Contested Antiquity

• Hardcover | Engels | New Anthropologies of Europe
• While the archaeological legacies of Greece and Cyprus are often considered to represent some of the highest values of Western civilization--democracy... Lees meer

Can You Run Away from Sorrow?

Ivana Bajic-Hajdukovic

• Paperback | Engels | New Anthropologies of Europe
• How does emigration affect those left behind? The fall of Yugoslavia in the 1990s led citizens to look for a better, more stable life elsewhere. For t... Lees meer

Gender, Pleasure, and Violence

Agnieszka Kościańska

• Paperback | Engels | New Anthropologies of Europe
• Behind the Iron Curtain, the politics of sexuality and gender were, in many ways, more progressive than the West. While Polish citizens undoubtedly su... Lees meer

Jewish Life in Twenty-First-Century Turkey

Marcy Brink-Danan

• Paperback | Engels | New Anthropologies of Europe
• Turkey is famed for a history of tolerance toward minorities, and there is a growing nostalgia for the "Ottoman mosaic." In this richly detailed study... Lees meer

Spain Unmoored

Mikaela H Rogozen-Soltar

• Paperback | Engels | New Anthropologies of Europe
• Long viewed as Spain's "most Moorish city," Granada is now home to a growing Muslim population of Moroccan migrants and European converts to Islam. Mi... Lees meer

Secularism Soviet Style

Sonja Luehrmann

• Paperback | Engels | New Anthropologies of Europe
• Sonja Luehrmann explores the Soviet atheist effort to build a society without gods or spirits and its afterlife in post-Soviet religious revival. Comb... Lees meer

Global Rome

• Hardcover | Engels | New Anthropologies of Europe
• Is 21st-century Rome a global city? Is it part of Europe's core or periphery? This volume examines the "real city" beyond Rome's historical center, ex... Lees meer

Feminism, Violence, and Representation in Modern Italy

Giovanna Parmigiani

• Hardcover | Engels | New Anthropologies of Europe
• Can the way a word is used give legitimacy to a political movement? Feminism, Violence, and Representation in Modern Italy traces the use of the word ... Lees meer

Movement of the People

Mary N Taylor

• Paperback | Engels | New Anthropologies of Europe
• Since 1990, thousands of Hungarians have vacationed at summer camps devoted to Hungarian folk dance in the Transylvanian villages of neighboring Roman... Lees meer

Women's Health in Post-Soviet Russia

Michele Rivkin-Fish

• Paperback | Engels | New Anthropologies of Europe
• "An unparalleled study of a transforming and privatizing Russian health care system, of the promises and perils of prescriptive programs for change, t... Lees meer

Corsican Fragments

Matei Candea

• Paperback | Engels | New Anthropologies of Europe
• The island of Corsica has long been a popular destination for travelers in search of the European exotic, but it has also been a focus of French conce... Lees meer

Balkan Blues

Yuson Jung

• Hardcover | Engels | New Anthropologies of Europe
• Balkan Blues explores how a state transitions from the collectivized production and distribution of socialism to the consumer-focused culture of capit... Lees meer

Sharing Sacred Spaces in the Mediterranean

• Paperback | Engels | New Anthropologies of Europe
• While devotional practices are usually viewed as mechanisms for reinforcing religious boundaries, in the multicultural, multiconfessional world of the... Lees meer

Youth Politics in Putin's Russia

Julie Hemment

• Paperback | Engels | New Anthropologies of Europe
• Julie Hemment provides a fresh perspective on the controversial nationalist youth projects that have proliferated in Russia in the Putin era, examinin... Lees meer

The Palace Complex

Michal Murawski

• Hardcover | Engels | New Anthropologies of Europe
• The Palace of Culture and Science is a massive Stalinist skyscraper that was "gifted" to Warsaw by the Soviet Union in 1955. Framing the Palace's visu... Lees meer

Political Crime and the Memory of Loss

John Borneman

• Paperback | Engels | New Anthropologies of Europe
• Loss is a fundamental human condition that often leads both individuals and groups to seek redress in the form of violence. But are there possible mod... Lees meer

Politics in Color and Concrete

Krisztina Fehervary, Krisztina Fehaervaary

• Paperback | Engels | New Anthropologies of Europe
• Material culture in Eastern Europe under state socialism is remembered as uniformly gray, shabby, and monotonous--the worst of postwar modernist archi... Lees meer

Power Struggles

Jaume Franquesa Bartolome

• Hardcover | Engels | New Anthropologies of Europe
• Wind energy is often portrayed as a panacea for the environmental and political ills brought on by an overreliance on fossil fuels, but this character... Lees meer

Blood Ties and the Native Son

Aksana Ismailbekova

• Hardcover | Engels | New Anthropologies of Europe
• A pioneering study of kinship, patronage, and politics in Central Asia, Blood Ties and the Native Son tells the story of the rise and fall of a man ca... Lees meer

Gender, Pleasure, and Violence

Agnieszka Kościańska

• Hardcover | Engels | New Anthropologies of Europe
• Behind the Iron Curtain, the politics of sexuality and gender were, in many ways, more progressive than the West. While Polish citizens undoubtedly su... Lees meer

Remembering Absence

Nicolas Argenti

• Hardcover | Engels | New Anthropologies of Europe
• Drawing on research conducted on Chios during the sovereign debt crisis that struck Greece in 2010, Nicolas Argenti follows the lives of individuals w... Lees meer

Algeria in France

Paul A Silverstein

• Paperback | Engels | New Anthropologies of Europe
• Algerian migration to France began at the end of the 19th century, but in recent years France's Algerian community has been the focus of a shifting pu... Lees meer

Movement of the People

Mary N Taylor

• Hardcover | Engels | New Anthropologies of Europe
• Since 1990, thousands of Hungarians have vacationed at summer camps devoted to Hungarian folk dance in the Transylvanian villages of neighboring Roman... Lees meer

Masquerade and Postsocialism

Gerald W Creed

• Paperback | Engels | New Anthropologies of Europe
• Gerald W. Creed analyzes contemporary mumming rituals in rural Bulgaria for what they reveal about life after socialism--and the current state of post... Lees meer