The Origins of Prejudice

Dangerous Opinions and Beliefs

Eugene Anderson, Kelley Coures, Carla Guerrón Montero, Tory L. Schendel-Vyvoda, Tobias Schwörer and John Edward Terrell

The Origins of Prejudice is a short and unconventional book that shows you step-by-step both how and why all of us who are human often rely uncritically on what we believe to be true about the people, things, and events shaping our lives outside the hidden world of our bony skull. This book aims to show how we can learn from our possibly unintentional acts and self-serving misdeeds to live together in supportive, less conflicted ways.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Concepts of Culture

New Directions in Conceptual History

Edited by Mattias Pirholt and Michael Lipkin

An interdisciplinary approach to conceptual history that broadens the scope of this influential theoretical tradition, with a particular focus on cultural concepts found in art history, comparative literature, cultural studies, and German studies, among others. In doing so, it also contributes to the methodological development in these fields of research.

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

Theorising Media and Time

Temporalities, Media Practices and Politics of Time in a Digital Era

Edited by Birgit Bräuchler and Nina Grønlykke Mollerup

Digital media perpetuates every aspect of our lives, including our temporal perceptions. This book brings advances in the anthropological thinking about time into conversation with theorisations of media to develop an understanding of how media and time affect each other while keeping human experiences at the heart of the conversation.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Media Studies Sociology

Camorra Networks

Populism, Neoliberalism, and the Media Machine of Naples’ Underworld

Salvatore Giusto

Focusing on Naples' social peripheries, this book examines how the Camorra, one of Europe's most entrenched and violently coercive criminal organizations, operates music, television, and online media empires that collide with state-regulated cultural industries, challenging conventional links among media, democracy, and violence.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology

Urban Biopolitics

Lives and Spaces in Baltic and Eastern Europe

Andrey Makarychev

Comparing Estonia and Ukraine, this book explores urban governance through the lens of biopolitics. It examines how geopolitical pressures shape the management of urban populations, revealing how cities become key sites where lifestyle, security, and political calculation intersect.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Urban Studies

The Spirit of Affect

Song-Dance Encounters in Matrilineal Congo

Carine Plancke

In rural Punu communities, song and dance are shaped through ritual encounters between humans and spirit beings. This ethnography explores how performance creates connection and participation in the water spirit world, offering a matrifocal perspective that rethinks affect and embodied life.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)

Arts Initiatives by Refugees for Refugees

Forced Displacement, Creativity, and Agency

Lisa Gilman

Addressing forced migration as a global challenge, this book draws on multi-sited research to examine the arts and cultural dimensions of refugee contexts. Through narrative-driven accounts, it highlights refugee agency, creativity, and community-building, challenging reductive stereotypes and foregrounding refugees' contributions to both home and host societies.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

Writing Holocaust History

Christopher R. Browning

In this collection of essays, Browning explores the evolution of Holocaust historiography and illustrates key research trends. Taken together, these essays highlight the shifting focus in Holocaust scholarship, from Germany to Eastern Europe, policy making to implementation, leaders to participants, and perpetrators to victims.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present History: World War II

Reading Hitler’s Victims

Refugee Memoirs of Nazi Persecution for British Readers during Appeasement and War

Ellen Pilsworth

The first study on the translation, publication and marketing of literary memoirs, by both Jewish and non-Jewish victims of Nazi persecution, for British readers during the years of Nazi rule. It reveals how German and Austrian Christians, rather than Jewish victims, came to represent ‘what Britain was fighting for’.

Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies History: World War II

Shakespeare's Counternarrative Against Death

Immortal Longings in His Plays and Poetry

Toby Widdicombe

Examining Shakespeare's persistent counternarrative to mortality, this book explores the strategies through which his plays and poetry challenge death's permanence. While engaging with existing scholarship on text and performance, it calls for renewed attention to Shakespearean meaning and the enduring significance of his work.

Subject: Literary Studies

Metaphors of Spain

Representations of Spanish National Identity in the Twentieth Century

Edited by Javier Moreno-Luzón and Xosé M. Núñez Seixas

The history of twentieth-century Spanish nationalism is a complex one, placing a set of famously distinctive regional identities against a backdrop of religious conflict, separatist tensions, and the autocratic rule of Francisco Franco. Metaphors of Spain brings together leading historians to examine Spanish nationalism through its diverse and complementary cultural artifacts.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

The Making of Turkish Contemporary History

Voices Intertwined

Edited by Berna Pekesen

The Making of Turkish Contemporary History brings together diverse disciplines to examine historiography, focusing on often-overlooked decades after the 1950s. This is an essential reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of knowledge production, contested historical truths, and the political stakes of writing contemporary history.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Anthropology (General) Sociology

Music and Nineteenth-Century Liberalism in the Ibero-American Atlantic Space

Edited by Alberto Hernández Mateos, Joao Silva and Luísa Cymbron

Liberalism in the 19th Century, rooted in philosophy and expressed through economic and political systems, shaped the Western world in complex and often contradictory ways. The influence of liberalism on music in Portugal, Spain, and Latin America is explored, regions where liberalism evolved amid conflicts that left deep cultural marks.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General)

Bodies, Gods and Other Imponderables

Cross-Cultural Metalogues

Geoffrey Lloyd and Aparecida Vilaça

Through a dialogue between a philosopher and an anthropologist, one a specialist in ancient Greek and Chinese thought, the other in Amazonian Indigenous peoples. Lloyd and Vilaça revise our understanding of ideas about the body and its antitheses, dreams, sickness, gods, and the narratives and myths which are used to untangle these concepts.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Jane Ellen Harrison

Robert M. Stroup

Jane Ellen Harrison transformed the study of Greek religion with her discovery of a religious system predating that of the Olympic gods and goddesses familiar to the modern world. This book introduces her work and ideas, which have influenced and profoundly shaped scholarship, primarily in the classics, throughout the last century.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

The Healing Machi

An Ethnography of Mapuche Medicine Efficacies

Adelaida Barros

This book is an ethnography on Mapuche ritual healing transformations from the perspective of the phenomenology of the body. It explores how people identify a Mapuche shaman, or a “real Machi”, a person who can both see illness and misfortune through divinatory techniques, and experience ritual trance to make ‘spirits from the past' present.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Weather Signs

Traditional Meteorological Knowledge in Japanese Small-Scale Fisheries

Giovanni Bulian

Drawing on ethnography, historical sources, and folklore, this book examines how fishermen and coastal communities in Japan read winds, clouds, seas, animals, and celestial signs to anticipate change and manage risk.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Spaghetti with Ajvar

The Translocal Everyday Lives of Muslims in North Macedonia and Italy

Karolina Bielenin-Lenczowska

Examining the economic migration of Macedonian-speaking Muslims from North Macedonia to Italy, this ethnography explores shifting everyday lives across transnational contexts. Focusing on gender and generational dynamics, it captures a moment in the lives of the Torbeši shaped by mobility, cultural exchange, and change.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Gender Studies and Sexuality

Becoming Advocate

On Autism, Parenthood, Care and Online Advocacy in Portugal

Maria Concetta Lo Bosco

Tracing the emergence of autism in Portugal, from its early recognition in child psychiatry to the rise of parent-led advocacy and digital activism, this book examines how families confront inadequate services, challenge outdated paradigms and advocate for educational and social reforms.

Subject: Medical Anthropology