Anxious histories

This book explores Holocaust pedagogy in Jewish schools in Melbourne and New York. Demonstrates that an anxious thread runs throughout these narratives, as the pedagogy negotiates feelings of simultaneous belonging and not-belonging in the West and in Zionism. Opens up once again for...

Floating economies

In the Himalayas of the Indian part of Kashmir three communities depend on the ecology of the Dal lake: market gardeners, houseboat owners and fishers.  Floating Economies describes for the first time the complex intermeshing economy, social structure and ecology of the area against the backgro...

The marseille mosaic

Moving across disciplines, The Marseille Mosaic integrates a diverse range of sources and methods to reveal France’s second city in the national imagination as a critical site for postcolonial memory and urban transformation as they crucially interact with debates in contemporary French society.

Population, reproduction and fertility in melanesia

Human biological fertility was considered a important issue to anthropologists and colonial administrators in the first part of the 20th century, as a dramatic decline in population was observed in many regions. However, the total demise of Melanesian populations predicted by some never happene...

Growing artefacts, displaying relationships

Ethnographic study of artefacts from Papua New Guinea Provides detailed examination of how these artefacts acquire their specific properties Engages with contemporary anthropological topics such as aesthetics and rituals Provides detailed discussion of the study of "technology" i...

Beyond the veil

Looking at the cultural responses to death and dying, this collection explores the emotional aspects that death provokes in humans, whether it is disgust, fear, awe, sadness, anger, or even joy. More broadly, this collection suggests a new paradigm in the study of death and dying.

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...

Religion and pride

Through the examination of religious practices and public performance, the author offers a compelling study of how the Hindu community in the French territory of La Réunion assert pride in their religion as a means of gaining recognition as a religious minority.

A more democratic community

By addressing the “place” of democracy in the history of European integration, this book bridges the political history of postwar Europe with the history of European integration. It shows that European integration and the democratic stability of Western Europe were deeply connected, albeit in c...

Food and sustainability in the twenty-first century

Unlike the other books in the market, this volume brings a multidisciplinary focus to bear on the topic. The volume emphasises the symbiosis between different subject areas, and demonstrates the value in analysing food sustainability from multiple perspectives. The disciplinary fulcrum...

The making of anthropology in east and southeast asia

CHOICE OUTSTANDING BOOK OF THE YEAR 2005 Despite the growth of interest in the history of anthropology as a over the last two decades, surprisingly little has been published in English on the development of anthropology in East and Southeast Asia and its relationship to the rest of the academ...

The dutch-munsee encounter in america

Employing a frontier framework, this book traces intercultural relations in the lower Hudson River valley of early seventeenth-century New Netherland. It explores the interaction between the Dutch and the Munsee Indians and considers how they, and individuals within each group, interacted, focu...

Migration, development, and transnationalization

At home in a nursing home

Focusing on contemporary ideas about how aged care is provided, this book poses the question: How can people who are aged and frail live out the final phase of their lives with dignity? In seeking answers, the author examines what it means to be ‘at home’ in residential care in a novel and comp...

Russian historiography from 1880 to 1905

Russian Historiography from 1880 to 1905 develops and intervenes the historic record of Pavel Miliukov (1859-1943), the late leader of the Constitutional Democrats and foreign minister of the Provisional Government, who drove the Moscow School’s paradigm shift from political and legal history t...

Shakespeare and commemoration

Memory and commemoration play a vital role not only in the work of Shakespeare, but also in the process that has made him a world author. As the contributors of this collection demonstrate, the phenomenon of commemoration has no single approach, as it occurs on many levels, has a long history, ...

Birds of passage

Drawing on years of ethnographic fieldwork in Malta, this book traces the complex interactions between hunters, birds and the landscapes they inhabit, as well as the dynamics and politics of bird conservation. Birds of Passage looks at the practice and meaning of hunting in a specific context, ...

Pacific automobilism

In this expansive volume, historian Gijs Mom explores how contemporary mobility has been impacted by social, political, and economic forces on a global scale, as in light of local mobility cultures, the car as an ‘adventure machine’ seems to lose cultural influence in favor of the car’s status ...

Hitler's slaves

During World War II at least 13.5 million people were employed as forced labourers in Germany and across the territories occupied by the German Reich. Most came from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldavia, the Baltic countries, France, Poland and Italy. Among them were 8.4 million civilians working...

