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View book details for Struggles for Home
Violence, Hope and the Movement of People
Berghahn Books
Based on anthropological studies across the globe, this book explores the social practice of home-making amongst people whose lives are characterized by movement and violence. Social scientific and policy understandings of home and migration tend to focus on territory, culture …
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New Forms of Value and Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Community
Berghahn Books
By adopting ideas like development, members of a Papua New Guinean community find themselves continuously negotiating what can be expected of a relative or a community member. Nearly half the people born on the remote Mbuke Islands become teachers, businessmen, …
View book details for Explorations in Economic Anthropology
Key Issues and Critical Reflections
At a time of rising global economic precarity and social inequality, the field of economic anthropology offers solutions through the study of local and contextualized economic practices. This book is made up of an exciting collection of succinct essays authored …
Berghahn Books
The phrase Christian politics evokes two meanings: political relations between denominations in one direction, and the contributions of Christian churches to debates about the governing of society. The contributors to this volume address Christian politics in both senses and argue …
View book details for Voices of the Valley, Voices of the Straits
How Protest Creates Communities
Berghahn Books
Protest campaigns against large-scale public works usually take place within a local context. However, since the 1990s new forms of protest have been emerging. This book analyses two cases from Italy that illustrate this development: the environmentalist protest campaigns against …
View book details for Contested Femininities
Representations of Modern Women in the German Illustrated Press, 1920-1960
In this comprehensive, long-view study on the concept of the Neue or Moderne Frau (New or Modern Woman) that spans the Weimar Republic, Third Reich, post-war period, and a divided Germany, Contested Femininities explores how different political and social groups …
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Displacement, Livelihood and Health in Cyprus
Berghahn Books
In his vivid, lively account of how Greek Cypriot villagers coped with a thirty-year displacement, Peter Loizos follows a group of people whom he encountered as prosperous farmers in 1968, yet found as disoriented refugees when revisiting in 1975. By …
View book details for Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space
Place-Making in the New Northern Ireland
Berghahn Books
Exploring the complex dynamics of twenty-first century spatial sociality, this volume provides a much-needed multi-dimensional perspective that undermines the dominant image of Northern Ireland as a conflict-ridden place. Despite touching on memories of the Troubles and continuing unionist-nationalist tensions, the …
For Shonda, fairytale endings were only for children's books and never for her. Her life starts to take a turn for the better as she finds solace at New Life Worship Temple. Shonda becomes one of the most dedicated members …
View book details for The Absent Jews
Kurt Forstreuter and the Historiography of Medieval Prussia
Berghahn Books
For nearly a century, it has been a commonplace of Central European history that there were no Jews in medieval Prussiathe result, supposedly, of the ruling Teutonic Orders attempts to create a purely Christian crusaders state. In this groundbreaking historical …
View book details for Rethinking Social Movements after '68
Selves and Solidarities in West Germany and Beyond
The year 1968 has widely been viewed as the only major watershed moment during the latter half of the twentieth century. Rethinking Social Movements after 68 takes on this conventional approach, exploring the spaces, practices, organization, ideas and agendas of …
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Mental Illness, Modernity and Islam in Sylhet, Bangladesh
Berghahn Books
Sylhet, the area of Bangladesh most closely associated with overseas migration, has seen an increase in remittances sent home from abroad, introducing new inequalities. Social change has also been mediated by the global forces of Western biomedicine and orthodox Islam. …
View book details for The Hadrami Diaspora
Community-Building on the Indian Ocean Rim
Berghahn Books
The Hadramis of South Yemen and the emergence of their diasporic communities throughout the Indian Ocean region are an intriguing facet of the history of this regions migratory patterns. In the early centuries of migration, the Yemeni, or Hadrami, traveler …
View book details for Migration, Development, and Transnationalization
A Critical Stance
Berghahn Books
The relationship between migration and development is becoming an important field of study, yet the fundamentals analytical tools, conceptual framework, political stance are not being called into question or dialogue. This volume provides a valuable alternative perspective to the current …
View book details for Civilizing Nature
National Parks in Global Historical Perspective
Berghahn Books
National parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon. The development of these ecological and political …
View book details for Nearly the New World
The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 19331945
In this rich and resonant study, Joanna Newman recounts the little-known story of this Jewish exodus to the British West Indies...Times Higher Education In the years leading up to the Second World War, increasingly desperate European Jews looked to far-flung …
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Moroccan and Filipino Women in Bologna and Barcelona
Berghahn Books
By linking the experiences of immigrant families with the increased reliance on cheap and flexible workers for care and domestic work in Southern Europe, this study documents the lived experiences of neglected actors of globalization migrant women as well as …
View book details for An Invitation to Anthropology
The Structure, Evolution and Cultural Identity of Human Societies
Berghahn Books
Synthesizing British, French and American traditions, this stimulating and accessible text presents a comprehensive and fascinating introduction to social and cultural anthropology. It offers an original approach through integrating knowledge produced from a variety of perspectives, placing cultural and social …
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Prostituting Children in Thailand
Berghahn Books
Child prostitution became one of the key concerns of the international community in the 1990s. World congresses were held, international and national laws were changed and concern over "cemmercially sexually exploited children" rose dramatically. Rarely, however, were the children who …
View book details for Where is the Good in the World?
Ethical Life between Social Theory and Philosophy
Bringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic case studies from diverse settings, this volume explores how different disciplinary perspectives on the good might engage with and enrich each other. The chapters examine how people …
View book details for Laborers and Enslaved Workers
Experiences in Common in the Making of Rio de Janeiro's Working Class, 1850-1920
Berghahn Books
From the middle of the nineteenth century until the 1888 abolition of slavery in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro was home to the largest urban population of enslaved workers anywhere in the Americas. It was also the site of an incipient …
View book details for Whos Cashing In?
Contemporary Perspectives on New Monies and Global Cashlessness
Cashless infrastructures are rapidly increasing, as credit cards, cryptocurrencies, online and mobile money, remittances, demonetization, and digitalization process replace coins and currencies around the world. Whos Cashing In? explores how different modes of cashlessness impact, transform and challenge the everyday …
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Serb Elite Rivalry in Croatia and Bosnia in the 1990s
Berghahn Books
"Only unity saves the Serbs" is the famous call for unity in the Serb nationalist doctrine. But even though this doctrine was ideologically adhered to by most of the Serb leaders in Croatia and Bosnia, disunity characterized Serb politics during …
View book details for The Precarity of Masculinity
Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon
Since the 1990s, an increasing number of young men in Cameroon have aspired to play football as a career and a strategy to migrate abroad. Migration through the sport promises fulfillment of masculine dreams of sports stardom, as well as …
View book details for World Heritage Craze in China
Universal Discourse, National Culture, and Local Memory
Berghahn Books
There is a World Heritage Craze in China. China claims to have the longest continuous civilization in the world and is seeking recognition from UNESCO. This book explores three dimensions of the UNESCO World Heritage initiative with particular relevance for …
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