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...

New Regionalism and Asylum Seekers

Taking the context of forced migration, this book addresses the role that regional, in contrast to national or global, institutions and relationships play in shaping asylum policies and procedures. It examines the causes of forced migration movements; the direction of forced migration flows and...

Researching Food Habits

The term 'Anthropology of Food' has become an accepted abbreviation for the study of anthropological perspectives on food, diet and nutrition, an increasingly important subdivision of anthropology that encompasses a rich variety of perspectives, academic approaches, theories, and methods. Its m...

Moebius Anthropology

Don Handelman’s groundbreaking work in anthropology is showcased in this collection of his most powerful essays. The book looks at the intellectual and spiritual roots of Handelman’s initiation into anthropology; his work on ritual and on “bureaucratic logic”; analyses of cosmology; and innovat...

The Power of the Story

A cross-disciplinary volume that combines and puts into dialogue perspectives on disasters, this book includes contributions from anthropology, history, cultural studies, sociology, and literary studies. Offering a rich and diverse set of arguments and analyses on the ever-relevant theme of cat...

Visions of Marriage

Grounded in multi-generational stories from Kinmen in Taiwan, Visions of Marriage explores the historical entanglements between the pursuit of new personal and national futures. Focusing on the relational and future-making aspects of marriage, the ethnography highlights the intersection of tran...

Agency and Archaeology of the French Maritime Empire

Through detailed archaeological case study, a multiregional approach and a theoretical approach around agencies and individuality, this volume focuses on the diversity of the population that participated in the maritime network of France through the 17th to the 19th century and whose agency and...

The Nomads of Mykonos

Studying Contemporary Western Society

Few anthropologists today realize the pioneering role Margaret Mead played in the investigation of contemporary cultures. This volume collects and presents a variety of her essays on research methodology relating to contemporary culture. Many of these essays were printed originally in limited c...

Poverty Archaeology

The Poor Laws in the United Kingdom left a built and material legacy of over two centuries of legislative provision for the poor and infirm. Workhouses represent the first centralized, state-organized system for welfare. This volume forms a social archaeology of the lived experience of poverty ...

Managing Sacralities

What happens when religious sites, objects and practices become cultural heritage? Case studies from Denmark, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and the United Kingdom present an analysis of the paradoxes and challenges that arise when religious sites are transformed into heritage.

(Re)constructing Armenia in Lebanon and Syria

For almost nine decades, since their mass-resettlement to the Levant in the wake of the Genocide and First World War, the Armenian communities of Lebanon and Syria appear to have successfully maintained a distinct identity as an ethno-culturally diverse group, in spite of representing a small n...

Centering the Margin

In a completely new approach to borders and border crossing, this volume suggests a re-conceptualization of the nation in Southeast Asia. Choosing an actor approach, the individual chapters in this volume capture the narratives of minorities, migrants and refugees who inhabit and cross borders ...

Human Adaptation at Grasshopper Pueblo, Arizona

A detailed study of the bone chemistry of individuals buried at the 14th century Grasshopper Pueblo site is presented in this volume. This is a data-rich study which provides much information for social and economic reconstructions of prehistoric Pueblo adaptation to their environment.

Iconicity of the Uto-Aztecans

The attempt to study a snake simulacrum thus constitutes the basic objective of this volume. A long, all-embracing iconicity of snakes and related snake motifs are evident in different cultural expressions ranging from rock art templates to other cultural artifacts like basketry, pottery, templ...

What Now

Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork undertaken since 2006, the book addresses some of the most topical aspects of remote Aboriginal life in Australia. This includes the role of kinship and family, relationships to land and sea, and cross-cultural relations with non-Aboriginal residents.

The Categorical Impulse

Classification, as an object of recent anthropological scrutiny came to prominence during the 1960s, exemplified in the British (constructionist) tradition by the writings of Mary Douglas, and in the American ethno-semantics (cognitive) tradition by the likes of Harold Conklin and Brent Berlin....

A New Look At Thai Aids

Following the detection of the first HIV infections in the early 1980s, by the 1990s Thailand was routinely depicted as having the world’s fastest moving HIV/AIDS epidemic. However, by the early 2000’s the bulk of scholarly and medical AIDS literature portrayed the epidemic as being largely und...

