Describes the processes which lead to ethnic and sectarian violence. This book shows how alternative paths through intergroup tension can be made apparent... Læs mere
Based on fieldwork conducted among middle-class university students primarily at the national university (UNAM) in Mexico City, this study explores... Læs mere
The Surplus Woman provides the first sustained analysis of the ways in which imperial Germans conceptualized anxiety about female marital status as both a product and a reflection of changing times.
The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 was done mainly, if one is to believe US policy at the time, to liberate the people of Iraq from... Læs mere
Throughout the Weimar period the so-called masculinization of womanA" was much more than merely an outsider or subcultural phenomenon; it was central to... Læs mere
In Europe, Indian hobbyism, or Indianism, has developed out of a strong fascination with Native American life in the 18th and 19th... Læs mere
Provides information on the complexity of German policy toward the Jews and the policy of forced labour. This book describes the daily life of the Jewish slave labourers; and traces Reich economic policy and the huge concerns that used slave labour.
Asceticism, so it is argued in this volume, is a modern category. The ubiquitous cult of the body, of fitness and diet equally evoke the ongoing success of... Læs mere
Wogeo Island is well known to anthropologists of Papua New Guinea. Based on substantial fieldwork, the author... Læs mere
The Protestant and Catholic Reformations thrust the nature of conversion into the center of debate and politicking over religion as... Læs mere
This volume reassesses maternalism by providing critical reflections on prior usages of the concept, and by expanding its meaning to encompass geographical areas, political regimes, and cultural concerns that scholars have rarely addressed.
By drawing on the complex interplay of ecology and feminism, ecofeminists identify links between the domination of nature... Læs mere