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View book details for Race, Ethnicity, and Nation
Perspectives from Kinship and Genetics
Berghahn Books
Race, ethnicity and nation are all intimately linked to family and kinship, yet these links deserve closer attention than they usually get in social science, above all when family and kinship are changing rapidly in the context of genomic and …
View book details for Kinship in Europe
Approaches to Long-Term Development (1300-1900)
Berghahn Books
Since the publication of Philippe Ariess book, Centuries of Childhood, in the early 1960s, there has been great interest among historians in the history of the family and the household. A central aspect of the debate relates the story of …
Berghahn Books
What makes a space Jewish? This wide-ranging volume revisits literal as well as metaphorical spaces in modern German history to examine the ways in which Jewishness has been attributed to them both within and outside of Jewish communities, and what …
View book details for The Germans and the Holocaust
Popular Responses to the Persecution and Murder of the Jews
Berghahn Books
For decades, historians have debated how and to what extent the Holocaust penetrated the German national consciousness between 1933 and 1945. How much did ordinary Germans know about the subjugation and mass murder of the Jews, when did they know …
View book details for Cousin Marriages
Between Tradition, Genetic Risk and Cultural Change
Berghahn Books
Juxtaposing contributions from geneticists and anthropologists, this volume provides a contemporary overview of cousin marriage and what is happening at the interface of public policy, the management of genetic risk and changing cultural practices in the Middle East and in …
View book details for Abortion in Asia
Local Dilemmas, Global Politics
Berghahn Books
The issue of abortion forces a confrontation with the effects of poverty and economic inequalities, local moral worlds, and the cultural and social perceptions of the female body, gender, and reproduction. Based on extensive original field research, this provocative collection …
View book details for The Rich and the Poor in Modern Europe, 1890-2020
A Historians Response to Recent Debates among Economists
As social inequality grows, historical analysis on wealth and income distribution across the 20th century often does not take into account inequality of education, health, housing and chances of social mobility, nor does it differentiate statistical inequality from the realities …
View book details for Ecological Nostalgias
Memory, Affect and Creativity in Times of Ecological Upheavals
Introducing the study of econostalgias through a variety of rich ethnographic cases, this volume argues that a strictly human centered approach does not account for contemporary longings triggered by ecosystem upheavals. In this time of climate change, this book explores …
View book details for Plants, Health and Healing
On the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology
Berghahn Books
Plants have cultural histories, as their applications change over time and with place. Some plant species have affected human cultures in profound ways, such as the stimulants tea and coffee from the Old World, or coca and quinine from South …
View book details for The Dynamics of German Industry
Germany's Path toward the New Economy and the American Challenge
Berghahn Books
Over the past decade, the "German Model" of industrial organization has been the subject of vigorous debate among social scientists and historians, especially in comparison to the American one. Is a "Rhenish capitalism" still viable at the beginning of the …
View book details for In the Mind's Eye
Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Evolution of Human Cognition
Berghahn Books
The last decade has witnessed a sophistication and proliferation in the number of studies focused on the evolution of human cognition, reflecting a renewed interest in the evolution of the human mind in anthropology and in many other disciplines. The …
View book details for Fate Calculation Experts
Diviners Seeking Legitimation in Contemporary China
Berghahn Books
Having long been stigmatized as an immoral and even illegal superstition, the popular practice of divination is experiencing a revival in contemporary China. Fate Calculation Experts explores how diviners attempt to achieve legitimation in a society which identifies strongly with …
View book details for From Fidelity to History
Film Adaptations as Cultural Events in the Twentieth Century
Berghahn Books
Scholarly approaches to the relationship between literature and film, ranging from the traditional focus upon fidelity to more recent issues of intertextuality, all contain a significant blind spot: a lack of theoretical and methodological attention to adaptation as an historical …
View book details for Thinking Through Sociality
An Anthropological Interrogation of Key Concepts
Berghahn Books
As issues and circumstances investigated by anthropologists are becoming ever more diverse, the need to address social affiliation in contemporary situations of mobility, urbanity, transnational connections, individuation, media, and capital flows, has never been greater. Thinking Through Sociality combines a …
View book details for Mixed Harvest
Stories from the Human Past
Short stories about the deep past and those who lived through millennia of exploration, hardship, and uncertainty during the evolution of farming. Winner of the 2019 Nautilus Book Award, Multicultural and Indigenous Swigart is to be congratulated for giving us …
View book details for The Unfinished Revolution
Voices from the Global Fight for Women's Rights
Policy Press
CUSTOMERS IN NORTH AMERICA: COPIES ARE AVAILABLE FROM WWW.SEVENSTORIES.COM Women's rights have progressed significantly in the last two decades, but major challenges remain in order to end global gender discrimination. The unfinished revolution: Voices from the global fight for women's …
The European Central Bank administers monetary policy for the eurozone and is tasked with maintaining price stability by keeping inflation below 2 per cent. This brief mandate belies the complexity of managing the monetary policy for the 19 member states …
View book details for Expertise in Crisis
The Ideological Contours of Public Scientific Controversies
When the utility of masks or vaccinations became politicized during the COVID-19 pandemic and lost its mooring in scientific evidence, an already-developing crisis of expertise was exacerbated. Those who believe in consensus science wondered: How can those people not see …
Seasons of despair are causing relentless misery and pain, death, and destruction worldwide. The darkness blanketing hope is thickened by archaic beliefs and traditions, bigotry, greed, falsehoods, and ideological and religious fault lines. These negative forces perpetuate fear, disillusionment, and …
View book details for Whose Land Is Our Land?
The Use and Abuse of Britain's Forgotten Acres
Policy Press
Food security and housing a nation with an expanding population should be key priorities for a small island like Britain. Yet both are being thwarted by record land prices. In the last 10 years, farm land has risen by almost …
View book details for Moving Up and Getting On
Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in the UK
Policy Press
In most developed countries immigration policy is high on the political agenda. But what happens to migrants after their arrival integration and social cohesion has received less attention, yet these conditions matter to migrants and to wider society. Drawing on …
In a critical analysis of conventional understanding, leading authors Claire Davis and Marisa Silvestri present bold new conceptualisations of police leadership. Drawing on empirical research in criminology, sociology and leadership studies, they present a thoughtful critique of the nature and …
View book details for Cities Demanding the Earth
A New Understanding of the Climate Emergency
This urgent book brings our cities to the fore in understanding the human input into climate change. The demands we are making on nature by living in cities has reached a crisis point and unless we make significant changes to …
View book details for Minority Ethnic Prisoners and the COVID-19 Lockdown
Issues, Impacts and Implications
If prison regimes had continued as normal during the COVID-19 lockdown, social distancing would have been impossible. Therefore, sweeping restrictions were imposed confining prisoners to their cells, cancelling communal activity and prohibiting visits from family and friends. This insightful book …
View book details for Young People, Welfare and Crime
Governing Non-Participation
Policy Press
Mass youth unemployment is now endemic and almost ubiquitous in the global north and south alike. This book offers an original and challenging interpretation of the ways in which young peoples unemployment and general non-participation is becoming marginalised and criminalised. …
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