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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…
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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, ...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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Animism beyond the soul
The contributors to this volume offer compelling case studies that demonstrate how indigenous animistic practices, concepts, traditions, and ontologies are co-authored in highly reflexive ways by anthropologists and their interlocutors.
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Household archaeology on the northwest coast
Since the late 1970s, household archaeology has become a key theoretical and methodological framework for research on the development of permanent social inequality and complexity, as well as for understanding the social, political and economic organization of chiefdoms and states. This volume ...
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Barter and social regeneration in the argentinean andes
It provides a fine grained ethnography of barter interactions and regimes of value. It explores the social performativity of barter, stressing the role of instrumental transactions in the fabric of society. It demonstrates the usefulness of the concept of barter to anthropological th...
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Non-humans in amerindian south america
It focuses only on South America. It embraces both its Highlands and Lowlands. All their chapters are fieldwork-based. It critically addresses currently debated issues linked to Anthropology, Anthropocene, Climate Change, Ontologies and Non-Humans.
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Being-here
The book is the first in-depth anthropological exploration of the existential quality of place in the context of displacement. It’s experience-near perspective on displacement by zooming in on the life stories and experiences of three individuals. It revalidates the role of place in ...
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Transforming study abroad
An accessible introduction of current theoretical debates on common study abroad concepts (“culture,” “global citizen,” “immersion,” “host family,” etc.) for study abroad practitioners. A myth-buster of common study abroad discourses. Concrete suggestions for how to incorporate theoretic...
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A living past
First (and only) synthesis of modern (19c/20c) Latin American/Caribbean Environmental History. Brings together authors from 7 countries of the Americas (Canada, US, Mexico, Cuba, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador). Combines diverse frameworks/approaches: History, Geography, History of Scienc...
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The global life of austerity
Austerity and structural adjustment programs are just the latest forms of neoliberal policy to have a profoundly damaging impact on the targeted populations. Yet, as the contributors to this collection argue, the recent austerity-related European crisis is not a breach of erstwhile development ...
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The archaeology of tribal societies
Anthropological archaeologists have long attempted to develop models that will let them better understand the evolution of human social organization. This volume explores social organization in tribal - or 'autonomous village' - societies from several different ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and ...
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Lessons in perception
It draws together cognitive film theory and avant-garde film theory. It is written in an intentionally accessible way. Particular films are analysed which haven’t been explored elsewhere. It also features (I think) the most detailed analysis of Robert Breer’s aesthetic to date. T...
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The csce and the end of the cold war
The book brings together senior and junior scholars from eight countries to reflect on the significance of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe to the end of the Cold War. The book includes one of the first examinations of why Albania did not participate in the Conference...
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Russian postmodernism
A unique theoretical approach, which includes transcultural critique of late Soviet and post-Soviet culture instituted by M. Epstein; a phenomenological critique of Soviet and post-Soviet literary texts which relies on post-structural theory of literature and culture (Foucault, Derrida, Bata...
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Curating live arts
Situated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation has grown in recent years to become a vibrant interdisciplinary project. Curating Live Arts brings together innovative essays from international theorist-practitioners to pose vital questions...
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Travelling towards home
This collection brings ethnographic insight into the ever more topical question of homemaking, exploring a diverse range of socio-political contexts worldwide (from Jewish returnees from Israel to Ukraine to young gay South Asians in London) and provoking new understandings of the material and ...
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Beyond inclusion and exclusion
Moves away from the notion of a singular Jewish war experience, and examines the diverse experiences of Jewish men and women during World War I. Broadens the approach to central European Jewish history by highlighting complex interactions between ordinary Jewish and non-Jewish soldiers a...
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The rite of urban passage
This book investigates the dynamics of religious rituals as part of urban processes, offering a substantial contribution to ritual and urban studies. This book offers an interdisciplinary approach entwining ritual, urban and spatial theories. Although the book makes a substantial con...
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Embers of empire
Examines how political elites and ordinary people processed the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy and its familiar governing structures in 1918 Explores the diverse and important ways in which the Empire’s successor states drew upon its practices and traditions Discusses continuities...
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The changing meanings of the welfare state
The Nordic concept of “the welfare state” is a well-worn analytical idea that has yet to receive much exploration beyond its postwar emergence. This volume chronicles “the welfare state” from its historical origins to its interpretations, values, and challenges over time in Denmark, Finland, Sw...
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Views of violence
Focus on WWII related memories in museum and memorials International comparison (Germany and austria in the wider Wetern and Eastern European context + North America) Views of Violencepresents the first edited collection on the English-speaking market that targets the specific medi...
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Global sustainability and communities of practice
Using case-based and theoretical chapters that examine rural and urban communities of practice, this volume illustrates how participatory researchers and students as well as policy and community leaders find ways to engage with the broader public when it comes to global sustainability research ...
