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Ethnicity and the Mixed Marriage Crisis in Ezra 9-10
OUP Oxford 2012; US$ 134.99This book aims to bring a new way of understanding Ezra 9-10, which has become known as an intermarriage 'crisis', to the table. A number of issues, such as ethnicity, religious identity, purity, land, kinship, and migration, orbit around the central problem of intermarriage. These issues are explored in terms of their modern treatment within... more...
Flucht-Räume
Campus Verlag 2013; US$ 38.03Hauptbeschreibung Der Verlust der Heimat infolge von Krieg, Gewalt und politischer Unterdrückung gehört zu den einschneidendsten menschlichen Erfahrungen. Doch nicht selten ist der Aufenthalt auch im Zielland von Unsicherheit geprägt. Vor diesem Hintergrund untersucht Antje Krueger am Beispiel der Schweiz, wie traumatisierte und psychisch belastete... more...
Collective Action in the Formation of Pre-modern States
Springer 2007; US$ 129.99Anthropological archaeology and other disciplines concerned with the formation of early complex societies are undergoing a theoretical shift stemming from the realization that the social evolution of complex societies was more varied and complex than imagined. Given the need for new directions in theory, the book proposes that anthropologists look... more...
Migration, Ethnicity and Identity in Host Labor Markets
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009; US$ 199.00Covering four main themes: ethnicity, religion, discrimination and exclusion; Citizenship: determinants and employability; Interethnic marriages and economic performance and Ethnic entrepreneurship, this ebook further expands the literature on migration and its effects on the economy, population, employment and many other topics. With authors from... more...
Ritual and Politics
BRILL 2008; US$ 159.00Referring, by way of example, to the chronicler's story about a dynastic conflict in medieval Poland, this book offers an insight into the modes of using ritual as an effective tool of political action in the Middle Ages-both in the practice of political entreprising, and on the level of narrative information about that practice-and then reflects... more...
Light, Bright, and Damned Near White
ABC-CLIO 2009; US$ 56.00This volume explores the history, challenges, and psychological issues for - as well as prejudice against - people who have a mixed ancestry leaving them at neither end of the polar spectrum, neither Black nor White, but biracial or tri-racial. more...
Direct Action
AK Press 2009; US$ 18.95A radical anthropologist studies the global justice movement. more...
Vom Laien zum Fundamentalisten
Tectum Verlag 2012; US$ 26.08Hauptbeschreibung Was lässt einige junge Muslime radikal werden, vor allem fern ihrer kulturellen Heimat? Erdem Özbek sucht nach Antworten auf diese Frage in intensiven Interviews. Er ist selbst Teil der zweiten Migrantengeneration in Deutschland, ausgestattet nicht nur mit eigenen Erfahrungen, sondern auch mit einem wissenschaftlichen Background.... more...
My Crazy Days as a Young Offender
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 9.49Justin Rollins spent the formative days of his youth out on the streets, the leader of a feared gang. As the level of violence increased, Rollins behaviour became more unpredictable and, aged 18, he attacked two men with a meat cleaver on the London Underground and was detained in a prison for young offenders.Diagnosed as having Borderline personality... more...
Handbuch Politische Gewalt
Springer 2013; US$ 39.95Politische Gewalt ist eine Grundkonstante, die in der Geschichte durchgehend auftritt und sich als mögliches Mittel der Politik auch nicht beseitigen lässt. Dieses Handbuch behandelt systematisch die Grundformen politischer Gewalt: Widerstand, Revolution, Krieg, Terror und Extremismus. more...









