Screening art

 First monograph to explore connections between East German film and other art forms such as painting, sculpture and music  Explores a range of films that have only recently become available in (English) subtitled versions (including films by Jürgen Böttcher) Transnational dimension:...

Rampart nations

Rampart Nations delves deeper into the bulwark (antemurale) myth and uncovers the stories that have helped to spread it within Eastern Europe. Through perspectives that range from Eastern European art history to theology, with a concentration on the nexus of political, social, and religious his...

Empathy and history

establishes empathy’s origins and function in the practice, teaching and philosophy of history connects empathy’s use in school history to longstanding debates in the philosophy of history concerning the status of history in human knowledge establishes the link between R.G. Collingwo...

Sense and essence

Contrary to popular perceptions, cultural heritage is not given, but constantly in the making, subject to dynamic processes of (re)inventing culture within particular social formations and via particular forms of mediation. Through the heuristic concepts of the "politics of authentication" and ...

Invisible founders

Literal and metaphorical excavations at Sweet Briar College reveal how African American labor enabled the transformation of Sweet Briar Plantation into a private women’s college in 1906. Despite being built and maintained by African American families, the college did not integrate its student b...

Twilight of the merkel era

 An in-depth look at the 2017 Bundestag campaign and election  Detailed analyses of the major parties and political forces  As assessment of the consequential Merkel chancellorship  A focus on the rise of right-populism with the Alternative for Germany party  

Magical house protection

 First world-wide survey of this topic in book form.  The latest theories and thoughts about magical house protection archaeology.  The result of 20 years research on the topic.  Contains a gazeteer of discoveries in Britain and America showing the geographical distribution of th...

Luso-tropicalism and its discontents

The Portuguese-speaking Global South, especially Brazil, often envisions itself as exceptional in its racial conceptions and politics. Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents reassesses Gilberto Freyre’s influential claims that Portuguese colonialism produced what came to be called “racial democra...

Gendering post-1945 german history

At home on the waves

This collection explores the variety of ways in which people have long made themselves at home at sea, bringing together both ethnographic and archaeological research – much of it with an explicit Ingoldian approach – on a wide range of geographical areas and historical periods.

Going to pentecost

This is an experimental approach to Pentecostalism, departing from previous studies;  It is explicitly comparative, with very close collaboration amongst the three authors;  It offers new possibilities for the study of religion in global context

The indoctrination of the wehrmacht

Other studies look at the indoctrination of the Wehrmacht, and numerous studies look at the war crimes of the Wehrmacht.  However, this study is different in that it focuses much more closely on the indoctrination of the Wehrmacht than previous studies, but perhaps more importantly, it views...

Theorising media and conflict

Theorising Media and Conflict brings together anthropologists as well as media and communication scholars to collectively address the elusive and complex relationship between media and conflict. Practitioners, policymakers, students and scholars who wish to understand the lived realities and dy...

Telling children about the past

This book brings together archeologists, historians, psychologists, and educators from different countries and academic traditions to address the many ways that we tell children about the (distant) past. The contributors both examine the ways in which children come to grips with the past and cr...

The arkansas regulators

Friedrich Gerstäcker’s The Arkansas Regulators is a rousing tale of frontier adventure, first published in German in 1846, but virtually lost to English readers for well over a century. This long-awaited translation and scholarly edition of the novel offers a startling rewriting of the frontier...

Being bedouin around petra

Takes an ethnographic approach to understanding everyday life of the Bedouin as heritage in contemporary Jordan. Exemplifies the materiality of heritage proclamations and religious transformations. Demonstrates the complex entanglements of Islamic revival, tourism, heritage managemen...

Testimonies of resistance

As eyewitnesses to and unwilling abettors of the murder of their fellow Jews, the Sonderkommando comprise one of the most fascinating and troubling topics within Holocaust history. This interdisciplinary collection assembles careful investigations into how the Sonderkommando have been represent...

Dreams of germany

Diversity of disciplines and  author team (senior and junior; gender; national perspective). Range of iconic case studies: Bruckner and Wagner through to the Beatles and Kraftwerk. Represents the cream of upcoming scholars alongside more established scholarly voices. Revisits and...

The vampire

Drawing on a wealth of heretofore neglected sources from multiple languages, this book gives a fascinating account of how vampires—whose various incarnations originally developed within the folk traditions of societies throughout the world—came to be inextricably tied to Eastern Europe in the p...

Engaging evil

Exploring the anthropology of evil as an empirical human phenomenon, this volume attempts to show the usefulness of treating evil as a descriptive reality where concepts such as violence, criminality, and hatred fall short of capturing the darkest side of human existence.

Names and naming in early modern germany

Unique exploration of theSocial History of Nomenclature (socio-onomastics) Interdisciplinary and Archival Explores the Intentions of the Namers

Gulag memories

This book shows how the memory of the Soviet repressions was shaped in Russia in the 90’s, beginning of 21st century - at a time when the state no longer made memory of the repressions a taboo topic, but had not yet become actively involved in shaping it. It is an ethnographic descriptio...

Communities, landscapes, and interaction in neolithic greece

This volume provides a synthetic overview of recent developments in the study of Neolithic Greece, and reconsiders the dynamics of human-environment interactions while recording the growing diversity in layers of social organization. It fills an essential lacuna in contemporary literature and e...

Natufian foragers in the levant

This large volume presents virtually all aspects of the Epipalaeolithic Natufian culture in a series of chapters that cover recent results of field work, analyses of materials and sites, and synthetic or interpretive overviews of various aspects of this important prehistoric culture.

