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September 2026 Dictatorship as Experience
Towards a Socio-Cultural History of the GDR
Jarausch†, K. (ed)
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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September 2026 Dictionary of Authentic American Proverbs
Mieder, W.
Dictionary of American Proverbs offers a comprehensive reference guide for distinctly American proverbs. Featuring a compendium of nearly 1,500 American proverbs spanning the 17th century to present day, this dictionary also includes a scholarly introduction along with a comprehensive bibliography of proverb collections and interpretive scholarship.
Subjects: Literary Studies Heritage Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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September 2026 The Origins of Prejudice
Dangerous Opinions and Beliefs
Anderson, E., Coures, K., Guerrón Montero, C., Schendel-Vyvoda, T. L., Schwörer, T. & Terrell, J. E.
The Origins of Prejudice is a short and unconventional book that shows you step-by-step both how and why all of us who are human often rely uncritically on what we believe to be true about the people, things, and events shaping our lives outside the hidden world of our bony skull. This book aims to show how we can learn from our possibly unintentional acts and self-serving misdeeds to live together in supportive, less conflicted ways.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
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September 2026 Concepts of Culture
New Directions in Conceptual History
Pirholt, M. & Lipkin, M. (eds)
An interdisciplinary approach to conceptual history that broadens the scope of this influential theoretical tradition, with a particular focus on cultural concepts found in art history, comparative literature, cultural studies, and German studies, among others. In doing so, it also contributes to the methodological development in these fields of research.
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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September 2026 Theorising Media and Time
Temporalities, Media Practices and Politics of Time in a Digital Era
Bräuchler, B. & Grønlykke Mollerup, N. (Eds.)
Digital media perpetuates every aspect of our lives, including our temporal perceptions. This book brings advances in the anthropological thinking about time into conversation with theorisations of media to develop an understanding of how media and time affect each other while keeping human experiences at the heart of the conversation.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Media Studies Sociology
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September 2026 Camorra Networks
Populism, Neoliberalism, and the Media Machine of Naples’ Underworld
Giusto, S.
Focusing on Naples' social peripheries, this book examines how the Camorra, one of Europe's most entrenched and violently coercive criminal organizations, operates music, television, and online media empires that collide with state-regulated cultural industries, challenging conventional links among media, democracy, and violence.
Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology
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September 2026 Urban Biopolitics
Lives and Spaces in Baltic and Eastern Europe
Makarychev, A.
Comparing Estonia and Ukraine, this book explores urban governance through the lens of biopolitics. It examines how geopolitical pressures shape the management of urban populations, revealing how cities become key sites where lifestyle, security, and political calculation intersect.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Urban Studies
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September 2026 The Spirit of Affect
Song-Dance Encounters in Matrilineal Congo
Plancke, C.
In rural Punu communities, song and dance are shaped through ritual encounters between humans and spirit beings. This ethnography explores how performance creates connection and participation in the water spirit world, offering a matrifocal perspective that rethinks affect and embodied life.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
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September 2026 Arts Initiatives by Refugees for Refugees
Forced Displacement, Creativity, and Agency
Gilman, L.
Addressing forced migration as a global challenge, this book draws on multi-sited research to examine the arts and cultural dimensions of refugee contexts. Through narrative-driven accounts, it highlights refugee agency, creativity, and community-building, challenging reductive stereotypes and foregrounding refugees' contributions to both home and host societies.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
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September 2026 Writing Holocaust History
Browning, C.
In this collection of essays, Browning explores the evolution of Holocaust historiography and illustrates key research trends. Taken together, these essays highlight the shifting focus in Holocaust scholarship, from Germany to Eastern Europe, policy making to implementation, leaders to participants, and perpetrators to victims.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present History: World War II
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September 2026 Reading Hitler’s Victims
Refugee Memoirs of Nazi Persecution for British Readers during Appeasement and War
Pilsworth, E.
The first study on the translation, publication and marketing of literary memoirs, by both Jewish and non-Jewish victims of Nazi persecution, for British readers during the years of Nazi rule. It reveals how German and Austrian Christians, rather than Jewish victims, came to represent ‘what Britain was fighting for’.
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies History: World War II
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September 2026 Shakespeare's Counternarrative Against Death
Immortal Longings in His Plays and Poetry
Widdicombe, T.