Metaphors of spain

The history of twentieth-century Spanish nationalism is a complex one, placing a set of famously distinctive regional identities against a backdrop of religious conflict, separatist tensions, and the autocratic rule of Francisco Franco. Metaphors of Spain brings together leading historians to e...

Nazism in central germany

Most studies on the spread of Nazism in German society before and after 1933 concentrate on the country's western parts. As a result, so the author claims, our overall picture of the situation has been distorted since the eastern areas contained a substantial portion of the population. Neglecti...

Morality, crisis and capitalism

With the growing numbers of displaced populations and the rise in the politics of fear and hate, we are facing challenges to our very ‘species-being’. Papers in the volume include ethnographic studies on the ‘refugee crisis’, the ‘financial crisis’ and the ‘rule of law’ crisis in the Mediterran...

Developmentality

It provides an ethnography of aid partnership drawing on detailed analysis of BOTH the donor (World Bank) and recipient (Uganda) , as well as their practical encounter. The analysis builds on multi-sited fieldwork conducted WITHIN both the World Bank and a Ugandan ministry. Novel in ...

The art of resistance

multi-genre approach; comprehensive cover of phenomenon of protest art in Austria accessibly written but with specialist analysis, too – political context explained translations of cited materials, but original German quotations provided wide-ranging in scope; not just the most f...

In pursuit of belonging

As I wrote above: in addition to the main text, the book includes two appendices, one of which is the major protagonist’s life story in her own words and the other of which is a study guide for comparing the main text and the protagonist’s life story. I am not aware of any similar texts in ...

24 bars to kill

Contrary to persistent depictions of an ethnically and economically homogeneous Japan, “ghetto” or “gangsta” J-hop music gives voice to the suffering, deprivation, and social exclusion experienced by many modern Japanese. 24 Bars to Kill gives a fascinating ethnographic account of this music as...

Of hoarding and housekeeping

Of Hoarding and Housekeeping provides an anthropological, global, and comparative angle to the understanding of hoarding and decluttering. Focusing on the house, with careful attention to material flows in and out, this book examines practices of accumulation, storage, decluttering, and waste a...

Party, society, government

According to received wisdom parties have played a mainly destructive role in French political development. Of questionable legitimacy, pursuing narrow sectarian goals, often corruptly, they have brought about division, weakness and the collapse of regimes. A proper reading of history suggests ...

Trieglaff

Follows the history of a village and family estate in what is now western Poland from Napoleon's occupation in 1807, to the Red Army's invasion in 1945, until the departure of the last family member is 1948 Intertwines family history withn the political history of Germany Examines th...

At home on the waves

This collection explores the variety of ways in which people have long made themselves at home at sea, bringing together both ethnographic and archaeological research – much of it with an explicit Ingoldian approach – on a wide range of geographical areas and historical periods.

France and the german question, 1945–1990

This book revisits France’s attitude towards the German question as it existed and evolved during the post-World War Two and the Cold War eras in order to shed light on previously neglected aspect of the history of the Cold War, of Germany, and of Europe in the second half of the twentieth cent...

Reynard the fox

There are many stories featuring the villainous hero Reynard the Fox in many languages told over many centuries, goingback as far as the early 12th century. All these stories are comic and much of the humour depends on parody and satire resulting in mockery, sometimes the subversion of certain ...

Tax justice and the political economy of global capitalism, 1945 to the present

An informed review of the exisitng literature on political economy Explains the intellectual accomplishments of the great early and mid-20th century writers on global economic justice Links together the questions of tax, justice and development Discusses the contradictory effects...

The power of scripture

The development of political rhetoric during the Reformation period through to the outbreak of the English Civil War was based on more varied sources than just the political language of civic humanism and republicanism. The Power of Scripture uncovers how biblical scripture directly shaped a na...

Spanish laughter

Exploring various forms of humor in Modern Spain since their entry into the eighteenth-century public sphere, Spanish Laughter takes on the comforting, transgressive, conservative, rebellious, and other dynamic forms of humor as they have changed and contributed to the building of Spain’s cultu...

Connecting histories of education

Embraces fields of educational, colonial and trans-national history Explores influences in post-colonial and indigenous education across different geographical contexts Demonstrates how transnational and cross-cultural exchanges in education have been characterized by appropriation, ...

Nothing new in europe?

Anti-Semitism’s recent rise in Europe and Germany has manifested in verbal hostility and attacks. Through fifteen interviews with Jewish Israelis and contextual essays, Nothing New in Europe? provides an opportunity to reflect on current anti-Semitic discourse under a more educated and objectiv...

