A non-Tongan, Addo (anthropology, U. of Massachusetts, Boston) nevertheless gained the trust of Tongan women living in New Zealand to explore in depth their production and marketing of Tongan textiles
Launching a new series on the underpinnings of ethnography, Corsin Jimenez (anthropology, Spanish National Research Council, Madrid) reflects on theoretical foundations of knowledge and its movement i
This collection of essays by American and British writers (with one Dutch contributor) looks at the portrayal of Africa in contemporary Hollywood-style films. The language is suitable for non-academic
Across Africa, funerals and events remembering the dead have become larger and even more numerous over the years. Whereas in the West death is normally a private and family affair, in Africa funerals
Around the world, intensifying development and human demands for fresh water are placing unsustainable pressures on finite resources. Countries are waging war over transboundary rivers, and rural and
Surprisingly little research has been carried out about how Australian Aboriginal children and teenagers experience life, shape their social world and imagine the future. This volume presents recent a
The rapidly expanding population of youth gangs and street children is one of the most disturbing issues in many cities around the world. These children are perceived to be in a constant state of dest
Spain was a late entrant into the slave trade, but also the last to leave. The book looks at the circumstances and forces driving Spain vis-a-vis the trade. Editors Fradera (history, Universitat Pompe
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
Rytter (culture and society, Aarhus U., Denmark) has been studying the Pakistani population in Denmark since 2001, conducting his first ethnographic interview a few days after the attack in New York o
It is probably the most famous unmade film of all time. After the wild success of La Dolce Vita and the less enthusiastic welcoming of 8 1/2, Fellini planned to makeThe Journey of G. Mastoama but it n
The authors explore the global financial crisis that began in 1929 and continued into the 1930s in this collection of essays dealing with the era. Using a global comparative perspective, they assess t
Marx (social anthropology, Tel Aviv University, Israel) revisits the Bedouin of the Sinai after several decades. His main theme is how the Bedouin are impacted socially and behaviorally by global econ
Screening the East considers German filmmakers' responses to unification. In particular, it traces the representation of the East German community in films made since 1989 and considers whether these
Wintle (history of art and design, U. of Brighton, Britain) traces the history of a particular set of objects amassed by British travelers in islands of the Indian Ocean during the late 19th century,
Shore and Trnka (social anthropology, U. of Auckland, New Zealand) bring together anthropologists from New Zealand, Australia, and Britain for 12 first-person narratives on the nature of social anthro
With the Second World War having caused dramatic social shifts and destabilized traditional gender relations in Austria, masculinity and its relationship to national identity became an issue of major
German migration policy now stands at a major crossroad, caught between a fifty-year history of missed opportunities and serious new challenges. Focusing on these new challenges that German policy mak
Scholz (American studies, University of Konstanz, Germany) analyzes film adaptations of literature as social and cultural events in history using the methods of reception study, as proposed by Barbara
Crude Domination is an innovative and important book about a critical topic – oil. While there have been numerous works about petroleum from 'experience-far' perspectives, there have been relatively f
Since 1945 Europe has experienced many periods of turmoil and conflict and as many moments of peace and integration: from the devastation felt in the aftermath of World War II to the recovery in the 1
BEST KNOWN AS THE LEADING HISTORIAN OF FRENCH RAILWAYS, Francois Caron has also conducted significant research on other aspects of economic development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, such
A vast amount of literature-both scholarly and popular-now exists on the subject of historical memory, but there is remarkably little available that is written from an African perspective. This volume
Echternkamp and Martens have collected sixteen essays and scholarly articles investigating the cultural memory of World War II in Europe. The text begins with an essay devoted to examining a "new pers
Rather than focusing on older adults as a category, according to the introductory essay, anthropologists have begun to look at aging as a stage of life and to study the complexities of the life-course
Now affiliated with the PRIO Cyprus Centre of the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, social anthropologist Demetriou has had previous affiliations with Cambridge U. and Oxford U. as well as
In this scholarly study of Irish language speakers and Irish identity in Catholic West Belfast, Zenker (Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern, Switzerland) offers an original analytical
Trandafoiu (communication, Edge Hill U., England) investigates the Internet as a diasporic medium for immigrant Romanians in Western Europe and North America and what it can reveal about the "anxietie
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 contributors are for the most part academics--in sociology, anthropology, biology, environment and resource studies, philosophy, geography, ethnoecology, religious studies, economics--all with pas
Whereas the history of workers and labor movements has been widely researched, the history of work has been rather neglected by comparison. This volume offers original contributions that deal with cul
Anthropologist Faircloth (U. of Kent, UK) specializes in the study of parenting culture. This book presents her study of women in London and Paris who are participating in a trend termed attachment pa
Anthropology seeks to understand the roots of our common humanity, the diversity of cultures and world-views, and the organisation of social relations and practices. As a method of inquiry it embraces
This volume of ten essays examines several ways that ordinary people living under Soviet rule in Eastern Europe (1945-1989) escaped into cultural and consumerist oases. The contributors argue that the
Do-it-yourself underground publishing (samizdat) and publishing abroad (tamizdat) were fundamental to expression and cultural transmission between East and West during the Cold War. Expanding the conc
Alfred Gell (1945-1997) was a British social anthropologist who died young, of cancer. In 2008, ten years after his influential book's posthumous publication, a symposium on Art and Agency (1998) conv
There is a growing interest in studies that document the relationship between science and medicine - as ideas, practices, technologies and outcomes - across cultural, national, geographic terrain. Tib
"Conflicting parties worldwide increasingly use the Internet in a strategic way, and conflicts carried out on a local level achieve a new dimension. This new kind of medialization results in a conflic
Steinmuller (anthropology, London School of Economics, UK) has taken on an unusual project in that anthropologists generally don't tackle ethics and moralities directly but, rather, indirectly via stu
"The text itself is useful, entertaining, and informative. In addition, each chapter is a model for modern ethnobotanical studies. Rather than simply cataloguing plant use, each researcher analyzes th