Vital Diplomacy

Focusing on the major ceremonial cycle of the Enawene-nawe people, Vital Diplomacy sheds new light on classic Amazonian themes such as manioc cultivation and cuisine, predatory relations with non-humans, and the interplay of myth and practice, and to consider dynamics of kin, clan, and gender r...

Europeanizing Contention

A study on the Europeanization of a specific social movement, using a cross-national comparative perspective. A longitudinal research design based on qualitative methods. A theoretical approach on the political sociology of Europe. A focus on a movement which remains under-resear...

Oceanic Socialities and Cultural Forms

In anthropology, theoretical approaches attempting to come to terms with experiences of social interaction, often inspired by phenomenology, have come to the fore in opposition to the previously favored emphasis on symbolic and social structures. These essays attempt a new kind of ethnographic ...

Constructing Risk

Reviewing current policies and practices, the book assesses the financial, economic and physical risk of building in hazardous areas, and looks at how societies are trying to create a more resilient built environment in spite of the dangers.

Post-Ottoman Coexistence

Examines the peaceful co-existence of religious and ethnic groups under the Ottoman Empire. Investigates the reasons behind the breakdown of tolerance and the legacy of division from ethno-nationalist conflict post-empire. A discussion of both historical and contemporary practices of...

Representations of “Japanese Nature”

“Nature” as a concept and word is extremely elusive, yet it is commonly taken for granted that “the pristine nature” is “out there.” This book explores the factors that have naturalized the idea of nature as pristine into our psyche, and as something that has a spatial, visual, and temporal dim...

Becoming Good Women

This book illustrates that tuition space acts as an important site for identity formation and placemaking, where students play out their cosmopolitan aspirations whilst acquiring educational capital. It focuses on narratives of female Sinhalese students attending a national school in the Centra...

Border Straddling Heritages

In this geographically wide-ranging reassessment of the overlap between borders and heritage, Ali Mozaffari and David C. Harvey interrogate how “hyperglobalization” has simultaneously challenged and intensified notions of sovereignty and nationality, advancing a theory of heritage that recogniz...

Silences and Divided Memories

Dealing with the difficult, silenced past of the so called "Istrian exodus" after the Second World War, this book shifts the usual focus from migrants to those who stayed behind and to the new immigrants who came to the “emptied” towns.

The Southeast Asia Connection

Over world history, Southeast Asia’s contribution to the world economy (during the late prehistoric and early historic periods) has not been given much attention. This book attempts to recalibrate these interactions of Southeast Asia with other parts of the world economy, and gives the region i...

Living Kinship in the Pacific

Provides strong accounts of contemporary understandings of kinship in the Pacific. The ethnographic focus is on transformation and continuity over time. Describes how kinship is constituted in day-to-day ritual and ritualized behavior.

Sartre, Self-formation and Masculinities

Published on the occasion of Sartre's Centenary, this book helps to understand the man behind the work, offering a psycho-social analysis of Jean-Paul Sartre with an emphasis on his masculinity. It sets out to contextualize Sartre in terms of his psycho-sexual formation and processes of self-co...

Empathy and Healing

Louis Dumont and Hierarchical Opposition

The work of Louis Dumont, who died in 1998, on India and modern individualism represented certain theoretical advances on the earlier structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss. One such advance is Dumont's idea of hierarchical opposition, which he proposed as a truer representation of indigenous ide...

Iron in the Soul

In his vivid, lively account of how Greek Cypriot villagers coped with a thirty-year displacement, Peter Loïzos follows a group of people whom he encountered as prosperous farmers in 1968, yet found as disoriented refugees when revisiting in 1975. By providing a forty year in-depth perspective ...

Changing Cultural Tastes

Changing Cultural Tastes offers a critical survey of the taste wars fought over the past two centuries between the intellectual establishment and the common people in Germany. It charts the uneasy relationship of high and popular culture in Germany in the modern era. The impact of National Soci...

Critical Theory

The retirement of the distinguished philosopher Jürgen Habermas from his chair at the University of Frankfurt signalled an important caesura in the history of Critical Theory: the transition from the Habermasian project, to different forms of inquiry in the work of the next generation. This cha...

Voices of the Dunera

Sheds new light on an infamous decision by the British government to deport German refugees (most of them Jewish) to Australia during WWII. Presents for the first hand first hand testimony from internees about their life and treatment. Has a contemporary relevance reflecting issues r...

Violent Becomings

It is theoretically original in its insistence on radical reading of state formation as related to violence and irreducible to the formal state apparatus. It is a long-term study of transformations – building on fieldwork from 1998 onwards – which surpasses a number of other relevant stu...