Can academics change the world?

Moshe Shokeid narrates his experiences as a member of AD KAN (NO MORE), a protest movement of Israeli academics at Tel Aviv University, who fought against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, founded during the first Palestinian intifada/uprising (1987-1993).

Ritual

Designed for both academic and lay audiences, this book identifies the characteristics of ritual and, via multiple examples, details how ritual works on the human body and brain to produce its often profound effects. These include enhancing courage, effecting healing, and generating group cohes...

Fate calculation experts

Reveal the fault-lines of contemporary politics and the types of anxieties that are generated in a society that is rapidly modernizing while reinventing strict codes of hierarchy, Given the popularity of divination in many modern societies, and the lack of anthropological studies on the ...

Political crisis in central europe in the interwar period and today

A comprehensive exploration of the crises of democracy and capitalism in Central Europe throughout the 20th century, drawing insightful parallels to contemporary issues Compares political trends in the various European countries and ask what lessons may be drawn for the present from inte...

Repressed, remitted, rejected

Greece and Poland have recently reignited debates on minimally settled reparations demands resulting from suffering under the terror of Nazi occupation during the Second World War. Using an international law perspective, this expansive volume reconstructs the German occupation of Poland and Gre...

Ultimate ambiguities

A volume on death, specifically addressing liminality. Inter-disciplinary in focus. Presents a range of case studies outlining emotional, artistic, cognitive, social and political implications.

Immigrant industry

After the end of the Second World War, major federally funded industries in Australia depended on the employment of large numbers of refugees displaced by the war. This book aims to bring to the foreground post-war industry and immigration to comprehensively document a uniquely Australian shapi...

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...

Embracing landscape

Examining human-animal relations among the reindeer hunting and herding Dukha community in northern Mongolia, this book focuses on concepts such as domestication and wildness from an indigenous perspective. By looking into hunting rituals and herding techniques, the ethnography questions the dy...

Religious plurality at princely courts

Examining previously neglected intersections and transformations in early modern European monarchical legitimization, Religious Plurality at Princely Courts works across multiple lenses of European studies to explore the effects of bi-confessional or multi-confessional intra-Christian settings ...

A border island on the crossroads of history

For some decades now, Lampedusa regularly appears in the news in regard to its devastating record of shipwrecks, deaths, and survivors. An ethnographic immersion takes the reader into the twists and turns of contemporary Lampedusan life, revealing a complex and contradictory microcosm. M...

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...

Playing with the past

Heritage is all around us, not just in monuments and museums, but in places that matter, the countryside and in collections and stories. It touches all of us. How do we decide what to preserve? And how do we make the case for heritage when there are so many other priorities? Playing with the Pa...

The girl in the text

How are girls represented in written and graphic texts, and how do these representations inform our understanding of girlhood? In this volume, contributors examine the girl in the text in order to explore a range of perspectives on girlhood across borders and in relation to their positionality.

Rethinking international organizations

The management of international organizations is attracting growing attention. Most of this attention is highly critical of both the UN system and International NGOs. Sometimes, this criticism lacks depth or reflects insufficient understanding of these organizations, or is based on narrow, and ...

Decentering anthropology by way of malinowski

The proposed book tackles a wide range of issues in anthropology: from disciplinary trajectories in Global South areas to relations of power within the discipline, to research and teaching methodology. The book brings together voices from outside the discipline’s dominant Anglo-American ...

Powers of good and evil

A key theme in the anthropology of beliefs is the relationship between socio-economic change and changes in the belief system. It has been widely argued that rapid economic change, particularly the introduction of capitalism, leads to an increase in beliefs in, and representations of, evil and ...

The feeling of the fall

As an inquiry into engagements with forces of loss and threat, this work explores experimental ways to write about climate crisis in anthropology. From Belize to Ontario and back, this ambitious piece of ethnographic writing set during a time “beyond ruin” in a fictional, ecotourist community i...

Bestsellers of the third reich

Christian Adam examines how books came into being under the Nazis, how they became bestsellers—sometimes against the will of the rulers—and which books were actually read. He writes the history of the bestsellers in the darkest epoch of the German past, thus opening a new perspective on the men...

Assisting reproduction, testing genes

Following the routinization of assisted reproduction in the industrialized world, technologies such as in vitro fertilization, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, and DNA-based paternity testing have traveled globally and are now being offered to couples in numerous non-Western countries. This v...

