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Published August 2024
Care in a Time of Humanitarianism

Stories of Refuge, Aid, and Repair in the Global South

Osanloo, A. & deBergh Robinson, C. (eds)

Care in a Time of Humanitarianism presents complex histories of forced migration and humanitarianism in an accessible way. It adopts a comparative approach to highlight the diverse cultural and religious traditions of care that are adopted across the Global South for the “distant others”.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology
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
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
eBook available Published July 2023
Romani Chronicles of COVID-19

Testimonies of Harm and Resilience

Blasco, P. G. y & Fotta, M. (eds)

A ground-breaking volume that gathers the testimonies of NGO workers, street vendors, activists, scholars, health professionals, and creative writers to chronicle the devastating impact of COVID-19 on Romani communities globally.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Medical Anthropology

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Forthcoming January 2026
Visions of Marriage

Politics and Family on Kinmen, 1920-2020

Chiu, H.-C.

Grounded in multi-generational stories from Kinmen in Taiwan, Visions of Marriage explores the historical entanglements between the pursuit of new personal and national futures. Focusing on the relational and future-making aspects of marriage, the ethnography highlights the intersection of transformations across familial generations and shifting political economies in Taiwan, and more globally. It provides comparative insights on family change and demographic shifts in Asia.>

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality
Forthcoming January 2026
From Village Commons to Public Goods

Graduated Provision in Urbanizing China

Trémon, A.-C.

Illuminating the complex processes of China’s uneven urbanization through the lens of the transition from village commons to public goods, this book is set in three urbanized villages in Shenzhen, Chengdu, and Xi’an, which have experienced similar demographic explosions and dramatic changes to their landscapes, the livelihoods of its inhabitants, and the power structures governing their residents.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies Sociology Sustainable Development Goals
Forthcoming January 2026
The Power of the Story

Writing Disasters in Haiti and the Circum-Caribbean

Joos, V., Munro, M. & Ribó, J. (eds)

A cross-disciplinary volume that combines and puts into dialogue perspectives on disasters, this book includes contributions from anthropology, history, cultural studies, sociology, and literary studies. Offering a rich and diverse set of arguments and analyses on the ever-relevant theme of catastrophe in the circum-Caribbean, it will encourage debate and collaboration between scholars working on disasters from a range of disciplinary perspectives.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
eBook available Forthcoming July 2025
In the Meantime

Toward an Anthropology of the Possible

Masquelier, A. & Durham, D. (eds)

The “meantime” represents the gap between what is past and the unknown future. When considered as waiting, the meantime is defined as a period of suspension to be endured. By contrast, the contributors of this volume understand it as a space of “the possible” where calculation coexists with uncertainty, promises with disappointment, and imminence with deferral.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General)
Published January 2025
Making Multiple Babies

Anticipatory Regimes of Assisted Reproduction

Wu, C.-L.

Human beings have been producing more twins, triplets, and quadruplets than ever before, due to the expansion of medically assisted conception. This book analyzes the anticipatory regimes of making multiple babies. With archival documents, participant observation, in-depth interviews, and registry data, this book traces the global and local governance of the assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) used to tackle multiple pregnancy since the 1970s.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
Published 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
eBook available Published 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
eBook available Published September 2022
Ritual

What It Is, How It Works, and Why

Davis-Floyd, R. & Laughlin, C. D.

Designed for both academic and lay audiences, this book identifies the characteristics of ritual and, via multiple examples, details how ritual works on the human body and brain to produce its often profound effects. These include enhancing courage, effecting healing, and generating group cohesion by enacting cultural—or individual—beliefs and values. It also shows what happens when ritual fails.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Anthropology of Religion

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Published December 2024
Risky Futures

Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North

Ulturgasheva, O. & Bodenhorn, B. (eds)

Examining the intersections between environmental conditions and geopolitical tensions, this book brings together a unique combination of authors who are local practitioners and international researchers, and considers the situations of environmental calamity and socio-economic risks faced by small populations.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Sociology Sustainable Development Goals
eBook available Published 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 Sustainable Development Goals

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eBook available Published April 2024
Puzzling Stories

The Aesthetic Appeal of Cognitive Challenge in Film, Television and Literature

Willemsen, S. & Kiss, M. (eds)

Many films and novels defy our ability to make sense of the plot. Puzzling Stories offers the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and trans-medial approach to the question of cognitive challenge in narrative art, bringing together psychological, philosophical, formal-historical, and empirical perspectives from leading scholars across these fields.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

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Published August 2024
Tangled Mobilities

Places, Affects, and Personhood across Social Spheres in Asian Migration

Fresnoza-Flot, A. & Liu-Farrer, G. (eds)

Increasingly, scholarly works are approaching the challenges of peoples’ spatial movements across state frontiers as tied to various forms of mobilities that people experience. Using a plural and comparative lens with case studies, Tangled Mobilities brings fresh insight to the wider social phenomenon of mobility and the way places, affects, and personhood are shaped by and connected to it.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology
eBook available Published November 2024
Where is the Good in the World?

Ethical Life between Social Theory and Philosophy

Henig, D., Strhan, A., & Robbins, J. (eds)

Bringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic case studies from diverse settings, this volume explores how different disciplinary perspectives on the good might engage with and enrich each other. This is the first interdisciplinary engagement with what it means to study the good as a fundamental aspect of social life.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Published January 2024
Making Better Lives

Hope, Freedom and Home-Making among People Sleeping Rough in Paris

Lenhard, J.

In this ethnographic study, Johannes Lenhard observes the daily practices, routines and techniques of people who are sleeping rough on the streets of Paris. The book focusses on their survival practises, their short-term desires and hopes, how they earn money through begging, how they choose the best place to sleep at night and what role drugs and alcohol play in their lives.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Urban Studies Sustainable Development Goals

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Published July 2024
Grazing Communities

Pastoralism on the Move and Biocultural Heritage Frictions

Bindi, L. (ed)

The present critical discourse on sustainable and responsible development implies a change of practices, a huge socio-economic transformation, and the return of new shepherds and herders in different European regions. This book is an occasion to reconsider grazing communities’ frictions in the new global heritage scenario.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Development Studies Sustainable Development Goals
eBook available Published November 2024
Configuring Contagion

Ethnographies of Biosocial Epidemics

Meinert, L. & Seeberg, J. (eds)

Expanding our understanding of contagion further than typical notions of infection and pandemics, this book widens the field to include biosocial epidemics. The chapters propose varied and detailed answers to questions about the epidemic and contagious potential of specific infections and non-infectious conditions.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology Sustainable Development Goals

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Published June 2024
Opening Up the University

Teaching and Learning with Refugees

Cantat, C., Cook, I., & Rajaram, P. K. (eds)

Including contributions from educators, administrators, practitioners, and students, Opening Up the University addresses specific points relating to the access and success of refugees in higher education. This expansive collected volume aims to inspire and question those who are considering creating their own interventions, suggesting concrete avenues for further action within existing academic structures.

Subjects: Educational Studies Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology Sustainable Development Goals
eBook available Published June 2023
An American Icon in Puerto Rico

Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play

Aguiló-Pérez, E. R.

Since her creation in 1959, Barbie has become an icon of femininity to girls all over the world. In this monograph, author Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez explores the ways through which women and girls in Puerto Rico construct their own identities in relation to femininity, body image, race, and nationalism through Barbie play.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published February 2025
Migration in the Making of the Gulf Space

Social, Political, and Cultural Dimensions

Bouzas, A. M. & Casini, L. (eds)

Combining visual and literary analyses and original ethnographic studies as part of a more general political reflection, Migration in the Making of Gulf Space examines the role of migrants and non-citizens in the processes of settling in the Arab States of the Gulf region.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published April 2024
The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work

Craftwork in Twenty-First Century England

Marchand, T. H. J.

