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ANTHROPOLOGY
TOTAL ATHEISM
Secular Activism and the Politics of Difference in South India
Stefan Binder
Volume 38, METHODOLOGY & HISTORY IN ANTHROPOLOGY
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THEORISING MEDIA AND CONFLICT
Edited by Philipp Budka and Birgit Bräuchler
Volume 10, ANTHROPOLOGY OF MEDIA
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RHETORICAL MINDS
Meditations on the Cognitive Science of Persuasion
Todd Oakley
Volume 1 STUDIES IN LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY
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BEYOND WILD AND TAME
Soiot Encounters in a Sentient Landscape
Alex C. Oehler
Volume 2 INTERSPECIES ENCOUNTERS
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SELFISHNESS AND SELFLESSNESS
New Approaches to Understanding Morality
Edited by Linda L. Layne
Volume 10 WYSE SERIES IN SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
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ABORTION IN POST-REVOLUTIONARY TUNISIA
Politics, Medicine and Morality
Irene Maffi
Volume 46 FERTILITY, REPRODUCTION AND SEXUALITY: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES
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SPACES OF SOLIDARITY
Karen Activism in the Thailand-Burma Borderlands
Rachel Sharples
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CAN ACADEMICS CHANGE THE WORLD?
An Israeli Anthropologist’s Testimony on the Rise and Fall of a Protest Movement on Campus
Moshe Shokeid
Volume 39 EASA SERIES
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TIME WORK
Studies of Temporal Agency
Edited by Michael G. Flaherty, Lotte Meinert and Anne Line Dalsgård
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URBAN SUSTAINABILITY IN THE ARCTIC
Measuring Progress in Circumpolar Cities
Edited by Robert W. Orttung
Volume 3 STUDIES IN THE CIRCUMPOLAR NORTH
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OPEN ACCESS
BORDERS ACROSS HEALTHCARE
Moral Economies of Healthcare and Migration in Europe
Edited by Nina Sahraoui
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OURS ONCE MORE
Folklore, Ideology, and the Making of Modern Greece
Michael Herzfeld
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BIRDS OF PASSAGE
Hunting and Conservation in Malta
Mark-Anthony Falzon
Volume 25 ENVIRONMENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOBIOLOGY
AFTER SOCIETY
Anthropological Trajectories out of Oxford
Edited by João Pina-Cabral and Glenn Bowman
Volume 39 METHODOLOGY & HISTORY IN ANTHROPOLOGY
BEYOND FILIAL PIETY
Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies
Edited by Jeanne Shea, Katrina Moore and Hong Zhang
Volume 6 LIFE COURSE, CULTURE AND AGING: GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONS
TIDES OF EMPIRE
Religion, Development, and Environment in Cambodia
Courtney Work
Volume 10 ASIAN ANTHROPOLOGIES
NEW IN PAPERBACK: ANTHROPOLOGY
THE LIVING ANCESTORS
Shamanism, Cosmos and Cultural Change among the Yanomami of the Upper Orinoco
Zeljko Jokic
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STRAYING FROM THE STRAIGHT PATH
How Senses of Failure Invigorate Lived Religion
Edited by Daan Beekers and David Kloos
Volume 3 STUDIES IN SOCIAL ANALYSIS
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STAGING CITIZENSHIP
Roma, Performance and Belonging in EU Romania
Ioana Szeman
Volume 11 DANCE AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES
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EUROPEAN ANTHROPOLOGIES
Edited by Andrés Barrera-González, Monica Heintz and Anna Horolets
Volume 2 ANTHROPOLOGY OF EUROPE
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MULTIDIMENSIONAL CHANGE IN SUDAN (1989–2011)
Reshaping Livelihoods, Conflicts and Identities
Edited by Barbara Casciarri, Munzoul A.M. Assal and François Ireton
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BACK TO THE POSTINDUSTRIAL FUTURE
An Ethnography of Germany’s Fastest-Shrinking City
Felix Ringel
Volume 33 EASA SERIES
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ULTIMATE AMBIGUITIES
Investigating Death and Liminality
Edited by Peter Berger and Justin Kroesen
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LIVING ON THIN ICE
The Gwich’in Natives of Alaska
Steven C. Dinero
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BIOMEDICAL ENTANGLEMENTS
