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Mad Mädchen
Feminism and Generational Conflict in Recent German Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
The last two decades have been transformational, often discordant ones for German feminism, as a new cohort of activists has come of age and challenged many of the movement’s strategic and philosophical orthodoxies. Mad Mädchen offers an incisive analysis of these trans-generational debates, identifying...
Polish Cinema
A History
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
First published in 2002, Marek Haltof’s seminal volume was the first comprehensive English-language study of Polish cinema, providing a much-needed survey of one of Europe’s most distinguished—yet unjustly neglected—film cultures. Since then, seismic changes have reshaped Polish society, European...
Islam and New Kinship
Reproductive Technology and the Shariah in Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization have provoked global controversy and ethical debate. This book provides a groundbreaking investigation into those debates in the Islamic Middle East, simultaneously documenting changing ideas of kinship and the evolving role of religious...
The Practice of War
Production, Reproduction and Communication of Armed Violence
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
The fact is that war comes in many guises and its effects continue to be felt long after peace is proclaimed. This challenges the anthropologists who write of war as participant observers. Participant observation inevitably deals with the here and now, with the highly specific. It is only over the...
Foucault's Orient
The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Foucault lived in Tunisia for two years and travelled to Japan and Iran more than once. Yet throughout his critical scholarship, he insisted that the cultures of the “Orient” constitute the “limit” of Western rationality. Using archival research supplemented by interviews with key scholars...
The Event of Charlie Hebdo
Imaginaries of Freedom and Control
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The January 2015 shooting at the headquarters of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris and the subsequent attacks that took place in the Île-de-France region were staggeringly violent events. They sparked an enormous discussion among citizens and intellectuals from around Europe and beyond. By...
Heading for the Scene of the Crash
The Cultural Analysis of America
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
American anthropologists have long advocated cultural anthropology as a tool for cultural critique, yet seldom has that approach been employed in discussions of major events and cultural productions that impact the lives of tens of millions of Americans. This collection of essays aims to refashion...
by Wolfgang Koeppen, Michael Kimmage
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Amerikafahrt by Wolfgang Koeppen is a masterpiece of observation, analysis, and writing, based on his 1958 trip to the United States. A major twentieth-century German writer, Koeppen presents a vivid and fascinating portrait of the US in the late 1950s: its major cities, its literary culture, its...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
In 1926/27 the Soviet Central Statistical Administration initiated several yearlong expeditions to gather primary data on the whereabouts, economy and living conditions of all rural peoples living in the Arctic and sub-Arctic at the end of the Russian civil war. Due partly to the enthusiasm of local...
Images of Power and the Power of Images
Control, Ownership, and Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Real places and events are constructed and used to symbolize abstract formulations of power and authority in politics, corporate practice, the arts, religion, and community. By analyzing the aesthetics of public space in contexts both mundane and remarkable, the contributors examine the social relationship...
Crisis of the State
War and Social Upheaval
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Analyzing both historical contexts and geographical locations, this volume explores the continuous reformation of state power and its potential in situations of violent conflict. The state, otherwise understood as an abstract and transcendent concept in many works on globalization in political philosophy,...
Enduring Socialism
Explorations of Revolution and Transformation, Restoration and Continuation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Against the historical backdrop of successive socialist and post-socialist claims to have completely remade society, the contributors to this volume explore the complex and often paradoxical continuities between diverse post-socialist presents and their corresponding socialist and pre-socialist pasts....
War and Women across Continents
Autobiographical and Biographical Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Drawing on family materials, historical records, and eyewitness accounts, this book shows the impact of war on individual women caught up in diverse and often treacherous situations. It relates stories of partisans in Holland, an Italian woman carrying guns and provisions in the face of hostile soldiers,...
Landscapes Beyond Land
Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Land is embedded in a multitude of material and cultural contexts, through which the human experience of landscape emerges. Ethnographers, with their participative methodologies, long-term co-residence, and concern with the quotidian aspects of the places where they work, are well positioned to describe...