Public engagement and education

Public Engagement and Education shares effective approaches for engaging and educating learners of all ages about archaeology and how one can encourage them to become stewards of the past. Offered are applied examples that are not bound to specific geographies or cultures, but rather, are appro...

Coproducing europe

By focusing on regional film markets in Thessasloniki, Sarajevo, and Tbilisi, Coproduction Europe uses comparative ethnography to look beyond the economic nature of film coproductions to explore their role in Europeanisation, memories of the Cold War, and preconstructed political agendas.

The indoctrination of the wehrmacht

Other studies look at the indoctrination of the Wehrmacht, and numerous studies look at the war crimes of the Wehrmacht. However, this study is different in that it focuses much more closely on the indoctrination of the Wehrmacht than previous studies, but perhaps more importantly, it views...

The women's liberation movement

This collection represents the first systematic reflection on the impact and outcomes of the women’s liberation movement in different areas and topics of Western societies. It systematically investigates movement outcomes in one country in the light of a reflective social movement theory and co...

The origins of prejudice

The series layout provides an accessible and overarching approach to some complex topics which may appeal to the more general reader. This series is designed to demonstrate how S.T.E.M. education must include the social sciences if we are to deal successfully with the risks and uncertain...

Minority discourses in germany since 1990

Minorities and Minority Discourse in Germany since 1990 opens the question of why ethnic minorities in Germany are often discussed in isolation. Whereas most studies examine Black Germans, Jews in Germany, or Turkish Germans on their own terms vis-à-vis the majority German society, this volume ...

Rethinking and unthinking development

Title calls readers to rethink conventional development practices It encourages readers to unthink/unlearn conventional development practices in order to explore now practices relevant to the communities Title exposes the coloniality of long-established development practices taken ...

Tropological thought and action

From twilight in the Himalayas to dream worlds in the Serbian state, this book provides a unique collection of anthropological and cross-cultural inquiry into the power of rhetorical tropes and their relevance to the formation and analysis of social thought and action through a series of ethnog...

The rich and the poor in modern europe, 1890-2020

While it is easy to accept that modern capitalism is the perpetrator of sociality inequality’s growth today, The Rich and the Poor reconsiders the constructs and facts that led to dramatic rises and crashes in the twentieth century European economic history.

Continental transfers

The cultural and political connections between Spain, Italy and Argentina developed complex transnational transfers over the course of two World Wars. Bringing together scholars from all three nations, Continental Transfers configures a multidirectional approach to the nations’ reciprocal excha...

Extinct monsters to deep time

Extinct Monsters to Deep Time is an ethnography that documents the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of the museum in the 21st century.

Hierarchy

Louis Dumont's concept of hierarchy continues to inspire social scientists. Using it as their starting point, the contributors to this volume introduce both fresh empirical material and new theoretical considerations. On the basis of diverse ethnographic contexts in Oceania, Asia, and the Middl...

Maritime archaeology with compassionate community connection

Brings in voices from the Asia Pacific on the vibrant and critical developments in Maritime and Underwater Archaeology. These voices from Hawaii/Aotearoa, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Pacific, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam are exceptional in relaying the compassion implicit...

Categories in context

Despite the wealth of empirical research into the interrelationships of gender and labor available, little is known about the forms of classification and categorization shaping these social phenomena. Categories in Context enriches our understanding of how cognitive categories such as status, l...

A creole nation

Compilation of interdisciplinary scholarly perspectives. State-of-the-art research on current debates in creolization, ethnicity, and nation-building discourses. New Perspectives beyond a primarily historical focus on creolization and creole identity and nation-building “from below” ...

Defining and measuring diversity in archaeology

Calculating the diversity of biological or cultural classes is a fundamental way of describing, analyzing, and understanding the world around us. Featuring studies of archaeological diversity ranging from the data-driven to the theoretical, from the Paleolithic to the Historic periods, authors ...

The ethics of knowledge creation

This volume focuses on how knowledge is relationally created, how local knowledge can be transmuted into ‘universal knowledge’, and how transactions and consumption of knowledge monitors knowledge. The Ethics of Knowledge Creation examines how these transactions are then situated according to b...

An american icon in puerto rico

Since her creation in 1959, Barbie has become an icon of femininity to girls all over the world. In this monograph, author Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez explores the ways through which women and girls in Puerto Rico construct their own identities in relation to femininity, body image, race, and nationa...