Conceptions of Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Society
Franziska A. Herbst
Volume 5 PERSON, SPACE AND MEMORY IN THE CONTEMPORARY PACIFIC
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FIGURATIONS OF THE FUTURE
Forms and Temporalities of Left Radical Politics in Northern Europe
Stine Krøijer
Volume 2 ETHNOGRAPHY, THEORY, EXPERIMENT
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DIFFERENCE AND SAMENESS AS MODES OF INTEGRATION
Anthropological Perspectives on Ethnicity and Religion
Edited by Günther Schlee and Alexander Horstmann
Volume 16 INTEGRATION AND CONFLICT STUDIES
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THE PATIENT MULTIPLE
An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision-Making in Bhutan
Jonathan Taee
Volume 4 WYSE SERIES IN SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
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TRUSTING AND ITS TRIBULATIONS
Interdisciplinary Engagements with Intimacy, Sociality and Trust
Edited by Vigdis Broch-Due and Margit Ystanes
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ARCHAEOLOGY
AN ENCHANTMENT OF DIGITAL ARCHAEOLOGY
Raising the Dead with Agent-Based Models, Archaeogaming and Artificial Intelligence
Shawn Graham
Volume 1 DIGITAL ARCHAEOLOGY: DOCUMENTING THE ANTHROPOCENE
COMMUNITIES AND PLACE
A Thematic Approach to the Histories of LGBTQ Communities in the United States
Edited by Katherine Crawford-Lackey and Megan E. Springate
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BLURRING TIMESCAPES, SUBVERTING ERASURE
Remembering Ghosts on the Margins of History
Edited by Sarah Surface-Evans, Amanda E. Garrison and Kisha Supernant
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TIMBER, SAIL, AND RAIL
An Archaeology of Industry, Immigration, and the Loma Prieta Mill
Marco Meniketti
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NEW IN PAPERBACK: ARCHAEOLOGY
THE MAN WHO INVENTED AZTEC CRYSTAL SKULLS
The Adventures of Eugène Boban
Jane MacLaren Walsh and Brett Topping
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SOCIOLOGY
STATES OF IMITATION
Mimetic Governmentality and Colonial Rule
Edited by Patrice Ladwig and Ricardo Roque
Volume 11 STUDIES IN SOCIAL ANALYSIS
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PROTEST, YOUTH AND PRECARIOUSNESS
The Unfinished Fight against Austerity in Portugal
Edited by Renato Miguel Carmo and José Alberto Vasconcelos Simões
Volume 27 PROTEST, CULTURE & SOCIETY
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NEW IN PAPERBACK: SOCIOLOGY
PROTEST CULTURES
A Companion
Edited by Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Martin Klimke, and Joachim Scharloth
Volume 17 PROTEST, CULTURE & SOCIETY
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THE NATURE OF SOCIOLOGY
Marcel Mauss
Published in Association with Durkheim Press
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TECHNIQUES, TECHNOLOGY AND CIVILIZATION
Marcel Mauss
Published in Association with the Durkheim Press
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FOUCAULT’S ORIENT
The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan
Marnia Lazreg
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HISTORY
RESETTLERS AND SURVIVORS
Bukovina and the Politics of Belonging in West Germany and Israel, 1945–1989
Gaëlle Fisher
Volume 3 WORLDS OF MEMORY
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AGENCY IN TRANSNATIONAL MEMORY POLITICS
Edited by Jenny Wüstenberg and Aline Sierp
Volume 4 WORLDS OF MEMORY
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REVISITING AUSTRIA
Tourism, Space, and National Identity, 1945 to the Present
Gundolf Graml
Volume 28 AUSTRIAN AND HABSBURG STUDIES
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PERMEABLE BORDERS
History, Theory, Policy, and Practice in the United States
Edited by Paul Otto and Susanne Berthier-Foglar
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ON THE EDGES OF WHITENESS
Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War
Jochen Lingelbach
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BUREAUCRACY, WORK AND VIOLENCE
The Reich Ministry of Labour in Nazi Germany, 1933–1945
Edited by Alexander Nützenadel
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THE CANDLE AND THE GUILLOTINE
Revolution and Justice in Lyon, 1789–93
Julie Patricia Johnson
Volume 17 BERGHAHN MONOGRAPHS IN FRENCH STUDIES
