The events of the Arab Spring presented a dramatic reconstitution of politics and the public sphere through their aesthetic and performative uses of public... Læs mere
Prevailing scholarship on migration tends to present migrants as the objects of history, subjected to abstract global forces or to concrete forms of regulation... Læs mere
Representing scholars from different countries and different disciplines, this collection explores Holocaust survivors' return to everyday life and... Læs mere
Conflicting and competing claims over the actual and imagined use of land and seascapes are exacerbated on islands with... Læs mere
Bringing together key historical and innovative ethnographic materials on the peoples of the South-West... Læs mere
Cultural life in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) was strictly controlled by the ruling party, the SED, who... Læs mere
Juxtaposing contributions from geneticists and anthropologists, this volume provides a contemporary overview of cousin marriage and... Læs mere
In May 2012, French voters rejected the liberalizing policies of Nicholas Sarkozy & elected his opponent, the Socialist Francois Hollande, president. This book analyzes the context... Læs mere
Basic and Applied Research traces the conceptual history of the distinction between basic and applied research to its... Læs mere
What is it to be human? What are our specifically human attributes, our capacities and liabilities? Such questions gave birth to anthropology as an... Læs mere
Brings a transatlantic perspective to the history of child-rearing and education... Læs mere
In this volume, Caron brings together the different facets of his expertise in order to present a broad panorama of modern technology.... Læs mere