Against the backdrop of an alienating, technologizing and ever-accelerating world of material production, this book tells an intimate story: one about a community of woodworkers training at an historic institution in London’s East End during the present ‘renaissance of craftsmanship’.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published April 2024
Collaborative Happiness

Building the Good Life in Urban Cohousing Communities

Kingfisher, C.

Collaborative Happiness looks at two urban cohousing communities: Kankanmori, in Tokyo; and Quayside Village, in Vancouver. In expanding beyond mainstream approaches to happiness focused exclusively on the individual, Quayside Village and Kankanmori provide an alternative model for how to understand and practice the good life in an increasingly urbanized world marked by crisis of both social and environmental sustainability.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Urban Studies Sociology Sustainable Development Goals

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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
eBook available Published March 2023
Vertiginous Life

An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen

Knight, D. M.

Through individual stories from crisis Greece, this book explores the everyday effects of vertigo: nausea, dizziness, breathlessness, the sense of falling, and unknowingness of Self. Being lost in time, caught in the spin-cycle of crisis, people reflect on belonging to modern Europe, neoliberal promises of accumulation, defeated futures, and the existential dilemmas of life held captive.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published July 2021
Matsutake Worlds

Faier, L. & Hathaway, M. J. (eds)

Matsutake Worlds explores matsutake mushrooms through the lens of multispecies encounters, to explore the mushroom’s success on the world stage. This success cannot be accounted for by any one cultural or economic process—rather, the matsutake has flourished due to many different processes, culminating in the culinary institution we know today.

Subjects: Sociology Food & Nutrition

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eBook available 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 Sustainable Development Goals

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Published May 2023
After Corporate Paternalism

Material Renovation and Social Change in Times of Ruination

Straube, C.

In this ethnographic study of post-paternalist ruination and renovation, Christian Straube explores social change at the intersection of material decay and social disconnection in the former mine township Mpatamatu of Luanshya, one of the oldest mining towns on the Zambian Copperbelt.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Sociology
eBook available Published June 2021
The Age of Capitalism and Bureaucracy

Perspectives on the Political Sociology of Max Weber

Mommsen, W. J.

In this new edition of Wolfgang Mommsen’s illuminating study, Max Weber is presented in terms of the major questions that preoccupied him as one of the towering social scientists of his time, with insights that are persistently relevant as we deal with the structures and dynamics of modern industrial societies.

Subjects: Sociology History: 20th Century to Present

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Published May 2023
Delta Life

Exploring Dynamic Environments where Rivers Meet the Sea

Krause, F. & Harris, M. (eds)

Proposing a series of innovative steps towards better understanding human lives at the interstices of water and land, this volume includes eight ethnographies from deltas around the world. The book presents ‘delta life’ with intimate descriptions of the predicaments, imaginations and activities of delta inhabitants.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available Published June 2021
Emotions, Ethics, and Cinematic Experience

New Phenomenological and Cognitivist Perspectives

Sinnerbrink, R. (ed)

Since the early 1990s, phenomenology and cognitivism have become two of the most influential approaches to film theory. Emotions, Ethics, and Cinematic Experience explores how these two approaches might work together to create a philosophy of film that is both descriptively rich and theoretically productive.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies Sociology

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eBook available Published March 2024
Ethnography in the Raw

Life in a Luzon Village

Moeran, B.

Ethnography in the Raw describes the author’s encounters with a Philippine family into which he has married, his wife’s friends and acquaintances, and their lives in a remote rural village in the rice basin of Luzon, about 130 miles north east of Manila. It is both anthropological fieldwork ‘in the raw,’ and an incisive analysis of contemporary Philippine society and culture.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published March 2024
A Taste for Oppression

A Political Ethnography of Everyday Life in Belarus

Hervouet, R.

Belarus has emerged from communism in a unique manner. The author, who has lived in Belarus for several years, highlights several mechanisms of tyranny, beyond the regime’s ability to control and repress, which should not be underestimated. The book sheds light on the reasons why part of the population supports Alexander Lukashenko and takes a fresh look at the functioning of what has been called 'the last dictatorship in Europe'.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published January 2023
Waithood

Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage and Childbearing

Inhorn, M. C. & Smith-Hefner, N. J. (eds)

The concept of “Waithood” was developed by political scientist Diane Singerman to describe the expanding period of time between adolescence and full adulthood as young people wait to secure steady employment and marry. The contributors to this volume employ the waithood concept as a frame for richly detailed ethnographic studies of “youth in waiting” from a variety of world areas.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

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eBook available Published January 2025
Invisible Faces and Hidden Stories

Narratives of Vulnerable Populations and Their Caregivers

Obeng, C. S. & Obeng, S. G. (eds)

Dealing with narratives of vulnerable populations, this book looks at how they deal with dimensions of their social life, especially in regards to health. It reflects the socio-political ecologies like public hostility and stereotyping, neglect of their unique health needs, their courage to overcome adversity, and the love of family and healthcare providers in mitigating their problems.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Applied Anthropology Sociology

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eBook available Published May 2024
The Mobility of Memory

Migrations and Diasporas across European Borders

Passerini, L., Trakilović, M., & Proglio, G. (eds)

During five years of field research in Italy and the Netherlands, the “Bodies Across Borders: Oral and Visual Memory in Europe and Beyond” (BABE) team examined the connection between mobility and memory in Europe. This volume, the outcome of that project, engages with the tensions between roots and routes, history and memory, minds and bodies, macrostructures and micro stories, and control and resistance.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology Memory Studies

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eBook available Published September 2024
What Now

Everyday Endurance and Social Intensity in an Australian Aboriginal Community

Dalley, C.

Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork undertaken since 2006, the book addresses some of the most topical aspects of remote Aboriginal life in Australia. This includes the role of kinship and family, relationships to land and sea, and cross-cultural relations with non-Aboriginal residents.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published April 2022
Beyond Filial Piety

Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies

Shea, J., Moore, K., & Zhang, H. (eds)

This volume explores emerging cultural meanings and social responses to population aging in contemporary East Asian societies. Drawing on ethnographic, demographic, policy, archival, and media data, the authors trace both common patterns and diverging trends across China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, and Korea.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published November 2023
Agency in Transnational Memory Politics

Wüstenberg, J. & Sierp, A. (eds)

This volume brings together theoretical and practical considerations to provide transnational memory scholars with an interdisciplinary investigation into agency—the “who” and the “how” of cross-border commemoration that motivates activists and fascinates observers.

Subjects: History (General) Sociology Memory Studies

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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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Published October 2022
Borders across Healthcare

Moral Economies of Healthcare and Migration in Europe

Sahraoui, N. (ed)

Borders across Healthcare explores contemporary moral economies of the healthcare-migration nexus through a scalar and relational perspective. The volume documents the many ways in which borders come to disrupt healthcare settings and illuminates how judgements of a health-related deservingness become increasingly important, producing hierarchies that undermine a universal right to healthcare.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Mobility Studies Sociology Sustainable Development Goals
eBook available Published March 2023
Time Work

Studies of Temporal Agency

Flaherty, M. G., Meinert, L., & Dalsgård, A. L. (eds)

Examining how people alter or customize various dimensions of their temporal experience, this volume discovers how we resist external sources of temporal constraint or structure. These ethnographic studies are international in scope and look at many different countries and continents.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Sociology Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published October 2022
Structures of Protection?

