By the time the Berlin Wall collapsed, the cinema of the German Democratic Republic-to the extent...

In its totality, the 'Long Second World War'-extending from the beginning of the Spanish Civil Wa...

Across Africa, funerals and events remembering the dead have become larger and even more numerous...

Spanish comics represent an exciting and diverse field, yet one that is often overlooked outside ...

What is-and what was-'the world'? Though often treated as interchangeable with the ongoing and in...

Looking at encounters that can puncture or jolt us, this volume uses art as a lens through which ...

A radical and innovative Shakespeare criticism emerged in Britain in the 1980s, thanks largely to...

As an ethnography of Central Australian singing traditions and ceremonial contexts, this book ask...

Anthropology and psychology share a long history of rivalry, collaboration, and mutual disregard....

Only in recent years has the history of European colonial concentration camps in Africa--in which...

Arguably the most important--and influential--German woman writer of the last century, Christa Wo...

The long tradition of Western political thought included kinship in models of public order, but t...

Over the course of the long and violent twentieth century, only a minority of international crime...

Spanning Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Encounters with Emotions investigates experiences of face-...

A radical and innovative Shakespeare criticism emerged in Britain in the 1980s, thanks largely to...

Through a series of case studies in diverse regions of the world, this book explores how transnat...

Uto-Aztecan iconic practices are primarily conditioned by the consciousness of the snake as a dea...

Latina was founded in 1932 by the Fascist Regime and is often described by its inhabitants throug...

Don Handelman's groundbreaking work in anthropology is showcased in this collection of his most p...

Illuminating the complex processes of China's uneven urbanization through the lens of the transit...

Indigenous Experiences with Collaborative Governance

For centuries, locals in many Swiss Alpine villages have depended on visitors' wanderlust to sust...

Through diverse ethnographic case studies, leading food scholars examine the meaning and making o...

Ibn Khaldun

Drawing on an ethnography of Sherbro coastal communities in Sierra Leone, this book analyses the ...

Grounded in multi-generational stories from Kinmen in Taiwan, Visions of Marriage explores the hi...

Monasteries are typically characterized by physical and symbolic limitations on access as they ar...

A cross-disciplinary volume that combines and puts into dialogue perspectives on disasters, this ...

In presenting a variety of theoretical and cross-cultural perspectives on pure food, this volume ...

Ibn Khaldun's theory of history, economics, and group cohesion has influenced thinkers far beyond...

The relationship between texts and the field of cultural heritage remains ill-defined. Although s...

An illuminating chronicle of the concentration, ghettoization, and deportation of Hungarian Jews ...

Reconciling Sweden's reputation for political neutrality and scientific prestige alongside its in...

The concept of transition occupies an awkward place within scholarship on contemporary European h...

'The artistic potential modern, urban housing ('Neubau') offered to writers and directors in East...

Focused on social change in a coastal village in Sri Lanka, this book emphasizes processes over s...

'Impoverished, indebted, and underdeveloped at the close of World War II, Romania underwent drama...

In the fields of literary and memory studies, the cultural impact of the Bosnian War of 1992-1995...

Up to 200,000 Melanesian men, women, and children work as artisanal miners, yet their lifeworlds ...

We live in a time of profound transformation in the field of image and visual culture. Roger Cana...

Lasting traces of the Cold War continue to shape the social landscape in Italy and Greece. Lurkin...

Shaped by the criminalization of migration and control over movement, the Balkan Route has emerge...

Revived by the global resonance of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, this book adds to the...

Within the Habsburg Empire of the late nineteenth century, nature became a central focus of polit...

The racialization of immigrant labor and the labor strife in the coal and textile communities in ...

The twin effects of ever-increasing mobility and rising globalization have done much to dislodge ...

An updated review of post-contact archaeology in the Upper Great Lakes region was long overdue. I...

On Malaita in Solomon Islands, an evangelical Israelite-inspired movement centers on a distinctiv...