Weimar radicals

Offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between Communism and Fascism a key problem of twentieth-century German history. Reconsiders the fateful relationship between the two great ideological competitors of the Weimar Republic, while offering a challenging new interpretation of th...

Post-cosmopolitan cities

Examining the way people imagine and interact in their cities, this book explores the post-cosmopolitan city. The contributors consider the effects of migration, national, and religious revivals (with their new aesthetic sensibilities), the dispositions of marginalized economic actors, and glob...

The new age in glastonbury

The New Age movement is a twentieth-century socio-cultural phenomenon in the Western world with Glastonbury as one of its major centers. Through experimenting with a number of ways of analyzing this movement, the authors were able to develop a novel theory of social religious movements of broad...

A revolution of perception?

Details the protest movement of 1968 that challenged the institutions of Western democracies Evaluates the effects the protest movement had on the political, social and symbolic order of the societies that were challenged Examines the consequences of 1968 from a number of different p...

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...

Post-war women's writing in german

Women in the Federal Republic, the former GDR, Switzerland and Austria have initiated a remarkable literary movement, especially after 1968, which is also attracting growing attention elsewhere. Informed by critical feminist and literary theory, this broad-ranging collection, the first of its k...

Dictatorship as experience

A decade after the collapse of communism, this volume presents a historical reflection on the perplexing nature of the East German dictatorship. In contrast to most political rhetoric, it seeks to establish a middle ground between totalitarianism theory, stressing the repressive features of the...

Decentering america

"Decentering" has fast become a dynamic approach to the study of American cultural and diplomatic history. But what precisely does decentering mean, how does it work, and why has it risen to such prominence? This book addresses the attempt to decenter the United States in the history of culture...

Turkish german cinema in the new millennium

First book on Turkish German cinema An anthology featuring the main scholars working on the subject New methodologies to discuss the culture of migration Multiple approaches to minority cultural production in the contemporary European context

Rethinking a radical reputation

This book explores the neighbourhood of Exarcheia in Athens through its tensions and contradictions and how they coexist to maintain particular historical and political narratives through an ethnographic study of stories and discussions with residents of the area.

Mobility and migration in indigenous amazonia

Examines with the relationship between indigenous migration and human-environment relations Utilizes a wide range of historical time frames (from pre-conquest times to the present) and ethnographic contexts Explores the complex and important links between migration and the classifica...

Skilled visions

Most arguments for a rediscovery of the body and the senses hinge on a critique of “visualism” in our globalized, technified society. This approach has led to a lack of actual research on the processes of visual “enskillment.” Providing a comprehensive spectrum of case studies in relevant conte...

Risky transactions

Trust is a central feature of relationships within the Mafia, oppressed minorities, kin groups everywhere, among dissidents, nationalist freedom fighters, ethnic tourists, ethnic middlemen, exchange networks of Kalahari Bushmen, and families subjected to Stalinist social control. Each of these ...

Recollections of france

Since the 1980s, France has experienced a vigorous revival of interest in its past and cultural heritage. This has been expressed as part of a movement of remembering through museums and festivals as well as via elaborate commemorations, most notably those held to celebrate the bi-centenary of ...

From virtue to vice

Demonstrates how "The Recovered" possess the key to overcoming anorexia. Describes how activity disorders start as virtuous practices, but become addictive obsessions. Portrays developmental disorders, where those eager for challenge and change, get a distorted life instead.

Fascist interactions

Differentiates and explores various modes of interaction—between fascists and conservatives in particular countries, between diverse fascist or quasi-fascist formations on the supranational level, between fascists and the liberal democracies, and between fascists and communists. Shows ho...

The great tradition and its legacy

Both dramatic and musical theater are part of the tradition that has made Austria - especially Vienna - and the old Habsburg lands synonymous with high culture in Central Europe. Many works, often controversial originally but now considered as classics, are still performed regularly in Vienna, ...

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...

Human rights without democracy?

argues that Human Rights must be established democratically explains why, from a philosophical point of view, liberty and equality need not be mutually exclusive outlines the history of the concept of Human Rights compares how Human Rights are understood in the United States in ...

Preserving order amid chaos

Investigating online heritage crime

Serves as an excellent introduction to the world of cultural heritage trafficking, which will appeal to academics as well as practitioners in the field. Explores the subject through digital platforms, making for a very timely and forward-looking approach. This title is an under-rese...