Rethinking Refugee Shelter

Scott-Smith, T. & Breeze, M. E. (eds)

Questioning what shelter is and how we can define it, this volume brings together twenty-three essays on different forms of refugee shelter, with a view to widening public understanding about the lives of forced migrants and developing theoretical understanding of this oft-neglected facet of the refugee experience.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published October 2024
Selfishness and Selflessness

New Approaches to Understanding Morality

Layne, L. L. (ed)

We are said to be suffering a narcissism epidemic when the need for collective action seems more pressing than ever. Selfishness and selflessness address the ‘proper’ and ‘improper’ relationship between one’s self and others. The work they do during periods of social instability and cultural change is probed in this original, interdisciplinary collection.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

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eBook available Forthcoming September 2025
Rethinking the Age of Emancipation

Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Gender, Family, and Religion in Italy and Germany, 1800–1918

Baumeister, M., Lenhard, P., & Nattermann, R. (eds)

Rethinking the Age of Emancipation aims at a critical reassessment of the development of the two “late” nations, Italy and Germany, from a new and transnational perspective. Essays by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars examine the discursive relationships among nationalism, war, and emancipation as well as the ambiguous roles of historical protagonists with competing loyalties.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Jewish Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
eBook available Published February 2023
Navigating Miscarriage

Social, Medical and Conceptual Perspectives

Kilshaw, S. & Borg, K. (eds)

This collected volume explores miscarriage in diverse historical and cultural settings with contributions from anthropologists, historians and medical professionals. The book considers meanings attached to miscarriage and how religious, cultural, medical and legal forces impact the way miscarriage is experienced and perceived.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

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eBook available Published September 2023
Friendship without Borders

Women's Stories of Power, Politics, and Everyday Life across East and West Germany

Leask, P.

Drawing on a set of interviews and a thousand letters written over fifty years, Friendship, Power, and Everyday Life considers how a group of women, self-defined as non-political, experienced, accepted, rejected, or countered the exercise of power across twentieth-century regimes in Germany.

Subjects: History (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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eBook available 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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eBook available 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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eBook available Published September 2023
Jaguars of the Dawn

Spirit Mediumship in the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer

Pierini, E.

Drawing upon over a decade of extensive fieldwork in temples of the Vale do Amanhecer in Brazil and Europe, this ethnography explores how mediums understand their experiences and how they learn to establish relationships with their spirit guides.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Medical Anthropology Sociology

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eBook available Published January 2020
On Violence in History

Dwyer, P. & Micale, M. S. (eds)

Is global violence on the decline? Steven Pinker’s highly-publicized argument that human violence across the world has been dramatically abating continues to influence discourse among academics and the general public alike.

Subjects: History (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published November 2023
Social Im/mobilities in Africa

Ethnographic Approaches

Noret, J. (ed)

Grounded in both theory and ethnography, this volume insists on taking social positionality seriously when accounting for Africa’s current age of polarizing wealth. To this end, the notion of social im/mobilities emphasizes the complexities of current changes, taking us beyond the prism of a unidimensional social ladder, for social moves cannot always be apprehended through the binaries of ‘gains’ and ‘losses’.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published November 2022
Bourdieu and Social Space

Mobilities, Trajectories, Emplacements

Reed-Danahay, D.

French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu’s relevance for studies of spatiality and mobility has received less attention than other aspects of his work. Here, Deborah Reed-Danahay argues that the concept of social space, central to Bourdieu’s ideas, addresses the structured inequalities that prevail in spatial choices and practices.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Mobility Studies Sociology

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eBook available Published September 2022
Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough

Ethnographic Responses

Martínez, F. & Laviolette, P. (eds)

We are all repairers. Exploring some of the ways in which repair practices and perceptions of brokenness vary culturally Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough argues that repair is an attempt to extend the life of things as well as an answer to failures, gaps, wrongdoings and leftovers.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Heritage Studies

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eBook available Published April 2022
The Vampire

Origins of a European Myth

Bohn, T. M.

Drawing on a wealth of heretofore neglected sources from multiple languages, this book gives a fascinating account of how vampires—whose various incarnations originally developed within the folk traditions of societies throughout the world—came to be inextricably tied to Eastern Europe in the popular imagination.

Subjects: Sociology Literary Studies History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published June 2022
Ambiguous Childhoods

Peer Socialisation, Schooling and Agency in a Zambian Village

Clemensen, N.

Drawing on rich linguistic-ethnographic details of Zambian children interacting, combined with observations of school and household procedures, the author provides a rare insight into the lives, voices, and learning paths of children in a rural African setting.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Development Studies Educational Studies

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eBook available Published July 2019
The Girl in the Text

Smith, A. (ed)

How are girls represented in written and graphic texts, and how do these representations inform our understanding of girlhood? In this volume, contributors examine the girl in the text in order to explore a range of perspectives on girlhood across borders and in relation to their positionality.

Subjects: Literary Studies Sociology Media Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published September 2023
Crossing Histories and Ethnographies

Following Colonial Historicities in Timor-Leste

Roque, R. & Traube, E. G. (eds)

Brings together different generations of Timor-Leste scholars into dialogue to reconsider a diversity of such critical topics as the incorporation of strangers, the meanings of colonial documents, the value of sacred heirlooms, or the remembering (and forgetting) of colonial violence.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Sociology

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eBook available Published October 2022
Engaging Evil

A Moral Anthropology

Olsen, W. C. & Csordas, T. J. (eds)

Exploring the anthropology of evil as an empirical human phenomenon, this volume attempts to show the usefulness of treating evil as a descriptive reality where concepts such as violence, criminality, and hatred fall short of capturing the darkest side of human existence.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Published November 2022
Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents

The Making and Unmaking of Racial Exceptionalism

Anderson, W., Roque, R., & Ventura Santos, R. (eds)

The Portuguese-speaking Global South, especially Brazil, often envisions itself as exceptional in its racial conceptions and politics. Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents reassesses Gilberto Freyre’s influential claims that Portuguese colonialism produced what came to be called “racial democracy,” and explores racialization beyond the common trope of “race-mixing.”

Subjects: Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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eBook available Published April 2019
Post-Ottoman Topologies

The Presence of the Past in the Era of the Nation-State

Argenti, N. (ed)

With contributions from several of the Balkan countries that once were united under the aegis of the Ottoman Empire, this latest volume proposes new theoretical approaches to the experience and transmission of the past through time.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Memory Studies

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Published August 2022
Cyborg Mind

What Brain–Computer and Mind–Cyberspace Interfaces Mean for Cyberneuroethics

MacKellar, C.

An inter-disciplinary examination of the ethical challenges arisings from direct interfaces between the human brain and computer systems as well as between the mind and cyberspace. This volume is the first extensive study in cyberneuroethics, a subject matter which is certain to have a significant impact in the 21st century and beyond.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
eBook available Published August 2022
Gendering Post-1945 German History

Entanglements

Hagemann, K., & Harsch, D., & Brühöfner, F. (eds)

Gendering Post-1945 German History: Entanglements offers new and critical insight into the state of the research on post-war German history from a gender perspective. Using the concept of “entanglement,” this volume investigates the ways in which East and West German gender relations were socially and politically intertwined.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

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eBook available Published December 2024
The Engaged Historian

Perspectives on the Intersections of Politics, Activism and the Historical Profession

Berger, S. (ed)

Political action and historical research have been deeply intertwined for nearly as long as the historical profession has existed. In this insightful collection, practicing historians analyze, reflect on, and share their experiences of this complex relationship.

Subjects: History (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology

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eBook available Published October 2023
How Materials Matter

Design, Innovation and Materiality in the Pacific

Were, G.

Explores how design and innovation shape people’s lives in the Pacific. Focusing on plant materials from the region, it reveals ways in which a variety of people – from craftswomen and scientists to architects and politicians – work with materials to transform worlds.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available 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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eBook available 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: 20th Century to Present Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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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
eBook available Published August 2020
The Global Age-Friendly Community Movement

A Critical Appraisal

Stafford, P. B. (ed)

This book provides an introduction to the global phenomenon of the age-friendly community movement, through an extensive collection of international case studies by researchers and practitioners. It explores current tensions in the movement and offers a wide-ranging set of recommendations for advancing age-friendly community development.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

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eBook available Published November 2020
The Politics of Authenticity

Countercultures and Radical Movements across the Iron Curtain, 1968-1989

Häberlen, J. C., Keck-Szajbel, M., & Mahoney, K. (eds)

The Politics of Authentic Subjectivity explores how the politics of authenticity manifested itself among Italian leftists, East German lesbian activists, and punks on both sides of the Iron Curtain. This volume shows not only how authenticity came to define a variety of social contexts, but also how it helped to lay the groundwork for the neoliberalism of a subsequent era.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available 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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eBook available Published August 2020
Being a Sperm Donor

Masculinity, Sexuality, and Biosociality in Denmark

Mohr, S.

