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  • - Methods and Problems
     
    1 895

    The term 'Anthropology of Food' has become an accepted abbreviation for the study of anthropological perspectives on food, diet and nutrition, an increasingly important subdivision of anthropology that encompasses a rich variety of perspectives, academic approaches, theories, and methods. Its multi-disciplinary nature adds to its complexity.

  • - The PDS, Stalinism and the Global Economy
    av Peter Thompson Thompson
    1 419

    Using Nietzsche's categories of monumentalism, antiquarian and critical history, the author examines the historical and theoretical contexts of the collapse of the GDR in 1989 and looks at the positive and negative legacies of the GDR for the PDS (the successor party to the East German Communists).

  • - German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s
    av Tim Bergfelder
    569

    This account of the popular German film industry, its main protagonists, and its production strategies in the 1960s; challenges traditional assumptions. The most striking phenomenon of 1960s' popular German cinema: the disappearance of any explicit reference to contemporary German reality.

  • - Essays on the French Authoritarian Right
     
    1 859

    France's response to the rise of European fascism during the 1930s, and subsequently to the Nazi occupation 1940-44, has been a difficult subject for the nation's historians.

  • - The Politics of Time in a 'Model' Bulgarian Village
    av Deema Kaneff
    1 859

    In the decades since the collapse of socialism in eastern Europe, time has been a central resource under negotiation. Focusing on a local community that was considered a "model" in the socialist period, the author explores a variety of state-sponsored and unofficial pasts - history, folklore, and tradition - and shows how they "fit" together...

  • - Household Strategies and Collective Action in the 19th and 20th Centuries
     
    409,-

    Why do people rebel? This is one of the most important questions historians and social scientists have been grappling with over the years. It is a question to which no satisfactory answer has been found, despite more than a century of research.

  • - Perspectives from the Margin
    av Graham Fordham
    1 559

    Based on original research in Northern Thailand and drawing on the breadth of indigenous Thai language materials, this study offers a sustained and powerful criticism of the normative modeling of the Thai AIDS epidemic in order to elicit new and more effective points of intervention.

  • - European Societies in the 19th and 20th Centuries
     
    515

    Eight internationally-known social historians from Europe and Israel offer an overview of some key themes in European history during the last two centuries. While dealing with the great changes of this period, the authors reveal the commonalities that link European societies together but also important differences at a national level.

  • - Germany since 1990
     
    1 859

    Historians Dennis and Kolinsky (both affiliated with the U. of Wolverhampton, UK) see the reunification of Germany as a one- directional process in which the social and political model of western Germany was imposed on the eastern half of the country, creating imbalances, failing to replicate the wes

  • - Time, Difference and Boundaries
    av Heidrun Friese
    405,-

    This book offers a comprehensive and critical overview on how this concept is currently used and how it relates to memory and constructions of historical meaning.

  • av Marek Haltof
    415

  • - Problems, Partners and Perspectives
    av Holger Mey Mey
    1 859

    While cautioning against mere linear extrapolation of current trends, Mey (president, Institute for Strategic Analyses, Germany) seeks to identify the variables that can effect the German security environment to the year 2030. In addition to identifying the variables to which the German security est

  • - The Role of Writers, Opposition Movements, and the Churches in the Transformation of East Germany
     
    1 859

    Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this volume offers an overview of the role of writers, intellectuals, citizens, and the churches both before, but particularly after, 1989 in the GDR and the new Germany. Friedrich Schorlemmer provides the focal point, giving the book its coherence.

  • - National Socialism and the Politics of Inventing from Weimar to Bonn
    av Kees Gispen
    515 - 1 995

  • - Concepts of Kinship in South Asian Practice
     
    405,-

    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 relations are primarily determined by ideas about "consanguinity," "genealogical relations," and "genetic connections."

  • - Highways of Culture and Commerce
    av Vadime Elisseeff
    1 969

    Towards the middle of the 20th century, scholarly research revealed that the fabled Silk Roads, far from being mere trade routes, were cultural highways that played a pivotal role in linking east and west, intermittently bringing together nomads and city dwellers, pastoral peoples and farmers, merchants and monks, and soldiers and pilgrims.

  • - On the Ambiguity of Suffering in Culture
    av Antze Lambek
    505

    Theories of illness and therapy since Freud have included the possibility that sufferers are complicit in their conditions. The studies in this volume explore the ways in which illness and therapy may be characterized as sites at which ironies of the human condition are produced, encountered, acknowledged - or discounted in favor of more literal readings. They ask what these sites can teach us about questions of human agency and about the broader importance of irony for theory.Encompassing a variety of perspectives, the contributors included in Illness and Irony apply theories of irony to a myriad of cultural contexts, ranging from Freud's consulting room and the Lacanian clinics of Buenos Aires to fright illness in a Yemeni village and spirit possession on the island of Mayotte. An introductory chapter by Michael Lambek establishes a contextual viewpoint on irony, arising from the writings of Thomas Mann, Alexander Nehamas and others. Vincent Crapanzano concludes the volume by linking the contributions to current debates about irony in rhetoric, linguistics and comparative literature.

  • - Germany, Soviet Russia, and the World, 1939-1941
     
    2 719

    Thirty-five historians from nine different countries offer a comprehensive survey of the origins, course and long-term impact of the German attack on the Soviet Union. The volume is not merely concerned with political and military history, but also with the experiences of ordinary soldiers and civilians.