The Origins of Complex Societies in Late Prehistoric Iberia

A series of papers by a wide range of authors from different countries and backgrounds focuses firmly on the question of the origin and development of social complexity, from the Neolithic through the Bronze Age, in Iberia writ large. A wide range of specific topics is covered with this specifi...

Beyond Filial Piety

This volume explores emerging cultural meanings and social responses to population aging in contemporary East Asian societies. Drawing on ethnographic, demographic, policy, archival, and media data, the authors trace both common patterns and diverging trends across China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Sin...

Reconstructing the House of Culture

Notions of culture, rituals and their meanings, the workings of ideology in everyday life, public representations of tradition and ethnicity, and the social consequences of economic transition— these are critical issues in the social anthropology of Russia and other postsocialist countries. Eng...

Class, Contention, and a World in Motion

Addresses the question of migrant agency in the context of globalisation and capitalist change Focuses on class in the study of migration and migrant politics Addresses gender and ethnicity in study of migration politics Presents analysis of conditions which enable and disable po...

Subject Lessons

Life histories are a class of oral data distinct from memoirs, autobiography, and conventional history in multiple ways.Subject Lessons examines the use of and value in using one’s life history as research within the social sciences.

Migration, Memory, and Diversity

Explores the complex history of migration and diversity in Germany from 1945 to today. Shows how conceptions of “otherness” developed while memories of the Nazi era were still fresh. Identifies the continuities and transformations they exhibited through the Cold War and reunification...

Global Migrants, Global Refugees

In recent years, several influential commentators have stated or strongly implied that the advanced industrial democracies are today being overwhelmed by a host of problems - including rapid population growth, the breakup of multi-ethnic states, environmental degredation, and increasing economi...

Boaters of London

London and the Southeast of England is home to many people living along rivers and canals. Boaters of London delves into the process of becoming a ‘boater’ and the political impact of the travelling population on the state. It examines an alternative style of living and the potential of a life ...

The Body in Balance

Offers new perspectives for studying the so-called "humoral medical traditions" over the last 2,000 years Re-visits "harmony" and "holism" as main characteristics of these traditions Asks how "balance" is defined, by whom, for whom, and in what circumstances

Russian Culture

This volume brings together two classic works on the culture of the Russian people which have been long out of print. Gorer's Great Russian Culture and Mead's Soviet Attitudes towards Authority: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Problems of Soviet Character were among the first attempts by anthr...

Work, Society, and the Ethical Self

Primarily on the basis of ethnographic case-studies from around the world, this volume links investigations of work to questions of personal and professional identity and social relations. The authors uncover complex entanglements between the drudgery and exploitation experienced by most people...

Fire in the Dark

Anthropologists who are employed to change the worlds they are researching find themselves in a potentially contradictory position. Combining the various roles and expectations involved in working with Gypsies and local government at the same time as conducting anthropological research, provide...

Religion, Politics, and Globalization

While social scientists, beginning with Weber, envisioned a secularized world, religion today is forthrightly becoming a defining feature of life all around the globe. The complex connections between religion and politics, and the ways in which globalization shapes these processes, are central ...

Folsom Lithic Technology

This book offers a series of studies focused on the analysis of stone tool technology of the Folsom Culture. The analyses presented here use comparative methods to identify patterns of lithic assemblage structure and variation that provide insights into the organization of Folsom technology and...

The Image that Never Ends

This book explores the relationship between images and anthropology, offering a deeper understanding of how visual culture shapes our world. It addresses how anthropology can help us reflect on the role of images in daily life and reconsiders classic anthropological themes—ritual, kinship, and ...

Women as Sacred Custodians of the Earth?

Literature on women, development and environment is abundant. The relationship between women and ecology has been analyzed by various disciplines, by specialists from the North as well as the South. This book offers a new perspective, specifically to challenge the assumption that women have a s...

New Anthropologies of Italy

This book heralds an exciting new frontier by bringing together some of the leading ethnographers of Italy and placing together their contributions into the broader realm of anthropological history, culture and new perspectives in Europe.

In Search of Salt

Relatively recent Bantu-speaking migrants to central Cameroon, the Beti have had an eventful history. Based on extensive interviews and traditional Beti (Fang) poetry, in addition to German and French archival sources, the author of this readable study recreates the social structure of the Beti...

