Silence

This book is about silence and power and how they interact. It argues that only by studying how silence works—how it is implicated in the construction of meaning—can we arrive at the elusive roots of power in all its dimensions. Silence becomes the currency of power by delineating the margins o...

War Stories

This collection of essays is one of the first to explore the modern war memoir. Reveals the genre’s capacity for breadth and sophistication while remaining sensitive to the challenges it poses for scholars. Considers how memoirs have been used to transmit particular views of war even...

Voices of the Valley, Voices of the Straits

Protest campaigns against large-scale public works usually take place within a local context. However, since the 1990s new forms of protest have been emerging. This book analyses two cases from Italy that illustrate this development: the environmentalist protest campaigns against the TAV (the b...

Bedouin of Mount Sinai

Based on fieldwork over ten years Builds on the central theoretical understanding that the complex political economy of the Mount Sinai Bedouin is integrated in urban society and is part of the modern global world.

Cameroon's Tycoon

Max Esser was an adventurous young merchant banker, a Rhinelander, who became the first managing director of the largest German plantation company in Cameroon. This volume gives a vivid account of the antecedents and early stages as experienced and described by Esser. In 1896 he ventured, with ...

Nurturing the Other

Business as Usual

Examines continuities across 1945, so contextualizes the Nazi period in the longer arc of German history Offers a highly condensed social history of the period, drawing on source material that has received little attention to date. Attempts to dissolve the purportedly clear distincti...

Engaging Evil

Exploring the anthropology of evil as an empirical human phenomenon, this volume attempts to show the usefulness of treating evil as a descriptive reality where concepts such as violence, criminality, and hatred fall short of capturing the darkest side of human existence.

Beyond Filial Piety

This volume explores emerging cultural meanings and social responses to population aging in contemporary East Asian societies. Drawing on ethnographic, demographic, policy, archival, and media data, the authors trace both common patterns and diverging trends across China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Sin...

Israel-Palestine

The conflict between Israel and Palestine has raised a plethora of unanswered questions, generated seemingly unreconcilable narratives, and profoundly transformed the land’s physical and political geography. This volume seeks to provide a deeper understanding of the links between the region tha...

An Archaeology of Unchecked Capitalism

By drawing parallels between the past and present – for example, the coal mines of the nineteenth-century northeastern Pennsylvania and the sweatshops of the twenty-first century in Bangladesh – we can have difficult conversations about the past and advance our commitment to address social just...

Fire on the Island

In 2014, the island of Ahamb in Vanuatu became the scene of a startling Christian revival movement led by thirty children with ‘spiritual vision’. Based on twenty months of ethnographic fieldwork on Ahamb between 2010 and 2017, this book investigates how upheavals like the Ahamb revival can eme...

Subjective Realist Cinema

Explores range of films which depict subjective experience and employ "subjective realist" narration Highlights examples of recent films, including Mulholland Drive and Memento Proposes that an understanding of narrative structures, enhances viewers' comprehension and enjoyment

Collecting Educational Media

Over the last two centuries, collectors from around the world have historicized, politicized, and digitized media in the pursuit of knowledge and education. This collected volume explores how collections of educational media influence the ways in which people learn in both the present and future.

Elite Malay Polygamy

Ethnography of elite polygamy as lived practice. Exploring internal dynamics of elite kinship in Muslim Southeast Asia. Uncovering changing elite gender relations in Muslim Southeast Asia.

Reading Hitler’s Victims

An original study exploring previously undiscovered archival sources and literary texts by neglected refugee authors and translators, including women. Significant to contemporary understanding and memory of the Holocaust – it illuminates Britian’s chronology of knowledge regarding the Ho...

José Antonio Primo de Rivera

A leading figure in the Spanish Civil War, José Antonio Primo de Rivera was elevated to martyr status following his death and the victory of the Falangists. In this long-awaited translation, Joan Maria Thomàs cuts through the mythos surrounding Primo de Rivera’s life to give a measured, exhaust...

Opposing Ostpolitik

Broadens our understanding of a crucial period of German foreign policy, namely the 1960s. Introduces a major political figure and makes an important contribution to our understanding of Strauss’s strategic thinking during the Cold War while also offering important insights for the conte...

