"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
Tomori, a medical anthropologist and health services researcher affiliated with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, employs an anthropological perspective to explore how American pare
The Cold War was fought between "state socialism" and "the free market." That fluctuating relationship between public power and private money continues today, unfolding in new and unforeseen ways duri
Citing the Norwegian Constitution as the oldest functioning constitution in Europe, Gammelgaard, Holmoyvik, and their expert contributors focus on practices connected with putting the Constitution int
This edited collection is a companion volume to The Globalization of Motherhood: Deconstructions and Reconstructions of Biology and Care. It examines the uneven and sometimes contradictory changes in
This anthology in the Making Sense of History series is designed for academic readers and general readers with a special interest in Jewish narratives of the Holocaust. It seeks to fill a historical g
Schiller, Irving and their contributors place as their starting point for establishing an on-going cross-disciplinary discussion on the role of contemporary cosmopolitanism as the concerns and contrad
Anthropologists honor one of their own in 12 essays on such aspects of the discipline as social and material connectedness in a pottery community, from the anthropology of intellectuals to a critique
In this edited collection of essays, the authors take nostalgia, especially cultural nostalgia, as a serious concept for anthropological research and thought. They clarify the concept, discuss the for
Examining the way people imagine and interact in their cities, this book explores the post-cosmopolitan city. The contributors consider the effects of migration, national, and religious revivals (with
Among both male and female young urban professionals in Nairobi, sexuality is a key to achieving a 'modern' identity. These young men and women see themselves as the avant garde of a new Africa, while
Some of the most prominent social and cultural anthropologists have come together in this volume to discuss Maurice Godelier's work. They explore and revisit some of the highly complex practices and s
The account of the author's life, spent between Europe and America, is at the same time an account of his generation, one that came of age between the two World Wars. Recalling not only circumstances
In volume three of the ongoing series Pacific Perspectives editors Elfriede Hermann, Wolfgang Kempf, and Toon van Meijl provide readers with ethnographic case studies exploring ongoing formations of p
Torp focuses on the effects of early globalization in the mid-nineteenth century German Empire in relation to the economy, society, and politics, and shows how foreign trade policy reacted to the chal
Collinson and Macbeth have compiled essays devoted to the investigation of the intersection of food production, food distribution, and regional and international conflict. The text looks into food ava
The Inuit, members of an indigenous group of people in Alaska, center their culture on the animals that they are surrounded by and hunt. This work is a unique study in anthropology; it speaks through
This text provides a variety of subjects and issues of gender in urban Ottoman history and contemporary society, focusing on women with regards to politics, housing, clothing, religion, modes of survi
BETWEEN 1933 AND 1945 MEMBERS OF THREE GROUPS-THE Nazi fascists, Inner Emigration, and Exiles-fought with equal fervor over who could definitively claim to represent the authentically "great German cu
What did Hitler really want to achieve: world domination. In the early twenties, Hitler was working on this plan and from 1933 on, was working to make it a reality. During 1940 and 1941, he believed h
In the last five years of the twentieth century, films by the second and third generation of the so-called German guest workers exploded onto the German film landscape. Self-confident, articulate, and
The notion of 'sociality' is now widely used within the social sciences and humanities. However, what is meant by the term varies radically, and the contributors here, through compelling and wide rang
Based on archival research and memoirs by Holocaust survivors, this anthology looks at the stories of Jewish medical professionals in the Holocaust. Within the medically difficult settings of Nazi-man
With international contributors, Hagener demonstrates how film studies have always been a transnational endeavor concerned with the migration and traffic of images, people, and ideas. He elucidates th
Unger and Hartmann bring together a wealth of contributions to the contextual understanding of demography in the twentieth century. The text covers the material in two parts. Part one is focused on tr
The iconoclasm was a movement that swept Polynesia beginning in 1815 in which people destroyed sacrificial alters and god images of their native religions and adopted Christianity, explains anthropolo
Noting that the United Arab Emirates and Qatar currently have the largest ecological footprints in the world, with Kuwait third, and Saudi Arabia 11th, social and environmental scientists in the Persi
This book is based upon a series of lectures at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, during the 2008-09 academic year, called “Consequences and Echoes of 1968." The material examines the 1968 political movem
Drawn from various disciplines and a broad spectrum of research interests, these essays reflect on the challenging issues confronting women in Ukraine today. The contributors are an interdisciplinary,
In July 1995, the Bosnian Serb Army commanded by General Ratko Mladic attacked the enclave of Srebrenica, a UN "safe area" since 1993, and massacred about 8,000 Bosniac men. While the responsibility f
Ethnographers use conventional anthropological practice to explore the metaphoric value of vehicles for identity, history, and society in different cultures. In sections on people as vehicles, vehicle
