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The Impact of Electricity

Development, Desires and Dilemmas

by Tanja Winther
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008

How does everyday life change when electricity becomes available to a group of people for the first time? Why do some groups tend to embrace this icon of development while other groups actively fight against it? This book examines the effects of electricity’s arrival in an African, rural community....
by Neriko Musha Doerr
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018

Written for study abroad practitioners, this book introduces theoretical understandings of key study abroad terms including “the global/national,” “culture,” “native speaker,” “immersion,” and “host society.” Building theories on these notions with perspectives from cultural anthropology,...
by Allen Chun
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019

On the Geopragmatics of Anthropological Identification explores the discursive spaces of our speaking position, or what has routinely been referred to in the literature as the poetics and politics of writing culture. At issue here are its problematic underlying notions of cultural identity, authorial...

The Hadrami Diaspora

Community-Building on the Indian Ocean Rim

by Leif Manger
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010

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 region’s migratory patterns. In the early centuries of migration, the Yemeni, or Hadrami, traveler was both a trader and a religious missionary,...

Protest Beyond Borders

Contentious Politics in Europe since 1945

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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011

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 vital to not only describe...

Foodways and Empathy

Relatedness in a Ramu River Society, Papua New Guinea

by Anita von Poser
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013

Through the sharing of food, people feel entitled to inquire into one another’s lives and ponder one another’s states in relation to their foodways. This in-depth study focuses on the Bosmun of Daiden, a Ramu River people in an under-represented area in the ethnography of Papua New Guinea, uncovering...

Metaphors of Spain

Representations of Spanish National Identity in the Twentieth Century

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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017

The history of twentieth-century Spanish nationalism is a complex one, placing a set of famously distinctive regional identities against a backdrop of religious conflict, separatist tensions, and the autocratic rule of Francisco Franco. And despite the undeniably political character of that story,...

Returning Life

Language, Life Force and History in Kilimanjaro

by Knut Christian Myhre
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017

A group of Chagga-speaking men descend the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro to butcher animals and pour milk, beer, and blood on the ground, requesting rain for their continued existence. Returning Life explores how this event engages activities where life force is transferred and transformed to afford...

Dreams of Germany

Musical Imaginaries from the Concert Hall to the Dance Floor

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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018

For many centuries, Germany has enjoyed a reputation as the ‘land of music’. But just how was this reputation established and transformed over time, and to what extent was it produced within or outside of Germany? Through case studies that range from Bruckner to the Beatles and from symphonies...

Having and Belonging

Homes and Museums in Israel

by Judy Jaffe-Schagen
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016

The home and the museum are typically understood as divergent, even oppositional, social realms: whereas one evokes privacy and familial intimacy, the other is conceived of as a public institution oriented around various forms of civic identity. This meticulous, insightful book draws striking connections...

Topographies of Suffering

Buchenwald, Babi Yar, Lidice

by Jessica Rapson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015

Commentary on memorials to the Holocaust has been plagued with a sense of “monument fatigue”, a feeling that landscape settings and national spaces provide little opportunity for meaningful engagement between present visitors and past victims. This book examines the Holocaust via three sites of...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017

Since Unification and the end of the Cold War, Berlin has witnessed a series of uncommonly intense social, political, and cultural transformations. While positioning itself as a creative center populated by young and cosmopolitan global citizens, the “New Berlin” is at the same time a rich site...
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