Nighttime Breastfeeding

In this updated edition, the author describes shifting medical guidance that increasingly supports breastfeeding yet remains largely separated from infant sleep guidance. The volume also provides a path towards more equitable approaches to nighttime infant care grounded in reproductive justice.

Anglo-American Relations and the Transmission of Ideas

With a central objective to interrogate the notion of a shared Anglo-American political tradition, Anglo-American Relations and the Transmission of Ideas opens up new debate on the nature of the ‘first principles’ that were to frame the development of Anglo-American ideas embedded in our everyd...

Structures of Protection?

Questioning what shelter is and how we can define it, this volume brings together twenty-three essays on different forms of refugee shelter, with a view to widening public understanding about the lives of forced migrants and developing theoretical understanding of this oft-neglected facet of th...

Sense and Essence

Contrary to popular perceptions, cultural heritage is not given, but constantly in the making, subject to dynamic processes of (re)inventing culture within particular social formations and via particular forms of mediation. Through the heuristic concepts of the "politics of authentication" and ...

Losing Heaven

“Losing Heaven” is the first comprehensive history of religion in Germany since 1945. The book does not confine itself to (institutional) church history but takes on a wider perspective on religious life in Germany. Großbölting pursues an interdenominational approach that explores n...

Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany

Unique exploration of theSocial History of Nomenclature (socio-onomastics) Interdisciplinary and Archival Explores the Intentions of the Namers

The Familial Occult

The Familial Occult addresses the presence of occult experiences in some scholars' families and how that has affected their epistemological and ontological worlds, as well as their identities as scholars. While much has been written on encountering the occult in fieldwork or becoming an apprent...

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...

A World History of Mobility

In this comprehensive world history of (auto)mobility, Gijs Mom draws upon his expertise within the field to assess the past and present of road cultures, and hypothesize its future. From climate change and capitalism to decolonization and gender, this volume spotlights the car’s influence on o...

Escapees

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

Thinking Through Sociality

Combines a review of classical theories with recent theoretical innovations across a wide range of issues and domains An international group of contributors examine concepts of disjuncture and social space

On the Geopragmatics of Anthropological Identification

An audacious critique of the issues that have plagued culturalization in anthropological thought and writing. Allen Chun argues that disciplinary knowledge has always been embedded in changing contexts of sociopolitical practice and that neglect of its underlying politics gives different meanin...

Abortion in Post-revolutionary Tunisia

Forging Architectural Tradition

During the nineteenth century, a change developed in the way architectural objects from the distant past were viewed by contemporaries. Architectural heritage often was (and still is) an important element of nation building. Authors address the process of building national myths around certain ...

Entangled Reactionaries

A transnational perspective of the construction of pre-fascist conservative identities in Spain at the beginning of the 20th century in relation to the European and Latin American contexts Explains the process of nationalization of the masses and the construction of political and social ...

Edges, Fringes, Frontiers

Based on an ethnographic account of subsistence forest use by Wapishana people in Guyana and developing an original analytical framework, Edges, Frontiers, Fringes examines the social, cultural and behavioral bases for sustainability and resilience in indigenous resource use.

Demonstrating Reconciliation

During the 1950s and early 1960s, the West German government refused to exchange ambassadors with Israel. It feared Arab governments might retaliate against such an acknowledgement of their political foe by recognizing Communist East Germany–West Germany’s own nemesis–as an independent state, a...

The Partial Revolution

Located in the far-western Tarai region of Nepal, Kailali has been the site of dynamic social and political change in recent history. The Partial Revolution examines Kailali in the aftermath of Nepal’s Maoist insurgency, focusing primarily on the end of Kailali’s feudal system of bonded labor.

All or None

All or None is a social history and anthropological study of the world’s oldest voluntary collective farms in Ravenna, Italy, addressing the question of the viability of cooperative enterprise as a potential solution for displaced workers, and as a more humane alternative to capitalist agribusi...

The Social Origins of Thought

The volume does not focus on Durkheim or Mauss, but understands the Durkheimian School as a collective enterprise that cannot be dealt with by solely focusing upon individual scholars. The “Category Project” is dealt with for the first time systematically as a collective enterprise of th...

Ours Once More

Voices of the Dunera

Sheds new light on an infamous decision by the British government to deport German refugees (most of them Jewish) to Australia during WWII. Presents for the first hand first hand testimony from internees about their life and treatment. Has a contemporary relevance reflecting issues r...

