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Social movement studies in europe
It is the only handbook offering a complete and articulate picture of the social movements studies in Europe. It gathers together some of ‘founding fathers’ of this discipline in Europe and younger scholars. The book has a coherence as a whole and, in the meantime, any chapter offers...
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The anthropology of corporate social responsibility
The first and only edited volume on the anthropology of corporate social responsibility. Offers a critical, comprehensive overview charting the anthropological contribution to the analysis of corporate social responsibility. Draws together work of key thinkers/anthropologists work...
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The nazi genocide of the roma
Analyzes the patterns of persecution of the Roma in Nazi-dominated Europe Employs case studies across 6 countries to generate a critical mass of evidence indicating criminal intent on the part of the Nazi regime to destroying the Roma as a distinct group Includes essays on issues of...
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The anatomy of murder
This is the first comprehensive account of “Anatomy in National Socialism”. Traces the gradual escalation of ethical transgressions in anatomy during National Socialism from the traditional anatomical work with the dead to human experimentation, and points to the need for vigilance again...
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A fragmented landscape
A comprehensive, interdisciplinary survey of the struggles over abortion rights in Europe since 1945. An analysis of the strategies and discourses of groups seeking to liberalize or restrict reproductive rights.
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Hitler's dancers
The Nazis burned books and banned much modern art. However, few people know the fascinating story of German modern dance, which was the great exception. Modern expressive dance found favor with the regime and especially with the infamous Dr. Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda. How mode...
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Authority, identity and the social history of the great war
The unprecedented scope and intensity of the First World War has prompted an enormous body of retrospective scholarship. However, efforts to provide a coherent synthesis about the war's impact and significance have remained circumscribed, tending to focus either on the operational outlines of m...
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Contemporary pagan and native faith movements in europe
The first book to focus on modern Pagan and Native Faith movements throughout Europe, from the Irish Republic to Siberia, and from Scandinavia to Iberia. The first work of any kind to address the twin themes of neo-colonialism and neo-nationalism within these movements. Through detai...
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Food health
Provides in-depth analysis and comprehensive review of methods necessary to design, plan, implement and analyze public health programming using anthropological best practices. Each chapter elaborates a case study from the author's own work, showing why particular methods were adopted in ...
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Militant around the clock?
This book is the first study of the impact of left-wing political activism on the leisure pursuits and sexual behavior of Greek youth in the 1970s. Aanalyzes the cultural politics of left-wing organizations alongside the actual practices of their members. Demonstrates that left-wing ...
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Learning under neoliberalism
The contributors of this volume explore the emerging corporality of the education system worldwide and the impact of this new governance on education practices. Explores changes in University regulations against the backdrop of neoliberal trends toward public-private partnerships. De...
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Extraordinary encounters
Explores the theoretical and methodological challenges that the "Interview" brings to the discipline of "Ethnography". Argues that the interview should be seen as a special, productive site of ethnographic encounter, a site of a very particular and important kind of knowing. Contribu...
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War stories
Although war memoirs constitute a rich, varied literary form, they are often dismissed by historians as unreliable. This collection of essays is the first to explore the modern war memoir, revealing the genre’s surprising capacity for breadth and sophistication while remaining sensitive to the ...
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Reluctant intimacies
The first ethnography of non-Japanese workers’ experiences in the Japanese eldercare sector. Essentialising representations are shown to shape social relations not only in negative ways. Focuses on eldercare institutions.
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Biomedical entanglements
An ethnographic study of the Giri people of Papua New Guinea. Focuses on the indigenous population’s interaction with modern medicine. Bridges medical anthropology and global health, exploring how the ‘biomedical’ is imbued with social meaning and how biomedicine affects Giri ways of...
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The france of the little-middles
Makes a significant contribution to social class analysis by introducing the “little middle” class category, typified by neighborhood residents, and their particular experience of class mobility. In complement to the substantial social science literature analyzing the experience of immig...
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Rethinking antifascism
Provides, for the first time in English, virtually global coverage of antifascism and revisionism. Offers a long term view of antifascism by highlighting its origins in the 1920s and its persistence after 1945. Combines attention to the historical, historiographical and memorial dime...
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Whose memory? which future?
A unique approach to the history of ethnic cleansing with focus not on victims or policies but on the present-day remembrance of the people that took the place of the expelled and murdered. In-depth studies of a number cities that experienced ethnic cleansing and expulsions. Comparis...
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Border encounters
Investigates border encounters from a local, ground-up perspective. Uses anthropological case studies from European borderlands to explain the changing interactions and social relationships between people at a political frontier. Contextualizes the key terms of ‘proximity’ and ‘asymm...
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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...
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The enemy on display
Describes how Eastern European museums represent traumatic events of World War II in ways that depict the enemy in particular ways based on the interweaving of historical representations and cultural stereotypes and beliefs. Presents a useful methodology for examining museum images. ...
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Coming of age
A focus on juvenile delinquency and not simply on youth cultures. A history of everyday life/ bottom up history – not top-down approach Focuses on constructions of youth as deviant, and how such constructs are used to control society as a whole.
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The hidden history of crime, corruption, and states
No other volume covers the collusion of lawmakers and lawbreakers in state formation over 300 years touching on each continent. Contributing scholars meld history and anthropology. Introduction offers a political economy theoretical perspective. The topic is very timely.
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The devil's riches
Interdisciplinary Accessible Focuses on the modern period (1400-present) Oriented around religion, economics, and health as three ways that humans have sought to understand greed
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Trapped in the gap
A forensic analysis of the dilemmas of well intentioned white development workers in Australia. Explores what happens when well-meaning people, supported by the state, find themselves trapped by endless ambiguities and contradictions — a microcosm of the broader dilemmas of postcolonial ...
