Fracturing Resemblances

Simon Harrison

• Hardcover | Engels | Easa | nr. 5
• Western societies draw crucially on concepts of the 'individual' in constructing their images of the ethnic group and nation and define these in terms... Lees meer

Being a State and States of Being in Highland Georgia

Florian Mühlfried

• Hardcover | Engels | Easa | nr. 24
• Taking a fresh look at the Georgian highlands allows the author to consider perennial questions of citizenship, belonging, & mobility in a context tha... Lees meer

Policy Worlds

• Hardcover | Engels | Easa | nr. 14
• There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy making has progressively reached into the ... Lees meer

Postsocialist Europe

• Hardcover | Engels | Easa | nr. 10
• Now that nearly twenty years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet bloc there is a need to understand what has taken place since that historic ... Lees meer

Can Academics Change the World?

Moshe Shokeid

• Hardcover | Engels | Easa | nr. 39
• Moshe Shokeid narrates his experiences as a member of AD KAN (NO MORE), a protest movement of Israeli academics at Tel Aviv University, who fought aga... Lees meer

Landscapes Beyond Land

• Hardcover | Engels | Easa | nr. 19
• Land is embedded in a multitude of material and cultural contexts, through which the human experience of landscape emerges. Ethnographers, with their ... Lees meer

Policy Worlds

• Paperback | Engels | Easa | nr. 14
• There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy-making has progressively reached into the ... Lees meer

Cyberidentities at War

Birgit Bräuchler

• Hardcover | Engels | Easa | nr. 20
• "This is a highly interesting study of the way three internet sites operated in the Moluccan violent conflict over a number of years...The book offers... Lees meer

Power and Magic in Italy

Thomas Hauschild

• Hardcover | Engels | Easa | nr. 13
• Based on vivid and colorful case studies about Mafiosi, priests, mothers, and migrants, the author offers new perspectives on the anthropology of reli... Lees meer

Landscapes Beyond Land

• Paperback | Engels | Easa | nr. 19
• "This thoughtful collection of essays on landscapes is largely inspired by the recent writings of Chris Tilley and Tim Ingold, whose own contributions... Lees meer

Knowing How to Know

• Hardcover | Engels | Easa | nr. 9
• This volume examines some crucial issues in the conduct of fieldwork and ethnography and provides new insights into the problems of constructing anthr... Lees meer

Family Upheaval

Mikkel Rytter

• Hardcover | Engels | Easa | nr. 21
• Pakistani migrant families in Denmark find themselves in a specific ethno-national, post-9/11 environment where Muslim immigrants are subjected to pro... Lees meer

Messy Europe

• Paperback | Engels | Easa | nr. 32
• Links theoretical insights to current discussions of crisis – economic and otherwise – showing how these shape the creation of subjectivities and ... Lees meer

Multiple Medical Realities

• Paperback | Engels | Easa | nr. 4
• Nowadays a plethora of treatment technologies is available to the consumer, each employing a variety of concepts of the body, self, sickness and heali... Lees meer

Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes

• Hardcover | Engels | Easa | nr. 18
• This volume is very well put-together. The editors have done a good job to rein in the various authors to a single collective argument...It's an impor... Lees meer

The Good Holiday

João Afonso Baptista

• Hardcover | Engels | Easa | nr. 30
• Drawing on ethnographic research in the village of Canhane, which is host to the first community tourism project in Mozambique, The Good Holiday explo... Lees meer

Managing Ambiguity

Čarna Brkovic

• Paperback | Engels | Easa | nr. 31
• Why do people turn to personal connections to get things done? Exploring the role of favors in social welfare systems in postwar, postsocialist Bosnia... Lees meer

Ethnographies of Power

• Paperback | Engels | Easa | nr. 42
• Energy related infrastructures are crucial to political organization. They shape the contours of states and international bodies, as well as corporati... Lees meer

The Politics of Relations

André Thiemann

• Hardcover | Engels | Easa | nr. 49
• Rethinking the contributions of the Manchester School of Social Anthropology for political ethnography, the Politics of Relations elaborates its relat... Lees meer

Grammars of Identity / Alterity

• Hardcover | Engels | Easa | nr. 3
• "A short review cannot do justice to the richness of this, or to the problems posed by its analytical framework...This is a thought-provoking, problem... Lees meer

Fracturing Resemblances

Simon Harrison

• Paperback | Engels | Easa | nr. 5
• This book offers a counterintuitive and innovative approach to the politics of cultural difference and social order. The appeal of Harrison's argument... Lees meer

Peripheral Vision

Catarina Frois

• Hardcover | Engels | Easa | nr. 22
• In Portugal between 2005 and 2010, "modernization through technology" was the major political motto used to develop and improve the country's peripher... Lees meer

Being-Here

Annika Lems

• Paperback | Engels | Easa | nr. 35
• By exploring the lifeworlds of two middle-aged Somalis living in Melbourne, Australia, Being-Here sheds light on the existential dynamics of being-in-... Lees meer

Educational Histories of European Social Anthropology

• Hardcover | Engels | Easa | nr. 1
• Aimed at professional anthropologists, their students and academic policy-makers, the contributions to this volume provide an unprecedented array of i... Lees meer