The power of law in a transnational world

How is law mobilized and who has the power and authority to construct its meaning? This important volume examines this question as well as how law is constituted and reconfigured through social processes that frame both its continuity and transformation over time. The volume highlights how powe...

Hierarchy

Louis Dumont's concept of hierarchy continues to inspire social scientists. Using it as their starting point, the contributors to this volume introduce both fresh empirical material and new theoretical considerations. On the basis of diverse ethnographic contexts in Oceania, Asia, and the Middl...

Where have all the homeless gone?

For a decade, from 1983 to 1993, homelessness was a major concern in the United States. In 1994, this public concern suddenly disappeared, without any significant reduction in the number of people without proper housing. By examining the making and unmaking of a homeless crisis, this book explo...

The mirror of the medieval

One unique aspect of this book is its approach to interdisciplinary work. While many earlier works have sought to bring anthropological approaches to the study of the medieval past, what is different about this book is its emphasis on the value of disciplinary borrowing in both directions; i...

Reproductive agency, medicine and the state

Recent years have seen many changes in human reproduction resulting from state and medical interventions in childbearing processes. Based on empirical work in a variety of societies and countries, this volume considers the relationship between reproductive processes (of fertility, pregnancy, ch...

Women, family and society in medieval europe

Until his untimely death in 1991, David Herlihy, Professor of History at Brown University, was one of the most prolific and best-known American historians of the European Middle Ages. Author of books on the history of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy, Herlihy published, in 1978, his bes...

Remaking france

Public diplomacy, neglected following the end of the Cold War, is once again a central tool of American foreign policy. This book, examining as it does the Marshall Plan as the form of public diplomacy of the United States in France after World War Two, offers a timely historical case study. Cu...

The rite of urban passage

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

The man who invented aztec crystal skulls

Detailed are the travels, self-education, and archaeological explorations of Eugène Boban, an expert in the field of pre-Columbian studies and explores the circumstances that allowed him to sell fakes to museums that would remain undetected for over a century.

German literature in a new century

While the first decade after the fall of the Berlin wall was marked by the challenges of unification and the often difficult process of reconciling East and West German experiences, many Germans expected that the “new century” would achieve “normalization.” The essays in this volume take a clos...

Persistently postwar

Persistently Postwar approaches the topics of social memory and political discourse through an exploration of Japan’s post-war mass media. Diverse disciplinary backgrounds and contrasting perspectives offer a nuanced dialogue in which the functions of mass media are explored as more than a simp...

Diamonds and war

The mining of diamonds, their trading mechanisms, their financial institutions, and, not least, their cultural expressions as luxury items have engaged the work of historians, economists, social scientists, and international relations experts. Based on previously unexamined historical documents...

Names and nunavut

On the surface, naming is simply a way to classify people and their environments. The premise of this study is that it is much more — a form of social control, a political activity, a key to identity maintenance and transformation. Governments legislate and regulate naming; people fight to take...

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...

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...

A sea of transience

Transience is found in every meeting and form of coexistence between people and things that live and exist by, or move across or along, the Black Sea. It may come in various forms and guises, from de facto states, tourism, migration, trafficking or military troops, and it needs to be written an...

Political theory and australian multiculturalism

Multiculturalism has been one of the dominant concerns in political theory over the last decade. To date, this inquiry has been mostly informed by, or applied to, the Canadian, American, and increasingly, the European contexts. This volume explores for the first time how the Australian experien...

Searching for a cultural diplomacy

International panel of distinguished scholars Perspective from the outside in: foreign scholars offer their interpretation of emotions in American history Focuses on an innovative field of study and one that also appeals to the broader public Brings together different disciplines...

Anyone

A critique of contemporary social-scientific writings on cosmopolitanism: an argument for cosmopolitanism as a version of identity, belonging and justice that is distinct from current nostra concerning multiculturalism, and that concerns our global humanity and our global individuality. ...

Memory and amnesia

Using a rich variety of sources such as official newsreels, school textbooks, the work of contemporary historians, memoirs, official documents, legislation, and monuments, this book explores how the historical memory of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) influenced the transition to democracy in...