We are All Africans Here

This book looks critically at racialization of mobility in Europe, anchoring the discussion in the aspiration of precarious migrants from Niger in Belgium and Italy. The book contextualizes their experiences within the ongoing securitization of mobility in their home country and the persistent ...

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...

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...

Religious Sensibilities in Pursuit of Sexual Well-Being

Through detailed ethnographic analysis, this book shows how religious sensibilities inform the health practices, issues of sexuality and well-being of the Ghanian-Dutch and Somali-Dutch communities residing in the Randstad area of the Netherlands.

Re-Turns, Entanglements and Collaborations

This collection marks the EASA Book Series’ 50th volume to celebrate collaborative forms of knowledge production in anthropology. It is organized around eight key themes and concepts that have marked anthropological debates in Europe over the past 20 years.

Localizing the Internet

Internet activism is playing a crucial role in the democratic reform happening across many parts of Southeast Asia. Focusing on Subang Jaya, a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, this study offers an in-depth examination of the workings of the Internet at the local level. In fact, Subang Jaya is regarded a...

Between Blood and Gold

A comparative study analyzing the debates within France and Great Britain relating to the question of compensation to former slaveholders. It lays out the philosophical, legal-political, and economic factors at play. It establishes a powerful new model for understanding the aftermath...

Themes in French Culture

Margaret Mead collaborated with her long-time colleague Rhoda Métraux in this unique study of French culture. The Hoover Institute at Stanford University originally published this volume, which grew out of the Columbia University project on Research of Contemporary Cultures in 1954. It is one o...

Embodying Exchange

Embodying Exchange addresses the infrastructural, legal and moral complexities in contemporary world trade through an ethnographic analysis of the interface of multinational brand manufacturers and popular traders in the Bolivian Andes.

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.

Refugee Policy in Sudan 1967-1984

Based on the work of Ahmed Karadawi, Refugee Policy in Sudan discusses Sudanese government policy towards the refugee flows from Ethiopia into the Eastern Region of Sudan in theperiod 1967 to 1984, arguing that there were two underlying assumptions behind successive governments' policies: that ...

Diaspora Online

Chronicles the online cultural and political expressions of the Romanian diaspora post-1989 Describes its politicization and the paths taken leading to the gradual institutionalization of informal communication Analysis underpinned by interviews with politicans, migrants and poets

Aging and the Digital Life Course

In recent years there have been many books about aging populations. This book is unique in that it not only focuses on the role and design of technologies for older people around the world but it aims to situate this within local context. It is comprised of a carefully balanced mix...

Traveling Models and Practical Norms

Traveling Models and Practical Norms examines how different modes of governance that deliver services of general interest experience significant gaps between explicit rules of the game and implicit practices, between planned actions and daily routines.

Reconstructing Homes

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

Anthropologists in a Wider World

The tradition of intensive fieldwork by a single anthropologist in one area has been challenged by new emphasis on studying historical patterns, wider regions, and global networks. Some anthropologists have started their careers from the new vantage point, amidst a chorus of claims for innovati...

Desert Entanglements

The Sahrawi refugees in southwestern Algeria have struggled from exile for fifty years to reconfigure the animated desert they call badiya. They recovered camel husbandry and access to part of the former rangeland, and wove it back as seasonal nomadism. Desert Entanglements analyzes this proces...

Embodied Communities

An Invitation to Anthropology

Synthesizing British, French and American traditions, this stimulating and accessible text presents a comprehensive and fascinating introduction to social and cultural anthropology. It offers an original approach through integrating knowledge produced from a variety of perspectives, placing cul...

Echoes of Narcissus

In Greek mythology the beautiful Narcissus glimpsed his own reflection in the waters of a spring and fell in love. But his was an impossible passion and, filled with despair, he pined away. Over the years the myth has inspired painters, writers, and film directors, as well as philosophers and p...

Mass Communication In Israel

This text documents the long-standing relationship between mass communication and the construction of nation states The author examines the impact of the media at both cultural and institutional levels Soffer positions Israel as a unique case study, drawing parallels between techno...

A Reversal of Fortunes?

German unification brought fundamental, often traumatic changes for the people in eastern Germany. Women as a group were arguably more deeply affected by the changes than any other, and in one area in particular: that of work, which had far-reaching effects on them and their families' economic ...

Whose Cosmopolitanism?

