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Leader communities
Leader Communities is a study of Stockholm's suburb Djursholm and other similar places: privileged communities where elites choose to live, socialize with other elites, and raise their children into future elites. Mikael Holmqvist provides unparalleled insight into today's power elite and the soc...
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Migration – networks – skills
Migration, networks, skills: these keywords not only denote three popular and important fields of current investigation in Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, they also mark the wide range of interests of cultural and social anthropologist Waltraud Kokot, who is to be honoured in this Festschri...
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The japanese and the war
Japanese memories of World War II exert a powerful influence over the nation’s society and culture. Michael Lucken explores how the war manifested in literature, art, film, funerary practices, and education reform, creating an idea of Japanese identity that still resonates from soap operas to the...
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Mapping the unmappable?
How can we map differing perceptions of the living environment? Mapping the Unmappable? explores the potential of cartography to communicate the relations of Africa’s indigenous peoples with other human and nonhuman actors. The contributors create a deepened understanding of indigenous ontologies...
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Killing the elites
Through a rich historical ethnography of a massacre in the small town of Jérémie, Haiti, Jean-Philippe Belleau offers a new account of the workings of the François “Papa Doc” Duvalier regime and an innovative analysis of anti-elite violence.
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Anthropology as social critique
This book contains chapters based on presentations and debates that were held during a panel session entitled “Anthropology as Opinion-Maker: A Dilemma of Analysis versus Application” as part of the “Anthropology in the World” conference in London (June 8–10, 2012). The aim of this book is to dis...
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The broken fountain
As Ida Susser writes in reference to Belmonte's Broken Fountain, "good ethnographies have long lives." This classic of urban anthropology, one of the most acclaimed ethnographies of recent years, offers vivid, literary descriptions of Fontana del Re, an impoverished Neapolitan neighborhood. Belmo...
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Ethnography and folklore in print
This book unveils alternative contexts and dimensions of early ethnographic knowledge production, providing insights into a history of social knowledge that surpasses disciplinary, national, and genre-related boundaries.
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Living with wolves
Thorsten Gieser explores the role of affects, emotions, moods and atmospheres in the emerging coexistence between humans and wolves.
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Moves - spaces - places
This ethnography leads the reader into the lives of five Jamaican women in Montreal; their daily practices and experiences, their spaces of communion, their memories and projections for the future. Lisa Johnson sheds light on the mobile biographies and migratory agency of her interlocutors.
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Being there, but how?
This book launches a conversation between social sciences and humanities on how this change affects human experience.
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The lovelorn ghost and the magical monk
Stories centering on the lovelorn ghost (Mae Nak) and the magical monk (Somdet To) are central to Thai Buddhism. Historically important and emotionally resonant, these characters appeal to every class of follower. Metaphorically and rhetorically powerful, they invite constant reimagining across t...
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Friends and other strangers
Richard B. Miller aims to stimulate religious ethics through discussions of ethnography, ethnocentrism, relativism, and moral criticism; the ethics of empathy; moral responsibility in relation to children and friends; civic virtue, loyalty, war, and alterity; the normative and psychological dimen...
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For heaven's sake
Discover the fascinating and moving world of Hong Kong’s paper offerings for the afterlife
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Gao village revisited
This is a close study of Gao village twenty years after the author, an anthropologist and native of Gao village, wrote his original ethnography Gao Village. It combines ethnographic analysis, personal vignettes, and a number of fascinating stories, which presents a convincing yet complex picture ...
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Sacred performances
With penetrating insight Combs-Schilling illuminates the remarkable survival of one of the world's oldest monarchies, still ruling after 1200 years. The author unravels the paradox of this ancient yet progressive institution that has weathered invasion, economic collapse, and colonial assult. The...
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Towards shared research
Towards Shared Research portrays how scholars from different disciplinary and geographical origins and at various academic career stages strive for a more inclusive understanding of knowledge about African environments. Addressed to researchers, facilitators, and policy makers, it makes a case fo...
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Cities of entanglements
How do people live together in cities shaped by inequality? This comparative ethnography of two African cities, Maputo and Johannesburg, presents a new narrative about social life in cities often described as sharply divided.
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Contributions to alternative concepts of knowledge
In the past, the European social sciences labelled and discredited knowledge that did not conform to their own definition of scientific knowledge as an alternative kind of knowledge, as 'indigenous' knowledge. Perception has changed with time: not only has indigenous knowledge become an entrance ...
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La chance
Providing an explorative experience to the reader, this study accounts for the elusiveness of la chance in the Bamako context and beyond.
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Sweet home chicago?
Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork among older Mexican migrants in Chicago, Franziska Bedorf investigates the phenomenon of return migration by tracing how people's intentions to go back change over time. Considering global labour mobility, she examines transformations of belonging and the...
