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...
Eighteenthcentury gentleman scholars collected antiquities. Nineteenthcentury nation states built museums to preserve their historical monuments. In the present world, heritage is a global concern as...
Most important issues of today's world such as development, human rights, and cultural pluralism bear the unmistakable stamp of the transatlantic slave trade. In particular...
Most important issues of today's world such as development, human rights, and cultural pluralism bear the unmistakable stamp of the transatlantic slave trade. In particular...
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the unification of East and West Germany in 1989/90 were events of worldhistorical significance. The twentieth anniversary of...
In May 2004, after bringing their legislation into accordance with EU regulations, ten more countries joined the European Union. The contributors to this volume assess...
Writing on the history of German women has like women's history elsewhere undergone remarkable expansion and change since it began in the late 1960s. Today...
Berlin, 12 January 2030 The crisis worsens. The Chancellor reaches for the telephone. He instructs his anteroom to put through a call to Germanys most...
The rapid postwar economic growth in the Southeast Asia region has led to a transformation of many of the societies there, together with the development...
The temptations of a new genetically informed eugenics and of a revived faithbased, worldwide political stance, this study of the interaction of science, religion, politics...
People Travel As Never Before. However, Anthropological Research Has Tended To Focus Primarily On Either Labor Migration Or On Tourism. In Contrast, This Collection Of...
People travel as never before. However, anthropological research has tended to focus primarily on either labor migration or on tourism. In contrast, this collection of...
Grassroots memorials have become major areas of focus during times of trauma, danger, and social unrest. These improvised memorial assemblages continue to display new and...
The negotiation of expectations in tourism is a complex and dynamic process one that is central to the imagination of cultural difference. Expectations not only...
Advances in audiovisual technology, most notably the advent of the popular usage of digital technology in the last few years, have altered the face of...
Surprisingly little research has been carried out about how Australian Aboriginal children and teenagers experience life, shape their social world and imagine the future. This...
"Edith and Victor Turner were among the most influential researchers and teachers and social and cultural anthropology in the twentieth century. Together they, and Edie...
Louis Dumont'S Concept Of Hierarchy Continues To Inspire Social Scientists. Using It As Their Starting Point, The Contributors To This Volume Introduce Both Fresh Empirical...
Louis Dumont's concept of hierarchy continues to inspire social scientists. Using it as their starting point, the contributors to this volume introduce both fresh empirical...
A vast amount of literatureboth scholarly and popularnow exists on the subject of historical memory, but there is remarkably little available that is written from...
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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...