  • - Uncertainty, Cognition, and Risk Management in Cross-Cultural Perspective
     
    2 059

    Today, human ecology has split into many different sub-disciplines, such as historical ecology, political ecology or the New Ecological Anthropology. This collection of essays aims to prove that an interdisciplinary collaboration and understanding of the extreme complexity of the human-environment interface(s) is possible.

  • - Ethnoscience, Cognition, and Utility
     
    585

  • - Contemporary German Perspectives and Controversies
     
    1 995

    Moving beyond the well-established problems and public discussions of the Holocaust, this collection of essays, written by some of the leading German historians of the younger generation, leaves behind the increasingly agitated arguments of the last years and substantially broadens, and in many areas revises, our knowledge of the Holocaust.

  • - Localism and Local Identity in an Italian Alpine Valley
    av Jaro Stacul
    2 065

    Investigating how ideas about village boundaries and private property in the Trentino region of northern Italy form the background against which regionalist ideologies are understood, this study suggests that ideas about regionalism largely reflect views about private property.

  • - Conflict and Cooperation Between Two Cultures, 1800-2000
     
    579

    In this volume some of the leading historians, social scientists and literary scholars from both sides of the Atlantic have come together to investigate, for the first time in a broad interdisciplinary collaboration, the nexus of these interactions in view of current and future challenges to German-American relations.

  • - Knowing and Managing Animals in the Circumpolar North
    av David G. Anderson & Mark (University of Edinburgh) Nuttall
    565

    "The edited work contains one of the most interesting sets of northern papers to appear in a very long time . . . each paper is excellent . . . this book will hopefully provoke considerable thought. . . . This is a work that should be discussed in terms of the particulars of the various papers, but also for the overview it provides." - Polar Record In the last two decades, there has been an increased awareness of the traditions and issues that link aboriginal people across the circumpolar North. One of the key aspects of the lives of circumpolar peoples, be they in Scandinavia, Alaska, Russia, or Canada, is their relationship to the wild animals that support them. Although divided for most of the 20th Century by various national trading blocks, and the Cold War, aboriginal people in each region share common stories about the various capitalist and socialist states that claimed control over their lands and animals. Now, aboriginal peoples throughout the region are reclaiming their rights. This volume is the first to give a well-rounded portrait of wildlife management, aboriginal rights, and politics in the circumpolar north. The book reveals unexpected continuities between socialist and capitalist ecological styles, as well as addressing the problems facing a new era of cultural exchanges between aboriginal peoples in each region. David G. Anderson is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen.Mark Nuttall is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen.

  • - German and Israeli Perspectives on Immigration
     
    569

    In contrast to most other countries, both Germany and Israel have descent-based concepts of nationhood and have granted members of their nation (ethnic Germans and Jews) who wish to immigrate automatic access to their respective citizenship privileges.

  • - Towards an Anthropology of Public Events
    av Don Handelman
    565

    Ritual is one of the most discussed cultural practices, yet its treatment in anthropological terms has been seriously limited, characterized by a host of narrow conceptual distinctions. One major reason for this situation has been the prevalence of positivist anthropologies that have viewed and summarized ritual occasions...

  • - Place and Procreation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea
    av James Leach
    579

    What is creative in kinship? How are people connected to places? James Leach answers these questions by examining the making of people and the emergence of places in a particular context. He develops a powerful idea: the formulation of "creativity" as an ongoing and integral part of kinship as environmental engagement.

  • - Parisian Students and Workers in 1968
    av Michael Seidman
    409

    The events of 1968 have been seen as a decisive turning point in the Western world of even mythical significance. The author takes a critical look at "May 1968" and questions whether the events were in fact as "revolutionary" as French and foreign commentators have indicated.

  • - The Impact of the Good Friday Agreement on Northern Ireland
     
    579

    This major book-length analysis of developments in Northern Ireland after the beginning of actual IRA decommissioning in October 2001 examines the impact of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement on politics, economy and society in Northern Ireland.

  • - Education, National Identity, and the Victim Myth in Postwar Austria
    av Peter Utgaard
    2 049

    The Myth of Austrian victimization at the hands of both Nazi Germany and the Allies became the unifying theme of Austrian official memory and a key component of national identity as a new Austria emerged from the ruins. In the 1980s, Austria's myth of victimization came under intense scrutiny in the wake of the Waldheim scandal that marked the beginning of its erosion. The fiftieth anniversary of the Anschluß in 1988 accelerated this process and resulted in a collective shift away from the victim myth. Important themes examined include the rebirth of Austria, the Anschluß, the war and the Holocaust, the Austrian resistance, and the Allied occupation. The fragmentation of Austrian official memory since the late 1980s coincided with the dismantling of the Conservative and Social Democratic coalition, which had defined Austrian politics in the postwar period. Through the eyes of the Austrian school system, this book examines how postwar Austria came to terms with the Second World War.Peter Utgaard was raised in Carbondale, Illinois where he studied German at Southern Illinois University. After study and teaching in Lower Austria he pursued his doctorate at Washington State University. Utgaard returned to Austria as a Fulbright researcher at the Austrian Ministry of Education for dissertation research. Utgaard currently serves as Chair of History and Social Sciences at Cuyamaca College in San Diego where he was awarded the college's Excellence in Teaching Award.

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