Multiple medical realities

Nowadays a plethora of treatment technologies is available to the consumer, each employing a variety of concepts of the body, self, sickness and healing. This volume explores the options, strategies and consequences that are both relevant and necessary for patients and practitioners who are man...

The chameleon state

The role of the state in capitalist societies has been a bone of considerable contention among scholars. The two founding fathers of sociology held radically opposing views on this subject which were reflected in the numerous debates over subsequent decades to this day. Yet, no answer has been ...

The politics of education

Although the early history of progressive education is often associated with John Dewey in America, the author argues convincingly that the pedagogues in the elementary schools in the big cities of Imperial Germany were in the avant garde of this movement on the European Continent. Far more tha...

Germans against nazism

This re-issued volume examines opposition to National Socialism by Germans during the Third Reich in its broadest sense. It considers individual and organized nonconformity, opposition, and resistance. It looks at how disparate groups such as the Jewish community, churches, conservat...

A taste for oppression

Very few up-to-date qualitative studies are available on locked societies (such as north Korea or Belarus), thus this book fills an important gap in our understanding of existing authoritarian regimes. An inside look at daily lives of people in a country that is often referred to as “the...

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...

The jacobin clubs in the french revolution, 1793-1795

A pendant to two well-received books by the same author on the departmental clubs during the early years of the Revolution, this book is the product of thirty years of scholarly study, including archival research in Paris and in more than seventy departments in France. It focuses on the twenty-...

A year of revolutions

Lewald (1811-1889), the best-selling German woman writer in the nineteenth century, proved akeen and perceptive observer of the social, artistic, and political life of her times, of which these Recollections offer an excellent example. Written from a woman's perspective, this first-hand account...

In the mind's eye

This volume brings together the disciplines of palaeontology, psychology, anatomy, and primatology. Together, they address a number of issues, including the evolution of sex differences in spatial cognition, the role of archaeology in the cognitive sciences, the relationships between brain size...

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 ...

Television's moment

It reconstructs TV reception in history (very rare, if not unique). It develops new methods to reconstruct historical reception processes. It is a three-country international comparison (very rare). Its main argument is about TV’s impact on whole societies (also rare; media studi...

Fairness and division of labor in market societies

Contrary to the explanations offered by the theory of non-reflexive, path-dependent institutionalism, the U.S. and the German automotive industries undertook strikingly similar patterns of industry modification under tough international competition during the 1990s, departing from their traditi...

A belle epoque?

The Third Republic, known as the ‘belle époque’, was a period of lively, articulate and surprisingly radical feminist activity in France, borne out of the contradiction between the Republican ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity and the reality of intense and systematic gender discriminat...

Forced labor for siemens in the women’s concentration camp ravensbrück

The book reveals the many facets of the forced labor system and the specific conditions at Siemens in Ravensbrück. For the first time, the volume brings together texts by female forced laborers from Ravensbrück, translated from various languages, as well as contemporary illustrations and...

Reconceiving muslim men

Through anthropological accounts of Muslim men’s everyday lives in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and diasporic settings, Reconceiving Muslim Men explores the creative ways in which Muslim men care for and nurture their families and communities. By focusing on reproduction, love, and care, this...

Re-presenting the shoah for the 21st century

Despite Adorno's famous dictum, the memory of the Shoah features prominently in the cultural legacy of the 20th century and beyond. It has led to a proliferation of works of representation and re-memorialization which have brought in their wake concerns about a 'holocaust industry' and banaliza...

Legal dissonance

Describes how Papua New Guinea's two most powerful legal orders - customary and state law - undermine each other in criminal matters. Explains how a lack of co-ordination in the punishing of wrong behaviour is problematic for legal orders and for those who are subject to such a legal phe...

The second generation

Combines biographical and autobiographical treatments of some of the most important historians of the postwar era. A massive data base on the second generation of German speaking émigrés. An essential addition to the work on émigré historians, in the collection edited by Lehmann and ...

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 ...

Godless intellectuals?

Establishes connection between Durkheimian sociology and poststructuralism both textually and sociologically Presents a revolutionary re-reading of an important part of 20th century French intellectual history Provides a sociological theory for understanding intellectual work and liv...

Cesare lombroso’s legacy in latin america

The book differs from anything published so far because it focuses on Latin America, especially Cuba, Argentina and Brazil. The main focus is on the Brazilian context, which differs substantially from Cuba and Argentina because of the much lower intellectual density and absence of univer...

