Collaborators collaborating

As bio-capital in the form of medical knowledge, skills and investments moves with greater frequency from its origin in First World industrialized settings to resource-poor communities with weak or little infrastructure, countries with emerging economies are starting to expand new indigenous sc...

Contesting deregulation

The collection will differ from the books, because one focus is on the history of the European Economic Community and compare developments in the West (EEC and US) on different international levels. The 13 case studies show that the change to new forms of regulation cannot be reduced to ...

The total work of art

Demonstrates how the lineage and legacies of Gesamtkunstwerk (the ideal of the "total work of art") extend well beyond German Romanticism. Eleven compact essays trace the idea’s evolution in German-speaking Europe. Provides a broad perspective on a distinctively modern cultural form.

Globalizing automobilism

Multi-award winning titles that reveals how automobilism became a global force shaping modern mobility cultures. 'Magisterial in its account of car society and "layered mobility" across Africa, Asia, and Latin America’. (WHBP Committee) Introduces the concept of “layered mobility” to...

Polish cinema

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Marek Haltof’s seminal survey takes stock of dramatic shifts in Polish society and to provide an essential account of the nation’s cinema from the nineteenth century to today. It covers such renowned figures as Kieślowski and Wajda along with vastl...

Pepsi and the pill

With the reintroduction of many important debates surrounding reproductive rights, migration and nationalism, Pepsi and the Pill brings to the fore examples and critical historical and media analysis of British and French films in the popular culture and political discourses of 1960s Western Eu...

Managing ambiguity

First ethnographic study of favors in a former Yugoslav country; First ethnographic study of a welfare system in a former Yugoslav country; It explores how the same people pursue favors across several fields (social protection, healthcare, humanitarianism), rather than just to focus ...

Living on thin ice

Longitudinal study conducted over 15 years. Interdisciplinary in both methodologies and content. Primary qualitative and quantittative data used has never been published before.

Rethinking jewishness in weimar cinema

The film industry in the Weimar Republic was a major site for German-Jewish experience that provided a sphere for Jewish "outsiders" to shape mainstream culture. The essays in Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema offer new historical, theoretical, and methodological approaches to the signific...

Ruptures in the everyday

As either an alternative or a complement to the typical survey of major figures, institutions, and groups, this book tells stories of modern Germany from the perspective of ordinary Germans “on the ground,” making the material more accessible and relevant to the reader. Broadly interdisc...

Francophone migrations, french islam and wellbeing

Addressing several issues of significance in the fields of Anthropology of Migration, Politics of Healthcare, Religious and Francophone Studies, this book pursues an unprecedented line of research by bringing to the fore the geopolitical dimension of francophonie, understood as a political cons...

Images from paradise

the recent transformation of the ideology of European federalism into a political soteriology the palingenetic myth that drives supranational institutions’ federalist agenda the visualization of the EU’s promise of a new era the use of old and new symbols and rituals aimed at rei...

Sisters in arms

Up to now, studies of feminist activism have focused almost exclusively on protest that was commonly understood as peaceful. This study shows that there was considerable disagreement over the question of which tactics were appropriate and necessary in feminist struggles, and that some groups...

Marginal at the center

A self-proclaimed guerrilla fighter for ideas, Baruch Kimmerling was an outspoken critic, a prolific writer, and a “public” sociologist. While he lived at the center of the Israeli society in which he was involved as both a scientist and a concerned citizen, he nevertheless felt marginal becaus...

The brazilian truth commission

Honour and violence

Examines the central position of karo kari in the social, political and juridical structures in Upper Sindh, Pakistan. An exploration of how the state justice system and informal mediations inform each other in state responses to karo kari. An explanation of how modern law is implica...

End game

Focusing on major shifts in East Germany leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall, End Game accounts for everyday life from the autumn of 1989 to the first free elections in March of 1990. With an understanding of the events of 1989 as a citizens’ movement as a whole, the volume contextualizes th...

Indigenist mobilization

Indigenist Mobilization explores the history of the dynamics between the Communist party in Kerala and indigenist activists, and the subtle ways in which global capitalist restructuring leads to a resonance of indigenist visions in the changed the everyday working lives and future aspirations o...

Civilizations beyond earth

Presents empirical and theoretical research on the societal dimensions of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Interdisciplinary effort encompassing fields such as archaeology, sociology, mathematics and religious studies Academically rigorous yet accessible collection...

Animism beyond the soul

The contributors to this volume offer compelling case studies that demonstrate how indigenous animistic practices, concepts, traditions, and ontologies are co-authored in highly reflexive ways by anthropologists and their interlocutors.

