Jazz has had a peculiar and fascinating history in Germany. The influential but controversial German writer, broadcaster, and record producer, Joachim-Ernst Berendt (1922–2000), author of the world's
While the major trends in European integration have been well researched and constitute key elements of narratives about its value and purpose, the crises of integration and their effects have not yet
This carefully selected collection of essays addresses central questions and current practices of intellectual history and asks how the legacy of critical theory has influenced scholarship across a wi
As Director of the Refugee Law Project at the University of Makerere, Kampala, Uganda, Dolan offers a behind-the-scenes, cross-disciplinary study of one of Africa's longest running and most intractabl
This volume brings together world experts to explore the current critical trends in memory studies, an area of increasing interest to both scholars and the general public. Essays examine diverse but i
Van Dassanowsky (German and film studies, U. of Colorado) and Speck (film studies, Virginia Commonwealth U.) present a collection of 27 essays that provide methodologically and stylistically variable
The protest movements that followed the Second World War have recently become the object of study for various disciplines; however, the exchange of ideas between research fields, and comparative rese
Based on vivid and colorful case studies about Mafiosi, priests, mothers, and migrants, the author offers new perspectives on the anthropology of religion and magic through categories of landscape, t
Over the last fifteen years, the South African post-apartheid Transitional Amnesty Process - implemented by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) - has been extensively analyzed by scholars a
The author begins by introducing the problem and discussing its scope as well as the theoretical and conceptual framework of her study and its methodology. Clearly titled chapters chart the contents:
Paletschek (modern history, U. of Freiburg, Germany) leads off with an introductory chapter asking and answering the question: Why analyze popular historiographies? Popular history is a burgeoning end
While previous work on the problem of displacement of populations around the globe has focused on displacements resulting from international conflicts and civil wars, this work by McDowell (internatio
This comprehensive study of the Naskapi Indians (Innu) of Labrador is based on an anthropologist's life with them between 1966 and 1968, when families still followed the traditional pattern of hunting
Lippert (history, Indiana U. of Pennsylvania) explores the differing strategies and visions of detente towards the Soviet bloc exhibited by the Nixon administration and by West German Chancellor Willy
Edited by Hochscherf (audio-visual media, U. of Applied Sciences at Kiel, Germany), Laucht (history, U. of Liverpool, UK), and Plowman (German, U. of Liverpool, UK), this collection of interdisciplina
Echternkamp (a senior fellow at Militargeschichtliches Forschungsamt, the military history research office of the German armed forces) and Martens (deputy director, German Historical Institute, France
Indigenous peoples have long sought the return of ancestral human remains and associated artefacts from western museums and scientific institutions. Since the late 1970's their efforts have led museum
Muslim Arab Sudanese in Cairo have played a fundamental role in Egyptian history and society during many centuries of close relations between Egypt and Sudan. Although the government and official pres
Since 9/11 ideas of security have focused in part on the development of ungovernable spaces. Important debates are now being had over the nature, impacts, and outcomes of the numerous policy statement
This collection of 11 exciting new essays develops the concept of hierarchy Louis Dumont created in his study of Indian and European societies. They interrogate unique hierarchical formations and soci
Fieldwork is a central method of research throughout anthropology, a much-valued, much-vaunted mode of generating information. But its nature and process have been seriously understudied in biologica
The relationship between migration and development is becoming an important field of study, yet the fundamentals – analytical tools, conceptual framework, political stance – are not being called into
During the 1990s, the Eastern Caribbean was caught in a bitter trade dispute between the US and EU over the European banana market. When the World Trade Organization rejected preferential access for C
Where lived experience of surroundings is shifting, visceral, and immersive, interpretation of social spaces tends to be static and remote. "Space" and "place" are also often analyzed without grappli
In all cultures, and across time, people have danced. For performers and spectators, the expressive nature of dance opens up spaces where social and political circumstances are creatively negotiated.
Divided into three thematic parts to guide the reader, this important volume documents the development and implementation of refugee policy in South Africa over a 10-year period from 1996 until 2006.
This paperback edition of an original 2009 publication provides a compelling look at the psychological and physiological effects of Gulf War Syndrome on US veterans. The work is divided into three sec
This book is the product of an interdisciplinary and international search for a cultural diplomacy. The essays included depict the range and influence of cultural diplomacy in its many forms throughou
Salazar (social science, U. of Leuven, Belgium) spent 25 months conducting ethnographic field work research on the travel and tourism industries in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and in the Arusha region of Ta
In the 1960s, Israel began a policy of resettling the nomadic Bedouin of the Negev Desert into towns, making it easier for the government to provide health, education, and other government services. B
"This is a high-quality publication. Many of the chapters are excellent reviews of methods and perspectives in their particular area. The editors have clearly done a good job... There is a strong mix
Despite clear evidence of collaboration and shared concerns, French and British cinematic cultures have generally been seen as polar opposites. This rich collection of essays moves beyond this limitin
Passerini (cultural history, University of Turin) Ellena (history, University of Turin) and Geppert (Freie Universitat, Berlin) bring together essays on the concept of romantic love in Europe and how
Based on her fieldwork in a Mayan community in postwar Guatemala, Berry (health sciences, Simon Fraser U., Vancouver, BC) presents ethnographic vignettes in a case study of challenges facing, and effo
Israeli youth voyages to Poland are one of the most popular and influential forms of transmission of Holocaust memory in Israeli society. Through intensive participant observation, group discussions,
In writings about travel, the Balkans appear most often as a place travelled to. Western accounts of the Balkans revel in the different and the exotic, the violent and the primitive - traits that serv
Deportations by train were critical in the Nazis' genocidal vision of the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." Historians have estimated that between 1941 and 1944 up to three million Jews were tr
Gender, especially masculinity, is a perspective rarely applied in discourses on cinema of Eastern/Central Europe. Masculinities in Polish, Czech and Slovak Cinema exposes an English-speaking audience
A historian of the Cold War currently based in the US, Schaefer decided in 1987 to write his dissertation on the state and the Catholic Church. Then East Germany ended and a cornucopia of archival rec
During the Second World War, almost 20 million people were forced laborers for Nazi Germany--about one-third of them in POW and concentration camps and most of the rest working in industry, agricultur