Jewish inclusion in ethnic studies education

A clarifying re-examination of the issues affecting ethnic studies education in K-12 schools, this book explores how the program’s disregard for the lives of American Jews correlates with the increase in antisemitism with the U.S. Consequently, it advances a renewed framework for thinking about...

Children and youth on the front line

War leads not just to widespread death but also to extensive displacement, overwhelming fear, and economic devastation. It weakens social ties, threatens household survival and undermines the family's capacity to care for its most vulnerable members. Every year it kills and maims countless numb...

Defiance and compliance

The gap between rich and poor is widening in most countries, putting more pressure on women in particular who often find themselves with the ultimate responsibility to provide for their families, especially their children, in the face of economic and political discrimination. Based on participa...

Antarctic materialities

Examines myriad approaches to the significance of materiality in Antarctica considering that while Antarctica has received uneven attention in global cultural studies, it is a vital region for the understanding of modernity, colonialism, capitalism and our contemporary world. Brings toge...

Women and the politics of military confrontation

As the crisis in Israel does not show any signs of abating, this remarkable collection, edited by an Israeli and a Palestinian scholar and with contributions by Palestinian and Israeli women, offers a vivid and harrowing picture of the conflict and of its impact on daily life, especially as it ...

Sex, thugs and rock 'n' roll

A fascinating and highly readable account of what it was like to be young and hip, growing up in East Germany in the 1950s and 1960s. Living on the frontline of the Cold War, young people were subject to a number of competing influences. For young men from the working class, in particular, a co...

Groundwater politics

The expanding mining industry in the Indigenous Atacameño-Likanantay territories in the hyper-arid Salar de Atacama in Chile are linked to the ecological harm to groundwater. The book addresses recent socioeconomic and political conditions it calls ‘advanced extractivism’ and asks how both eco...

Person and place

Concerned with contemporary notions of personhood and the relationship between persons and places, this book, presents a detailed insight into the Vanua Lavan’s engagement with modernity, and examines how they relate to the past, make sense of the present and anticipate the future. Marilyn Stra...

Celebrating ethnicity and nation

Arising out of the context of the re-configuration of Europe, new perspectives are applied by the authors of this volume to the process of nation-building in the United States. By focusing on a variety of public celebrations and festivities from the Revolution to the early twentieth century, th...

The power of perspective

Focusing on different forms of agency in North Ambrym social life, the author demonstrates the potency of outsiders at different times and in different situations in Ambrym society. This model challenges the premises of much Western thinking about reciprocity, and suggests new directions in the...

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...

The middle-income trap in central and eastern europe

Reviewing the story of prosperity in Central and Eastern Europe up to current debates, The Middle-Income Trap in Central and Eastern Europe examines the reality of the diminishing marginal utility of further international investments alongside the pitfalls of higher national innovation.

William robertson smith

William Robertson Smith’s influence on anthropology ranged from his relationship with John Ferguson McLennan, to advising James George Frazer to write about “Totem” and “Taboo” for the Encyclopaedia Britannica that he edited. This biography places a special emphasis on the notes and observation...

Limits of life

Through a multidisciplinary approach, Limits of Life explores how the limitations and perceived finality of life and death are reconstituted through engagements with modern technology.

Dressing up

Social media is an important and increasingly salient topic, which we'll be seeing a lot more of in the future. Though much has been written about men's fashion, this book is one of the first volumes to offer an anthropological approach to contemporary notions of masculinity through men'...

Stories from an ancient land

The Wa people have a rich civilization of their own and a deep history in the mountains of Southeast Asia. This book introduces aspects of Wa culture, including their approach to the world’s troubles, and the lessons others might learn from it.

The making of turkish contemporary history

Tackles the methodological and conceptual issues of a research field – namely contemporary history of Turkey – which is dramatically under-researched so far. Contribute to its advancement and professionalization by discussing its scientific and science policy framework, defining scholarl...

Football nation

Explores how football shaped German identity from the Wilhelmine era to the 21st century. Interdisciplinary essays connect sport with culture, politics, fandom, class, and gender. Examines football’s links to race, exclusion, migration, and national belonging. Bridges German and ...

Water, scale and materiality

Addresses diverse beliefs and values in relation to water and elucidate their social and ecological impacts. Addresses the challenge of reconciling different scales of environmental engagement. Encourages productive conversations between material culture specialists and anthropolog...

