Techno-Cultural Rivalry

Transatlantic Competition between the United States and Germany, 1890-1930

Frank Trommler

During the first decades of the twentieth century, the United States and Germany were perceived as rivals. Focusing on the 1880s-1930s, this study provides explanations for how the American approach to technology and culture differed from that of the Germans, and how these differences produced various expressions of transatlantic modernity.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

The Afterlives of Tamil Tigers

Fighters’ Memories of War and Survival

Giacomo Mantovan

Through the testimonies of war, defeat, and survival from veterans of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) now exiled in France, Giacomo Mantovan sheds light on the production of self and subjectivity within a revolutionary and authoritarian organisation, and contributes to debates on compliance, resistance, and political agency under authoritarian regimes.

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

Jewish Refugees in Shanghai

Experiences, Memories, Interviews, Histories

Steve Hochstadt

Between 1933-1942, around 20,000 refugees fled to Shanghai to escape Nazi-occupied Europe, most of them Jewish. Here they spent a decade preserving their culture and enduring Japanese occupation. Hochstadt, whose Viennese grandparents were among those who fled, compiles hundreds of sources and interviews to tell their story.

Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present Refugee and Migration Studies

Voices of the Dunera

Ernst Kitzinger, Exile and Essays on Internment

Seumas Spark, Kate Garrett and Andrew McNamara

Ernst Kitzinger, a 20th-Century art historian, was one of 2,500 men arrested in 1940 as ‘enemy aliens’ and deported from Britain to Australia aboard the HMT Dunera. Incarcerated in Hay, Kitzinger and his fellow internees mused on their lot through powerful prose and poetry, published here for the first time.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War II Genocide History Refugee and Migration Studies

Alterity and Human Evolution

Deep-Time and Multispecies Perspectives on Difference and Variation

Edited by Oscar Moro Abadía and Martin Porr

Engaging critically with concepts of race, species, and otherness, Alterity and Human Evolution contributes to current debates on human evolution. Drawing on postcolonial and critical frameworks from the Humanities and Social Sciences, it interrogates key foundational concepts and assumptions underpinning evolutionary discourses.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Archaeology

The Jewish Maghreb

North African Experiences in Greater Paris since 1981

Samuel Sami Everett

From commercial networks in Paris to Algerian pilgrimage journeys, The Jewish Maghreb reveals communal North African Jewish navigation of plural sediments of self and history. The heuristic ‘maghrebinicité,’ works to illuminate ongoing negotiations of memory, citizenship, and cultural transmission in postcolonial France, offering fresh insights into diaspora, return, and the persistence of transnational connections.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Jewish Studies Urban Studies

Empire and Eduards Volters

The Ethnography of Lithuanians and Latvians, 1882-1941

Vida Savoniakaitė

Eduards Volters was a linguist, ethnographer, and archeologist with the Russian Imperial Geographical Society, and considered one of the founders of literate Lithuanian and Latvian communities. This study compares various historical and theoretical contexts in anthropology and decolonization to reveal how Volters reconciled his ethnographic work within the political goals of the empire.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

Between Anthropology and Psychiatry 

Roland Littlewood and Simon Dein

Bridging Psychology and Anthropology, this volume critiques dominant models such as psychoanalysis and the biopsychosocial framework. Drawing on cross-cultural case studies –from Hasidic healing to jinn possession, it argues for plural approaches that integrate biological, psychodynamic and sociocultural perspectives to better understand human experience.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Theory and Methodology