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June 2026 The Partial Revolution
Labour, Social Movements and the Invisible Hand of Mao in Western Nepal
Hoffmann, M.
Located in the far-western Tarai region of Nepal, Kailali has been the site of dynamic social and political change in recent history. The Partial Revolution examines Kailali in the aftermath of Nepal’s Maoist insurgency, focusing primarily on the end of Kailali’s feudal system of bonded labor.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies Peace and Conflict Studies
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June 2026 Football Nation
The Playing Fields of German Culture, History, and Society
Dawson, R., Heinsohn, B., Knabe, O., & McDougall, A. (eds)
Germany’s football culture has a historically rich background full of transnational entanglements, German identity formation, and fan cultures. Football Nation constructs new insights surrounding the multifaceted landscapes of German historical and contemporary football debates as it investigates football’s role in discourses on culture, history, and politics.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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June 2026 The Camino de Santiago
Curating the Pilgrimage as Heritage and Tourism
Murray, M.
Pilgrimage, as a global activity linked to the sacred, speaks to the special significance of persons, places and events. This book relates these sentiments to the curatorship of the Camino de Santiago that comprises a lattice of European pilgrimage itineraries converging at Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain.
Subjects: Heritage Studies Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
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June 2026 Working the Fabric
Resourcefulness, Belonging and Island Life in Scotland’s Harris Tweed Industry
Nascimento, J.
Trademark-protected since 1910, the famous woollen cloth known as Harris Tweed can only be produced in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland – yet it is exported to over 50 countries around the world. Examining contemporary experiences of work and life, this book is the first in-depth anthropological study of the renowned textile industry, complementing and updating existing historical and ethnographic research.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General)
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June 2026 Zora Neale Hurston
Böschemeier, A. & Gomes, P.
Exploring Zora Neale Hurston’s life and work through a decolonial lens, this book traces Hurston’s journey from her early life (1891–1919) and struggles at the margins (1920–1930) to her peak as a pioneering ethnographer and writer (1931–1956) and her later years (1957–1960).
Subject: Anthropology (General)
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June 2026 African Political Systems Revisited
Changing Perspectives on Statehood and Power
Bošković, A. & Schlee, G. (eds)
Reexamining a classical work of Social Anthropology, African Political Systems (1940), edited by Fortes and Evans-Pritchard, this book looks at the colonial and academic context from which the work arose, as well as its reception and its subject matter and looks at how the work can help with analysis of current politics in Africa.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Colonial History Development Studies
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June 2026 Entertaining German Culture
Contemporary Transnational Television and Film
Ehrig, S., Schaper, B. & Ward, E. (eds)
In an increasingly transnational production of film and television, Entertaining German Culture explores and contextually thematizes a radical shift in the past fifteen years towards a profound appreciation of German cultural and intellectual history in the international mainstream.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies History (General)
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June 2026 Against Better Judgment
Akrasia in Anthropological Perspectives
McKearney, P. & Evans, N. H. A. (eds)
Anthropologists have long explained social behaviour as if people always do what they think is best. But what if most of these explanations only work because they are premised upon ignoring what philosophers call 'akrasia' – that is, the possibility that people might act against their better judgment? The contributors to this volume turn an ethnographic lens upon situations in which people seem to act out of line with what they judge, desire and intend.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Medical Anthropology
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June 2026 Amnesia Remembered
Reverse Engineering a Digital Artifact
Aycock, J.
As an introduction to studying and reverse engineering a digital artifact, this volume is intended for nontechnical audiences wanting to learn how to conduct their own similar research on computer software. While presented through an archaeological lens, it is also suitable for readers in history, game studies, and other areas in the humanities and social sciences, as well as computer science and engineering.
Subjects: Archaeology Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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June 2026 Calling on the Community
Understanding Participation in the Heritage Sector, an Interactive Governance Perspective
Rodenberg, J., Wagenaar, P., & Burgers, G.-J. (eds)
There is a call in Heritage Studies to democratize heritage practices and place local communities at the forefront; heritage plays an important role in identity formation, and therefore in social inclusion and exclusion. This series of studies contributes to a better understanding of public participation in the heritage sector by applying Public Administration theory on collaborative governance.
