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The History of the Stasi
East Germany's Secret Police, 1945-1990
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The East German Ministry for State Security stood for Stalinist oppression and all-encompassing surveillance. The “shield and sword of the party,” it secured the rule of the Communist Party for more than forty years, and by the 1980s it had become the largest secret-police apparatus in the world,...
Polish Film and the Holocaust
Politics and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
During World War II Poland lost more than six million people, including about three million Polish Jews who perished in the ghettos and extermination camps built by Nazi Germany in occupied Polish territories. This book is the first to address the representation of the Holocaust in Polish film and...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The disruptive power of montage has often been regarded as a threat to scholarly representations of the social world. This volume asserts the opposite: that the destabilization of commonsense perception is the very precondition for transcending social and cultural categories. The contributors—anthropologists,...
Managing the Unknown
Essays on Environmental Ignorance
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Information is crucial when it comes to the management of resources. But what if knowledge is incomplete, or biased, or otherwise deficient? How did people define patterns of proper use in the absence of cognitive certainty? Discussing this challenge for a diverse set of resources from fish to rubber,...
Avant-garde to New Wave
Czechoslovak Cinema, Surrealism and the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The cultural liberalization of communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s produced many artistic accomplishments, not least the celebrated films of the Czech New Wave. This movement saw filmmakers use their new freedom to engage with traditions of the avant-garde, especially Surrealism. This book explores...
Fascist Interactions
Proposals for a New Approach to Fascism and Its Era, 1919-1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Although studies of fascism have constituted one of the most fertile areas of historical inquiry in recent decades, more and more scholars have called for a new agenda with more research beyond Italy and Germany, less preoccupation with definition and classification, and more sustained focus on the...
House of the Waterlily
A Novel of the Ancient Maya World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Set in the Maya civilization’s Late Classic Period House of the Waterlily is a historical novel centered on Lady Winik, a young Maya royal. Through tribulations that mirror the political calamities of the Late Classic world, Winik’s personal story immerses the reader not only in her daily life,...
Fetishes and Monuments
Afro-Brazilian Art and Culture in the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
One hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candomblé were feared as sorcery and persecuted as crime. Its cult objects were fearsome fetishes. Nowadays, they are Afro-Brazilian cultural works of art, objects of museum display and public monuments. Focusing on the particular histories of objects,...
Morality, Hope and Grief
Anthropologies of AIDS in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has been addressed and perceived predominantly through the broad perspectives of social and economic theories as well as public health and development discourses. This volume however, focuses on the micro-politics of illness, treatment and death in order...
Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema
A Sartrean Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
At the heart of this volume is the assertion that Sartrean existentialism, most prominent in the 1940s, particularly in France, is still relevant as a way of interpreting the world today. Film, by reflecting philosophical concerns in the actions and choices of characters, continues and extends a tradition...
Between Marx and Coca-Cola
Youth Cultures in Changing European Societies, 1960-1980
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
In the 1960s and 1970s, Western Europe's "Golden Age" (Eric Hobsbawm), a new youth consciousness emerged, which gave this period its distinctive character. Offering rich and new material, this volume moves beyond the easy conflation of youth culture and "Americanization" and instead...
Post-Ottoman Coexistence
Sharing Space in the Shadow of Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
In Southeast Europe, the Balkans, and Middle East, scholars often refer to the “peaceful coexistence” of various religious and ethnic groups under the Ottoman Empire before ethnonationalist conflicts dissolved that shared space and created legacies of division. Post-Ottoman Coexistence interrogates...
Israeli Identities
Jews and Arabs Facing the Self and the Other
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The question of identity is one of present-day Israel’s cardinal and most pressing issues. In a comprehensive examination of the identity issue, this study focuses on attitudes toward the Jewish people in Israel and the Diaspora; the Holocaust and its repercussions on identity; attitudes toward...
Transactions with the World
Ecocriticism and the Environmental Sensibility of New Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
In their bold experimentation and bracing engagement with culture and politics, the “New Hollywood” films of the late 1960s and early 1970s are justly celebrated contributions to American cinematic history. Relatively unexplored, however, has been the profound environmental sensibility that characterized...