign...

Anthropology and public service

Demonstrates how anthropologists can set new agendas, and revise old ones in the public sector. Explains how anthropology scholars provide a much-needed social dimension to government thinking and practice. Includes discussions of anthropologists’ work with the UK Department for Inte...

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...

Fishers and scientists in modern turkey

Through the ethnography and history of fish production, seafood consumption, state modernizing policies and marine science, this book analyzes the role of local knowledge in the management of marine resources on the Eastern Black Sea coast of Turkey. Fishing, science and other ways of knowing a...

The bressonians

In its methodology, the book combines an aesthetics of film authorship with a sociological approach. Takes into account the juridical dimension of film authorship. Provides an in-depth analysis of the work of renowned filmmakers Jean Eustache and Maurice Pialat, putting them in dialo...

The strassmanns

Across six generations and two hundred years, this book tells the story of a German- Jewish family who emigrated from Rawicz, Poland, first to Prussian Berlin, and finally to America. In Berlin they found success in politics, medical science, theatre, and aviation and considered themselves Germ...

Obstetric violence and systemic disparities

The final volume in this landmark 3-volume series on The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians looks at the challenges, and even violence, that obstetricians face across the world. This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to ...

State intimacies

State Intimacies examines the mundane workings, ambiguity, and fragilities of care in post-colonial rural North India. The experience of reproductive chronicity is grounded in women’s everyday realities and experiences in sterilization camps and other healthcare settings in rural Rajasthan.

Empire, colony, genocide

In 1944, Raphael Lemkin coined the term “genocide” to describe a foreign occupation that destroyed or permanently crippled a subject population. In this tradition, Empire, Colony, Genocide embeds genocide in the epochal geopolitical transformations of the past 500 years: the European colonizati...

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...

Civil society revisited

We challenge, or in other instances qualify, dominant claims about civil society in Poland as weak and bureaucratized, showing the potential for grassroots mobilization and collective action. Thus, even though the volume was submitted for publication before 2015 elections, our analysis helps to...

Atlantic automobilism

Offers a study of the persitence of the car through a transatlantic perspective Delves into the motives behind early car users Explores the psychological and social reasoning behind our attachment to the vehicle, utilising material such as poems, popular music and films

An outline of european history from 1789 to 1989

In the wake of the revival of European nationalism in 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Romano's essay explores the origin of the idea of the modern nation state between 1789 and 1848 when the citizen and the plebiscite replaced the subject as the legitimizing mechanism for ...

Queer and trans life

Against a background marked by endless ordinary crises, widespread precarity, and disrupting critical events, Queer and Trans Life charts queer investments in futurity. It presents emerging queer and trans anthropological research in and about European contexts.

A sad fiasco

Comparative studies on concentration camps have tended to neglect the African colonial experience at the turn of the twentieth century. A Sad Fiasco delves deeper into the daily lives led in the colonial concentration camps in southern Africa and the motives behind the mass extinction of thousa...

The paradoxical republic

Written by one of the nation’s leading historians, this account of postwar Austria explores the tensions that have defined it for over seven decades. This newly revised edition also addresses the major developments since 2005, including a resurgent far right, economic instability, and the poten...

Socialist escapes

Examines Eastern Europeans as individuals who seized opportunities for enjoyment, agency and autonomy while living under repressive rulers. Explores destinations and diversions that provided ordinary and extraordinary breaks away from the monotony of work, school, ideological orthodoxies...

The online world of surrogacy

A methodologically innovative ethnography of SurroMomsOnline.com, the largest surrogacy support website in the United States. Examines definitions of parenthood, the symbolic role of money, reproductive loss, altruism, and the moral valuation of relationships.

Ogata-mura

The only intensive ethnographic study published in English of a farming settlement community founded upon reclaimed land within a lake The first English language ethnographic study of a single Japanese farming community to actually focus on production in the last 20 years. It concentrate...

Preventing dementia?

The conceptualization of dementia has changed dramatically in recent years with the claim that, through early detection and by controlling several risk factors, a prevention of dementia is possible. Although encouraging and providing hope against this feared condition, this claim is open to scr...

