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Whereas most studies of migration focus on movement, this book examines the experience of staying put. It looks at young men living in a Soninke-speaking village in Gambia who, although eager to travel abroad for money and experience, settle as farmers, heads of families, businessmen, civic activists, or, alternatively, as unemployed, demoted youth. Those who stay do so not only because of financial and legal limitations, but also because of pressures to maintain family and social bases in the Gambia valley. 'Stayers' thus enable migrants to migrate, while ensuring the activities and values attached to rural life are passed on to the future generations.

The richness of Brazilian stardom extends well beyond the ubiquitous Carmen Miranda, and among the studies assembled in this volume are fascinating explorations of figures alongside interrogations of the inner workings of the star system in Brazil.

Stressing the interdisciplinary, public-policy oriented character of Cultural Resource Management (CRM), which is not merely "applied archaeology," this short, relatively uncomplicated introduction is aimed at emerging archaeologists.

Disaster Upon Disaster illuminates the numerous disjunctions between the suppositions, realities, agendas, and executions in the field and advances solutions and the matter of outcomes.

Investigates the political reasons for South Africa adopting an allegedly self-regulating market despite its disastrous effects and identifies the colonialist ideas of property rights as a mainstay of the existing social order.

This innovative study develops the concept of "retro" to describe the nuanced and ironic depiction of the past as seen in Czech popular culture.

Focusing on the small island of Paama, Vanuatu, and the capital, Port Vila, this book presents a rare and recent study of the ongoing significance of urbanization and internal migration in the Global South.

After millennia of wandering the earth with little impact, a universal, if inadvertent transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and pastoralism was complete within a period of a few thousand years. Mixed Harvest tells the story of the Sedentary Divide, the most significant event since modern humans emerged.

Against the background of debates about a revival of humanist values, this volume seeks to recast the question of the viability of the humanities by analyzing their long-disputed premises in German literature and philosophy.

Unsustainable practices since the Industrial Revolution still impact our everyday lives. This book looks at how we can achieve sustainable urban mobility now and in the future by tapping into our knowledge of the historical trajectories leading up to the features of modern mobility in cities today.

Amid the Cold War and global student protests, transnational forces significantly shaped the modernization of educational systems in Spain and Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s. Each study sheds new light on the transnational circulation of modernization discourses, practices, and ideology within the sphere of education.

In historical writing on World War I, Czech-speaking soldiers serving in the Austro-Hungarian military are primarily studied as Czechs, rarely as soldiers, and never as men.

Arguably more than any other world regions, the area known as Eastern Europe has been defined by its location on the map. Rather than expound on borders and neighbors, Eastern Europe Unmapped raises questions about the meaning and relevance of the area's non-contiguous, frequently global or extraterritorial, entanglements.

This comprehensive volume demonstrates that the question of how to care for the poor has had significant implications for German history throughout the modern era. Here, eight leading historians provide essential case studies and syntheses of current research into German welfare, from the Holy Roman Empire to the present day.

This book offers a series of analyses of the interplay of nationalism's discursive and institutional facets. Christian Karner develops a distinctive, longue duree perspective on Austrian nationalism, which traces nationalist politics from the late eighteenth century to today's digital age.

Written by eleven leading anthropologists from around the world, this volume extends the insights of Fredrik Barth, one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century, to push even further at the frontiers of anthropology.

Today more than ever before, the historical witness is now a "museum object" in the form of video interviews. With a focus on Holocaust museums, this study scrutinizes this new global phenomenon of the "musealisation" of testimony, exploring the processes, prerequisites, and consequences of video testimonies as exhibits.

This wide-ranging, briskly narrated volume from acclaimed Mexican historian Carlos Illades guides the reader through key episodes in Mexican social history, from rebellions under Porfirio Diaz to the recent emergence of neo-anarchist movements.

This volume offers a comprehensive guide to methods used in the sociocultural, linguistic and historical research of food use. This volume is unique in offering food-related research methods from multiple academic disciplines, and includes methods that bridge disciplines to provide a thorough review of best practices.

This volume provides in-depth analysis and comprehensive review of methods necessary to design, plan, implement and analyze public health programming related to food and nutrition using anthropological best practices.

In the past two decades, the subject of post-Holocaust justice has experienced a surge of interest among historians and legal scholars. Rethinking Holocaust Justice offers a multifaceted approach to post-Holocaust justice, bringing together leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to explore the complexity of these issues.

How was Nazism received in the Middle East? By focusing on Arab and Turkish reactions to Nazi anti-Semitism and persecution of the Jews in Germany and Europe, this collection offers a fresh perspective on institutional and popular attitudes towards Jewish communities throughout the Middle East during the 1930s and 1940s.

Historians have commonly interpreted Britain's attempts to break through older alliances of European states before World War I as a reaction to aggressive German foreign policy. This groundbreaking political history demonstrates that British strategy instead arose from the complex interplay of national, continental and imperial considerations.

This volume represents a landmark intervention in the historiography of concepts. With clarifying overviews of such contested theoretical terrain as translatability, spatiality, and center-periphery dynamics, it also provides valuable insights into the current era of disenchantment with the European project.

This collection represents the first systematic reflection on the impact and outcomes of the women's liberation movement in different areas and topics of Western societies. It systematically investigates movement outcomes in one country in the light of a reflective social movement theory and compares them to developments in other countries.

The Devil is Disorder explores constructions of the body, health, illness and wider misfortune in a Trinidadian village where evangelical Christianity is growing in popularity. Based on long-term ethnography, the book takes a nuanced cosmological approach to situate evangelical Christian understandings.

Adapting the latest developments in the field of social movements, the chapters in this volume examine the formation, use and contestation of heritage by various official, non-official and activist players and the spaces where such ongoing negotiations and contestation take place.

This volume contributes to transatlantic anthropology and history by bringing together religion, cultural heritage and placemaking in the Atlantic world. The entanglements of religion, cultural heritage and belonging are ethnographically scrutinized to perceive the connections and disconnections of specific places.

With a focus on historic sites, this volume explores the recent history of non- heteronormative Americans from the early 20th century onward and the places associated with these communities. Authors explore how queer identities are connected with specific places...

The contributors of this volume are social scientists from France, Belgium, England and the United States and represent different disciplines. Each author has attempted, through the prism of their specialties, to demonstrate and analyse how and why this striking difference in access to ART exists.