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German Television
Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Long overlooked by scholars and critics, the history and aesthetics of German television have only recently begun to attract serious, sustained attention, and then largely within Germany. This ambitious volume, the first in English on the subject, provides a much-needed corrective in the form of penetrating...
Being-Here
Placemaking in a World of Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Exploring the lifeworlds of Halima, Omar and Mohamed, three middle-aged Somalis living in Melbourne, Australia, the author discusses the interrelated meanings of emplacement and displacement as experienced in people’s everyday lives. Through their experiences of displacement and placemaking, Being-Here...
Jerzy Skolimowski
The Cinema of a Nonconformist
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Jerzy Skolimowski is one of the most original Polish directors and one of only a handful who has gained genuine recognition abroad. This is the first monograph, written in English, to be devoted to his cinema. It covers Skolimowski's career from his early successes in Poland, such as Identification...
The Demons of Modernity
Ingmar Bergman and European Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Ingmar Bergman’s films had a very broad and rich relationship with the rest of European cinema, contrary to the myth that Bergman was a peripheral figure, culturally and aesthetically isolated from the rest of Europe. This book contends that he should be put at the very center of European film history...
History in the Plural
An Introduction to the Work of Reinhart Koselleck
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Reinhart Koselleck (1923–2006) was one of most imposing and influential European intellectual historians in the twentieth century. Constantly probing and transgressing the boundaries of mainstream historical writing, he created numerous highly innovative approaches, absorbing influences from other...
The Mind of the Nation
Völkerpsychologie in Germany, 1851-1955
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Völkerpsychologie played an important role in establishing the social sciences via the works of such scholars as Georg Simmel, Emile Durkheim, Ernest Renan, Franz Boas, and Werner Sombart. In Germany, the intellectual history of “folk psychology” was represented by Moritz Lazarus, Heymann Steinthal,...
Screening the East
Heimat, Memory and Nostalgia in German Film since 1989
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Screening the East considers German filmmakers’ responses to unification. In particular, it traces the representation of the East German community in films made since 1989 and considers whether these narratives challenge or reinforce the notion of a separate East German identity. The book identifies...
Ethics in the Field
Contemporary Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
In recent years ever-increasing concerns about ethical dimensions of fieldwork practice have forced anthropologists and other social scientists to radically reconsider the nature, process, and outcomes of fieldwork: what should we be doing, how, for whom, and to what end? In this volume, practitioners...
Centralizing Fieldwork
Critical Perspectives from Primatology, Biological and Social Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Fieldwork is a central method of research throughout anthropology, a much-valued, much-vaunted mode of generating information. But its nature and process have been seriously understudied in biological anthropology and primatology. This book is the first ever comparative investigation, across primatology,...
Memory Unbound
Tracing the Dynamics of Memory Studies
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Though still a relatively young field, memory studies has undergone significant transformations since it first coalesced as an area of inquiry. Increasingly, scholars understand memory to be a fluid, dynamic, unbound phenomenon—a process rather than a reified object. Embodying just such an elastic...
Narrating the Nation
Representations in History, Media and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
A sustained and systematic study of the construction, erosion and reconstruction of national histories across a wide variety of states is highly topical and extremely relevant in the context of the accelerating processes of Europeanization and globalization. However, as demonstrated in this volume,...
Border Aesthetics
Concepts and Intersections
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Few concepts are as central to understanding the modern world as borders, and the now-thriving field of border studies has already produced a substantial literature analyzing their legal, ideological, geographical, and historical aspects. Such studies have hardly exhausted the subject’s conceptual...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
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 mosaic of people and societies during the nineteenth...
Visitors to the House of Memory
Identity and Political Education at the Jewish Museum Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
As one of the most visited museums in Germany’s capital city, the Jewish Museum Berlin is a key site for understanding not only German-Jewish history, but also German identity in an era of unprecedented ethnic and religious diversity. Visitors to the House of Memory is an intimate exploration of...