Silenced communities

Silenced Communities offers an ethnographic account of the failed demilitarization of the rural militia in the town of Santo Tomás Chichicastenango following the Guatemalan Civil War. Author Marcia Esparza explores how legacies of grassroots militarization affect indigenous communities exploite...

Deconstructing dolls

Deconstructing Dolls explores the role of dolls in girlhood and young womanhood, seeking to understand the historical and contemporary significance of dolls particularly as they relate social meanings in the lives of girls.

A twisted style

In "western" cultures, some people have chosen a dreadlock hairstyle, despite many in mainstream society looking at it in a negative light. Based on interviews and close observations in social media, the book offers insights into the culture(s) surrounding dreadlocks and ultimately interprets t...

Carnage and care on the eastern front

First-hand account of the plight of Jewish civilians and also the-stab-in-the-back legend by the home front. Addition of photographs by the author, Bernhard Bardach First-ever detailed eye-witness account of the 1916 Brusilov Offensive Detailed day-by-day account of the entire w...

Barter and social regeneration in the argentinean andes

It provides a fine grained ethnography of barter interactions and regimes of value. It explores the social performativity of barter, stressing the role of instrumental transactions in the fabric of society. It demonstrates the usefulness of the concept of barter to anthropological th...

Creating a nation with cloth

A well-written ethnographic study Adds a new dimension to the work on women's wealth A valuable addition to the work on diasporic populations Explores the barriers between tradition and modernity, gifts and commodities

Reconstructing education

After the unification of Germany had first been greeted with euphoria on both sides of the Wall, it did not take long for disillusion to set in when it became obvious that structures, mentality, values and outlook were very different in the Old and New Bundesländer. Moreover, whereas during the...

Death in east germany, 1945-1990

Explores cultural responses to death in East Germany since the Second World War Examines the organization and municipalization of the undertaking industry and the steps taken toward a socialist cemetary culture Offers an analysis of the changes to the system of disposal of the dead i...

Bringing culture to the masses

Cultural life in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) was strictly controlled by the ruling party, the SED, who attempted to dictate how people spent their free time by prohibiting privately organized leisure time pursuits and offering instead cultural activities in state institutions an...

Authenticity and authorship in pacific island encounters

Reconsidering issues of representation in the insular Pacific, this volume explores authenticity and authorship in practice as “traveling concepts” that spawn cross-fertilization along the cultural and historical routes they traverse. The chapters are contextualized by a strongly theorized intr...

Economy for and against democracy

Economic inequality is the antithesis of democracy, but the conditions for achieving economic democracy are rarely discussed. The book moves from showing how economy subverts democracy today through people’s struggles to realize democracy in practice to more abstract visions of possible ...

Legal entanglements

Drawing on wide-ranging archival research and recently declassified documents, Legal Entanglements follows the politicians, intellectuals, and other historical actors on both sides of the Berlin Wall who helped their nation to navigate volatile and uncertain legal circumstances.

Turkish culture in german society

For many decades Germany has had a sizeable Turkish minority that lives in an uneasy co-existence with the Germans around them and as such has attracted considerable interest abroadwhere it tends to be seen as a measure of German tolerance. However, little is known about theactual situation of ...

Natufian foragers in the levant

This large volume presents virtually all aspects of the Epipalaeolithic Natufian culture in a series of chapters that cover recent results of field work, analyses of materials and sites, and synthetic or interpretive overviews of various aspects of this important prehistoric culture.

The age of capitalism and bureaucracy

In this new edition of Wolfgang Mommsen’s illuminating study, Max Weber is presented in terms of the major questions that preoccupied him as one of the towering social scientists of his time, with insights that are persistently relevant as we deal with the structures and dynamics of modern indu...

Identifying with freedom

The emergence of film culture

Offers a new perspective on the development of European film avant-garde, and film culture in the interwar period. The anthology utilises film theory, history and critical writing to explore European film culture from a social, cultural and political perspective. The examination of ...

Hope and insufficiency

Hope and Insufficiency seeks to question the histories, assumptions, intentions, and enactments that has led to the ubiquity of capacity building as an anthropological concept, thereby developing a much-needed critical purchase on its persuasive power.

Against machismo

Based on fieldwork conducted among middle-class university students primarily at the national university (UNAM) in Mexico City, this study explores gender relations as reflected in the words macho and machismo. The author concludes that the students use them to denote aspects of their families ...

