Drawing on wide-ranging archival research and recently declassified documents, Legal Entanglements follows the politicians, intellectuals, and other historical actors on both sides of the Berlin Wall who helped their nation to navigate volatile and uncertain legal circumstances.
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This book aims to give a faithful presentation of Pahktun reality by investigating the diverse and changing patterns of social relations among Pahktuns and considering the practice of gham khadee to be a manifestation of the code of life.
From urban infrastructures to the medieval plague and from antibiotic resistance to epigenetics, this book develops an account of how... Læs mere
This book draws on three decades of ethnographic research to explore the penetration of mafia values in Sicilian society. By exploring rituals through which local society learns deep respect for those values, this study aims to offer a critical perspective on Sicilian modernity.
An examination of life stories that were fragmented and shattered through the historical violence of the Armenian genocide. Offers a nuanced understanding of genocide’s complex historical and social dimensions, and reflects on the history and memory of genocidal violence.
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Shedding light on the invisible lives of Georgian women who migrated to Thessaloniki from the mid-1900s onward, Georgian Migrant Women on the Move reveals the challenges and turning points that emerge from the convergence of these different life worlds.
An innovative interdisciplinary volume that explores the conceptual and lived relations between the academic fields of religion and heritage. A... Læs mere
An overview of grieving and memorialization – from a diverse, international group of academics – ranging from traditional modes of expression to contemporary modes that revolve around the digital world.