Zora Neale Hurston

Ana Gretel Echazú Böschemeier and Peti Mama Gomes

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)

Occupied Istanbul

Urban Politics, Culture and Society, 1918-1923

Edited by Yaşar Tolga Cora, Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal and Gizem Tongo

British, French, and Italian forces arrived in Istanbul in 1918, marking the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War. An almost five-year-long occupation of the city followed, a period largely ignored in history writing and marginalised in Anatolia-centric narratives of the Turkish War of Independence. By bringing this tumultuous period back into focus, this book makes a significant contribution to First World War studies, research on European imperialism, and the modern history of Istanbul, Turkey, and the Middle East.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I

The Politics of Appointment

The Czech Minister and the Transformation of Habsburg Administration

Martin Klečacký

A unique study on the relationship between state administration and politics, examining how the office of the Czech Landsmannminister became the primary vehicle for the politicization of the Habsburg state.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Entangled Reactionaries

Nationalists, Conservatives, and Fascists in the Iberoamerican Atlantic (1900-1960)

Edited by Xosé M. Núñez Seixas and Vicent Sanz Rozalén

Between 1898 and 1939, Spain saw the emergence of political and social identities shaped by the concepts of Hispanidad, catholicism, race, tradition and the Spanish language. This collection explores how such identities were reshaped during Spain’s major political shifts and how they intersected with Latin American discourses.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

The Hunted

The Holocaust through the Experiences of Twenty European Jews

Susan Welch

A ground-level history of the Holocaust, told through the voices of twenty European Jews. Drawing from diaries and memoirs, it reveals a multiplicity of experiences across countries, classes, and religious backgrounds. Each chapter traces a single year in the protagonists’ lives, placing personal decisions within the context shifting Nazi policies.

Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History History: World War II

Pedagogies of Value

Marketing Foreign Goods in China

Máximo Badaró

Pedagogies of Value explores how China is reshaping global hierarchies of worth. This book investigates how value is taught, contested, and transformed in everyday encounters and reveals how foreign intermediary attempts to ‘educate’ Chinese consumers only confronts shifting power dynamics that challenge Western authority.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

Terrorism in Question

Decolonizing Anthropology and the Study of Islam

Irfan Ahmad

Terrorism in Question crafts a political anthropology of post-9/11 “new terrorism” by investigating who needs the category of terrorists and offering a global framework to understand anthropology, Islam and terrorism. Marshalling fieldwork, participant observation and encounters with terrorists, this book aims to exemplify knowledge decolonized.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology of Religion Peace and Conflict Studies

Pierre Fatumbi Verger

From Detached Look to Knowledge through Initiation

Jérôme Souty

With biographical undertones, Pierre Verger: From Detached Look to Knowledge through Initiation is an anthropological essay that offers a singular and nuanced reflection on the originality and scope of Pierre Verger’s experience as a photographer in search of otherness in the black cultures of Africa and Brazil and the transatlantic world of the Orisha Vodun deities.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Authoritarianism, Displacement and Syrian Family Life

Reckoning with the State

Birgitte Stampe Holst

Authoritarianism, Displacement and Syrian Family Life analyses how Syrians living in refuge in Lebanon and Turkey during the war in Syria continued to reckon with the Syrian State as a direct and indirect force in their lives. Through an ethnographic account of everyday life in Syrian families with a variety of political standpoints, the book demonstrates how the experience of displacement was shaped by ongoing deliberations and provides new perspectives on displacement in a Middle East context.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies

Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Formalization in Ghana

A Decolonial and Legal Pluralist Analysis

Linda Mensah

The historical emergence of centralised mineral resource governance in Ghana can be tied to its failed colonially transplanted legal system. This book offers a reflection of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) formalisation, with a focus on its complex operationalisation in formerly colonized societies, to consider environmental responsibility and accountability in the administration of access to mineral rights.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Colonial History Sustainable Development Goals

The Inequity of Caribbean Spaces and Designed Places

Race, Class and Gender

Edited by Ian Bethell-Bennett and Jessica Minnis

Through interconnected perspectives on environment, gender inequality, identity and Caribbean spatial re-colonisation influences on social, cultural and environmental landscapes, The Inequity of Caribbean Spaces and Designed Places: Race, Class and Gender examines socio-spatial (in)justices beyond physical and geographical boundaries that Caribbean societies face.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Cultural Studies (General)

The Unsettled Clock

The Persistence of Time Pluralism

Kevin Birth

The history of timekeeping is complex and ever progressing. The Unsettled Clock: The Persistence of Time Pluralism explores time pluralism by documenting historical cases and examining its persistence in present time, offering a political and historical analysis of how timekeeping has been shaped, challenged, and manipulated.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) History (General)

Culturing Money

Double Movements in the Marshall Islands

Ola Gunhildrud Berta

The idea of culture has become a creative framework in Marshall Islanders’ quest to realise a community based on communality, meaningful work, and self-reliance. Culturing Money analyses what sort of conceptual and practical work that the dialectics of culture and economy can do for Marshall Islanders in their quest for a meaningful life where self-reliance is the ultimate goal.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General) Development Studies

Crafting as Worldmaking

Relationality, Language, and Knowledge Sharing

Edited by Uzma Z. Rizvi and Sarah E. Jackson

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology Cultural Studies (General)

Archaeogaming as Scholarly Play

The Intersection of Archaeology and Gaming

Edited by Megan Rhodes Victor

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) History (General)

In Search of Worldviews

What Anthropology Can Tell Us about the Middle East

Andrea B. Rugh

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies History (General)

Cesare Lombroso’s Legacy in Latin America

How His Controversial Popularity as a Criminologist Remains

Livio Sansone

Cesare Lombroso’s Legacy in Latin America: How His Controversial Popularity as a Criminologist Remains argues that the study of ethnography in Latin America should give more attention to the Lombroso school and the academic exchange between relatively marginal national anthropologies, such as the Italian and the various Latin American schools.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology History (General) Sociology

Europe’s Disappearing Waste

Unanticipated Conflicts between Removal and Greening

Daniel Sosna

Through ethnographic research conducted among landfill workers and waste pickers, Europe’s Disappearing Waste explores the inner workings of the Czech waste management system that is underpinned by the belief that waste should disappear.

Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)