At the moment, no other European city attracts so much fascination as the city of Berlin. An unrivalled symbol of modern urban life, Berlin is a dynamic ...

Anthropology has long shied away from examining how human beings may lead happy and fulfilling lives. This book, however, shows that the ethnographic ...

In the lean and anxious years following World War II, Munich society became obsessed with the moral condition of its youth. Initially born of the economic ...

Convinced before the onset of Operation "Barbarossa" in June 1941 of both the ease, with which the Red Army would be defeated and the likelihood that ...

First study of the fascinating parallelism that characterizes developments in Japan and Germany by one of Germany's leading Japan specialists. With ...

Nostalgia is intimately connected to the history of the social sciences in general and anthropology in particular, though finely grained ethnographies ...

How and to what extent have Islamic legal scholars and Middle Eastern lawmakers, as well as Middle Eastern Muslim physicians and patients, grappled ...

A captivating time, the 60s and 70s now draw more attention than ever. The first substantial work by historians has appeared only in the last few years ...

This is the ethnography of the Mykoniots d'élection , a 'gang' of romantic adventurers who have been visiting the island of Mykonos for the ...

A great deal of attention continues to focus on Berlin's cultural and political landscape after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but as yet, no single volume ...