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Miners and the state in the ottoman empire
The story of the miners of Zonguldak presents a particularly graphic local lens through which to examine questions that have been of major concern to historians—most prominently, the development of the state, the emergence of capitalism, and the role of the working classes in these large proces...
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Who knows tomorrow?
This ethnography shows how Rashaida in north-eastern Sudan deal with unknowns from day to day unpredictability to life-threatening dangers. Demonstrates how uncertainty need not be seen as a debilitating problem but also as an opportunity to create other futures.
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Imperial germany 1871-1918
A comprehensive history of German society in this period, providing a broad survey of its development. The volume is thematically organized and designed to give easy access to the major topics and issues of the Bismarkian and Wilhelmine eras. The statistical appendix contains a wide range of so...
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The greater german reich and the jews
Details the various European states and territories annexed into the German Reich between the period of 1935 and 1940. Analyzes the diverse attitudes of non-Jews, Germans and indigenous populations. Challenges the common assumption that one unified movement ran through the territorie...
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Turkish german cinema in the new millennium
First book on Turkish German cinema An anthology featuring the main scholars working on the subject New methodologies to discuss the culture of migration Multiple approaches to minority cultural production in the contemporary European context
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Civilizing nature
Explores the concept and expansion of the National Park from a global historical perspective, studying how a Western blueprint organised social and cultural relations to Nature into a multitude of ecological as well as political systems all over the world Situates the idea of confining n...
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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...
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The emergence of film culture
Offers a new perspective on the development of European film avant-garde, and film culture in the interwar period. The anthology utilises film theory, history and critical writing to explore European film culture from a social, cultural and political perspective. The examination of ...
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Talking stones
First title to extensively investigate permanent non-state memorials in Northern Ireland. Based on extensive qualitative and quantitative data. Access to sources previously difficult to approach in situations of ethnic conflict or civil war. Includes a survey of local residents’ ...
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Dynamics of innovation
Presents a broad panorama of modern technology. Shows how artisanal know-how was adapted, expanded, and formalized during the three industrial revolutions that swept over Great Britain, France, Germany, and the United States in a comprehensive analysis of this long, historical process. Illu...
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The merkel republic
Brings together German politics experts from both sides of the Atlantic. Addresses the campaign, results and consequences of the 2013 Bundestag election. Explores structural trends such as the Europeanization and cosmopolitanization of German politics.
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In the event
Explains how to analyze generative moments through events that hold the key to understanding larger social situations. Based on ethnographic studies from around the world.
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War and women across continents
Drawing on family materials, records, and eyewitness accounts, this book shows the impact of war on individual women caught up in diverse, and often treacherous, situations. Historical and modern chapters draw on vivid stories worldwide to answer the question: “How do women act in dangerous wars?”
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Gypsy economy
An explanation of the relationship between the economic arrangements of members of Roma communities and their social position. An exploration of how economic exchanges forge key social relationships of gender and ethnicity, and how economic opportunities are constructed and seized. A...
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Liquid bread
brings cross-disciplinary perspectives on beer and brewing together brings cross-cultural ethnographies, archaeology, etc. to those who pick up the book because of their interest in beer and brewing introduces modern brewing technology and marketing techniques to those interested in ...
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Media, anthropology and public engagement
This is the first book to explore how anthropologists are engaging with publics through media – it is an essential up date to existing work on public anthropology. The book explores a range of different ways in which anthropologists can engage with publics through media – from blogs to t...
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The power of death
Multidisciplinary: humanities + social sciences. Death is analysed as a cultural event. Includes creative responses to death as well as academic essays.
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Making ubumwe
Approaches post-genocide governance, citizenship and nation building through a unique lens – the local uses of the concept of ubumwe or unity. Outlines the productive ambiguity at the root of this concept by tracing its deployments in diverse arenas from rhetoric, office work, street tal...
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Economy's tension
Presents small ethnographic contexts and global financial markets to show that economy is made up of two value realms, mutuality and impersonal trade Explains how capital and derivatives can control an economy Offers an approach for dealing with environmental devastation Examines...
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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...
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Mussolini's dream factory
The only study of film stardom in Fascist Italy. Offers a new angle on Italian fascism. Offers new insight into Fascism's relations with cinema and the mass media. Reveals ways in which stars were incorporated into a totalitarian design and the way in which they responded to othe...
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Hitler's volksgemeinschaft and the dynamics of racial exclusion
In the spring of 1933, German society was deeply divided – in the Reichstag elections on 5 March, only a small percentage voted for Hitler. Yet, once he seized power, his creation of a socially inclusive Volksgemeinschaft, promising equality, economic prosperity and the restoration of honor and...
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Germany and the black diaspora
Presents intersections of Black and German history over eight centuries Demonstrates how negative German perceptions of "blackness" proceeded from nineteenth-century racial theories Probes individual and collective responses to inter-cultural points of contact
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Science, seti, and mathematics
Makes a complex subject accessible to the typical reader through a conversational tone An exploration of the scientific, historical, philosophical and psychological motivations behind the search for extraterrestrial intelligence Draws on the author’s extensive background in pure and ...
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Ambiguous pleasures
The book makes a strong contribution to the scholarship of African sexualities and gender The volume reveals new insights into the methodology and theory of the study of sexuality within the social sciences It moves beyond an investigation of a health or development perspective of se...
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Pregnancy in practice
Examines everyday experiences that mark pregnancy in the United States today Brings into focus a topic that has been overlooked in the scholarship on reproduction Of interest to professionals and expectant parents alike
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The european puzzle
The twin concepts of “Culture” and “Identity” are inescapable in any discussion of European Integration and yet over the last ten years their meaning has become increasingly contested. By combining an anthropological and political perspective, the authors challenge the traditional boundaries wi...