Examining Shakespeare's persistent counternarrative to mortality, this book explores the strategies through which his plays and poetry challenge death's permanence. While engaging with existing scholarship on text and performance, it calls for renewed attention to Shakespearean meaning and the enduring significance of his work.
Subject: Literary Studies
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September 2026 Metaphors of Spain
Representations of Spanish National Identity in the Twentieth Century
Moreno-Luzón, J. & Seixas, X. (Eds.)
The history of twentieth-century Spanish nationalism is a complex one, placing a set of famously distinctive regional identities against a backdrop of religious conflict, separatist tensions, and the autocratic rule of Francisco Franco. Metaphors of Spain brings together leading historians to examine Spanish nationalism through its diverse and complementary cultural artifacts.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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October 2026 The Making of Turkish Contemporary History
Voices Intertwined
Pekesen, B. (Eds.)
The Making of Turkish Contemporary History brings together diverse disciplines to examine historiography, focusing on often-overlooked decades after the 1950s. This is an essential reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of knowledge production, contested historical truths, and the political stakes of writing contemporary history.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Anthropology (General) Sociology
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October 2026 Music and Nineteenth-Century Liberalism in the Ibero-American Atlantic Space
Hernández Mateos, A., Silva, J. & Cymbron, L. (Eds.)
Liberalism in the 19th Century, rooted in philosophy and expressed through economic and political systems, shaped the Western world in complex and often contradictory ways. The influence of liberalism on music in Portugal, Spain, and Latin America is explored, regions where liberalism evolved amid conflicts that left deep cultural marks.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General)
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October 2026 Bodies, Gods and Other Imponderables
Cross-Cultural Metalogues
Lloyd, G. & Vilaça, A.
Through a dialogue between a philosopher and an anthropologist, one a specialist in ancient Greek and Chinese thought, the other in Amazonian Indigenous peoples. Lloyd and Vilaça revise our understanding of ideas about the body and its antitheses, dreams, sickness, gods, and the narratives and myths which are used to untangle these concepts.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
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October 2026 Jane Ellen Harrison
Stroup, R.
Jane Ellen Harrison transformed the study of Greek religion with her discovery of a religious system predating that of the Olympic gods and goddesses familiar to the modern world. This book introduces her work and ideas, which have influenced and profoundly shaped scholarship, primarily in the classics, throughout the last century.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
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October 2026 The Healing Machi
An Ethnography of Mapuche Medicine Efficacies
Barros, A.
This book is an ethnography on Mapuche ritual healing transformations from the perspective of the phenomenology of the body. It explores how people identify a Mapuche shaman, or a “real Machi”, a person who can both see illness and misfortune through divinatory techniques, and experience ritual trance to make ‘spirits from the past' present.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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October 2026 Weather Signs
Traditional Meteorological Knowledge in Japanese Small-Scale Fisheries
Bulian, G.
Drawing on ethnography, historical sources, and folklore, this book examines how fishermen and coastal communities in Japan read winds, clouds, seas, animals, and celestial signs to anticipate change and manage risk.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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October 2026 Spaghetti with Ajvar
The Translocal Everyday Lives of Muslims in North Macedonia and Italy
Bielenin-Lenczowska, K.
Examining the economic migration of Macedonian-speaking Muslims from North Macedonia to Italy, this ethnography explores shifting everyday lives across transnational contexts. Focusing on gender and generational dynamics, it captures a moment in the lives of the Torbeši shaped by mobility, cultural exchange, and change.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Gender Studies and Sexuality
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October 2026 Becoming Advocate
On Autism, Parenthood, Care and Online Advocacy in Portugal
Lo Bosco, M.
Tracing the emergence of autism in Portugal, from its early recognition in child psychiatry to the rise of parent-led advocacy and digital activism, this book examines how families confront inadequate services, challenge outdated paradigms and advocate for educational and social reforms.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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November 2026 Losing and Finding Prussia in the Twentieth Century
German History and the Legacy of a Vanished Kingdom
Mustafa, S.
Mustafa examines the changing role of Prussia in the lives of German people, from the founding of the empire in 1871 to the present. He explores the decline of Prussia's power within the Reich and its crisis during the Weimar Republic, and its return to the public consciousness in the twenty-first century.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century
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November 2026 Roman Polanski after The Pianist
The Man and His Films
Jamrozik, Ż. & Mazierska, E.