Gustav stresemann

The mirror of the medieval

One unique aspect of this book is its approach to interdisciplinary work. While many earlier works have sought to bring anthropological approaches to the study of the medieval past, what is different about this book is its emphasis on the value of disciplinary borrowing in both directions; i...

Ӧmie sex affiliation

The practice of affiliating the female child with the mother and the male child with the father was considered a rare and inexplicable practice in Papua New Guinean ethnography at the time the original data was collected some forty years ago. Marta Rohatynskyj undertakes a shift in her analytic...

Fertility, conjuncture, difference

In the last forty years anthropologists have made major contributions to understanding the heterogeneity of reproductive trends and processes underlying them. Fertility transition, rather than the story of the triumphant spread of Western birth control rationality, family forms, and modern tech...

Ownership and nurture

The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia. Sets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about the region and about property in general. Demonstrates that property relations are of central importance in A...

Atlantic perspectives

Focusing on mobility, religion, and belonging, the volume contributes to transatlantic anthropology and history by bringing together religion, cultural heritage and placemaking in the Atlantic world. The entanglements of religion, cultural heritage and belonging are ethnographically scrutinized...

Global sustainability and communities of practice

Using case-based and theoretical chapters that examine rural and urban communities of practice, this volume illustrates how participatory researchers and students as well as policy and community leaders find ways to engage with the broader public when it comes to global sustainability research ...

Mortuary dialogues

Presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Examines how funerals and death rituals give rise to discourse and debate about sustaining moral personhood and community amid modernity and its transformations. Describes the different genres of talk and e...

Urban biopolitics

Urban biopolitics is a relatively new field of research that builds around a variety of what the Italian political philosopher Giorgio Agamben would have called “forms of life” in the city. The idea of urban biopolitics is heavily affected by neoliberal and post-political policies targeting ...

Practices of care in an italian eating disorder clinic

The first book-length qualitative study of eating disorder treatment in a European country with a national healthcare system. The first book-length ethnography that brings together the voices of patients, healthcare professionals and families during and after treatment. The first eth...

Multiple moralities and religions in post-soviet russia

By considering the centrality of religion in postsocialist Russian everyday life, and the various ways in which diverse religious traditions have engaged in explicit moral projects, this volume explores the as of yet understudied social phenomenon of the importance of religion in a former at...

Nourishing the nation

I thoroughly explore the connection between national identity (especially everyday nationalism) and food from an ethnographic perspective, a new approach in social sciences This is an in-depth ethnography into the contemporary situation in Catalonia, which gives greater, in-depth insight...

Narratives in motion

The articulation between historical events and journalistic narratives. The focus on a peripheral case (Portugal), traditionally disregarded in the studies of modernism and modernization. The focus on newspaper readership and public participation of public events. The relation be...

Cultural borders of europe

The essays in this anthology address processes of defining European cultural borders, as well as their dependence on – and relation to – various kinds of European belonging and national identity. By proceeding from cultural borders as the object of investigation, we open the door to a range ...

Money in the german-speaking lands

Germany’s leading role in EU economic policy following the 2008 financial crisis is in a sense only the latest step in a long history of attempts at political unification through economic integration. This volume follows this trajectory in German-speaking lands from the late Renaissance until t...

Travel and representation

Exploring and re-examining the various convergences between literature, art, photography, television, cinema and travel, this collection offers a careful appreciation of the entanglement of travel and its representations, emphasizing a reconsideration of the intersections between travelers, fie...

Durable solutions

Focusing on Georgia, this book presents a theoretical and empirical study on the implementation of durable solutions for internally displaced persons (IDPs). Building on extensive field research, it describes and explains the considerable problems which Georgia faces in establishing global norm...

Losing and finding prussia in the twentieth century

First study in any language to examine the changing role of Prussia - as a state, an identity, and a cultural presence - in the lives of German people over the period from the First World War to the present. Brings together over a century of diverse German scholarship on Prussia. Use...

Protest cultures

Expands the analytical perspective on protest beyond its political and sociological aspects, and considers cultural factors. Combines cutting-edge synthetic essays with concise, accessible case studies on an array of protest cultures, outlining key literature and future lines of inquiry.

Food connections

Food Connections follows the movement of food from its production sites in West Africa to its final spaces of consumption in Europe. It is an ethnographic study of economic and social life amongst a close-knit community of food producers, traders andconsumers and a wide range of small intermedi...

