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Published August 2024 Immigrant Industry
Building Postwar Australia
Pieris, A., Lozanovska, M., Dellios, A., Saniga, A., & Beynon, D. (eds)
After the end of the Second World War, major federally funded industries in Australia depended on the employment of large numbers of refugees displaced by the war. This book aims to bring to the foreground post-war industry and immigration to comprehensively document a uniquely Australian shaping of the built environment.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published March 2024
Crypto Crowds
Singularities and Multiplicities on the Blockchain
Shapiro, M. (ed)
Discussing the notions around social dynamics, Crypto Crowds explores how crowd and community formations manifest empirically in cryptocurrency sociality online. Pioneering in its approach to the increasing digitalization and datafication of everyday life, the volume encourages scholars explore further how ‘decentralized’ and ‘trustless’ technologies take part in the construction of postmodern crowds.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
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Published November 2023
Resisting Radicalisation?
Understanding Young People's Journeys through Radicalising Milieus
Pilkington, H. (ed)
Offering a critical perspective on the concept of radicalisation, this volume views it from the perspective of social actors who engage in radicalising milieus but have not crossed the threshold into violent extremism. The volume brings together contributions based on extensive empirical research conducted as part of a cross-European study of young people's engagement in ‘extreme right’ and ‘Islamist’ milieus.
Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published August 2023
Beyond the Social Contract
An Anthropology of Tax
Makovicky, N. & Smith, R. (eds)
Tax and taxation are conventionally understood as the embodiment of social contract. This ground-breaking collection of essays challenges this truism, examining what tax might tell us about the limits of social-contract thinking.
Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology
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Forthcoming January 2025
Terrorism and the Pandemic
Weaponizing of COVID-19
Gunaratna, R. & Pethö-Kiss, K.
The global pandemic has offered extraordinary opportunities for extremists and terrorists to mobilize themselves and revive as more powerful actors in the security landscape. But could these threat groups actually capitalize on the coronavirus crisis and advance their malevolent agendas? This book provides, for the first time, a true picture of novel trends since the pandemic outbreak.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology of Religion
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Forthcoming February 2025
Resettled Iraqi Refugees in the United States
War, Refuge, Belonging, Participation, and Protest
Keyel, J.
The American war against Iraq has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and displaced millions of people. Between 2003 and 2017, more than 172,000 Iraqis resettled in the United States. This book explores the experiences of fifteen of them and presents insights into the core experience of life as a refugee from war.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
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Forthcoming December 2024
This Land Is Not For Sale
Trust and Transitions in Northern Uganda
Meinert, L. & Reynolds Whyte, S. (eds)
As violent conflict has declined in northern Uganda, tensions and mistrust concerning land have increased. Residents try to deal with acquisitions by investors and exclusions from forests and wildlife reserves. Using extended case studies, collaborating researchers analyze the principles and practices that shape access to land. Contributors examine the multiplicity of land claims, the nature of transactions, and the management of conflicts.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies Sociology
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Forthcoming February 2025
Sentient Ecologies
Xenophobic Imaginaries of Landscape
Coțofană, A. & Kuran, H. (eds)
Employing methodological perspectives from the fields of political geography, environmental studies, anthropology, and their cognate disciplines, this volume explores alternative logics of sentient landscapes as racist, xenophobic, and right-wing.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
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Published October 2022
Enlightening Encounters
The Journeys of an Anthropologist
Gudeman, S.
Drawing on his research in five Latin American countries, Steve Gudeman describes his anthropological fieldwork, bringing to life the excitement of gaining an understanding of the practices and ideas of others as well as the frustrations. He weaves into the text some of his findings as well as reflections on his own background that led to better fieldwork but also led him astray.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Forthcoming February 2025
Ethnographies of Deservingness
Unpacking Ideologies of Distribution and Inequality
Tošić, J. & Streinzer, A. (eds)
Claims around 'who deserves what and why' moralise inequality in the current global context of unprecedented wealth and its ever more selective distribution. Ethnographies of Deservingness explores this seeming paradox and the role of moralized assessments of distribution by reconnecting disparate discussions in the anthropology of migration, economic anthropology and political anthropology.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology
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Published April 2024
Wine Is Our Bread
Labour and Value in Moldovan Winemaking
Ana, D.
