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Diamonds and War - State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine מאת David De Vries The book unfolds the formation in Mandate Palestine of what has become one of the world's main strongholds of diamond production and trade. It discusses the history of diamond-cutting characterized by a long-standing Jewish presence as a social history embedded in the international political econ...

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I Dreamed the Animals: Kaneuketat: the Life of an Innu Hunter מאת Georg Henriksen This is Kaniuekutat s book. In it he is telling his story, primarily addressed to his descendants, about his own life, but even more so about Innu culture in the northern parts of Labrador. The pages of this book are filled with the voice of Kaniuekutat giving his version of what it is like to be an...

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Culture, Rhetoric, and the Vicissitudes of Life (Studies in Rhetoric and Culture) (Studies in Rhetoric and Culture) מאת Michael Carrithers

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Central-European Crossroads (International Studies in Social History) (International Studies in Social History) מאת Pieter Van Duin

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Europe at the Seaside: The Economic History of Mass Tourism in the Mediterranean מאת Luciano Segreto 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 become a significant, if not the primary, source of income for the resident population. The Mediterranean basin, which has ...

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Hitler's Dancers: German Modern Dance and the Third Reich מאת Lilian Karina The Nazis burned books and banned much modern art. Modern expressive dance, however, found favour with the regime and especially with Dr Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda. The way in which modern artists collaborated with Nazism reveals an important aspect of modernism, uncovers the bizarr...

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Conceiving Kinship: Assisted Conception, Procreation and Family in Southern Europe (Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality) (Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality) מאת Monica Bonaccorso Conceiving Kinship is an in-depth journey, the first of its kind, into how heterosexual, lesbian and gay couples using programmes of gamete donation conceptualize and make Italian kinship. It explores the provision of treatment in clinical and non-clinical settings at a time when Italy was considere...

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The History of the Armenian Genocide: Ethnic Conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus מאת Vahakn N. Dadrian The Armenian Genocide, though not given such prominent treatment as the Jewish Holocaustwhich it precedes, still haunts the Western world and has assumed a new significance in the light of "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia. This study by the most distinguished scholar of the Armenian tragedy offers an au...

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Indispensable Eyesores: An Anthropology of Undesired Buildings (Remapping Cultural History) מאת Melanie Van Der Hoorn Collapsing concrete colossuses, run-down overgrown skeletons, immutable architectural misfits: the outcasts from our built environment, which we are dying to dispose of - and yet cannot do without - have inspired many ghost stories, crime novels and urban legends. Such narratives reveal the signific...

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Supervision and Authority in Industry: Western European Experiences, 1830-1939 (International Studies in Social History) מאת Patricia Van den Eeckhout

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The "Final Solution" in Riga: Exploitation and Annihilation, 1941-1944 (Studies on War and Genocide) מאת Andrej Angrick

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Power and Society in the Gdr, 1961-1979: The 'normalisation of Rule'? מאת Mary Fulbrook The Berlin Wall, for many people, epitomizes the communist German Democratic Republic, founded in 1949 in the Soviet-occupied zone of post-war Germany; other central features of life in the GDR appear to be under the threat of repression by Soviet tanks and surveillance by the secret security police...

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Willing Seduction: The Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich and Mass Culture (Film Europa) (Film Europa: German Cinema in An International Context) מאת Barbara Kosta Josef von Sternberg s 1930 film The Blue Angel (Der blaue Engel) is among the best known films of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933). A significant landmark as one of Germany s first major sound films, it is known primarily for launching Marlene Dietrich into Hollywood stardom and for initiating the my...

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The New Face of Political Cinema: Commitment in French Film Since 1995 מאת Martin O'Shaughnessy

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Political Violence in the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933: Battle for the Streets and Fears of Civil War (Studies in German History) מאת Dirk Schumann The Prussian province of Saxony - where the Communist uprising of March 1921 took place and two Combat Leagues (Wehrverbände) were founded (the right-wing Stahlhelm and the Social Democratic Reichsbanner) - is widely recognized as a politically important region in this period of German histor...

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Names and Nunavut: Culture and Identity in the Inuit Homeland מאת Valerie Alia On the surface, naming is simply a way to classify people and their environments. The premise of this study is that it is much more a form of social control, a political activity, a key to identity maintenance and transformation. Governments legislate and regulate naming; people fight to take, keep,...

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Person and Place: Ideas, Ideals and the Practice of Sociality on Vanua Lava, Vanuatu (Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific) מאת Sabine C. Hess

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Mitterrand, the End of the Cold War, and German Unification (Berghahn Monographs in French Studies) מאת Frédéric Bozo "...telling the story [of German unification] primarily from the French perspective provides a more detached yet highly informed account of the diplomacy." · Foreign Affairs "Bozo's masterly book is the definitive study of French President Mitterrand's important, and often denied or dismis...