The Social Life of Water

Addresses impacts of commodification, urbanisation and technology on availability and quality of water supplies Demonstrates ways in which water influences all domains of social life Addresses issue of water as a human right from indigenous and non-indigenous perspectives Outline...

Medicinal Rule

Based on ethnography-driven regional comparison and a critical re-examination of classic monographs on some forty cultural groups, this volume makes the arresting claim that across equatorial Africa, the model of rule has been medicine – and not (as Europeans have long assumed) the colonizer’s ...

The Rise and Demise of German Statism

German statism as a political ideology has been the subject of many historical studies. Whereas most of these focus on theoretical texts, cultural works, and vague "traditions", this study understands German statism as a functioning logic of political membership, a logic that has helped to dete...

Defeating Impunity

Over the course of the long and violent twentieth century, only a minority of the perpetrators of international crimes ever stood trial. In analyzing and documenting the challenge addressing that status of international justice and its realization, this collection uses an international perspect...

Je T’Aime... Moi Non Plus

A series of limiting definitions have tended to delineate the Franco-British cinematic relationship. As this collection of essays reveals, there is much more to it than simple oppositions between British critical esteem for the films of France and French dismissal of ‘le cinéma British’, or the...

The Long Aftermath

This broadly interdisciplinary volume investigates Europeans’ individual and collective memories of the "Long Second World War" and the ways in which they have shaped the continent’s cultural heritage. Offers thoroughly contextualized explorations of novels, memoirs, films, and other cul...

More than Mere Spectacle

More than Mere Spectacle brings together new research on the numerous coronations and inaugurations in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Habsburg Monarchy, examining why so many of them still took place, what political, legal, social, and cultural significance they bore, and how they adapt...

Critical Theory

The retirement of the distinguished philosopher Jürgen Habermas from his chair at the University of Frankfurt signalled an important caesura in the history of Critical Theory: the transition from the Habermasian project, to different forms of inquiry in the work of the next generation. This cha...

Bedouin Century

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

Nordic War Stories

Nordic War Stories explores the commonalities and divergences among the five Nordic countries, examining formal and informal national historiographies alongside representations of the second world war in canonical literary works, memoirs, and films. Together, they comprise a valuable companion ...

Secret Spaces, Forbidden Places

In this highly original approach to the study of the construction of culture, this collection of previously unpublished essays explore the topography of the secret and the forbidden, focusing on specific moments in recent cultural and political history. By bringing together writers from differe...

Decolonizing Europe

This volume explores how race, colonial legacies, and structural inequality are addressed across diverse European contexts – north, central, eastern and southern – as well as in their entanglements with regions beyond Europe. It offers critical, grounded insights into the possibilities and chal...

Nation Branding in Modern History

New theme: nation branding and history New approach: introduces a new way of thinking about nation self-projection in the international arena Comparison: a comparative book on the history of nation branding – there is none to date Intercontinental approach: that comparison reache...

Green Encounters

Since the 1970s and 1980s, Monte Verde, Costa Rica has emerged as one of the most renowned sites of nature conservation and ecotourism in Costa Rica, and some would argue, Latin America. It has received substantial attention in literature and media on tropical conservation, sustainable developm...

Sex and the Empire That Is No More

J. Lorand Matory researches the trans-Atlantic comings and goings of Yoruba religion, as well as ethnic diversity in Black North America. With the support of the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Spencer Foundation, ...

Representations of “Japanese Nature”

“Nature” as a concept and word is extremely elusive, yet it is commonly taken for granted that “the pristine nature” is “out there.” This book explores the factors that have naturalized the idea of nature as pristine into our psyche, and as something that has a spatial, visual, and temporal dim...

Advancing Refugee Protection in South Africa

Divided into three thematic parts to guide the reader, this important volume documents the development and implementation of refugee policy in South Africa over a 10-year period from 1996 until 2006. In doing so, it addresses issues of detention, gender, children and health as well as welfare p...

In Search of Salt

Relatively recent Bantu-speaking migrants to central Cameroon, the Beti have had an eventful history. Based on extensive interviews and traditional Beti (Fang) poetry, in addition to German and French archival sources, the author of this readable study recreates the social structure of the Beti...

