Heritage under socialism

Heritage under Socialism enriches the conceptual, methodological and empirical scope of heritage studies. Its transnational approach highlights the socialist world’s diverse interpretations of heritage and its trajectories in post-socialist preservation practices, thus providing new perspective...

Dancing cultures

This volume introduces the reader to the anthropology of dance with a comprehensive introduction followed by a set of innovative and wide-ranging case studies.The introduction provides a very comprehensive review of the anthropology of dance since the early 20th century. This is the firs...

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 ...

Death and euthanasia 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...

Shakespeare and money

Though better known for his literary merits, Shakespeare made money, wrote about money and enabled money-making by countless others in his name. With chapters by leading scholars on the economic, financial and commercial ramifications of his work, this multifaceted volume connects the Bard to b...

How materials matter

Explores how design and innovation shape people’s lives in the Pacific. Focusing on plant materials from the region, it reveals ways in which a variety of people – from craftswomen and scientists to architects and politicians – work with materials to transform worlds.

Global exchanges

The first comprehensive book on the history of scholarship programs A book which takes into account all geographic areas A book focusing on the human dimension of scholarship programs A book that investigates the political, economic, and cultural interests involved in exchanges

Black lambs and grey falcons

During the 19th century the Balkan countries became the subject of a rather romantic fascination for the public at large. This vision of the area has been created in large measure by the writing of women travelers such as those represented in this volume. The achievements of these women are qui...

Cosmos, gods and madmen

Introduction of cosmology into medical anthropology as a useful concept through which to examine mental illness and health, a concept that also bridges some of the divisions between what is considered ‘medical’ and ‘religious’. Range of ethnographic examples based on original research da...

Plants, health and healing

Plants have cultural histories, as their applications change over time and with place. Some plant species have affected human cultures in profound ways, such as the stimulants tea and coffee from the Old World, or coca and quinine from South America. Even though medicinal plants have always att...

Imperial projections

The first in-depth analysis of colonial filmmaking in the Wilhelmine era. Describes how the beginning of film-making in the German Colonies addressed the demand for a new and positive image for Germany.

The quest for economic empire

German unification evoked ambivalent reactions outside its borders: it revived disquietingmemories of attempts by German big business during the two world wars to build an economic empire in Europe in conjunction with the military and the government bureaucracy. But thereare also high hopes tha...

Parliament and parliamentarism

This cross-disciplinary collection locates the essence of parliamentarism in four key aspects—deliberation, representation, responsibility, and sovereignty. Explores the different ways in which they have been contested, reshaped, and implemented in a series of representative national and...

Eastern europe unmapped

Arguably more than any other world regions, the area known as Eastern Europe has been defined by its location on the map. Rather than expound on borders and neighbors, Eastern Europe Unmapped raises questions about the meaning and relevance of the area’s non-contiguous, frequently global or ext...

Indigenous medicine among the bedouin in the middle east

First native anthropologist to discover tribal secrets of traditional medicine. Unique data on medicine among pastoral-nomadic, semi-nomadic, and settled tribes. Healers and clients tell their stories. Synthesis between traditional and bio-medicine to/for their reciprocal enrichm...

Explorations in psychoanalytic ethnography

Evidence and meaning

Comprehensive theory of historical studies, covering the whole field of metahistory, methodology of historical research, theory of historical culture and history didactics

From fidelity to history

Approaches “literature to film” debates in a new way, focusing upon the historical dimensions of adaptation. Considers historical adaptations as a special kind of reception. Offers rich case studies of historical and transnational film adaptations such as The Third Man (1949) and Sen...

The surplus woman

The first German women’s movement embraced the belief in a demographic surplus of unwed women, known as the Frauenüberschuß, as a central leitmotif in the campaign for reform. Proponents of the female surplus held that the advances of industry and urbanization had upset traditional marriage pat...

The camino de santiago

Comprises an interpretative synthesis of heritage planning and management and gives critical attention to the contributions of church, state and civil society in this endeavour. The author is very well-known among Camino enthuisiasts and has walked every route that leads to Santiago (Fra...

