The making of the pentecostal melodrama

How religion, gender, and urban sociality are expressed in and mediated via television drama in Kinshasa is the focus of this ethnographic study. Influenced by Nigerian films and intimately related to the emergence of a charismatic Christian scene, these teleserials integrate melodrama, convers...

Peaceful selves

With its focus on personhood and self-making, it investigates gaps in understanding left behind by dominant frameworks for analyzing life in post-conflict societies, such as reconciliation, justice, and commemoration politics The argument is built around fundamental tensions in Rwandan c...

Empire and after

The growing debate over British national identity, and the place of "Englishness" within it, raises crucial questions about multiculturalism, postimperial culture and identity, and the past and future histories of globalization. However, discussions of Englishness have too often been limited by...

Distributed objects

The first cross-disciplinary exploration of Art and Agency by leading scholars in their fields. Examines the reception and influence of a highly influential and still controversial theory 15 years after its publication. Includes a hitherto unpublished essay by Gell (‘The Network of S...

Staying at home

A migration study that focuses on those who do not migrate. Explains a malleability attaching to ethnicity through people’s daily lives. Disentangles the notion of diaspora from its inherent attachment to ‘homeland’. Combines a fertile mix of qualitative and quantitative approach...

Years of conflict

Recent years have witnessed a significant growth of interest in the consequences of political violence and displacement for the young. However, when speaking of “children” commentators have often taken the situation of those in early and middle childhood as representative of all young people un...

Territorial revisionism and the allies of germany in the second world war

The comprehensive approach to the German alliance system in WW2; The treatment of the competing goals pursued by the allies of Nazi Germany in the war, which attributed to its specific features; The autonomous relevance of ethno nationalism and territorial revisionism as main driving...

Medieval intersections

With contributions on topics ranging from medieval gynecology to clerical masculinity, this interdisciplinary collection highlights the various ways “status” can be interpreted relative to gender, and what these two interlocked concepts can reveal about the construction of gendered identities i...

Correcting the record

The critique of twentieth-century American anthropology often portrays anthropologists of the past as servants of colonialism who “extracted” information from indigenous peoples and published works causing them harm. This volume presents powerful refutations of these damaging myths.

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...

Guido goldman

Guido Goldman was one of the most distinguished protagonists of the reintegration of Germany into the international community after the defeat of Nazism in 1945. This biography looks at his remarkable life from his establishment of the German Marshall Fund to establishing the Center for Europea...

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...

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...

Jane ellen harrison

Very little has been written before about Harrison's ideas before. Harrison is a well-known and impactful figure in the LGBTQ movement. She transformed the study of Ancient Greek religion in the early 20th Century.

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...

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

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...

Where have all the homeless gone?

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

The 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, ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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. ...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

International organizations revisited

Thoroughly revised and based on current management research, this follow-up to Rethinking International Organizations provides a wealth of both empirical and theoretical insights to the management of the United Nations and international NGOs, along with practical recommendations for how these o...

Rebordering the mediterranean

Offering a rich ethnographic account, this book traces the historical processes by which Andalusians experienced the shift from being poor emigrants to northern Europe to becoming privileged citizens of the southern borderland of the European Union, a region where thousands of African immigrant...

Rethinking atlantic empire

In recent years, the historiography of nineteenth-century Spain has been invigorated by interdisciplinary engagement with scholars working on topics such as empire, slavery, and race, exemplified by the work of Christopher Schmidt-Nowara. Rethinking Atlantic Empire places Schmidt-Nowara’s work ...

Exploitation, resettlement, mass murder

Convinced before the onset of Operation "Barbarossa" in June 1941 of both the ease, with which the Red Army would be defeated and the likelihood that the Soviet Union would collapse, the Nazi regime envisaged a radical and far-reaching occupation policy which would result in the political, econ...

Time and the field

Radically rethinks the notion of the 'field' in terms of time rather than space. By considering the field in terms of time, the relationship between field and fieldsite is destabilized and emerges as a dynamic and ever-shifting constellation. Updates the discussion of contemporary re...

Reluctant intimacies

Based on seventeen months of ethnographic research among Indonesian eldercare workers in Japan, this book is the first ethnography to research Indonesian care workers’ relationships with the cared-for elderly, their Japanese colleagues and their employers.

Between marx and coca-cola

In the 1960s and 1970s, Western Europe's "Golden Age" (Eric Hobsbawm), a new youth consciousness emerged, which gave this period its distinctive character. Offering rich and new material, this volume moves beyond the easy conflation of youth culture and "Americanization" and instead sets out to...

