Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this important book explores the role of France in the events leading up to the end of the Cold... Læs mere
Latin American cities have always been characterized by a strong tension between what is vaguely described as their formal and... Læs mere
Challenges the dominant culturalist approach associated with Clifford Geertz and Marshall Sahlins Bridges the current gap... Læs mere
Based on vivid and colorful case studies about Mafiosi, priests, mothers, and migrants, the author offers new perspectives on the anthropology of religion and magic through categories of landscape, the body, human practice, and material experience.
Re-examining Mary Douglas' work on pollution and concepts of purity, this volume explores modern expressions of these themes in urban areas, examining... Læs mere
During the last two decades Europe has experienced a rise in transnational contention. Citizens are crossing borders to advance alternative visions of Europe. They spread protest concepts and tactics and explore new ways of organizing dissent.
In Europe, love has been given a prominent place in European self-representations from the Enlightenment onwards. The category of love, stemming from private and personal spheres, was given a public function and used to distinguish European civilization from others.
There is a growing interest in studies that document the relationship between science and medicine-as ideas, practices, technologies... Læs mere
As the European Union faces the ongoing challenges of legitimacy, identity, and social cohesion, an understanding of the social purpose and direction of EU citizenship becomes increasingly vital.
The communist German Democratic Republic, founded in 1949 in the Soviet-occupied zone of post-war Germany is, for many people, epitomized... Læs mere
Today's world is one marked by the signs of digital capitalism and global capitalist expansion, and China is... Læs mere
Dialogues about the disciplinary boarders of anthropology and philosophy. Trust discussed as a research topic of field work and philosophical... Læs mere