Contesting moralities

Roma identities have often been presented in literature as collectively constructed and in opposition to those who are not Roma. Contesting Moralities challenges these preconceptions about Roma identification by disentangling the binaries between Roma and nonRoma, state and non-state, public an...

Contemplating historical consciousness

This proposed volume draws on three decades of applied research into historical consciousness—comparative, national, and focused—to tease out what has been learned from the field. It asks leading scholars from around the world to reflect on their research and their practice—as historia...

Franz baermann steiner

Franz Baermann Steiner (1909-52) provided the vital link between the intellectual culture of central Europe and the Oxford Institute of Anthropology in its post-Second World War years. This book demonstrates his quiet influence within anthropology, which has extended from Mary Douglas to Davi...

A living past

First (and only) synthesis of modern (19c/20c) Latin American/Caribbean Environmental History. Brings together authors from 7 countries of the Americas (Canada, US, Mexico, Cuba, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador). Combines diverse frameworks/approaches: History, Geography, History of Scienc...

Rethinking social movements after '68

With a focus on West Germany and Europe, Social Movements after ’68 bridges the 1970s and 1980s as a vital period of European political development and social change. Looking past the known ruptures and changes in the history of European social movements, this volume brings together interconnec...

The modernist imagination

Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the humanities currently takes place at the intersection of intellectual history and critical theory. Just as critical theorists are becoming more aware of the historicity of theory, contemporary practitioners of modern intellectual history are r...

Beyond inclusion and exclusion

Moves away from the notion of a singular Jewish war experience, and examines the diverse experiences of Jewish men and women during World War I. Broadens the approach to central European Jewish history by highlighting complex interactions between ordinary Jewish and non-Jewish soldiers a...

Dreams of germany

Diversity of disciplines and author team (senior and junior; gender; national perspective). Range of iconic case studies: Bruckner and Wagner through to the Beatles and Kraftwerk. Represents the cream of upcoming scholars alongside more established scholarly voices. Revisits and...

Humanitarianism and media

Covers humanitarianism & media for the whole of the 20th century up to the present Combines analysis of visual imagery with study of media organizations (broadcasting corporations, publishing and marketing companies or press offices of humanitarian organizations themselves) Cr...

Communication

Focusing on the scientific study of communication, this book is a systematic examination. To that end, the natural, social, cultural, and rational scientific perspectives on communication are presented and then brought together in one unifying framework of the semiotic square, showing how all f...

Gender in georgia

Gender in Georgia is the first edited volume that brings together an international group of feminist scholars to explore the political, economic, social and cultural conditions that have shaped gender dynamics in Georgia from the late 19th century to the present. The majority of contribu...

Embers of empire

Examines how political elites and ordinary people processed the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy and its familiar governing structures in 1918 Explores the diverse and important ways in which the Empire’s successor states drew upon its practices and traditions Discusses continuities...

Cyborgs of the ecocene

Offers a detailed account of robots and robotics research across a number of field and test sites, many of which have not previously been subject to ethnographic attention. This provides novel insights into the work of robotics, the figure of the robot, and the use of robots. The book also c...

Probing the limits of categorization

This volume discusses a number of case studies addressing the history of bystanding during and after the Nazi era. Combining historiographical, conceptual and empirical contributions, Probing the Limits of Categorization explores the roles and experiences of individuals caught up in the dynamic...

The subject of sovereignty

Exploring the themes of nature, race, and the divine, this book identifies the more realistic alternative in the “relational subject”: a subject that is inseparable from the global field of relations through which it emerges and yet distinct from that field because it lives a life that no one e...

Obstetricians speak

For the first time ever in a social science work, obstetricians tell their own stories of training, practice, fear, and transformation. This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to understand the ideologies and motives of individual ...

Françoise héritier

A great intellectual figure, Françoise Héritier succeeded Claude Lévi-Strauss as the Chair of Anthropology at the Collège de France in 1982. She was both an Africanist, author of magnificent works on the Samo population, the scientific progenitor of kinship studies, the creator of a theoretical...

Conceptual history in the european space

The volume is the first comprehensive revisiting of conceptual history on a European scale It is also the first volume to consider the spatial and temporal dimensions of making comparisons of concepts across the whole of Europe. The volume also brings to bear diverse methods of analy...

Self in the world

The eminent anthropologist Keith Hart reflects on a life of learning, sharing and remembering to offer readers the means of connecting life’s extremes – individual and society, local and global, personal and impersonal dimensions of existence and explores what it is that makes us fully human.

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...

