In recent decades, emerging scholarship in the field of girlhood studies has led to a particular interest in dolls as sources of documentary evidence. ...

Over the last two decades, anthropological studies have highlighted the problems of 'development' as a discursive regime, arguing that such initiatives ...

The Sámi are a Northern indigenous people whose land, Sápmi, covers territory in Finland, Norway, Russia, and Sweden. For the Nordic Sámi ...

The German Empire, its structure, its dynamic development between 1871 and 1918, and its legacy, have been the focus of lively international debate ...

The demise of the New German Cinema and the return of popular cinema since the 1990s have led to a renewed interest in the postwar years and the complicated ...

Written by eleven leading anthropologists from around the world, this volume extends the insights of Fredrik Barth, one of the most important anthropologists ...

The longing for authenticity, on an individual or collective level, connects the search for external expressions to internal orientations. What is largely ...

The term 'Anthropology of Food' has become an accepted abbreviation for the study of anthropological perspectives on food, diet and nutrition, an increasingly ...

With the growing fragmentation of western societies and disillusionment with the political process, the question of legitimacy has become one of the ...

Over the last seventy years, memories and narratives of the Holocaust have played a significant role in constructing Jewish communities. The author ...