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View book details for Ritual Retellings
Luangan Healing Performances through Practice
Berghahn Books
Belian is an exceptionally lively tradition of shamanistic curing rituals performed by the Luangans, a politically marginalized population of Indonesian Borneo. This volume explores the significance of these rituals in practice and asks what belian rituals do socially, politically, and …
View book details for The Partial Revolution
Labour, Social Movements and the Invisible Hand of Mao in Western Nepal
Berghahn Books
Located in the far-western Tarai region of Nepal, Kailali has been the site of dynamic social and political change in recent history. The Partial Revolution examines Kailali in the aftermath of Nepals Maoist insurgency, critically examining the ways in which …
View book details for Clausewitz in His Time
Essays in the Cultural and Intellectual History of Thinking about War
Berghahn Books
Anything but a detached theorist, Clausewitz was as fully engaged in the intellectual and cultural currents of his time as in its political and military conflicts. Late-eighteenth century thought helped shape the analytic methods he developed for the study of …
View book details for An Australian Indigenous Diaspora
Warlpiri Matriarchs and the Refashioning of Tradition
Berghahn Books
Some indigenous people, while remaining attached to their traditional homelands, leave them to make a new life for themselves in white towns and cities, thus constituting an indigenous diaspora. This innovative book is the first ethnographic account of one such …
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A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa
Berghahn Books
As soon as Europeans set foot on African soil, they looked for the equivalents of their kings and found them. The resulting misunderstandings have lasted until this day. Based on ethnography-driven regional comparison and a critical re-examination of classic monographs …
View book details for One Sound, Two Worlds
The Blues in a Divided Germany, 1945-1990
Berghahn Books
For all of its apparent simplicitya few chords, twelve bars, and a supposedly straightforward American characterblues music is a complex phenomenon with cultural significance that has varied greatly across different historical contexts. One Sound, Two Worlds examines the development of …
View book details for The Burden of German History
A Transatlantic Life
As one of the leading historians of Modern Europe and an internationally acclaimed scholar for the past five decades, Konrad H. Jarausch presents a sustained academic reflection on the post-war German effort to cope with the guilt of the Holocaust …
View book details for Traumatic Pasts in Asia
History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present
In the early twenty-first century, trauma is seemingly everywhere, whether as experience, diagnosis, concept, or buzzword. Yet even as many scholars consider trauma to be constitutive of psychological modernity or the post-Enlightenment human condition, historical research on the topic has …
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Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan
Using the example of Iraqi refugees in Jordan's capital of Amman, this book describes how information and communication technologies (ICTs) play out in the everyday experiences of urban refugees, geographically located in the Global South, and shows how interactions between …
View book details for Latin America Facing China
South-South Relations beyond the Washington Consensus
Berghahn Books
The last quarter of the twentieth century was a period of economic crises, increasing indebtedness as well as financial instability for Latin America and most other developing countries; in contrast, China showed amazingly high growth rates during this time and …
Berghahn Books
The last three decades have witnessed a period of growing archaeological activity in Greece that have enhanced our awareness of the diversity and variability of ancient communities. New sites offer rich datasets from many aspects of material culture that challenge …
View book details for Americanization and Anti-americanism
The German Encounter with American Culture after 1945
Berghahn Books
The ongoing discussions about globalization, American hegemony and September 11 and its aftermath have moved the debate about the export of American culture and cultural anti-Americanism to center stage of world politics. At such a time, it is crucial to …
View book details for Death of the Father
An Anthropology of the End in Political Authority
Berghahn Books
The death of authority figures like fathers or leaders can be experienced as either liberation or loss. In the twentieth century, the authority of the father and of the leader became closely intertwined; constraints and affective attachments intensified in ways …
View book details for Multiculturalism in the New Japan
Crossing the Boundaries Within
Berghahn Books
Like other industrial nations, Japan is experiencing its own forms of, and problems with, internationalization and multiculturalism. This volume focuses on several aspects of this process and examines the immigrant minorities as well as their Japanese recipient communities. Multiculturalism is …
View book details for International Adventures
German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s
Berghahn Books
West German cinema of the 1960s is frequently associated with the emergence of a new generation of filmmakers, collectively known by the 1970s as the "New German Cinema." Yet for domestic and international audiences at the time, German cinema primarily …
Berghahn Books
Renowned historical sociologist Charles Tilly wrote many years ago that banditry, piracy, gangland rivalry, policing, and war-making all belong on the same continuum. This volume pursues the idea by revealing how lawbreakers and lawmakers have related to one another on …
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Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic
Berghahn Books
During the high days of modernization fever, among the many disorienting changes Germans experienced in the Weimar Republic was an unprecedented mingling of consumption and identity: increasingly, what one bought signaled who one was. Exemplary of this volatile dynamic was …
View book details for Beyond <i>Writing Culture</i>
Current Intersections of Epistemologies and Representational Practices
Berghahn Books
Two decades after the publication of Clifford and Marcus volume Writing Culture, this collection provides a fresh and diverse reassessment of the debates that this pioneering volume unleashed. At the same time, Beyond Writing Culture moves the debate on by …
View book details for The Life of Property
House, Family and Inheritance in Bearn, South-West France
Berghahn Books
In Bearn, a region of south-west France, longstanding and resilient ideas of property and practices of inheritance control the destinies of those living in the foothills of the Pyrenees. Based on extensive fieldwork and archival research that combines ethnography and …
View book details for Extreme Collecting
Challenging Practices for 21st Century Museums
Berghahn Books
By exploring the processes of collecting, which challenge the bounds of normally acceptable practice, this book debates the practice of collecting difficult objects, from a historical and contemporary perspective; and discusses the acquisition of objects related to war and genocide, …
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Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands
Berghahn Books
The civil conflict in Solomon Islands (1998-2003) is often blamed on the failure of the nation-state to encompass culturally diverse and politically fragmented communities. Writing of Ranongga Island, the author tracks engagements with strangers across many realms of lifepre-colonial warfare, …
View book details for The Retreat of the Social
The Rise and Rise of Reductionism
Berghahn Books
The powerful individualist and subjectivist turn in anthropology - a turn that cannot be easily separated from larger political processes of neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism - is one factor resulting in notions of the social and of society as becoming little …
Penguin Young Readers Group
Eleanor is worried that her summer vacation is going to be lonely and boring. But when she meets magical pony Comet, things start looking up. Eleanor and Comet go on lots of adventures together and make many new friends!
A hilariously fresh and romantic send-up to Youve Got Mail about a gamer girl with a secret identity and the online bestie shes never met IRL until she unwittingly transfers to his school, from the bestselling author of Dial A …
This book discusses how Chinas transformations in the last century have shaped its arts and its philosophical aesthetics. For instance, how have political, economic and cultural changes shaped its aesthetic developments? Further, how have its long-standing beliefs and traditions clashed …
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