Based on ethnographic work in a Moldovan winemaking village, Wine Is Our Bread shows how workers in a prestigious winery have experienced the country’s recent entry into the globalized wine market and how their productive activities at home and in the winery contribute to the value of commercial terroir wines.
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published February 2022
Cooling Down
Local Responses to Global Climate Change
Hoffman, S. M., Eriksen, T. H., & Mendes, P. (eds)
Climate change is a slowly advancing crisis sweeping over the planet and affecting different habitats in strikingly diverse ways. While nations have signed treaties and implemented policies, most actual climate change assessments, adaptations, and countermeasures take place at the local level. This book portrays the diversity of explanations and remedies as expressed at the community level.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Urban Studies
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Published June 2024
Refugees on the Move
Crisis and Response in Turkey and Europe
Balkan, E. & Kutlu Tonak, Z. (eds)
Refugees on the Move highlights and explores the profound complexities of the current refugee issue by focusing specifically on Syrian refugees in Turkey and other European countries and responses from the host countries involved. The book examines the causes of the movement of refugee populations, and host governments’ attempts to manage and overcome the so-called “refugee crisis”.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published February 2024
The Anthroposcene of Weather and Climate
Ethnographic Contributions to the Climate Change Debate
Sillitoe, P. (ed)
While it is widely acknowledged that climate change is among the greatest global challenges of our times, it has local implications too. This volume forefronts these, giving anthropology a voice in this great debate, which natural scientists and policy makers have dominated thus far.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Urban Studies
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Published September 2023
Moral Economy at Work
Ethnographic Investigations in Eurasia
Yalçın-Heckmann, L. (ed)
The idea of a moral economy has been explored and assessed in numerous disciplines. The anthropological studies in this volume provide a new perspective to this idea by showing how the relations of workers, employees and employers, and of firms, families and households are interwoven with local notions of moralities.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
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Published May 2024
Latin America and Refugee Protection
Regimes, Logics, and Challenges
Jubilut, L. L., Vera Espinoza, M., & Mezzanotti, G. (eds)
Looking at refugee protection in Latin America, this landmark edited collection assesses what the region has achieved in recent years. The book analyses Latin America’s main documents in refugee protection, evaluates the particular aspects of different regimes, and reviews their emergence, development and effect, to develop understanding of refugee protection in the region.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published March 2024
Constructing Risk
Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment
Bender, S. O.
Reviewing current policies and practices, the book assesses the financial, economic and physical risk of building in hazardous areas, and looks at how societies are trying to create a more resilient built environment in spite of the dangers.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published June 2023
Explorations in Economic Anthropology
Key Issues and Critical Reflections
Kaneff, D. & Endres, K. W. (eds)
At a time of rising global economic precarity and social inequality, the field of economic anthropology offers solutions through the study of local and contextualized economic practices. This book is made up of an exciting collection of succinct essays authored by leading scholars primarily from the field of economic anthropology.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
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Published June 2023
Sovereign Forces
Everyday Challenges to Environmental Governance in Latin America
McNeish, J.-A.
Sovereignty is a significant force regarding the ownership, use, protection and management of natural resources. By placing an emphasis on the complex intertwined relationship between natural resources and diverse claims to resource sovereignty, this book reveals the backstory of contemporary resource contestations in Latin America and their positioning within a more extensive history of extraction in the region.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies
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Published June 2023
Ethnographies of Power
A Political Anthropology of Energy
Loloum, T., Abram, S., & Ortar, N. (eds)
Energetic infrastructures are crucial to political organization. They shape the contours of states and international bodies, as well as corporations and communities, framing their material existence and their fears and idealisations of the future. Ethnographies of Power brings together ethnographic studies of contemporary entanglements of energy and political power.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Environmental Studies (General)
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Published June 2023
Financialization
Relational Approaches
Hann, C. & Kalb, D. (eds)
Beginning with an original historical vision of financialization in human history, this volume then continues with a rich set of contemporary ethnographic case studies from Europe, Asia and Africa. Authors explore how finance influences social and economic structures in different environments.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology History (General)
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Published August 2020
Who’s Cashing In?
