The first German womens movement embraced the belief in a demographic surplus of unwed women, known as the Frauenberschu, as a central leitmotif in the...
Decades after the massive student protest movements that consumed much of the world, the 1960s remain a significant subject of scholarly inquiry. While important work...
For centuries, Africas Upper Guinea Coast region has been the site of regional and global interactions, with societies from different parts of the African continent...
Friendship is an essential part of human experience, involving ideas of love and morality as well as material and pragmatic concerns. Making and having friends...
Margaret Mead collaborated with her longtime colleague Rhoda Mtraux in this unique study of French culture. The Hoover Institute at Stanford University originally published this...
Drawing from extended fieldwork in La Runion, in the Indian Ocean, the author suggests an innovative rereading of different concepts of magic that emerge in...
Many accounts of tourism have adopted an almost paradigmatic visual model of the gaze. This collection presents an expanded notion of spectatorship with a more...
Many accounts of tourism have adopted an almost paradigmatic visual model of the gaze. This collection presents an expanded notion of spectatorship with a more...
Globalization presents major challenges to scholars of history. Different variants of global history and world history compete with, and transform, more traditional approaches of national,...
By working with underserved communities, anthropologists may play a larger role in democratizing society. The growth of disparities challenges anthropology to be used for social...
Using German political parties as a prism with which to view institutional change, this collection transcends a single country focus and places the German experience...
Product Description Using German political parties as a prism with which to view institutional change, this collection transcends a single country focus and places the...
While the current discussion of ethnic, trade, and commercial diasporas, global networks, and transnational communities constantly makes reference to the importance of families and kinship...
In Australia, a tribe of white, middleclass, progressive professionals is actively working to improve the lives of Indigenous people. This book explores what happens when...
During the 1990s, Naples leftwing administration sought to tackle the citys infamous reputation of being poor, crimeridden, chaotic and dirty by reclaiming the citys cultural...
The unification of Germany is the most important change in Central Europe in the last four decades. Understanding this rapid and unforeseen development has raised...
The questions that inspired this study are central to contemporary research within environmental anthropology, political ecology, and environmental history: How does the introduction of a...
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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...
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