Islamist capital accumulation has split the Turkish bourgeoisie and polarized Turkish society into secular and religious social groupings, giving rise to conflicts between the state and political Isla
Foods are changed not only by those who produce and supply them, but also by those who consume them. Analyzing food without considering changes over time and across space is less meaningful than analy
Despite the wide interest in material culture, art, and aesthetics, few studies have considered them in light of the importance of the social imagination - the complex ways in which we conceptualize o
According to accepted wisdom, rational practices and ritual action are opposed. Rituals drain wealth from capital investment and draw on a mode of thought different from practical ideas. The studies i
"During his political career, Helmut Kohl used his own life story to promote a normalization of German nationalism and to overcome the stigma of the Nazi period. In the context of the Cold War and the
"Umhlonyane, also known as Artemisia afra, is one of the oldest and best-documented indigenous medicines in South Africa. This bush, which grows wild throughout the sub-Saharan region, smells and tast
As issues and circumstances investigated by anthropologists are becoming ever more diverse, the need to address social affiliation in contemporary situations of mobility, urbanity, transnational conne
Scholarship related to environmental questions in Latin America has only recently begun to coalesce around citizenship as both an empirical site of inquiry and an analytical frame of reference. This h
Drawing on his 25 years of academic engagement with Christianity from a Jewish perspective, Rabbi Homolka aims to do justice to Jesus of Nazareth in his Jewish setting and to depict the Jewish percept
As part of the neoliberal trends toward public-private partnerships, universities all over the world have forged more intimate relationships with corporate interests and more closely resemble for-prof
"By looking at state-sponsored memory projects, such as memorials, commemorations, and historical museums, this book reveals that the East German communist regime obsessively monitored and attempted t
Social researchers reflect on their encounters with methods of social assessment and social impact assessment in development discourse in Asia, particularly in China. Looking in turn at engaged social
Drawing on the work of philosophers, anthropologists, sociologists, and historians, Mazierska, in a case-study approach, examines cinema in conjunction with histories and theories of work in her effor
Anthropologists and geneticists from Europe and Israel present 10 essays on the understandings and influence of genetic risk in state health policies related to cousin marriages. They consider the tre
The author compares labor migration policies in Britain, France, and Germany, examining how they are founded on normative claims, structurally embedded in specific socioeconomic settings, and affect s
"In May 2012, French voters rejected the liberalizing policies of Nicholas Sarkozy and elected his opponent, the Socialist Franecois Hollande, president. In June 2012, the incumbent president's center
American and Danish philosophers and anthropologists critically discuss Danish philosopher and theologian Knud Ejler Lgstrup's (1905-81) theory of trust. Among their topics are prac
For centuries, Africa's Upper Guinea Coast region has been the site of regional and global interactions, with societies from different parts of the African continent and beyond engaging in economic tr
"Located within the forgotten half of Europe, historically trapped between Germany and Russia, Estonia has been profoundly shaped by the violent conflicts and shifting political fortunes of the last c
Of the many medical specializations to transform themselves during the rise of National Socialism, anatomy has received relatively little attention from historians. While politics and racial laws drov
European historians examine political expert networks and organizations in Europe--especially Western Europe--from the middle of the 19th century to the early 1930s, and demonstrate their relationship
Gosewinkel presents students, academics, and researchers with a collection of selected academic essays and articles that examine anti-liberal attitudes in the myriad visions for Europe that were devel
Paret presents students, academics, and researchers with a collection of essays following the career of Clausewitz as he studied war in a complex late eighteenth-century society. Paret also examines t
During the 1960s the German philosopher Jurgen Habermas introduced the notion of a "bourgeois public sphere" in order to describe the symbolic arena of political life and conversation that originated
During the Cold War, Britain had an astonishing number of contacts and connections with one of the Soviet Bloc's most hard-line regimes: the German Democratic Republic.
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
The Arab-Israeli war of 1973, the first oil price shock, and France's transition from Gaullist to centrist rule in 1974 coincided with the United States' attempt to redefine transatlantic relations. A
Italy in 2013 seemed to be continually on the cusp of substantive reform and forward motion, but never quite achieved it. The previous two years had seen the fall of the Berlusconi government and the
"David Warren Sabean was a pioneer in the historical-anthropological study of kinship, community, and selfhood in early modern and modern Europe. His career has helped shape the discipline of history
Mom presents students, academics, and researchers with an examination of contemporary cultural and historic obsessions with transportation by automobile. The author has organized the main body of his
Mass communication has long been recognized as an important contributor to national identity and nation building. This book examines the relationship between media and nationalism in Israel, arguing t
"Property is a complex phenomenon comprising cultural, social, and legal rules. During the twentieth century, property rights in land suffered massive interference in Central and Eastern Europe. The p
More than two decades of deconstruction, renovation, and reconstruction have left the urban environments in the former German Democratic Republic completely transformed. This volume considers the chan
"Norwegians in colonial Africa and Oceania had varying aspirations and adapted in different ways to changing social, political and geographical circumstances in foreign, colonial settings. They includ
"Rivers figure prominently in a nation's historical memory, and the Volga and Mississippi have special importance in Russian and American cultures. Beginning in the pre-modern world, both rivers serve
Since the end of the Pinochet regime, Chilean public policy has sought to rebuild democratic governance in the country. This book examines the links between the state and civil society in Chile and th
Beginning in the late 19th century, competing ideas about motherhood had a profound impact on the development and implementation of social welfare policies. Calls for programmes aimed at assisting and
Racial and ethnic categories have appeared in recent scientific work in novel ways and in relation to a variety of disciplines: medicine, forensics, population genetics and also developments in popula
This study focuses in particular on the town of Kuranda in North Queensland and the relationship between the settlers and the local Aboriginal population, concentrating on a number of linked social dr
Scholars of literature, social sciences, media, and the arts examine death in society, death in literature, death in visual culture, cemeteries and funerals, and personal reflections on death. Among t