Through ethnographic explorations of the everyday lives of Danish sperm donors, Being a Sperm Donor explores how masculinity and sexuality are reconfigured in a time in which the norms and logics of (reproductive) biomedicine have become ordinary, and examines how the latter’s socio-cultural and political dimensions become intertwined with men’s intimate sense of self.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

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eBook available 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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eBook available Published August 2018
Hierarchy and Value

Comparative Perspectives on Moral Order

Hickel, J. & Haynes, N. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available 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 October 2022
Lessons in Perception

The Avant-Garde Filmmaker as Practical Psychologist

Taberham, P.

Narrative comprehension, memory, hallucination, and dreaming have long been objects of fascination for cognitive psychologists, as well as inspiration for experimental filmmakers. Lessons in Perception brings together film theory and psychological research by exploring how experimental filmmakers expand the viewer’s range of aesthetic sensitivities, and the creative possibilities uncharted by commercial cinema.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies Sociology
Published June 2023
Basic and Applied Research

The Language of Science Policy in the Twentieth Century

Kaldewey, D. & Schauz, D. (eds)

Basic and Applied Research traces the conceptual history of the distinction between basic and applied research to its origins in nineteenth-century Europe, explores its role in different ideological contexts after World War II, and ultimately provides valuable insights into present-day EU research policy.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
eBook available Published July 2022
World Heritage Craze in China

Universal Discourse, National Culture, and Local Memory

Yan, H.

There is a World Heritage Craze in China. China claims to have the longest continuous civilization in the world and is seeking the recognition from UNESCO. With a sociological lens, this book offers comprehensive insights into World Heritage, as well as China’s deep social, cultural, and political structures.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Archaeology Sociology Travel and Tourism

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eBook available 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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eBook available Forthcoming April 2025
Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation

Between Text and Practice

Hausmair, B., Jervis, B., Nugent, R., & Williams, E. (eds)

How can we study the impact of rules on the lives of past people using archaeological evidence? To answer this question, Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation presents case studies drawn from across Europe and the United States, exploring the use of archaeological evidence in understanding the relationship between rules, lived experience, and social identity.

Subjects: Archaeology History: Medieval/Early Modern Sociology History (General)
eBook available Published December 2017
Affective States

Entanglements, Suspensions, Suspicions

Laszczkowski, M. & Reeves, M. (eds)

The volume enhances the anthropological understanding of the various ways through which the state comes to be experienced as a visceral presence in social life.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published March 2023
Returning Life

Language, Life Force and History in Kilimanjaro

Myhre, K. C.

Returning Life explores how language and action affect life force. Diverse sources demonstrate how this phenomenon extends to coffee cash-cropping, Catholic Christianity, and colonial and post-colonial rule, featuring cognate languages throughout the area.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

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eBook available 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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eBook available Published July 2024
The Persistence of Race

Continuity and Change in Germany from the Wilhelmine Empire to National Socialism

Day, L. & Haag, O. (eds)

In histories of the Third Reich, race is a ubiquitous topic, but German society produced a much more complex variety of racial representations over the first part of the twentieth century. This volume explores the hateful depictions of the Nazi era alongside Wilhelmine images of indigenous peoples, revealing race as on object of fascination for Germans across several eras.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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eBook available Published June 2020
Foucault's Orient

The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan

Lazreg, M.

Using interviews with scholars from Tunisia and Japan, this book examines the manner in which Foucault experienced and explained his encounters with non-Western cultures, unraveling the anthropological implications of his unwavering commitment to cultural difference. It also traces the philosophical-theoretical sources of his conception of difference, and uncovers the contradictions of his dismissal of empirical anthropology to know human beings.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published July 2021
Children of the Camp

The Lives of Somali Youth Raised in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya

Grayson, C.-L.

This original study carefully considers how young people perceive their living environment and how growing up in exile structures their view of the past and their country of origin, and the future and its possibilities.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology

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eBook available 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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eBook available Published June 2017
Mary Douglas

Understanding Social Thought and Conflict

6, P. & Richards, P.

This valuable book introduces Mary Douglas’s theories, and outlines the ways in which her work is of continuing importance for the future of the social sciences. The authors effectively demonstrate how Douglas laid out the agenda for revitalizing social science by reworking Durkheim’s legacy for today, and reviews the growing body of research across the social sciences which has used, tested or developed her approach.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

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eBook available Published June 2021
Wolf Conflicts

A Sociological Study

Skogen, K., Krange, O., & Figari, H.

Making a comeback in Northern Europe and North America, wolf populations cause conflicts by affecting the livelihoods of rural peoples. However, their arrivals also become embedded in more general societal tensions. Wolf Conflicts reveals how conflicts over land use and conservation intertwine with patterns of hegemony and resistance in modern societies.

Subjects: Sociology Environmental Studies (General)

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eBook available Published November 2019
Sisters in Arms

Militant Feminisms in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1968

Karcher, K.

Drawing on a wealth of new source material, Sisters in Arms gives a bracing account of how radical feminism was enacted by key German leftist organizations, such as the infamous Red Army Faction and June 2 Movement. These groups often diverged ideologically and tactically, but all demonstrated the potency of militant feminism within postwar protest movements.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

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eBook available Published December 2019
Poverty and Welfare in Modern German History

Raphael, L. (ed)

This comprehensive volume demonstrates that the question of how to care for the poor has had significant implications for German history throughout the modern era. Here, eight leading historians provide essential case studies and syntheses of current research into German welfare, from the Holy Roman Empire to the present day.

Subjects: History (General) Sociology

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eBook available 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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eBook available Published December 2016
Against Exoticism

Toward the Transcendence of Relativism and Universalism in Anthropology

Kapferer, B. & Theodossopoulos, D. (eds)

This volume confronts the distortions of orientalism, ethnocentrism, and romantic nostalgia to expose exoticism, defined as the construction of false and unsubstantiated difference. Its aim is to re-found the importance of the exotic in the development of anthropological knowledge and to overcome methodological dualisms and dualistic approaches.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published April 2018
Creating a New Public University and Reviving Democracy

Action Research in Higher Education

Levin, M. & Greenwood, D. J.

Morten Levin and Davydd Greenwood analyze the wreckage created by neoliberal academic administrators and policymakers, before going on to propose Action Research processes that can transform public universities back into institutions that promote academic freedom, integrity, and democracy.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies Sociology

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eBook available Published November 2019
The Nuclear Crisis

The Arms Race, Cold War Anxiety, and the German Peace Movement of the 1980s

Becker-Schaum, C., Gassert, P., Mausbach, W., Klimke, M., and Zepp, M. (eds)

In 1983, more than one million Germans joined to protest NATO’s deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe. This volume survey of the “Euromissiles” crisis as experienced by its various protagonists in Germany, including NATO’s strategic maneuvering and the contours of the German protest movement.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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eBook available 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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eBook available Published September 2018
The Online World of Surrogacy

Berend, Z.

Zsuzsa Berend presents a methodologically innovative ethnography of the surrogacy support website in the United States. The Online World of Surrogacy documents collective meaning-making practices that unfold online, and explores their practical, emotional, and moral implications.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology

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eBook available Published July 2019
The France of the Little-Middles

A Suburban Housing Development in Greater Paris

Cartier, M., Coutant, I., Masclet, O., & Siblot, Y.