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What remains
Jonathan Bach examines the afterlife of East Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall, as things and places from the socialist past continue to circulate and shape the politics of memory. What Remains traces the effects of these artifacts, arguing for a rethinking of the role of the everyday...
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Mistrust
Scholars have long seen trust as a foundational social good. We therefore have ample studies on building trust in free markets, on cultivating trust in the state, and on rebuilding trust through civil society. The contributors to this volume, instead, take a step back. They ask: Can mistrust ever...
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Illicit monogamy
Angel Park is a Mormon fundamentalist polygamous community where plural marriages between one man and multiple women are common. Based on many years of in-depth ethnographic research, Illicit Monogamy considers the plural family from the points of view of husbands, wives, and children, giving a b...
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Partisans of the nude
Partisans of the Nude is a survey of genre art of the nude made by artists in areas that were formerly Ottoman but not yet Arab.
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Blood and oranges
A compelling account of the intersection of globalization and neo-racism in a rural Greek community, this book describes the contradictory political and economic development of the Greek countryside since its incorporation into the European Union, where increased prosperity and social liberaliz...
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Dinner with a cannibal
Presenting the history of cannibalism in concert with human evolution, Dinner with a Cannibal takes its readers on an astonishing trip around the world and through history, examining its subject from every angle in order to paint the incredible, multifaceted panoply that is the reality of canniba...
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Ogata-mura
The only intensive ethnographic study published in English of a farming settlement community founded upon reclaimed land within a lake The first English language ethnographic study of a single Japanese farming community to actually focus on production in the last 20 years. It concentrate...
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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...
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Impotent warriors
From September 1990 to June 1991, the UK deployed 53,462 military personnel in the Gulf War. After the end of the conflict anecdotal reports of various disorders affecting troops who fought in the Gulf began to surface. This mysterious illness was given the name “Gulf War Syndrome” (GWS). This ...
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Unsafe motherhood
Follows the global policies that have been implemented in Sololá, Guatemala in order to decrease high rates of maternal mortality among indigenous Mayan women. Examines the diverse meanings and understandings of motherhood, pregnancy, birth and birth-related death among the biomedical pe...
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Anthropology and ethnology during world war ii
The volume presents a collection of texts describing research into the Sektion Rassen und-Volsktumsforschung of the Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit (IDO)—a Nazi-led institution established in occupied Poland during World War II. The research was carried out by anthropologists together with histor...
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Drinking bomb and shooting meth
Jeffrey W. Alexander examines how Western alcohol and innovative pharmaceuticals became so popular, available, and fashionable in Japan. He considers the people who brewed, distilled, synthesized, and marketed these products and explores what their advertising campaigns say about Japan’s shifting...
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Mountain at a center of the world
Considering the diverse heritage of the pilgrimage site of Adam’s Peak in Sri Lanka, Alexander McKinley develops a new account of pluralism based in political ecology, representing the full array of actors and issues on the mountain.
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Hong kong soft power
In late 2014, the pro-democracy demonstrations that were called the "Umbrella Movement" revealed to the world that Hong Kong was not the money-obsessed society it had often been portrayed as. Hong Kong Soft Power is a description of the complex relationship the artists and activists of this city ...
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Youth and the state in guinea: meandering lives
By combining an ethnographic study of youth with an analysis of the local state in the making, this monograph introduces the perspective of “meandering lives” to grasp being young and growing up in the Guéckédou borderland, a remote space approximately 700 kilometers southeast of Conakry, Guinea’...
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Harmattan
A compelling work of ethnography, memoir, and fiction that explores the emancipatory power of transcending boundaries.
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The extraordinary in the mundane
This book brings together a diverse group of scholars to explore the many ways people in China self-organize and create varied forms of coordination to solve important problems.
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The social life of the mall
In an ethnography of the mall, Franziska Reiffen explores how people create socially meaningful places in cities characterized by diversity, inequality, and mobility.
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Fighting free to become unfree again
Labor bondage is discussed as a major feature of the peasant economies which have dominated the subcontinent of South Asia from an unrecorded precolonial past until the postcolonial present.
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Cut-pieces
Imagine watching an action film in a small-town cinema hall in Bangladesh, and in between the gun battles and fistfights a short pornographic clip appears. This is known as a cut-piece, a strip of locally made celluloid pornography surreptitiously spliced into the reels of action films in Banglad...
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The domestication of language
A provocative investigation into the making of human languages and the exceptional nature of human adaptation.
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Styles for flourishing
Drawing on years of cross-cultural ethnographic research, Gabriel Alejandro Torres Colón develops an innovative theory to grasp racial experiences in their full sociocultural complexity, with vital implications for both social science and antiracist politics.
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Decolonising the future academy in africa and beyond
Decolonising academia in Africa? Inspiration from the development of anthropology at African universities and international collaboration on par.
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