Based on field research carried out over two decades, the author surveys the development of the anthropology of tourism and its significance, using case studies drawn from Indonesia, New Guinea and Ja
The collapse of Soviet influence and the disillusionment with socialism in the early 1990s led to ambitious programs of economic reform throughout Eastern Europe. The papers in this volume, written by
The migration movements of the 20th century have led to an increased interest in similarly dramatic population changes in the preceding century. The contributors to this volume - legal scholars, socio
Rather than being accepted by all of German society, the Nazi regime was resisted in both passive and active forms. This re-issued volume examines opposition to National Socialism by Germans during th
For many years, scholars struggled to write the history of the constitution and political structure of the Holy Roman Empire. This book argues that this was because the political and social order coul
Strike-action has long been a notable phenomenon in Israeli society, despite forces that have weakened its recurrence, such as the Arab-Jewish conflict, the decline of organized labor, and the increas
Before the Great Depression Jewish businesspeople in Berlin thrived alongside their non-Jewish neighbors. But Nazi racism changed that, gradually destroying Jewish businesses before murdering the Jews
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 fo
It seemed to be a good idea at the time, and for a while it was. When Hungary and the former East Germany were being organized into communist states after the end of World War II, they were supposed t
In order to move global society towards a sustainable "ecotopia," solutions must be engaged in specific places and communities, and the authors here argue for re-orienting environmental anthropology f
Lamberti (history, Middlebury College) examines the culture wars that took place in 1920s and 1930s Germany over issues in education. She describes how innovative educators attempted to reform the str
An international conference was held in Venice, Italy, in December 1997 to compare folk, traditional, and local forms of knowing, using, protecting, and conserving nature. These 26 essays and discussi
Questions regarding the origins, mobility, and effects of analytical concepts continue to emerge as anthropology endeavors to describe similarities and differences in social life around the world. Cut
The construction of masculinity is becoming a field of growing interest because it is opening up new and fascinating perspectives, thus adding a further dimension to Gender Studies. However, so far th
Six papers from a March 1995 conference in Warwick, England, and seven additional commissioned essays span from the 11th century to the early 1990s and from western Europe to China. The historian auth
Historians and scholars of German literature explore the German sociohistorical and aesthetic representations of China and Japan from the imperialist era to contemporary times. They cover Japan and Ge
German historian Asch explores how different and often conflicting ideas and representations of kingship interacted in early modern France and England, and across national boundaries. Looking at compe
Author Frey wants to understand if and how French cinema has shaped, or been a conduit for nationalism. Besides cinema itself, he looks at analytical writing, press reviews, writings from specialist p
The Pacific islands include a huge diversity of languages and cultures, and an equally large diversity of contemporary settings, from islets undergoing economic and environmental crisis to large natio
As seen in military documents, medical journals, novels, films, television shows, and memoirs, soldiers’ invisible wounds are not innate cracks in individual psyches that break under the stress of war
