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Archaeogaming
An Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Video games exemplify contemporary material objects, resources, and spaces that people use to define their culture. Video games also serve as archaeological sites in the traditional sense as a place, in which evidence of past activity is preserved and has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Memory studies has become a rapidly growing area of scholarly as well as public interest. This volume brings together world experts to explore the current critical trends in this new academic field. It embraces work on diverse but interconnected phenomena, such as twenty-first century museums, shocking...
World War I and the Jews
Conflict and Transformation in Europe, the Middle East, and America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
World War I utterly transformed the lives of Jews around the world: it allowed them to display their patriotism, to dispel antisemitic myths about Jewish cowardice, and to fight for Jewish rights. Yet Jews also suffered as refugees and deportees, at times catastrophically. And in the aftermath of...
Staying at Home
Identities, Memories and Social Networks of Kazakhstani Germans
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Despite economic growth in Kazakhstan, more than 80 per cent of Kazakhstan’s ethnic Germans have emigrated to Germany to date. Disappointing experiences of the migrants, along with other aspects of life in Germany, have been transmitted through transnational networks to ethnic Germans still living...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Anthropologists have been keenly aware of the tension between cultural relativism and absolute norms, and nowhere has this been more acute than with regards to moral values. Can we study the Other’s morality without applying our own normative judgments? How do social anthropologists keep both the...
Debating Authenticity
Concepts of Modernity in Anthropological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The longing for authenticity, on an individual or collective level, connects the search for external expressions to internal orientations. What is largely referred to as production of authenticity is a reformulation of cultural values and norms within the ongoing process of modernity, impacted by...
When Things Become Property
Land Reform, Authority and Value in Postsocialist Europe and Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Governments have conferred ownership titles to many citizens throughout the world in an effort to turn things into property. Almost all elements of nature have become the target of property laws, from the classic preoccupation with land to more ephemeral material, such as air and genetic resources....
At Home on the Waves
Human Habitation of the Sea from the Mesolithic to Today
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Contemporary public discourses about the ocean are routinely characterized by scientific and environmentalist narratives that imagine and idealize marine spaces in which humans are absent. In contrast, this collection explores the variety of ways in which people have long made themselves at home at...
Civilizing Nature
National Parks in Global Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
National parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon. The development of these ecological and political systems cannot be understood as a simple...
Exhibiting Europe in Museums
Transnational Networks, Collections, Narratives, and Representations
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Museums of history and contemporary culture face many challenges in the modern age. One is how to react to processes of Europeanization and globalization, which require more cross-border cooperation and different ways of telling stories for visitors. This book investigates how museums exhibit Europe....
Views of Violence
Representing the Second World War in German and European Museums and Memorials
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Twenty-first-century views of historical violence have been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War. Within Europe, one of the key sites for such representation has been the vast array of museums and memorials that reflect contemporary ideas of war, the roles of...
Rethinking Holocaust Justice
Essays across Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Since the end of World War II, the ongoing efforts aimed at criminal prosecution, restitution, and other forms of justice in the wake of the Holocaust have constituted one of the most significant episodes in the history of human rights and international law. As such, they have attracted sustained...
Anthropology and Political Science
A Convergent Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
What can anthropology and political science learn from each other? The authors argue that collaboration, particularly in the area of concepts and methodologies, is tremendously beneficial for both disciplines, though they also deal with some troubling aspects of the relationship. Focusing on the influence...
Taking on Technocracy
Nuclear Power in Germany, 1945 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
The German abandonment of nuclear power represents one of the most successful popular revolts against technocratic thinking in modern times—the triumph of a dynamic social movement, encompassing a broad swath of West Germans as well as East German dissident circles, over political, economic, and...