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...

Tropical Nature

An insightful and wide-ranging study of the colonial history of conservation projects, Tropical Nature seeks to provide a much-needed history of the Global South from its own perspective. In doing so, this volume collection spotlights a “small-scale global history” that deciphers the relations ...

Empathy and Healing

Fire in the Dark

Anthropologists who are employed to change the worlds they are researching find themselves in a potentially contradictory position. Combining the various roles and expectations involved in working with Gypsies and local government at the same time as conducting anthropological research, provide...

The Configuration of the Spanish Public Sphere

This volume brings together leading scholars in Spanish and Latin American studies to explore the concept of the Spanish “public sphere” and its relation to society and political power over time. It offers a long-term, panoramic view—spanning from the Enlightenment to current developments in th...

Region-building

After two centuries of nation-building, the world has entered an era of region-building in search of political stability, cultural cohesion, and socio-economic development. Nations involved in the regional structures and integration schemes that are emerging in most regions of the world are dee...

Cutting Cosmos

Exploring the notion of masculinity among the Bugkalot, Cutting Cosmos is not only an experimental, anthropological study of the paradoxes around which Bugkalot society revolves, but also a reflection on anthropological theory and writing.

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...

Morals of Legitimacy

With the growing fragmentation of western societies and disillusionment with the political process, the question of legitimacy has become one of the key issues of contemporary politics and is examined in this volume in depth for the first time. Drawing on ethnographic material from the U.S., Eu...

Gulag Memories

This book shows how the memory of the Soviet repressions was shaped in Russia in the 90’s, beginning of 21st century - at a time when the state no longer made memory of the repressions a taboo topic, but had not yet become actively involved in shaping it. It is an ethnographic descriptio...

On the Order of Chaos

Over the past two decades, “chaos theory” – the perception of order previously hidden in phenomena of apparent randomness and disorder – has fundamentally transformed the natural sciences. In recent years, numerous scholars in the social sciences and humanities have attempted to adapt the insig...

Mattering the Invisible

Exploring how technological apparatuses “capture” invisible worlds, this book looks at how spirits, UFOs, discarnate entities, spectral energies, atmospheric forces and particles are mattered into existence by human minds. The book uses contemporary case studies where the realm of the invisible...

Centering the Margin

In a completely new approach to borders and border crossing, this volume suggests a re-conceptualization of the nation in Southeast Asia. Choosing an actor approach, the individual chapters in this volume capture the narratives of minorities, migrants and refugees who inhabit and cross borders ...

Rescuing the Vulnerable

A combination of European and British case studies, from London to Bucharest. Focus on politics of inclusion. Historical approach to the concept of vulnerability. Micro-historical approach.

Through the Water and the Storm

Drawing on quantitative, socio-economic and legal methodologies, this book examines the features of Mediterranean seaborne trade through the maritime Average procedures drafted or sent to Genoa, a small but wealthy Italian maritime republic, between 1590 and 1700.

The Ethics of Seeing

The Ethics of Seeing brings together an international group of scholars to explore the complex relationship between the visual and the historic in German history. These revealing case studies illustrate photography’s multilayered role as a new form of representation, a means to subjective exper...

To See a Moose

Guiding the reader through the development of sex education in Poland, Agnieszka Kościańska looks at how it has changed from the 19th century to the present day. The book also identifies the women and men who changed the way sex was written about in the country, and how they established the fie...

Intimate Mobilities

This book explores how various types of migration that are often seen as distinct phenomena – such as marriage migration, romance tourism and sex work migration – are in fact variations of cross-border mobilities that evolve around experiences and constructions of “intimacy”, and are facilitate...

A U-Turn to the Future

Unsustainable practices since the Industrial Revolution still impact our everyday lives. This book looks at how we can achieve sustainable urban mobility now and in the future by tapping into our knowledge of the historical trajectories leading up to the features of modern mobility in cities to...

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.

Waiting for Elijah

Rare long-term ethnographic study of Bosnian sacral landscapes and the first anthropological exploration of syncretism in Bosnia A seminal anthropological study of time and waiting Develops an analytical framework for approaching shared landscapes and syncretism Investigates pa...