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Biography between Structure and Agency: Central European Lives in International Historiography (Studies in German History) מאת Volker R. Berghahn While bookstore shelves around the world have never ceased to display best-selling life-and-letters biographies in prominent positions, the genre became less popular among academic historians during the Cold War decades. Their main concern then was with political and socioeconomic structures, instit...

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Gardening the World: Agency, Identity, and the Ownership of Water (International Studies in Socia) מאת Veronica Strang

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Crisis of the State: War and Social Upheaval מאת Bruce Kapferer Analyzing both historical contexts and geographical locations, this volume explores the continuous reformation of state power and its potential in situations of violent conflict. The state, otherwise understood as an abstract and transcendent concept in many works on globalization in political philo...

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Advancing Refugee Protection in South Africa (Human Rights in Context) (Human Rights in Context) מאת Jeff Handmaker Divided into three parts, this edited collection documents the development and implementation of refugee policy in South Africa. It also addresses issues on detention, gender, children and health and welfare policy for refugees. The articles contained in the collection, written by academics and prac...

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The Political Economy of Germany Under Chancellors Kohl and Schroder: Decline of the German Model? (Monographs in German History) מאת Jeremy Leaman

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Islam and New Kinship: Reproductive Technology and the Shariah in Lebanon (Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality) מאת Morgan Clarke Assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization have provoked global controversy and ethical debate. This book provides a groundbreaking investigation into those debates in the Islamic Middle East, simultaneously documenting changing ideas of kinship and the evolving role of religi...

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State Practices and Zionist Images מאת David A. Wesley Although the Israeli state subscribes to the principles of administrative fairness and equality for Jews and Arabs before the law, the reality looks very different. Focusing on Arab land loss inside Israel proper and the struggle over development resources, this study explores the interaction betwee...

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Turning the Tune: Traditional Music, Tourism, and Social Change in an Irish Village (Dance and Performance Studies) מאת Adam R. Kaul

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Encounter, Transformation and Identity: Peoples of the Western Cameroon Borderlands, 1891-2000 (Cameroon Studies) מאת Ian Fowler Drawing together key historical and innovative ethnographic materials for the peoples of the South-West Province of Cameroon and the Nigerian borderlands this volume presents critical and analytical approaches to the production of ethnic, political, religious, and gendered identities in the region. ...

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Social Torture: The Case of Northern Uganda, 1986-2006 (Human Rights in Context) מאת Chris Dolan As Director of the Refugee Law Project at the University of Makerere, Kampala, Uganda, Dolan offers a behind-the-scenes, cross-disciplinary study of one of Africa's longest running and most intractable conflicts. This book shows how, alongside the activities of the Lord's Resistance Army, government...

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When God Comes to Town: Religious Traditions in Urban Contexts (Culture and Politics/Politics and Culture) (Culture and Politics/Politics and Culture) מאת Lisa Dikomitis Around 1800 roughly three per cent of the human population lived in urban areas; by 2030 this number is expected to have gone up to some seventy per cent. This poses problems for traditional religions that are all rooted in rural, small-scale societies. The authors in this volume wonder what the pos...

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Consuming the Inedible: Neglected Dimensions of Food Choice (Anthropology of Food and Nutrition) מאת Jeremy MacClancy Throughout the world, everyday, millions of people eat earth, clay, nasal mucus, and similar substances. Yet food practices like these are strikingly understudied in a sustained, interdisciplinary manner. This book aims to correct this neglect. Contributors, utilizing anthropological, nutritional, b...

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Learning Democracy: Education Reform in West Germany, 1945-1965 (Monographs in German History) מאת Brian M. Puaca

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Social Security in Religious Networks: Anthropological Perspectives on New Risks and Ambivalences מאת Carolin Leutloff-Grandits The world has been facing tremendous political change and the emergence of new risks, resulting in profound reconfigurations in social security arrangements. In many countries, epidemics like HIV/Aids have had a destabilizing effect on the caretaking role of kin. In post-socialist countries politica...

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Crime Stories: Criminalistic Fantasy and the Culture of Crisis in Weimar Germany (Monographs in German History) מאת Todd Herzog The Weimar Republic (1918-1933) was a crucial moment not only in German history but also in the history of both crime fiction and criminal science. This study approaches the period from a unique perspective - investigating the most notorious criminals of the time and the public's reaction to their c...

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Michael Haneke's Cinema: The Ethic of the Image (Film Europa) (Film Europa: German Cinema in An International Context) מאת Catherine Wheatley Existing critical traditions fail to fully account for the impact of Austrian director Michael Haneke s films, situated as they are between intellectual projects and popular entertainments. In this first English-language introduction to, and critical analysis of, his work, each of Haneke s eight fea...

