Museums

a visual anthropology

Museums: A Visual Anthropology provides a clear and concise summary of the key ideas, debates and texts of the most important approaches to the study of museums from around the world. The book examines ways to address the social relations of museums, embedded in their ...

Writing food history

a global perspective

The vibrant interest in food studies among both academics and amateurs has made food history an exciting field of investigation. Taking stock of three decades of groundbreaking multidisciplinary research, the book examines two broad questions: What has history contributed to the development of food studies ...

Anthropological practice

fieldwork and the ethnographic method

Anthropologists are increasingly pressurised to formulate field methods for teaching. Unlike many hypothesis-driven ethnographic texts, this book is designed with the specific needs of the anthropology student and field researcher in mind, with particular emphasis on the core anthropological method: long term participant observation. Anthropological ...

Occupied economies

an economic history of nazi-occupied Europe, 1939-1945

What were the consequences of the German occupation for the economy of occupied Europe? After Germany conquered major parts of the European continent, it was faced with a choice between plundering the suppressed countries and using their economies to supply its needs. The choices made ...

Nazi chic?

fashioning women in the Third Reich

This is the first book in English to deal comprehensively with German fashion from World War I through to the end of the Third Reich. It explores the failed attempt by the Nazi state to construct a female image that would mirror official gender policies ...

Mothers of the Nation

right-wing women in Weimar Germany

What role did right-wing women play in the Nazi rise to power?Mothers of the Nation analyzes the work of women in the German Peoples Party and the German National Peoples Party - parties that covered the range from the moderate to the radical right. Looking ...

Translating cultures

perspectives on translation and anthropology

Many of us are not aware of translation in our everyday lives. However,the way we talk, write, read, and interpret are all part of a translation process, and the ability to translate experiences and thoughts is a major issue for those living outside their ...

The making of totalitarian thought

Marx's ghost

conversations with archaeologist

Museums and modernity

art galleries and the making of modern culture

Fashioning the body politic

dress, gender, citizenship

The state of U.S. history

Historians are very much aware of the variety of national and international trends that have shaped historical inquiry in recent decades. Americanists, in particular, have been conscious of the growing importance of gender issues, the #turn# to questions of language and meaning, the increasing significance ...