This book follows young Cameroonian men who aspire to migrate abroad and play football for a living while... Læs mere
Defined as contested holdings, differing museum collections ranging from fine arts to physical anthropology provide connections between the treatment and conceptualization of collections that generally occupy separate realms in the museum world.
With a central objective to interrogate the notion of a shared Anglo-American political tradition, Anglo-American... Læs mere
Reexamining a classical work of Social Anthropology, African Political Systems (1940), edited by Fortes and... Læs mere
Examining the processes at work in sites of industrial extraction and ecological vulnerability in the contemporary Arctic, this book looks at the displacements that conceal exploitation, on the one hand, and appropriations of value on the other.
In 2014, the island of Ahamb in Vanuatu became the scene of a startling Christian revival movement led by thirty children with ‘spiritual... Læs mere
Combining archival research, oral history and long-term ethnography, this book studies relations between Amerindians and... Læs mere
This volume explores emerging cultural meanings and social responses to population aging in contemporary East... Læs mere
Invisible Founders challenges our ideas of what a college “founder” is, restoring African American narratives to their deserved and central place in the story of a single institution.
Gulag Memories explores the impact of the Gulag on collective memory as it applies to the language of commemoration in Russia, focusing on four regions particularly affected by the Gulag: Solovetsky Islands, the Komi Republic, the Perm region, and Kolyma.
Drawing on a wealth of heretofore neglected sources from multiple languages, this book gives a fascinating account of how vampires—whose various incarnations... Læs mere
Opens the question of why ethnic minorities in Germany are often discussed in isolation. Whereas most studies examine Black Germans, Jews in Germany, or Turkish... Læs mere