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View book details for Magical House Protection
The Archaeology of Counter-Witchcraft
Berghahn Books
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 …
View book details for Peripheral Vision
Politics, Technology, and Surveillance
Berghahn Books
In Portugal between 2005 and 2010, modernization through technology was the major political motto used to develop and improve the countrys peripheral and backward condition. This study reflects on one of the resulting, specific aspects of this trendthe implementation of …
View book details for Liminal Moves
Traveling along Places, Meanings, and Times
Moving, slowing down, or watching others moving allows people to cross physical, symbolic, and temporal boundaries. Exploring the imaginative power of liminality that makes this possible, Liminal Moves looks at the (im)mobilities of three groups of people - street monkey …
Berghahn Books
The modern world is saturated with images. Scientific knowledge of the human body (in all its variety) is highly dependent on the technological generation of visual data brain and body scans, x-rays, diagrams, graphs and charts. New technologies afford scientists …
View book details for The Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance
Analyzing Political Street Art in Latin America
Effective visual communication has become an essential strategy for grassroots political activists, who use images to publicly express resistance and make their claims visible in the struggle for political power. However, this aesthetics of resistance is also employed by political …
View book details for Picturing Pity
Pitfalls and Pleasures in Cross-Cultural Communication.<BR>Image and Word in a North Cameroon Mission
Berghahn Books
Picturing Pity is the first full length monograph on missionary photography. Empirically, it is based on an in-depth analysis of the published photographs taken by Norwegian evangelical missionaries in Northern Cameroon from the early nineteen twenties, at the beginning of …
Kendall Hunt Publishing
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A chance meeting with a charismatic photographer will forever change Elizabeths life. Until she met Richard, Elizabeth's relationship with Georgia OKeeffe and her little-known Hawaii paintings was purely academic. Now its personal. Richard tells Elizabeth that the only way she …
"Lauren Baratz-Logsted has mastered the real life fairy tale in her explosive and hilarious FALLING FOR PRINCE CHARLES. It's all here, lovelorn Daisy Silverman flush with cash and high hopes, Prince Charles who can't resist her, and London in all …
View book details for Blood and Oranges
Immigrant Labor and European Markets in Rural Greece
Berghahn Books
A compelling account of the intersection of globalization and neo-racism in a rural Greek community, this book describes the contradictory political and economic development of the Greek countryside since its incorporation into the European Union, where increased prosperity and social …
View book details for Microhistories of Memory
Remediating the Holocaust by Bullets in Postwar West Germany
The West German novel, radio play, and television series Through the Night (Am grunen Strand der Spree, 19551960), which depicts the mass shootings of Jews in the occupied Soviet Union during World War II, has gradually regained popularity in recent …
View book details for Racism in the Modern World
Historical Perspectives on Cultural Transfer and Adaptation
Berghahn Books
Emphasizing the global nature of racism, this volume brings together historians from various regional specializations to explore this phenomenon from comparative and transnational perspectives. The essays shed light on how racial ideologies and practices developed, changed, and spread in Europe, …
View book details for Dignity for the Voiceless
Willem Assies's Anthropological Work in Context
Berghahn Books
Willem Assies died in 2010 at the age of 55. The various stages of his career as a political anthropologist of Latin American illustrate how astute a researcher he was. He had a keen eye for the contradictions he observed …
View book details for German History 1789-1871
From the Holy Roman Empire to the Bismarckian Reich
Berghahn Books
During recent years, there has been a noticeable increase in interest in the nineteenth century, resulting in many fine monographs. However, these studies often gravitate toward Prussia or treat Germany's southern and northern regions as separate entities or else are …
Berghahn Books
Migration to, from, and within German-speaking lands has been a dynamic force in Central European history for centuries. Exemplifying some of the most exciting recent research on historical mobility, the essays collected here reconstruct the experiences of vagrants, laborers, religious …
View book details for Exploitation, Resettlement, Mass Murder
Political and Economic Planning for German Occupation Policy in the Soviet Union, 1940-1941
Berghahn Books
Convinced before the onset of Operation "Barbarossa" in June 1941 of both the ease, with which the Red Army would be defeated and the likelihood that the Soviet Union would collapse, the Nazi regime envisaged a radical and far-reaching occupation …
View book details for The Devil's Riches
A Modern History of Greed
Berghahn Books
A seeming constant in the history of capitalism, greed has nonetheless undergone considerable transformations over the last five hundred years. This multilayered account offers a fresh take on an old topic, arguing that greed was experienced as a moral phenomenon …
View book details for Exploring Gypsiness
Power, Exchange and Interdependence in a Transylvanian Village
Berghahn Books
Romania has a larger Gypsy population than most other countries but little is known about the relationship between this group and the non-Gypsy Romanians around them. This book focuses on a group of Rom Gypsies living in a village in …
View book details for Mediating Europe
New Media, Mass Communications, and the European Public Sphere
Berghahn Books
The on-going constitutionalization of Europe has led to various changes in media and communications, opening up areas of debate regarding the role of traditional and new media in developing a specific European public sphere as part of the wider European …
View book details for Andrzej Wajda
History, Politics & Nostalgia In Polish Cinema
Berghahn Books
The work of Andrzej Wajda, one of the worlds most important filmmakers, shows remarkable cohesion in spite of the wide ranging scope of his films, as this study of his complete output of feature films shows. Not only do his …
Berghahn Books
Research on health involves evaluating the disparities that are systematically associated with the experience of risk, including genetic and physiological variation, environmental exposure to poor nutrition and disease, and social marginalization. This volume provides a unique perspective - a comparative …
View book details for Glimpses of Hope
The Rise of Industrial Labor at the Urban Margins of Nepal
Over the last decade, Nepal has witnessed significant urban growth and an expanding urban middle class. Glimpses of Hope tells the story of the people who enable some of the middle-class consumer practices in urban Nepal. The book focuses on …
View book details for Hotbeds of Licentiousness
The British Glamour Film and the Permissive Society
Hotbeds of Licentiousness is the first substantial critical engagement with British pornography on film across the 1970s, including the Summer of Love, the rise and fall of the Permissive Society, the arrival of Margaret Thatcher, and beyond. By focusing on …
View book details for Fragile Futures
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 …
View book details for Cultures of Colour
Visual, Material, Textual
Berghahn Books
Colour permeates contemporary visual and material culture and affects our senses beyond the superficial encounter by infiltrating our perceptions and memories and becoming deeply rooted in thought processes that categorise and divide along culturally constructed lines. Colour exists as a …
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