Contemporary Perspectives on New Monies and Global Cashlessness
Sen, A., Lindquist, J., & Kolling, M. (eds)
From credit cards to cryptocurrencies, online and mobile money, remittances, and demonetization policies, cashless infrastructures are becoming increasingly common around the world. Who’s Cashing In? explores how different modes of cashlessness impact, transform and challenge the everyday lives and livelihoods of local communities in multiple regional contexts.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
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Published June 2020
States of Imitation
Mimetic Governmentality and Colonial Rule
Ladwig, P. & Roque, R. (eds)
Drawing on historical ethnographic studies of colonialism in Asia and Africa, States of Imitation examines how the colonial state attempted to administer, control, and integrate its indigenous subjects through mimetic governmentality, as well the ways indigenous states adopted these imitative practices to establish reciprocal ties with, or to resist the presence of, the colonial state.
Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Forthcoming October 2024
Can Academics Change the World?
An Israeli Anthropologist's Testimony on the Rise and Fall of a Protest Movement on Campus
Shokeid, M.
Moshe Shokeid narrates his experiences as a member of AD KAN (NO MORE), a protest movement of Israeli academics at Tel Aviv University, who fought against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, founded during the first Palestinian intifada/uprising (1987-1993).
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Jewish Studies Anthropology (General) Educational Studies
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Published March 2020
After the Pink Tide
Corporate State Formation and New Egalitarianisms in Latin America
Gold, M. & Zagato, A. (eds)
The left-wing Pink Tide movement that swept across Latin America seems to now be overturned, as a new wave of free-market thinkers emerge across the continent. This book analyses the emergence of corporate power within Latin America and the response of egalitarian movements across the continent trying to break open the constraints of the state.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
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Published September 2022
The Roma and Their Struggle for Identity in Contemporary Europe
Baar, H. van & Kóczé, A. (eds)
Thirty years after the collapse of Communism, and at a time of radically diverse kinds of identity politics, including anti-migrant, anti-Roma, anti-Muslim and anti-establishment movements, this book analyses how Roma identity is expressed in contemporary Europe.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published January 2020
Money Counts
Revisiting Economic Calculation
Schmidt, M. & Ross, S. (eds)
Traditionally viewed as an abstraction, the quantative nature of money is essential in evaluating the relationship between monetary systems and society. Money Counts moves beyond abstraction, exploring the conceptual diversity and everyday enactment of money’s quantity.
Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published August 2023
Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America
Binford, L., Gill, L., & Striffler, S. (eds)
Informed by Eric Wolf’s Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, published in 1969, this book examines selected peasant struggles in seven Latin American countries during the last fifty years and suggests the continuing relevance of Wolf’s approach.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
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Published January 2023
Big Capital in an Unequal World
The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan
Armytage, R.
Following the hidden lives of the global “1%”, this book examines the networks, social practices, marriages, and machinations of the elite in Pakistan. In doing so, it reveals the daily, even mundane, ways in which elites contribute to and shape the inequality that characterises the modern world.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
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Forthcoming December 2024
Water, Life, and Profit
Fluid Economies and Cultures of Niamey, Niger
Keough, S. B. & Youngstedt, S. M
Water, Life, and Profit offers a holistic analysis of the people, economies, cultural symbolism, and material culture involved in the management, production, distribution, and consumption of drinking water in the urban context of Niamey, Niger. Keough and Youngstedt offer new insights into the lived experiences of gender, ethnicity, class, and spatial structure in Niamey’s water economies today.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published February 2023
Rethinking and Unthinking Development
Perspectives on Inequality and Poverty in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Mpofu, B. & Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S. J. (eds)
Through theoretical contributions and case studies focusing on South Africa and Zimbabwe, this volume attempts to rethink (and unthink) development discourses and practices in southern Africa. The authors explore the ways in which legacies of colonialism impact development, as well as other factors such as regional politics, corruption, and socio-economic and cultural barriers.
Subjects: Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published January 2019
Refugees Welcome?
Difference and Diversity in a Changing Germany
Bock, J.-J. & Macdonald, S. (eds)
Combining in-depth anthropological studies with more long-term analyses, this volume examines the responses to and implications of the arrival in 2015 and 2016 of over one million asylum seekers and refugees in Germany – widely seen as the most major and contested social change in the country since reunification.
