Charred Lullabies

E Valentine Daniel

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
• How does an ethnographer write about violence? How can he make sense of violent acts, for himself and for his readers, without compromising its sheer ... Lees meer

What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next?

Katherine Verdery

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
• Among the first anthropologists to work in Eastern Europe, Katherine Verdery had built up a significant base of ethnographic and historical expertise ... Lees meer

Hanging Without a Rope

Mary Margaret Steedly

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
• When Mary Steedly went to North Sumatra, Indonesia, she intended to study the curing practices of Karo Batak spirit mediums, the gurus who keep a comm... Lees meer

Revisioning History

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History | nr. 5
• In Revisioning History thirteen historians from around the world look at the historical film on its own terms, not as it compares to written history b... Lees meer

The Textual Condition

Jerome J McGann

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History | nr. 7
• Over the past decade literary critic and editor Jerome McGann has developed a theory of textuality based in writing and production rather than in read... Lees meer

Citizen and Subject

Mahmood Mamdani

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
• In analyzing the obstacles to democratization in post- independence Africa, Mahmood Mamdani offers a bold, insightful account of colonialism's legacy-... Lees meer

Vision, Race, and Modernity

Deborah Poole

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History | nr. 13
• Through an intensive examination of photographs and engravings from European, Peruvian, and U.S. archives, Deborah Poole explores the role visual imag... Lees meer

Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge

Bernard S Cohn

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
• Bernard Cohn's interest in the construction of Empire as an intellectual and cultural phenomenon has set the agenda for the academic study of modern I... Lees meer

The Nation and Its Fragments

Partha Chatterjee

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History | nr. 4
• In this book, the prominent theorist Partha Chatterjee looks at the creative and powerful results of the nationalist imagination in Asia and Africa th... Lees meer

Colonizing Hawai'i

Sally Engle Merry

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History | nr. 10
• How does law transform family, sexuality, and community in the fractured social world characteristic of the colonizing process? The law was a cornerst... Lees meer

High Religion

Sherry B Ortner

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History | nr. 9
• An eminent anthropologist examines the foundings of the first celibate Buddhist monasteries among the Sherpas of Nepal in the early twentieth century-... Lees meer

Welfare, Modernity, and the Weimar State

Young-Sun Hong

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
• This is the first comprehensive study of the turbulent relationship among state, society, and church in the making of the modern German welfare system... Lees meer

Welfare, Modernity, and the Weimar State

Young-Sun Hong

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
• This is the first comprehensive study of the turbulent relationship among state, society, and church in the making of the modern German welfare system... Lees meer

The History of Everyday Life

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
• Alltagsgeschichte, or the history of everyday life, emerged during the 1980s as the most interesting new field among West German historians and, more ... Lees meer

Children and the Politics of Culture

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History | nr. 11
• The bodies and minds of children--and the very space of children--are under assault. This is the message we receive from daily news headlines about vi... Lees meer

Local Histories/Global Designs

Walter D Mignolo

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
• Local Histories/Global Designs is an extended argument about the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative Latin American and Latino schola... Lees meer

Children in Moral Danger and the Problem of Government in Third Republic France

Sylvia Schafer

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
• By exploring how children and their families became unprecedented objects of governmental policy in the early decades of France's Third Republic, Sylv... Lees meer

After Colonialism

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
• After Colonialism offers a fresh look at the history of colonialism and the changes in knowledge, disciplines, and identities produced by the imperial... Lees meer

From Duty to Desire

Jane Fishburne Collier

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History | nr. 6
• In the 1980s, Jane Collier revisited a village in Andalusia, where she and others had conducted fieldwork twenty years earlier, to investigate changes... Lees meer

Settling Accounts

John W Borneman

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
• As new states in the former East bloc begin to reckon with their criminal pasts in the years following a revolutionary change of regimes, a basic patt... Lees meer

Essays on the Anthropology of Reason

Paul Rabinow

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
• This collection of essays explains and encourages new reflection on Paul Rabinow's pioneering project to anthropologize the West. His goal is to exoti... Lees meer

Children in Moral Danger and the Problem of Government in Third Republic France

Sylvia Schafer

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
• By exploring how children and their families became unprecedented objects of governmental policy in the early decades of France's Third Republic, Sylv... Lees meer

A Place in History

Michael Herzfeld

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
• Michael Herzfeld describes what happens when a bureaucracy charged with historic conservation clashes with a local populace hostile to the state and s... Lees meer

Provincializing Europe

Dipesh Chakrabarty

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
• First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the... Lees meer