In a series of illuminating case studies, Curto follows the history and perception of... Læs mere
Following the hidden lives of the global “1%”, this book examines the networks, social practices, marriages, and machinations of... Læs mere
Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City centers on a growing multinational community of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) devotees in... Læs mere
Informed by Eric Wolf’s Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, published in 1969, this book examines selected peasant struggles in seven Latin American countries during the last fifty years and suggests the continuing relevance of Wolf’s approach.
Examining the material aspects of emotion, this volume encompasses technology, photography, aesthetics, and a variety of other... Læs mere
There is a World Heritage Craze in China. China claims to have the longest continuous civilization in the world and is... Læs mere
By accompanying a range of senior high school history students before, during and after their visits to the museum, Visitors to the House of Memory is an intimate exploration of how young Berliners from across the city experience the Jewish Museum Berlin.
brings cross-disciplinary perspectives on beer and brewing together brings cross-cultural ethnographies, archaeology, etc. to those who pick... Læs mere
Taking as its point of departure Omer Bartov’s acclaimed recent monograph Anatomy of a Genocide, this volume brings together three extensive and previously unknown accounts of residents from the Ukrainian town of Buczacz, covering events during and between both world wars.
Houses Transformed explores the intersection of house biographies and social change, the politics of housing design, the social fabrication of aspirational houses, the domestication of concrete and the intersection of materiality and ontology, and the rhetoric of the vernacular.
This ground-breaking ethnography of an export-orientated factory in Egypt examines the dynamic relationships between the... Læs mere