Roman Polanski after The Pianist examines Polanski's later films as a distinct and coherent phase in his career. Situating these works within changing industrial, cultural, and political conditions, the book shows how Polanski's late cinema rethinks genre, sound, work, domestic space and historical memory.
Subject: Film and Television Studies
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November 2026 The Origins of Cultural Customs
From Superstitions to Holiday Events
Forrest, J.
Examining the origins of a wide variety of cultural conventions, including calendar customs, folklore, annual holidays, and ethnic identity, this work uses a critical lens to common perceptions and misconceptions.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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November 2026 Inplacement
Global Outbreaks and the Anthropology of Isolation
Hoffman, S. & García-Acosta, V.
Combining international theoretical and ethnographic perspectives, this volume examines people in socio-cultural contexts shaped by global crises. Drawing on Covid-19 lockdown experiences, it explores in-placement, situates epidemics within the risk field, and asks whether established anthropological approaches remain adequate.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology Sustainable Development Goals
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November 2026 Rebel Valley
Territorio, Infrastructure and Resistance in Alpine Italy
Laszczkowski, M.
Focusing on the No TAV movement in Italy's Valsusa, this book examines long-term resistance to infrastructure development. Drawing on anthropology, political theory, and geography, it situates territorial struggles across Europe and argues for territorio as a basis for alternative political futures.
Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology
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November 2026 Decolonizing Ourselves
Reflections from a Personal Journey
Colfer, C.
Tracing a life shaped by movement between cultures, this book combines autoethnography and analysis of modern colonialism to examine inequality across contexts. It reflects on personal and structural change, inviting readers to consider their own positions within enduring systems of injustice.
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Sustainable Development Goals
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November 2026 The Body Swap Film
Moss-Wellington, W. & Wilkins, K.
An enduring yet underexamined tradition in popular cinema, body swap narratives have captivated audiences across cultures and genres. This volume offers the first study of the ‘body swap' film, examining notable examples such as the Freaky Friday films alongside comedies, horrors, and hybrid forms shaped by bodily transformation.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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November 2026 Red Ghosts
Anticommunism in Argentina from 1900 to Milei
Bohoslavsky, E. & Franco, M.
A historical account of Argentine anticommunism from 1900 to the present. From Peronism to the last military dictatorship, this is an in-depth analysis of Argentina's most pivotal political processes over the past 120 years. It reveals the persistent and often underestimated role of anticommunism in shaping national political culture.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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November 2026 Opposing Ostpolitik
Franz Josef Strauss' Grand Design for Europe
Schmelter, L.
Lukas Paul Schmelter re-examines the debate over West German Ostpolitik, focusing on Franz Josef Strauss and his approach to foreign policy in the 1960s–70s. Drawing on archival research, he situates Strauss within the wider history of Cold War strategy, European integration, and the contested future direction of the Federal Republic.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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November 2026 Scientific Internationalism in Cold War Central and Eastern Europe
The Age of Reciprocity
Surman, J. & Pavlíček, T. (Eds.)
This book explores Cold War scientific collaboration, focusing on exchanges between Czechoslovakia and Poland in the 1960s and 1970s. It offers a nuanced account of socialist hierarchies and knowledge transfer, challenging the view that socialist scholars acted only through rigid, reciprocal plans.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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November 2026 On the Origin of Tourist Experiences
A Historical, Phenomenological Perspective on Travel Stories
Lengkeek, J.
Drawing on four millennia of travel narratives, this book examines the enduring fascination with travel from philosophical, historical, and anthropological perspectives. It argues that, despite its contested impacts, tourism reflects a persistent human impulse rooted in the long history of journeys beyond everyday life.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism Travel and Tourism
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November 2026 Sliding Worlds
Reflections on the Taipei Dance Circle
Chen, Y.
Famous for its ‘Modern Dance on Baby Oil', the Taipei Dance Circle (1984–2019) changed how we think about movements. This book captures a rare behind-the-scenes look in dance ethnography at the group's final experimental years (2014-2017) after losing their founder, Shaw-Lu Liu.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Anthropology (General)