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Being human, being migrant
Unique in its focus on how ethnographic face-to-face studies of migration display a specific way of being human as it highlights being between cultural truths and familiar contexts for relations of self, others and the world. Employs and develops novel concepts that contribute to our und...
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Supercinema
An innovative perspective on cinema in the digital age Studies the way in which digital special effects and editing techniques require a new theoretical framework in order to be properly understood Looks at the relationship betwen the spectator, and film which utilises digital techno...
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A fatal balancing act
First comprehensive study on the German-Jewish leadership during the Holocaust Gives a new perspective on the persecution of Jews in Germany Presents different inner-Jewish perspectives on the years 1939-1945
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What is history for?
Johann Gustav Droysen’s historical theory is a central reference for everyone who attempts to understand 19th century philosophy of the human sciences. Until now, Droysen’s work remains widely understudied outside Germany. English readers who seek to get in touch with Droysen’s works cou...
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Powerless science?
Examines the historical, social and political dynamics of chemical contamination. Brings new insights into and analysis of how chemical substances regulation has over the last half century contributed to transform toxicants into a major threat for our health and environment. Investig...
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The social life of water
Addresses impacts of commodification, urbanisation and technology on availability and quality of water supplies Demonstrates ways in which water influences all domains of social life Addresses issue of water as a human right from indigenous and non-indigenous perspectives Outline...
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General de gaulle's cold war
The most comprehensive account written in English of General de Gaulle’s foreign policy. Based on extensive multi-national archival research. Explores the connections and linkages between different policy spheres, such as international economics, security, European Integration and the Cold ...
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Turning the tune
Argues traditional Irish music represents an increasingly important identity marker both in Ireland and abroad. Focuses on a small village in County Clare, a pilgrimage site for those interested in experiencing traditional music. Explores the commercialization of music and culture, ...
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Empire, global coloniality and african subjectivity
Grounded in critical decolonial theory Inter-and trans-disciplinary Deals with empire and global coloniality from the vantage point of its arrival in Africa Is empirically grounded, with specific case studies
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Children of the dictatorship
Traces the dissent and activism of anti-regime students during the dictatorship of the Colonels in Greece from 1967-1974 Effectively relates the Greek activists of the ‘Long 1960s’ to the youth culture of the last third of the 20th century without losing touch with the Greek cultural and...
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Post-communist nostalgia
Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people’s lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all ...
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Dance circles
Focuses on a selected range of performance practices in Senegal Explores the connections between European colonialism and later influence on the choreographic production and arts markets in urban Senegal Works to contextualize dance in Senegal within an environment of economic uncert...
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Gardening the world
Offers multi-group comparative ethnography within river catchment area. Provides new theoretical insights into why societies use resources unsustainably. Eludicates complex social and cultural dynamics of water use and management. Considers what water means to different groups of...
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Migration, settlement and belonging in europe, 1500–1930s
Offers a new model of the way in which migrants in the past claimed rights and the obstacles placed in their way by communities and the State. Focus makes it ideal reading for those with interests in migrant rights and state obligations in the ever-expanding EU. Wide coverage of Euro...
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Foodways and empathy
The first in-depth ethnography of a Lower Ramu River society. Provides a unique ethnographic example of kinship / relatedness. Shows the conceptual convergence of foodways with empathy. Provides an example of the cultural dimensions of empathy.
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Debating authenticity
All contributions are based on field research in Europe, Africa, Arabic Peninsula, Latin America, North America Authenticity is debated in various subfields, in particular: visual arts, popular culture, material culture, music, tourism, religion, colonial history. Scholars with affil...
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The ethnographic self as resource
Timely discussion of memory in relation to social research given the current boom in memory studies. For anthropology, a serious and critical attempt to move beyond self-reflexivity. Authors analyze impact of their own experiences on their fieldwork. This is rarely offered perspectiv...
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Cultures of abortion in weimar germany
Abortion in the Weimar Republic is a compelling subject since it provoked public debates and campaigns of an intensity rarely matched elsewhere. It proved so explosive because populationist, ecclesiastical and political concerns were heightened by cultural anxieties of a modernity in crisis. Ba...
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Environment and citizenship in latin america
Alternative approach to the links between environment and citizenship, with a focus on identity, power relations, popular mobilization and social justice. Unique perspective on environmental citizenship from Latin America. Widely interdisciplinary approach, including contributors from Ant...
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The dark side of nation-states
An encompassing, comparative study of all major cases of ethnic cleansing in modern Europe and contains case studies from global history. Not only covers Eastern Europe, but also the motivation of western countries and statesmen and their involvement in large scale population removals. ...
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The new media nation
Around the planet, Indigenous people are using old and new technologies to amplify their voices and broadcast information to a global audience. This is the first portrait of a powerful international movement that looks both inward and outward, helping to preserve ancient languages and cultures ...
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I dreamed the animals
This is Kaniuekutat's book. In it, he tells the story of his life and that of Innu culture in the northern parts of Labrador. The pages of this book are filled with the voice of Kaniuekutat giving his account of an Innu hunter's life and the problems and distress that have been caused by sedent...
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Islam and assisted reproductive technologies
The first comprehensive study of Islam in relation to assisted reproductive technologies. A comparative perspective on the Sunni and Shia practices of assisted reproductive technologies. An assessment of some of the implications of assisted reproductive technologies in Muslim countr...
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Comparative and transnational history
Since the 1970s West German historiography has been one of the main arenas of international comparative history. It has produced important empirical studies particularly in social history as well as methodological and theoretical reflections on comparative history. During the last twenty years ...
