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 ...

Precious Pills

Through an ethnography of the social and medical worlds of a community of Tibetan refugees in India, this book addresses two main questions: first, how has the prolonged displacement of Tibetan refugees affected concepts of health in the exile community? Second, how has exile changed traditiona...

Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia

Develops critical anthropology of the future Proposes an alternative to the existing world system based upon social parity, democratic processes, environmental sustainability, and a safe climate Argues that the notion of socialism needs to be revisited and reformulated to include dem...

Development-induced Displacement

Some ten million people worldwide are displaced or resettled every year, due to development projects, such as the construction of dams, irrigation schemes, urban development, transport, conservation or mining projects. The results have usually been very negative for most of those people who hav...

Poetics of Animation

A general introduction to animation aesthetics which is accessible to both undergraduate animation students, and also informative to animation theorists and practitioners. Possible adoption potential? Broad in scope, offering an overview of some of the major trends in commercial animatio...

Working for the Enemy

General Motors, the largest corporation on earth today, has been the owner since 1929 of Adam Opel AG, Russelsheim, the maker of Opel cars. Ford Motor Company in 1931 built the Ford Werke factory in Cologne, now the headquarters of European Ford. In this book, historians tell the astonishing st...

Factions, Friends and Feasts

Explores social influence of the Mediterranean climate and the legacy of ethnic and religious conflict over the last 50 years Via case studies, illiustrates complexity of daily life in the region through analysis of the effects of family loyalty, emigration, and the social consequences o...

Germany and the Middle East

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

Reversible America

Reversible America negotiates the spectacle of Rodeo, cattle ranching, and bullfighting as it has manifested in California through cross border convergences of Iberian bullfighting, Native American hunting methods, and ethics in human and non-human relationships.

Island Historical Ecology

Island Historical Ecology addresses Caribbean island ecologies from the perspective of social and cultural intervention, focusing on selected islands between Venezuela and Puerto Rico. This volume goes on to compare these ecologies with well-documented patterns in the Mediterranean and Pacific ...

Experimental Collaborations

Grounded in a series of diverse ethnographic projects in Africa, America and Europe, Experimental Collaborations attempts to expand our ethnographic repertoire of fieldwork devices. The titular concept signals a descriptive account of certain forms of ethnographic engagement, and a research and...

Don't Need No Thought Control

Don't Need No Thought Control explores the dynamic interplay between popular demands, intensifying economic crises, and cultural policy decisions during the Erich Honecker era in a comprehensive and comparative analysis.

The Spirit of the Berlin Republic

The "Berlin Republic" has become the key concept of post-Cold War Germany and as such has been widely discussed inside as well as outside Germany. Symbolized by the move of the government from Bonn to Berlin it signals all the tangible and intangible changes in Germany's position in the world t...

German Television

First edited volume in English on its topic. Brings together scholars from US, UK and Germany. Combines historical with theoretical perspectives, history of technology with program content and economics, auteur directors and popular mainstream TV series.

Placing London

London continues to fascinate a vast audience across the world, and an extensive, diverse literature now exists describing and analyzing this metropolis. The central question - what is London? - has produced many answers but none of them, the author argues, uncovers the complex ways in which kn...

Unearthing the Past to Forge the Future

During the 1800s, the East India Company consolidated its rule in India. In desperate need of knowledge about this territory and its population, the company appointed Colin Mackenzie as the first Surveyor General of India. Unearthing the Past to Forge the Future explores the life and career of ...

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...

Civil Society

At the moment, no other European city attracts so much fascination as the city of Berlin. An unrivalled symbol of modern urban life, Berlin is a dynamic city whose inhabitants, in the course of the past two centuries, have lived through both the rapid growth and the violent destruction of the i...

Poverty in Transition and Transition in Poverty

Poverty is an issue facing countries around the globe, yet it is a multi-dimensional phenomenon caused by a variety of factors, differing from context with no linear chain of cause and effect. The occurrence and persistence of poverty is influenced by an interrelated web of economic, social, ps...

