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Gender Politics in the Expanding European Union
Mobilization, Inclusion, Exclusion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
In May 2004, after bringing their legislation into accordance with EU regulations, ten more countries joined the European Union. The contributors to this volume assess the impact of this historical development on gender relations in the new and old EU member states. Instead of focusing on either western...
Fragmented Fatherland
Immigration and Cold War Conflict in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1980
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
1945 to 1980 marks an extensive period of mass migration of students, refugees, ex-soldiers, and workers from an extraordinarily wide range of countries to West Germany. Turkish, Kurdish, and Italian groups have been studied extensively, and while this book uses these groups as points of comparison,...
The Nuclear Crisis
The Arms Race, Cold War Anxiety, and the German Peace Movement of the 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
In 1983, more than one million Germans joined together to protest NATO’s deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe. International media overflowed with images of marches, rallies, and human chains as protesters blockaded depots and agitated for disarmament. Though they failed to halt the deployment,...
Recalling the Belgian Congo
Conversations and Introspection
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
When the author embarked on her study, her aim was to approach former colonial officers with a view to analyzing processes of domination in the ex-Belgian Congo. However, after establishing a rapport with some of these officers, the author was soon forced to revise her initial assumptions, widely...
In the Event
Toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Events are “generative moments” in at least three senses: events are created by and condense larger-scale social structures; as moments, they spark and give rise to new social processes; in themselves, events may also serve to analyze social situations and relationships. Based on ethnographic...
Empire, Colony, Genocide
Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
In 1944, Raphael Lemkin coined the term “genocide” to describe a foreign occupation that destroyed or permanently crippled a subject population. In this tradition, Empire, Colony, Genocide embeds genocide in the epochal geopolitical transformations of the past 500 years: the European colonization...
Anthropology and Mass Communication
Media and Myth in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
Anthropological interest in mass communication and media has exploded in the last two decades, engaging and challenging the work on the media in mass communications, cultural studies, sociology and other disciplines. This is the first book to offer a systematic overview of the themes, topics and methodologies...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Through his influential work on cultural capital and social mobility, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has provided critical insights into the complex interactions of power, class, and culture in the modern era. Ubiquitous though Bourdieu’s theories are, however, they have only intermittently...
Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation
Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
As the crisis in Israel does not show any signs of abating, this remarkable collection, edited by an Israeli and a Palestinian scholar and with contributions by Palestinian and Israeli women, offers a vivid and harrowing picture of the conflict and of its impact on daily life, especially as it affects...
The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama
Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
How religion, gender, and urban sociality are expressed in and mediated via television drama in Kinshasa is the focus of this ethnographic study. Influenced by Nigerian films and intimately related to the emergence of a charismatic Christian scene, these teleserials integrate melodrama, conversion...
Postsocialist Europe
Anthropological Perspectives from Home
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Now that nearly twenty years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet bloc there is a need to understand what has taken place since that historic date and where we are at the moment. Bringing together authors with different historical, cultural, regional and theoretical backgrounds, this volume...
The Voice of Prophecy
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Edwin Ardener - a new expanded edition of the collected works of one of the most important social anthroplogists in Britian of his time. Ardener worked on social, economic, demographic and political problems, and was particularly influential in his sustained effort to bring together social anthropology...
Dancing At the Crossroads
Memory and Mobility in Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Dancing at the crossroads used to be young people's opportunity to meet and enjoy themselves on mild summer evenings in the countryside in Ireland until this practice was banned by law, the Public Dance Halls Act in 1935. Now a key metaphor in Irish cultural and political life, "dancing at the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The travel experience filled with personal trauma; the pilgrimage through a war-torn place; the journey with those suffering: these represent the darker sides of travel. What is their allure and how are they represented? This volume takes an ethnographic and interdisciplinary approach to explore the...