Coming of age in times of uncertainty

Adulthood is taken for granted. It connotes the end of childhood, the resolution to the “storm and stress” period of adolescence. This conception is strongly entrenched in the sociology of youth and the sociology of the life course as well as in the policy arena. At the same time, adulthood its...

Paradoxes of civil society

"Civil Society" has been experiencing a global renaissance among social movements and political thinkers during the last two decades. This collection of original papers by junior and senior scholars offers an important comparative-historical dimension to the debate by examining the historical r...

Indoctrinability, ideology and warfare

Violent ethno-nationalist conflicts continue to mar the history of the twentieth century; yet no satisfactory answer to the question of why humans are susceptible to indoctrination by ideologies that lead to inter-group hostility has so far been found. In this volume an international team of le...

Human origins

Social anthropologists have been conspicuously absent from debates about the origins of modern humans. Human Origins explores why that is, and how social anthropology can shed light on early kinship and economic relations, gender politics, ritual, cosmology, ethnobiology, medicine, and the evol...

Americanization and anti-americanism

The ongoing discussions about globalization, American hegemony and September 11 and its aftermath have moved the debate about the export of American culture and cultural anti-Americanism to center stage of world politics. At such a time, it is crucial to understand the process of culture transf...

Mussolini's dream factory

The only study of film stardom in Fascist Italy. Offers a new angle on Italian fascism. Offers new insight into Fascism's relations with cinema and the mass media. Reveals ways in which stars were incorporated into a totalitarian design and the way in which they responded to othe...

Transnationalities of migrant moral economies in a transforming world

An enlightening reassessment of migrant moral economies, Transnationalities of Migrant Moral Economies in a Transforming World examines the transformative potential of transnational mobility to create social networks capable of resisting authoritarianism and of rethinking reciprocity in a rapid...

The holocaust and historical methodology

In the last two decades our empirical knowledge of the Holocaust has been vastly expanded. Yet this empirical blossoming has not been accompanied by much theoretical reflection on the historiography. This volume argues that reflection on the historical process of (re)constructing the past is as...

Twilight of the merkel era

An in-depth look at the 2017 Bundestag campaign and election Detailed analyses of the major parties and political forces As assessment of the consequential Merkel chancellorship A focus on the rise of right-populism with the Alternative for Germany party

European products

Illuminates how heritage management has provided inroads for the Europeanization of societies in southern Europe - this is unique and has hardly been tackled, neither in European Studies nor in Heritage Studies. Does not only address the notion that "heritage" is the outcome of processe...

Polish film and the holocaust

Provides the first detailed monograph (in any language) on the representation of the Holocaust in Polish cinema Incorporates new materials and sources, mostly in the Polish language, obtained through extensive archival research Introduces a multidisciplinary approach drawing on recen...

Sofia coppola

Market and monastery

In this enlightening ethnography of the Manangi, a Buddhist trading community from northern Nepal, Prista Ratanapruck highlights the way social institutions have boosted Manangi trade opportunities. Examining how capital production and accumulation interacts with the Manangi’s pursuit of social...

Desires for reality

A groundbreaking study providing a full account of the cinematic crises, innovations, and provocations of the era of protest in the late 1960s, as well as the social and aesthetic contexts in which they appeared. A fresh analysis of a contested period in which everything from the avant-g...

Explorations and entanglements

Explorations and Entanglements reconstructs the German elements in the overlapping cultural circuits and complex oceanic transits of the “Pacific Worlds.” It concentrates on the pre-1914 period and encompasses scientific, cultural, religious and commercial exchanges. It opens a gate to a fascin...

Urban displacement

Syria’s massive displacement (2012–present) is one of the largest, most complex and intractable humanitarian emergencies today. Urban Displacement examines multiple dimensions of this crisis from political and socioeconomic predicaments to questions of social belonging, the complexity of the in...

Andrzej wajda

The work of Andrzej Wajda, one of the world’s most important filmmakers, shows remarkable cohesion in spite of the wide ranging scope of his films, as this study of his complete output of feature films shows. Not only do his films address crucial historical, social and political issues; the com...