In an age of information and new media the relationships between remembering and forgetting have changed. This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgo
Demographic study and the idea of a "population" was developed and modified over the course of the twentieth century, mirroring the political, social, and cultural situations and aspirations of differ
"This book focuses on two major industrialists and their respective industries during the rise and governance of the National Socialist party: Jakob Reichert (iron and steel) and Karl Lange (machine b
How and to what extent have Islamic legal scholars and Middle Eastern lawmakers, as well as Middle Eastern Muslim physicians and patients, grappled with the complex bioethical, legal, and social issue
The interconnections between histories and memories of the Holocaust, colonialism and extreme violence in post-war French and Francophone fiction and film provide the central focus of this book. It pr
Scholars of anthropology and sociology and of religion and philosophy reflect on the relationships, possible articulations, and/or contradictions between religion and science as quintessentially human
This edited volume explores the crossings, permeations, and constructions of cultural and political borders between peoples and territories, examining how walls, borders, and boundaries signify both i
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
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
In an age of information and new media the relationships between remembering and forgetting have changed. This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgo
Long and Moore present this volume on narratives of achievement and success, and how they are constructed between achieving individuals and their social contexts. Contributions analyze achievement as
Contributors are from a mix of fields--rhetoric and public culture, cognitive science, philosophy, and French and Francophone studies--but the majority are anthropologists, and all have a connection w
This is a work of ethnography drawing on fieldwork and interviews involving the author's friends from Athens, shepherds and laborers of Dkyros, and marketers and heads of global corporations. Bampilis
The issue of abortion forces a confrontation with the effects of poverty and economic inequalities, local moral worlds, and the cultural and social perceptions of the female body, gender, and reproduc
Vidan (South Slavic languages and literatures, Harvard U.) and Crnkovic (Slavic and comparative literature, U. of Washington) bring together essays from film scholars and interviews with film practiti
Zigon (anthropology, U. of Amsterdam) and 11 contributors offer a variety of perspectives on the "social and political upheaval" and the critical questioning of the long-held moral and ethical mindset
Anthropologists and scholars of Tibetan and Western medicine explore the impact of Western science and biomedicine among Tibetans across China, the Himalayas, and exile communities and in relation to
Broadbent (Germanic studies, University of Texas, Austin) and Hake (German literature and culture, University of Texas, Austin) and their contributors re-evaluate the cultural life of Berlin, East and
Social and cultural anthropologists explore cultural meaning and values attached to conceptions of clean and dirty, purity and impurity, and healthy and unhealthy as they manifest in urban environment
The growing debate over British national identity, and the place of "Englishness" within it, raises crucial questions about multiculturalism, postimperial culture and identity, and the past and future
This series in medical anthropology publishes monographs and edited volumes on indigenous (so-called traditional) medical knowledge and practice, alternative and complementary medicine, and ethnobiol
This series in medical anthropology publishes monographs and edited volumes on indigenous (so-called traditional) medical knowledge and practice, alternative and complementary medicine, and ethnobiolo
Museums face the task of representing the similarities and differences that exist between groups, such as national identities and indigenous and minority voices, material and intangible heritage, and
The growing debate over British national identity, and the place of ‘Englishness’ within it, raises crucial questions about multiculturalism, postimperial culture and identity, and the past and future
"Edith and Victor Turner were among the most influential researchers and teachers and social and cultural anthropology in the twentieth century. Together they, and Edie alone after Vic's death, raised
Anthropologists and historians have shown us that 'male' and 'female' are variously defined historically and cross-culturally. The contributions to this volume focus on the voluntary and involuntary,
Social anthropologists and museum scholars from Europe, Africa, and the US explore how museums are transformed into ritual sites: how scientific and technological relics, monuments to rationality and
Anthropologist and archaeologist Haley and writer and artist Fukuda had both been researching the annual holiday in the Oaxaca region of Mexico for some years, and combine their efforts. They consider
Steiner's (1909-52) classic study Taboo and three other essays, on superstition, enslavement and the early Hebrew lineage system, and Chagga law and truth comprise the first of two volumes collectin
Explores the life of the Sinti and Roma in Germany, their representation in German literature, and the relationship between the German and Romani languages. Gives background to Gypsy maltreatment and
Providing nuanced accounts of how the social identities of men and women, the context of displacement and the experience or manifestation of violence interact, this collection offers conceptual analys
Contemporary public discourses about the ocean are routinely characterized by scientific and environmentalist narratives that imagine and idealize marine spaces in which humans are absent. In contrast
The conditions for non-EU migrant workers to gain legal entry to Britain, France, and Germany are at the same time similar and quite different. To explain this variation this book compares the fine-gr
Far from the battlefront, hundreds of thousands of workers toiled in Bohemian factories over the course of World War I, and their lives were inescapably shaped by the conflict. In particular, they fac
In discussions of economics, governance, and society in the Nordic countries, “the welfare state” is a well-worn analytical concept. However, there has been much less scholarly energy devoted to histo
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. Marsh describes participant observati
During the twentieth century, Germans experienced a long series of major and often violent disruptions in their everyday lives. Such chronic instability and precipitous change made it difficult for th
Written for study abroad practitioners, this book introduces theoretical understandings of key study abroad terms including “the global/national,” “culture,” “native speaker,” “immersion,” and “host s
Of the countless stories of resistance, ingenuity, and personal risk to emerge in the years following the Holocaust, among the most remarkable, yet largely overlooked, are those of the hundreds of Jew
The mass killing of Ottoman Armenians is today widely recognized, both within and outside scholarly circles, as an act of genocide. What is less well known, however, is that it took place within a bro