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Alarming Reports: Communicating Conflict in the Daily News (Anthropology of the Media) מאת Andrew Arno News stories provide an essential confirmation of our ideas about who we are, what we have to fear, and what to do about it: a marketplace of ideas, shopped by rational citizen decision makers but also a shared resource for grounding our contested narratives of identity in objective reality. News as...

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Robbery and Restitution: The Conflict over Jewish Property in Europe (War & Genocide) (Studies on War and Genocide) מאת Martin Dean The robbery and restitution of Jewish property are two inextricably linked social processes. It is not possible to understand the lawsuits and international agreements on the restoration of Jewish property of the late 1990s without examining what was robbed and by whom. In this volume distinguished ...

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Nazi Paris: The History of an Occupation, 1940-1944 מאת Allan Mitchell Basing his extensive research into hitherto unexploited archival documentation on both sides of the Rhine, Allan Mitchell has uncovered the inner workings of the German military regime from the Wehrmacht's triumphal entry into Paris in June 1940 to its ignominious withdrawal in August 1944. Although...

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Weimar Radicals: Nazis and Communists Between Authenticity and Performance (Monographs in German History) מאת Timothy S. Brown Exploring the gray zone of infiltration and subversion in which the Nazi and Communist parties sought to influence and undermine each other, this book offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between Communism and Fascism a key problem of twentieth-century German history. The struggle between ...

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Colette's Republic: Work, Gender, and Popular Culture in France, 1870-1914 מאת Patricia A. Tilburg

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Gender Politics in the Expanding European Union: Mobilization, Inclusion, Exclusion מאת Silke Roth 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 the impact of this historical development on gender relations in the new and old EU member states. Instead of focusing on either wes...

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Reproducing Class: Education, Neoliberalism, and the Rise of the New Middle Class in Istanbul מאת Henry J. Rutz Middle classes are by definition ambiguous, raising all sorts of paradoxical questions, perceived and real, about their power and place relative to those above and below them in a class-structured society. Focusing on families of the new middle class in Istanbul, the authors of this study address qu...

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State Collapse and Reconstruction in the Periphery: Political Economy, Ethnicity and Development in Yugoslavia, Serbia and Kosovo (Film Europa) מאת Jens Stilhoff Sorensen In the 1990s, Yugoslavia, which had once been a role model for development, became a symbol for state collapse, external intervention and post-war reconstruction. Today the region has two international protectorates, contested states and borders, severe ethnic polarisation and minority concerns. In ...

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Landscape, Process and Power: A New Environmental Knowledge Synthesis (Environmental Anthropology & Ethnobiology) (Environmental Anthropology & Ethnobiology) ... Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology) מאת Serena Heckler In recent years, the field of study variously called local, indigenous or traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) has experienced a crisis brought about by the questioning of some of its basic assumptions, for instance that scientific methods can accurately elicit and describe TEK or that incorpor...

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Slipping Away: Banana Politics and Fair Trade in the Eastern Caribbean (Dislocations) (Dislocations) מאת Mark Moberg During the 1990s, the Eastern Caribbean was caught in a bitter trade dispute between the US and EU over the European banana market. When the World Trade Organization rejected preferential access for Caribbean growers in 1998 the effect on the region s rural communities was devastating. This volume e...

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The Modernist Imagination: Intellectual History and Critical Theory מאת Warren Breckman Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the humanities currently takes place at the intersection of intellectual history and critical theory. Just as critical theorists are becoming more aware of the historicity of theory, contemporary practitioners of modern intellectual history are recogn...

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Voyage Through the Twentieth Century: A Historian's Recollections and Reflections (Fertility, Reproduction and Se) מאת Klemens Von Klemperer

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Framing the Fifities: Cinema in a Divided Germany (Film Europa) מאת John E. Davidson The demise of the New German Cinema and the return of popular cinema since the 1990s have led to a renewed interest in the postwar years and the complicated relationship between East and West German cinema in particular. A survey of the 1950s, as offered here for the first time, is therefore long ov...

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Meaningful Inconsistencies: Bicultural Nationhood, the Free Market, and Schooling in Aotearoa/New Zealand (Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology) מאת Neriko Musha Doerr

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The Fateful Alliance: German Conservatives and Nazis in 1933: The Machtergreifung in a New Light מאת Hermann Beck On 30 January 1933, Alfred Hugenberg's conservative German National People's Party (DNVP) formed a coalition government with the Nazi Party, thus enabling Hitler to accede to the chancellorship. This book analyzes in detail the complicated relationship between Conservatives and Nazis and offers a re...