Selfishness and selflessness

We are said to be suffering a narcissism epidemic when the need for collective action seems more pressing than ever. Selfishness and selflessness address the ‘proper’ and ‘improper’ relationship between one’s self and others. The work they do during periods of social instability and cultural ch...

Having and belonging

Examines the connection between the material culture of the private and public, homes and museums. Investigates the connection between heritage and nation building. Shows that existing museum theories, based on nations living in relative peace, cannot indiscriminately be applied in I...

Continental britons

Based on numerous in-depth and personal interviews with members of three generations, this is the first comprehensive study of German-Jewish refugees who came to England in the 1930s. The author addresses questions such as perceptions of Germany and Britain and attitudes towards Judaism. On the...

Images of power

In Latin America, where even today writing has remained a restricted form of expression, the task of generating consent and imposing the emergent nation-state as the exclusive form of the political, was largely conferred to the image. Furthermore, at the moment of its historical demise, the new...

How kinship systems change

Using some of his landmark publications on kinship, along with a new introduction, chapter and conclusion, Robert Parkin discusses here the changes in kinship terminologies and marriage practices, as well as the dialectics between them.

The armenian genocide

Illustrates how the Ottoman Empire adopted a programme geared to the destruction of an identifiable group of its own citizens Demonstrates how German diplomatic documents reveal the shared responsibilty of the Kaiserreich and its willful acquiescence during the genocide An important...

South africa's dreams

In the early sixties, many South African anthropologists supported ‘Grand Apartheid’ in Namibia. South Africa’s colonial policies in the country served as a testing ground for many key features of its repressive infrastructure, and strategies for countering anti-apartheid resistance. The book a...

Central european crossroads

During the four decades of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia a vast literature on working-class movements has been produced but it has hardly any value for today’s scholarship. This remarkable study reopens the field. Based on Czech, Slovak, German and other sources, it focuses on the hist...

A social history of spanish labour

Focusing on organization, resistance and political culture, this collection represents some of the best examples of recent Spanish historiography in the field of modern Spanish labor movements. Topics range from socialism to anarchism, from the formation of the liberal state in the 19th century...

Family beyond family

Arguably all humans invent or accept forms of family beyond those that are close biological kin. These fictive forms of kinship may vary across diverse cultures and serve different purposes. This book explores a wide variety of such kinship formations, while observing and examining the principl...

Pedagogies of value

Original ethnography of global markets: Reveals how foreign intermediaries navigate China’s luxury markets, offering rare insights into value-making in transnational capitalism. Bridges disciplines: Connects anthropology, sociology, and business studies, appealing to both academic and pr...

Children are everywhere

This book explores everyday experiences of parenting and childlessness of ‘ethnic’ Germans in Berlin, who came of age around the fall of the Berlin Wall, and brings them into conversation with theories on parenting, waithood, non-biological intimacies, and masculinities.

Saltwater sociality

The inhabitants of Pororan Island, a small group of ‘saltwater people’ in Papua New Guinea, are intensely interested in the movements of persons across the island and across the sea, both in their everyday lives as fishing people and on ritual occasions. From their observations of human movemen...

Writing the dark side of travel

The travel experience filled with personal trauma; the pilgrimage through a war-torn place; the journey with those suffering: these represent the darker sides of travel. What is their allure and how are they represented? This volume takes an ethnographic and interdisciplinary approach to explor...

Queer and trans life

Against a background marked by endless ordinary crises, widespread precarity, and disrupting critical events, Queer and Trans Life charts queer investments in futurity. It presents emerging queer and trans anthropological research in and about European contexts.

Culture figures

Employing ‘rhetorical reading,' Culture Figures dissects descriptive ethnography and theoretical texts, spanning classical monographs to recent texts representing various approaches in cultural anthropology. The book demonstrates how processes of using tropes and modes of persuasion underlie th...

Rethinking internal displacement

To tackle the vast numbers of internally displaced people, a UN regime has emerged that seeks to replicate the long-established regime of refugee protection by applying international law and humanitarian assistance to citizens within their own borders. This book looks at the origins, structure ...

The polynesian iconoclasm

An ethnographic examination of the Polynesian iconoclasm The book seeks answers to why Polynesian inhabitants destroyed and desecrated all of the temples in the early nineteenth century The authors employ concepts of habitus, improvisation and practical logic to explore the dramatic ...

