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What is existential anthropology, and how would you define it? What has been gained by using existential perspectives in your fieldwork and writing? Editors Michael Jackson and Albert Piette each invited anthropologists on both sides of the Atlantic to address …
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Extreme Filmmaking in the 1960s
Edges of Noir challenges the notion that noir film nearly vanished after 1958 until its subsequent neo-noir revival between 1973 and 1981. The 1960s, regardless of critical neglect, include some of the most provocative films of the post-World War II …
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The Destruction of Jewish Commercial Activity, 1930-1945
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Before the Nazis took power, Jewish businesspeople in Berlin thrived alongside their non-Jewish neighbors. But Nazi racism changed that, gradually destroying Jewish businesses before murdering the Jews themselves. Reconstructing the fate of more than 8,000 companies, this book offers the …
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Eastern Perspectives
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In studies of a common European past, there is a significant lack of scholarship on the former Eastern Bloc countries. While understanding the importance of shifting the focus of European memory eastward, contributors to this volume avoid the trap of …
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Constellations of Care, Myth, and Race in South Africa
Focussing ethnographically on private-sector maternity care in South Africa, Privileges of Birth looks at the ways healthcare and childbirth are shaped by South Africas racialised history. Birth is one of the most medicalised aspects of the lifecycle across all sectors …
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Ambiguities of Care in Burkina Faso
Caring for small children and the family in Burkina Faso is hard work. Although the health infrastructure in Burkina Faso is weak and many citizens feel neglected by the state, Fragile Futures shows that the state continues to play an …
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The Anthropology of Professionals in International Development
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Anthropological interest in new subjects of research and contemporary knowledge practices has turned ethnographic attention to a wide ranging variety of professional fields. Among these the encounter with international development has perhaps been longer and more intimate than any of …
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The Archaeology of Counter-Witchcraft
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Belief in magic and particularly the power of witchcraft was once a deep and enduring presence in popular culture. Diving into Brian Hoggards Magical House Protection is a remarkable experience... [It] provides an immersive and fascinating read.Fortean Times People created …
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The German Youth Movement and the Experience of the Past, 1900-1933
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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 in the Germany …
View book details for The Economy in Jewish History
New Perspectives on the Interrelationship between Ethnicity and Economic Life
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Jewish historiography tends to stress the religious, cultural, and political aspects of the past. By contrast the economy has been pushed to the margins of the Jewish discourse and scholarship since the end of the Second World War. This volume …
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An Anthropology of Undesired Buildings
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Collapsing concrete colossuses, run-down overgrown skeletons, immutable architectural misfits: the outcasts from our built environment, which we are dying to dispose of and yet cannot do without have inspired many ghost stories, crime novels and urban legends. Such narratives reveal …
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Investigating Death and Liminality
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Periods of transition are often symbolically associated with death, making the latter the paradigm of liminality. Yet, many volumes on death in the social sciences and humanities do not specifically address liminality. This book investigates these ultimate ambiguities, assuming they …
View book details for Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters
New Lives of Old Imaginaries
The insular Pacific is a region saturated with great cultural diversity and poignant memories of colonial and Christian intrusion. Considering authenticity and authorship in the area, this book looks at how these ideas have manifested themselves in Pacific peoples and …
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The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan
Inside the hidden lives of the global 1%, this book examines the networks, social practices, marriages, and machinations of Pakistans elite. Benefitting from rare access and keen analytical insight, Rosita Armytages rich study reveals the daily, even mundane, ways in …
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Photographs and History
A meticulous and shattering investigation of eight horrific pictures...LArche In December 1941, on a shore near the Latvian city of Liepaja, Nazi death squads (the Einsatzgruppen) and local collaborators murdered in three days more than 2,700 Jews. The majority were …
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New Perspectives on Modern German and British History
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"Civil Society" has been experiencing a global renaissance among social movements and political thinkers during the last two decades. This collection of original papers by junior and senior scholars offers an important comparative-historical dimension to the debate by examining the …
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A Directors Notes on Exile, Family, and Film
Recounts the life and career of Croatian filmmaker Rajko Grlic in the form of a lexicon of film terms tied to anecdotes spanning Grlics life. I read a lot this year. Old, new, borrowed, blue. This was the best. The …
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While some scholars have said that there is no such thing as culture and have urged to abandon the concept altogether, the contributors to this volume overcome this impasse by understanding cultures and their representations for what they ultimately are …
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The Meaning of Measures and the Measure of Meanings
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In the crowded and busy arena of obesity and fat studies, there is a lack of attention to the lived experiences of people, how and why they eat what they do, and how people in cross-cultural settings understand risk, health, …
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Knowledge Reproduction and Political Economy of Cooking in Morocco
Even in the context of rapid material and social change in urban Morocco, women, and especially those from low-income households, continue to invest a lot of work in preparing good food for their families. Through the lens of domestic food …
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A Critical Appraisal
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The age-friendly community movement is a global phenomenon, currently growing with the support of the WHO and multiple international and national organizations in the field of aging. Drawing on an extensive collection of international case studies, this volume provides an …
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Negotiating Gender in Low-Income Cairo
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The gap between rich and poor is widening in most countries, putting more pressure on women in particular who often find themselves with the ultimate responsibility to provide for their families, especially their children, in the face of economic and …
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In many societies today, educational aims or goals are commonly characterized in terms of equality, equal opportunity, equal access or equal rights, the underlying assumption being that equality in some form is an intelligible and sensible educational ideal. Yet, there …
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Anthropological Perspectives on Changing Practices of Dwelling and Building
Over the decades, there has been a world-wide transformation of so-called vernacular houses. Based on ethnographic accounts from different regions, Houses Transformed investigates the changing practices of building houses in a transnational context. It explores the intersection of house biographies …
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Menswear in the Age of Social Media
What does mens fashion say about contemporary masculinity? How do these notions operate in an increasingly digitized world? To answer these questions, author Joshua M. Bluteau combines theoretical analysis with vibrant narrative, exploring mens fashion in the online world of …
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