Audiences of nazism

Innovating against the considerable gap in research surrounding historical media reception within Nazi Germany, Audiences of Nazism finds sources of actual audience responses to critically engage with the Third Reich’s media production legacy.

Crude domination

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

Avant-garde to new wave

The cultural liberalization of communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s produced many artistic accomplishments, not least the celebrated films of the Czech New Wave. This movement saw filmmakers use their new freedom to engage with traditions of the avant-garde, especially Surrealism. This book ex...

Shakespeare and his biographical afterlives

New Shakespeare biographies are published every year, though very little new documentary evidence has come to light. Inevitably speculative, these biographies straddle the line between fact and fiction. Shakespeare and His Biographical Afterlives explores the relationship between fiction and no...

Life as a hunt

Addresses the global conundrum of how to promote ‘sustainable conservation and biological diversity, especially under ‘weak governments. Portrays three generations of rural cultivators as they narrate their livelihoods’ struggles. Explains how they cope with changing bureaucratic re...

The disputed austro-hungarian border

A refreshing re-examination of the history of Austria and Hungary in the wake of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy, The Disputed Austro-Hungarian Border refocuses attention on the contested region of Western Hungary/Burgenland, considering how the process of building state b...

Revisiting austria

Tourism, magic and modernity

A comprehensive ethnographic study of tourism and tourism development An innovative re-reading of different uses of concepts of magic in the contemporary world An approach of tourism to study the ideological underpinnings of modernity A uniquely accessible writing style based on ...

The figure of the politician in modern and contemporary europe

In this geographically wide-ranging assessment of the figure of the politician in modern and contemporary Europe, Pasi Ihalainen, Rosario López, Kari Palonen, and Henk te Velde re-examine the trajectory of terms like ‘politician’ and ‘statesman’, in order to spotlight how profoundly the concept...

Launching the grand coalition

This edited volume, which brings together the leading experts in German politics from around the US and Germany, combines rich descriptive data with insightful analyses regarding one of the most dramatic and important election years in postwar Germany. A variety of more specialized issues and p...

Empty signs, historical imaginaries

Comparative and transnational history

Since the 1970s West German historiography has been one of the main arenas of international comparative history. It has produced important empirical studies particularly in social history as well as methodological and theoretical reflections on comparative history. During the last twenty years ...

The event of charlie hebdo

Investigates how the attacks unveil themselves in the field of representations, and which material consequences these representations may bring about. Looks at how an event is produced, and how it can achieve a wide resonance. Critically addresses egalitarian concepts such as democra...

On violence in history

Is global violence on the decline? Steven Pinker’s highly-publicized argument that human violence across the world has been dramatically abating continues to influence discourse among academics and the general public alike.

Europe’s disappearing waste

Theoretical elaboration of the tension between disappearance and (re)appearance; Analysis of a unique transformation in the history of waste management (to be able to understand the change, author conducted research in the field over the course of the last ten years); Reinforcement o...

The sea commands

Azenha do Mar is a fishing community on the southwest coast of Portugal. It came into existence around forty years ago, as an outcome of the abandonment of work in the fields and of propitious ecological conditions. This book looks at the migration processes since the founding of the community ...

The politics of appointment

Offers new insights into the general history of Habsburg Central Europe during a time of great political, economic, and social change Analyses the relation between state administration and national political parties on various levels Demonstrates, based on archival research, the syst...

Rhetoric and social relations

Rhetoric and Social Relations addresses the use and embeddedness of rhetoric in social life and social interaction. It explores the constitutive role of rhetoric in socio-cultural relations, where discursive persuasion is so important, and contains both theoretical chapters as well as fascinati...

Refugees from nazi germany and the liberal european states

Focuses on one of the most dramatic refugee movements in contemporary European and world history. Takes a comparative approach in which each of the national cases is illuminated and enriched by comparison. The analysis shows the interplay between different national immigration policies a...

The jewish maghreb

From commercial networks in Paris to Algerian pilgrimage journeys, The Jewish Maghreb reveals communal North African Jewish navigation of plural sediments of self and history. The heuristic ‘maghrebinicité,’ works to illuminate ongoing negotiations of memory, citizenship, and cultural transmiss...

Mixed harvest

After millennia of wandering the earth with little impact, a universal, if inadvertent transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and pastoralism was complete within a period of a few thousand years. Mixed Harvest tells the story of the Sedentary Divide, the most significant event sin...

Cycling and recycling

Describes how environmental activists, researchers, and policymakers have increasingly turned to mobilizing older technologies in their pursuit of sustainability. Explores the historical fortunes of bicycling and waste recycling. Traces their development over time and provides valuab...

What is history for?

