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The Anthropologist as Writer

Genres and Contexts in the Twenty-First Century

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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016

Writing is crucial to anthropology, but which genres are anthropologists expected to master in the 21st century? This book explores how anthropological writing shapes the intellectual content of the discipline and academic careers. First, chapters identify the different writing genres and contexts...

Breaking Boundaries

Varieties of Liminality

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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015

Liminality has the potential to be a leading paradigm for understanding transformation in a globalizing world. As a fundamental human experience, liminality transmits cultural practices, codes, rituals, and meanings in situations that fall between defined structures and have uncertain outcomes. Based...

Anyone

The Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology

by Nigel Rapport
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012

The significance that people grant to their affiliations as members of nations, religions, classes, races, ethnicities and genders is evidence of the vital need for a cosmopolitan project that originates in the figure of Anyone – the universal and yet individual human being. Cosmopolitanism offers...

Willing Seduction

The Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich, and Mass Culture

by Barbara Kosta
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009

Josef von Sternberg’s 1930 film The Blue Angel (Der blaue Engel) is among the best known films of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933). A significant landmark as one of Germany’s first major sound films, it is known primarily for launching Marlene Dietrich into Hollywood stardom and for initiating...

The Limits of Loyalty

Imperial Symbolism, Popular Allegiances, and State Patriotism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy

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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007

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 first of its kind to concentrate on attempts by...

The German Right in the Weimar Republic

Studies in the History of German Conservatism, Nationalism, and Antisemitism

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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014

Significant recent research on the German Right between 1918 and 1933 calls into question received narratives of Weimar political history. The German Right in the Weimar Republic examines the role that the German Right played in the destabilization and overthrow of the Weimar Republic, with particular...

Learning Religion

Anthropological Approaches

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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007

As we enter the 21st century, it becomes increasingly difficult to envisage a world detached from religion or an anthropology blind to its study. Yet, how people become religious is still poorly studied. This volume gathers some of the most distinguished scholars in the field to offer a new perspective...

The Great Tradition and Its Legacy

The Evolution of Dramatic and Musical Theater in Austria and Central Europe

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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003

Both dramatic and musical theater are part of the tradition that has made Austria - especially Vienna - and the old Habsburg lands synonymous with high culture in Central Europe. Many works, often controversial originally but now considered as classics, are still performed regularly in Vienna, Prague,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012

The Protestant and Catholic Reformations thrust the nature of conversion into the center of debate and politicking over religion as authorities and subjects imbued religious confession with novel meanings during the early modern era. The volume offers insights into the historicity of the very concept...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013

The Viennese café was a key site of urban modernity around 1900. In the rapidly growing city it functioned simultaneously as home and workplace, affording opportunities for both leisure and intellectual exchange. This volume explores the nature and function of the coffeehouse in the social, cultural,...

The Nanking Atrocity, 1937-1938

Complicating the Picture

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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017

First published in 2007, The Nanking Atrocity remains an essential resource for understanding the massacre committed by Japanese soldiers in Nanking, China during the winter of 1937-38. Through a series of deeply considered and empirically rigorous essays, it provides a far more complex and nuanced...

Silenced Communities

Legacies of Militarization and Militarism in a Rural Guatemalan Town

by Marcia Esparza
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017

Although the Guatemalan Civil War ended more than two decades ago, its bloody legacy continues to resonate even today. In Silenced Communities, author Marcia Esparza offers an ethnographic account of the failed demilitarization of the rural militia in the town of Santo Tomás Chichicastenango following...

Changing Identifications and Alliances in North-east Africa

Volume II: Sudan, Uganda, and the Ethiopia-Sudan Borderlands

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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009

Forms of group identity play a prominent role in everyday lives and politics in north-east Africa. These volumes provide an interdisciplinary account of the nature and significance of ethnic, religious, and national identity in north-east Africa. Case studies from Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya...

Nazism, the Holocaust, and the Middle East

Arab and Turkish Responses

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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018

Given their geographical separation from Europe, ethno-religious and cultural diversity, and subordinate status within the Nazi racial hierarchy, Middle Eastern societies were both hospitable as well as hostile to National Socialist ideology during the 1930s and 1940s. By focusing on Arab and Turkish...
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