The kinning of foreigners

Since the late nineteen sixties, transnational adoption has emerged as a global phenomenon. Due to a sharp decline in infants being made available for adoption locally, involuntarily childless couples in Western Europe and North America who wish to create a family, have to look to look to count...

Coping with tourists

Once content to sunbathe and follow guides and established itineraries, tourists are increasingly seeking authentic culture. This is taking them into the private areas and zones to which the locals retire in order to escape the tourist gaze, creating tensions between the two groups. Based on re...

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 ...

Religion and science as forms of life

Explores the interface between science and religion in contemporary society. Details the contradictions between the two, particularly in an age of scientific knowledge. Draws on a range of ethnographic, empirical and theoretical sources. Explores the various social and cultural m...

From clans to co-ops

One of the 3-4 monographs in anthropology specifically on cooperatives and cooperative labour. The first ethnography of the agrarian antimafia movement. The first study to offer an account of antimafia cooperatives. An economic anthropology that explores cooperation in labour and coo...

European memories of the second world war

During the fifty years since the end of hostilities, European literary memories of the war have undergone considerable change, influenced by the personal experiences of writers as well as changing political, social, and cultural factors. This volume examines changing ways of remembering the war...

Affective states

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

Debating authenticity

All contributions are based on field research in Europe, Africa, Arabic Peninsula, Latin America, North America Authenticity is debated in various subfields, in particular: visual arts, popular culture, material culture, music, tourism, religion, colonial history. Scholars with affil...

Judging 'privileged' jews

The first study to focus directly on the issue of how ‘privileged’ Jews are judged and represented. Offers a multi-disciplinary examination of Holocaust representation across different media/genres. Explores seminal Holocaust texts (the writings of Primo Levi and Raul Hilberg, along ...

Conflicted memories

Despite the growing interest in general European history, the European dimension is surprisingly absent from the writing of contemporary history. In most countries, the historiography on the 20th century continues to be dominated by national perspectives. Although there is cross-national work o...

Culture and rhetoric

While some scholars have said that there is no such thing as culture and have urged to abandon the concept altogether, the contributors to this volume overcome this impasse by understanding cultures and their representations for what they ultimately are – rhetorical constructs. These senior, in...

Collaborative intimacies in music and dance

It foregrounds not only the role of performers but that of individuals and groups that make music and dance possible. It builds on previous ethnographically informed collections on sound and music, dance and movement. A third contribution of this book lies in the convergence of music...

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...

Cultural topographies of the new berlin

Offers an interdisciplinary investigation of the New Berlin Provides culturally-focused considerations of the New Berlin in a globalizing Europe and as a pillar of the European Union. Highlights the tensions between Berlin’s Creative City identification and its urban challenges.

A foreign affair

With six Academy Awards, four entries on the American Film Institute’s list of 100 greatest American movies, and more titles on the National Historic Register of classic films deemed worthy of preservation than any other director, Billy Wilder counts as one of the most accomplished filmmakers e...

Oswald spengler and the politics of decline

Re-evaluating the evolution Oswald Spengler’s political activities and his work, Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline explains the outcome of Spengler’s meta-historical considerations on world history and the practical demands of Realpolitik. This volume takes a novel approach to one of ...

Comrades of color

Combination of primary and secondary sources. Global range of perspectives from Cuba to South Africa to North Korea. Gives attention to question of race and racism in the Soviet bloc. Transnational study that puts East Germany into a global context beyond Europe.

The link with nature and divine meditations in asia

Peasant societies in many parts of the world regulate their relationship with the natural environment through earth gods who anchor a group of families not in genealogical terms, as in the case of ancestors, but in ecological terms. The articles in this volume illustrate the role of, and the cu...

Growing up in central australia

First ethnographic volume on the subject of Young Aboriginal Australians Today Regional ethnography with contributions from diverse disciplines Integration of scholarly and self-reflective accounts

Villages in the steppe

In this book, Akkermans provides a systematic overview of the Halaf culture in the Syrian portion of the valley of the Balikh River, a tributary of the Euphrates.

Globalization in southeast asia

The rapid postwar economic growth in the Southeast Asia region has led to a transformation of many of the societies there, together with the development of new types of anthropological research in the region. Local societies with originally quite different cultures have been incorporated into m...

