Energetic infrastructures are crucial to political organization. They shape the contours of states and international bodies, as well as... Læs mere
In recent years, the historiography of 19th-century Spain has been invigorated by interdisciplinary engagement with scholars working on topics such as empire, slavery, and race, exemplified by the work of Christopher Schmidt-Nowara.
Evil eye is a phenomenon observed globally and has to do with the misfortune and calamities that we can cause to someone else out... Læs mere
Drawing on twenty years of research, this book examines the historical perspective of a Pacific people who saw “globalization” come and go. It asks the question: What does it mean to claim that global connections are in the past rather than the present or the future?
Looking at anthropologists at work, this book investigates what kind of morality they perform in their occupations and the... Læs mere
This classic study, now available for the first time in English, explains how German colonial ambitions... Læs mere
The songs of the beloved Irish poet Máire Bhuí Ní Laeire (Yellow Mary O’Leary) explore themes of colonial subjection, oppression and injustice,... Læs mere
This original study carefully considers how young people perceive their living environment and how growing up in exile structures their view of the past and their country of origin, and the future and its possibilities.
Since the early 1990s, phenomenology and cognitivism have become two of the most influential approaches to film... Læs mere
Tracing Mead’s career as an ethnographer, as the early voice of public anthropology, and as a public figure, this elegantly written biography links the professional and personal sides of... Læs mere
Based on interviews and fieldwork conducted among residents of Pula – a coastal city in Northwestern Croatia, this study explores various aspects of a local feeling of boredom. This is mirrored in the term tapija, a word of Turkish origin describing a property deed.