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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Whereas most anthropological research is grounded in social, cultural and biological analysis of the human condition, this volume opens up a different approach: its concerns are the psychic depths of human cultural life-worlds as explored through psycho-analytic practice and/or the psychoanalytically...
Designing Worlds
National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
From consumer products to architecture to advertising to digital technology, design is an undeniably global phenomenon. Yet despite their professed transnational perspective, historical studies of design have all too often succumbed to a bias toward Western, industrialized nations. This diverse but...
The Dance of Nurture
Negotiating Infant Feeding
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Breastfeeding and child feeding at the center of nurturing practices, yet the work of nurture has escaped the scrutiny of medical and social scientists. Anthropology offers a powerful biocultural approach that examines how custom and culture interact to support nurturing practices. Our framework shows...
Learning From the Children
Childhood, Culture and Identity in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Children and youth, regardless of their ethnic backgrounds, are experiencing lifestyle choices their parents never imagined and contributing to the transformation of ideals, traditions, education and adult–child power dynamics. As a result of the advances in technology and media as well as the effects...
Who Knows Tomorrow?
Uncertainty in North-Eastern Sudan
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Although uncertainty is intertwined with all human activity, plans, and aspirations, it is experienced differently: at times it is obsessed over and at times it is ignored. This ethnography shows how Rashaida in north-eastern Sudan deal with unknowns from day-to-day unpredictability to life-threatening...
Years of Conflict
Adolescence, Political Violence and Displacement
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Recent years have witnessed a significant growth of interest in the consequences of political violence and displacement for the young. However, when speaking of “children” commentators have often taken the situation of those in early and middle childhood as representative of all young people under...
Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire
Transnational Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
With its rapid industrialization, modernization, and gradual democratization, Imperial Germany has typically been understood in secular terms. However, religion and religious actors actually played crucial roles in the history of the Kaiserreich, a fact that becomes particularly evident when viewed...
Sounds of Modern History
Auditory Cultures in 19th- and 20th-Century Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Long ignored by scholars in the humanities, sound has just begun to take its place as an important object of study in the last few years. Since the late 19th century, there has been a paradigmatic shift in auditory cultures and practices in European societies. This change was brought about by modern...
Gendering Modern German History
Rewriting Historiography
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Writing on the history of German women has - like women's history elsewhere - undergone remarkable expansion and change since it began in the late 1960s. Today Women's history still continues to flourish alongside gender history but the focus of research has increasingly shifted from women to gender....
Living on Thin Ice
The Gwich'in Natives of Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The Gwich’in Natives of Arctic Village, Alaska, have experienced intense social and economic changes for more than a century. In the late 20th century, new transportation and communication technologies introduced radically new value systems; while some of these changes may be seen as socially beneficial,...
Contemplating Historical Consciousness
Notes from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
The last several decades have witnessed an explosion of new empirical research into representations of the past and the conditions of their production, prompting claims that we have entered a new era in which the past has become more “present” than ever before. Contemplating Historical Consciousness...
Understanding Conflicts about Wildlife
A Biosocial Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Conflicts about wildlife are usually portrayed and understood as resulting from the negative impacts of wildlife on human livelihoods or property. However, a greater depth of analysis reveals that many instances of human-wildlife conflict are often better understood as people-people conflict, wherein...
Wolf Conflicts
A Sociological Study
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Wolf populations have recently made a comeback in Northern Europe and North America. These large carnivores can cause predictable conflicts by preying on livestock, and competing with hunters for game. But their arrivals often become deeply embedded in more general societal tensions, which arise alongside...
The Limits of Meaning
Case Studies in the Anthropology of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Too often, anthropological accounts of ritual leave readers with the impression that everything goes smoothly, that rituals are "meaningful events." But what happens when rituals fail, or when they seem "meaningless"? Drawing on research in the anthropology of Christianity from...