Capricious borders

Detailed ethnographic study of the anthropology of Thrace in the Northern Greek-Turkish border areas. An exposition of the conflicted subjectivities of the Turkish minorities of contemporary Greece Examines the mechnanisms in place, which on the one hand, legalise the status of the m...

Youth gangs and street children

Presents an original and powerful ethnographic examination of children’s childhood with a focus on the child’s active participation in and acquisition of, cultural practices  Describes how the phenomenon that at times children themselves end up parenting their parents, generates contradi...

Local science vs global science

While science has achieved a remarkable understanding of nature, affording humans an astonishing technological capability, it has led, through Euro-American global domination, to the muting of other cultural views and values, even threatening their continued existence. There is a growing realiz...

An anthropological toolkit

Presenting 60 theoretical ideas, David Zeitlyn asks, ‘How to write about anthropological theory without making a specific theoretical argument?’ and ‘Is it possible to practice anthropology without arguing for a single specific approach?’ To answer, he gives a series of mini-essays about an ecl...

Social bodies

A proliferation of press headlines, social science texts and “ethical” concerns about the social implications of recent developments in human genetics and biomedicine have created a sense that, at least in European and American contexts, both the way we treat the human body and our attitudes to...

Post-ottoman coexistence

Examines the peaceful co-existence of religious and ethnic groups under the Ottoman Empire. Investigates the reasons behind the breakdown of tolerance and the legacy of division from ethno-nationalist conflict post-empire. A discussion of both historical and contemporary practices of...

The triumph of propaganda

The Nazis saw film as a major vehicle for both indoctrination and escapist pacification of the "masses"; in fact, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels tried to create a German counter-Hollywood. This highly acclaimed study, by one of Germany's leading commentators and authors on cultural policy,...

The cult and science of public health

It explores the tensions that arise as a result of public health being both a science and a moral force in society It demonstrates the ways in which public health acts not only to constrain individual excess, but also to constrain the execesses of capitalism It uses the work of Durkh...

Work in a modern society

No other new studies on the history of work and labour in the German speaking world available Documents recent original research by German speaking scholars whose work is not easily accessible in English Relates historical findings to the present in which the restructuring of the wor...

Béla balázs: early film theory

Béla Balázs’s two works, Visible Man (1924) and The Spirit of Film (1930), are published here for the first time in full English translation. The essays offer the reader an insight into the work of a film theorist whose German-language publications have been hitherto unavailable to the film stu...

Orientpolitik, value, and civilization

This is the first collection of Franz Steiner's keynote papers on comparative economics and the classification of labor,complemented by major unpublished texts on politics, civilization, and cultural criticism. This enables a complete re-evaluation of Steiner's thought. His ideas on truth, valu...

Reconceiving the second sex

Extensive social science research, particularly by anthropologists, has explored women’s reproductive lives, their use of reproductive technologies, and their experiences as mothers and nurturers of children. Meanwhile, few if any volumes have explored men’s reproductive concerns or contributio...

After socialism

The collapse of Soviet influence and the disillusionment with socialism in the early 1990s led to ambitious programs of economic reform throughout Eastern Europe. The papers in this volume, written by anthropologists and sociologists with detailed first-hand knowledge of the rural areas concern...

Techniques, technology and civilization

Marcel Mauss's writings on techniques and technology are at the forefront of an important anthropological and sociological research tradition, and they also highlight the theoretical and ideological challenges surrounding this field of study. A selection of Mauss's texts — including his major s...

The imaginary revolution

The events of 1968 have been seen as a decisive turning point in the Western world. The author takes a critical look at "May 1968" and questions whether the events were in fact as "revolutionary" as French and foreign commentators have indicated. He concludes the student movement changed little...

Up close and personal

Combines rich personal accounts from twelve veteran anthropologists with reflexive analyses of the state of anthropology today Is a treatise on theory and method offering fresh insights into the production of anthropological knowledge, from the creation of key concepts to major paradigm ...

Differentiating development

Over the last two decades, anthropological studies have highlighted the problems of ‘development’ as a discursive regime, arguing that such initiatives are paradoxically used to consolidate inequality and perpetuate poverty. This volume constitutes a timely intervention in anthropological debat...