Stone tools and mobility in the illinois valley

A detailed comparative analysis of standardized lithic data from 10 Illinois Valley components spanning 7500 years from the Early Archaic through the Mississippian is presented in this volume. The results provide significant information on prehistoric mobility and technological organization in ...

The wars of yesterday

Together comprising one of the first modern conflicts of the twentieth century, the Balkan Wars (1912–13) served as precursors of the bloody wars to follow. This volume offers a fascinating exploration of the wars’ history, with a central focus on the experiences of both combatants and civilians.

Civil enculturation

For several years now, the concepts of 'civil culture' and 'civil society' have been widely discussed in the social sciences. Theoretically innovative and empirically rich, this volume is one of few studies that offer solid and focused ethnographic research on how the tenets and assumptions of ...

Red america

Socialism, Communism, and Anarchism were integral components of 19th and 20th century immigrant life. Red America explores the relationship between the immigrant experience in the United States and political radicalism, especially as it relates to the lesser explored Greek American experience i...

U.s. foreign policy and the other

Investigates American identity and its effect on foreign relations. Systematic review of US foreign policy and their principal conceptions of the ‘Other’ that have animated US culture and discourse. Examines foreign relations over three centuries Excavates US cultural and diploma...

The end of the berlusconi era?

While Italian politics may appear on the surface to be evolving towards a Westminster model with right- and left-wing blocs alternating in power, this impression is belied by the often nervous and disconnected way in which events unfolded in 2005. In some respects, 2005 was a classic pre-electo...

Changing sex and bending gender

Anthropologists and historians have shown us that 'male' and 'female' are variously defined historically and cross-culturally. The contributions to this volume focus on the voluntary and involuntary, temporary or permanent transformation of gender identity. Overall, this volume provides powerfu...

Invisible faces and hidden stories

Dealing with narratives of vulnerable populations, this book looks at how they deal with dimensions of their social life, especially in regards to health. It reflects the socio-political ecologies like public hostility and stereotyping, neglect of their unique health needs, their courage to ove...

Palimpsestic memory

Proposes a new model for understanding cultural memory based on the principle of the palimpsest which condenses different memory traces. Challenges the distinction between memories of the Holocaust and memories of colonialism. Offers new readings of familiar post-war novels and films...

Crisis and renewal in france, 1918-1962

Since 1914, the French state has faced a succession of daunting and at times almost insurmountable crises. The turbulent decades from 1914 to 1969 witnessed near-defeat in 1914, economic and political crisis in 1926, radical political polarization in the 1930s, military conquest in 1940, the de...

Themes in french culture

Margaret Mead collaborated with her long-time colleague Rhoda Métraux in this unique study of French culture. The Hoover Institute at Stanford University originally published this volume, which grew out of the Columbia University project on Research of Contemporary Cultures in 1954. It is one o...

The new face of political cinema

Since 1995 there has been a widespread return of commitment to French cinema taking it to a level unmatched since the heady days following 1968. But this new wave of political film is very different and urgently calls out for an analysis that will account for its development, its formal charact...

Young men in uncertain times

International range of cross cultural cases Context driven Ethnographically rich

Extremism, society, and the state

This collected volume brings together leading anthropologists and cultural analysts to offer a concise look at the narratives, symbolic, and metaphoric fields related to extremism, systemitizing an approach to contemporary extremism by placing these idealogies into historical, political, and ge...

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.

Gray zones

Few essays about the Holocaust are better known or more important than Primo Levi’s reflections on what he called “the gray zone,” a reality in which moral ambiguity and compromise were pronounced. In this volume accomplished Holocaust scholars, among them Raul Hilberg, Gerhard L. Weinberg, Chr...

The indoctrination of the wehrmacht

Other studies look at the indoctrination of the Wehrmacht, and numerous studies look at the war crimes of the Wehrmacht.  However, this study is different in that it focuses much more closely on the indoctrination of the Wehrmacht than previous studies, but perhaps more importantly, it views...

Immigration policy in the federal republic of germany

Up-to-date synthetic overview of modern German citizenship and migration policy Strong historical dimension Interdisciplinary (e.g. law, history, public policy & political science)

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...

