London continues to fascinate a vast audience across the world, and an extensive, diverse literature now exists describing and analyzing this... Læs mere
Despite the widespread trends of secularization in the 20th century, religion has played an important role in several outbreaks of genocide... Læs mere
The events of 1989/90 in Europe demonstrated the renewed relevance of the mid-nineteenth century uprisings: both by showing, once again, how a revolutionary... Læs mere
Over the last few years, there has been a noticeable increase in studies on the postwar period of Germany, reflecting... Læs mere
In this book, the articles explore the different social practices that are typically understood as sorcery, magic and ritual, and address a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the America's.
Following the Arakmbuts' recommendation, the author uses their three greatest myths to introduce social, cultural and historical aspects of their lives. He ends with a... Læs mere
There are many stories featuring the villainous hero Reynard the Fox in many languages... Læs mere
Historians from Germany, Britain, the US, and Canada demonstrate the merger between international history and cultural studies in terms of both theory and methodology.... Læs mere
Cultural Studies have been preoccupied with questions of national identity and cultural representations. At the same time, feminist studies have... Læs mere
Germany has produced some influential women writers and thinkers. This book discusses some of the major writers in the nineteenth... Læs mere