The France of the Little-Middles explores the strained reception of the migrants in The Poplars, a housing development in suburban Paris that dates back to the mid-20th centrury. The authors examine tensions within the complex less as a product of racism and xenophobia than of anxiety about social class and the loss of a sense of community that reigned before.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Urban Studies

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eBook available Published August 2019
Made In Egypt

Gendered Identity and Aspiration on the Globalised Shop Floor

Chakravarti, L. Z.

This ground-breaking ethnography of an export-orientated factory in Egypt examines the dynamic relationships between the emergent Mubarak-bizniz (business) elites, who are caught in an intensely competitive globalized supply chain, and the local realities of the daily lives of their young, educated, and mixed-gender labor force.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published March 2018
New Uses of Bourdieu in Film and Media Studies

Austin, G. (ed)

French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s work has been extremely influential, but has only intermittently been used to study cinema and new media. With topics ranging from photography to mobile technology, this collection demonstrates the enormous relevance that Bourdieu holds for the field of media studies.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies Sociology

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eBook available 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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eBook available 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 July 2020
Coming of Age

Constructing and Controlling Youth in Munich, 1942-1973

Kalb, M.

In the years following World War II, Munich society became obsessed with the hypothetical threat that youths posed to postwar stability. This fascinating study shows that constructs like the rowdy young male and the sexually deviant girl served as proxies for the anxieties of adult society, while allowing authorities to expand social control.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
eBook available Published June 2018
Migration by Boat

Discourses of Trauma, Exclusion and Survival

Mannik, L. (ed)

Exploring various contemporary case studies and historic cultural renditions of boat migrations undertaken by asylum seekers and refugees, this book shows that boats not only move people and cultural capital between places, but also fuel cultural fantasies, dreams of adventure and hope, along with fears of invasion and terrorism.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology Transport Studies

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Published September 2022
Parenthood between Generations

Transforming Reproductive Cultures

Pooley, S. & Qureshi, K. (eds)

Parenthood between Generations problematizes linear narratives about the emergence of ‘parenting’ as a dominant ideology. The chapters situate the cross-cutting power of the life-course in specific global historical contexts, so as to examine how reproductive cultures are influenced by demographic change, new technologies, migration and diaspora. Studies of working-class, minority and non-heterosexual families, illegitimacy and adoption shed light on of the diverse ways in which nature, biology, kinship and gender have been understood.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
eBook available Published April 2020
Trusting and its Tribulations

Interdisciplinary Engagements with Intimacy, Sociality and Trust

Broch-Due, V. & Ystanes, M. (eds)

Despite its immense significance and ubiquity in our everyday lives, the complex workings of trust are poorly understood and theorized. This volume explores trust and mistrust amidst locally situated scenes of sociality and intimacy.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published March 2019
Rationed Life

Science, Everyday Life, and Working-Class Politics in the Bohemian Lands, 1914–1918

Kučera, R.

Hundreds of thousands of workers toiled in Bohemian factories over the course of World War I, and their lives were inescapably shaped by the conflict. This study reconstructs their collective experience through explorations of food, labor, gender, and protest to assemble a fascinating case study in twentieth century social history.

Subjects: History: World War I Sociology

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eBook available Published April 2021
The Revolution before the Revolution

Late Authoritarianism and Student Protest in Portugal

Accornero, G.

Portugal’s 1974 “Carnation Revolution” was in many ways the culmination of a much longer history of resistance originating in universities and other sectors of society. Combining careful research with insights from social movement theory, this book traces these convulsions in Portuguese society over the course of the “long 1960s.”

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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eBook available Published June 2020
Protest Cultures

A Companion

Fahlenbrach, K., Klimke, M., & Scharloth, J. (eds)

Protest is a ubiquitous and richly varied cultural domain whose symbolic content is regularly deployed by media and advertisers, among others. Yet within social movement scholarship, culture has been comparatively neglected. This definitive research companion dramatically expands the analytical perspective on subject by covering a remarkable array of protest cultures.

Subjects: Sociology History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published November 2017
Social Movement Studies in Europe

The State of the Art

Fillieule, O. & Accornero, G. (eds)

This landmark volume is the first to comprehensively examine the field of social movement studies in a specifically European context. Combining comparative studies of significant issues and movements with focused national studies, this is a bold and uncommonly unified survey that will be essential for scholars and students of European social movements.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Published February 2023
Post-Ottoman Coexistence

Sharing Space in the Shadow of Conflict

Bryant, R. (ed)

Scholars often refer to the “peaceful coexistence” of various religious and ethnic groups under the Ottoman Empire before ethnonationalist conflicts dissolved that shared space and created legacies of division. Post-Ottoman Coexistence interrogates this “coexistence” and asks what practices enabled centuries of cooperation and sharing, as well as how and when such sharing was disrupted

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology
Published March 2018
Memory and Change in Europe

Eastern Perspectives

Pakier, M. & Wawrzyniak, J. (eds)

In studies of a common European past, there is a significant lack of scholarship on the former Eastern Bloc countries. This volume offers a reflection on memory in an Eastern European historical context, one that can be measured against and applied to historical experience in other parts of Europe.

Subjects: History (General) Sociology Memory Studies

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eBook available Published November 2015
Time and the Field

Dalsgaard, S. & Nielsen, M. (eds)

Despite numerous conceptual facelifts, definitions and demarcations of ‘the field’ have remained fundamentally anchored in tropes of spatiality with the association between field and fieldworker characterized by distances in space. This collection serves a fresh invitation to a temporally oriented ethnography by radically rethinking the notion of the field in terms of time rather than space.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

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Published October 2015
What We Now Know About Race and Ethnicity

Banton, M.

Academic writing about race in the USA implicitly endorses the so-called `one-drop' rule. This generates a paradox that can be resolved only by distinguishing theoretical knowledge from practical knowledge.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published September 2020
In the Absence of the Gift

New Forms of Value and Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Community

Rasmussen, A. E.

Nearly half the people born on the remote Mbuke Islands become teachers, businessmen, or bureaucrats in urban centers, while those who stay at home ask migrant relatives “What about me?” This detailed ethnography sheds light on remittance motivations and documents how terms like “community” can be useful in places otherwise permeated by kinship.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Sociology

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eBook available Published September 2015
The Merkel Republic

An Appraisal

Langenbacher, E. (ed)

Bringing together German politics experts from both sides of the Atlantic, this volume addresses the campaign, results, and consequences of the 2013 Bundestag election. Chapters delve into a diverse array of themes, including immigrant-origin and women candidates, the fate of the small parties, and the prospects for the SPD, as well as more general structural trends like the Europeanization and cosmopolitanization of German politics.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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eBook available Published July 2020
The Rhythm of Eternity

The German Youth Movement and the Experience of the Past, 1900-1933

Adriaansen, R.-J.

The Weimar era in Germany is often characterized as a time of significant change. Such periods of rupture transform the way people envision the past, present, and future. This book traces the conceptions of time and history during the German youth movement of the early 20th century.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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eBook available Published July 2015
Social Quality Theory

A New Perspective on Social Development

Herrmann, P. & Lin, K. (eds)

Tracing the expansion of social quality theory and presenting its different aspects, this volume assesses societal progress and makes proposals that are relevant for policy making. Its rich diversity of approaches and cross-national comparisons reveal the increasingly important role of social quality theory for informing political debates on development and sustainability.

Subjects: Sociology Development Studies

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eBook available Published July 2019
New Imaginaries

Youthful Reinvention of Ukraine's Cultural Paradigm

Rubchak, M.J. (ed)

Contributors to this volume infuse their work with Western elements, although vestiges of Soviet-style ideas, research methodology and writing linger. This, as a result, is a paradigm articulating “New Imaginaries” — neither Soviet nor Western — offering a fresh portrait of Ukrainian society seen through a new generation of feminist scholars.

Subjects: Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published November 2018
Militant Around the Clock?

Left-Wing Youth Politics, Leisure, and Sexuality in Post-Dictatorship Greece, 1974-1981

Papadogiannis, N.