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Envisioning eden
Based on more than two years of fieldwork in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and Arusha, Tanzania offers an in-depth investigation of the local-to-global dynamics of contemporary tourism illustrates how tour guide narratives and practices are informed by widely circulating imaginaries of the p...
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Environmental anthropology engaging ecotopia
Contributions from scholar-activists and activist-practitioners Covers seldom examined dialogue around 3 main areas: Bioregionalism, Permaculture and Ecovillages Advocates a re-orientation of environmental anthropology from a problem-oriented towards a solutions-focused endeavour
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France and the construction of europe, 1944-2007
In the second half of the twentieth century France played the greatest role - even greater than Germany’s - in shaping what eventually became the European Union. By the early twenty-first century, however, in a hugely transformed Europe, this era had patently come to an end. This comprehensive ...
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From antiquities to heritage
A historical perspective on cultural heritage. The book combines investigations of eighteenth century antiquarianism with contemporary heritage studies. Presents Norwegian material to an international readership. Discusses issues related changes in the modern experience of temporalit...
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A state of peace in europe
From the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s West German foreign policy underwent substantial transformations: from bilateral to multilateral, from reactive to proactive. The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) was an ideal setting for this evolution, enabling the Federal Republic to...
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The dream in islam
The first overview of historical and contemporary aspects of the true dream tradition in Islam. Covers: Sufism and dreaming; Islamic dream Incubation (Istikhara); militant Jihadist inspiration through dreams including al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders such as bin Laden and Mullah Omar; compar...
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Sharing the sacra
A comparative study of shrine practices in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism , Confusianism and Daoism with a global perspective. A theoretical and practical inquiry into the conditions and possibilities of intercommunal relations. An investigation of how religious pra...
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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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Béla balázs: early film theory
Béla Balázs’s two works, Visible Man (1924) and The Spirit of Film (1930), are published here for the first time in full English translation. The essays offer the reader an insight into the work of a film theorist whose German-language publications have been hitherto unavailable to the film stu...
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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...
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Learning religion
As we enter the 21st century, it becomes increasingly difficult to envisage a world detached from religion or an anthropology blind to its study. Yet, how people become religious is still poorly studied. This volume gathers some of the most distinguished scholars in the field to offer a new per...
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Bedouin of mount sinai
Based on fieldwork over ten years Builds on the central theoretical understanding that the complex political economy of the Mount Sinai Bedouin is integrated in urban society and is part of the modern global world.
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Exhibiting europe in museums
First pan-European study of processes of transnationalization and Europeanization of history/anthropology museums in Europe. Strongly interdisciplinary account of changing museum landscape in Europe, drawing in particular on social sciences, contemporary history, museum/cultural studies ...
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The state and the social
Analyses the transformation of modern Botswana from the perspective of precolonial and colonial genealogies as well as the rise of structures of domination propelled by changing global forces An ethnographic and anthropological study of the unique formation of postcolonial Botswana T...
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Bridging divides
No comparable historical account of recent Russian Sami history has been produced, and the book in addition features a thorough summary of Soviet Sami history One of the few English language volumes which focuses on border-transcending Western-Russian ethnic activism Based on thoroug...
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Optimizing the german workforce
During the twentieth century, German government and industry created a highly skilled workforce as part of an ambitious program to control and develop the country’s human resources. Yet, these long-standing efforts to match as many workers as possible to skilled vocations and to establish a sys...
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Theatres of violence
Covers the history of massacre and mass violence, which are under-researched areas Offers a wide range of case studies of massacre and mass killing from the ancient to the modern world The first book to build on Mark Levene and Penny Roberts' ground breaking 1999 study of massacre i...
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Extreme collecting
A comprehensive debate from a historical and contemporary perspective on the practice of collecting difficult objects Offers a new perspective on the acquirement of objects related to war and genocide Evaluates the limits of new strategies for the practice of collecting Details t...
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Samizdat, tamizdat, and beyond
Comparative history of samizdat and tamizdat Multi-disciplinary approach to to dissident media, including art, music and film First scholarly treatment of cultural cross-border activities during the Cold War Comparative framework of socialist and post-socialist media in Eastern E...
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Wind over water
Investigates how migrants are changing the face of Asia, especially its cities: Beijing, Hong Kong, Hamamatsu, Osaka, Tokyo, Singapore Demonstrates how the crossing of geographical boundaries is also a crossing of cultural and social categories Reveals extraordinary variation among m...
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Politics of innocence
Based on thorough ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp in Tanzania this book provides a rich account of the benevolent “disciplining mechanisms” of humanitarian agencies, led by the UNHCR, and of the situated, dynamic, indeterminate, and fluid nature of identity (re)construction in the camp...
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Tuff city
The first ethnographic history of urban change in the historic centre of Naples. Innovative methodological approach to analyzing and interpreting the European city. In-depth analysis of the relationship between urban regeneration, public space and everyday experience and conflict. ...
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After the 'socialist spring'
Historical analysis of the German Democratic Republic has tended to adopt a top-down model of the transmission of authority. However, developments were more complicated than the standard state/society dichotomy that has dominated the debate among GDR historians. Drawing on a broad range of arch...
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Flexible firm
An imaginative use of ethnopgraphic reflexivity and classical anthropological theories and imagination to get a fresh, critical perspective on corporate organisations. A rare anthropological analysis of human resource consultancy—the work-area of a growing number of anthropologists. ...
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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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