Shadowlands

Describes how Estonia has been profoundly shaped by the violent conflicts and shifting political fortunes of the last century. An innovative study tracing the tangled interaction of Estonian historical memory and national identity in a sweeping analysis extending from the Great War to th...

The anthropology of the fetus

Draws from recent and continuing field research on an important, relevant, and challenging topic. Brings together perspectives from across the four fields of anthropology. Written clearly and accessibly to engage non-specialists in archaeology, bioarchaeology, biological anthropology...

Transnational nomads

There is a tendency to consider all refugees as 'vulnerable victims': an attitude reinforced by the stream of images depicting refugees living in abject conditions. This groundbreaking study of Somalis in a Kenyan refugee camp reveals the inadequacy of such assumptions by describing the rich ...

Perspectives in motion

Through a diverse range of case studies from Oceania, Asia, and Europe, and interdisciplinary approaches, Perspectives in Motion explores visual approaches to performance in global cultural contexts, offering new critical and ethnographic frameworks for understanding and experiencing practices ...

Money counts

Taboo, truth and religion

Franz Steiner's study of Taboo is internationally recognized as a classic in its field. In a newly researched introductory chapter, based on a thorough study of Steiner's unpublished papers, this edition for the first time places the book in its context and offers a new reading of the text. Mor...

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...

Urban pollution

Provides an ethnographic approach to urban pollution Explores the cultural meanings ascribed to concepts of “clean” and “dirty” Draws on a wide range of case studies in cities in both the North and the South

Anthropology and law

The relationship between Law and Anthropology can be considered as having been particularly intimate. In this book the authors defend their assertion that the two fields co-exist in a condition of "balanced reciprocity" wherein each makes important contributions to the successful practice and t...

Entertaining german culture

In an increasingly transnational production of film and television, Entertaining German Culture explores and contextually thematizes a radical shift in the past fifteen years towards a profound appreciation of German cultural and intellectual history in the international mainstream.

Jewish self-hate

This new edition makes Theodor Lessing’s seminal work Der Jüdische Selbsthaß accessible to English readers for the first time, supplemented with explanatory footnotes by translator Peter Appelbaum and illustrative essays by historian Sander L. Gilman and German scholar Paul Reitter.

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.

Lessons in perception

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

Music and postwar transitions in the 19th and 20th centuries

Music and Postwar Transitions takes a groundbreaking and much anticipated dive into the concept of postwar transitions and how these affect and are affected by the world of music. Leading scholars in the field explore new approaches to create a novel understanding of music and postwar periods.

The romani movement

The collapse of communism and the process of state building that ensued in the 1990s have highlighted the existence of significant minorities in many European states, particularly in Central Europe. In this context, the growing plight of Europe’s biggest minority, the Roma (Gypsies), has been p...

Rethinking holocaust justice

In the past two decades, the subject of post-Holocaust justice has experienced a surge of interest among historians and legal scholars. Rethinking Holocaust Justice offers a multifaceted approach to post-Holocaust justice, bringing together leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to expl...

Building a european identity

Offers a unique combination of multiarchival diplomatic history and analysis of political language Skillfully examines the interplay between transatlantic relations, the Middle East and the makings of a united Europe Reappraises the significance of the post-de Gaulle era in the histo...

Militant around the clock?

This book is the first study of the impact of left-wing political activism on the leisure pursuits and sexual behavior of Greek youth in the 1970s. Aanalyzes the cultural politics of left-wing organizations alongside the actual practices of their members. Demonstrates that left-wing ...

Visual interventions

Visual anthropology has proved to offer fruitful methods of research and representation to applied projects of social intervention. Through a series of case studies based on applied visual anthropological work in a range of contexts (health and medicine, tourism and heritage, social development...

German scholars and ethnic cleansing, 1919-1945

Recently, there has been a major shift in the focus of historical research on World War II towards the study of the involvements of scholars and academic institutions in the crimes of the Third Reich. The roots of this involvement go back to the 1920s. At that time right-wing scholars participa...