Non-humans in amerindian south america

It focuses only on South America. It embraces both its Highlands and Lowlands. All their chapters are fieldwork-based. It critically addresses currently debated issues linked to Anthropology, Anthropocene, Climate Change, Ontologies and Non-Humans.

Narrating the nation

A sustained and systematic study of the construction, erosion and reconstruction of national histories across a wide variety of states is highly topical and extremely relevant in the context of the accelerating processes of Europeanization and globalization. However, as demonstrated in this vol...

Alsace to the alsatians?

Demonstrates the importance of overlapping forms of community in the creation of identity. Argues that the character of Alsatian regionalism points to the ambiguous role of regional identity in both fostering and inhibiting loyalty to the nation. Author uses the case of Alsace to exp...

The origins of german self-cultivation

Informing current debate about the future of the humanities, this volume focuses discussions on the Bildung’s original German context using a multi-disciplinary perspective root out the interesting ways that Bildung continues to shape our understanding of self-formation.

Death of the public university?

Continuous government reforms to make universities ‘world class’, entrepreneurial and drivers of the knowledge economy, are transforming the traditional mission and meaning of the public university and its ability to act as ‘critic and conscience’ of society. This collection explores the new la...

Yiddish transformed

Yiddish Transformed explores Jewish reading practices alongside the rise of Yiddish in Eastern Europe between 1860 and 1914 by delving into publishing policies of Yiddish books and newspapers, popular literary genres of the time, the development of Jewish public libraries, as well as reflection...

Landscape ethnoecology

Although anthropologists and cultural geographers have explored “place” in various senses, little cross-cultural examination of “kinds of place,” or ecotopes, has been presented from an ethno-ecological perspective. In this volume, indigenous and local understandings of landscape are investigat...

Tracing slavery

Looking at the ways in which the memory of slavery affects present-day relations in Amsterdam, this ethnographic account reveals a paradox: while there is growing official attention to the country’s slavery past (monuments, festivals, ritual occasions), many interlocutors showed little interest...

Out of albania

Analysing the dynamics of the post-1990 Albanian migration to Italy, this book is the first major study of one of Europe’s newest, most dramatic yet least understood migrations. It takes a close look at migrants’ employment, housing and social exclusion in Italy, as well as the process of retur...

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...

Living like a girl

Daily life in the abyss

There have been, to date, no other contributions to the field of late Ottoman studies and Armenian studies based on an approach of the kind I take in my book. I am not aware of any scholarly monograph or even essay that takes the Armenian Genocide as the object of a microhistorical study...

Crafting chinese memories

Through an interdisciplinary conversation with contributors from social anthropology, religious studies, film studies, literary studies, cultural studies, and history, Crafting Chinese Memories is the first volume to address how works of art shape memories, and  offers new ways of conceptualisi...

Weimar publics/weimar subjects

Interdisciplinary: features essays by scholars in the fields of Art History, German Literature, Film Studies, and History. Examines the important connections between political and cultural change during the Weimar era when politics were mediated increasingly through culture and when new ...

Gender in germany and beyond

Jean Quataert’s former students, colleagues, and collaborators come together in Gender in Germany and Beyond to not only celebrate Quataert’s shaping of the field of modern German, Women’s and transnational history, but also to expand on that scholarship, setting a precedent for the future of t...

Transnational railway cultures

Spanning five continents and a diverse range of contexts, this collection offers an unprecedentedly broad survey of global representations of trains. From experimental novels to Hollywood blockbusters, the works studied here chart fascinating routes across a remarkably varied cultural landscape.

Territory, state and nation

Rudolf Kjellén, regularly referred to as “the father of geopolitics”, developed in the first decade of the twentieth century an analytical model for calculating the capabilities of great-power states and promoting their interests in the international arena. Territory, State and Nation explores ...

Divided, but not disconnected

It is one of the few studies that addresses the entanglement of the two Germanys during the Cold War at various levels including culture, society and politics. It comprises chapters from young researchers and established scholars from a plethora of subject areas who present original rese...

Momentous mobilities

First in-depth (anthropological) discussion of various forms of contemporary mobilities. Coherent approach, with an introductory chapter and a conclusion. Agenda-setting volume for future research in mobility studies Experimental writing style, combining ethnography and memoir.

Travelling towards home

This collection brings ethnographic insight into the ever more topical question of homemaking, exploring a diverse range of socio-political contexts worldwide (from Jewish returnees from Israel to Ukraine to young gay South Asians in London) and provoking new understandings of the material and ...