Subsistence-settlement systems and intersite variability in the moroiso phase of the early jomon period of japan

This book examines the settlement patterns and intersite variability in lithic assemblages of Early Jomon (ca. 5000 BP) hunter-gatherers in Japan. The results of this study suggest that the Early Jomon people were not sedentary, as previously assumed, but instead moved their residential basis s...

In the mind's eye

This volume brings together the disciplines of palaeontology, psychology, anatomy, and primatology. Together, they address a number of issues, including the evolution of sex differences in spatial cognition, the role of archaeology in the cognitive sciences, the relationships between brain size...

The anatomy of the holocaust

Historian Raul Hilberg produced a variety of archival research, personal essays, and other works over a career that spanned half a century. The Anatomy of the Holocaust collects some of Hilberg’s most essential and groundbreaking writings—many of them published in obscure journals or otherwise ...

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...

Cinema of collaboration

Almost from their very inception, European cinemas frequently undertook collaborative ventures in an attempt to cultivate a transnational “Film-Europe.” And despite the significant obstacles that the East/West divide presented to achieving that ideal, in the postwar era it was DEFA, the state c...

Management by seclusion

Assessing the World Bank’s attempts to combat global poverty over the past 50 years, anthropologist and former World Bank Advisor Glynn Cochrane argues that instead of the Bank’s prevailing strategy of “management by seclusion,” poverty alleviation requires personal engagement with the poorest ...

Refugees welcome?

Situates the 2015-16 ‘refugee crisis’ in Germany within the wider German history of responding politically to difference and diversity.

Hierarchy and value

Globalization promised to bring about a golden age of liberal individualism, breaking down hierarchies of kinship, caste, and gender around the world and freeing people to express their true, authentic agency. But in some places globalization has spurred the emergence of new forms of hierarchy—...

Making bodies kosher

Integrates archival and ethnographic material to explore healthcare concerns over time  Original study of Haredi Jews in the UK, whereas most focus on Israel or the USA  Explores the continuum of maternity care & child health in a ‘hard to reach’ minority

The decisionist imagination

This is the first volume to explore decisionism beyond the thought of Carl Schmitt. This is the first volume to trace how decisionism impacted the social sciences in the trans-Atlantic context of the United States and Europe. This is the first volume to explore decisionism from an in...

Doing conceptual history in africa

Focuses on the complex role of language in Africa’s historical development. An emphasis on pragmatics and semantics. Engages with a distinctively African intellectual tradition while analyzing the regional and global contexts in which categories like “work,” “marriage,” and “land” ta...

Searching for a better life

It is the only book (in English) dedicated to the study of Thai youth growing up in poverty. It contributes to debates on agency and structure by suggesting a conceptual framework for understanding agency in a holistic way and recognizing the unintended consequences that can ensue when e...

Polish cinema

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Marek Haltof’s seminal survey takes stock of dramatic shifts in Polish society and to provide an essential account of the nation’s cinema from the nineteenth century to today. It covers such renowned figures as Kieślowski and Wajda along with vastl...

An australian indigenous diaspora

The first full-length ethnography applying the concept of diaspora to indigenous migration within the nation state. The first full-length account to provide a double perspective (both home and away) of the migration of Australian Indigenous people from remote settlements to towns and cit...

Shakespeare and the arab world

The virago story

The Virago Story provides a comprehensive history of classic feminist publisher Virago, along with an up-to-date analysis of the four waves of feminism, new strands of feminist analysis and praxis, and publishing trends.

Cash transfers in context

Students and scholars in Anthropology, Development studies, social policies, Latina American and African studies. Development practitioners, policy makers, humanitarian workers, international organizations and NGOs personnel. And, of course, cash transfer programs agents and staff…

The witness as object

First comprehensive study on the musealization of video testimonies Its global outlook: The book considers the phenomenon of the musealization of the witness as a global assemblage and analyzes this phenomenon in memorial museums in Germany, Italy, the UK and Israel. The book tak...

Extinct monsters to deep time

Extinct Monsters to Deep Time is an ethnography that documents the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of the museum in the 21st century.

Waiting for elijah

Rare long-term ethnographic study of Bosnian sacral landscapes and the first anthropological exploration of syncretism in Bosnia   A seminal anthropological study of time and waiting Develops an analytical framework for approaching shared landscapes and syncretism Investigates pa...

Politics of scale

The volume develops research in Critical Heritage Studies by: Providing a multi/interdisciplinary point of view to politics of scale and heritage-scale relationship. Contributors to the volume have their disciplinary background in: geography, cultural studies, art history, museum studies, ...

Mirrors of passing

Mirrors of Passing explores the relationship between death, materiality, and temporality, drawing from the fields of archaeology, cultural anthropology, political science, and media studies to explore fundamental questions about the relationship between death and our perception of time.

Taking on technocracy

Taking on Technocracy addresses changing attitudes towards nuclear energy in the age of global warming.  The German decision to abandon nuclear power is placed in a historical context, including popularization of science, new social movements, media, policing, gender, and the history of emotions.

Moral anthropology

It is a critical view of a new methodological and epistemological fashion in anthropology It is a collection of authors with different ethnographic expertise and well-developed theoretical positions It is a provocation to open up a debate that is important for anthropology but to the...

Care across distance

Geographic scope: While the majority of other works focus on one or two regions of the world (e.g., India; Peru and Italy; Australia), this volume is uniquely ambitious in its vast geographical reach, since it includes in-depth, ethnographically collected data from five different (sub-)conti...

The benefit of the gift

Archaeological data from the Late Archaic (4000-2000 years ago) in the Western Great Lakes are analyzed to understand the production and movement of copper and lithic exchange materials. Also considered in this volume are access to and benefits from exchange networks, as well as social changes ...