The World of Children

In an era of technological advances and rapidly increasing international exchange, how did young Germans come to understand the world beyond their doorstep? Bringing together contributions from specialists in historical, literary, and cultural studies, this is a fascinating kaleidoscopic explor...

Grammars of Identity / Alterity

Issues of the construction of Self and Other, normally in the context of social exclusion of those perceived as different, have assumed a new urgency. This collection offers a fresh perspective on the ongoing debates on these questions in the social sciences and the humanities by focusing speci...

Contrarian Anthropology

Allow people to think about censorship, self and other Being an “ist” (e.g. feminist, Marxist etc.) gets in the way of creativity How not to be a silo (e.g. specialized) anthropology –e.g. from law to energy renewal What we can learn from chronologies re: intellectual autobiog...

Israel and the Diaspora in Jewish Law

THE FREEHOF INSTITUTE OF PROGRESSIVE HALAKHAH The Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah is a creative research center devoted to studying and defining the progressive character of the halakhah in accordance with the principles and theology of Reform Judaism. It seeks to establish the ideol...

The Give and Take of Wind

In much of Europe, the energy transition away from fossil fuels is slowing down or has stopped altogether. Policy- makers and most academics are frustrated and stymied. Why should superior technology – technology that is becoming cheaper as well – not immediately replace the archaic gadgetry...

Stategraphy

By exploring interactions and negotiations of local actors in different institutional settings, the contributors explore state transformations in relation to social security in a variety of locations spanning from Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans to the United Kingdom and France. Fusing ...

French Foreign Policy since 1945

Recounts France’s efforts to reconcile its proud history and global ambitions with a realistic appraisal of its capabilities, from the aftermath of World War II to the present. Provides insightful analysis of France's triumphs and setbacks through the years of decolonization, Cold War ma...

Changing Perceptions of the Public Sphere

Initially propounded by the philosopher Jürgen Habermas in 1962 in order to describe the realm of social discourse between the state on one hand, and the private sphere of the market and the family on the other, the concept of a bourgeois public sphere quickly became a central point of referenc...

Rethinking the Historiography of the Soviet Bloc

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

Cyprus and its Conflicts

Cyprus is an island of enduring political, military and, more recently, economic conflict. In this edited volume, Cyprus serves as a geographical, cultural and political point of reference to study how conflict is mediated, represented, reconstructed, experienced, and transformed, offering broa...

Colette's Republic

In France’s Third Republic, secularism was, for its adherents, a new faith, a civic religion founded on a rabid belief in progress and the Enlightenment conviction that men (and women) could remake their world. And yet with all of its pragmatic smoothing over of the supernatural edges of Cathol...

Patient-Centred IVF

The first ethnography on the use of any new reproductive technologies (NRTs) in the Netherlands. Based on a long and intensive period of observations in a clinic and the situated accounts of couples which were followed over time. Contributes to current debates on medicalization and t...

The Crisis of the German Left

Using Nietzsche's categories of monumentalist, antiquarian and critical history, the author examines the historical and theoretical contexts of the collapse of the GDR in 1989 and looks at the positive and negative legacies of the GDR for the PDS (the successor party to the East German Communis...

In God's Name

Despite the widespread trends of secularization in the 20th century, religion has played an important role in several outbreaks of genocide since the First World War. And yet, not many scholars have looked either at the religious aspects of modern genocide, or at the manner in which religion ha...

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...

Single Mother by Choice

The book is about a close friend of the author who was therefore privy to the innermost thoughts and feelings of the single mother. The topic is relevant and could be of interest to more than just an academic audience. The author offers bold conclusions of the reality of life as a si...

Borders in East and West

The different ways of understanding borders, through culture, politics, or even religion, is transforming and requires multi-disciplinary approaches the complexity of interactions and tensions that may arise. Borders in East and West focuses on the relationships between Europe and East Asia thr...

Aging in Today's World

Never before in human existence have the aged been so numerous — and for the most part — healthy. In this important new book, two professionals, an anthropologist and a physician, wrestle with the complex subject of aging. Is it inevitable? Is it a burden or gift? What is successful aging? Why ...

The Voice of Prophecy

Edwin Ardener - a new expanded edition of the collected works of one of the most important social anthroplogists in Britian of his time. Ardener worked on social, economic, demographic and political problems, and was particularly influential in his sustained effort to bring together social anth...

The Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800