Contributors from different disciplines and theoretical backgrounds examine cosmopolitanism’s possibilities, aspirations and applications The book investigates when, where and how cosmopolitanism emerges as a contemporary social process

Modalities of Change

Examines the interface between modernity and tradition in selected societies in Taiwan, mainland China and Vietnam Explores how modernity may place “traditional” forms of expression at a disadvantage and how modernity is embraced into “tradition” to change it Questions to what extent...

Aspirations of Young Adults in Urban Asia

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

Culturing the Body

The human body is both the site of lived experiences and a means of communicating those experiences to a diverse audience. Hominins have been culturing their bodies, that is adding social and cultural meaning through the use pigments and objects, for over 100,000 years. There is archaeological ...

Borders across Healthcare

Borders across Healthcare explores contemporary moral economies of the healthcare-migration nexus through a scalar and relational perspective. The volume documents the many ways in which borders come to disrupt healthcare settings and illuminates how judgements of a health-related deservingness...

The Problem of Context

The apparently simple notion that it is contextualization and invocation of context that give form to our interpretations raises important questions about context definition. Moreover, different disciplines involved in the elucidation and interpretation of meanings construe context indifferent ...

From Triads to Pentads

N.J. (‘Nick’) Allen had an extensive academic career, which for the most part was spent in Oxford. He passed away in 2020. This edited volume brings together a selection of his anthropological papers. It follows key areas of his research in which his contributions were novel, innovative, stimul...

Insidious Capital

In a global perspective of fast transforming social spaces that moves from East to West, Insidious Capital explores the struggles around the exploitation and valuation of labor, environmental politics, expansion of the ground rent, new hierarchies, the contradictions of higher education, the of...

The Psychosocial Wellness of Refugees

Strangers Either Way

Croatia gained the world's attention during the break-up of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. In this context its image has been overshadowed by visions of ethnic conflict and cleansing, war crimes, virulent nationalism, and occasionally even emergent regionalism. Instead of the norm, this book of...

Culture, Suicide, and the Human Condition

Articulates how suicide should be understood as a form of human action rather than as a separate realm of pathological behaviour Demonstrates how cultural narratives enable the community to make sense of self-inflicted death Argues that these narratives also constitute a blueprint de...

The Feeling of the Fall

As an inquiry into engagements with forces of loss and threat, this work explores experimental ways to write about climate crisis in anthropology. From Belize to Ontario and back, this ambitious piece of ethnographic writing set during a time “beyond ruin” in a fictional, ecotourist community i...

Materialising Exile

Focusing on the highly diverse Karenni refugee population living in camps on the Thai-Burma border, this innovative book explores materiality, embodiment, memory, imagination, and identity among refugees, providing new and important ways of understanding how refugees make sense of experience, s...

The Helmand Baluch

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

Kin, Gene, Community

Israel is the only country in the world that offers free fertility treatments to nearly any woman who requires medical assistance. It also has the world's highest per capita usage of in-vitro fertilization. Examining state policies and the application of reproductive technologies among Jewish I...

Temple Tracks

The notions of labour, mobility and piety have a complex and intertwined relationship. Using ethnographic methods and a historical perspective, Temple Tracks critically outlines the interlink of railway construction in colonial and post-colonial Asia, as well as the anthropology of infrastructu...

Exceptional Experiences

Looking at encounters that can puncture or jolt us, this volume uses art as a lens through which to register and understand exceptional experiences. The volume also includes the fieldworker’s experience of unexpected events that can lead to key understandings, as well as revelatory moments that...

Landscapes of Relations and Belonging

Wogeo Island is well-known to anthropologists of Papua New Guinea through the work of Ian Hogbin. Based on substantial fieldwork, the author builds on and expands previous research by showing how Wogeos establish and maintain social relationships and identities connected to place and movement i...

Where is the Good in the World?

Bringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic case studies from diverse settings, this volume explores how different disciplinary perspectives on the good might engage with and enrich each other. This is the first interd...

Haunting Futures

The 2008 economic collapse in Iceland sent its residents into a destabilising crisis with far-reaching, temporal and affective consequences. Haunting Futures explores how the complex relationships of this unstable past and the anticipatory modes of the ongoing present keep Icelanders and the Po...

The Seed

Notes on desire, reproduction, and grief, and how feminism doesn’t support women struggling to have children.

All Day I Dream About Sirens

From Homer to Starbucks, a look at sirens and mermaids and feminism and consumerism.