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''''For Their Own Good'''': Civilian Evacuations in Germany and France, 1939-1945
Julia S. TorrieCurrent price €29.33Original price €34.50The early twentieth-century advent of aerial bombing made successful evacuations essential to any war effort, but ordinary people resented them ...
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A Goddess in Motion: Visual Creativity in the Cult of Maria Lionza
Roger CanalsCurrent price €29.33Original price €34.50The current practice of the cult of Maria Lionza is one of the most important and yet unexplored religious practices in Venezuela. Based on long...
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A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America
Berghahn BooksCurrent price €4.73Original price €5.25With a refreshing variety of approaches, these essays represent the best of an emerging international network of scholars dedicated to Latin Americ...
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A Prophetic Trajectory: Ideologies of Place, Time and Belonging in an Angolan Religious Movement
Ruy Llera BlanesCurrent price €4.73Original price €5.25Blanes multi-sited ethnographic-cum-historical study of a prominent Christian prophetic church of Angolan origin is an excellent piece of scholarsh...
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A Sad Fiasco: Colonial Concentration Camps in Southern Africa, 1900-1908
Jonas KreienbaumCurrent price €101.89Original price €122.76Only in recent years has the history of European colonial concentration camps in Africa-in which thousands of prisoners died in appalling condit...
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A Taste for Oppression: A Political Ethnography of Everyday Life in Belarus
Ronan HervouetCurrent price €4.83Original price €5.25The study is very original and interesting as it fills an important gap in our understanding of existing authoritarian regimes. Elisabeth Anstett,...
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About the Hearth: Perspectives on the Home, Hearth and Household in the Circumpolar North
Berghahn BooksCurrent price €116.76Original price €132.68Due to changing climates and demographics, questions of policy in the circumpolar north have focused attention on the very structures that peopl...
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After the Cult: Perceptions of Other and Self in West New Britain (Papua New Guinea)
Holger JebensCurrent price €4.73Original price €5.25Here, finally, is a book that realizes on a grand scale the long-held promise that the study of cargo cults can teach us as much about anthropology...
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After The History of Sexuality: German Genealogies with and Beyond Foucault
Berghahn BooksCurrent price €29.33Original price €34.50Michel Foucault''s seminal The History of Sexuality (1976-1984) has since its publication provided a context for the emergence of critical histo...
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All Tomorrow''s Cultures: Anthropological Engagements with the Future
Samuel Gerald CollinsCurrent price €112.78Original price €132.68The first edition of All Tomorrow''s Cultures explored the legacy of futures-thinking in anthropology and marked the beginning of a resurgence o...
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Anthropology and Political Science: A Convergent Approach
Jan KubikCurrent price €115.43Original price €132.68What can anthropology and political science learn from each other? The authors argue that collaboration, particularly in the area of concepts an...
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Anyone: The Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology
Nigel RapportCurrent price €29.33Original price €34.50The significance that people grant to their affiliations as members of nations, religions, classes, races, ethnicities and genders is evidence o...
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Arab Spring: Uprisings, Powers, Interventions
Kjetil FosshagenCurrent price €14.85Original price €16.50The events of the Arab Spring presented a dramatic reconstitution of politics and the public sphere through their aesthetic and performative use...
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Asymmetrical Conversations: Contestations, Circumventions, and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries
Berghahn BooksCurrent price €100.66Original price €122.76Ideas about health are reinforced by institutions and their corresponding practices, such as donning a patient''''s gown in a hospital or prostr...
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At Home in the Okavango: White Batswana Narratives of Emplacement and Belonging
Catie GressierCurrent price €29.33Original price €34.50An ethnographic portrayal of the lives of white citizens of the Okavango Delta, Botswana, this book examines their relationships with the natura...
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Avant-garde to New Wave: Czechoslovak Cinema, Surrealism and the Sixties
Jonathan L. OwenCurrent price €100.66Original price €122.76The cultural liberalization of communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s produced many artistic accomplishments, not least the celebrated films of t...
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Banned in Berlin: Literary Censorship in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918
Gary D. StarkCurrent price €29.33Original price €34.50Imperial Germany''''s governing elite frequently sought to censor literature that threatened established political, social, religious, and moral...
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Being Godless: Ethnographies of Atheism and Non-Religion
Berghahn BooksCurrent price €104.35Original price €122.76Drawing on ethnographic inquiry and the anthropological literature on doubt and atheism, this volume explores people''s reluctance to pursue rel...
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Being Human, Being Migrant: Senses of Self and Well-Being
Berghahn BooksCurrent price €4.73Original price €5.25This is an original and persuasively argued volume on the everyday lives of contemporary migrants in Europe. Living up to its title, the edited vol...
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Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany
Berghahn BooksCurrent price €29.33Original price €34.50Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subje...
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Between Yesterday and Tomorrow: German Visions of Europe, 1926-1950
Christian BaileyCurrent price €104.35Original price €122.76An intellectual and cultural history of mid-twentieth century plans for European integration, this book calls into question the usual pre- and p...
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Beyond Filial Piety: Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies
Berghahn BooksCurrent price €4.88Original price €5.25The editors describe their manuscript as in dialogue with my 2004 volume on filial piety. Much more than just a timely update, this is an excellent...
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Beyond Filial Piety: Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies
Berghahn BooksCurrent price €4.88Original price €5.25The editors describe their manuscript as in dialogue with my 2004 volume on filial piety. Much more than just a timely update, this is an excellent...
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Beyond the Divide: Entangled Histories of Cold War Europe
Berghahn BooksCurrent price €112.78Original price €132.68Cold War history has emphasized the division of Europe into two warring camps with separate ideologies and little in common. This volume present...
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