During the 1970s left-wing youth militancy in Greece intensified, especially after the collapse of the military dictatorship in 1974. This book is the first study of the impact of that political activism on the leisure pursuits and sexual behavior of Greek youth.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Published April 2017
Nimby Is Beautiful

Cases of Local Activism and Environmental Innovation around the World

Hager, C. & Haddad, M. A. (eds)

NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) protests are often criticized as parochial and short-lived, generating no lasting influence on broader processes related to environmental politics. This volume offers a different perspective. Drawing on cases from around the globe, it demonstrates that NIMBY protests, although always arising from a local concern in a particular community, often result in broader political, social, and technological change.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published February 2017
The Power of Death

Contemporary Reflections on Death in Western Society

Blanco, M.-J. & Vidal, R. (eds)

The social and cultural changes of the last century have transformed death from an everyday fact to something hidden from view. Shifting between the practical and the theoretical, the professional and the intimate, the real and the fictitious, this collection of essays explores the continued power of death over our lives.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Sociology Literary Studies

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Published November 2016
A World of Populations

Transnational Perspectives on Demography in the Twentieth Century

Hartmann, H. & Unger, C. R. (eds)

Demographics were transformed into public policies that shaped family planning, population growth, medical practice, and environmental conservation. While covering a variety of regions and time periods, the essays in this book share an interest in the transnational dynamics of emerging demographic discourses and practices. Together, they present a global picture of the history of demographic knowledge.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Published February 2023
Weary Warriors

Power, Knowledge, and the Invisible Wounds of Soldiers

Moss, P. & Prince, M. J.

“…offers a sustained and persuasive analysis of the institutional dynamics and individual actions by which various forms of warrelated neuroses are recognised, treated, negotiated, claimed and reproduced…The rich and impressive array of sources – military and medical texts, biographies and autobiographies, popular novels and films and journalistic accounts – on which the analysis is based makes the volume all the more persuasive.” · Social Anthropology

“This is a solid piece of scholarship. The authors successfully apply key concepts from Foucault, along with those of his feminist critics, to the analysis of soldiers returning from war. In so doing, they deepen our understanding of how weary warriors are constructed through time and space, and what his/her diagnosis, treatment, and release says about wider relations of power in, between, and across the state, the military, psychiatry, and the body itself.” · Carolyn Gallaher, American University

Subjects: Sociology History (General) Peace and Conflict Studies
Published November 2022
Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany

Wetzell, R. F. (ed)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
eBook available Published March 2016
The Ethics of the New Eugenics

MacKellar, C. & Bechtel, C. (eds)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

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eBook available Published May 2016
Domesticating Youth

Youth Bulges and their Socio-political Implications in Tajikistan

Roche, S.

“This is an outstanding study of the ‘youth bulge’ in a remote country of Central Asia…Through her extensive field work, the author acquired a deep personal knowledge of the peculiarity of the country and its culture, for which little is available in the academic literature…This work is important not only for understanding the dynamics of the youth bulge in Tajikistan, but also to better grasp the rationale and multiple dimensions of youth movements in other developing countries of the same geographical area, and in particular the so-called “Arab Spring” revolutions.” · Michel Garenne, Institut Pasteur, Paris

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published February 2017
Silence, Screen, and Spectacle

Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information

Freeman, L. A., Nienass, B., & Daniell, R. (eds)

This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgotten pasts we strain to hear. Employing social and cultural analysis, the essays within examine mnemonic technologies both new and old, and cover subjects as diverse as U.S. internment camps for Japanese Americans in WWII, the Canadian Indian Residential School system, Israeli memorial videos, and the desaparecidos in Argentina. Through these cases, the contributors argue for a re-interpretation of Guy Debord’s notion of the spectacle as a conceptual apparatus through which to examine the contemporary landscape of social memory, arguing that the concept of spectacle might be developed in an age seen as dissatisfied with the present, nervous about the future, and obsessed with the past.

Subjects: Memory Studies Media Studies Sociology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
eBook available Published October 2015
Japanese Tourism

Spaces, Places and Structures

Funck, C. & Cooper, M.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published October 2016
Durkheim in Dialogue

A Centenary Celebration of The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

Hausner, S. L. (ed)

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

Pb
Published October 2023
Alienating Labour

Workers on the Road from Socialism to Capitalism in East Germany and Hungary

Bartha, E.

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
eBook available Published November 2015
Children of the Dictatorship

Student Resistance, Cultural Politics and the 'Long 1960s' in Greece

Kornetis, K.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published April 2016
The Social Life of Achievement

Long, N. J. & Moore, H. L. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published February 2016
A Policy Travelogue

Tracing Welfare Reform in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Canada

Kingfisher, C.

“This is a groundbreaking book…that represents a sophisticated assemblage of ideas to frame and drive the analysis of data gleaned through long-term engagement with each site…Using the well-delineated concepts of travel, assemblage, and translation, [Kingfisher] explains the contradictory ways in which policy discourse is produced and through which traveling ideas ‘touch down’ in varied places and times and are selectively taken up by people in varied systems of social relations and grounded experiences.” · Judith Goode, Temple University

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published April 2017
The Gift of European Thought and the Cost of Living

Argyrou, V.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

Pb
eBook available Published May 2016
Durkheim, the Durkheimians, and the Arts

Riley, A.T., Pickering, W.S.F., & Watts Miller, W. (eds)

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
eBook available Published June 2016
The Mind of the Nation

Völkerpsychologie in Germany, 1851-1955

Klautke, E.

“This is a very careful and meticulous study of the history of a forgotten science, namely Völkerpsychologie, a scholarly attempt to study the psychological structure of nations. We can now understand not just its complex origins reaching back to the German intellectual history of the early 19th century, but also the intellectual intricacies in the works of its main protagonists.” · Uffa Jensen, Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published September 2015
Race, Color, Identity

Rethinking Discourses about 'Jews' in the Twenty-First Century

Sicher, E. (ed)

Subjects: Jewish Studies Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published June 2015
The Third World in the Global 1960s

Christiansen, S. & Scarlett, Z. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology History (General)

Pb
eBook available Published May 2014
Playing with Languages

Children and Change in a Caribbean Village

Paugh, A. L.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published August 2014
A Durkheimian Quest

Solidarity and the Sacred

Watts Miller, W.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

Pb
eBook available Published July 2012
After The History of Sexuality

German Genealogies with and Beyond Foucault

Spector, S., Puff, H. & Herzog, D. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published October 2015
Sharing the Sacra

The Politics and Pragmatics of Intercommunal Relations around Holy Places

Bowman, G. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Sociology Heritage Studies

Pb
eBook available Published September 2014
Learning From the Children

Childhood, Culture and Identity in a Changing World

Waldren, J. & Kaminski, I.-M. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Mobility Studies

Pb
eBook available Published December 2014
European Foundations of the Welfare State

Kaufmann, F.-X.

Subjects: History (General) Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published April 2016
Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes

An Anthropology of Everyday Religion

Schielke, S. & Debevec, L. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published June 2012
Marginal At the Center

The Life Story of a Public Sociologist

Kimmerling, B.

Subjects: Sociology Jewish Studies

Pb
eBook available Published April 2014
Moving Subjects, Moving Objects

Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions

Svašek, M. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Mobility Studies Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published October 2014
Ambiguous Pleasures

Sexuality and Middle Class Self-Perceptions in Nairobi

Spronk, R.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published April 2012
Images of Power and the Power of Images

Control, Ownership, and Public Space

Kapferer, J. (ed)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published November 2014
Maternalism Reconsidered

Motherhood, Welfare and Social Policy in the Twentieth Century

Klein, M. van der, Plant, R. J., Sanders, Nichole, & Weintrob L. R. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published September 2015
Israeli Identities

Jews and Arabs Facing the Self and the Other

Auron, Y.