Subjects: Sociology Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published November 2021
The Changing Meanings of the Welfare State
Histories of a Key Concept in the Nordic Countries
Edling, N. (ed)
The Nordic concept of “the welfare state” is a well-worn analytical idea that has yet to receive much exploration beyond its postwar emergence. This volume chronicles “the welfare state” from its historical origins to its interpretations, values, and challenges over time in Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland.
Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
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Published February 2023
Europeanization in Sweden
Opportunities and Challenges for Civil Society Organizations
Meeuwisse, A. & Scaramuzzino, R. (eds)
This volume brings together new empirical research into how the process of European integration has played out in Sweden. Europeanization in Sweden not only offers insights into how Europeanization is enacted on the ground, but also addresses the question of whether and how the “Swedish model” can guide European integration.
Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published October 2020
Indeterminacy
Waste, Value, and the Imagination
Alexander, C. & Sanchez, A. (eds)
What happens to people, places, and things that do not fit the progressive, ordering narratives of capitalism and modernity? This volume explores the indeterminacy left behind by conventional understandings of progress and shows how totalizing forward movement may be resisted by fragments, open-endedness, and the possibility of going nowhere at all.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published May 2023
Cash Transfers in Context
An Anthropological Perspective
Olivier de Sardan, J.-P. & Piccoli, E. (eds)
Cash transfer programs have become the preferred channel for delivering emergency aid or tackling poverty in low-and middle-income countries. This book sheds light on their unpredicted consequences worldwide, detailing how they are used by actors to pursue their own strategies and how local populations relate to the external norms they impose.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published October 2021
Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andes
Angé, O.
Drawing on ethnographic data from fairs in the Southern Andes involving highland herders and lowland cultivators, Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andesadvances an anthropology of the practice of barter, contributing to a fuller understanding of how social groups create themselves through material circulation.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published October 2020
Roma Activism
Reimagining Power and Knowledge
Beck, S. & Ivasiuc, A. (eds)
Exploring contemporary debates and developments and gathering together contributors from activism, academia, and the worlds of policy and development, this volume argues for taking up reflexivity as practice in in Roma-related research and forms of activism, and advocates a necessary renewal of research sites, methods, and epistemologies.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published November 2020
Nation Branding in Modern History
Viktorin, C., Gienow-Hecht, J. C. E., Estner, A., & Will, M. K. (eds)
Branding in Modern History draws from a variety of international case studies, ranging from Austria and Switzerland to Chile, the US, China, Spain, Suriname, and Poland to investigate the nexus between cultural marketing, self-representation and political power by looking at current nation branding campaigns as well as its historical predecessors.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Political and Economic Anthropology Media Studies
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Published August 2018
Refugee Resettlement
Power, Politics, and Humanitarian Governance
Garnier, A., Jubilut, L. L., & Sandvik, K. B.
The first of its kind, this volume explores refugee resettlement as a form of humanitarian governance; it offers a detailed understanding of resettlement practices, from the selection of refugees to their long-term integration in resettling states, and highlights the relevance of a lifespan approach to resettlement analysis.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published August 2020
Living Under Austerity
Greek Society in Crisis
Doxiadis, E. & Placas, A. (eds)
Since its sovereign debt crisis in 2009, Greece has been living under austerity. This volume explores the effects of austerity policies on politics, health care, education, media, and other areas, and examines the crisis as the context for changing attitudes in Greek society regarding immigration, crime, minorities, consumption and more.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published June 2018
The Global Life of Austerity
Comparing Beyond Europe
Rakopoulos, T. (ed)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published March 2019
Money at the Margins
Global Perspectives on Technology, Financial Inclusion, and Design
Maurer, B., Musaraj, S., & Small, I. V. (eds)
Mobile money, e-commerce, cash cards, retail credit cards, and more — as new monetary technologies become increasingly available, the global South has embraced these mediums as a simple solution to the issue of financial inclusion. Money at the Margins is a groundbreaking exploration of the uses and socio-cultural impact of new forms of money and financial services.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published February 2022
Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism
Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject
Hann, C. & Parry, J. (eds)
Bringing together ethnographic case studies of industrial labor from different parts of the world, Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism explores the increasing casualization of workforces and the weakening power of organized labor. By exploring this relationship, these essays question the claim that neoliberal ideology has become the new ‘commonsense’ of our times.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published October 2021
Messy Europe
Crisis, Race, and Nation-State in a Postcolonial World
Loftsdóttir, K., Smith, A. L., & Hipfl, B. (eds)
Messy Europe links theoretical insights to current discussions of crisis – economic and otherwise – showing how these shape the creation of subjectivities and identities. The chapters theorize “Europe” as a contested and fluid construction, and, by focusing on particular case studies, analyze how specific understandings of self and others occur in the crisis context.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published November 2017
Stategraphy
Toward a Relational Anthropology of the State
Thelen, T., Vetters, L., & Benda-Beckmann, K. von (eds)
By exploring interactions and negotiations of local actors in different institutional settings, the contributors explore state transformations in relation to social security in a variety of locations spanning from Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans to the United Kingdom and France. Fusing grounded empirical studies with rigorous theorizing, the volume provides new perspectives to broader related debates in social research and political analysis.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published January 2023
From Clans to Co-ops
Confiscated Mafia Land in Sicily
Rakopoulos, T.