The land is dying

Explores conflicts and concerns about personhoood, gender relations, memory and sociality that take shape under the shadow of the HIV/AIDS epidemic but that have deeper historical roots relating to Christianity, neo-traditionalism, and growing economic inequality. Links study of ritual a...

Meaning and representation in history

History has always been more than just the past. It involves a relationship between past and present, perceived, on the one hand, as a temporal chain of events and, on the other, symbolically as an interpretation that gives meaning to these events through varying cultural orientations, charging...

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...

The girl in the pandemic

The early and critical stages of the pandemic presented exacerbated risks to the lives of girls and young women. The Girl in the Pandemic takes a diverse range of scholars across the world, particularly from the Global South, to document and contribute to a large narrative of what a post-pandem...

Financialization

News as culture

Explains the social relevance of news by discussing the relation between media related practices and dynamic cultural repertoires Moves beyond the dichotomy of reader and write in news relations to show how social interactions across these categories interactively create news texts and s...

Children of the camp

This is one of the very few books published focusing on refugee youth and the only one focusing on Somali refugee youth in protracted exile; The use of photography teaching as a research method is rather unusual and gives an insight into the visual world of young refugees in camps; T...

Healing roots

Detailed study, compiled by an accomplished anthropological scholar, of one of the oldest indigenous medicines in South Africa. Laplante situates African and Western knowledge systems against one another. The author follows the journey of the plant on its transition to the controlled...

The manual of ethnography

Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) was the leading social anthropologist in Paris between the world wars, and his Manuel d’ethnographie, dating from that period, is the longest of all his texts. Despite having had four editions in France, the Manuel has hitherto been unavailable in English. This contrast...

Disaster upon disaster

A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies mandated to deal with the concern. Disaster Upon Disaster illuminates the numerous disjunctions between the suppositions, realities, agendas, an...

Finding ways through eurospace

Visions of marriage

Grounded in multi-generational stories from Kinmen in Taiwan, Visions of Marriage explores the historical entanglements between the pursuit of new personal and national futures. Focusing on the relational and future-making aspects of marriage, the ethnography highlights the intersection of tran...

The nazi genocide of the roma

Analyzes the patterns of persecution of the Roma in Nazi-dominated Europe Employs case studies across 6 countries to generate a critical mass of evidence indicating criminal intent on the part of the Nazi regime to destroying the Roma as a distinct group  Includes essays on issues of...

The nature of sociology

Having taken over the leadership of the French school of sociology after the death of his uncle, Emile Durkheim, in 1917, Mauss, celebrated author of The Gift, re-launched the flagship journal, the Année sociologique. Here are two of Mauss's most significant statements on the social sciences. T...

Studying contemporary western society

Few anthropologists today realize the pioneering role Margaret Mead played in the investigation of contemporary cultures. This volume collects and presents a variety of her essays on research methodology relating to contemporary culture. Many of these essays were printed originally in limited c...

Reluctant skeptic

Discusses Kracauer from the perspective of the history of religion in modern Germany Seeks to give more emphasis to the importance of the history of religious thought in modern German cultural and intellectual history Approaches Kracauer on the basis of some of his earlier, less know...

Evidence, ethos and experiment

Medical research has been central to biomedicine in Africa for over a century, and Africa, along with other tropical areas, has been crucial to the development of medical science. At present, study populations in Africa participate in an increasing number of medical research projects and clinic...

Biomedical entanglements

An ethnographic study of the Giri people of Papua New Guinea. Focuses on the indigenous population’s interaction with modern medicine. Bridges medical anthropology and global health, exploring how the ‘biomedical’ is imbued with social meaning and how biomedicine affects Giri ways of...

Hitler's dancers

The Nazis burned books and banned much modern art. However, few people know the fascinating story of German modern dance, which was the great exception. Modern expressive dance found favor with the regime and especially with the infamous Dr. Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda. How mode...

Money at the margins

Technology for the Poor / in the developing world Social studies of monetary behavior Human Design centered with a focus on context Rethinking technological development / financial inclusion solutions

Moral power

Neither power nor morality but both. Moral power is what Sukuma farmers in Tanzania in times of crisis attribute to an unknown figure they call their witch. A universal process is involved, as much bodily as social, which obstructs the patient’s recovery. Healers turn the table on the witch thr...