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...

Becoming advocate

Features the first study of the parent-led autism advocacy movement in Portugal, contributing to contextualizing its emergence and understanding the changing discourses of disability politics in the country. Appropriate for readers interested in medical anthropology, social movements, an...

Gender, violence, refugees

The book links forced migration, violence and gender relations. Most studies have a particular focus on sexual violence in refugee camps and/or situations. Many chapters cover different countries and offer original empirical research. The volume offers innovative conceptual appro...

Histories of the aftermath

In 1945, Europeans confronted a legacy of mass destruction and death: millions of families had lost their homes and livelihoods; millions of men in uniform had lost their lives; and millions more had been displaced by the war’s destruction, and the genocidal policies of the Nazi regime. From a ...

Fault lines

Explores plans for urban development in Sicily prior to 2 earthquakes, in 1908 and 1968, and compares them with the urbanism which materialised from the ruins. Provides an insight into the role of environmental forces in the history of human habitats.

Managing reproductive life

Throughout history human societies have sought to manage their reproductive lives to make them fit in with their social, economic and biological conditions. But the different ways communities regulate their fertility, penetrating every aspect of their social life, are so varied and specific tha...

Urban sustainability in the arctic

Urban Sustainability in the Arctic advances our understanding of cities in the far north by applying elements of the international standard for urban sustainability (ISO 37120) to numerous Arctic cities. In delivering rich material about northern cities in Alaska, Canada, and Russia, the book e...

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.

Jaguars of the dawn

Drawing upon over a decade of extensive fieldwork in temples of the Vale do Amanhecer in Brazil and Europe, this ethnography explores how mediums understand their experiences and how they learn to establish relationships with their spirit guides.

Doing conceptual history in africa

Focuses on the complex role of language in Africa’s historical development. An emphasis on pragmatics and semantics. Engages with a distinctively African intellectual tradition while analyzing the regional and global contexts in which categories like “work,” “marriage,” and “land” ta...

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

The state and the grassroots

First study of immigrant organizations conducted in the U.S. and Europe. First comparative study of immigrant organizations conducted with the same research methodology. First study to focus explicitly on the relation between immigrant organizations and development in sending c...

Rebel valley

A fine-grained ethnographic study of Europe’s most longstanding movement of resistance to infrastructural expansion. Challenges the logic of ‘green capitalism’ and its central image of high-speed railways as a technological fix to the climate catastrophe. Points to territorio as a ba...

Pure food

Food purity and nutrition has inter-disciplinary roots in anthropological, ethnological, evolutionary, psychological and applied perspectives. Pure Food presents the theoretical and cross-cultural aspects of adopting food purity. It demonstrates variations and similarities in diverse cultural b...

At home in the hills

To most outsiders, the hills of the Scottish Borders are a bleak and foreboding space - usually made to represent the stigmatized Other, Ad Finis, by the centers of power in Edinburgh, London, and Brussels. At a time when globalization seems to threaten our sense of place, people of the Scottis...

Time work

Examining how people alter or customize various dimensions of their temporal experience, this volume discovers how we resist external sources of temporal constraint or structure. These ethnographic studies are international in scope and look at many different countries and continents.

In the absence of the gift

Rethinks remittance motivations among work migrants by focusing on notions of sharing. An elaborate focus on practices of sharing and demand sharing in a Melanesian context. Focuses on those ‘development projects’ people initiate and conduct themselves in a country otherwise often su...

Collaborative happiness

Collaborative Happiness looks at two urban cohousing communities: Kankanmori, in Tokyo; and Quayside Village, in Vancouver. In expanding beyond mainstream approaches to happiness focused exclusively on the individual, Quayside Village and Kankanmori provide an alternative model for how to under...

The spirit of matter

A range of meaningful objects—exhibits of human remains or live people, fetishes, objects in a Catholic Museum, exotic photographs, commodities, and computers—demonstrate a subordinate modern consciousness about powerful objects and their “life”. The Spirit of Matter discusses these objects tha...

German division as shared experience

German Division as Shared Experience shows the extent to which the story of East and West Germany was one of mutual entanglement after 1945. By subsuming political considerations into the historical domain of the social and cultural, each of the innovative studies presented here analyzes moment...

The children of gregoria

Negotiating the secular and the religious in the german empire

Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire sheds light on the multitude of worldviews, belief systems, and rituals that defined the borders between the secular and the religious in the German imperial era.

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...