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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

When God Comes to Town

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics/Politics and Culture | nr. 4
• Around 1800 roughly three per cent of the human population lived in urban areas; by 2030 this number is expected to have gone up to some seventy per c... Lees meer

Who Owns the Stock?

• Hardcover | Engels | Integration and Conflict Studies | nr. 5
• The issue of collective and multiple property rights in animals, such as cattle, camels or reindeers, among pastoralists has never been a subject of s... Lees meer

Critical Theory

• Hardcover | Engels
• The retirement of the distinguished philosopher Jürgen Habermas from his chair at the University of Frankfurt signalled an important caesura in the hi... Lees meer

The Anthropologist as Writer

• Hardcover | Engels
• Writing is crucial to anthropology, but which genres are anthropologists expected to master in the 21st century? This book explores how anthropologica... Lees meer

Turning the Kaleidoscope

• Hardcover | Engels
• Far from being a blank space on the Jewish map, or a void in the Jewish cultural world, post-Shoah Europe is a place where Jewry has continued to deve... Lees meer

Religion and Society

• Paperback | Engels
• This volume begins with a portrait of Bruce Kapferer, whose complex and rich contributions to the study of religion and ritual have had an influence t... Lees meer

Beyond Caligari

Uli Jung, Walter Schatzberg

• Hardcover | Engels
• While the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari became an international film classic, its director, Robert Wiene, was disparaged and even forgotten. Wiene's oeuvre,... Lees meer

Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema

• Hardcover | Engels
• Simone de Beauvoir's work has not often been associated with film studies, which appears paradoxical when it is recognized that she was the first femi... Lees meer

United Germany

• Hardcover | Engels
• Since the attempt to unite two parts of a country divided for four decades yielded contradictory results, this volume provides a balance sheet of the ... Lees meer

Nursing Stories

Nicholas Eschenbruch

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Anthropology | nr. 27
• At a time, when the section of the older population is increasing in all western societies, more and more attention needs to be paid to the growing nu... Lees meer

Navigating Terrains of War

Henrik E Vigh

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodology & History in Anthropology | nr. 13
• Through the concept of "social navigation," this book sheds light on the mobilization of urban youth in West Africa. Social navigation offers a perspe... Lees meer

The Devil Is Disorder

Rebecca Lynch

• Hardcover | Engels
• What role might the Devil have in health and illness? The Devil is Disorder explores constructions of the body, health, illness and wider misfortune i... Lees meer

Cinemas of Boyhood

• Hardcover | Engels
• Drawing from political sociology, pop psychology, and film studies, Cinemas of Boyhood explores the important yet often overlooked subject of boys and... Lees meer

The Candle and the Guillotine

Julie Patricia Johnson

• Hardcover | Engels | Berghahn Monographs in French Studies | nr. 17
• As in a number of France's major cities, civil war erupted in Lyon in the summer of 1793, ultimately leading to a siege of the city and a wave of mass... Lees meer

The Museum of Mankind

Ben Burt

• Hardcover | Engels | Museums and Collections | nr. 12
• The Museum of Mankind was an innovative and popular showcase for minority cultures from around the non-Western world from 1970 to 1997. This memoir is... Lees meer

Choreographies of Landscape

Sally Ann Ness

• Hardcover | Engels | Dance and Performance Studies | nr. 8
• As an international ecotourism destination, Yosemite National Park welcomes millions of climbers, sightseers, and other visitors from around the world... Lees meer

Wartime Captivity in the 20th Century

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Contemporary European History | nr. 19
• Long a topic of historical interest, wartime captivity has over the past decade taken on new urgency as an object of study. Transnational by its very ... Lees meer

Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology of Food & Nutrition | nr. 9
• Sustainability is one of the great problems facing food production today. Using cross-disciplinary perspectives from international scholars working in... Lees meer

Lewis Henry Morgan's Comparisons

Georg Pfeffer

• Hardcover | Engels
• About 150 years ago Lewis Henry Morgan compared relationship terminologies, societal forms and ideas of property to recognize the interdependence of t... Lees meer

The Anthroposcene of Weather and Climate

• Hardcover | Engels
• While it is widely acknowledged that climate change is among the greatest global challenges of our times, it has local implications too. This volume f... Lees meer

Opening Up the University

• Hardcover | Engels | Higher Education in Critical Perspective: Practices and Poli | nr. 5
• Through a series of empirically and theoretically informed reflections, Opening Up the University offers insights into the process of setting up and r... Lees meer

The Discipline of Leisure

• Paperback | Engels | Social Identities | nr. 4
• The burgeoning social scientific study of tourism has emphasized the effects of the post-industrial economy on travel and place. However, this volume ... Lees meer

Who Knows Tomorrow?

Sandra Calkins

• Hardcover | Engels
• Although uncertainty is intertwined with all human activity, plans, and aspirations, it is experienced differently: at times it is obsessed over and a... Lees meer