From Clans to Co-ops explores the social, political, and economic relations that enable the constitution of cooperatives through antimafia transformation of landholdings. The volume is the first monograph on Sicily’s rural antimafia movement, contributing to the anthropology and sociology of cooperatives, as well as to broader debates about small-scale democratic institutions, food movements and agrarian activism.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Food & Nutrition
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Published May 2020
From Eastern Bloc to European Union
Comparative Processes of Transformation since 1990
Heydemann, G. & Vodička, K. (eds)
This volume assembles detailed, empirically grounded studies of eleven former Soviet states and current EU members. Each chapter analyzes the political, economic, and social transformation processes that have taken place in a given nation, identifying structural similarities and assessing outcomes compared to one another as well as the rest of Europe.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published December 2019
Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia
Transitioning to an Alternative World System
Baer, H. A.
As global economic and population growth continues to skyrocket, increasingly strained resources have ignited the search for an alternative to capitalism. Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia outlines the urgent need to reevaluate the current system, and replace it with one capable of mobilizing people globally to prevent on-going human socio-economic, environmental degradation, and anthropogenic climate change.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
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Published October 2021
Civil Society Revisited
Lessons from Poland
Jacobsson, K. & Korolczuk, E. (eds)
In contrast to a social scientific literature that characterizes Polish civil society as weak and passive, this volume focuses on forms of collective action that researchers too often ignore due to their theoretical and methodological blind spots. It constitutes a powerful critique of a model of civil society that is ‘made from above’ by elites, media, and public institutions.
Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published August 2019
Money in a Human Economy
Hart, K. (eds)
Contributors to this volume attempt to think about money as a category of thought, offer theories on luxury and sex in capitalist development, and follow the evolution of money today from the role of the global South in shaping its future, to cross-border investment in China, to Bitcoin as politics. Money in a Human Economy offers multiple perspectives on capital’s central role in the formation of world society, as well as in the shaping of its current discontents.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published December 2018
Labour, Unions and Politics under the North Star
The Nordic Countries, 1700-2000
Hilson, M., Neunsinger, S., & Vyff, I. (eds)
Notwithstanding Nordic countries’ reputation for strong labour movements, the fortunes of organized labour have varied widely throughout the region and across different historical periods. Together, the essays collected here explore themes such as work, unions, politics and migration in the Nordic states from the early modern period to the twenty-first century.
Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published April 2017
When Things Become Property
Land Reform, Authority and Value in Postsocialist Europe and Asia
Sikor, T., Dorondel, S., Stahl, J. & Xuan To, P.
Almost all elements of nature have become the target of property laws, from the classic preoccupation with land to more ephemeral material, such as air and genetic resources. When Things Become Property examines postsocialist land and forest reforms in Albania, Romania and Vietnam, finding that property reforms are not miracle tools available to governments for refashioning economies, politics or environments.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published December 2016
America Observed
On an International Anthropology of the United States
Dominguez, V. & Habib, J. (eds)
There is surprisingly little fieldwork done in and on the United States by anthropologists from abroad. America Observed seeks to fill that gap by bringing into greater focus empirical as well as theoretical implications of this phenomenon for anthropological research and practice.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published September 2020
Breaking Rocks
Music, Ideology and Economic Collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa
Trapido, J.
