German environmental organizations have doggedly pursued environmental protection through difficult times: hyperinflation and war, National Socialist rule, postwar devastation, state socialism in the GDR, and confrontation with the authorities during the 1970s and 1980s.
Far from being a blank space on the Jewish map, or a void in the Jewish cultural world, post-Shoah Europe is a place where Jewry has continued to... Læs mere
Against the historical backdrop of successive socialist and post-socialist claims to have completely remade... Læs mere
The persecution and mass-murder of the Jews during World War II would not have been possible without the modern... Læs mere
What went wrong in Free French relations with Americans during World War Two? Documenting French policy toward the American... Læs mere
The abuse of history is common and quite possibly once more on the rise. Although this is well documented, there is no general theory that enables historians to identify, prove,... Læs mere
Interest in the study of kinship, a key area of anthropological enquiry, has recently reemerged. Dubbed 'the new kinship', this interest was stimulated by the 'new genetics' and revived interest in kinship and family patterns.
The relationship between anthropologists' ethnographic investigations and the lived social worlds in which these originate is a fundamental issue... Læs mere
Based on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book explores life in and around a Luo-speaking village in western Kenya... Læs mere
Science and technology studies, cultural anthropology and cultural studies deal with the complex relations between material, symbolic,... Læs mere
In its assessment of the current 'state of play' of ethnographic practice in social anthropology, this volume explores the challenges that changing social forms and... Læs mere
The mining of diamonds, their trading mechanisms, their financial institutions, and, not least, their cultural expressions as luxury... Læs mere