Subjects: Jewish Studies Sociology

Pb
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

Pb
eBook available Published December 2014
Nordic Paths to Modernity

Árnason, J. P. & Wittrock, B. (eds)

Subjects: Development Studies History (General) Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published March 2015
Tuff City

Urban Change and Contested Space in Central Naples

Dines, N.

Subjects: Urban Studies Sociology Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published May 2014
The Cult and Science of Public Health

A Sociological Investigation

Dew, K.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Medical Anthropology

Pb
eBook available Published November 2015
Sexual Knowledge

Feeling, Fact, and Social Reform in Vienna, 1900-1934

McEwen, B.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Pb
Published November 2014
Identity Politics and the New Genetics

Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging

Schramm, K., Skinner, D., & Rottenburg, R. (eds)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
eBook available Published August 2013
Civilizations Beyond Earth

Extraterrestrial Life and Society

Vakoch, D. A. & Harrison, A. A. (eds)

“For years sections of the SETI [Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence] community have bemoaned the fact that the social sciences are often sidelined in favour of the hard sciences when it comes to SETI discussion. Civilizations Beyond Earth starts to redress the balance, edited skillfully by Douglas Vakoch, the only sociologist on staff at the SETI Institute in California, and Albert Harrison, a psychologist from the University of California.” • Astronomy

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Archaeology

Pb
eBook available Published November 2013
Indigenous Peoples and Demography

The Complex Relation between Identity and Statistics

Axelsson, P. & Sköld, P. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Pb
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

Pb
eBook available Published December 2013
France in the Age of Organization

Factory, Home and Nation from the 1920s to Vichy

Clarke, J.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published April 2011
Policy Worlds

Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power

Shore, C., Wright S., & Però, D.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Applied Anthropology Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published August 2014
Mapping Difference

The Many Faces of Women in Contemporary Ukraine

Rubchak, M. J. (ed)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published September 2013
Sibling Relations and the Transformations of European Kinship, 1300-1900

Johnson, C. H. & Sabean, D. W. (eds)

“In all cases, the research is solid, not drawing from a single source, such as a series of letters, but including a broad range of historical evidence. The analyses themselves are nicely nuanced and all connect with the main theoretical issues of the field, providing a lively discussion and indicating new directions for research. Scholars from many fields focusing on family and kinship, as well as general readers with an interest in family relations, will enjoy and find stimulation in this volume.” · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Subjects: History (General) Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published February 2013
The Ju/’hoan San of Nyae Nyae and Namibian Independence

Development, Democracy, and Indigenous Voices in Southern Africa

Biesele, M. & Hitchcock, R. K.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Pb
Published November 2010
Migration, Development, and Transnationalization

A Critical Stance

Glick Schiller, N. & Faist, T. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Theory and Methodology Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published December 2012
The Ways of Friendship

Anthropological Perspectives

Desai, A. & Killick, E. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
eBook available Published May 2012
Multicultural Dialogue

Dilemmas, Paradoxes, Conflicts

Gressgård, R.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published September 2012
Godless Intellectuals?

The Intellectual Pursuit of the Sacred Reinvented

Riley, A. T.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology of Religion

Pb
eBook available Published August 2012
Changing the World, Changing Oneself

Political Protest and Collective Identities in West Germany and the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s

Davis, B., Mausbach, W., Klimke, M. & MacDougall, C. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published April 2012
Substitute Parents

Biological and Social Perspectives on Alloparenting in Human Societies

Bentley, G. & Mace, R. (eds)

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published November 2011
A Walk to the River in Amazonia

Ordinary Reality for the Mehinaku Indians

Stang, C. D.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published June 2012
Mediating Europe

New Media, Mass Communications, and the European Public Sphere

Harrison, J. & Wessels, B. (eds)

Subjects: Media Studies Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published September 2012
When God Comes to Town

Religious Traditions in Urban Contexts

Pinxten, R. & Dikomitis, L. (eds)

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published November 2009
Pursuits of Happiness

Well-Being in Anthropological Perspective

Mathews, G. & Izquierdo, C. (eds)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published November 2010
Hierarchy

Persistence and Transformation in Social Formations

Rio, K. & Smedal, O. H. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published April 2012
Suffering and Evil

The Durkheimian Legacy

Pickering, W. S. F. & Rosati, M. (eds)

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

Pb
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

Pb
eBook available Published January 2010
Taking Sides

Ethics, Politics, and Fieldwork in Anthropology

Armbruster, H. & Lærke, A. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published August 2008
The State and the Arts

Articulating Power and Subversion

Kapferer, J.

Subjects: Urban Studies Sociology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
eBook available Published September 2011
Between Mass Death and Individual Loss

The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany

Confino, A., Betts, P. & Schumann, D. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published July 2009
Coming of Age in Times of Uncertainty

Blatterer, H.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Pb
Published September 2009
The Manual of Ethnography

Mauss, M.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

Pb
eBook available Published October 2008
Learning Religion

Anthropological Approaches

Berliner, D. & Sarró, R. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology Sociology

Pb
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

hb
eBook available Published May 2007
Explorations in Psychoanalytic Ethnography

Mimica, J. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Pb
Published May 2007
Medical Identities

Healing, Well Being and Personhood

Maynard, K. (ed)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

Pb
Published June 2011
Fire in the Dark

Telling Gypsiness in North East England

Buckler, S.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Sociology Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published March 2007
Continental Britons

German-Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany

Berghahn, M.

Subjects: Jewish Studies Refugee and Migration Studies History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Pb
Published March 2007
Identity and Networks

Fashioning Gender and Ethnicity across Cultures

Bryceson, D., Okely, J., & Webber, J. (eds)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Theory and Methodology Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published February 2007
State and Civil Society in Northern Europe

The Swedish Model Reconsidered

Trägårdh, L. (ed)

Subject: Sociology

Pb
Published April 2007
The Kinning of Foreigners

Transnational Adoption in a Global Perspective

Howell, S.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies Sociology

Pb
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

Pb
Published August 2006
Le Malaise Creole

Ethnic Identity in Mauritius

Boswell, R.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

hb
Published May 2006
Nationalism's Bloody Terrain

Racism, Class Inequality, and the Politics of Recognition

Baca, G.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology Sociology

Pb
Published May 2006
An Introduction to Two Theories of Social Anthropology

Descent Groups and Marriage Alliance

Dumont, L.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Pb
Published June 2020
Techniques, Technology and Civilization

Mauss, M.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published February 2006
Miners and the State in the Ottoman Empire

The Zonguldak Coalfield, 1822-1920

Quataert, D.

Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Pb
Published December 2005
Silence

The Currency Of Power

Achino-Loeb, M.-L. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Pb
Published December 2005
Music and Manipulation

On the Social Uses and Social Control of Music

Brown, S. & Volgsten, U. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies Sociology Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published December 2006
Between Marx and Coca-Cola

Youth Cultures in Changing European Societies, 1960-1980

Schildt, A. & Siegfried, D. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies Sociology

Pb
Published December 2005
Sartre Today

A Centenary Celebration

Hoven, A. van den & Leak, A.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published December 2005
Where Have All the Homeless Gone?

The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis

Marcus, A.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Urban Studies Sociology

Pb
Published December 2005
Racism in Metropolitan Areas

Pinxten, R. & Preckler, E. (eds)

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

Pb
Published October 2005
On the Order of Chaos

Social Anthropology and the Science of Chaos

Mosko, M. S. & Damon, F. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Pb
Published April 2020
The Nature of Sociology

Mauss, M.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Sociology Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published March 2005
Ageing Without Children

European and Asian Perspectives on Elderly Access to Support Networks

Kreager, P. & Schröder-Butterfill, E. (eds)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

Pb
Published December 2004
Sartre, Self-formation and Masculinities

Boulé, J.-P.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published November 2005
Rebordering the Mediterranean

Boundaries and Citizenship in Southern Europe

Suárez-Navaz, L.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Refugee and Migration Studies

Pb
eBook available Published December 2006
Resistance in an Amazonian Community

Huaorani Organizing against the Global Economy

Ziegler-Otero, L.