Based on fieldwork in Kinshasa and Paris, Breaking Rocks examines patronage payments within Congolese popular music. This book offers insights into both the ideologies of power and value in central Africa’s troubled post-colonial political economy, and the economic flows that make up the hidden side of the globalization.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published March 2018
Sustaining Russia's Arctic Cities
Resource Politics, Migration, and Climate Change
Orttung, R. (ed)
Urban areas in Arctic Russia are experiencing unprecedented social and ecological change. This collection outlines the key challenges that city managers will face in navigating this shifting political, economic, social, and environmental terrain.
Subjects: Urban Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published December 2019
From Craftsmen to Capitalists
German Artisans from the Third Reich to the Federal Republic, 1939-1953
McKitrick, F. L.
As Hitler consolidated power, German artisans emerged as an important Nazi constituency, drawn by the party’s rejection of both capitalism and Bolshevism. Yet, after 1945, they became one of the pillars of postwar stability. This volume gives the first account of this astonishing transformation, exploring how tradesmen helped to realize German democratization and recovery.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
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Published April 2018
Economic Citizenship
Neoliberal Paradoxes of Empowerment
Sa'ar, A.
Economic Citizenship explores shifting responsibility for the welfare of minority and poor citizens, which has shifted from states to local communities through neoliberalization. This has produced odd discursive blends of justice, solidarity, and wellbeing, and placed the languages of feminist and minority rights side by side with the language of apolitical consumerism.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published May 2019
The State We're In
Reflecting on Democracy's Troubles
Cook, J., Long, N. J., & Moore, H. L. (eds)
What makes people lose faith in democratic statecraft? The question seems an urgent one. In the first decades of the twenty-first century, citizens across the world have grown increasingly disillusioned with what was once a cherished ideal. The State We’re In is a must-read for all political theorists, scholars of democracy, and readers concerned for the future of the democratic ideal.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published February 2018
Gypsy Economy
Romani Livelihoods and Notions of Worth in the 21st Century
Brazzabeni, M., Ivone Cunha, M., & Fotta, M. (eds)
Roma and Gypsy economic arrangements are complexly related to social position. Authors ethnographically studied these complexities, exploring how, despite — or perhaps because of — their unstable and ambiguous position within the market economy, Roma and Gypsy communities continuously re-create more or less viable economic strategies.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published September 2017
Economy for and Against Democracy
Hart, K. (ed)
Contemporary economies, dominated by global finance and political rent-seekers, often inhibit the realization of democracy. This volume features comparative essays and case studies to examine the antagonisms between the economy and democracy and the struggles and visions to make things more equitable.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
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Published March 2020
Street Vending in the Neoliberal City
A Global Perspective on the Practices and Policies of a Marginalized Economy
Graaff, K. & Ha, N. (eds)
From a multifaceted, global, and transnational perspective, the volume examines street vending and urban policies around the globe, comparing practices in the Global South to that in the Northern hemisphere. Essays show that though street vending activities vary depending on site-specific regulations, this urban practice also reveals global ties and developments.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published September 2015
The Event of Charlie Hebdo
Imaginaries of Freedom and Control
Zagato, A. (ed)
The January 2015 shooting at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris sparked an enormous discussion among citizens and intellectuals worldwide. By analyzing the effects the attacks have had in various spheres of social life including the political, ideology, collective imaginaries, the media, and education, this collection aims to serve as a contribution and a critical response to that discussion.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published June 2020
Figurations of the Future
Forms and Temporalities of Left Radical Politics in Northern Europe
Krøijer, S.
Built around key events, this book explores politics among left radical activists in Northern Europe. The author recasts theoretical concerns about politics and aesthetics, drawing on anthropological literature from Scandinavia and the Amazon to establish analogies between perceptions of the body, autonomy, forests and capitalism.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published March 2018
Yearnings in the Meantime
'Normal Lives' and the State in a Sarajevo Apartment Complex
Jansen, S.