World war i and the jews

World War I utterly transformed the lives of Jews around the world, allowing them to demonstrate patriotism, dispel antisemitic myths, and fight for their rights. This book provides a fascinating survey of the ways in which Jewish communities in Europe, North America, and the Middle East partic...

Lives in fragments

The lens of life stories allows us to identify contested memories and counter-narratives, thus offering new ways of interpreting the social dynamics that led to acts of genocidal violence and their remembrance, yet also to their denial.  Lives in Fragments focuses on life stories that were frag...

Starry nights

Critiques the postmodern tenets of anthropology, while articulating a new strategy for conducting research. Provides an important critique of mainstream anthropology as represented by Geertz and the postmodern legacy. Envisions a mode of anthropological research that addresses social...

The changing meanings of the welfare state

The Nordic concept of “the welfare state” is a well-worn analytical idea that has yet to receive much exploration beyond its postwar emergence. This volume chronicles “the welfare state” from its historical origins to its interpretations, values, and challenges over time in Denmark, Finland, Sw...

Mad mädchen

The last two decades have been frequently discordant for German feminism, as a new cohort of activists has come of age and challenged many of the movement’s strategic and philosophical orthodoxies. This book offers an incisive cultural analysis of these trans-generational debates, identifying c...

The walls of santiago

The response in Chile to Santiago’s metro’s fare hike in October of 2019 has grown into a strong and multi-faceted resistance movement. Through incisive and topical analysis, the authors offer a beautiful catalog of photographs of the murals, graffiti, and other forms of political art, reflecti...

The devil is disorder

Transborder media spaces

Transborder Media Spaces offers a new perspective on how various media forms have been appropriated by Mexican indigenous people in the light of transnational migration and ethnopolitical movements. Within new media spaces, the Ayuujk people carve out their own visions of development, modernity...

Against exoticism

Offers a re-evaluation of the role of the exotic in anthropology. Introduces the notion of counter-exoticisation, a conceptual tool to aid analysis. Extends the academic critique of Orientalism to de-territorialise the exotic and de-centre Euro-centrism. Presents a new interventi...

Socialist escapes

Examines Eastern Europeans as individuals who seized opportunities for enjoyment, agency and autonomy while living under repressive rulers. Explores destinations and diversions that provided ordinary and extraordinary breaks away from the monotony of work, school, ideological orthodoxies...

The nanking atrocity, 1937-1938

First published in 2007, The Nanking Atrocity remains an essential resource for understanding the massacre. This second edition includes an extensive new introduction reflecting on the historiographical developments of the last decade, making this even more relevant as we approach the 80th anni...

Social quality theory

The meta theory and the interdisciplinary approach. The contribution to current debates on reorientation in social and economic policies. The new thinking of development economics. The measurement of social progress and global development. The comparative studies of social de...

World heritage craze in china

There is a World Heritage Craze in China. China claims to have the longest continuous civilization in the world and is seeking the recognition from UNESCO. With a sociological lens, this book offers comprehensive insights into World Heritage, as well as China’s deep social, cultural, and politi...

Claiming homes

Explores how ‘care’, defined as ‘work done on behalf of others’, allows villagers to forge belonging and stake claims over the locality, its values, and each other, in defiance of the social exclusion projected by China’s politics of place and localization of class.

House of the waterlily

House of the Waterlily is a historical novel set in the world of the Late Classic Period Maya of the Southern Lowlands. Through the story of Lady Winik, a young Maya noble girl, the reader is immersed in the everyday world of the Maya

The force of comparison

Drawing on a range of multidisciplinary perspectives, this volume investigates the concepts and practices of comparison from the early modern period to the present. Each contribution demonstrates how comparison has helped to drive the seemingly irresistible dynamism of the modern world, with a ...

Dictionary of authentic american proverbs

Dictionary of American Proverbs offers a comprehensive reference guide for distinctly American proverbs. Featuring a compendium of nearly 1,500 American proverbs spanning the 17th century to present day, this dictionary also includes a scholarly introduction along with a comprehensive bibliogra...

Indigeneity and the sacred

This important contribution presents current research in the political ecology of indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation of sacred natural sites in the Americas. The book explores how struggles for land, rights, and political power are embedded within physical landscapes, and ho...

Dreams made small

Dreams Made Small offers an in-depth, ethnographic look at journeys of education among young Papuans under Indonesian rule, ultimately revealing how dreams of transformation, equality, and belonging are shaped and reshaped in the face of multiple constraints.