The Helmand Baluch

The late Ghulam Rahman Amiri accompanied a joint Aghan-US archaeological mission to the Sistan region of southwest Afghanistan in the 1970s and published the ethnography in Farsi in Kabul in 1987. This volume, the first English translation, describes the cultural, political, and economic system...

On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise

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Management by Seclusion

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

Education Policy and Equal Opportunity in Japan

In many societies today, educational aims or goals are commonly characterized in terms of “equality,” “equal opportunity,” “equal access” or “equal rights,” the underlying assumption being that “equality” in some form is an intelligible and sensible educational ideal. Yet, there are different v...

Re-orienting Cuisine

Foods are changed by those who produce and supply them, and also by those who consume them. The contributors of this volume have expanded the discussion of food to include its social and cultural meanings and functions, thereby using it as a way to explain a culture and its changes.

Conversion to Judaism 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...

God in the Machine

Enlarges the scope of discussion, about creativity in science and art, about the philosophy of experience in general, but also about the way humanities can take up and take on the experimental aspect of their practice. The book demonstrates clearly how it is no longer just a matter of th...

Charismatic Leadership and Social Movements

Much of the writing on charisma focuses on specific traits associated with exceptional leaders, a practice that has broadened the concept of charisma to such an extent that it loses its distinctiveness – and therefore its utility. More particularly, the concept’s relevance to the study of socia...

Straying from the Straight Path

It is the first volume to focus on experiences of moral failure among both Muslims and Christians on the basis of ethnographic research. It goes beyond a tenacious and problematic dichotomy within the anthropology of Islam and Christianity between a focus on pious disciplining on the one...

Gendering Modern German History

Writing on the history of German women has - like women's history elsewhere - undergone remarkable expansion and change since it began in the late 1960s. Today Women's history still continues to flourish alongside gender history but the focus of research has increasingly shifted from women to g...

Aspirations of Young Adults in Urban Asia

Comparing first-person ethnographic accounts of young people living, working, and creating relationships in cities across Asia, this volume explores their contemporary lives, pressures, ideals, and aspirations.

Anthropology and Philosophy

Dialogues about the disciplinary boarders of anthropology and philosophy. Trust discussed as a research topic of field work and philosophical theorizing. Hope discussed as a research topic of field work and philosophical theorizing. New theorizing on trust and hope. Interdisc...

Digital Flâneurs

Challenges alarmist narratives about young people and technology by centering young people's own experiences, perspectives, and agency through ethnographic and participatory research. Explores how young people engage with digital technologies in diverse and creative ways, moving beyo...

Living Translation

Examines the way American teachers and students of Chinese medicine search for resonance in translated texts and concepts. Traces the translation from text to practice and considers the social, political, historical, moral, and personal dimensions involved in the transnational production...

Creativity in Transition

Describes how in an era of intensifying globalization and transnational connectivity, the dynamics of cultural production and the very notion of creativity is in transition. Highlights the spread of modernist discourses of creativity. The contributions are based on a long term collab...

Refugees Welcome?

Situates the 2015-16 ‘refugee crisis’ in Germany within the wider German history of responding politically to difference and diversity.

Reconstructing Homes

Reconstructing Homes takes on a multidisciplinary approach of sensory ethnography, visual methods, and autoethnography methodologies to explore affective engagements with materiality in the context of home and the idea of belonging.

Terrorism in Question

Offers an original, new argument about the politics of terrorism, especially post-9/11 “new terrorism;” Provides a truly global methodological framework — weaving, for instance, poetry, imagination, and International Relations together — in a way that connects the “small place” to the la...

Compensation in Practice

Unique study on forced labor compensation in Eastern and Central Europe after 1990 Unique study on practice and effects of compensation Based on extensive interdisciplinary studies and vast archival studies of material that has not been used elsewhere

Of Life and Health

The book is intended for the general public interested in public and African anthropology on alternative systems of healing and scholars seeking a different African epistemology on life and health. It builds a cultural lexicon about life by studying the religious including ritual and art...