Subjects: Heritage Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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June 2026 Persistently Postwar
Media and the Politics of Memory in Japan
Guarné, B., Lozano-Méndez, A., & Martinez, D. P. (eds)
Persistently Postwar approaches the topics of social memory and political discourse through an exploration of Japan’s post-war mass media. Diverse disciplinary backgrounds and contrasting perspectives offer a nuanced dialogue in which the functions of mass media are explored as more than a simple ideological tool.
Subjects: Media Studies Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies
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June 2026 Reconceiving Muslim Men
Love and Marriage, Family and Care in Precarious Times
Inhorn, M. C. & Naguib, N. (eds)
Through anthropological accounts of Muslim men’s everyday lives in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and diasporic settings, Reconceiving Muslim Men explores the creative ways in which Muslim men care for and nurture their families and communities. By focusing on reproduction, love, and care, this volume showcases Muslim men’s humanity.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
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June 2026 Revisiting Austria
Tourism, Space, and National Identity, 1945 to the Present
Graml, G.
Revisiting Austria draws on a rich selection of films, marketing materials, literature, and first-person accounts to explore the ways in which tourism has shaped both international and domestic perceptions of Austrian identity even as it has failed to confront the nation’s often violent and troubled history.
Subjects: Travel and Tourism History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies
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July 2026 Modern Lusts
Ernest Borneman: Jazz Critic, Filmmaker, Sexologist
Siegfried, D.
Detlef Siegfried’s long-awaited English translation chronicles Ernest Borneman’s journey from his days as a young Jewish Communist in Berlin to his ventures in England and Canada, and ultimately, to his endeavors as the most prominent sexologist spearheading the sexual revolution in West Germany and Austria in the twentieth century.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Film and Television Studies Media Studies
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July 2026 Inconceivable Iran
To Reproduce or Not to Reproduce?
Tremayne, S.
This book offers a much-needed analysis of shifting reproductive policies and practices in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a society that is usually represented as either “revolutionary” or “oppressive.” Instead, Tremayne reflects on more than four decades of research to argue that changing reproductive behaviors on the part of ordinary Iranians must always be viewed against the backdrop of core cultural values and traditions.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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July 2026 Fixing Motorcycles in Post-Repair Societies
Technology, Aesthetics and Gender
Jderu, G.
Taking motorcycling in Romania as an ethnographic entry point, this book documents how bikers handle the inevitable moment of malfunction and breakdown. Using both mobile and sedentary research methods, the book describes the joys and troubles experienced by amateur mechanics, professional mechanics and untechnical male and females when fixing bikes.
Subjects: Mobility Studies Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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July 2026 Emerging Technologies and Museums
Mediating Difficult Heritage
Stylianou-Lambert, T., Bounia, A., & Heraclidou, A. (eds)
Emerging technologies in museums have the potential to reveal unheard or silenced stories, challenge preconceptions, encourage emotional responses, introduce the unexpected, and overall provide alternative experiences. By examining varied theoretical approaches and case studies, authors demonstrate how “awkward”, contested, and rarely discussed subjects and stories are treated – or can be potentially treated - in a museum setting with the use of the latest technology.
Subjects: Museum Studies Heritage Studies Media Studies
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July 2026 Modeling the Past
Archaeology, History, and Dynamic Networks
Terrell, J., Golitko, M., Dawson, H., and Kissel, M.
Using this handbook, researchers learn to develop historical and archaeological research questions anchored in dynamic network analysis (DYRA). Undergraduate and graduate students, as well as professional historians and archaeologists can consult on issues that range from hypothesis-driven research to critiquing dominant historical narratives, especially those that have tended ignore the diversity of the archaeological record.
Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology (General)
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July 2026 De-Commemoration
Removing Statues and Renaming Places
Gensburger, S. & Wüstenberg, J. (eds)
In the wake of recent protests against police violence and racism, calls to dismantle problematic memorials have reverberated around the globe. This is not a new phenomenon, however, nor is it limited to the Anglo-Saxon world. De-Commemoration focuses on the concept of de-commemoration as it relates to remembrance.