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VOICES ON WAR AND GENOCIDE
Three Accounts of the World Wars in a Galician Town
Edited and with an Introduction by Omer Bartov
Volume 30 WAR AND GENOCIDE
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CONSERVATION’S ROOTS
Managing for Sustainability in Preindustrial Europe, 1100–1800
Edited by Abigail Dowling and Richard Keyser
Volume 19 ENVIRONMENT IN HISTORY: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
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RESISTING PERSECUTION
Jews and Their Petitions during the Holocaust
Edited by Thomas Pegelow Kaplan and Wolf Gruner
Volume 24 CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN HISTORY
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WORKING IN GREECE AND TURKEY
A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation-States, 1840–1940
Edited by Leda Papastefanaki and M. Erdem Kabadayı
Volume 33 INTERNATIONAL STUDIES IN SOCIAL HISTORY
NEW IN PAPERBACK: HISTORY
THE EMPEROR’S OLD CLOTHES
Constitutional History and the Symbolic Language of the Holy Roman Empire
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
Volume 10 SPEKTRUM: PUBLICATIONS OF THE GERMAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION
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FAULT LINES
Earthquakes and Urbanism in Modern Italy
Giacomo Parrinello
Volume 6 ENVIRONMENT IN HISTORY: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
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AT HOME IN POSTWAR FRANCE
Modern Mass Housing and the Right to Comfort
Nicole C. Rudolph
Volume 14 BERGHAHN MONOGRAPHS IN FRENCH STUDIES
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FROM EASTERN BLOC TO EUROPEAN UNION
Comparative Processes of Transformation since 1990
Edited by Günther Heydemann and Karel Vodička
Volume 22 CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN HISTORY
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THE RHYTHM OF ETERNITY
The German Youth Movement and the Experience of the Past, 1900-1933
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen
Volume 22 MAKING SENSE OF HISTORY
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THE CSCE AND THE END OF THE COLD WAR
Diplomacy, Societies and Human Rights, 1972-1990
Edited by Nicolas Badalassi and Sarah B. Snyder
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DREAMS OF GERMANY
Musical Imaginaries from the Concert Hall to the Dance Floor
Edited by Neil Gregor and Thomas Irvine
Volume 18 SPEKTRUM: PUBLICATIONS OF THE GERMAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION
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COMING OF AGE
Constructing and Controlling Youth in Munich, 1942-1973
Martin Kalb
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MEMORIALIZING THE GDR
Monuments and Memory after 1989
Anna Saunders
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LITERARY STUDIES
SHAKESPEARE AND HIS BIOGRAPHICAL AFTERLIVES
Edited by Paul Franssen and Paul Edmondson
Volume 6 SHAKESPEARE &
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SHAKESPEARE AND MONEY
Edited by Graham Holderness
Volume 7 SHAKESPEARE &
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FILM & TELEVISION STUDIES
A DRAMATIC REINVENTION
German Television and Moral Renewal after National Socialism, 1956–1970
Stewart Anderson
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IN FADING LIGHT
The Films of the Amber Collective
James Leggott
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DON’T NEED NO THOUGHT CONTROL
Western Culture in East Germany and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Gerd Horten
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MODERN LUSTS
Ernest Borneman: Jazz Critic, Filmmaker, Sexologist
Detlef Siegfried
MOBILITY STUDIES / REFUGEE & MIGRATION STUDIES
FINDING WAYS THROUGH EUROSPACE
West African Movers Re-viewing Europe from the Inside
Joris Schapendonk
Volume 7 WORLDS IN MOTION
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PACING MOBILITIES
Timing, Intensity, Tempo and Duration of Human Movements
Edited by Vered Amit and Noel B. Salazar
Volume 8 WORLDS IN MOTION
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STRUCTURES OF PROTECTION?
Rethinking Refugee Shelter
Edited by Tom Scott-Smith and Mark E. Breeze
Volume 39 FORCED MIGRATION
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