Crime, Jews and News

Crimes committed by Jews, especially ritual murders, have long been favorite targets in the antisemitic press. This book investigates popular and scientific conceptualizations of criminals current in Austria and Germany at the turn of the last century and compares these to those in the contempo...

Weaponizing the Past

Theorizing and explaining the process of collective memory of Poland’s communist past, Weaponizing the Past explores contemporary politicizations of the past, national belonging and the production of anti-Semitism.

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...

The Radical Right in Switzerland

There has been a tendency amongst scholars to view Switzerland as a unique case, and comparative scholarship on the radical right has therefore shown little interest in the country. Yet, as the author convincingly argues, there is little justification for maintaining the notion of Swiss excepti...

Planning Labour

Planning Labour explores the early socialist industrialization and the implementation of central economic planning in Romania between 1945 and 1955. Centered on the city of Cluj, an ethnically mixed city in the northwestern part of Romania, this volume examines the deeply contradictory process ...

Power in Practice

Most compelling and complete study about capoeira leaders to date. First book to address the political structure and hierarchies of capoeira Angola academies A unique book engaged with current theoretical discussions about power, ontology, cosmology, embodiment and ritual action

Weather Signs

The first book in the English language to deal with this research topic. Offers a rich bibliography useful for further research developments in the study of the human-climate relationship in rural Japan. Contributes to the anthropological reflection on human and non-human agency by f...

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...

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.

The Participants

While the Wannsee-Conference is widely seen to be a turning point in holocaust history, its participants have been often overlooked Unique glimpse of the individual Nazi perpetrators Sociology of Nazi administration, its networks and deadlocks

Belonging in Unhomely Homelands

Belonging in Unhomely Lands takes a feminist approach to examine the intricate dynamics of gender, national affiliation and belonging in the context of internal displacement and territorial disputes faced by Kosovo Serbs since the ethnic conflict and tensions two decades ago.

The Education of Nomadic Peoples

Educational provision for nomadic peoples is a highly complex, as well as controversial and emotive, issue. For centuries, nomadic peoples educated their children by passing on from generation to generation the socio-cultural and economic knowledge required to pursue their traditional occupatio...

The Devil's Wheels

Motorization: Focuses on the motorcycle not the car as the most important cultural commodity of early motorization in Germany. Gender and Consumption: Focuses on masculinity not only femininity in exploring how motorization as a practice of consumption shaped gender. Extends and amen...

The Changing Faces of Citizenship

Headlines of Nation, Subtexts of Class

Since 1989 neo-nationalism has grown as a volatile political force in almost all European societies in tandem with the formation of a neoliberal European Union and wider capitalist globalizations. Focusing on working classes situated in long-run localized processes of social change, including p...

Subjects, Citizens, and Others

The work is the first to systematically compare the British and Habsburg empires The book challenges the alleged distinction between ‘Western’ modernity and ‘Eastern’ backwardness, primarily in terms of politically inclusive and ethnically exclusive versions of nationality. The work ...

Soho on Screen

Shaping the Transnational Sphere

An original and innovative collection exploring the role of the expert in shaping culture and society Spans from the second half of the 19th Century, over a variety of landscapes from Western Europe to North America Demonstrates the influence of industrialisation and nation-building ...

Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America

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

German Rule, African Subjects

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

French Intellectuals Against the Left

In the latter half of the 1970s, the French intellectual Left denounced communism, Marxism, and revolutionary politics through a critique of left-wing totalitarianism that paved the way for today's postmodern, liberal, and moderate republican political options. Contrary to the dominant understa...

Understanding Business Offenders

Focusing on understanding business offenders through an exploration of workplace deviance and crime, this book closely examines a number of illustrative contemporary case studies and underpins the analysis of original comparative fieldwork, with an interdisciplinary approach, which informs, dev...

