Empathy and History offers a comprehensive and dual account of empathys intellectual and educational history. Beginning in an influential educational movement that implanted the concept...
Global imperial designs, which have been in place since conquest by western powers, did not suddenly evaporate after decolonization. Global coloniality as a leitmotif of...
As tourism service standards become more homogeneous, travel destinations worldwide are conforming yet still trying to maintain, or even increase, their distinctiveness. Based on more...
Time, as we experience it, is a social and cultural phenomenon. The pioneering study of the social representation of time was by Henri Hubert (18721927)....
In its assessment of the current 'state of play' of ethnographic practice in social anthropology, this volume explores the challenges that changing social forms and...
In its assessment of the current 'state of play' of ethnographic practice in social anthropology, this volume explores the challenges that changing social forms and...
Mass tourism is one of the most striking developments in postwar western societies, involving economic, social, cultural, and anthropological factors. For many countries it has...
During World War II, London was transformed into a European city, as it unexpectedly became a place of refuge for many thousands of European citizens...
At the heart of this volume is the assertion that Sartrean existentialism, most prominent in the 1940s, particularly in France, is still relevant as a...
Spurred by wars and a drive to urbanize, Africans are crossing borders and overwhelming cities in unprecedented numbers. At the center of this development are...
Spurred by wars and a drive to urbanize, Africans are crossing borders and overwhelming cities in unprecedented numbers. At the center of this development are...
Through the ethnography and history of fish production, seafood consumption, state modernizing policies and marine science, this book analyzes the role of local knowledge in...
Bang & Olufsen, the famous Danish producer of highend home electronics, is well known as an early exponent of valuebased management: the idea that there...
Folk, alternative and complementary health care practices in contemporary Western society are currently experiencing a renaissance, albeit with features that are unique to this historical...
In interwar France, there was a growing sense that organization was the solution to the nations perceived social, economic and political ills. This book examines...
During The Cold War, Britain Had An Astonishing Number Of Contacts And Connections With One Of The Soviet Blocs Most Hardline Regimes: The German Democratic...
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As reproduction is seen as central to kinship and the biological link as the primary bond between parents and their offspring, Western perceptions of kin...
Colour permeates contemporary visual and material culture and affects our senses beyond the superficial encounter by infiltrating our perceptions and memories and becoming deeply rooted...
Situated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation has grown in recent years to become a vibrant interdisciplinary project...
As Europe becomes more integrated at the economic and political level, attempts are being made to harmonize education policies as well. This volume offers an...
Western scholars have not lost any of their fascination for East German culture. Cinema in particular continues to attract interest. This volume, the first one...
The Sahrawi and Afghan refugee youth in the Middle East have been stereotyped regionally and internationally: some have been objectified as passive victims; others have...
Interpretations of the background to the Cuban diaspora a political revolution and the subsequent radical transformation of the society and economy towards socialism are politicised...
Over the last two decades, anthropological studies have highlighted the problems of development as a discursive regime, arguing that such initiatives are paradoxically used to...
How should we tell the histories of academic disciplines? All too often, the political and institutional dimensions of knowledge production are lost beneath the intellectual...
Why are we obsessed with calculating our selections? The author argues that competitive trade nurtures calculative reason, which provides the ground for most discourses on...
Aimed at professional anthropologists, their students and academic policymakers, the contributions to this volume provide an unprecedented array of insights into the current teaching and...
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