Subjects: Memory Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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July 2026 Political Friendship
Liberal Notables, Networks, and the Pursuit of the German Nation State, 1848-1866
Weaver, M.
Political Friendship demonstrates the central role of the German liberal elite’s interpersonal relationships in the uncertain path to unification and 19th century Germany political culture.
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
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July 2026 Capturing Quicksilver
The Position, Power, and Plasticity of Chinese Medicine in Singapore
Smith, A. A.
Capturing Quicksilver considers the use, promotion, and legislation of Chinese medicine in Singapore in relation to government policies favoring international investment, urban redevelopment, healthcare regulation, “multiracial” nationalism, and the management of history and heritage. Theoretically and methodologically developed within medical anthropology, it explores embodied experience and individual and group creativity vis-à-vis state agendas.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology (General)
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July 2026 The Revolt of the Provinces
Anti-Gypsyism and Right-Wing Politics in Hungary
Szombati, K.
The first in-depth ethnographic monograph on the New Right in Central and Eastern Europe, The Revolt of the Provinces explores the making of right-wing hegemony in Hungary over the last decade, focusing on interaction between social antagonisms emerging on the local level and struggles waged within the political public sphere.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
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July 2026 Elite Malay Polygamy
Wives, Wealth and Woes in Malaysia
Zeitzen, M. K.
An ethnography of elite polygamy in urban Malaysia, this volume explores the impact this growing practice has on Malay gender relations, examining the varied and often-conflicted polygamy narratives of elite Malay women, who manage their lives and loves under the “threat” of husbands able to marry another woman without their knowledge or consent.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology
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July 2026 Edges, Fringes, Frontiers
Integral Ecology, Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainability in Guyana
Henfrey, T. B.
Based on an ethnographic account of subsistence forest use by Wapishana people in Guyana and developing an original analytical framework, Edges, Frontiers, Fringes examines the social, cultural and behavioral bases for sustainability and resilience in indigenous resource use.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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August 2026 Pacific Realities
Changing Perspectives on Resilience and Resistance
Dousset, L. & Nayral, M. (eds)
In the context of dramatic changes and processes of “glocalization” across the Pacific region, and avoiding conventional “local-global” dichotomies, this volume explores the new and multifaceted forms of resistance and resilience through which communities attempt to regain their original social, political, and economic status and structure after disruption or displacement.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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August 2026 The Origins of German Self-Cultivation
Bildung and the Future of the Humanities
Ham, J., Kinzel, U., & Pan, D. T.-c. (eds)
Informing current debate about the future of the humanities, this volume focuses discussions on the Bildung’s original German context using a multi-disciplinary perspective root out the interesting ways that Bildung continues to shape our understanding of self-formation.
Subjects: History (General) Educational Studies
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August 2026 Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany
Plummer, M. E. & Harrington, J. F. (eds)
This volume offers a coherent and interdisciplinary approach to a wide variety of early modern subjects centered on onomastics, the study of names. Leading scholars in the field seek to explore the dynamics and impact of this naming (or renaming) process in a variety of contexts: social, artistic, literary, theological, and scientific.
Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Cultural Studies (General)
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August 2026 Moving Frames
Photographs in German Cinema
Collenberg-González, C. & Sheehan, M. P. (eds)
Through an intermedial approach combining studies on cinema and photography, Moving Frames addresses precise historical moments uniquely in a German context. Across films both in and outside the canon, this volume tackles those specific historical moments experienced in media forms to gauge the cultural, political, and transnational trends in humanity’s desire for agency and how that agency is represented.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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August 2026 Monetising the Dividual Self
The Emergence of the Lifestyle Blog and Influencers in Malaysia
Hopkins, J.