Wartime Captivity in the 20th Century

Brings together an international selection of scholars to trace the contours of a century of wartime captivity. Offers fascinating new perspectives on historical moments that range from the early days of the Great War to the arrival of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

Extreme Heritage Management

Conflicting and competing claims over the actual and imagined use of land and seascapes are exacerbated on islands with high population density. The management of culture and heritage is particularly tested in island environments where space is finite and the population struggles to preserve cu...

Assembling Financialisation

Farmers, Indigenous organisations, government and private-sector intermediaries from remote Northern Australia often negotiate with private finance capital to gain funds for agricultural development.This book demonstrates that while financialisation is a useful signifier of patterns of global c...

Ice and Snow in the Cold War

This fascinating volume demonstrates that regions such as Alaska, the polar landscapes, and the cold areas of the Soviet periphery were of no small importance during the Cold War. Through histories of these extremely cold environments, this volume makes a novel intervention in Cold War historio...

Liberal Imperialism in Germany

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...

The Cultural Politics of Reproduction

Offers a detailed analysis of the social and cultural experiences of migrant communities Explores arguments seated at the heart of the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences Provides a comparative study of identity and a cultural understanding of the health care system, demonstra...

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...

Shedding Light on the Darkness

Increasingly, German Studies programs include courses on the Holocaust, but suitable course materials are often difficult to find. Teachers in higher education will therefore very much welcome this volume that examines and reflects both the practical and theoretical aspects of teaching about th...

Laborers and Enslaved Workers

The attention to the experiences shared between enslaved and the so called free worker in the city with the largest enslaved population in the Americas. The concern with the day by day experience of living and working in the city, combined with the study of labor movement. The peculi...

Elsdon Best

This volume is dedicated to the New Zealander ethnographer Elsdon Best (1856-1931) who is a key figure in the history of anthropology due to his involuntary triggering of a fundamental and long-lasting anthropological debate on the Māori concept of hau.

Sacral Kingship Between Disenchantment and Re-enchantment

A major contribution to the study of early modern monarchy A well organised study focusing on the interaction between ideas of monarchy and images of power in France and England A new perspective on the sacred role that churches and religion bestowed on monarchs

Conflict, Domination, and Violence

It offers a unique long-term historical perspective. It deals with different social movements. It deals with several regions of Mexico. It deals with different forms of violence.

The Germans and the Holocaust

Up-to-Date: Features cutting-edge scholarship about a compelling and very important aspect of the Holocaust. Eminent Authors: All of the chapters have been written by highly accomplished senior scholars who are internationally known in this field of Research Focus on Sources: Several...

Food, Culture and Society in India

Bringing together empirical research from across India, this volume examines how food intersects with identity, migration, livelihood and media. It offers interdisciplinary insights into the cultural, political and social dimensions of food in contemporary Indian life.

Economic Citizenship

Describes how, with the spread of neoliberal projects, responsibility for the welfare of minority and poor citizens has shifted from states to local communities. Exposes the paradoxes that are deep within neoliberal interpretations of citizenship. Analyzes the unexpected consequences...

Silence, Screen, and Spectacle

Takes on an innovative focus on “spectacular memory,” asking how spectacle functions in processes of memory, countermemory, and silencing. Breaks new ground in the discussion of absence, both in terms of the ‘absent,’ missing dialogues, texts, monuments and communities, as well as the “d...

The Good Holiday

Explores tourists as (nongovernmental) governors (to the best of my knowledge, this is the first book that interprets and analyses tourists as a sort of participants in [nongovernmental] governance). Heterogeneous perspective (it engages ethnographically on both destination people and to...

The Bressonians

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

African Crossroads

Cameroon is characterized by an extraordinary geographical, cultural, and linguistic diversity. This collection of essays by eminent historians and anthropologists summarizes three generations of research in Cameroon that began with the collaboration of Phyllis Kaberry and E. M. Chilver soon af...

The Nation, Europe, and the World

Textbooks in history, geography and the social sciences provide important insights into the ways in which nation-states project themselves. Based on case studies of France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Greece, Turkey Bulgaria, Russia, and the United States, this volume shows the role that c...

