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View book details for Mediated Lives
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 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 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 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 Twilight of the Merkel Era
Power and Politics in Germany after the 2017 Bundestag Election
Elections always have consequences, but the 2017 Bundestag election in Germany proved particularly consequential. With political upheaval across the globenotably in Britain and the USAit was vital to European and global order that Germany remain stable. And it did through …
Berghahn Books
In what ways did Europeans interact with the diversity of people they encountered on other continents in the context of colonial expansion, and with the peasant or ethnic Other at home? How did anthropologists and ethnologists make sense of the …
View book details for The Limits of Loyalty
Imperial Symbolism, Popular Allegiances, and State Patriotism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy
Berghahn Books
The overwhelming majority of historical work on the late Habsburg Monarchy has focused primarily on national movements and ethnic conflicts, with the result that too little attention has been devoted to the state and ruling dynasty. This volume is the …
View book details for Mobile Pastoralist Households
Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives
Mobile pastoralist activities occur at different scales across the landscape, including local, regional, and supra-regional scales. Most archaeological studies of mobile pastoralist social organization have focused on the latter two scales via the extant monumental and herding landscapes. Household levels …
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Providing nuanced accounts of how the social identities of men and women, the context of displacement and the experience or manifestation of violence interact, this collection offers conceptual analyses and in-depth case studies to illustrate how gender relations are affected …
View book details for Protest Beyond Borders
Contentious Politics in Europe since 1945
Berghahn Books
The protest movements that followed the Second World War have recently become the object of study for various disciplines; however, the exchange of ideas between research fields, and comparative research in general, is lacking. An international and interdisciplinary dialogue is …
View book details for Ecofeminism and Rhetoric
Critical Perspectives on Sex, Technology, and Discourse
Berghahn Books
By drawing on the complex interplay of ecology and feminism, ecofeminists identify links between the domination of nature and the oppression of women. This volume introduces a variety of innovative approaches for advancing ecofeminist activism, demonstrating how words exert power …
View book details for We the Cosmopolitans
Moral and Existential Conditions of Being Human
Berghahn Books
The provocative title of this book is deliberately and challengingly universalist, matching the theoretically experimental essays, where contributors try different ideas to answer distinct concerns regarding cosmopolitanism. Leading anthropologists explore what cosmopolitanism means in the context of everyday life, variously …
View book details for Imperial Germany Revisited
Continuing Debates and New Perspectives
Berghahn Books
The German Empire, its structure, its dynamic development between 1871 and 1918, and its legacy, have been the focus of lively international debate that is showing signs of further intensification as we approach the centenary of the outbreak of World …
View book details for Ruptures in the Everyday
Views of Modern Germany from the Ground
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During the twentieth century, Germans experienced a long series of major and often violent disruptions in their everyday lives. Such chronic instability and precipitous change made it difficult for them to make sense of their lives as coherent storiesand for …
View book details for Frontier Ethnographies
Deconstructing Research Experiences in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Ethnography destabilizes the notion of the frontier as merely a geographic space and conveys its limitationsthat lead researchers to reflect on their methodological approaches. Frontier Ethnographies explores the ethnographic edges of contemporary anthropological inquiry in Afghanistan and Pakistan by assembling …
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Suicide is a puzzling phenomenon. Not only is its demarcation problematic but it also eludes simple explanation. The cultures in which suicide mortality is high do not necessarily have much else in common, and neither is a single mental illness …
View book details for Risk on the Table
Food Production, Health, and the Environment
Over the last century, the industrialization of agriculture and processing technologies have made food abundant and relatively inexpensive for much of the worlds population. Simultaneously, pesticides, nitrates, and other technological innovations intended to improve the food supplys productivity and safety …
View book details for Biomedical Entanglements
Conceptions of Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Society
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Biomedical Entanglements is an ethnographic study of the Giri people of Papua New Guinea, focusing on the indigenous populations interaction with modern medicine. In her fieldwork, Franziska A. Herbst follows the Giri people as they circulate within and around ethnographic …
Thirty years after the collapse of Communism, and at a time of increasing anti-migrant and anti-Roma sentiment, this book analyses how Roma identity is expressed in contemporary Europe. From backgrounds ranging from political theory, postcolonial, cultural and gender studies to …
View book details for The Second Generation
Emigres from Nazi Germany as Historians<br>With a Biobibliographic Guide
Berghahn Books
Of the thousands of children and young adults who fled Nazi Germany in the years before the Second World War, a remarkable number went on to become trained historians in their adopted homelands. By placing autobiographical testimonies alongside historical analysis …
View book details for Oligarchs and Oligopolies
New Formations of Global Power
Berghahn Books
As corporate practices are becoming more fused with state processes, the state itself is increasingly taking on a corporate structure, as well as a more overt oligarchic character. Evidence of this can be seen in the growing domination of political …
View book details for Conflicted Memories
Europeanizing Contemporary Histories
Berghahn Books
Despite the growing interest in general European history, the European dimension is surprisingly absent from the writing of contemporary history. In most countries, the historiography on the 20th century continues to be dominated by national perspectives. Although there is cross-national …
View book details for Preservation and Place
Historic Preservation by and of LGBTQ Communities in the United States
Significant historic and archaeological sites affiliated with two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer history in the United States are examined in this unique volume. The importance of the preservation process in documenting and interpreting the lives and experiences of …
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