Islam and new kinship

Assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization have provoked global controversy and ethical debate. This book provides a groundbreaking investigation into those debates in the Islamic Middle East, simultaneously documenting changing ideas of kinship and the evolving role of r...

Final sale in berlin

The book has many unusual case studies but is not a case study in itself, it draws on a real mountain of material. The database the book is based on is accessible to all readers (www2.hu-berlin.de/djgb). For a German study it is – everyone says – really well written. The study ma...

Marxism and film activism

This collection examines how filmmakers have tried to change the world by engaging in emancipatory politics in their work, and how audiences have received them. It presents a wide spectrum of case studies, covering both film and digital technology. Discussions range from the classic ...

The long way home

Indigenous peoples have long sought the return of ancestral human remains and associated artifacts from western museums and scientific institutions. Since the late 1970s their efforts have led museum curators and researchers to re-evaluate their practices and policies in respect to the scientif...

A poet or nothing at all

The most original, new work on Hesse in many years and the definitive study of the young Herman Hesse, offering much previously unknown material such as his "neo-Romantic" poetry of which two dozen are published here for the first time in the original.

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...

Conceptualizing religion

How might we transform a folk category - in this case religion - into a analytical category suitable for cross-cultural research? In this volume, the author addresses that question. He critically explores various approaches to the problem of conceptualizing religion, particularly with respect t...

Class and other identities

With the onset of a more conservative political climate in the 1980s, social and especially labour history saw a decline in the popularity that they had enjoyed throughout the 1960s and 1970s. This led to much debate on its future and function within the historical discipline as a whole. Some c...

Crude domination

Deeply ethnographic New "domination" theoretical approach Geographically broad (Africa, Latin America, Eurasia) Examines global/local connections in novel manner

Researching food habits

The term 'Anthropology of Food' has become an accepted abbreviation for the study of anthropological perspectives on food, diet and nutrition, an increasingly important subdivision of anthropology that encompasses a rich variety of perspectives, academic approaches, theories, and methods. Its m...

The hidden history of crime, corruption, and states

No other volume covers the collusion of lawmakers and lawbreakers in state formation over 300 years touching on each continent. Contributing scholars meld history and anthropology. Introduction offers a political economy theoretical perspective.  The topic is very timely. 

Hitler's war in the east, 1941-1945. (3rd edition)

This volume provides a guide to the extensive literature on the war in the East, including largely unknown Soviet writing on the subject. Indispensable for military historians, but also for all scholars who approach this crucial period in world history from a socio-economic or cultural perspect...

Anthropology and public service

Many anthropologists are now finding jobs in commercial organizations or in government. This volume shows how anthropologists can set new agendas, and revise old ones in the public sector. Included are discussions of anthropologists’ work with the Department for International Development, the M...

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 (...

The spirit of the laws

Examines the confiscation of Armenian properties during the Genocide and subsequent attempts to retain seized Armenian wealth. Reveals that decrees issued during the Genocide constitute central pillars of the Turkish system of property rights, retaining their legal validity. Demonstr...

Care across distance

Geographic scope: While the majority of other works focus on one or two regions of the world (e.g., India; Peru and Italy; Australia), this volume is uniquely ambitious in its vast geographical reach, since it includes in-depth, ethnographically collected data from five different (sub-)conti...

A fragmented landscape

A comprehensive, interdisciplinary survey of the struggles over abortion rights in Europe since 1945. An analysis of the strategies and discourses of groups seeking to liberalize or restrict reproductive rights.

Witches and demons

The first published work on children accused of witchcraft in Europe. Based on ethnographic research. Comprehensive use of research data. The work uses research data. The chapters concern UK.

Race in france

Scholars across disciplines on both sides of the Atlantic have recently begun to open up, as never before, the scholarly study of race and racism in France. These original essays bring together in one volume new work in history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and legal studies. Eac...

Globalization

The effects of globalization have led to accentuated social inequality in most first-world countries, above all the U.S. and U.K. International trade and capital flows have tended to redistribute income in ways that aggravate inequality in advanced industrialized nations where relative income l...