Combining theoretical discussions with shorter case studies, this book offers an anthropological exploration of the emergence in Malaysia of lifestyle bloggers. It tracks the transformation of personal blogs, which attracted readers with spontaneous, authentic accounts of everyday life, into lifestyle blogs that generate income through advertising and foreground consumerist lifestyles.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Media Studies
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August 2026 Military Politics
New Perspectives
Crosbie, T. (ed)
Bringing together new research by leading scholars, this volume rethinks the role played by militaries in politics. The volume introduces new theories of military politics, arguing against the inherited theories and practices of civil-military relations, and presents rich new data on senior officership and on the intersection of military politics and military operations.
Subjects: Sociology Peace and Conflict Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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August 2026 Migration and Health
Challenging the Borders of Belonging, Care, and Policy
El-Shaarawi, N. & Larchanché, S. (eds)
Despite the centrality of migration in our contemporary world, scholarship on mobility and health frequently separates migrants according to legal status, country of origin, destination, or health concern. Yet people on the move and health systems face challenges and opportunities that transcend these boundaries, including border fortification, neoliberal agendas, and climate change. This volume challenges these epistemic borders.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology Sustainable Development Goals
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August 2026 Food Connections
Production, Exchange and Consumption in West African Migration
Abranches, M.
Food Connections follows the movement of food from its production sites in West Africa to its final spaces of consumption in Europe. It is an ethnographic study of economic and social life amongst a close-knit community of food producers, traders andconsumers and a wide range of small intermediaries that operate in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal.
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
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August 2026 Categories in Context
Gender and Work in France and Germany, 1900–Present
Berrebi-Hoffmann, I., Giraud, O., Renard, L., & Wobbe, T. (eds)
Despite the wealth of empirical research into the interrelationships of gender and labor available, little is known about the forms of classification and categorization shaping these social phenomena. Categories in Context enriches our understanding of how cognitive categories such as status, law, and rights have been produced, comprehended, appropriated, and eventually transformed in France and Germany.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General) Sociology
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August 2026 Audiences of Nazism
Using Media in the Third Reich
Weckel, U.
Innovating against the considerable gap in research surrounding historical media reception within Nazi Germany, Audiences of Nazism finds sources of actual audience responses to critically engage with the Third Reich’s media production legacy.
Subjects: History: World War II Media Studies
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August 2026 Shakespeare & His Religious Afterlives
Cerezo, M. (Eds.)
Exploring Shakespeare’s religious afterlives, this volume examines translations, adaptations, and performances across Sweden, Spain, and the United States. Bringing together literary, theatrical, and religious perspectives, it highlights how Shakespeare’s works continue to shape religious interpretation, cultural meaning, and lived experience across diverse historical and social contexts.
Subject: Literary Studies
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September 2026 Edible People
The Historical Consumption of Slaves and Foreigners and the Cannibalistic Trade in Human Flesh
Siefkes, C.
While human cannibalism has attracted considerable notice and controversy, certain aspects of the practice have received scant attention. These include the connection between cannibalism and xenophobia: the capture and consumption of unwanted strangers. Likewise ignored is the connection to slavery: the fact that in some societies slaves and persons captured in slave raids could be, and were, killed and eaten. This book explores these largely forgotten practices and ignored connections.
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Colonial History
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September 2026 Punks and Skins United
Identity, Class and the Economics of an Eastern German Subculture
Venstel, A.
Germany has one of the most lively and well-developed punk scenes in the world. However, punk in this country is not just a style-based music community. This book provides an anthropological examination of how punk reflects the larger changes and contradictions in post-reunification Germany.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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September 2026 The Subject of Sovereignty
Relationality and the Pivot Past Liberalism
Feldman, G.
Exploring the themes of nature, race, and the divine, this book identifies the more realistic alternative in the “relational subject”: a subject that is inseparable from the global field of relations through which it emerges and yet distinct from that field because it lives a life that no one else ever has.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
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September 2026 Planting Seeds of Knowledge
Agriculture and Education in Rural Societies in the Twentieth Century
Hartmann, H. & Tischler, J. (eds)
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, agricultural practices and rural livelihoods were challenged by changes such as commercialization, intensified global trade, and rapid urbanization. Planting Seeds of Knowledge studies the relationship between these agricultural changes and knowledge-making through a transnational lens.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General) Sustainable Development Goals
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September 2026 One Sound, Two Worlds
The Blues in a Divided Germany, 1945-1990
Rauhut, M.