Religion and nation

An estimated 75,000 Iranians emigrated to Britain after the 1979 revolution and the establishment of the Islamic Republic. They are politically, religiously, socio-economically and ethnically heterogeneous, and have found themselves in the ongoing process of settlement. The aim of this book is ...

Group identities on french and british television

Advances in audiovisual technology, most notably the advent of the popular usage of digital technology in the last few years, have altered the face of popular television. Thanks to cable, satellite and now digital technology, television broadcasts can reach an international audience. The reacti...

Entanglements of the maya universe

This book aims to rethink the topic of cosmology in anthropology by analysing the many entanglements of cosmological ideas and the personal and political lives of individuals within the K’ich’e Maya community of Momostenango, Guatemala.

Making a difference?

A collection of detailed and informative essays and case studies. Explores the emerging and important field of social assessment practices, including displacement and resettlement, in China. Utilises real-life experiences from the various contributors to highlight development policie...

Between the avant-garde and the everyday

The wave of anti-authoritarian political activity associated with the term “1968” can by no means be confined under the rubric of “protest,” understood narrowly in terms of street marches and other reactions to state initiatives. Indeed, the actions generated in response to “1968” frequently in...

A question of priorities

Over the last few years, there has been a noticeable increase in studies on the postwar period of Germany, reflecting the crucial importance of these years for an understanding of the developments in the two Germanys. With her study of U.S. occupation policy and its effects on German social and...

A dramatic reinvention

A Dramatic Revinvention sheds new light on how Germans rebuilt their moral and intellectual world after the Nazi catastrophe. The book argues that television emerged as one of the most important mediums for presenting, discussing, and working through the question of how to re-moralize Germany.

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...

The potential for anthropology and urban community engagement

Going beyond traditional relationships between practicing anthropologists and urban communities, this develops the foundations to extend the current scope of applied anthropology to grassroots research and lasting community programs using two partnering Milwaukee organizations as examples.

Flexible firm

An imaginative use of ethnopgraphic reflexivity and classical anthropological theories and imagination to get a fresh, critical perspective on corporate organisations. A rare anthropological analysis of human resource consultancy—the work-area of a growing number of anthropologists. ...

Shifting paradigms in contemporary german politics and policy

Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary German Politics and Policy presents the recent transformations across the European continent and the paradigm shifts in security and defense policy to investigate and predict the future of the altered state of German and European politics.

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...

Making better lives

In this ethnographic study, Johannes Lenhard observes the daily practices, routines and techniques of people who are sleeping rough on the streets of Paris. The book focusses on their survival practises, their short-term desires and hopes, how they earn money through begging, how they choose th...

Europe facing east in the age of ottoman power

Bringing together his wealth of research on the Habsburg-Ottoman conflict over the kingdom of Hungary, historian James Tracy provides a comprehensive and exacting examination of the implications this battle had for notions of sovereignty, statehood, and civilization.

Ethnography in the raw

Ethnography in the Raw describes the author’s encounters with a Philippine family into which he has married, his wife’s friends and acquaintances, and their lives in a remote rural village in the rice basin of Luzon, about 130 miles north east of Manila. It is both anthropological fieldwork ‘in...

Women’s zionism worldwide, 1897–1948

Offering the first comprehensive historiographic exploration of women’s roles in the Zionist movement worldwide, this geographically wide-ranging study explores the ideologies, goals, strategies, activities, accomplishments and failures of women’s organizations and individuals in Europe, the Un...

Resistance in an amazonian community

Like many other indigenous groups, the Huaorani of eastern Ecuador are facing many challenges as they attempt to confront the globalization of capitalism in the 21st century. In 1991, they formed a political organization as a direct response to the growing threat to Huaorani territory posed by ...

Women of two countries

Introduces the lives and works of German-American women Clara Neymann and Mathilde Wendt, which have been untold until now despite the women's historical prominence Gives a balanced perspective on nativism as a strategy in the women's rights movement in the United States 1848-1890 De...

Holistic anthropology

Given the broad reach of anthropology as the science of humankind, there are times when the subject fragments into specialisms and times when there is rapprochement. Rather than just seeing them as reactions to each other, it is perhaps better to say that both tendencies co-exist and that it is...

Transformations and crises

The Left in the 1960s and 1970s has a powerful, almost mythical, place in the history of the 20th century. It was during these decades that the radical Left managed to renew the language of socialism as an alternative to communism and liberalism alike, but also when radicalism often led to extr...