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Gender in Georgia
Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation, and History in the South Caucasus
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
As Georgia seeks to reinvent itself as a nation-state in the post-Soviet period, Georgian women are maneuvering, adjusting, resisting and transforming the new economic, social and political order. In Gender in Georgia, editors Maia Barkaia and Alisse Waterston bring together an international group...
Cold War Cultures
Perspectives on Eastern and Western European Societies
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The Cold War was not only about the imperial ambitions of the super powers, their military strategies, and antagonistic ideologies. It was also about conflicting worldviews and their correlates in the daily life of the societies involved. The term “Cold War Culture” is often used in a broad sense...
Contemporary Religiosities
Emergent Socialities and the Post-Nation-State
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
The last decade has seen an unexpected return of the religious, and with it the creation of new kinds of social forms alongside new fusions of political and religious realms that high modernity kept distinct. For a fuller understanding of what this means for society in the context of globalization,...
The Politics of European Citizenship
Deepening Contradictions in Social Rights and Migration Policy
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
As the European Union faces the ongoing challenges of legitimacy, identity, and social cohesion, an understanding of the social purpose and direction of EU citizenship becomes increasingly vital. This book is the first of its kind to map the development of EU citizenship and its relation to various...
The Imaginary Revolution
Parisian Students and Workers in 1968
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
The events of 1968 have been seen as a decisive turning point in the Western world. The author takes a critical look at "May 1968" and questions whether the events were in fact as "revolutionary" as French and foreign commentators have indicated. He concludes the student movement...
The Scope of Anthropology
Maurice Godelier’s Work in Context
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Some of the most prominent social and cultural anthropologists have come together in this volume to discuss Maurice Godelier’s work. They explore and revisit some of the highly complex practices and structures social scientists encounter in their fieldwork. From the nature–culture debate to the...
The French Right Between the Wars
Political and Intellectual Movements from Conservatism to Fascism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
During the interwar years France experienced severe political polarization. At the time many observers, particularly on the left, feared that the French right had embraced fascism, generating a fierce debate that has engaged scholars for decades, but has also obscured critical changes in French society...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Out of a film culture originally starved of funds have emerged rich and eclectic works by film-makers that are now achieving the international recognition that they deserve: Barbara Albert, Michael Haneke, Ulrich Seidl, and Stefan Ruzowitzky, to give four examples. This comprehensive critical anthology,...
Anthropologies of Education
A Global Guide to Ethnographic Studies of Learning and Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Despite international congresses and international journals, anthropologies of education differ significantly around the world. Linguistic barriers constrain the flow of ideas, which results in a vast amount of research on educational anthropology that is not published in English or is difficult for...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
In its assessment of the current "state of play" of ethnographic practice in social anthropology, this volume explores the challenges that changing social forms and changing understandings of "the field" pose to contemporary ethnographic methods. These challenges include the implications...
From Antiquities to Heritage
Transformations of Cultural Memory
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Eighteenth-century gentleman scholars collected antiquities. Nineteenth-century nation states built museums to preserve their historical monuments. In the present world, heritage is a global concern as well as an issue of identity politics. What does it mean when runic stones or medieval churches...
Turning the Tune
Traditional Music, Tourism, and Social Change in an Irish Village
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
The last century has seen radical social changes in Ireland, which have impacted all aspects of local life but none more so than traditional Irish music, an increasingly important identity marker both in Ireland and abroad. The author focuses on a small village in County Clare, which became a kind...
Framing the Fifties
Cinema in a Divided Germany
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
The demise of the New German Cinema and the return of popular cinema since the 1990s have led to a renewed interest in the postwar years and the complicated relationship between East and West German cinema in particular. A survey of the 1950s, as offered here for the first time, is therefore long...
Dismantling the Dream Factory
Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
The history of postwar German cinema has most often been told as a story of failure, a failure paradoxically epitomized by the remarkable popularity of film throughout the late 1940s and 1950s. Through the analysis of 10 representative films, Hester Baer reassesses this period, looking in particular...