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View book details for Mussolini's Dream Factory
Film Stardom in Fascist Italy
Berghahn Books
The intersection between film stardom and politics is an understudied phenomenon of Fascist Italy, despite the fact that the Mussolini regime deemed stardom important enough to warrant sustained attention and interference. Focused on the period from the start of sound …
View book details for When They Came for Me
The Hidden Diary of an Apartheid Prisoner
Apartheid and its resistance come to life in this memoir making it a vital historical document of its time and for our own. In 1969, while a student in South Africa, John Schlapobersky was arrested for opposing apartheid and tortured, …
View book details for Global Ambitions and Local Identities
An Israeli-American High-Tech Merger
Berghahn Books
Until recently, international mergers of companies have been seen as purely financial ventures without any concern for what they meant for the people involved. However, attitudes are gradually changing. This study of a successful Israeli high-tech company's merger with an …
View book details for The Challenge of Epistemology
Anthropological Perspectives
Berghahn Books
Epistemology poses particular problems for anthropologists whose task it is to understand manifold ways of being human. Through their work, anthropologists often encounter people whose ideas concerning the nature and foundations of knowledge are at odds with their own. Going …
View book details for Between Blood and Gold
The Debates over Compensation for Slavery in the Americas
Berghahn Books
Today, a century and a half after the abolition of slavery across most of the Americas, the idea of monetary reparations for former slaves and their descendants continues to be a controversial one. Lost among these debates, however, is the …
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The Geopolitics of Rudolf Kjellen
Rudolf Kjellen, regularly referred to as the father of geopolitics, developed in the first decade of the twentieth century an analytical model for calculating the capabilities of great-power states and promoting their interests in the international arena. It was an …
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German Responses to Economic Crisis
German economic crises from the past two hundred years have provoked diverse responses from journalists, politicians, scholars, and fiction writers. Among their responses, storylines have developed as proposals for reducing unemployment, improving workplace conditions, and increasing profitability when stock markets …
Berghahn Books
Although the topic of travel and travel writing by Chinese and Japanese writers has recently begun to attract more interest among scholars in the West, it remains largely virgin terrain with vast tracts awaiting scholarly examination. This book offers insights …
View book details for The Political Economy of Germany under Chancellors Kohl and Schroder
Decline of the German Model?
Berghahn Books
While unification has undoubtedly had major effects on Germany's political economy, the pattern of current policy-making preferences was established at an earlier stage, in particular, at the beginning of the 'Kohl-era' in 1982. This essentially neo-liberal pattern can be seen …
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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 Ours Once More
Folklore, Ideology, and the Making of Modern Greece
When this work one that contributes to both the history and anthropology fields first appeared in 1982, it was hailed as a landmark study of the role of folklore in nation-building. It has since been highly influential in reshaping the …
View book details for Playing the Hand We Are Dealt
The Counterpoint of Fate and Freewill in Literature and Life
The relationship between literature and life can be construed as a counterpoint of fate and freewill. Rather than equating fate to the hand we are dealt which is reducible to the social or familial environments into which we are born, …
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How the United States Ends Wars
Offers essential perspectives on the Cold War and post-9/11 eras and explores the troubling implications of the American tendency to fight wars without end. Featuring lucid and penetrating essays by a stellar roster of scholars, the volume provides deep insights …
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New Studies on Medicine before, during, and after the Holocaust
Following decades of silence about the involvement of doctors, medical researchers and other health professionals in the Holocaust and other National Socialist (Nazi) crimes, scholars in recent years have produced a growing body of research that reveals the pervasive extent …
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Healing and Magic in Contemporary Russia
Berghahn Books
Notions of magic and healing have been changing over past years and are now understood as reflecting local ideas of power and agency, as well as structures of self, subjectivity and affect. This study focuses on contemporary urban Russia and, …
View book details for Central America in the New Millennium
Living Transition and Reimagining Democracy
Berghahn Books
Most non-Central Americans think of the narrow neck between Mexico and Colombia in terms of dramatic past revolutions and lauded peace agreements, or sensational problems of gang violence and natural disasters. In this volume, the contributors examine regional circumstances within …
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Popular Conservatism in England, 1815-1867
Berghahn Books
Much scholarship on nineteenth-century English workers has been devoted to the radical reform politics that powerfully unsettled the social order in the centurys first decades. Comparatively neglected have been the impetuous patriotism, royalism, and xenophobic anti-Catholicism that countless men and …
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Representations of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando
The Sonderkommandothe special squad of enslaved Jewish laborers who were forced to work in the gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenaucomprise one of the most fascinating and troubling topics within Holocaust history. As eyewitnesses to and unwilling abettors of the …
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The Cultural Politics of Reproductive Waste and Value
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In the fertility and cosmetics industries, womens body products such as urine, eggs, and placentas have moved from being seen as waste to becoming valuable ingredients. Taking a sociological and anthropological perspective, the author focuses in particular on the role …
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The Cultural Analysis of America
Berghahn Books
American anthropologists have long advocated cultural anthropology as a tool for cultural critique, yet seldom has that approach been employed in discussions of major events and cultural productions that impact the lives of tens of millions of Americans. This collection …
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DEFA Coproductions and International Exchange in Cold War Europe
From their very inception, European cinemas undertook collaborative ventures in an attempt to cultivate a transnational Film-Europe. In the postwar era, it was DEFA, the state cinema of East Germany, that emerged as a key site for cooperative practices. Despite …
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Movement, Morality and Self-fashioning in Urban Senegal
Berghahn Books
Senegal has played a central role in contemporary dance due to its rich performing traditions, as well as strong state patronage of the arts, first under French colonialism and later in the postcolonial era. In the 1980s, when the Senegalese …
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Jordanian Men Working and Studying in Europe, Asia and North America
Berghahn Books
Most studies on transnational migration either stress assimilation, circulatory migration, or the negative impact of migration. This remarkable study, which covers migrants from one Jordanian village to 17 different countries in Europe, Asia, and North America, emphasizes the resiliency of …
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Living with Reindeer and Hunting among Spirits in South Siberia
Examining human-animal relations among the reindeer hunting and herding Dukha community in northern Mongolia, this book focuses on concepts such as domestication and wildness from an indigenous perspective. By looking into hunting rituals and herding techniques, the ethnography questions the …
View book details for A Fatal Balancing Act
The Dilemma of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany, 1939-1945
Berghahn Books
In 1939 all German Jews had to become members of a newly founded Reich Association. The Jewish functionaries of this organization were faced with circumstances and events that forced them to walk a fine line between responsible action and collaboration. …
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