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Oswald Spengler was one of the most important thinkers of the Weimar Republic, but very little has been published on his politics, philosophy and life, especially in the English-language.Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline transforms the p...

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During and after World War I, over one million Ottoman Greeks were expelled from Turkey, a watershed moment in Greek history that resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths. And while few dispute the expulsions tragic scope, it remains the subjec...

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What happens when religious sites, objects and practices become cultural heritage? What are religious or secularsources of expertise and authority that validate and regulate heritage sites, objects and practices? As cultural heritage becomes an in...

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How is cultural change perceived and performed by members of the Bena Bena language group, who live in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea? In her analysis, Knapp draws upon existing bodies of work on culture change, exchange and person in M...

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Despite the widespread trends of secularization in the 20th century, religion has played an important role in several outbreaks of genocide since the First World War. And yet, not many scholars have looked either at the religious aspects of modern...

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Recently considerable interest has developed about the degree to which anthropological approaches to kinship can be used for the study of the long-term development of European history. From the late middle ages to the dawn of the twentieth century...

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Presenting sixty theoretical ideas, David Zeitlyn asks How to write about anthropological theory without making a specific theoretical argument. David Zeitlyn has written a wryly engaging, short book on, essentially, why we should not become theo...

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A well-balanced and detailed look at the East German Ministry for State Security, the secret police force more commonly known as the Stasi. This is an excellent book, full of careful, balanced judgements and a wealth of concisely-communicated kno...

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Reinhart Koselleck (19232006) was one of most imposing and influential European intellectual historians in the twentieth century. Constantly probing and transgressing the boundaries of mainstream historical writing, he created numerous highly inno...

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At a time when rapidly evolving technologies, political turmoil, and the tensions inherent in multiculturalism and globalization are reshaping historical consciousness, what is the proper role for historians and their work? By way of an answer, th...

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The robbery and restitution of Jewish property are two inextricably linked social processes. It is not possible to understand the lawsuits and international agreements on the restoration of Jewish property of the late 1990s without examining what ...

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For displaced persons, memory and identity is performed, (re)constructed and (re)negotiated daily. Forced displacement radically reshapes identity, with results ranging from successful hybridization to feelings of permanent misplacement. This comp...

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Over time, the role of nature in anthropology has evolved from being a mere backdrop for social and cultural diversity to being viewed as an integral part of the ontological entanglement of human and nonhuman agents. This transformation of the rol...

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In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of peoples lives, practices, and stories. Contributors detailed ethnographic work analyzes the union and mutual shaping of water and social lives. This volume discusses current ...

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Combining accessible prose with scholarly rigor, The Participants presents fascinating profiles of the all-too-human men who implemented some of the most inhuman acts in history. On 20 January 1942, fifteen senior German government officials atte...

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Catastrophes are on the rise due to climate change, as is their toll in terms of lives and livelihoods as world populations rise and people settle into hazardous places. While disaster response and management are traditionally seen as the domain o...

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Following the Axis invasion of Greece, the Nazis began persecuting the countrys Jews much as they had across the rest of occupied Europe, beginning with small indignities and culminating in mass imprisonment and deportations. Among the many Jews c...

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A multifaceted look at historian Raul Hilberg, tracing the evolution of Holocaust research from a marginal subdiscipline into a vital intellectual project. I would recommend this book to both Holocaust historians and general readers alike. The br...

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At the beginning of the twenty-first century the demand for anthropological approaches, understandings and methodologies outside academic departments is shifting and changing. Through a series of fascinating case studies of anthropologists experie...

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Between 1939 and 1945, some 80,000 Finnish children were sent to Sweden, Denmark, and elsewhere, ostensibly to protect them from danger while their nations soldiers fought superior Soviet and German forces. This was the largest of all of World War...

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Environmentalism and ecology are areas of rapid growth in academia and society at large. Screening Nature is the first comprehensive work that groups together the wide range of concerns in the field of cinema and the environment, and what could be...

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Though persistently overshadowed by the Great War in historical memory, the two Balkan conflicts of 19121913 were among the most consequential of the early twentieth century. By pitting the states of Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Montenegro agains...

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Demossiers engrossing analysis of Burgundythe wine, the place, the brandshould be imbibed (pun intended!) on many levelsand slowly, for best appreciation.foodanthro.com Drawing on more than twenty years of fieldwork, this book explores the profes...

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Presenting the political and cultural processes that occur within the indigenous Smi people of North Europe as they undergo urbanization, this book examines how they have retained their sense of history and culture in this new setting. The book pr...

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Globalization promised to bring about a golden age of liberal individualism, breaking down hierarchies of kinship, caste, and gender around the world and freeing people to express their true, authentic agency. But in some places globalization has ...

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For many years, scholars struggled to write the history of the constitution and political structure of the Holy Roman Empire. This book argues that this was because the political and social order could not be understood without considering the rit...

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When researchers want to study indigenous populations they are dependent upon the highly variable way in which states or territories enumerate, categorise and differentiate indigenous people. In this volume, anthropologists, historians, demographe...

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Anthropological writings on humor are not very numerous or extensive, but they do contain a great deal of insight into the diverse mental and social processes that underlie joking and laughter. On the basis of a wide range of ethnographic and text...

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Emphasizing the global nature of racism, this volume brings together historians from various regional specializations to explore this phenomenon from comparative and transnational perspectives. The essays shed light on how racial ideologies and pr...

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The wave of anti-authoritarian political activity associated with the term 1968 can by no means be confined under the rubric of protest, understood narrowly in terms of street marches and other reactions to state initiatives. Indeed, the actions g...

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