Focuses on conflicts between hunter-gatherers and commercial stock farmers. Highlights destructive impact of... Læs mere
Integrating theoretical perspectives with carefully grounded ethnographic analyses of everyday interaction and experience,... Læs mere
This collection explores rare sources and employs novel interdisciplinary methods to illuminate four interconnected themes: minorities and the meaning of military service, Jewish-Gentile relations, the cultural legacy of the war, and memory politics.
Artifak investigates the meaning and value of (art) objects as commodities in Vanuatu, in differing states of... Læs mere
This collection of essays examines German-language cultural production pertaining to modern China and Japan, and explicitly challenges orientalist... Læs mere
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.
This book offers insights into the lives of children and youth in Britain, Japan, Spain, Israel/Palestine, Pakistan, and... Læs mere
Colour permeates contemporary visual and material culture and affects our senses beyond the superficial encounter by infiltrating our perceptions and memories and becoming deeply rooted in thought processes that categorize and divide along culturally constructed lines.
Unique comparative study of native peoples of Amazonia and Siberia Important contribution to the study of animism Major contribution to the ethnography of shamanism and shamanic societies
This book provides a needed framework for understanding the rich history of German- and Czech-Jewish politics and culture in Bohemia and is a notable contribution to the historiography of Bohemian, Czechoslovak and central European Jewry.
As bio-capital in the form of medical knowledge, skills, and investments moves with greater... Læs mere
These essays by distinguished Australian scholars variously treat the relation between liberalism and diversity, democracy and diversity, culture and... Læs mere