An ethnographic account, this book looks into a Sarajevo apartment building as its inhabitants yearn for “normal lives,” over a decade after the war and the disintegration of Socialist Yugoslavia. Starting from everyday concerns, it freshly explores how the time and place in which we are caught shape our hopes and fears.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published July 2018
Flexible Capitalism
Exchange and Ambiguity at Work
Kjaerulff, J. (ed)
Introducing anthropological exchange theory to a wider readership, this volume explores sociality in work environments marked by the kind of structural changes that have come to define contemporary “flexible” capitalism. It makes a novel contribution to a trans-disciplinary scholarship on contemporary economic practice, and to the anthropological literature on work and on exchange.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published April 2017
Beyond the Lens of Conservation
Malagasy and Swiss Imaginations of One Another
Keller, E.
This ethnography examines how the cooperation between a national park in Madagascar and a Swiss zoo is perceived by ordinary people at either end. One view focuses on power and history, the other on morality and progress. Nature conservation therefore widens the gap between people in the North and South.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published February 2017
The Neoliberal Landscape and the Rise of Islamist Capital in Turkey
Balkan, N., Balkan, E. & Öncü, A. (eds)
By providing a long-term historical perspective on Turkey's economy and its relationship to Islamism, this volume explores how Islamism as a political ideology has been utilized by the conservative bourgeoisie in Turkey, and elsewhere, to establish hegemony over labor.
Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published March 2019
The Political Economy of Border Drawing
Arranging Legality in European Labor Migration Policies
Paul, R.
The conditions for non-EU migrant workers to gain legal entry to Britain, France, and Germany are at the same time similar and quite different. To explain this variation this book compares the fine-grained legal categories for migrant workers in each country, and examines the interaction of economic, social, and cultural rationales in determining migrant legality.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published November 2016
U.S. Foreign Policy and the Other
Cullinane, M. P. & Ryan, D. (eds)
John Quincy Adams warned Americans not to search abroad for monsters to destroy, yet such figures have frequently habituated the discourses of U.S. foreign policy. This collection of essays focuses on counter-identities in American consciousness to explain how foreign policies and the discourse surrounding them develop.
Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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eBook available
Published September 2016
People, Money and Power in the Economic Crisis
Perspectives from the Global South
Hart, K. & Sharp, J. (eds)
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 during the economic crisis. Nine case studies -- from Southern Africa, South Asia, Brazil, and Atlantic Africa – examine economic life from the perspective of ordinary people in places that are normally marginal to global discourse, covering a range of class positions from the bottom to the top of society.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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eBook available
Published October 2017
Blood and Fire
Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor
Kasmir, S. & Carbonella, A. (eds)
Six historical ethnographies stemming from fieldwork around the world offer a comparative perspective on the uneven consequences of and reactions to the anthropology of labor. The contributors’ vivid accounts show in how dispossession was lived by local working classes illustrates the defeat and unmaking of particular working classes.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published October 2016
Intellectuals and (Counter-) Politics
Essays in Historical Realism
Smith, G.
“A cutting edge discussion between anthropology and the disciplines of history and geography, all through the lens of the politics of intellectual work. A paradigm of sensitive ethnographic work fused with broadly social/political theory, this book will pull in a lot of people looking to find their way out of a certain rabbit hole of recent academia.” · Neil Smith, Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Gavin Smith suggests a research agenda designed to maximize the political leverage of ordinary people faced with ever more remote states and technologies that make capitalism increasingly rapacious. He tackles the political conundrums of our times and asks what roles intellectuals might play therein.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published April 2017
The Gift of European Thought and the Cost of Living
Argyrou, V.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published September 2015
Bedouin of Mount Sinai
An Anthropological Study of their Political Economy
Marx, E.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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eBook available
Published January 2013
State Practices and Zionist Images
Shaping Economic Development in Arab Towns in Israel
Wesley, D.A.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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eBook available
Published November 2014
Anthropology and Political Science
A Convergent Approach
Aronoff, M. J. & Kubik, J.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology
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eBook available
Published October 2014
Ethical Consumption
Social Value and Economic Practice
Carrier, J. G. & Luetchford, P. G. (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
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eBook available
Published December 2011
Legends of People, Myths of State
Violence, Intolerance, and Political Culture in Sri Lanka and Australia
Kapferer, B.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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eBook available
Published March 2013
The Allure of Capitalism
An Ethnography of Management and the Global Economy in Crisis
Røyrvik, E. A.
