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Free Will, Consciousness and Self

Preben Bertelsen

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Understanding of the Human Condition
• What is it to be human? How do we relate to the world, to each other and to our self in a human - in everyday life and when faced with life's big ques... Lees meer

Celebrating Transgression

• Hardcover | Engels
• Transgression is the stock in trade of a certain kind of anthropological sensibility that transforms fieldwork from strict social science to something... Lees meer

Sartre Today

• Hardcover | Engels
• Sartre Today is a tribute to Jean-Paul Sartre on the centenary of his birth (1905-2005). With twenty-two contributions from leading Sartre scholars in... Lees meer

Between Prague Spring and French May

• Hardcover | Engels | Protest, Culture & Society | nr. 7
• Abandoning the usual Cold War-oriented narrative of postwar European protest and opposition movements, this volume offers an innovative, interdiscipli... Lees meer

Austria, Germany, and the Cold War

Rolf Steininger

• Paperback | Engels
• In the 'Moscow Declaration' of 1943 the Allies officially propagated the notion of Austria as the first victim of Hitlerite aggression and announced t... Lees meer

Cosmopolitan Refugees

Nereida Ripero-Muñiz

• Hardcover | Engels | Forced Migration | nr. 46
• Exploring the dynamics of identity formation processes in diasporic spaces, this book analyses how gender, cultural and religious practices are renego... Lees meer

Contrarian Anthropology

Laura Nader

• Hardcover | Engels
• Analyzing the workings of boundary maintenance in the areas of anthropology, energy, gender, and law, Nader contrasts dominant trends in academia with... Lees meer

Transborder Media Spaces

Ingrid Kummels

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology of Media | nr. 7
• Transborder Media Spaces offers a new perspective on how media forms like photography, video, radio, television, and the Internet have been appropriat... Lees meer

Nothing New in Europe?

Anita Haviv-Horiner

• Hardcover | Engels
• Today, more than 75 years after the Holocaust and World War II, antisemitism remains a poisonous force in European culture and politics, whether cloak... Lees meer

Enlightening Encounters

Stephen Gudeman

• Paperback | Engels
• One of the world's top anthropologists recounts his formative experiences doing fieldwork in this accessible memoir ideal for anyone interested in ant... Lees meer

The Hadrami Diaspora

Leif Manger

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Hadramis of South Yemen and the emergence of their diasporic communities throughout the Indian Ocean region are an intriguing facet of the history... Lees meer

Europeanization in Sweden

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on Civil Society | nr. 10
• Notwithstanding its many successes since 1945, the project of European integration currently faces major difficulties, from financial crises and mass ... Lees meer

Lost to the State

Elena Khlinovskaya Rockhill

• Hardcover | Engels
• Childhood held a special place in Soviet society: seen as the key to a better future, children were imagined as the only privileged class. Therefore, ... Lees meer

Reclaiming the Forest

• Paperback | Engels
• The reindeer herders of Aoluguya, China, are a group of former hunters who today see themselves as "keepers of reindeer" as they engage in ethnic tour... Lees meer

Healing Roots

Julie Laplante

• Paperback | Engels | Epistemologies of Healing | nr. 15
• Umhlonyane , also known as Artemisia afra , is one of the oldest and best-documented indigenous medicines in South Africa. This bush, which grows wild... Lees meer

U.S. Foreign Policy and the Other

• Paperback | Engels | Transatlantic Perspectives | nr. 4
• John Quincy Adams warned Americans not to search abroad for monsters to destroy, yet such figures have frequently habituated the discourses of U.S. fo... Lees meer

Unsilencing the Past

David L Phillips

• Hardcover | Engels
• "Phillips's firsthand information and analysis are extremely useful...an indispensable source...a profound, interesting, and challenging book." - Peac... Lees meer

Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology | nr. 5
• "This is a deeply thoughtful and nuanced account of the most celebrated and contested of our contemporary field sites. The authors touch all of the re... Lees meer

Health, Risk, and Adversity

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of the Biosocial Society | nr. 2
• Research on health involves evaluating the disparities that are systematically associated with the experience of risk, including genetic and physiolog... Lees meer

Religion and Science as Forms of Life

• Paperback | Engels
• The relationships between science and religion are about to enter a new phase in our contemporary world, as scientific knowledge has become increasing... Lees meer

Twilight of the Merkel Era

Eric Langenbacher

• Hardcover | Engels
• Elections always have consequences, but the 2017 Bundestag election in Germany proved particularly consequential. With political upheaval across the g... Lees meer

Revisiting Austria

Gundolf Graml

• Hardcover | Engels | Austrian and Habsburg Studies | nr. 28
• Following the transformations and conflicts of the first half of the twentieth century, Austria's emergence as an independent democracy heralded a new... Lees meer

Urban Dreams

• Hardcover | Engels
• Claudia Roth's work on Bobo-Dioulasso, a city of half a million residents in Burkina Faso, provides uniquely detailed insight into the evolving life-w... Lees meer

Designing Worlds

• Paperback | Engels | Making Sense of History | nr. 24
• From consumer products to architecture to advertising to digital technology, design is an undeniably global phenomenon. Yet despite their professed tr... Lees meer