Labour, unions and politics under the north star

Includes material on all five Nordic countries, including Iceland. Combines studies of Nordic labour movements and labour politics with attention to work in historical perspective. Covers broad historical period, ranging from the early modern period to the present day. Sets Nordi...

Maternalism reconsidered

Beginning in the late 19th century, competing ideas about motherhood had a profound impact on the development and implementation of social welfare policies. Calls for programmes aimed at assisting and directing mothers emanated from all quarters of the globe, advanced by states and voluntary or...

The absent jews

Combines medieval and modern historiography. First comprehensive work about Jewish life in medieval Prussia. Unique method for criticism of ideology combining biographic and semantic approach.

Politics of innocence

Based on thorough ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp in Tanzania this book provides a rich account of the benevolent “disciplining mechanisms” of humanitarian agencies, led by the UNHCR, and of the situated, dynamic, indeterminate, and fluid nature of identity (re)construction in the camp...

Let them not return

The fist edited volume about the Assyrian genocide Focusing specifically on by far under-studied and denied genocide Authors from different disciplines

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.

The struggle for the past

Organized around Argentine “memory wars” since the 1970s, The Struggle for the Past undertakes an innovative exploration of memory’s dynamic social character. In addition to its analysis of how human rights movements have inflected public memory and democratization in Argentina, it also gives a...

Religion, politics, and globalization

Rethinks of sociological categories of religion and the secular Deepens the understanding of processes that shape the contemporary world Explores connections between religion and politics, and the ways in which globalization shapes these processes Utilizies historical analyses of...

Empathy and history

establishes empathy’s origins and function in the practice, teaching and philosophy of history connects empathy’s use in school history to longstanding debates in the philosophy of history concerning the status of history in human knowledge establishes the link between R.G. Collingwo...

Understanding conflicts about wildlife

Conflicts about wildlife are usually portrayed as resulting from the negative impacts of wildlife on human livelihoods or property. However, deeper analysis reveals that these conflicts are often better understood as people-people conflicts. Understanding Conflicts About Wildlife unites academi...

Small town and village in bavaria

At the center of this investigation is the great modernization effort of a West German state, Bavaria, in the 1970s and 1980s, by means of a reform of the smaller units of local government. The reforms were meant to abolish all autonomous local governments serving populations of fewer than 3,00...

The rite of urban passage

This book investigates the dynamics of religious rituals as part of urban processes, offering a substantial contribution to ritual and urban studies. This book offers an interdisciplinary approach entwining ritual, urban and spatial theories. Although the book makes a substantial con...

Terror from the sky

In this first interdisciplinary study of this contentious subject, leading experts in politics, history, and philosophy examine the complex aspects of the terror bombing of German cities during World War II. The contributors address the decision to embark on the bombing campaign, the moral issu...

Liminal moves

Liminal Moves explores the (im)mobilities of three groups of people - street monkey performers in Japan, adolescents writing about migrants in Italy, and men accompanying their partners in Switzerland for work. The book explores how, for these ‘travelers’, the interplay of mobility and immobili...

Histories of a radical book

This collected volume explores the complex impact of E.P. Thompson’s monumental book, The Making of the English Working Class, both as an intellectual project and material object, relating it to the social and cultural history of the book form itself—an enduring artifact of English history.

Wolf conflicts

To our knowledge, this is the first comprehensive analysis of conflicts over large carnivores that see these controversies primarily as social conflicts embedded in deeper tensions in contemporary societies, and not so much as conflicts between animals and people. The book points out that wo...

Methodologies of mobility

Research into mobility is an exciting challenge for the social sciences that raises novel socio-cultural, ethical, and methodological questions. Speaking beyond disciplinary boundaries to the challenges of engaging with a world on the move, Methodologies of Mobility traces innovative strategies...

Born a slave, died a pioneer

Few people in the history of the United States embody ideals of the American Dream more than Nathan Harrison. His is a story with prominent themes of overcoming staggering obstacles, forging something-from-nothing, and evincing gritty perseverance. This book uses spectacular recent discoveries ...

Travelling with the argonauts

New theoretical and methodological approach that moves away from vertical perspectives in studying the social. Creating conceptual space for studying form-free social phenomena such as informal networks. Critique of conventional methods of studying informal social relations. Flat...

Engaging with chaucer

This collected volume represents an homage to a toweringly great poet, as well as an acknowledgement of the intellectual excitement, challenges, and pleasure that readers owe to him as even today, his poems have the capacity to change the way we engage with fundamental questions of knowledge, u...

