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Too Jewish or Not Jewish Enough
Displays of Jewish ritual objects in public, non-Jewish settings by Jews are a comparatively recent phenomenon. So too is the establishment of Jewish museums. This volume …
Fragile Futures
Caring for small children and the family in Burkina Faso is hard work. Although the health infrastructure in Burkina Faso is weak and many citizens feel neglected by the state, …
The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880
The formation of modern European states during the long 19th century was a complicated process, challenged by the integration of widely different territories and populations. The …
Adoption, Emotion, and Identity
Exploring adoption in the Pacific, this book goes beyond the commonplace structural-functional analysis of adoption as a positive transaction in parenthood. It examines the …
Making Better Lives
In this ethnographic study, Johannes Lenhard observes the daily practices, routines and techniques of people who are sleeping rough on the streets of Paris. The book focusses on …
Ethnography in the Raw
Ethnography in the Raw describes the author’s encounters with the Philippine family into which he has married, his wife’s friends and acquaintances, and their lives in a remote …
The Precarity of Masculinity
Since the 1990s, an increasing number of young men in Cameroon have aspired to play football as a career and a strategy to migrate abroad. Migration through the sport promises …
Aspirations of Young Adults in Urban Asia
Comparing first-person ethnographic accounts of young people living, working, and creating relationships in cities across Asia, this volume explores their contemporary lives, …
Melanesian Mainstream
Citizens of Vanuatu (ni-Vanuatu) perceive stringband music as a marker of national identity, an indicator of their cultural, stylistic, and musical heritage. Through extensive …
Dressing Up
What does men’s fashion say about contemporary masculinity? How do these notions operate in an increasingly digitized world? To answer these questions, author Joshua M. Bluteau …
Poland under German Occupation, 1939-1945
As a unique and innovative addition to the scholarship on Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and modern Polish history, this volume provides fresh analysis on the Nazi occupation of …