Through extensive archival research and conversations with renowned publicists, musicians and insiders, author Michael Rauhut examines more than fifty texts to give an in-depth overview of the historical development of blues music in East and West Germany during the postwar period.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Performance Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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September 2026 Life with Durham Cathedral
A Laboratory of Community, Experience and Building
Calvert, A. J.
An ethnographic account of daily life in Durham Cathedral, this book examines the processes of negotiation and change between a community and their cathedral.
Subjects: Heritage Studies Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
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September 2026 Foreigners in Their Own Country
Identity and Rejection in France
Martin, L. M.
Paying close attention to how people speak about themselves and their acceptance and rejection by others, this book provides an intimate account of the challenges faced by the millions of people in France—and throughout Western Europe—who fully participate in the life of their country but are often not seen as belonging there.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology
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September 2026 End Game
The 1989 Revolution in East Germany
Kowalczuk, I.-S.
Focusing on major shifts in East Germany leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall, End Game accounts for everyday life from the autumn of 1989 to the first free elections in March of 1990. With an understanding of the events of 1989 as a citizens’ movement as a whole, the volume contextualizes the societal reactions to a nation’s large scale political changes.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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September 2026 Cryptopolitics
Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media
Bernal, V., Pype, K., & Rodima-Taylor, D. (eds)
Focusing on African societies, Crypolitics brings together empirically grounded studies of digital media to draw out the significance of hidden information, double meanings, and the constant processes of encoding and decoding messages in negotiations of power relations.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Media Studies
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September 2026 Coproducing Europe
An Ethnography of Film Markets, Creativity and Identity
Sideri, E.
By focusing on regional film markets in Thessasloniki, Sarajevo, and Tbilisi, Coproduction Europe uses comparative ethnography to look beyond the economic nature of film coproductions to explore their role in Europeanisation, memories of the Cold War, and preconstructed political agendas.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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September 2026 The Anti-Social Contract
Injurious Talk and Dangerous Exchanges in Northern Mongolia
Højer, L.
Set in a remote district of villagers and nomadic pastoralists in the northernmost part of Mongolia, this ethnography reveals an everyday universe where uncertain relations are as much internally cultivated in indigenous Mongolian perceptions of social relatedness, as it is externally confronted in postsocialist surroundings of unemployment and diminished social security.
Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General)
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September 2026 24 Bars to Kill
Hip Hop, Aspiration, and Japan's Social Margins
Armstrong, A. B.
Contrary to persistent depictions of an ethnically and economically homogeneous Japan, “ghetto” or “gangsta” J-hop music gives voice to the suffering, deprivation, and social exclusion experienced by many modern Japanese. 24 Bars to Kill gives a fascinating ethnographic account of this music as well as the subculture around it.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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October 2026 Designing Knowledge Economies for Disaster Resilience
Case Studies from the African Diaspora
Waldron-Moore, P. (ed)
Acknowledging that low economic development and high climate costs do not equitably coexist, this collected volume interrogates the challenge for disaster-prone territories to determine supplemental strategies for restructuring and redesigning their environment.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies Sustainable Development Goals
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October 2026 Estates and Constitution
The Parliament in Eighteenth-Century Hungary
Szijártó, I. M.
