The tradition of intensive fieldwork by a single anthropologist in one area has been challenged by new emphasis on studying historical patterns, wider regions, and global networks. Some anthropologist
Based on newly available Russian archives, these 17 articles and photographs collected by the Red Army part of a recent controversial German exhibit which was prevented from coming to the US chronicle
Comparative historian combines his childhood fascination with trains and his academic interest in France and Germany to examine how the two counties developed the railroad technology after it chugged
In recent years, scholars in the fields of refugee studies and forced migration have extended their areas of interest and research into the phenomenon of displacement, human response to it, and ways t
Towards the middle of the 20th century, scholarly research revealed that the fabled Silk Roads, far from being mere trade routes, were cultural highways that played a pivotal role in linking east and
Towards the middle of the 20th century, scholarly research revealed that the fabled Silk Roads, far from being mere trade routes, were cultural highways that played a pivotal role in linking east and
In what seems to be a doctoral dissertation for the University of Maryland, Paige examines four senior secondary schools in the Kabarole District of Uganda during a time of war and intractable social
Notwithstanding the economic hardship Russian people are experiencing, their cultural life is as rich and alive as ever, as Gerald Janecek shows us in this collection of his articles on contemporary R
German unification brought fundamental, often traumatic changes for the people in eastern Germany. Women as a group were arguably more deeply affected by the changes than any other, and in one area in
From an April 1996 colloquium, The American Cultural Impact on Germany, France, Italy, and Japan, 1945-1995: An International Comparison, 11 essays examine the reception and impact of American product
Gray (history and women's studies, Kansas State U.) argues that the modern ideal of separate men's and women's spheres originated in the era of the Enlightenment. Taking rural life in Germany as a cas
Studies on the First World War are plentiful but most tend to focus on the combatants. This volume offers a new and highly original perspective that shows the reader the civilian side of this protract
Starting from an ethnographic appraisal of the place of religious practices, and thereby returning to an approach more recently neglected, this book offers a detailed understanding of English everyday
Starting from an ethnographic appraisal of the place of religious practices, and thereby returning to an approach more recently neglected, this book offers a detailed understanding of English everyday
German and US social scientists, with one British outlier, report on empirical and comparative research into whether the vaunted German training system, which underlies the high-skill, high-wage equil
The apparently simple notion that it is contextualization and invocation of context that give form to our interpretations raises important questions about context definition. Moreover, different disci
Historians at the Zentrum fnr Zeithistorische Forschung transcend condemnation and apology for the East German government in order to explore the contradiction of using dictatorial means to achieve em
The Bible presents only a small portion of the laws necessary for a state to function. Nevertheless, whole tractates of the Talmud discuss a wide variety of legal issues both civil and criminal. Altho
American scholars of politics have written ten essays especially for this volume to assess the historical antecedents and functioning of German democracy from the middle of the 16th century to the end
At the start of the 1990s, there was great optimism that the end of the Cold War might also mean the end of the "refugee cycle" - both a breaking of the cycle of violence, persecution and flight, and
The role of massacre in history has been given little focused attention either by historians or academics in related fields. This is surprising as its prevalence and persistence surely demands that it
Six papers from a March 1995 conference in Warwick, England, and seven additional commissioned essays span from the 11th century to the early 1990s and from western Europe to China. The historian auth
Since Israel is primarily a country of immigrants, the state takes on the responsibility for the settlement and integration of each new group. It therefore sees its role as benevolent and indispensabl
Nine essays from the symposium A Small State in the Shadow of a Superpower: Austria and the United States since 1945, held at the University of Minnesota in November 1994, challenge simplistic views o
Szejnmann (European history, Middlesex U.) points out that most studies of the spread of Nazism in German society before and after 1933 have concentrated on the western half of the country. He fills
Countering the trend to segregate economic/business and social history, Kocka (history of the industrial world, Free U. Berlin) presents an integrative history of German industrial society in 13 essay
Karadawi worked in the government office of the Commissioner for Refugees in Khartoum for 16 years where he was involved in policy issues relating to refugees and had extensive contact with liberation
The importance of contemporary television broadcasting for the shaping and development of national cultures and identities is increasingly evident. Television as the privileged medium for the dissemin
As homelessness continues to plague North America and also becomes more widespread in Europe, anthropologists turn their attention to solving the puzzle of why people in some of the most advanced tech
As homelessness continues to plague North America and also becomes more widespread in Europe, anthropologists turn their attention to solving the puzzle of why people in some of the most advanced tech
Extends the analysis of German stabilization after World War I beyond the often considered economic issues of reparations and hyperinflation to trace the emergence of strong local activism and compreh
Given German history and Germany's current substantial non-citizenship population, it is hardly surprising that multiculturalism with its treatment of "the other" is as controversial there as in the U
At the turn of the new millenium, war, political oppression, desperate poverty, environmental degradation and disasters, and economic underdevelopment are sharply increasing the ranks of the world's t
Marcel Mauss, successor of Emile Durkheim and one-time teacher of Claude Levi-Strauss, continues to inspire social scientists across various disciplines. Only selected texts of Mauss's work have been
In 1923, after war between Greece and Turkey, 350,000 Muslims were expelled from Greece and over a million Orthodox Christians entered the country. This ethnography of Kokkinia, an urban quarter in Pi
Between 1988 and 1996 more than 750,000 Russian Jews arrived in Israel, a "Great Immigration" that has gone largely unnoticed in Israeli public life. This study analyzes the situation of the new Russi
THE FREEHOF INSTITUTE OF PROGRESSIVE HALAKHAH The Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah is a creative research center devoted to studying and defining the progressive character of the halakhah in
Contributes to the debate on individuality in non-European, and especially southern Asian societies with an empirical study on the interplay between cultural ideals and context-specific social practic
The relationship between Liberal Judaism and Rabbinic Law (Halachah) is unclear. Some Progressive Jews have chosen to reject it completely, others have simply gone along with it when it suited them an