States of imitation

Changes in the air

It’s the first “hurricane history” of New Orleans It covers all three of the city’s historical eras: French (1718-1762), Spanish (1762-1800) and American (1803-present) based on primary sources It features the first comprehensive history of the New Orleans levees from the French colo...

Cinemas of boyhood

Drawing from political sociology, pop psychology, and film studies, Cinemas of Boyhood features an eclectic range of films from British and Indian cinemas to silent Hollywood and the new Hollywood of the 1980s, culminating in a comprehensive overview of the diverse concerns surrounding represen...

Rethinking migration

With the increasing worldwide problems of migration, research into its causes and effects become ever more urgent. This volume takes stock of recent advancements that social science research in both Europe and the United States has made to understanding central aspects of international migratio...

Representing 21st-century migration in europe

The 21st century has witnessed some of the largest human migrations in history. Europe in particular has seen a major influx of refugees, redefining notions of borders and national identity. This interdisciplinary volume offers innovative interpretations of contemporary migration to Europe, eng...

Michael haneke's cinema

Existing critical traditions fail to fully account for the impact of Austrian director, and 2009 Cannes Palm d'Or winner, Michael Haneke’s films, situated as they are between intellectual projects and popular entertainments. In this first English-language introduction to, and critical analysis ...

Violent becomings

It is theoretically original in its insistence on radical reading of state formation as related to violence and irreducible to the formal state apparatus. It is a long-term study of transformations – building on fieldwork from 1998 onwards – which surpasses a number of other relevant stu...

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...

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...

Turning the kaleidoscope

Far from being a blank space on the Jewish map, or a void in the Jewish cultural world, post-Shoah Europe is a place where Jewry has continued to develop, even though it is facing different challenges and opportunities than elsewhere. Living on a continent characterized by highly diverse patter...

Going forward by looking back

Catastrophes are on the rise due to climate change, as is their toll in terms of lives and livelihoods as world populations rise and people locate into hazardous places. This book catalogues a wide and diverse range of case studies of such disasters and human responses. This heritage of past di...

Driving germany

Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Hitler's autobahn was more than just the pet project of an infrastructure-friendly dictator. It was supposed to revolutionize the transportation sector in Germany, connect the metropoles with the countryside, and ...

Learning under neoliberalism

The contributors of this volume explore the emerging corporality of the education system worldwide and the impact of this new governance on education practices. Explores changes in University regulations against the backdrop of neoliberal trends toward public-private partnerships. De...

Political demography, demographic engineering

"Over the past decade, the impacts of demographic trends on international security and on peaceful relations between and within states have come to the fore in ways not seen since the aftermath of World War II. An evolving and more complex set of changes in the size, distribution, and compositi...

Music and manipulation

Since the beginning of human civilization, music has been used as a device to control social behavior, where it has operated as much to promote solidarity within groups as hostility between competing groups. Music is an emotive manipulator that influences attitude, motivation and behavior at ma...

Regimes of ignorance

High-quality rich ethnographic examples set in comparative perspective. Contributors includesome of the brightest emerging scholars of their generation, as well as a number of senior, internationally recognised anthropologists. An important theoretical re-working of this emerging are...

Land and the mortgage

The mortgaging of land is not just economic and legal but also social and cultural. Here, anthropologists, historians, and economists explore origins, variations, and meanings of the land mortgage, and the risks to homes and livelihoods.

Durkheim today

There has been a growing interest in Durkheim, founding father of sociology, since the 1970s. This volume takes a look at the current stage of Durkheimian studies, pointing out paths scholars are now following as they examine the various themes of study that Durkheim opened up to the academic w...

A history shared and divided

Divided History uniquely explores how East and West Germany responded to the new challenges and crises of the 1970s, and reunification. Topics range from political, labor, and business issues to migration and environmental issues, showing how the two German states remained inextricably connecte...

Ecological migrants

This ethnography details changing Ewenki ways of life brought China’s recent ecological migration policies, which aim to preserve and restore the badly damaged ecologies of western China. This ethnography examines these policies and their effects on Aoluguya Ewenki hunters, who have been reloca...

