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)

Poetics of Animation

Medium, Context and Aesthetics

Paul Taberham

The first account of studio animation written from an historical-poetic perspective. Examining how animated films are created and experienced, Poetics of Animation brings together the study of visual style, performance, storytelling, and sound within their industrial and technological contexts, and offers an original contribution to animation studies.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

Political Crisis in Central Europe in the Interwar Period and Today

Temporality, Semantics, and Logic of Crises in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Romania

Edited by Martin Schulze Wessel

Examines the crisis and failure of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe during the interwar period, from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. Linking contemporary concerns about democratic fragility with historical analysis, the contributions explore political culture, constitutional traditions, religion, violence, and crisis discourse in Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

A Global History of Right-wing Terrorism

Tobias Hof

Spanning from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, Hof traces the global evolution of right-wing terrorism across time and continents. Through vivid case studies set in diverse historical and social contexts, he reveals how terrorist movements have transformed, adapted, and connected through transnational networks.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

Business as Usual

The Germans and Their Law, 1943 to 1948

Benjamin Lahusen

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies History: World War II

Crafting Co-ops in Denmark

Reworking Craftmanship, Construction and Capitalism in a Cooperative Realm

Maia Ebsen

Builders construct certain political sensibilities through their daily work, which come to structure their wider social and political engagement with the encompassing society. Crafting Co-ops in Denmark explores the revival of cooperative craftwork in Denmark, delving into construction sites and political assemblies to reveal the dreams, drives, and desires of a diverse group of builders working in a Copenhagen-based craft co-op.

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

Decolonizing African Art History and Heritage

Unveiling Ritual Objects' Power as Spiritual Resilience

Claire Nalukenge

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Museum Studies

Antarctic Materialities

Edited by Daniella McCahey and Maria Ximena Senatore

Challenging the idea of a pristine, uninhabited continent, Antarctic Materialities shows how materialities create, transform, and connect Antarctic worlds, revealing the region as a historically layered landscape deeply entangled with global histories, politics, and imaginaries.

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

Cyborgs of the Ecocene

What Robots Can Teach Us about Being Human in a Calamitous World

Louise Veling

This book explores the relationship between people, society and nature through the lens of robots and robotics research. It argues that a deeper understanding of the field leads to a greater appreciation for human embodiment and creativity, rather than a belief in imminent machine intelligence.

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

Maritime Archaeology with Compassionate Community Connection

Edited by Jennifer Craig and Jay Mok

Contemporary public discourses about archaeology are routinely characterized by scientific and historical narratives that leave the water blank. This book weaves together voices from across the Asia Pacific region, revealing maritime archaeology as a labour of love rooted in connection, compassion and community.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies

Anthropology and Travel Writing, 19th–21st Century

From Proto-Ethnographies to Self-Reflexive Travelogues

Edited by Horatiu Burcea

From the nineteenth century onward, there have been gaps between travel writing and anthropological sciences, but also commonalities and continuous interactions in the anglophone world. Through a variety of case studies, Anthropology and Travel Writing follows the shift from armchair speculation to sustained fieldwork, from the picturesque to analytic thick description and from colonial typologies to Indigenous counter-readings.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism

Shakespeare & His Religious Afterlives

Edited by Marta Cerezo

Exploring Shakespeare’s religious afterlives, this volume examines translations, adaptations, and performances across Sweden, Spain, and the United States. Bringing together literary, theatrical, and religious perspectives, it highlights how Shakespeare’s works continue to shape religious interpretation, cultural meaning, and lived experience across diverse historical and social contexts.

Subject: Literary Studies