Johann Gustav Droysen’s historical theory is a central reference for everyone who attempts to understand 19th century philosophy of the human sciences. Until now, Droysen’s work remains widely understudied outside Germany. English readers who seek to get in touch with Droysen’s works cou...

Ingmar bergman out of focus

An exacting re-examination of Ingmar Bergman’s cultural heritage, Ingmar Bergman Out Of Focus digs into the perceived “familiarity” of Bergman’s films by analyzing how the Swedish director’s film aesthetics simultaneously shaped modern culture and were themselves reshaped by contemporary cultur...

If everyone returned, the island would sink

Focusing on the small island of Paama, Vanuatu, and the capital, Port Vila, this book presents a rare and recent study of the ongoing significance of urbanization and internal migration in the Global South.

Spirits and letters

Studies of religion have a tendency to conceptualise ‘the Spirit’ and ‘the Letter’ as mutually exclusive and intrinsically antagonistic. However, the history of religions abounds in cases where charismatic leaders deliberately refer to and make use of writings. This book challenges prevailing s...

The meanings of a disaster

Focusing on the cases of Great Britain and France, this innovative study explores the discourses and narratives that arose in the wake of the incident among both state and nonstate actors. It gives a thorough account of the strategies that shaped Western European responses to the disaster as we...

Exchange and markets in early economic development

The idea of an informal economy emerged from, and is a critique of, the ideology of ‘economic development’. It originated from Keith Hart’s recognition of informal economic activity in 1960s Ghana. In the context of four colonialisms – German, British, Australian and Dutch – this book recounts ...

Servants of culture

Using a wide range of material including legal, criminal, literary, and political sources, Servants of Culture brings forward the previously neglected history of a mass migration of women from the Habsburg Empire’s countryside to work as servants for bourgeois households, inns and hotels during...

Bourdieu and social space

French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu’s relevance for studies of spatiality and mobility has received less attention than other aspects of his work.  Here, Deborah Reed-Danahay argues that the concept of social space, central to Bourdieu’s ideas, addresses the structured inequal...

The burden of german history

The Burden of Germany History is Konrad H Jarausch’s much anticipated transatlantic autobiography set against the development and transformation of German studies over the past half-century. Using his life story, Jarausch’s concurrent life in the US and Germany brings us a self-critical histori...

The hunted

A ground-level history of the Holocaust, told through the voices of twenty European Jews. Drawing from diaries and memoirs, it reveals a multiplicity of experiences across countries, classes, and religious backgrounds. Each chapter traces a single year in the protagonists’ lives, placing person...

Kharkov/kharkiv

Expanded English Edition: This richly updated volume brings Kharkiv’s intricate past (from the 17th century to post Euromaidan transformations) to an international audience, filling a major gap in English-language scholarship. Historically Timely & Politically Resonant: Positio...

Theorising media and time

Digital media perpetrate every aspect of our lives, including our temporal perceptions. Time and attention have become one of the most precious resources, for users as well as corporate businesses. This book sheds light on these critical connections and how they influence not only our daily ...

Powerless science?

Examines the historical, social and political dynamics of chemical contamination. Brings new insights into and analysis of how chemical substances regulation has over the last half century contributed to transform toxicants into a major threat for our health and environment. Investig...

Berlin divided city, 1945-1989

Presents an interdisciplinary analysis of Berlin’s cultural and political landscape after the fall of the Berlin Wall Addresses unique role of architecture and politicization of high and mass culture Examines how Berlin was conceived, perceived, and represented during the four decade...

Sometime kin

Sometime Kin is the portrait of an Alpine settlement - its history, economy and culture - and its unusual resistance to outsiders and modernisation. Against this we see it embrace the ethnographer’s four small children. Sandra Wallman’s account reveals the distortion to ordinary life caused by ...

Finding home in europe

Bringing together the voices of nine individuals from an archive of over 200 in-depth interviews with transnational migrants and refugees across five European countries, Finding Home in Europe critically engages with how home is experienced by those who move.

An anthropology of global immunization

Will develop a unique anthropological response to the question of global immunization, addressing issues from vaccine hesitancy and conspiracy theories, to local biopolitics and beyond. Explores some of the most pressing vaccine concerns of our time, from hpv to covid-19, one health, and...

Chicanery

Academic appointments can bring forth unexpected and unforeseen contests and tensions, cause humiliation and embarrassment for unsuccessful applicants and reveal unexpected allies and enemies. Chicanery deals with how the founding Chairs at Sydney, the Australian National University, Auckland a...

Health, risk, and adversity

Research on health involves evaluating the disparities that are systematically associated with the experience of risk, including genetic and physiological variation, environmental exposure to poor nutrition and disease, and social marginalization. This volume provides a unique perspective - a c...