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Political and Economic Anthropology
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eBook available
Published October 2013
Imagining the Post-Apartheid State
An Ethnographic Account of Namibia
Friedman, J. T.
In northwest Namibia, people’s political imagination offers a powerful insight into the post-apartheid state. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork, this book focuses on the former South African apartheid regime and the present democratic government; it compares the perceptions and practices of state and customary forms of judicial administration, reflects upon the historical trajectory of a chieftaincy dispute in relation to the rooting of state power and examines everyday forms of belonging in the independent Namibian State.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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eBook available
Published March 2010
China in Oceania
Reshaping the Pacific?
Wesley-Smith, T. & Porter, E. (eds)
Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology
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eBook available
Published January 2014
Markets and Civil Society
The European Experience in Comparative Perspective
Perez-Diaz, V. (ed)
Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology
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eBook available
Published June 2012
Economic Persuasions
Gudeman, S. (ed)
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology
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eBook available
Published May 2019
State Collapse and Reconstruction in the Periphery
Political Economy, Ethnicity and Development in Yugoslavia, Serbia and Kosovo
Sörensen, J. S.
Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published June 2012
Crisis of the State
War and Social Upheaval
Kapferer, B. & Bertelsen, B. E. (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published June 2010
Reproducing Class
Education, Neoliberalism, and the Rise of the New Middle Class in Istanbul
Rutz, H. J. & Balkan, E. M.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
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Published November 2009
Enduring Socialism
Explorations of Revolution and Transformation, Restoration and Continuation
West, H. G. & Raman, P. (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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eBook available
Published October 2008
Indigenous Peoples, Civil Society, and the Neo-liberal State in Latin America
Fischer, E. F. (ed)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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eBook available
Published September 2008
Gender Politics in the Expanding European Union
Mobilization, Inclusion, Exclusion
Roth, S. (ed)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology
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eBook available
Published April 2012
Political Theory and Australian Multiculturalism
Levey, G. B. (ed)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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eBook available
Published September 2012
Economy's Tension
The Dialectics of Community and Market
Gudeman, S.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published August 2010
Difficult Folk?
A Political History of Social Anthropology
Mills, D.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published August 2007
The European Puzzle
The Political Structuring of Cultural Identities at a Time of Transition
Demossier, M. (ed)
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published August 2007
Blood and Oranges
Immigrant Labor and European Markets in Rural Greece
Lawrence, C. M.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published September 2007
Disenchantment with Market Economics
East Germans and Western Capitalism
Müller, B.
Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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eBook available
Published December 2007
The Romani Movement
Minority Politics and Ethnic Mobilization in Contemporary Central Europe
Vermeersch, P.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology
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Published August 2006
Le Malaise Creole
Ethnic Identity in Mauritius
Boswell, R.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published May 2006
Languages of Civil Society
Wagner, P. (ed)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published February 2006
Cultures of Technology and the Quest for Innovation
Nowotny, H. (ed)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published October 2006
Who Owns the Past?
The Politics of Time in a 'Model' Bulgarian Village
Kaneff, D.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published November 2004
Radical Ethnic Movements in Contemporary Europe
Daftary, F. & Troebst, S. (eds)
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
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Published January 2003
French Women in Politics: Writing Power
Paternal Legitimization and Maternal Legacies
Ramsay, R. L.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published August 2001
Political Demography, Demographic Engineering
Weiner, M, & Teitelbaum, M.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published June 2001
Powers of Good and Evil
Social Transformation and Popular Belief
Clough, P. & Mitchell, J. (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published January 2001
Morals of Legitimacy
Between Agency and the System
Pardo, I. (ed)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published August 1996
After Socialism
Land Reform and Social Change in Eastern Europe
Abrahams, R. (ed)
Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies
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Published February 1996
Sexual Politics and the European Union
The New Feminist Challenge
Elman, R. A.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published December 1997
Toward a Global Civil Society
Walzer, M. (ed)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published June 1996
The Power of the Story
Fiction and Political Change
Hanne, M.
Subjects: Literary Studies History (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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