Waterworlds

The book sees the making and unmaking of people’s lives through the shared lens of water, yielding great comparative potential across different regions and approaches. Through the notion of waterworlds, the book addresses human and non-human actors as mutually constitutive. The book ...

The arkansas regulators

Friedrich Gerstäcker’s The Arkansas Regulators is a rousing tale of frontier adventure, first published in German in 1846, but virtually lost to English readers for well over a century. This long-awaited translation and scholarly edition of the novel offers a startling rewriting of the frontier...

Views of violence

Focus on WWII related memories in museum and memorials International comparison (Germany and austria in the wider Wetern and Eastern European context + North America) Views of Violencepresents the first edited collection on the English-speaking market that targets the specific medi...

Vertiginous life

Through individual stories from crisis Greece, this book explores the everyday effects of vertigo: nausea, dizziness, breathlessness, the sense of falling, and unknowingness of Self. Being lost in time, caught in the spin-cycle of crisis, people reflect on belonging to modern Europe, neoliberal...

Dynamics of memory and identity in contemporary europe

Combines theoretical sophistication with penetrating case studies. One of the first books to tackle Europeanization dynamics as they pertain to collective memories. A pan-European approach with cases from all regions of the continent. Takes the study of collective memory forward ...

Mary douglas

This book’s main competitor is Fardon’s (1999) intellectual biography. The proposed book differs from Fardon’s in six key respects: Shorter Aimed at wider readership Deals with later works which appeared after Fardon's book Looks at work done by those who have drawn upon and ...

Remembering resistance

The existence and achievements of Jewish “self-rescuers” within Nazi-occupied Hungary remains, in spite of their significance, historically underexplored. In this illuminating chronicle of the life and work of a Jewish couple, László and Eugenia Szamosi, Remembering Resistance seeks to address ...

Returning life

The book centers on vernacular concepts and claims to investigate how ‘life’ is an effect of transfers and transformations of ‘life force’ that occur through parts of persons, houses, livestock, and crops in the activity of ‘dwelling’ and that afford and constitute the existence of beings of...

Trust us

Scandinavia. Populism. Nationalism. Identity.

Nearly the new world

First comprehensive study of Jewish migration to the British West Indies during the Nazi era Combines refugee, West Indian, British, Governmental and NGO perspectives and very wide range of sources from the Caribbean, United States, Israel and the UK. Adds uniquely to the study of ...

Cattle poetics

Loving cows, then killing them. The relation with cattle in Mursi country is shaped by the dichotomy between the value given to it during life and the death imposed upon it. This book investigates the link between the nurturing and killing of cattle, and its accompanying aesthetics, with Mursi ...

On the origin of tourist experiences

Author places the key emphasis on the content of the stories in a historical longitudinal perspective with a phenomenological approach. Work has been fully revised form the Dutch version to better suit English readers.

The holocaust and historical methodology

In the last two decades our empirical knowledge of the Holocaust has been vastly expanded. Yet this empirical blossoming has not been accompanied by much theoretical reflection on the historiography. This volume argues that reflection on the historical process of (re)constructing the past is as...

Visitors to the house of memory

By accompanying a range of senior high school history students before, during and after their visits to the museum, Visitors to the House of Memory is an intimate exploration of how young Berliners from across the city experience the Jewish Museum Berlin.

In search of european liberalisms

This comprehensive study takes a fresh look at the diverse understandings and interpretations of the concept of liberalism in Europe during the last several centuries, encompassing not just the familiar movements, doctrines, and political parties that fall under the heading of “liberal” but als...

Swedish ventures in cameroon, 1883-1923

The 1880s were a critical time in Cameroon. A German warship arrived in the Douala estuary and proclaimed Cameroon a protectorate. At that time, two Swedes, Knutson and Waldau, were living on the upper slopes of the Cameroon Mountain. Very little is known about their activities. One, Knutson, w...

From storeroom to stage

It is an ample study of the ‘folk’ idiom which has not been researched in Romania in this way It draws some comparison between Romanian and British museological practices It follows a class of objects through different spheres of cultural production, some of which have been unexplore...

Pilgrimage and political economy

Pilgrimage has always had a tendency to follow – and sometimes create – trade routes. This volume explores how wider factors behind transnational and global mobility have impacted on pilgrimage activity across the world, and examines the ways in which pilgrimage relates to migration, diaspora, ...

Explorations in economic anthropology

At a time of rising global economic precarity and social inequality, the field of economic anthropology offers solutions through the study of local and contextualized economic practices. This book is made up of an exciting collection of succinct essays authored by leading scholars primarily fro...

