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The Revolution before the Revolution
Late Authoritarianism and Student Protest in Portugal
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Histories of Portugal’s transition to democracy have long focused on the 1974 military coup that toppled the authoritarian Estado Novo regime and set in motion the divestment of the nation’s colonial holdings. However, the events of this “Carnation Revolution” were in many ways the culmination...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Recently considerable interest has developed about the degree to which anthropological approaches to kinship can be used for the study of the long-term development of European history. From the late middle ages to the dawn of the twentieth century, kinship - rather than declining, as is often assumed...
Desires for Reality
Radicalism and Revolution in Western European Film
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
As with many aspects of European cultural life, film was galvanized and transformed by the revolutionary fervor of 1968. This groundbreaking study provides a full account of the era’s cinematic crises, innovations, and provocations, as well as the social and aesthetic contexts in which they appeared....
Civilizations Beyond Earth
Extraterrestrial Life and Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Astronomers around the world are pointing their telescopes toward the heavens, searching for signs of intelligent life. If they make contact with an advanced alien civilization, how will humankind respond? In thinking about first contact, the contributors to this volume present new empirical and theoretical...
Tuff City
Urban Change and Contested Space in Central Naples
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
During the 1990s, Naples’ left-wing administration sought to tackle the city’s infamous reputation of being poor, crime-ridden, chaotic and dirty by reclaiming the city’s cultural and architectural heritage. This book examines the conflicts surrounding the reimaging and reordering of the city’s...
Postwall German Cinema
History, Film History and Cinephilia
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, there has been a proliferation of German historical films. These productions have earned prestigious awards and succeeded at box offices both at home and abroad, where they count among the most popular German films of all time. Recently, however, the country’s...
Witches and Demons
A Comparative Perspective on Witchcraft and Satanism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Devil worship, black magic, and witchcraft have long captivated anthropologists as well as the general public. In this volume, Jean La Fontaine explores the intersection of expert and lay understandings of evil and the cultural forms that evil assumes. The chapters touch on public scares about devil-worship,...
Suffering and Evil
The Durkheimian Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Until recently the subject of suffering and evil was neglected in the sociological world and was almost absent in Durkheimian studies as well. This book aims to fill the gap, with particular reference to the Durkheimian tradition, by exploring the different meanings that the concepts of evil and suffering...
A Durkheimian Quest
Solidarity and the Sacred
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Durkheim, in his very role as a ‘founding father’ of a new social science, sociology, has become like a figure in an old religious painting, enshrouded in myth and encrusted in layers of thick, impenetrable varnish. This book undertakes detailed, up-to-date investigations of Durkheim’s work...
The Ethics of Seeing
Photography and Twentieth-Century German History
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Throughout Germany’s tumultuous twentieth century, photography was an indispensable form of documentation. Whether acting as artists, witnesses, or reformers, both professional and amateur photographers chronicled social worlds through successive periods of radical upheaval. The Ethics of Seeing...
National Policy, Global Memory
The Commemoration of the “Righteous” from Jerusalem to Paris, 1942-2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Since 1963, the state of Israel has awarded the title of “Righteous among the Nations” to individuals who risked their lives sheltering Jews during the Holocaust. This distinction remained solely an Israeli initiative until the late 1990s, when European governments began developing their own national...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Whether rising up from fiery leaders such as Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Cuba’s Fidel Castro or from angry masses of Brazilian workers and Mexican peasants, anti U.S. sentiment in Latin America and the Caribbean today is arguably stronger than ever. It is also a threat to U.S. leadership in the...
Dancing Cultures
Globalization, Tourism and Identity in the Anthropology of Dance
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Dance is more than an aesthetic of life – dance embodies life. This is evident from the social history of jive, the marketing of trans-national ballet, ritual healing dances in Italy or folk dances performed for tourists in Mexico, Panama and Canada. Dance often captures those essential dimensions...
Palimpsestic Memory
The Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The interconnections between histories and memories of the Holocaust, colonialism and extreme violence in post-war French and Francophone fiction and film provide the central focus of this book. It proposes a new model of ‘palimpsestic memory’, which the author defines as the condensation of different...