First native anthropologist to discover tribal secrets of traditional medicine. Unique data on medicine among pastoral-nomadic, semi-nomadic,... Læs mere
The use of computation in archaeology is a kind of magic, a way of heightening the archaeological imagination. Agent-based modelling allows archaeologists to test the ‘just-so’ stories they tell about the past. These models are one end of a spectrum that ends with video games.
Explores the strained reception of the migrants in The Poplars, a housing development in suburban Paris that dates back to... Læs mere
During the unprecedented modernization of Germany's Weimar Republic, motorcycle culture instantiated the new link between consumption and identity. Motorcycles became symbols of masculinity and freedom that exposed the problems and allures of mass-consumption and modern values.
Historian Raul Hilberg produced a variety of archival research, personal essays, and other works over a career that spanned half a... Læs mere
Written by eleven leading anthropologists from around the world, this volume extends the insights of Fredrik Barth, one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century, to push even further at the frontiers of anthropology.
Arguably more than any other world regions, the area known as Eastern Europe has been defined by its location on the map. Rather than expound on... Læs mere
A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies... Læs mere
The changing patterns of Japanese tourism and the views of the Japanese tourist since the Meiji Restoration, in 1868, are given an in-depth historical, geographical, economic and social analysis in this book.
Reconstructing the fate of more than 8,000 companies, this book offers the first comprehensive analysis of Jewish economic activity and its destruction in Nazi Berlin.
Bodies in Pain analyses how Aronofsky's films engage the spectator in an affective form of viewing that involves all the senses, ultimately engendering a process of (self) reflection through their emotional dynamics.
The history of the smaller European countries is rather neglected in the teaching of European history at university level. We are therefore pleased to announce the publication of the first comprehensive history of the Low Countries - in English - from Roman Times to the present.