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 ...

Vienna is different

First comprehensive study of Viennese Jewish literature from the 19th century to the present Interdisciplinary approach to history and literature

Latin america facing china

The last quarter of the twentieth century was a period of economic crises, increasing indebtedness as well as financial instability for Latin America and most other developing countries; in contrast, China showed amazingly high growth rates during this time and has since become the third larges...

The greek military dictatorship

From 1967 to 1974, the military junta ruling Greece attempted a dramatic reshaping of the nation, implementing ideas and policies that, for better or for worse, left an indelible mark on both domestic affairs and international relations. Bringing together leading scholars from a range of discip...

The arts in nazi germany

Culture and the arts played a central role in the ideology and propaganda of National Socialism from the early years of the movement until the last months of the Third Reich in 1945. Hitler and his followers believed that art and culture were expressions of race, and that “Aryans” alone were ca...

State and civil society in northern europe

In the current neo-liberal political and economic climate, it is often suggested that a large and strong state stands in opposition to an autonomous and vibrant civil society. However, the simultaneous presence in Sweden of both a famously large public sector and an unusually vital civil societ...

War magic

Investigates spiritual warfare in religion, magic, sorcery and shamanism. Reveals war magic and warrior religion in contemporary and historical circumstances. Shows the broad, international appeal of symbolic and ritual violence, in the east and west. Research into embodied perfo...

One hundred years of argonauts

Malinowski’s pioneering work remains critical for anthropology in a postcolonial age. This volume uses ethnographic studies from around the world to contextualize the work politically and intellectually, examining its gestation and influence from multiple perspectives.

Europe in exile

During World War II, London was transformed into a European city, as it unexpectedly became a place of refuge for many thousands of European citizens who through choice or the accidents of war found themselves seeking refuge in Britain from the military campaigns on the Continent of Europe. In ...

A venetian island

Since the extensive floods of 1966, inhabitants of Venice's laguna areas have come to share in, and reflect upon, concerns over pressing environmental problems. Evidence of damage caused by industrial pollution has contributed to the need to recover a common culture and establish a sense of con...

Hotbeds of licentiousness

By focusing on a series of colorful filmmakers whose work, while omnipresent during the 1970s, now remains critically ignored, Hotbeds of Licentiousness explores pornography as a lens through which to view radical changes in British society.

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...

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...

Taking sides

Concerns with research ethics have intensified over recent years, in large part as a symptom of "audit cultures" (M. Strathern) but also as a serious matter of engagement with the ethical complexities in contemporary research fields. This volume, written by a new generation of scholars engaged ...

The anthropology of corporate social responsibility

The first and only edited volume on the anthropology of corporate social responsibility. Offers a critical, comprehensive overview charting the anthropological contribution to the analysis    of corporate social responsibility. Draws together work of key thinkers/anthropologists work...

Exploring gypsiness

Romania has a larger Gypsy population than most other countries but little is known about the relationship between this group and the non-Gypsy Romanians around them. This book focuses on a group of Rom Gypsies living in a village in Transylvania and explores their social life and cosmology. Be...

Patterns of provocation

Over the past thirty years social scientists and particularly social historians have stressed the need to take popular protest seriously. The corollary of this, the need to take the policing of protest seriously, seems to have been less well acknowledged. The aim of this volume is to redress th...

Non-humans in amerindian south america

It focuses only on South America. It embraces both its Highlands and Lowlands. All their chapters are fieldwork-based. It critically addresses currently debated issues linked to Anthropology, Anthropocene, Climate Change, Ontologies and Non-Humans.

Modern babylon?

Child prostitution became one of the key concerns of the international community in the 1990s. World congresses were held, international and national laws were changed and concern over "cemmercially sexually exploited children" rose dramatically. Rarely, however, were the children who worked as...

Weary warriors

A history of military psychiatry from the American Civil War to the latest Afghanistan conflict. Explores the psychological and emotional trauma soldiers suffer and develops an extensive account of the emergence, diagnosis, and treatment of soldiers’ “invisible wounds”. Takes into ac...