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World heritage craze in china
There is a World Heritage Craze in China. China claims to have the longest continuous civilization in the world and is seeking the recognition from UNESCO. With a sociological lens, this book offers comprehensive insights into World Heritage, as well as China’s deep social, cultural, and politi...
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The global age-friendly community movement
This book provides an introduction to the global phenomenon of the age-friendly community movement, through an extensive collection of international case studies by researchers and practitioners. It explores current tensions in the movement and offers a wide-ranging set of recommendations for a...
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Medicinal rule
This book is the first to introduce medicine as the forgotten model of rule in central and east Africa This book introduces medicinal rule to replace the obsolete trope of divine kingship. It breaks with the old scholarly division of politics and religion This book is a rare comparat...
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Industrial labor on the margins of capitalism
The focus on regular versus precarious labour. Case studies from outside the familiar Euro-American core. Ethnographic methods, linking factory work to households and communities. Focus on multiple dimensions of social inequality in diverse industrial settings and on how they int...
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Returning life
The book centers on vernacular concepts and claims to investigate how ‘life’ is an effect of transfers and transformations of ‘life force’ that occur through parts of persons, houses, livestock, and crops in the activity of ‘dwelling’ and that afford and constitute the existence of beings of...
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Singing ideas
Singing Ideas: this is a highly original concept that echoes of A.B. Lord’s seminal work of oral theory entitled ‘The Singer of Tales’, but ultimately fuses oral theory and performance theory with social and anthropological theory which makes it very distinctive. This is the first full l...
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Memorializing the gdr
Since unification, eastern Germany has witnessed a rapidly changing memorial landscape. Memorializing the GDR provides the first in-depth study of this key topic, investigating the individuals and groups involved in the creation or destruction of memorials while addressing the subject’s complex...
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Rethinking holocaust justice
In the past two decades, the subject of post-Holocaust justice has experienced a surge of interest among historians and legal scholars. Rethinking Holocaust Justice offers a multifaceted approach to post-Holocaust justice, bringing together leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to expl...
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Affective states
The volume enhances the anthropological understanding of the various ways through which the state comes to be experienced as a visceral presence in social life.
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Messy europe
Interdisciplinary Different disciplines actually integrated nicely Grounded in fieldwork in specific countries Focus on local- and state- and pan-state levels Offers critical look at “crisis” talk Links together crisis that are often treated separate Offers unique un...
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Expeditionary anthropology
Fills a gap in the history of anthropology by examining the role of expeditions in structuring both anthropological inquiry and its antecedent forms of human research. It does this by providing a long-term historical perspective, beginning in the seventeenth century and following it through ...
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Subjects, citizens, and others
The work is the first to systematically compare the British and Habsburg empires The book challenges the alleged distinction between ‘Western’ modernity and ‘Eastern’ backwardness, primarily in terms of politically inclusive and ethnically exclusive versions of nationality. The work ...
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The ethics of seeing
The Ethics of Seeing brings together an international group of scholars to explore the complex relationship between the visual and the historic in German history. These revealing case studies illustrate photography’s multilayered role as a new form of representation, a means to subjective exper...
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Vital diplomacy
Focusing on the major ceremonial cycle of the Enawene-nawe people, Vital Diplomacy sheds new light on classic Amazonian themes such as manioc cultivation and cuisine, predatory relations with non-humans, and the interplay of myth and practice, and to consider dynamics of kin, clan, and gender r...
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Bishkek boys
Pioneering: 1st long-term ethnographic study on an urban neighbourhood in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Unique embedding of author: linking detailed micro-level insights from everyday encounters in a particular urban neighbourhood to larger-scale changes in Kyrgyz society, such as migration, econo...
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Cultural topographies of the new berlin
Offers an interdisciplinary investigation of the New Berlin Provides culturally-focused considerations of the New Berlin in a globalizing Europe and as a pillar of the European Union. Highlights the tensions between Berlin’s Creative City identification and its urban challenges.
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Nazism, the holocaust, and the middle east
Focus on the diversity of responses from different elements in the Arab states and Turkey Chapters written by noted scholars in the field of Middle East Studies Offers responses to Nazism and the Holocaust that readers can compare to European responses Substantial bibliography on...
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Money at the margins
Technology for the Poor / in the developing world Social studies of monetary behavior Human Design centered with a focus on context Rethinking technological development / financial inclusion solutions
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Managing northern europe's forests
First and only comprehensive collection of forest histories from the North of Europe Thorough and critical examination of a region where a number of distinguished and influential ideas of global resource management originated from (scientific forestry, sustainability, close-to-nature-for...
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Stategraphy
By exploring interactions and negotiations of local actors in different institutional settings, the contributors explore state transformations in relation to social security in a variety of locations spanning from Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans to the United Kingdom and France. Fusing ...
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