Subjects: Development Studies Sociology

Pb
Published June 2004
Race in France

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Difference

Chapman, H. & Frader, L.L. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Pb
Published June 2004
Culture and Politics

Identity and Conflict in a Multicultural World

Pinxten, R. & Verstraete, G. & Longman, C. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Sociology

Pb
Published March 2004
An Earth-colored Sea

'Race', Culture and the Politics of Identity in the Post-Colonial Portuguese-Speaking World

Vale de Almeida, M.

Subjects: Colonial History Anthropology (General) Sociology

Pb
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

Pb
Published October 2006
The Social Construction of Diversity

Recasting the Master Narrative of Industrial Nations

Harzig, C. & Juteau, D. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Anthropology (General) Sociology

Pb
Published November 2003
Illness and Irony

On the Ambiguity of Suffering in Culture

Lambek, M. & Antze, P. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Pb
Published November 2004
Radical Ethnic Movements in Contemporary Europe

Daftary, F. & Troebst, S. (eds)

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published September 2003
On Prayer

Text and Commentary

Mauss, M.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion Sociology

Pb
Published December 2005
Anthropology & Law

Donovan, J.M. & Anderson, III, H.E.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Pb
Published May 2005
Aging in Today's World

Conversations between an Anthropologist and a Physician

Shield, R. R. & Aronson, S. M.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Sociology Medical Anthropology

Pb
Published March 2009
Louis Dumont and Hierarchical Opposition

Parkin, R.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published January 2004
Disputed Territories

The Transnational Dynamics of Ethnic Conflict Settlement

Wolff, S.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology

Pb
Published January 2004
Peace At Last?

The Impact of the Good Friday Agreement on Northern Ireland

Neuheiser, J. & Wolff, S. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Sociology

Pb
Published December 2002
Identities

Time, Difference and Boundaries

Friese, H. (ed)

Subjects: History (General) Literary Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

Pb
Published December 2002
Rebellious Families

Household Strategies and Collective Action in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Kok, J. (ed)

Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Pb
Published October 2002
Montesquieu

His Contribution to the Establishment of Political Science

Durkheim, E.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published July 2003
Durkheim Today

Pickering, W. S. F. (ed)

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published July 2002
Risky Transactions

Trust, Kinship and Ethnicity

Salter, F. K. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Pb
Published June 2002
Europe's New Racism

Causes, Manifestations, and Solutions

Evens Foundation

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology Urban Studies

Pb
Published May 2002
A Sealed and Secret Kinship

The Culture of Policies and Practices in American Adoption

Modell, J.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Medical Anthropology Sociology

Pb
Published February 2002
The Shaping of Environmental Policy in France

Szarka, J.

Drawing on an extensive range of political, legal and sociological materials, the author presents and evaluates environmental policy-making in France at a time when environmental problems are growing in complexity and gravity.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Sociology Sustainable Development Goals

Pb
Published December 2001
Celebrating Ethnicity and Nation

American Festive Culture from the Revolution to the Early 20th Century

Heideking, J., Fabre, G. & Dreisbach, K. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Pb
Published November 2001
Durkheim and Foucault

Perspectives on Education and Punishment

Cladis, M. (ed)

Subjects: Educational Studies Sociology

Pb
Published July 2001
Child Abuse on the Internet

Breaking the Silence

Arnaldo, C.A., in association with UNESCO

Subject: Sociology

Pb
Published January 2001
The New Age in Glastonbury

The Construction of Religious Movements

Prince, R. & Riches, D.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Sociology

Pb
Published December 2000
Categories and Classifications

Maussian Reflections on the Social

Allen, N. J.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Pb
Published October 2000
Patterns of Provocation

Police and Public Disorder

Bessel, R. & Emsley, C. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published December 2001
Recalling the Belgian Congo

Conversations and Introspection

Dembour, M.-B.

Subjects: Colonial History Anthropology (General) Sociology

Pb
Published April 2000
The Psychosocial Wellness of Refugees

Issues in Qualitative and Quantitative Research

Ahearn, F. (ed)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology

Pb
Published November 1999
Essay on Time

A Brief Study of the Representation of Time in Religion and Magic

Hubert, H.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published June 1999
Industrial Culture and Bourgeois Society in Modern Germany

Kocka, J.

Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century Sociology

Pb
Published April 1999
Television Broadcasting in Contemporary France and Britain

Scriven, M. & Lecomte, M. (eds)

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Sociology Media Studies

Pb
Published March 1999
Poverty in Transition and Transition in Poverty

Recent Developments in Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Georgia, Russia, and Mongolia

Atal, Y. (ed)

Subjects: Development Studies Sociology

Pb
Published December 1998
Marcel Mauss

A Centenary Tribute

James, W. & Allen, N. J. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Pb
Published September 1998
Sinti and Roma

Gypsies in German-speaking Society and Literature

Tebbutt, S. (ed)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Sociology Literary Studies

Pb
Published May 1996
Turkish Culture in German Society

Horrocks, D. & Kolinsky, E. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Pb
Published June 1996
The Power of the Story

Fiction and Political Change

Hanne, M.

Subjects: Literary Studies History (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

Pb

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Care in a Time of Humanitarianism

Stories of Refuge, Aid, and Repair in the Global South

Osanloo, A. & deBergh Robinson, C. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

Crypto Crowds

Singularities and Multiplicities on the Blockchain

Shapiro, M. (ed)

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

Resisting Radicalisation?

Understanding Young People's Journeys through Radicalising Milieus

Pilkington, H. (ed)

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

Romani Chronicles of COVID-19

Testimonies of Harm and Resilience

Blasco, P. G. y & Fotta, M. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Medical Anthropology

Visions of Marriage

Politics and Family on Kinmen, 1920-2020

Chiu, H.-C.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality

From Village Commons to Public Goods

Graduated Provision in Urbanizing China

Trémon, A.-C.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies Sociology Sustainable Development Goals

The Power of the Story

Writing Disasters in Haiti and the Circum-Caribbean

Joos, V., Munro, M. & Ribó, J. (eds)

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

In the Meantime

Toward an Anthropology of the Possible

Masquelier, A. & Durham, D. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General)

Making Multiple Babies

Anticipatory Regimes of Assisted Reproduction

Wu, C.-L.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

This Land Is Not For Sale

Trust and Transitions in Northern Uganda

Meinert, L. & Reynolds Whyte, S. (eds)

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies Sociology

Sentient Ecologies

Xenophobic Imaginaries of Landscape

Coțofană, A. & Kuran, H. (eds)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

Ritual

What It Is, How It Works, and Why

Davis-Floyd, R. & Laughlin, C. D.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Anthropology of Religion

Risky Futures

Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North

Ulturgasheva, O. & Bodenhorn, B. (eds)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Sociology Sustainable Development Goals

Ethnographies of Deservingness

Unpacking Ideologies of Distribution and Inequality

Tošić, J. & Streinzer, A. (eds)

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology Sustainable Development Goals

Puzzling Stories

The Aesthetic Appeal of Cognitive Challenge in Film, Television and Literature

Willemsen, S. & Kiss, M. (eds)

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Tangled Mobilities

Places, Affects, and Personhood across Social Spheres in Asian Migration

Fresnoza-Flot, A. & Liu-Farrer, G. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

Where is the Good in the World?

Ethical Life between Social Theory and Philosophy

Henig, D., Strhan, A., & Robbins, J. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Anthropology of Religion

Making Better Lives

Hope, Freedom and Home-Making among People Sleeping Rough in Paris

Lenhard, J.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Urban Studies Sustainable Development Goals

Grazing Communities

Pastoralism on the Move and Biocultural Heritage Frictions

Bindi, L. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Development Studies Sustainable Development Goals

Configuring Contagion