Reluctant skeptic

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

Occupation in the east

A nuanced, eye-opening portrait of the lives of thousands of Germans, for whom Warsaw and Minsk became home, following their occupation by the Third Reich. Describes their unity in their self-conception as a “master race.” Examines how they engaged in acts of shocking brutality again...

Lewis henry morgan's comparisons

Georg Pfeffer re-examines the work of Lewis Henry Morgan on relationship terminologies, societal forms, and ideas of property and the relationship between these three domains. He concludes that reciprocal affinal relations determine most ‘classificatory’ terminologies and regulate many non-stat...

The vampire

Drawing on a wealth of heretofore neglected sources from multiple languages, this book gives a fascinating account of how vampires—whose various incarnations originally developed within the folk traditions of societies throughout the world—came to be inextricably tied to Eastern Europe in the p...

Ambassadors of realpolitik

Reveals the pragmatic side of Swedish foreign policy in the 1970s. Contributes to the history of multilateral summitry in general and the CSCE in particular. Draws upon a wealth of previously unresearched archival material from five countries. Demonstrates the obstacles met by Eu...

Iron landscapes

Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the newly formed country of Czechoslovakia built an ambitious national rail network out of what remained of the obsolete Habsburg system. Drawing on evidence ranging from government documents to newsreels to train timetables, Iron Landscapes gives a nuanced accou...

Lullabies and battle cries

No extensive studies published to date on republican parading or republican bands in Northern Ireland Very little published on republican culture and commemorations in Northern Ireland This book offers a unique perspective of parading in Northern Ireland that remains a mystery to mos...

Border aesthetics

A pioneering collection on the aesthetics of borders. Organized around six key ideas—ecology, imaginary, in/visibility, palimpsest, sovereignty and waiting. A theoretical starting point for an aesthetic understanding of borders, developed in detail through interdisciplinary analyses ...

Dancing cultures

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

The paradox of difference

Sociocultural environments prompt us to notice and mark certain differences over others. This book investigates five paradoxes in the discourses and practices around such differences: the paradox of mixing, standardization, narrative, proximity, and tolerance. Drawing on the notion of unit thin...

Tropics of vienna

Blends literary criticism, cultural theory, and historical analysis. Demonstrates how Vienna was linked with its eastern periphery in a quasi-colonial arrangement that shaped the cultural and intellectual life of the Habsburg Empire. Reveals a shared longing for alternative social an...

Anthropology and public service

Demonstrates how anthropologists can set new agendas, and revise old ones in the public sector. Explains how anthropology scholars provide a much-needed social dimension to government thinking and practice. Includes discussions of anthropologists’ work with the UK Department for Inte...

America observed

Essays offering a critique on the absence of fieldwork done on the United States by anthropologists from abroad. Explores its likely reasons while also illustrating the advantages of studying fieldwork-based anthropological projects conducted by colleagues from outside the U.S. Suita...

Education, aspiration and social mobility

Informed by over two decades of anthropological research in Chhattisgarh, this book examines how the marginalized Adivasi (tribal) youth in rural India navigate the contradictory ways in which education represents both a strategy for social mobility and a very tangible risk.

The political economy of border drawing

Interconnects capitalism, the welfare regime and citizenship to the field of migration studies. Compares and contrasts the divergent conditions of entry for non-EU migrant workers in Britain, France and Germany. Explores the economic, social and cultural rationales in determining mig...

Hindi is our ground, english is our sky

A critical, ethnographically rich study of education, language, and social class in India. A theoretically grounded study of language use, language ideology, and globalization. Demonstrates the necessity of sustained fieldwork in studies of social change and globalization. Shows ...

Artisanal and small-scale mining formalization in ghana

The main key benefit of this book is its use of decoloniality in the examination of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) formalization. While there have been many cross-disciplinary explorations of formalization as a concept, the originality of this book lies not only in its interpretation...

Different germans, many germanies

Complicating academic discourses and scholarly analyses of Germany Pluralizing popular perceptions of Germany Contributing new knowledge on postwar Germany Combining historical with political and cultural approaches to Germany

Comics in french

First Historical Approach to French Language Comics in English One of the first General Studies of French Language Comics in English

The gift of european thought and the cost of living

Uncovers the complicity of postcolonial criticism with what it criticizes Shows that Enlightenment ideas such as thinking for oneself and becoming autonomous are untenable Expands the notion of ‘the cost of living’ to include a cost of thinking and doing