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Our common denominator
A re-assertion of the importance of "universals" or cross-cultural commonalities in anthropological research. Poses the question of how anthropology can help mankind approach humanity from a vantage point open to commonalities.
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Memory and change in europe
Offers a reflection on memory from an Eastern European historical perspective, one that can be measured against, or applied to, historical experience in other parts of Europe. The authors situate studies on memory in Eastern Europe within the broader debate on European memory.
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Existentialism and contemporary cinema
Makes groundbreaking contribution to Beauvoir studies, applying the work of this innovative philosopher to contemporary screen culture Brings together international experts on Beauvoir and Cinema, who provide innovative existentialist readings of a variety of contemporary films from seve...
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Rethinking migration
With the increasing worldwide problems of migration, research into its causes and effects become ever more urgent. This volume takes stock of recent advancements that social science research in both Europe and the United States has made to understanding central aspects of international migratio...
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Europe in exile
During World War II, London was transformed into a European city, as it unexpectedly became a place of refuge for many thousands of European citizens who through choice or the accidents of war found themselves seeking refuge in Britain from the military campaigns on the Continent of Europe. In ...
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Germany and 'the west'
First comprehensive study of the conceptual history of ‘the West’ in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany Conceptual history approach Reflecting the importance of the nineteenth century in the history of ‘the West’ A historical contribution to the current debate about the me...
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Sex and the empire that is no more
J. Lorand Matory researches the trans-Atlantic comings and goings of Yoruba religion, as well as ethnic diversity in Black North America. With the support of the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Spencer Foundation, ...
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Thinking through sociality
Combines a review of classical theories with recent theoretical innovations across a wide range of issues and domains An international group of contributors examine concepts of disjuncture and social space
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Palimpsestic memory
Proposes a new model for understanding cultural memory based on the principle of the palimpsest which condenses different memory traces. Challenges the distinction between memories of the Holocaust and memories of colonialism. Offers new readings of familiar post-war novels and films...
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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...
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Jesus reclaimed
In this cross-cultural study the author compares Jewish and Christian discourses. Offers a historical account of Jewish perspectives on the Nazarene and the potential reasons for the recent increased interest in Jesus. Contrasts the Jewish quest for a historical Jesus against the har...
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Regimes of ignorance
High-quality rich ethnographic examples set in comparative perspective. Contributors includesome of the brightest emerging scholars of their generation, as well as a number of senior, internationally recognised anthropologists. An important theoretical re-working of this emerging are...
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Economy for and against democracy
Economic inequality is the antithesis of democracy, but the conditions for achieving economic democracy are rarely discussed. The book moves from showing how economy subverts democracy today through people’s struggles to realize democracy in practice to more abstract visions of possible ...
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The decolonial mandela
A significant contribution to the emerging literature on decolonial studies. Lays out a groundbreaking interpretation of the “Mandela phenomenon.” The author identifies transformative political justice and a reimagined social order as key features of Nelson Mandela’s legacy.
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Disrupted landscapes
An environmental history of postsocialism. An ethnography of the bureaucracy of Southeastern European countries. Portrays environmental changes in the postsocialist world. Discusses local political dynamics in the rural postsocialist world.
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In search of legitimacy
Unique in proposing a model for how individuals engaged in a particular body-culture use travel as a way of signaling their commitment to the genre. The approach in describing how non-Brazilians position themselves to claim legitimacy within the field of capoeira on Brazilians’ ‘home tur...
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Health, risk, and adversity
Research on health involves evaluating the disparities that are systematically associated with the experience of risk, including genetic and physiological variation, environmental exposure to poor nutrition and disease, and social marginalization. This volume provides a unique perspective - a c...
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Final sale in berlin
The book has many unusual case studies but is not a case study in itself, it draws on a real mountain of material. The database the book is based on is accessible to all readers (www2.hu-berlin.de/djgb). For a German study it is – everyone says – really well written. The study ma...
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The anthropologist as writer
Accessibly written so as to attract students, scholars and generalists. Explores new ways of writing anthropology. Takes different anthropological genres seriously. Provides both theories and techniques for writing anthropology.
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Keywords of mobility
First in-depth anthropological) discussion of the keywords used in mobility studies. Coherent approach, with an introductory chapter and two concluding afterwords. Agenda-setting volume for future research in mobility studies. Collection of the most innovative thinkers in the ant...
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Migration by boat
The only edited volume to date to focus specifically on forced sea migrations and their memorializations. Covers a wide international (geographic) berth in terms of case studies, and therefore has international appeal. An excellent example of engaged social sciences regarding current...
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Germans against nazism
This re-issued volume examines opposition to National Socialism by Germans during the Third Reich in its broadest sense. It considers individual and organized nonconformity, opposition, and resistance. It looks at how disparate groups such as the Jewish community, churches, conservat...
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Time and the field
Radically rethinks the notion of the 'field' in terms of time rather than space. By considering the field in terms of time, the relationship between field and fieldsite is destabilized and emerges as a dynamic and ever-shifting constellation. Updates the discussion of contemporary re...
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In the absence of the gift
Rethinks remittance motivations among work migrants by focusing on notions of sharing. An elaborate focus on practices of sharing and demand sharing in a Melanesian context. Focuses on those ‘development projects’ people initiate and conduct themselves in a country otherwise often su...
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Cycling and recycling
Describes how environmental activists, researchers, and policymakers have increasingly turned to mobilizing older technologies in their pursuit of sustainability. Explores the historical fortunes of bicycling and waste recycling. Traces their development over time and provides valuab...
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