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Japanese tourism
An in-depth historical, geographical, economic, and social analysis of the changing patterns of Japanese tourism since the late 19th century Uses the Meiji Restoration of 1868 as a case study for the changing face of global tourism from the 19th to the 21st century Discusses tourism ...
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Durkheim, the durkheimians, and the arts
The first systematic attempt to explore the Durkheimians' engagement with art Focuses on both Durkheim and his contemporaries, as well as later thinkers influenced by his work Of interest not only to scholars of Durkheim and his tradition, but also to those concerned with aesthetic t...
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China in oceania
It is important to see China’s activities in the Pacific Islands, not just in terms of a specific set of interests, but in the context of Beijing’s recent efforts to develop a comprehensive and global foreign policy. China’s policy towards Oceania is part of a much larger outreach to the develo...
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Identity matters
In response to the attacks of September 11, 2001 and war in Afghanistan, the Fulbright New Century Scholars program brought together social scientists from around the world to study sectarian, ethnic, and cultural conflict within and across national borders. As one result of their year of inten...
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Durkheim in dialogue
Collection of contemporary essays using Durkheimian theory; reclaims classical theory but applies it to current scholarly work. Bridges multiple areas of the world, multiple disciplines and sub-disciplines, united around a single theoretical approach. Both theoretical and ethnographi...
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Human origins
Social anthropologists draw on current research to explore several aspects of human origins (language, kinship, ritual, gender, ethnobiology, medicine). Wide interdisciplinary discussion on what it is to be human. Rich original material on African hunter-gatherer religion, myth and s...
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The arts in nazi germany
Culture and the arts played a central role in the ideology and propaganda of National Socialism from the early years of the movement until the last months of the Third Reich in 1945. Hitler and his followers believed that art and culture were expressions of race, and that “Aryans” alone were ca...
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Redescribing relations
A tribute to Marilyn Strathern, among the most creative and celebrated contemporary anthropologists. Brings some of Strathern’s most committed and renowned readers into conversations in her honour. Deepens the understanding of Strathern’s work, and offers models of how to extend her ...
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Empire, colony, genocide
In 1944, Raphael Lemkin coined the term “genocide” to describe a foreign occupation that destroyed or permanently crippled a subject population. In this tradition, Empire, Colony, Genocide embeds genocide in the epochal geopolitical transformations of the past 500 years: the European colonizati...
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Anthropology and public service
Many anthropologists are now finding jobs in commercial organizations or in government. This volume shows how anthropologists can set new agendas, and revise old ones in the public sector. Included are discussions of anthropologists’ work with the Department for International Development, the M...
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Visual interventions
Visual anthropology has proved to offer fruitful methods of research and representation to applied projects of social intervention. Through a series of case studies based on applied visual anthropological work in a range of contexts (health and medicine, tourism and heritage, social development...
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Contextualizing disaster
Offers a comparative analysis of six recent disasters and several 'hidden’, crises that include typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes, chemical spills and the unfolding consequences of rising seas and climate change. Makes a compelling argument for understanding disasters as transnational and ...
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Reassessing the nuremberg military tribunals
For decades the history of the US Military Tribunals at Nuremberg (NMT) has been eclipsed by the first Nuremberg trial—the International Military Tribunal or IMT. The dominant interpretation—neatly summarized in the ubiquitous formula of “Subsequent Trials”—ignores the unique historical and leg...
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Coping with the nazi past
Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Based on careful, intensive research in primary sources, many of these essays break new ground in our understanding of a crucial and tumultuous period. The contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, offe...
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Journey through america
Amerikafahrt by Wolfgang Koeppen is a masterpiece of observation, analysis, and writing, based on his 1958 trip to the United States. A major twentieth-century German writer, Koeppen presents a vivid and fascinating portrait of the US in the late 1950s: its major cities, its literary culture, i...
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Peter lorre: face maker
Opens up a ‘star discourse’ around the figure of the character actor. A balanced examination of Lorre’s film career in both Germany and Hollywood. Considers the interplay between star image, screen performance, and the economic / labor position of a recognizable screen actor. Pro...
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Places of pain
Written in an accessible, narrative style. Based on the largest qualitative study of displacement of Bosnians so far. Applies multisited and digital ethnography. Includes stories of forced displacement of both refugees and IDPs
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Israeli identities
Examines the attitude of Jewish and Arab Israelis towards the Holocaust. Describes the attitude of Jewish and Arab Israelis towards the Nakba. A unique research into the inter-relations between Jewish and Arab Israeli students.
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Slavery and antislavery in spain's atlantic empire
Most comprehensive study of slavery in the Spanish Empire. Comparative and Atlantic-world perspectives. International group of authors (US, Latin America, Europe). Approaches subject from a variety of methods, including social, intellectual, legal, and economic history.
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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...
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A history of oxford anthropology
Informative as well as entertaining, this volume offers many interesting facets of the first hundred years of anthropology at Oxford University.
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Michael haneke's cinema
Existing critical traditions fail to fully account for the impact of Austrian director, and 2009 Cannes Palm d'Or winner, Michael Haneke’s films, situated as they are between intellectual projects and popular entertainments. In this first English-language introduction to, and critical analysis ...
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Microhistories of the holocaust
Micro perspectives on the Holocaust. Individual and Family narratives. Methodological Reflections about the Holocaust History.
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