Since the late 1960s social democrats have become the dominant political force in the European Union. In fact, Social Democrats govern in no less than...
In Europe and around the world, social policies and welfare services have faced increasing pressure in recent years as a result of political, economic, and...
During the last decades, the world has been facing tremendous political transformations and new risks: epidemics such as HIV/Aids have had destabilizing effect on the...
Despite growing affluence, a large number of urban Chinese have problems making ends meet. Based on ethnographic research among several different types of communities in...
Spanish comics represent an exciting and diverse field, yet one that is often overlooked outside of Spain. Spanish Comics offers an overview on contemporary scholarship...
Studies of religion have a tendency to conceptualise the Spirit and the Letter as mutually exclusive and intrinsically antagonistic. However, the history of religions abounds...
Since the beginning of human history, stories have helped people make sense of their lives and their world. Today, an understanding of storytelling is invaluable...
Few anthropologists today realize the pioneering role Margaret Mead played in the investigation of contemporary cultures. This volume collects and presents a variety of her...
From A Comparative Perspective, Human Life Histories Are Unique And Raising Offspring Is Unusually Costly: Humans Have Relatively Short Birth Intervals Compared To Other Apes,...
Urban areas in Arctic Russia are experiencing unprecedented social and ecological change. This collection outlines the key challenges that city managers will face in navigating...
The 1880s were a critical time in Cameroon. A German warship arrived in the Douala estuary and proclaimed Cameroon a protectorate. At that time, two...
In continuation of a longstanding national selfimage, Switzerland saw itself after 1945 as a 'small neutral state,' which because of its will to resist and...
Franz Steiner's study of Taboo is internationally recognized as a classic in its field. In a newly researched introductory chapter, based on a thorough study...
The managerial revolution, or the rise of management as a distinct and vital group in industrial society, might be identified as a major development of...
Whenever asked to name his most significant accomplishment as West Germany's first Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer would invariably reply: "The alliance with the free West." Scholars...
The Muhammad cartoon crisis of 20052006 in Denmark caught the world by surprise as the growing hostilities toward Muslims had not been widely noticed. Through...
Exploring the role of empathy in a variety of Pacific societies, this book is at the forefront of the latest anthropological research on empathy. It...
In the last generation the classic Marxist interpretation of the French Revolution has been challenged by the socalled revisionist school. The Marxist view that the...
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Based on thorough ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp in Tanzania this book provides a rich account of the benevolent disciplining mechanisms of humanitarian agencies,...
Critical Heritage Studies is a new and fastgrowing interdisciplinary field of study seeking to explore power relations involved in the production and meaningmaking of cultural...
Over the past decades, Pentecostalcharismatic Christianity has arguably become the fastest growing religious movement in the world. Distinguishing features of this variant of Christianity include...
Over the past decades, Pentecostalcharismatic Christianity has arguably become the fastest growing religious movement in the world. Distinguishing features of this variant of Christianity include...
The Debate On The Origins Of Modern Gender Norms Continues Unabated Across The Academic Disciplines. This Book Adds An Important And Hitherto Neglected Dimension. Focusing...
The debate on the origins of modern gender norms continues unabated across the academic disciplines. This book adds an important and hitherto neglected dimension. Focusing...
Protest is a ubiquitous and richly varied social phenomenon, one that finds expression not only in modern social movements and political organizations but also in...
Anthropology has long shied away from examining how human beings may lead happy and fulfilling lives. This book, however, shows that the ethnographic examination of...
By closely examining the interaction between intellectual and material culture in the period before the Nazis came to power in Germany, the author comes to...
By closely examining the interaction between intellectual and material culture in the period before the Nazis came to power in Germany, the author comes to...
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