"Be European, Recycle Yourself!"

Monica Heintz

• Paperback | Engels | Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia | nr. 12
• "Westernisation" and the prospect of European integration have been formidable catalysts for social and economic change in Eastern European countries ... Lees meer

Intimate Heritage

Nathan Light

• Paperback | Engels | Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia | nr. 19
• Over the past fifty years a project of culturally reflexive ethnic self-definition has transformed the Sufi poetry of the Uyghur muqam song tradition ... Lees meer

Changing Fate

Helena Obendiek

• Paperback | Engels | Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia | nr. 34
• In this compelling ethnography of the causes and effects of educational desire in an extremely impoverished corner of Gansu province, Helena Obendiek ... Lees meer

Clean, Friendly, Profitable?

Carla Bethmann

• Paperback | Engels | Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia | nr. 28
• Popular with travelers since the 1960s, the Varna region of Bulgaria's Black Sea coast was considered a highly desirable vacation spot within the East... Lees meer

Modes of Religiosity in Eastern Christianity

Vlad Naumescu

• Paperback | Engels | Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia | nr. 15
• This volume offers original insights into the religious transformations taking place in postsocialist western Ukraine. Applying a cognitive theory bas... Lees meer

The Anthropological Field on the Margins of Europe,1945-1991

• Paperback | Engels | Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia | nr. 29
• The social lives of the peoples of the Balkans have long stimulated the imaginations of their northern European neighbors. These peoples and places ha... Lees meer

Caucasus Paradigms

• Paperback | Engels | Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia | nr. 13
• What does it mean to know a world area, or to be part of one, for that matter? The most prominent of "Caucasus paradigms" paint a picture of a region ... Lees meer

The Return of Private Property

Lale Yalcin-Heckmann

• Paperback | Engels | Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia | nr. 24
• What makes private property valuable, desirable or workable? This book focuses on social and economic dimensions of private property after the agraria... Lees meer

Why Do Uzbeks Have to Be Muslims?

Irene Hilgers

• Paperback | Engels | Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia | nr. 22
• "In this work the late Irene Hilgers analyses the revival of Islam in the public sphere in postsocialist Uzbekistan, with particular reference to its ... Lees meer

Villages on Stage

Jennifer R Cash

• Paperback | Engels | Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia | nr. 26
• Villages on Stage examines the contribution of folklore and ethnography to the construction of national identity in post-Soviet Moldova through the de... Lees meer

On Money and Metta

Laura Hornig

• Paperback | Engels | Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia | nr. 43
• Money and Metta symbolize the interconnectedness of economic processes and moral ideas in a Buddhist context - metta, 'loving kindness', constitutes a... Lees meer

The Great Dispossession

Ildikó Bellér-Hann, Chris Hann

• Paperback | Engels | Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia
• The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of northwest China, where the authors of this book have worked since 1986, has become increasingly unstable in r... Lees meer