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Matsutake Worlds (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Matsutake Worlds explores matsutake mushrooms through the lens of multispecies encounters, to explore the mushroom’s success on the world stage. This success cannot be accounted for by... Læs mere
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Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters: New Lives of Old Imaginaries (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Reconsidering issues of representation in the insular Pacific, this volume explores authenticity and authorship in practice as “traveling concepts” that spawn cross-fertilization along the cultural and historical routes they traverse.
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Exchanging Objects: Nineteenth-Century Museum Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Explores how anthropologists categorized some objects in their collections as “duplicate specimens,” making them potential candidates for exchange.
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Merchant Kings: Corporate Governmentality in the Dutch Colonial Empire, 1815–1870 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the rapid industrialization of the Netherlands and its colonial holdings in... Læs mere
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Disrupted Landscapes: State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
An environmental history of postsocialism. An ethnography of the bureaucracy of Southeastern European countries. Portrays environmental changes in the postsocialist world. Discusses local political dynamics in the rural postsocialist world.
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The Revolution before the Revolution: Late Authoritarianism and Student Protest in Portugal (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The only book on the Portuguese long sixties. Offers an in-depth historical analysis based on original material, but at the same time is strongly embedded in social movements theory.
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The Absent Jews: Kurt Forstreuter and the Historiography of Medieval Prussia (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
For nearly a century, it has been a commonplace of Central European history that there were no Jews in medieval Prussia. This... Læs mere
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Between Blood and Gold: The Debates over Compensation for Slavery in the Americas (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A comparative study analyzing the debates within France and Great Britain relating to the question of compensation to... Læs mere
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Foucault's Orient: The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Using interviews with scholars from Tunisia and Japan, this book examines the manner in which Foucault experienced and explained his encounters with non-Western cultures, unraveling the anthropological implications of his unwavering commitment to cultural difference.
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Animism in Rainforest and Tundra: Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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
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Masculinities in Polish, Czech and Slovak Cinema: Black Peters and Men of Marble (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Gender, especially masculinity, is a perspective rarely applied in discourses on cinema of Eastern/Central Europe.
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Bestsellers of the Third Reich: Readers, Writers and the Politics of Literature (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Christian Adam examines how books came into being under the Nazis, how they became bestsellers—sometimes against the will of... Læs mere
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