Poland daily

Polish cinema has inescapably been shaped by the nation’s succession of different economic and ideological regimes over the last century. This volume is the first to analyze the entirety of the nation’s film history—from independence in 1918 to today—through the lenses of political economy and ...

Mirrors of passing

Mirrors of Passing explores the relationship between death, materiality, and temporality, drawing from the fields of archaeology, cultural anthropology, political science, and media studies to explore fundamental questions about the relationship between death and our perception of time.

Spanish comics

Spanish Comics offers an overview on contemporary scholarship on Spanish comics, focusing on a wide range of comics dating from early comics history in 1875-1939; the Francoist dictatorship, 1939-1975; the Political Transition, 1970-1985; and Democratic Spain from the early 1980s, and themes of...

Fixing motorcycles in post-repair societies

Taking motorcycling in Romania as an ethnographic entry point, this book documents how bikers handle the inevitable moment of malfunction and breakdown. Using both mobile and sedentary research methods, the book describes the joys and troubles experienced by amateur mechanics, professional mech...

Shaping taxpayers

Ethnography up-close of a successful revenue authority. Fiscal anthropology in a modern / developed country. Application of tax law in practice. Knowledge making in a modern bureaucracy.

The anthropology of retirement

Experience of retirement varies considerably across the globe, from areas where most people cannot afford to retire to places where a multitude of new possibilities are being developed for retirees. This book is an anthropological approach to consider the range of contexts and consequences that...

Theatres of violence

Covers the history of massacre and mass violence, which are under-researched areas Offers a wide range of case studies of massacre and mass killing from the ancient to the modern world The first book to build on Mark Levene and Penny Roberts' ground breaking 1999 study of massacre i...

Collective and state violence in turkey

Collective and State Violence in Turkey provides a wide range of case studies and historiographical reflections on the alarming recurrence of violence in Turkish history, as atrocities against varied ethnic-religious groups from the nineteenth century to today have propelled the nation’s very s...

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.

Sounds german

Sounds German surveys the sociopolitical impact of music on German national identity, gender and sexuality, and transnational cultural production and consumption, expanding on the ways in which sounds, technologies, media practices, and exchanges of popular music provide a unique glimpse into t...

Searching for a better life

It is the only book (in English) dedicated to the study of Thai youth growing up in poverty. It contributes to debates on agency and structure by suggesting a conceptual framework for understanding agency in a holistic way and recognizing the unintended consequences that can ensue when e...

Former neighbors, future allies?

Former Neighbors, Future Allies is a key bridge into the research and perspectives needed to nurture ethnography’s growing role in German studies. This volume creates a space for dialogue between North American Germanists and ethnographers in and of the German-speaking world, enriching both fie...

Crafting co-ops in denmark

Tinkering toward Transformation provides a vivid look at the conundrums of capitalism in the contemporary Danish Welfare state. This makes the book interesting to a broad range of scholars and students concerned with the political and social history as well as the present trajectory of this ...

Ambiguous childhoods

linguistic ethnographic observations, recordings and analyses of children’s everyday interactions and learning trajectories in a rural postcolonial setting “multi-site” observations and recordings of children interacting across homes, fields, classrooms, and the marketplace interdi...

International organizations and environmental protection

Historical overview of international organizations and environmental policy until Stockholm 1972. First treatment of diversity of international organisations’ involvement in environmental policy. International organisations and the pre-history of the climate change negotiations. ...

Memorializing the gdr

Since unification, eastern Germany has witnessed a rapidly changing memorial landscape. Memorializing the GDR provides the first in-depth study of this key topic, investigating the individuals and groups involved in the creation or destruction of memorials while addressing the subject’s complex...

Heirs of the bamboo

Heirs of the Bamboo is about the Macanese who left Macao and now live in Portugal and looks at their interactions with their counterparts in Macao and elsewhere in the diaspora, using the Internet.

Children in the holocaust and its aftermath

The interviews conducted with Holocaust child survivors and war children were done in the 80s and early 90s therefore these are the first interviews many gave The collection also includes interviews conducted immediately after liberation Various qualitative analytic methods are used ...

Narratives in the making

Compares the production of narratives at two very different types of institutions. Based on original participant observation in these institutions’ day-to-day work. Explores the production of representations of the East German past at a unique historical moment – in the run up to the...

Screening the east

a comprehensive and detailed analysis of German post-unification film an insightful account of the representation of east Germans since the collapse of Communism a useful contribution to the current debates about German identity