Making Nordic Historiography

It discusses (critically) the importance and power of methodological nationalism It shows how political all historiography is and may have big positive or disasterous role in society: the most dangerous product of human brains (Paul Valery) All history is fiction and all fiction has ...

Lost Objects Of Desire

This first book-length critical study of Jeremy Irons concentrates on his key performances and acting style. Through the analysis of some of the major screen roles in Irons’s career, such as Brideshead Revisited, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Reversal of Fortune, Swann in Love, Dead Ringers an...

Conflict and Violence in the Lake Chad Basin

This volume analyses conflicts in the Lake Chad Basin based on insights into local dynamics and the lived world of the people themselves.

Braving the Street

As homelessness continues to plague North America and also becomes more widespread in Europe, anthropologists turn their attention to solving the puzzle of why people in some of the most advanced technological societies in the world are found huddled in a subway tunnel, squatting in a vacant bu...

The Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots

An important insight into the radical cultural changes following on from demographic change, land-conflicts and economic scarcity An analysis of how people re-make sociality in an era of post-colonial neo-liberalism Contributes to the understanding of the problems of post-disaster r...

Who Owns the Past?

In the decades since the collapse of socialism in eastern Europe, time has been a central resource under negotiation. Focusing on a local community that was considered a "model" in the socialist period, the author explores a variety of state-sponsored and unofficial pasts - history, folklore, a...

Beyond Prison

“This is an exceptional personal testimony and story of achievement – Ahmed Othmani tells of his own appalling treatment when in detention and how it informed and inspired a lifetime vocation to struggle for the rights of all prisoners everywhere. As the story demonstrates, Othmani is one of th...

The German Right in the Weimar Republic

Examines a crucial episode in the demise of the Weimar Republic and the rise of National Socialism. Based upon extensive primary research in a wide range of archival collections. Employs a variety of methodological approaches in the study of the German Right. Approaches the issue...

The Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany

first comprehensive study of the "masculinized" modern woman in post-World War I Germany compares mainstream media and "queer" subcultural representations to showcase the significance and complexity of female masculinities within Weimar German culture an interdisciplinary cultural hi...

Configuring Contagion

Expanding our understanding of contagion further than typical notions of infection and pandemics, this book widens the field to include biosocial epidemics. The chapters propose varied and detailed answers to questions about the epidemic and contagious potential of specific infections and non-i...

Evil Eye in Christian Orthodox Society

Evil eye is a phenomenon observed globally and has to do with the misfortune and calamities that we can cause to someone else out of jealousy of their possessions. The book engages with evil eye beliefs in Corfu and investigates the Christian Orthodox influences on the phenomenon and how it aff...

Echoes of Surrealism

Echoes of Surrealism surveys areas of surrealist art throughout the entire lifespan of the GDR and explores analyses of the interaction and reciprocal influences of various art forms. Focusing on individual authors, visual artists, film directors and musicians who have taken a surrealist perspe...

Fatness and the Maternal Body

Obesity is a rising global health problem. On the one hand a clearly defined medical condition, it is at the same time a corporeal state embedded in the social and cultural perception of fatness, body shape and size. Focusing specifically on the maternal body, contributors to the volume examine...

Where Humans and Spirits Meet

Zanzibar, an island off the East African coast, with its Muslim and Swahili population, offers rich material for this study of identity, religion, and multiculturalism. This book focuses on the phenomenon of spirit possession in Zanzibar Town and the relationships created between humans and spi...

Crime Stories

The Weimar Republic (1918–1933) was a crucial moment not only in German history but also in the history of both crime fiction and criminal science. This study approaches the period from a unique perspective - investigating the most notorious criminals of the time and the public’s reaction to th...

Grace after Genocide

An ethnographic study that extends over 35 years and spans the United States. Reviews the history of Cambodian refugees and discusses the impact of American military activities overseas on particular individuals. Describes the activities of first generation refugees before resettleme...