Estates and Constitution provides a rich account of Hungarian politics during the eighteenth century, restoring the Diet to its rightful place as one of the era’s major innovations in government. István M. Szijártó traces the religious, economic, and partisan forces that shaped the Diet, putting its historical significance in international perspective and demonstrating that it played a critical role in the eventual dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
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October 2026 Atlantic Perspectives
Places, Spirits and Heritage
Balkenhol, M., Blanes, R. L., & Sarró, R. (eds)
Focusing on mobility, religion, and belonging, the volume contributes to transatlantic anthropology and history by bringing together religion, cultural heritage and placemaking in the Atlantic world. The entanglements of religion, cultural heritage and belonging are ethnographically scrutinized to perceive the connections and disconnections of specific places.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies
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October 2026 200 Years of Peace
New Perspectives on Modern Swedish Foreign Policy
Biltekin, N., Müller, L., & Petersson, M. (eds)
In the wake of Sweden’s anniversary of 200 years of peace in 2014, this volume brings for the first time a targeted approach to the concept of claimed Swedish exceptionality. Taking on the nation’s policies of neutrality, 200 Years of Peace centers discussion around what it means for a nation to endure a uniquely long period of time without any pronounced conflict.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies
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October 2026 At Home in a Nursing Home
An Ethnography of Movement and Care in Australia
Zhang, A. R. Y.
Focusing on contemporary ideas about how aged care is provided, this book poses the question: How can people who are aged and frail live out the final phase of their lives with dignity? In seeking answers, the author examines what it means to be ‘at home’ in residential care in a novel and compassionate way.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
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October 2026 Between the Forest and the Road
The Waorani Struggle for Living Well in the Ecuadorian Oil Circuit
Bravo Díaz, A.
During the past two decades Ecuadorians have engaged in a national debate around Buen Vivir (living well). This ethnography discusses one of the ways in which people experience well-being or aspire to live well in Ecuadorian Amazonia. Waponi Kewemonipa (living well) is a Waorani notion that embraces ideas of good conviviality, health and certain ecological relations.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Environmental Studies (General) Sustainable Development Goals
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October 2026 Contesting Moralities
Roma Identities, State and Kinship
Sarafian, I.
Roma identities have often been presented in literature as collectively constructed and in opposition to those who are not Roma. Contesting Moralities challenges these preconceptions about Roma identification by disentangling the binaries between Roma and nonRoma, state and non-state, public and private. This book explores topics resonating in contemporary Romani studies that are in need of further exploration through individual perspectives.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General)
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October 2026 Correcting the Record
Essays on the History of American Anthropology
Lewis, H. S.
The critique of twentieth-century American anthropology often portrays anthropologists of the past as servants of colonialism who “extracted” information from indigenous peoples and published works causing them harm. This volume presents powerful refutations of these damaging myths.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Colonial History
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October 2026 Ritual, Rapture and Rebellion
The Making of Market, Mercy and Meaning Amongst the Gitanos of El Rastro
Brodersen, M. B.
This book is an anthropological account of a group of middle and upper-class Gitanos and their ways of creating a ‘society within society’ based upon distinct cultural, moral and ideological values, notions and practices.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
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October 2026 An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange
Interactions, Transactions and Ethics in Asia and Beyond
Copeman, J., Long, N. J., Chau, L. M., Cook, J. & Marsden, M.(eds)
This volume advocates for an analytical focus on intellectual exchange, as well as producing an ethnographically informed framework for its study across cultures and contexts.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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October 2026 Sensitive Subjects
The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary German and Austrian Cinema
Mukhida, L.
Sensitive Subjects examines how contemporary German-language cinema may be read as seeking to produce greater political sensitivity in audiences through its form—that is, by employing medium-specific devices such as lighting, sound, editing and mise-en-scène in ways that prompt a more critical stance towards the societies it depicts.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies
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October 2026 Working in Greece and Turkey
A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation-States, 1840–1940
Papastefanaki, L. & Kabadayı, M. E. (eds)
The studies in Working in Greece and Turkey provide an overdue exploration of labour history on both sides of the Aegean, before as well as after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Deploying the approaches of global labour history as a framework, this volume presents transnational, transcontinental, and diachronic comparisons that illuminate the shared history of Greece and Turkey.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
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October 2026 Jane Ellen Harrison
Stroup, R.
Jane Ellen Harrison transformed the study of Greek religion with her discovery of a religious system predating that of the Olympic gods and goddesses familiar to the modern world. This book introduces her work and ideas, which have influenced and profoundly shaped scholarship, primarily in the classics, throughout the last century.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion